I wanted to thank ppl who took time out of their lives to call Senators and Reps multiple times--even the Republicans! No matter how futile the situation seemed, you still fought on! That is true glory, and that's the type of fighting we need.

For those of you wondering what started the “rampant scandal” rhetoric Nick Shirley is using. Guess why no one is talking about who’s actually responsible. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

The best debunking so far of the daycare hoax is here, courtesy of Mercado Media: www.facebook.com/100053680544...

Popularists: Democrats should moderate by looking into the camera and saying they are the exact type of moderate I am Me: Democrats should appear moderate by talking like normal people and making things like defending trans rights and immigration rights a natural part of the American project.

He was supposed to serve 10 years and pay $36 million in restitution for defrauding investors. Never served a day. Not Somali.

Pretty sad times we live in when it’s news that the government has agreed to follow a court order.

“I used to think fascists were bad, but then one of them got through a whole interview without unhinging their jaw and swallowing me like a snake”

All based on a “gotcha” video claiming that 3 daycares had no kids. One hadn’t opened yet for the day; one is actually closed. Dude arrived with no I.D. No call ahead. They DIDN’T LET HIM IN! The fraud they’re referencing was investigated & prosecuted by the Biden DOJ. The ringleader was white.

Seems like a turning point when Minneapolis and Saint Paul can’t distribute newspapers and a YouTuber takes over the Minnesota news cycle.

Boycotting Constitution Hall because the DAR won’t let Marian Anderson sing has costs. It may end opera. Is that worth it? By Megan McArdle, 1939

but let me just say: random dude approaching daycare with cameras should not be given access to kids.

Hey let’s go to the home town of the Annunciation Shooting and just try to get in places with kids, just me and my janky stranger buddies

and not for nothing but the number of people who are offended because the random white guy wasn’t just granted complete carte blanche into a daycare is baffling.

Ran into Prince - literally - at First Avenue, the Minneapolis club he used to own. Was feeling sassy and shooshed around a corner to head to the upper level and smacked into him coming down the stairs. Barely registered who I’d hit before a large man stepped in and moved me out of the way.

So...um... you named your company after a character who pretty famously missed two people sneaking into his home despite having an extensive security system. A system which included 24/7 monitoring and active military personnel.

I'm a firm believer that this liminal period between the holidays and New Year's is how we're supposed to live. It's peak existence. May the word "efficiency" die in 2026 and all its horrible relatives "innovating" to solve the perceived problems of rest, joy, creativity, and humanity.

An exceptionally stupid and contingent set of circumstances made Stephen Miller the most influential ideologue in the US. There is no future for the left or liberalism that does not take as a core mission ensuring he is punished for his crimes & no one as hateful as him is ever close to power again.

"If you’re pushing slop or eating it, you wouldn’t read it anyway. You’d ask a bot for a summary and forget what it told you, then proceed with your day, unchanged by words you did not read and ideas you did not consider." anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

The timing is poetic

In fact, folklore is resplendent with stories of simple heroes who defeat seemingly omnipotently powerful beings by simply convincing them to make themselves small and containable, and then simply pressing the stopper closed. Maybe we need more stories to meet this moment. And better readers.

Most accurate Christmas gift I’ve ever gotten

Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.

🧵 Our mutual aid hub has been a HUGE draw for our immense volunteer base, many of whom have never wanted to be involved politics before now. This model isn’t just about the immediate impacts: It’s about showing our values, building a community, and reaching voters — without selling our soul!

Not only does this intentionally violate the First Amendment to the US Constitution, it’s vile to watch mean-spirited, selfish ghouls who starve the poor and kidnap people for their skin color sanctimoniously pretending they follow any of the teachings of Jesus.

No matter where we come from, we all want to live a safe, dignified life with the people we love. Buying up warehouses for privately operated detention centers—including a proposed Woodbury, MN detention center— after ripping our immigrant neighbors from their families is vile.

That's right

Siri, show me a guy who has never ever gone to see a show.

My aging arms have sought rest and respite many times while attending performances at the Kennedy Center. They have never said, "If only the armrests were cold, hard marble..."

RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!” “A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”

Went to neighborhood mosque to support and protect folks on their way to Friday prayers. Mostly older white women. A small tractor with a snow plow broke down in a busy nearby intersection. One of our crew ran out to see if the driver needed help. 1/

Hey, Minnesota nerds! Look at the book @searinglyaaron.bsky.social gave me for Christmas!

Our groceries were delivered by a pleasant Sikh driver who wished us a Merry Christmas, contradicting the 90% of my X feed which is claiming that "foreigners" are busy "cancelling Christmas."

Where’s everyone who was so worried about bathroom safety

I am trying to wrap my head around the fact that hundreds of American men are currently spending Christmas Eve without their loved ones, roaming our cities to find people to take by violence from theirs. They grew up with the same Christmas TV I did, heard the same music. Unfathomable

It’s wild that we all just accept the premise this should be treated as a private business that “loses” money instead of as a public service that costs money.

Sometimes, people, criticism isn’t a sign that you’re a brave truth-teller, standing strong in the face of condemnation from the backwards masses who will SOMEDAY see how right you are. Sometimes it just means your take is wrong. Super, super wrong.

One of the things that needs to become clear in 2026 is that big changes are possible if you pitch them. Talk positively. Explain the pros and cons like an adult. Be enthusiastic. Repeat the idea. Answer questions about it. Sell the notion that we can make things better. People want to buy in.

billionaires can buy the cupcake factory and then start producing piles of shit that they insist are actually cupcakes but it doesn't mean anyone has to believe them, or eat the pile of shit

1. I believe evolution is how God created humanity (& everything) so there was no OG 2 humans. This is what science currently supports. Adam & Eve were not literal people who literally existed, they represent something in a story to teach us spiritual concepts.

"On every world, wherever people are, in the deepest part of the winter, at the exact mid-point, everybody stops and turns and hugs. As if to say, “Well done, everyone! We’re halfway out of the dark.” #DoctorWho

Rest now with the ancestors🙏🏾

Third Way Terrified to Learn of Fourth Way

The first progressive church to use produce a live action version of Bob’s Burgers Christmas two-parter The Bleakening as their Christmas program will be my hero.

Needs more statuary

My friends, I haven’t chanted this loud in quite a bit. So proud of everyone fighting back and manifesting the the community I believe in, the community where we belong to each other and our destiny is in our solidarity

From the large ICE protest here in Minneapolis

Hey guys I've invented a new type of Catholicism where *I* tell *the Pope* what to do.

Mad call I it, for to define true madness, What is’t but to be nothing else but mad?