The Midtown Greenway has never looked so good with the northern lights and recently repairs lights.

I’m gifting this article so you can read it without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

I made apple hand pies and aurora borealised them. They were delectable and are all gone. Highly recommended.

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived. (Published October)

Holy Heavens!

@racketmn.com @wedge.live

The Republican health care plan is about as real as the tooth fairy, so I won't hold my breath.

Skittles are older than the Edmund Fitzgerald. #Minnesota

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. No matter how they voted last night, every one of them has a say in maintaining Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin as their caucus leaders. Every one of them is accountable here.

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

remember tuesday? that was 86 years ago

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Rest of the world: Birthday Cake,Nom Nom Nom. All gone! Minnesotan:

This is not a deal — it's an empty promise. Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families. Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Q: Will you assure House Democrats they'll get a vote on ACA subsidies by a date certain? MIKE JOHNSON: Ah -- no. I'm not promising anyone anything.

Trump and Republicans refuse to fight for American families, but I refuse to give up on them. I simply cannot vote to do nothing to help protect them from Trump’s vindictive efforts in exchange for a vague promise from the least trustworthy Republican party in our nation’s history.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Three children were killed by lawn darts in the 70’s and they were banned in the US. ChatGPT has caused how many deaths at this point? If corporations are people, why aren’t we holding them criminally liable?

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

I like this piece a lot about Rosalind Franklin’s role in solving the structure of DNA. It really respects her as a full scientist - what she saw, what she didn’t appreciate, what could have been if she’d had true peers to support her, or had not died so young. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The WSJ on how unbelievably stupid Noem and Lewandowski are. I don’t care that I’m late to this; it’s to good to pass up. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

They’re bailing out Argentina because they’re all going to be living there when this is over.

I did not expect to be able to say, “Yes, my dog bit me in the neck,” but here we are and I still love that buddy. He messed up his leg frapping and I tried to pick him up which elicited the bite on the eve of my BD. I’m imagining him signing this Rev Fred Lane song to me. youtu.be/LF_5KhyDDBk?...

Who called it an administrative stay issued by the U.S. Supreme Court late Friday night and not a SNAP judgement?

The best and quickest way to address the MAGA health care hike is a clean, one-year extension of the enhanced premium tax credits that is written into the CR Congress ultimately votes on to reopen the government.

Thought experiment: You are given a magic dust free of charge and told that if you sprinkle it on any experiment it will improve the results by 100%, making everything more efficient and speeding up discovery. The dust can only be disposed of into the drain (not sewer) where it will enter... 1/3

Here's a joke my spouse wouldn't laugh at, but then promptly called a friend to share it. It was inspired by the new trend in the building trades in #Minneapolis where, increasingly, contractors are placing a porta potty on site when renovations/construction is being done. 1/2

I'm here outside Speaker Johnson’s office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files. Change my mind.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

actual communism

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

I have an announcement to make: it’s winter!

If Russell Vought wants a progress report on how his federal worker “trauma strategy” is performing, Virginia, who has the 2nd largest federal workforce, flipped 13 seats blue yesterday.

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Mood today: acidulous. Meal to match.

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

I sure hope www.minneapolisparks.org learns from this election and posts the correct maps well before the next election. Due to redistricting, my district ended up with an incumbent running who simply ignored at least some of the district. Also, time for a new Superintendent, please.

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

For children and teens, heart and blood vessel complications of Covid overshadow the very rare and short-term risk of vaccinations, a new report from nearly 14 million kids www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I’ve been an FAA licensed drone pilot doing cinematography and photography for the U for the past three years. I finally bought my own flying camera and am registered and open for commercial business as of today. Hit me up if you have a need or referrals.

West River Parkway along the Mill City Museum is a hazard. Someone will get killed at Portland one of these days by a reckless driver. It's so dangerous at rush hour.

My favorite captcha, ever: select all squares with crosswalk.

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

It's something

You can still help elect a progressive park board! Early voting is available today, and you can vote in person tomorrow! Tell your friends and neighbors to support your local progressive candidates and reject the faux “pragmatism” of GOP-funded candidates!