Welcome to Minnesota in winter, Goon Squad. I hope you enjoy your patrols. It's a good thing you learned how to drive in ice and snow...you know, in Texas and Florida...

I love how every region is fighting the Goon Squad in their own way. Portland, OR gets weird but festive. MN throws snowballs. LA doesn't mess around...

Why do things only half-insane when you can go full-on banana-pants? I really don't think he has a chance. This would be entertaining if it wasn't my state.

So, what is everyone else watching tonight instead of President Spray-Tan's verbal monkey spanking? We're continuing through The Lincoln Lawyer...

With all the Rob Reiner tributes, I watched Spinal Tap II last night. I was thinking today about where I was in life when the first ST movie came out. Imagine being a Jr. High boy who is enjoying finding all these cool new bands on MTV, when “Hell Hole” comes on. I didn’t get that it was a joke.

This is why I use a projector for our primary TV.

With yesterday's temperatures (and windy conditions on a roof), this is just a 2-hour version of kneeling on the targets' necks. We (Minnesota) sent Derek Chauvin and the other three to prison; that needs to happen to the Goon Squad.

Any other president would have vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice.

I just read that the ICE goons currently in MN are from Texas and Florida. This weekend, it may hit 0 degrees F. I hope that they enjoy the weather, and get lots of opportunities to stand around outside.

It's hard for a lot of us to get our heads around, but here are the facts: The GOP knows that health coverage costs are going to skyrocket in a few weeks. They can't NOT know about it. They don't care This is a party of cruel indifference. Remember this when the Red Caps start complaining.

I am a white, middle-age male. I reside in the Minneapolis area. There is a large Somali population in my town. We live, work and shop together, every day. My child goes to school where there are Somali children. Not once have I thought, "These people are garbage." I chose to see Imago Dei.

Yay! There's a new episode of #pluribus that dropped early! And, what kind of monster is Vince Gilligan to give us an extra 2 days with that cliff hanger?

I just had a second pair of earbuds (a brand that rhymes with "Shmamazon") die on me. No warning, just suddenly *gone*. Won't even factory reset. The only fix I've found is to open up the case and disconnect the battery from the circuit board, then reconnect it. Or, y'know, but something else.

I confess, this was not in my bingo card for 2025. My 2026 card will contain 25 squares that just say, "Whatever".

By the way, this is exactly what it feels like to be a Vikings fan. And a Twins fan.

It says something about me when I see a product on Amazon that looks really useful, and I'm tempted to order it. Then I realize that I bought it sometime in the last two years, and I have no recollection of buying OR receiving it. None. I need an intervention, or someone at Amazon is playing me.

5 seconds of googling backed this up (link below) What if holding the house hostage isn't just about the Epstein files, but also a way to prevent hearings about his cognitive state? The people who should be discussing the 25th amend. are the least likely to do so. 1/

Everything the man does poisons other people.

Mike Johnson has never allowed facts to deter him, and neither should you let facts get in his way.

Is it just me, or if you need to sell the American voters on your plan, shouldn't you...y'know...tell them about it? Ask for feedback? Compare it to the opposition's plan? Or, are we supposed to accept a trillion-dollar blind box?

If you see this, post a picture of a vampire who isn't Dracula.

Reading this a couple of weeks before Halloween makes me wonder if I'm in a B-grade horror movie.

I've been thinking about how to make a device that would allow for secure communication, off the grid. No cell network, no internet. * Something store+forward, like FidoNet * A Rasp Pi pico or Zero W w/a battery * No screen necessary Scenario: 1) User creates a message that is encrypted 1/

The sad goth boy inside of me just smiled...

covert /kō′vərt, kō-vûrt′, kŭv′ərt/ Not openly practiced, avowed, engaged in, accumulated, or shown; secret Maybe it's me, but I don't think he's entirely clear on that concept.

One takeaway from Der Orangefarbene Furzgeruch's speech to military leaders last week: They now know, without a doubt, that orders to harm US residents would come from someone who is mentally unwell. They didn't get sound clips. They had to sit through the whole speech, meanderings and all.

Is anyone else wondering if Tylenol had something planned that requires government approval...? Or, perhaps someone said something less-than-favorable about Dear Leader, and for that the whole company must suffer?

I'm sure others have already written about this... We laughed when DT designated antifa a terrorist organization, but what if he did that just to be able to jail protestors? He's already been able to sell the idea that protests=violence=antifa. Yes, there will be legal challenges...

(Put aside WaPo politics for a moment) This is not news to me. I've been in a job search for a few months, and for the most part, even the crickets are quiet. It's hard to not be angry, considering the economy we had 6mo ago.. BTW, if you know of an opening for an IT PM, please let me know...

I'm not a resident of DC, but it seems to me that if every national guardsmen who was deployed there had 2-3 locals who smiled, shook their hand and said they were sorry that the guardsman had to leave home for this, then the truth about the crime rate would be spread farther. Just a thought.

We need to stop referring to Trump and his regime as “clowns”. It’s insulting actual clowns. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

this is the time for scifi fans to exercise the ultimate depth and breadth of their creativity make them shut down the hotline use all your best Borg jokes

I'm starting a betting pool on when a Trump wearable will be announced, and for the price. I'm thinking 4 months from now, at $299. And yes, it will be gold colored. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Trump likes to put his name on everything he owns. Let’s do that too. From the beginning, let’s call them The Trump Recession The Trump Stock Market Crash The Trump Depression The Trump Plague Make it stick. Make him own the consequences of his arrogance and ineptitude.

Bring it on.

Listening to a Bob Dylan song, and thought about current events: "Steal a little and they throw you in jail, Steal a lot and they make you a king"

"Not only is this effort not accomplishing the task of weeding out inefficiency, but… It's like cutting off your arm to lose weight." - Linda Bilmes, a government efficiency expert with the Harvard Kennedy School

Do you think we could upsell them to take Minnesota too?

We need to keep repeating this: "He said that's what he would do when elected." "He said that's what he would do when elected." "He said that's what he would do when elected." When MAGA neighbors and relatives get outraged, when they see healthcare options dwindling...when it affects *them*.

If ICE is truly raiding churches, the agents and directors don't realize what they are putting themselves at risk for. They're making people afraid to go to church and hear God's word. The last place I would want to be is in between an omnipotent loving God and the people who want to know Him.

As someone of Danish heritage, this makes me smile.

Let Denmark cook.

just stumbled on a real jaw-dropper of a line in an essay -- “The corollary of being interested in a great range of things is to have sympathy with a great range of outlooks” -- and that, my friends, is why reading is so important.

Members of a personality cult have to continually outdo themselves and everyone else just to maintain their standing and show evidence of their devotion. Anyone taking bets on who will suggest that we rename a state after him?

If you see this, post a fictional artist/band you would love to see live.

We are now seeing what happens when we give virtually unlimited power to a person whose entire worldview comes down to "anything can be owned, and it should be owned by me."

As the parent of a pediatric cardiac patient who has _thrived_ because of medical research, I take this extremely personally. I challenge anyone to provide one good reason for this move. Just one.

1. How can you "stockpile" digital assets? 2. As others have noticed, this is taking the grift up several levels. bsky.app/profile/nbcn...

On some level, he knows what he’s doing. If prices go down (supply increased), he takes the credit If prices rise, it’s the fault of Biden/illegals/democrats/etc If prices stay high, he’ll manufacture something to divert our attention It worked before, It will work again bsky.app/profile/pbum...

Some people may say that he's spreading out MAGA's influence further. My bet is that power can never be shared.