This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves

Cannot stress how bad shit is about to get if you want to build any kind of PC.

Anyone recognize this dog? My neighbor is watching him until his owners are found. Pit mix, male, pretty sizable, good at greeting and friendly behaviors and VERY SWEET. No tag, no chip. Surely his family yearns for him. Found in the Standish-Ericson neighborhood in Minneapolis, near Lake Hiawatha.

If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER. My latest in @thenation.com

I think this is my best essay on this topic (maybe my best essay). I'd like you to read it, if you haven't.

it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.

What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.

I see we’ve been doing Atlantic-driven “college students with accommodations … *do* they really deserve them” and I’ll just say I’ve never worked at a university that had enough staff to support faculty adequately in redesigning courses/assignments. Maybe start there? Not with the students?

Mad Men 4K

Some 600 immigrant kids have been sent to federal custody by ICE this year. A 17-year-old was detained at a traffic stop because officers couldn’t make contact with his dad, who is deaf. Another kid ended up in a shelter after making a wrong turn.

This is honestly it, for me. The suspicion of students with accommodations is just so ludicrous; who appointed us doctor, cop, judge and jury? I went through undergrad and grad school with an invisible disability-epilepsy-and it was never easy. NEVER.

Somali Minnesotans are our neighbors - and in Minnesota, we give a damn about each other. Donald Trump's goons have caused fear and division everywhere he's sent them. We don’t need this chaos - and Minnesotans will reject it. I’m with you.

Read these words. This is your country doing this: “Pregnant & postpartum women report starving in ICE custody, freezing cells, invasive procedures, miscarriages, their pleas for help going unanswered.” Thank you @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social @the-independent.com for shining a light on these horrors

Diagnostic testing is time consuming and expensive, of course kids with wealthy parents — or fortunate enough to have parents with time and good health insurance — are more likely to be diagnosed!

Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.

Is @mayorfrey.com going to do anything about this? You made a huge stink last year, sticking up to Vance and his cronies, yet here we are. And @governorwalz.mn.gov I'm not voting for you next year as long as this continues. Y'all should be ashamed. Letting your constituents be abducted. FFS.

reverse advent calendar where I scream a little scream into each tiny box and close it up tight

In case you missed it, Gilly is BACK IN STOCK! Great stocking stuffers for both awesome and shitty people. www.mulebooks.com/store/gilly-...

now that it's officially december i would like to share my favorite holiday video with all of you:

Minnesota cities as Muppets: Stillwater:

Oh, the instructor who was fired for giving an F to a Trumpist loser for citing the Bible in a scientific paper is *trans*? It's almost like we're being eliminated from society one by one or something. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...

so I'm glad that this is getting more attention - the far right's obsession with the crusades is way more than just Hegseth's white supremacist tattoos in this THREAD I'll collect some of my own recent work on how the American right has used the crusades 1/

Snow emergency! Here’s the St. Paul info; the Minneapolis info is in the shared post.

Blue beanie day falling on the first Sunday in Advent is a neat combo. (Even though I’m a bit more inclined to purple and pink for the latter.)

These are not people who make this kind of statement lightly.

I’m mad at myself that the first thing that popped into my head was “Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern and Tom Stoppard are dead.” RIP to a phenomenal playwright.

The new air marshals are awfully aggressive

Ok internet: my kid needs a new pair of nice-ish casual pants but really hates hard pants. He's very slim, & towers above me at 5'7". Adult sizes often fall off without a belt. Any recs for extremely soft non sweatpants that won't feel like a waste of money bec he'll grow out of them in 2 months?

this is just gutter racism

Share a film you’re thankful for.

“Biden Asylum Cases” is NYT’s framing for a story pegged to a man who got asylum 3 months into the Trump administration www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...

[Quickly crumbles into dust like in the Last Crusade]

Once again, I am thankful for gluten.

The observations of the Police Civilian Internal Affairs Review Commission chairperson are amazingly damning

Looks like there'll be a last minute-ish menu switch tomorrow, so I'll be making stuffing from scratch with what we have. Anyone have a good basic recipe that will be made mostly from challah? Thx.

wait.... the cops couldn't have been LYING about ICE having a warrant... right??????

[Meanwhile in 1973] What’s wrong babe? You haven’t touched your jello turkey.

I haven’t baked in a while, so I’m really happy with how this sourdough turned out.

Thread of useful links about the appalling behavior of the St Paul police yesterday

Historian here he is right and regrettably the AHA is wrong on AI and its classroom use www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

Great thread

This is how you do it.

This is the same asshole that arrested me at Brotex. Out there racking up those FTCA complaints…

TL;DR: the *actual* poverty line in the US for a family of four with two young children is about $140,000, and there isn't much improvement in quality of life between $40K and $100K. There's more good stuff in there too, you should read the whole thing.

I am furious and devastated that ICE was once again present in Saint Paul and that federal agents continue to jeopardize the safety and well-being of our residents. The destruction this White House has caused our city in just a matter of days is unconscionable.

"Sanctuary City" We don't have law enforcement here, just heavily armed rogue militias that answer to no one.

My public service announcement for today is that America’s Test Kitchen, which is infinitely better then NYTimes Cooking, has introduced a new gift link option that has no limit on how many you can share and each link lasts 30 days.

The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.

In four days there’s another training in St. Paul—Monarca has ramped up its efforts and has made a lot available.

Anyone have examples of planning work happening in other contexts where it's understood that (car) traffic volume projections are a political choice, not an inherent fact unaffected by traffic engineering choices?