Out for a walk

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?

Haven’t watched a 60 Minutes segment in years until yesterday.

Bone and muscle is not good weight loss, in case one was wondering

I know I’m a party pooper, but seeing the helmets in “The Odyssey” look like they were machine-funished to Six Sigma tolerances makes me less enthused about seeing it. It was the 12th Century BC!

Oh man this was @jamisonwhiting.bsky.social’s go-to & now it won’t be there for his Council term. Lovely upscale place, seemed perfectly located for it.

The online ad tactic of thirst traps for hearing aids continues to amuse me. The one in the generic MAGA cap with American flag background isn’t exactly precise targeting to moi.

One national media outlet reports a major international scandal, so it becomes verboten to any other national media outlet, especially in a different medium? She truly is a stupid person’s idea of a smart person. Or an evil person’s ideal quisling.

Timberwolves’ $25 million-a-year rights fees in danger of the same meltdown by the same company that went tits-up on the Twins a couple years ago … www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...

I’m small fry, but a wise editor taught me early on, “never let a source‘s non-cooperation kill a story” which is exactly the sort of veto power Alfonsi describes here.

Most of America still doesn’t know who Weiss is. But they do know 60 Minutes. She’ll have her $150m payoff but will be more widely known as a crumb bum.

On the plane, sat next to a guy watching “Enterprise,” the Star Trek prequel, and if it hadn’t been creepy I’d have told him, “Deep cut.”

There’s the celebration of his success…and then there’s the perspective of the sex workers he exploited through unfair policies

Every child in the Delta Sky Club is named Skyler.

I just want some Liberians to get in on the action to mess with this latest bit of white bullshit

There will be no third wind

I know there’s an economic case for further de-emphasizing print, but but it’s a helluva sales pitch to convince people to support your org with a party at the printing plant you just closed so deadlines will be more ridiculously early, not to mention workers laid off.

Not being a St. Paulianian, I didn’t really have Melvin pegged as a skyway tear-down guy, though it’s all academic now. But I suppose I should’ve guessed from his perfect articulation of why cities need multimodal (aside from the environment, car lanes don’t have the throughput for a growing city).

Watched Nat during the city campaigns & I have to say, she was magnificent. A truly ebullient warrior.

Spinal Tap II: funny enough!

Low-hanging fruit, but as a finance geek, great roadmap for it.

After pining after Kate Beckinsale in this movie, could never reconcile her as an action hero. Turns out she contained multitudes!

This is City Journal, the place where Christopher Rufo stirs up Islamophobia and other pogroms

Shorter @cletofsky.bsky.social (the political director of the Minneapolis chapter of the DFL Senior Caucus): government is good, actually

The #1 movie when you were 10 is how your 2026 is going to go.

Some of us remember Tom Workman as a world-class Minnesota legislative asshole, but I’ve sort of ignored him when he took the bigger money to become a Carver Commissioner. Anyway, this is how he treats ICE victims at county board meetings.

Listening to NPR talk about the Brown shootings and describing a school shooting as “typical”.

Cool! Let em cook!

Sean Sherman: “Food systems don’t lie. Restaurants are like canaries in a coal mine, and the whistle is blowing. The danger is here and real.” siouxchef.substack.com/p/fck-ice

I’m on record saying Walz shouldn’t run again, and GOP appointing a competent US Attorney who will keep pounding the nail is one reason why, but Strib editing also lacking; lead paragraph implies $9 billion fraud, contradicted by 3rd graf & final graf. www.startribune.com/federal-pros...

The offer stands: if you're an elected official and what's happening to Jason Chavez, Emily Koski, Jamison Whiting, or Katie Cashman is happening to you, I will represent you in an HRO proceeding for free. Or if you just want to talk about your options, my confidentiality is guaranteed.

What the fuck is this Alpha News ad!!! NOOOO

Last year, after Brooks had softened into a moderate-seeming anti-Trumper, I absolutely went off on my well-meaning family who wondered if I wasn’t being uncharitable since people can change and … I regret stunning them but otherwise, nothing, for exactly Anne’s reasons. ✊

What the

FOLKS. My family is in town, I need your nomination for lunch joint today in South Minneapolis we can go to & help an immigrant owner stay in business. Bonus points if it’s within a couple miles of 38th & 35W.

Sometimes you just need to listen to Matthew Sweet's Girlfriend (1991).

… debates set to address topics like “Does America Need God?” “Has Feminism Failed Women?” “Should Gen Z Believe in the American Dream?” and ”Phrenology Calipers: Stainless or Wood-Handled?”

On the plus side, the wild ice on the lakes must be EVEN MORE AMAZING

Hey @aaronsojourner.org can we still trust the Bureau of Labor Statistics? (Today’s inflation report was shockingly good, inflation below even the lowest predictions.)

Fuckers

I’m currently bugging the Minneapolis Foundation to let me hit up fellow funders to help Unidos, Advocates for Human Rights & MIRAC who are training legal observers. But my program officer also recommended these folks & I’m likely to donate to them. North Side peeps, know anything about the church?

The gods demanded Minnesota sacrifice a men’s sports star to avoid any net gain

Ouch

Keith Ellison vs The Menards Guy AND I AM HERE FOR IT

Adam Platt literally likens deliberately running a highway through a black neighborhood to destroy it with running a train along existing tracks next to a neighborhood of multi-million dollar homes that have only increased in value.

Twins letter to season ticket holders: "The last two years have brought uncertainty, frustration and disappointment ... our team, as constructed, was not consistently winning at a high enough level."

This was a really good watch. Especially validating if your adult kids like you.

Joe did a good job with the uniform redesign. That was it.