Ax-Man is the store you went to as a child when you childishly believed you could build a robot with your Erector set, then again as an adult when you want to actually build a robot. RIP.

I wrote about Abraham Lincoln's fight against the wealthy elites of his time. The latest from my newsletter:

In other words they are doing their job

“We feel like a lot of our community has been pushed out. We’re not just dollar signs, we’re more than that. We’re people and we’re frustrated with the fact that they’ve chosen to treat us less than human in a lot of the areas because of making money."

Caring about your neighbors isn't radical. It's Minnesotan.

Breaking News from @theathletic.com: The Olympian Josh Kerr broke the world record for fastest mile, which had stood for 27 years.

Trump wanted to make the US and its tech companies the dominant force in the world. He’s actually achieving the opposite.

Last year, I learned about an artist/performer named Valaida Snow (1900-1956). She was a jazz performer who played with major bands of the 20s & 30s. She played a bunch of instruments and toured extensively across the world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valaida...

Pretty funny to me that the modern GOP ties itself firmly to the party of Lincoln - but the only similarity today is the name. Historians need to do better to make these distinctions clear to the general public. From the Senate.gov page.

I've been working on this long-term research project and I may have found some key information earlier this week but I am not sure until I receive some information from an Archives. open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

6 years ago today, we lost a giant of our history.   I will never forget traveling with John Lewis on three civil rights pilgrimages to Alabama & marching over the Edmund Pettus Bridge where, in 1965, he was beaten bloody while marching for the right to vote.   [1/2]

Shits heavy af out here, yall better be creating and makin somethin! Great art, food, love, conversation, start makin shit

This is an incredible read! Highly recommend! www.notus.org/metro/viral-...

a) ossoff's whole "bring it, dipshit" attitude is exactly the right response to trump's election shenanigans b) good lord has he ever leveled up as a political communicator, I continue to think he's a very serious 2028 contender if he wants it

WWE is just such an unimaginably lame company. Who the hell is watching or cheering for it? Booking a show in the same city and time as AEW is super insecure work by them. Nasty company.

Because of the wild fire smoke in Canada I had to take my threshold work in doors. Next week starts training for my next marathon. I am hoping to qualify for Boston for the first time at 49! I am doing the Indianapolis Monumental Marathon Nov 7th. Stayed tuned for training updates. #runningbluesky

FUCK ICE FUCK ICE FUCK ICE FUCK ICE FUCK ICE Boston chanting this with their WHOLE CHESTS on #AEWDynamite and we LOVE to hear it. ❤️✊

#OnThisDay July 15 1976: Democratic Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter announces his choice of Walter Mondale, US Senator from Minnesota, as his running mate.

MTV's original 120 Minutes program showcased music videos from at least two Minneapolis(ish) bands: Hüsker Dü and the Replacements. You can explore the show's playlists by search or by episode at this fan-run archive website: altmusictv.com cc: @mplsmusichistory.bsky.social

Who built America? #TheMarchContinues #America250

An unreleased 1977 album from the Cramps, produced by Alex Chilton and soon to be put out by Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Great story by @annamerlan.bsky.social

@dicknixon.bsky.social I often think of this. Your political analysis remains unparalleled.

New PRESS BOX: Shoemaker and I discuss the Mitch McConnell photo and The Atlantic's reading-is-dead story. Then FRANK MILLER joins me to talk about Batman, Sin City, NYC in 70s, vigilante stories, the genius of Calvin and Hobbes, and Miller's new memoir. open.spotify.com/episode/2FiK...

Excited for this. Andre 3000 said nobody wanted to hear raps about a prostate exam but I disagree www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/a...

This is a welcome improvement

If you have an hour, give the first episode on Reconstruction a listen featuring President @barackobama.bsky.social , Malcolm Gladwelll, yours truly and a bunch of other historians including David Blight on Frederick Douglass. youtu.be/kYkeOKO3lyI?...

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How much plastic do we consume, where is it coming from and what is it doing to us?

The Last Starfighter was released July 13, 1984

Remembering Minnie Riperton today on the 47th anniversary of her passing (July 12, 1979) | Explore her musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/MRipertonRIP

Please be so fucking for real. . .

[July 11th, 1986] Van Halen releases their song "Summer Nights"

Regular degular Black folk are not the enemies of US progressive politics. Please, I implore you, take a page from Zohran Mamdani's book and TALK TO BLACK PEOPLE. Treat us like we're human! It's how a progressive like Rashida Tlaib won easily in Detroit. It's how Abdul El-Sayed is moving as well...

“We’ve got to do this for ourselves,” Rev. Bennie Brown of Jonestown, Mississippi, said. “Nobody is coming through. Not anybody’s coming through for us but us.”

ma'am are you aware that you are Linda McMahon

Rollins and McKaye are National Treasures.

Having long COVID worsens heart-related fitness, study finds People with long COVID who experienced more symptoms are less active and have lower heart rate variability and a higher resting heart rate www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

This has been the Iran War situation since the first week of March. The violence waxes and wanes, the diplomatic negotiations are ongoing, but this fundamental issue has not been resolved

Iran has made it pretty clear that in their view the United States gave them the right to control (and tax) the Strait of Hormuz. If they don’t get to do that, and Trump fails to convince them to back off from that central piece of leverage, the war isn’t over www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...

Rest in peace. He was a great columnist. www.startribune.com/star-tribune...

It’s New Foods Day for the Minnesota State Fair and this, to me, is the promise of America www.mnstatefair.org/new/food

The Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general from several states secured a right-to-repair settlement with agriculture equipment giant Deere & Co.,commonly known as John Deere, that requires the company to let farmers and independent shops fix their own equipment. apnews.com/article/john...

@petrathepostdoc.bsky.social I read this important news that bumblebees have OPINIONS www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"How can we possibly organize the working class if we don’t even speak their language? And what if, rather than simply “us” organizing “them,” they could actually teach us something instead?"

Another evergreen item in my shop. 😂😭l swear to goodness folks will be able to wear this one from today until they take their last breath. comingandgoingdesign.etsy.com/listing/4508...

Fourth of July weekend is over. Time to turn off the patriotic music and start playing Mungo Jerry's "In the Summertime" nonstop for 8 weeks.

People love a large white guy. They can do anything: score a goal, unscrew a cap, be jack reacher, and people will be like Large! Man!

It’s over: Mallory McMorrow to end her campaign www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...