If Minnesota house republicans are so confident their districts want them to defeat gun control, they should vote to defeat gun control. Show them how you defended their rights. Take the vote.

US politics has for decades been dominated by a party that is fiercely opposed to any concept of shared responsibility, of caring for our fellow citizens, and that foments a deep level of distrust that makes it ever harder to operate as a society. Paul Krugman open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Got mad enough about the Minnesota state flag "controversy" to write about it. Paywall is down for this because I really want to piss off my cousins, I guess. midwest-excellence.ghost.io/the-common-c...

Max really out here not helping the Mario kart allegations #f1 #miamiGP

I think letting SNAP recipients have hot rotisserie chicken is good, actually.

Quinn Hughes having a "this is why you got me" game at just the right time. Whew.

By 2040, it is projected that 70% of the U.S. population will live in just 15 states. This means 30% of the population—disproportionately rural, white, and conservative—will control 70 Senate seats.

think globally, fight locally.

American Black women now have fewer voting rights and reproductive rights than their mothers did at the same age. Progress isn’t a straight line, indeed.

JD Vance: "Political violence is coming largely from one side of the aisle. The president has now faced three serious attempts on his life ... " (Melissa and Mark Hortman aren't available for comment)

From Luigi Mangione to Cole Allen, these shooters aren’t the antisocial loners of media imagination…smart, well-liked, often idealistic…no prior criminal record…take pains to avoid bystander casualties..they share one conviction: that the political system has failed completely & someone has to act.

omfg

I hate hockey so much.

I grew up in Minnesota and have watched a lot of hockey in my life. I’m still amazed every time Quinn Hughes touches the puck.

If you think AI surveillance cameras aimed at drivers’ faces is a good idea (no matter how well intentioned the justification), you are a naive fool. This data will be harvested, sold to fascists, and used to imprison activists. Oh, and car companies will 100% use it for ads you can’t turn off.

i am seeing a lot of people upset about this but please remember the actual problem here is capital punishment there is no ethical way to murder someone. most methods of capital punishment are just to make us feel less barbaric, but actually lead to more painful deaths, or failed executions

@gruber.foo Re: laws that only affect specific ages. The State of Minnesota has a law that went into effect July 1st, 2025 that requires Watercraft Operator’s Permits to operate a motorboat, but applies to different age groups based on a tiered rollout. www.dnr.state.mn.us/safety/boatw...

One of the fundamental problems with the NFL is that the leader of the organization sees it as his right to hug high profile employees their first day at work.

JUST ONCE I want the Tour de France run on old Schwinns and Raleigh 3-speeds.

Logan Gilbert just caught the ball inside his jersey on a comebacker

Currently listening to Senators Smith and Klobuchar go to bat for the Boundary Waters. I appreciate their late night effort, but am near tears as I listen to them talk about its importance and the major threat against it. Hasn't our state suffered enough? www.savetheboundarywaters.org

according to MPD, being in public spaces is illegal

Here a grandmother is forced to do a gig job with no job security because she can’t afford to retire? What are we celebrating here?

Maybe the White House press corps can use this contretemps to clear up exactly what church or churches the President and first family belong to exactly, and what their theological position is towards the Roman Catholic Church? Seems like a niche topic, but it keeps coming up

Not dunking on Zack or this post, I’m just always struck by how easily American journalists will admit that the media shapes public polling and political outcomes when they’re not talking about America.

I strongly support the sales tax increase to fund HCMC. We can't let our safety net hospital close. But I am intensely opposed to the $7 million per year that SF 4986 would also give to the Twins Stadium. It's a major expansion of corporate welfare. The Pohlads should pay for it!

I'm old-fashioned. I want your business to have a website. Don't gimme an Instagram page and a phone number. I wanna see what services you offer and then make an appointment on a regular degular website!

You’ve heard of Stockholm Syndrome. Welcome to Budapest Envy.

Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

Orban, Bolsonaro, Trump, and all the rest of these goons want you to believe they are inevitable and, once in power, invincible. They are not.

This is the least he should do. Resigning from the House is also necessary.

The real lesson of the Hungarian people's victory over authoritarianism is that people power can defeat dictators. The massive opposition movement led to a massive electoral victory. We can do it too!

BREAKING: Back From Budapest And Islamabad, JD Vance To Embark On Whistlestop Tour Of US To Help GOP Candidates In Midterms

Not well.

a criminal conviction isn’t required to say someone does not have the moral character to run for office and i don’t understand why this needs to be said over and over and over again.

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

Everything is so stupid and also republicans are going to lose so big and it’s going to be for the stupidest possible reason…. Gas prices

I wrote about third-country deportations and how Trump is using bribes, threats, and rewards to create an expanding international network of concentration camps to go along with the domestic one.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

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Congress has the power to make this the last TACO Tuesday we have to endure.

I feel no pity.

Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something. For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.

Call Congress and tell them to do their job: 202-224-3121

There are 214 House Democrats. Let's see how many go on record for removal.

I’ve researched the entire history that led to the 25th Amendment and what followed and wrote about all of it nearly a decade ago. Since then — and, in part, due to its limits and complications — I’ve only called for Section 4 to be invoked on two dates: January 6, 2021, and today.

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

“We make the future in the present, when we show up. Don't surrender it to those who would destroy it.” @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.meditationsinanemergency.com/between-the-...

Democrats struggle to be ineffectual about both ICE excessive force murders and ICE depraved indifference murders