Existential dread for my trans child's future.

Hüsker Dü - We Wish You A Merry Christmas

Estonia draws a clear red line. FM Margus Tsahkna says any so called green men crossing the border will be met with live fire, and Russian aircraft violating Estonian airspace risk being shot down. This is NATO territory. If Moscow doubts it, Tsahkna says bluntly, test us.

"By making life for trans youth too difficult to bear, the GOP is hellbent on a genocide by suicide." slate.com/life/2025/12...

Someone remake “It’s a Wonderful Life” but Mr. Potter believes that hoarding is morally required so he can devote resources to delivering a far future with trillions of humans while George Bailey is like, “Gosh Darnit! What if taking care of people today is what takes care of people in the future?!”

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

WB: What do you have planned for Batman 2? Tim Burton: We open on a newborn baby boy WB: Aww TB: No. The baby is ugly. He kills and eats a house cat while it's still alive. His parents try to kill him in his crib, but to Gotham's woe, they fail WB: ... TB: Also it's a Christmas movie

In Berlin, I took an evening class on fascism – and found out how to stop the AfD | Tania Roettger

Morning Bluesky.

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

Biological men have no place in a women’s room. Unless those men are ICE agents.

Whether it's middle-class parents giving their kindergarteners Bluey dolls or Larry Ellison giving his son David $40 billion to buy Warner Bros., parents of all economic stripes are splurging on gifts this holiday season.

Big tech companies like Amazon and Meta may be passing the costs of building and operating their data centers on to YOU. That’s right. You could be bankrolling the electricity costs of trillion-dollar tech companies. I'm launching an investigation.

youtu.be/XkEy_IttHKE?... EXCELLENT

Walz: "It's very clear that the entire federal government is weaponized against Minnesota. They're threatening us. And this is what happens when you have a floundering presidency and it's about those ballrooms. Now we're back on transgender folks."

I read through these (more in the comments) and hoped maybe this was some cheeky lefty publication that went looking for the most extremist nuts they could find to make the right look bad. Nope. It’s City Journal, published by the far right Manhattan Institute. Horrifying.

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. #FuckYeahTopGun

“Trans people and our families are facing terror from this administration.”

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT get hired because he was a white male, died.

From the BLS -- Food at Home (Groceries): +1.9%

Keith Ellison vs The Menards Guy AND I AM HERE FOR IT

Obvious that Emily Koski is well loved by her colleagues. Several choked up while honoring her with a resolution at the last regular council meeting of the term. Council President Payne lauding humanity she brought to job: "You are the antidote to this moment that we're in..."

Hennepin County Library printing news, in 2026 people will have a 5 dollar every month (instead every week), and B&W printing costs increases from 10 cents per page to 20 cents per page. Print your zines now!

The Starfleet clerk reading the mission brief.

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

This small business did the same thing 8 months before Costco but @amyklobuchar.com refused to stand with us because we asked her to support trans youth.

Hey America, if you were a Christian nation, you’d be feeding the poor, not yelling at them for using food stamps.

"After struggling to stay awake through Tuesday’s cabinet meeting, President Donald Trump perked up enough to go on a racist tirade," writes columnist Jennifer Brooks.

it occurs to me that people who say "trans people didn't exist until the last decade or so" really only have the object permanence of a toddler where everything came into existence the moment they heard about it and not a second before

We stand with our Somali community and every immigrant community in the wake of increased federal activity in Minneapolis. We are asking you all to be safe. To support your immigrant neighbors who are fearful. To alert communities when you witness suspicious behavior.

One critical correction to note in this NYT story. Feeding Our Future was not a "Minneapolis nonprofit." Its headquarters were located in St. Anthony, Minnesota — a suburban office park outside the city limits of Minneapolis. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

I’m just a foreign policy wonk, standing in front of the GOP, asking them to read at least one fucking book about the history of US interventions in Latin America. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Pope Leo XIV's distinctiveness begins to show www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...

guys we accidentally logged into #mngop's spotify wrapped

Tom Emmer pushes racist lies on Fox: "80% of the crimes being committed in the Twin Cities and Minnesota are being committed by Somalis"

Reminder: Feeding Our Future was started on President Trump's watch, facilitated by legislation HE SIGNED in 2020. Shall we revisit the PPP fraud also encouraged by his hasty early pandemic legislating?

FDA Approves New Drug  That Reverses Effects Of Narcan

I've been saying for the better part of a year that Trump is on a mission to decriminalize corruption. To make it the legal equivalent of jaywalking. I feel that more strongly now than I ever had.

Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I hope he gets the help he needs. It sounds like he's trying to deflect from the failures that he's had as president ... he's fought to be the head of the pedophile protection party."

This evening, a resident was kidnapped by agents with face coverings. They disguised themselves in masks and as Uber drivers. They even left kids abandoned inside a car in the freezing cold. 1/

Training tonight (Wednesday) on Zoom!