Seriously, fuck this. I'm so sick of our profession's cowardice. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Me on Monday: “It’s so stressful having three teams in the playoffs!” The universe: “Got you.”

Two decades later, another perfect homage to people who love work. The Devil Wears Prada 2, 10/10.

New report from the Family Housing Fund written by @curaumn.bsky.social based on a survey of over 1k tenants living in single-family homes in the Twin Cities. Big takeaway: Large landlords (inclduing private equtiy, and REITs) scored worse across all metrics even after controling for other factors 🧵

What does it feel like to not be emotionally destroyed by the game you love.

We looked into the “business courts” that are sweeping the nation. We found that nearly half the judges are former corporate lawyers, even though many of these courts hear cases involving workers and consumers. In some states, it’s 100%. newrepublic.com/article/2102...

We see them in St. Paul Midway today too, roughly around Fairview and University. Stay sharp.

Prior to running for City Council I really had no idea how many challenge coins I’d be receiving in the role.

In a loss for *democracy.

Changed from an oversized Wild sweatshirt into a regular Wild sweatshirt for tonight’s community meeting because I am a professional.

Reminder that, beginning next week and running through the end of the year, renters in Saint Paul are required to have 60-days’ notice before they can be evicted for non-payment of rent.

“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” Fake Yeats quote, but accurate description of me watching three of my teams in the playoffs.

What on God’s green earth is this game

The Kentucky Derby is once again proof that I can get into any sport in the entire world for a day.

I will absolutely regret weighing in on this, but I think Angie was in the right. As far as I can tell, she worked pretty hard to stop cuts to SNAP—and to expand coverage to hot food more broadly—and I think that if you’ve put in the work, a protest vote (even one you have to explain) is valid.

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.

“But just as we can learn from the consequences of acquiescing to the Supreme Court’s constitutional interpretation, we can also draw upon the tools past Congresses have offered for how to build a more democratic constitutionalism.”

It’s so constantly horrifying—and, frankly, exhausting—to live in a country in which access to basic medical care is constantly being fucked with by a handful of unelected men.

It is my great honor & privilege to introduce Doctor Allison Myren, who today successfully defended her excellent Ph.D. dissertation, “The Political Economy of Demand for Global Financial Insurance.” Congrats @amyren.bsky.social & best of luck at @princeton.edu’s Niehaus Center next year!

Cannot recommend having a brilliant and talented best friend highly enough. It was pretty freaking amazing to watch her defend her dissertation today.

People everywhere are saying did you catch that amazing win in Saint Paul last night?! And this is what they’re talking about, I’m sure of it.

Nobody’s even talking about tonight’s Saints victory.

I can’t believe it. I’m so happy. The Minnesota Wild are the best and this is the best 😭😭😭

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

WaPo reports Louisiana’s governor will announce on Friday that he is suspending the House primaries where people have already started voting and redraw the map; I’d expect them to go for an all-Republican map and eliminate both majority-Black districts, not just one.

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

This was a really interesting interview! I was expecting to only half pay attention, but Schierer was so excited about what he was talking about that it kept my attention. Also he did the interview from the library, which he helped get going as mayor and was clearly thrilled about.

NEW EPISODE: Ben Schierer, former mayor of Fergus Falls, talks about the time he juggled with Russian acrobats in Louisiana for a performance of Disney on Ice. Which is almost as exciting as his 2026 campaign for state auditor.

Letting six lawyers, hand-picked for their extreme views and subject to no democratic accountability, decide whose votes matter in our country—in what should be a democracy—is a choice. It’s a choice that nearly every Democrat in Congress is currently making. We can, and must, make a different one.

i really love that i live in Minnesota right now with Norm and thousands of Minnesotans who are like this, who protect each other, and our neighbors. It's just a good feeling.

Cool people: cheering for the Wild. Bad people: cheering for the Stars. My son: cheering for “ZAMBONI COME OUT! ZAMBONI COME OUT!”

I love the Timberwolves. I do not like this quarter. I…don’t totally mind that I don’t feel a ton of pressure to stay awake for the fourth quarter.

Yesterday marked the 48th anniversary of Saint Paul voters overturning the city’s gay rights ordinance, which had been one of the first in the country when it was enacted in 1974. Every year, the anniversary is commemorated and the 2SLGBTQIA+ community is celebrated.

Everybody’s like “suspend Jokic,” but literally why bother, it’s not like him playing seems to matter.

Joker doesn’t want Jaden to score he can play d

At @stpaulpublibrary.bsky.social we’ve heard this week from neighbors who were concerned—rightly so—about rubber mulch in the blvd outside Hamline Midway Library. Thanks for letting us know and we’ll be getting it removed. Here’s my message to neighbors who reached out. 1/4

Saturday! The Hamline Midway Coalition are hosting a neighborhood cleanup and then there will be a Trash Party to coincide w/ the Loons v LAFC pregame. Come help clean up the neighborhood & then Brass Messengers will be playing the Palmer's Stage on the patio 1:30-3:30.

HealthPartners is giving its first clinic -- the Como Clinic on St. Paul's Como Avenue -- a major steroidal shot, with plans to open one of the most advanced urgent care facilities in the east metro by fall 2027. Think: MRI, CT, OBG-YN, Endocrinology, TRIA Ortho... www.twincities.com/2026/04/23/h...

Today, I started the morning touring the new addition to Kimball Court. A few hours later, we finally got to share the news that mixed-use development is coming to the former CVS site. They were two very different moments, but they both highlighted what I love about Midway.

At the end of the Mac-Grove Community Council annual meeting, I did something completely unexpected and maybe even unprecedented: I took the last cookie. When I say people were confused, I am not kidding. Direct quote: "Did you just take the last cookie?! I assumed somebody would cut it in half."

@ me

I’m not built to be watching hockey at this hour.

Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.

I’m obviously more inclined to thank who carried the work instead of the sinful elected but all the staff who were real hitters on this are Lurkers and I’m no Narc.

Saint Paul passed a boost to its separation ordinance today and I couldn’t be prouder. Shout out to the Ward 4 office: @mollycoleman.bsky.social

A panel in which two of the three judges are Trump appointees—in case anybody continues to have any illusions about the Ninth Circuit.

Hopefully one of the final updates on this: at tomorrow’s Council meeting, we’ll have a public hearing on 26–19 and, hopefully, take a final vote. If you want to weigh in but can’t be there to testify in person, comments to the Council and Mayor’s Office are of course welcome.

Being in the playoffs* is exhausting. *Watching people play hockey while I lay on the couch eating ice cream.

Would it even be the playoffs if Jake Oettinger wasn’t pissing me off?