Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

The real question media should be asking is what did Frey know and when did he know it. Frey reappointed O’Hara 19 days ago. For Frey to claim he only learned today is fishy and raises questions about his admin’s internal investigations.

Reported for misinformation—George Floyd was murdered by an on-duty, 19-year veteran MPD officer, not "a former Minneapolis police officer."

Turns out, it’s actually easy to regulate a technology out of existence.

This is inaccurate because it's not a pivot. I've witnessed for months now ICE agents physically drag immigrants out of 26 Federal Plaza as they were following the legal requirements to work here, as immigration judges were confirming that they were following the rules.

Gin & tonic, but a Negroni (with Aperol instead of Campari) if I’m feeling fancy. That said, I usually drink beer. My favorite was Wonderstuff from Bauhaus.

With apologies to Martha Wells:

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

The cruelty of immigration politics underscores the demise of the university.

Things Minnesotans know to be true: There are actually more than 10,000 lakes, sometimes it snows in April, and we have some of the best cuisine in the world.

Historian here, hope everyone has a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend brought to you by the formerly enslaved, who decorated the graves of Union soldiers after the Civil War with flowers. My conversation with Sheila Horvitz, my favorite local podcaster in Connecticut! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5J...

Agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter in a massive show of force. Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. But after the cameras were gone, federal prosecutors did not charge anyone. (Published Nov. 2025)

lmao, @maxnesterak.bsky.social, amazing work

new ad in support of peggy flanagan for US senate by the DLGA features columbia heights school board chair mary granlund on witnessing the abduction of liam ramos by ICE “angie craig helped ICE do it. she voted to give them the power to abduct and indefinitely detain parents and kids like liam.”

I'm super proud of this project. It's designed to help, especially, humanities scholars building datasets. It's a style guide, with tips and guidance for all the many little decisions one makes when making data. Em Nordling did an amazing job writing it. Funded by the NEH until twas terminated!

Fellow Twin Cities folks who’ve made the switch to heat pumps, we’re curious: what has your savings on gas/electric been like?

Ultimately, this woman created the means and opportunity for the federal government to conduct a campaign of ethnic cleansing in my town and while that's not the crime she's been charged with, it should be the one she's remembered for.

Medicine, science, education, infrastructure, etc. Did you want people to work less? Enough money has been spent we could have had 3 day workweeks and everyone paid more. Do you want longer lives? Healthcare, housing, food, paid. No, you want a robot slave and to keep ignoring people in need.

If you have an iPhone 13 and it’s been glitchy since iOS 26 / liquid ass, you are not alone. I’m aware of 3 people who are all having a shitty time experiencing planned obsolescence courtesy Apple.

Tomorrow Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, RFK Jr., Dr. Oz and other federal government officials are coming to Minnesota to supposedly announce a “major law enforcement action involving fraud”. We aren’t sure what this means but want to make our community is aware of this so you can prepare.

It’s like they don’t want trans people to be able to exist. (I mean, these ghouls really don’t.)

none of the occupations are over

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I missed this one during the height of the occupation, but ICE still exists, so it’s still timely.

This is like 90% of American politics now, rich assholes who have no interest in progressive outcomes pretending progressive policies aren’t progressive enough.

Billionaires must be targeted with tax policy and antitrust policy not because it helps everyone else (though it does) but because their political power must be limited so they can't wreck the world the way they're currently doing

Nothing quite like a Google AI overview inserting itself into Gmail search results right as I was about to click on one thing but oops, now that thing is farther down the screen, so I get to click on something else and wonder why the fuck it’s not what I expected.

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

If you’ve got good Memphis orgs/funds, I’d love to see them and boost them here. Please share.

BREAKING "...corridors that received bikeways generally remained economically stable; continued attracting businesses and customers; and in many cases improved on several economic indicators." They were safer, too. Let's get with it, Lyndale Ave, Summit Ave, every Ave. Thx, @rozyoung.bsky.social

It's not over.

Wow, I don’t envy California voters if this rich asshole is your best option.

💥 WHITE ACCOMPLICES ACTION ALERT 💥 Triple quadruple if you have access to ANY sort of influence, connections, power, budget, decision-making of ANY KIND ANYWHERE in ANY ecosystem.

congratulations, graduates. i'm honored to speak at your commencement. this is a proud moment for you, your family, and your friends. the future is in your hands. and the most important task of the future is to feed the Gaping Maw (students start booing, one student yells "fuck the gaping maw")

At least one bad apple in the Bloomington, Minnesota, PD is spoiling the whole bunch.

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

If Democrats had the political instincts and media machine Republicans do, in 48 hours 95% of Americans would know Andrew Paul Johnson's name and be LIVID that the government is getting ready to give him some of your tax money

What a gangrenous hemorrhoid.

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

I don't know how much it broke through to people who weren't on the ground in the Twin Cities during Metro Surge, but ICE agents were so horned up for violence that they did shit like shoot through closed doors and into childrens' bedrooms. It was all a power fantasy come to life for them.

Great to see @marymoriarty.bsky.social and her team taking this on, and grateful that Hennepin and Ramsey both have county attorneys who are wiling to stand up for their residents in the face of unprecedented federal lawlessness.

Also the next somebody says reparations for black people is a ridiculous idea, remind them that we have a reparations program for trying to overthrow the government

Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial

"Trump has scammed every person he's ever worked with and now he's scamming you" is extremely easy messaging

The irony of Eric Metaxas shilling for a Christian nationalist church is not lost on me.

Cuisine discourse is tricky because so much of the good stuff in the US and Europe is directly attributable to colonialism and the like.