A shovel is the simplest way to prove to yourself that you can move the earth around you.

The K-shaped economy has me thinking of free silver... the last time the asset holding class and the borrowing class were at loggerheads, we almost Touched The Money in a big way. Wonder if that will come back.

no I'm not "posting through it." it's posting through me

AI was a topic at dinner today... I have been throughly convinced that it is a colonial project (like political/land colonies or the ongoing colonization of our time). It seeks to control a resource (reality) without an immediate profit motive but with long term effects for civilization.

Mamdani is going to implement Shire Law. He will force all New Yorkers to use circular doors, eat 7 meals a day, and avoid adventures at all costs.

Yeah :D

The Van Houten District

Someone once said that the major division in the Democratic party is not between center and left but rather those who want to win and those who want to do something once they've won.

The Bear notably nails working in a kitchen but I will note that Red Oaks depicts country clubs better than Caddyshack despite both being decent.

Jennifer Carnahan is aiming to beat Nisswa Mayor John Ryan. GOPers outside of the city worry they'll be the losers. By Nathaniel Major Some moderate GOPers fear the recent run of pedophile-associated Carnahan will hurt their chances to win races in the suburbs and Twin Cities.

Pleased to announce the first test of the Little Minnesota bike/run route. In 23 miles, it creates the outline of Minnesota, and is longer than either the Little Wisconsin or Little Illinois in Milwaukee and Chicago respectively.

Someone Left An Uno Card On The Third Avenue Bridge (It Wasn't Me)

Any Democrat who appears on the side of an abuser and known liar like her is a fool and risks the game for us all. The Feds already have the closest to the truth we can reasonably get, it's just a matter of getting paws on it.

Am I (33M) the asshole for reporting my undocumented friend (33M) to ICE because he called me out in front of our 12 friends celebrating Passover at a restaurant and didn't tip the servers?

@metrotransitmn.bsky.social I know you guys don't normally go for merch, but I think if you started making hockey jerseys, the proceeds could fund at least a couple aBRT

I was Time Person of the Year in 2006

I admire @maxhailperin.bsky.social 's sentiment here but I think that having two Wedges is just confusing. What about "Keystone" or "Chuck"?

The American Left has two vanguards. One is a network of well paid staffers, think tank experts, and state party intelligentsia. The other is mostly un- or under- employed, well off people obsessed with theory and poasting. Both are incompetent.

i want good soliders and liberals with ambition

This is rife with assumption and unsupported statements. Father Abraham did not fear what the majority thought, he led us to where we wanted to go. Jesus died to make man holy, as we shall die to set man free.

The 1960 Chicago Area Transportation Study, has this to say about planning: "Public works in democracies are often undertaken in reaction to crises...reactions to immediate pressure do not always provide the best long term solutions. Mistakes can be costly and long lasting in their effect"

I've been thinking about #mnleg 's problem of being a part-time, part of the year job... What if we made one house full-time, paid them well, and had them in session year round?

FROOOOOST!

"The Second Coming of Robert Bly" in The Vanguard (UMN Morris) Jan. 22, 1970

I want my ashes to be scattered in a holy place: the bottom of a Weber grill

I don't know who is convinced by the type of movie trailer that has snippets from the movie of characters saying things ("Brilliant!" "Kick-aww!") which are framed as if the character is talking about the movie

Awooo

With "The Phoenician Scheme", the B-Line, Wedge Live Cat tour, Gunn's "Superman", and Farm Aid 40, this summer's really comin' up Milhouse for me

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

The average American has three friends.

Guys, you're still trying to replace LBJ. I told you we can't do it, and we can't do it. Now, what we might be able to do is re-create him. Re-create him in the aggregate. Your goal shouldn't be to elect the person with the best policy, your goal should be to buy the best manager and teambuilder.

Angie Craig is kind and smart, but she's shown time and again that when the going gets tough, she'd rather take the easy way out. I want a senator willing to throw a few punches (or combs) rather than just rolling over.

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

We needed this rain

Crazy how "GOP" makeup can make young people look like they're 35

Rage for the Machine

That twenty years of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking inflatable man, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards the Warehouse District to be born?

Minneapolis Declared New Capital City, Former Capitol Building Reborn as ‘thrive75’: https://streets.mn/2025/04/01/minneapolis-capital-city-st-paul-suburb/ With Minneapolis set to become Minnesota's new capital city, City Center tower will now be the distinctly more modern State Capitol.

That's funny, we were just saying the same about you!

With Lund's leaving, the Downtown Fleet Farm in the renovated old Scientology Museum of Minnesota is St. Paul's only remaining big store. Sad to see. H/t to @smellgibson.bsky.social for pointing this out.

Imagine explaining to W.N. Bilbo that a random house member is currently using wireless telephone calls by constituents to whip members of their own part in the senate

the primary divide in the Democratic Party right now is not left vs. right it’s fighters vs. cowards. that’s why even former republicans like kinzinger who are centrists on policy are absolutely furious at Schumer

There are no longer left-Dems and center-Dems. There is a solid majority wing that wants to Get Things Done, and a misled or deceitful minority which wants Nothing to Ever Happen.

Senators, Congressmen, please heed the call. Get out of the doorway, get out of the hall, for he that gets hurt shall be he who has stalled.

A New Yorker Cabal controls the government and political parties. The Founders would not stand for this.