Lisa Rubin speculated this filing has an audience of 6: Rs on the Supreme Court who are about to discuss Trump’s groundless appeal of the Carroll verdict.

Tell me you have never looked seriously at the federal budget, without telling me ...

The first Jackmanii clematis of the year, an array of orange azaleas at the U of Mn St Paul campus, and some woodland phlox with two Sum and Substance hosta leaves. #FlowerReport

If you’re struggling in the heat today, don’t forget to thank the oil companies! Not only did they directly cause this, they’ve also spent the last 40+ years bribing governments not to fix it AND gaslighting us all by telling us it's a non-issue

Paging the @mndot.mn.gov and Rethinking I-94.

Today marks six years since George Floyd was murdered by the Minneapolis Police Department. A day that changed our city, our country, and the lives of so many forever. Today is a day for grief, rage, reflection, and remembrance. George Floyd should still be alive.

Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery

Faith Lutheran Church in Frogtown will soon hold its last Sunday service. The building won’t go empty, and its Recovery Cafe peer support circles for addiction, grief and other forms of healing just got a boost from the sale: www.twincities.com/2026/05/24/s...

The @nickwoltman on the new Wakan Tipi Center, which opens this week: www.twincities.com/2026/05/24/g...

More evidence for the future international tribunal, if it involves violating treaties the US agreed to.

Feds raid homes of anti-deportation activists. "[HSI agents] executed a pre-dawn raid on 13 May at the home & business of Leonardo Martinez, whose group VC Defensa runs a rapid response hotline.... The homes of two other... volunteers were also targeted." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Obviously Donald Trump is not an expert in refrigerants, but you can be, and understand why these decisions can be hugely consequential for climate change, if you read this quick 🧵:

When you read the newspaper online, you miss out on fun juxtapositions like this.

Chicago goes to 36” on boulevards!

Has anyone identified the guy with the bellybutton? Did he know he would be so prominent in the shot?

I am glad for this outcome; and I hope some day we can take the time to fully examine the degree to which this DOJ has burned its credibility and competence in service to political ideology. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Prospect Park (Minneapolis) bridge brigade over I-94, May 21. 7:30–8:30 every Thursday morning.

Come on, Sen. Rick Scott's company ripped off Medicare/Medicaid to the tune of $1.7 billion. Don't give me this 'unprecedented' bullshit. www.startribune.com/aimee-bock-s...

Note to Democrats: theft of the public's money is what you would call a "kitchen table" issue. If someone broke into my house, took my money, and then gave it to people convicted of crimes, I would not only talk about that at the kitchen table, it would alter the very fabric of my existence.

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.

NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy? McDONALD: I'll take a different question

And tomorrow is the end of CBS News Radio after 99 years.

Chicago on the way to New Orleans.

ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

This, by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social, is a brilliant, fascinating and definitional article. If you want to understand what's happening around the world, you should read it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Glad to see large-scale projects like this getting started in Minnesota. If it can work here, it can work in states with milder climates, too. www.minnpost.com/newsletter/t...

Students booed AI hucksters at University of Arizona, University of Central Florida and now Middle Tennessee State University too. For all the media obsession over Fair Harvard, these schools are much more typical of the college experience, so maybe we could get a Big NYT Thinkpiece on this?

Just another day in the Trump administration.

With permission from one of my habeas clients, I can share that the Bloomington Police Department is proactively cooperating with ICE to detain our neighbors. This is a screenshot of official ICE records which show that a BPD officer reached out to ICE to drop a dime on someone in local custody.

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.

Check out the many Twin Cities tree giveaway programs, including at Urban Roots: minneapolimedia.town.news/g/coon-rapid... 🌳 And visit this link to learn more about our tree giveaway for St. Paul's East Side and North End: urbanrootsmn.org/free-trees/ #FreeTrees #TwinCities #StPaul #SaintPaul

All the details on the new bike parking on Grand Ave and who made it happen! streets.mn/2026/05/18/o...

I guess the article is fine... but the plant shown in the photo is NOT a native milkweed species. It's Asclepias curassavica (as in native to Curacao). And Monarch experts actively discourage people in the U.S. from planting it. @minnpost.bsky.social www.minnpost.com/environment/...

Good overview of the UMN golf course sale and its potential to add housing and tax base to a centrally-located corner of Ramsey County. www.twincities.com/2026/05/16/l...

The VRA was managerial--it allowed the Constitution to stand, but made changes to make it more democratic and responsive to the people. Republicans viewed that managerial change as confrontational and started a counter-revolution. And here we are, in the middle of a counter-revolutionary moment.

Every time I see Rick Scott’s face, I think about how much Republicans care about Medicare fraud and government fraud generally. (Not at all.)

In my book Wonderful Without Religion, I make the point that normal, mainstream religious people think espousing any religion is better than none. I could not disagree more. Religion is a private, nongovernmental belief. Let's keep it that way.

Last night, the Minnesota State Legislature passed the bonding bill, which includes funding for the City of Minneapolis Water Distribution Facility, clearing the way for the East Phillips Indoor Urban Farm project to FINALLY become a reality. 1/

HCMC will continue to serve patients because of @aishagomez.bsky.social & Rep. Agbaje in the House. These representatives are the heroes of the MN legislature in brokering a solution for this critical Minnesota hospital. It also would not have happened but for the advocacy of @hennepind2.com. ♥️🙏♥️

The house stands adjourned until 2027. A million things happened this year but we also must celebrate what didn’t happen. Despite repeated attempts, there was no successful action to limit trans rights. We held the line and will continue to o uphold the deeply rooted value of trans inclusion.

It’s really telling how NYT never runs a “this R governor completely fucked up their state and deprived its citizens of their fundamental rights” story. Incompetent nut jobs like Glen Youngkin can only be glazed.

Note that I did not say "draw the districts" but rather "define the political parties." That's the first step: to define the parties in such a way that a supermajority of white people are in one party, and Black people are in the other. We have had two versions of that, with the party names flipped.

The VRA *has always* been there to stop racial vote dilution, not to give Black people some kind of bonus districts. The reason we have the VRA (especially the 1982 version) is because Southern white politicians reliably define the political parties in such a way as to make sure Black voters lose.

One paragraph from Heather Cox Richardson’s letter about Trump’s National Mall 250th anniversary rededication to Christian Nationalism:

So now we have a penile-implant urologist in charge of hanta virus response, and Don Jr's turkey-hunting buddy in charge of the FDA.

Sunday… three white flowers. Woodland phlox May Night, red baneberry, sweet woodruff. #FlowerReport

On this day in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled segregation in public education was unconstitutional under Brown v. Board of Education. The decision sparked massive resistance among white segregationists and leaders across the South.

“…U.S. officials who spoke to Zeteo say the Trump admin… is ready to ramp up the war again within the coming days, after the U.S. president returns from his state visit in China, should Trump give the order to strike. “Trump’s war fever is back,” one of the senior administration officials said”

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Wild geranium in morning sun. #FlowerReport