To me, this is like if somebody stubbed their toe, went to the ER, and didn’t die. Like yes, it’s good they didn’t die, we’re happy about that! But the celebration is pretty secondary to figuring out what the fuck happened such that it was called into question and ensuring that never happens again.

🔥🔥🔥 Kate Shaw calls for SCOTUS reform so other reforms stick: "It could mean stripping the Supreme Court of the power to hear challenges to certain newly enacted laws, or legislating supermajority voting requirements ... creating additional Supreme Court seats, then moving quickly to fill them" 🔥🔥🔥

The same is true if you think this stops here—that they’ll be fine with states like Minnesota allowing trans girls to play on the correct teams.

Democratic leadership sees four Supreme Court justices say the Constitution doesn’t protect birthright citizenship, says everything is totally fine. Disgraceful.

You can leave your posts up about how horrible Sam Alito is, it’s still true.

No matter what the Supreme Court says, No matter how hard the fascists cling to power, we will fight for all our trans community. Sports are integral to youth community and development and cannot be denied to our trans kids.

I rarely feel shocked by the Supreme Court, but the birthright citizenship case being 5–4 on the constitutional question is so, so much worse than I thought it would be.

Six Supreme Court justices rule from on high that it’s totally fine to make life shittier for already incredibly vulnerable kids. Our country heads into the 4th of July with the very worst of American discrimination and bigotry on full display.

"WV can deny B. P. J. and others like her these experiences simply because it thinks they have an inherent athletic advantage, even if the facts show that they do not. In the end, to the Court, the facts do not matter, even though the consequences are serious. The ban is absolute." -Sonia Sotomayor

As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump

Slaughter is an earthquake: SCOTUS has overturned a 90-year-old precedent that facilitated much of modern governance by granting many agencies meaningful independence from the president. Now SCOTUS crushes that independence ... for seemingly every agency except the Federal Reserve.

Aurora finish the season having won every game, having given up 1 goal, 60 league matches unbeaten over 5 years Zero precedent for the domination in American soccer history. Vamos millonarios

At tonight’s memorial for Barbara Mork-Woodford, her family and friends asked for support for Little Hopes in her memory. They’re doing essential work to serve our community members in need of additional support. littlehopesmn.org

When Colombia plays, there’s a decent chance Minnesota gets mentioned on national broadcasts. Therefore Colombia is my second favorite team in the tournament.

10,000 people at Hmong International Freedom Festival by the time of the *opening* ceremony. A beautiful day and a beautiful celebration that, like so many things, means a little bit more this year.

Tearing up with joy for a country I learned about two weeks ago.

Barb Mork-Woodford was the long-time baker at the Bruegger’s at Energy Park and Raymond until it closed. Memorial vigil Saturday 8pm, Hamline Ave and Midway Pkwy. She’s the 6th pedestrian killed in Saint Paul this year (there are others just over the border).

Hakeem Jeffries is a prime example of why we need fewer corporate lawyers dominating our politics.

This is a devastating, senseless loss. Saint Paul is on pace for more pedestrian deaths this year than last. There’s so much our city must continue to do to prevent this—better street design, more enforcement, more investments in bike lanes and public transit. www.twincities.com/2026/06/24/s...

Today was an absolute blood bath at SCOTUS for the less powerful to enforce civil rights in the federal courts. TL;dr - SCOTUS rules 6-3 that only corporations have rights that are enforceable in federal court??

Our office has received a significant number of questions about SPPD’s use of new technologies, including both Flock cameras and drones. We’ll be having both SPPD and the ACLU at tomorrow’s Public Safety Committee to share information and answer questions. www.twincities.com/2026/06/23/s...

This has always been a dumb argument and will always be a dumb argument. It’s a branch of government. Its public proceedings should be viewable to the whole public, not just a tiny fraction willing to travel and stand in line for hours.

One important note: One of the states within the 8th circuit, Minnesota, passed its own voting rights act in 2024, specifically with an eye to countering this coming threat and allowing individuals and third-party groups to sue over voting rights violations. boltsmag.org/minnesota-vo...

If you’re getting aggressively angry at people for driving the speed limit, you do not belong behind the wheel of a car.

I need more than anything to know what Eric Adams said in his speech in the alternate universe where he is still the mayor of New York.

No waiting on print copies at @stpaulpublibrary.bsky.social sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S1...

Randomly feeling like it might finally be time to read “Crying in H Mart.”

Happy. Incredible bandwagon to be on. And very relieved that we can all put the unnaturalness of cheering for New York behind us.

In all seriousness, I hope someone asks JD Vance whether Flo Balogun, born to Nigerian parents in New York, should be considered a US citizen.

Thought I might make it through this World Cup without becoming deeply emotionally invested in the USMNT. Turns out I didn’t even make it through one half.

At some point I simply cannot believe that this metropolitan area has four million people in it when all I do is run into my relatives.

A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.

Sports are very good and fun.

There is something very funny about seeing the bar that you’ve spent most of your life thinking of as “the bar your family goes to after funerals” featured in Esquire as one of the best bars in America.

Genuine question, did I hallucinate the part where it seemed like our team completely fell apart two months ago…?

This is so good. Substantive debates about the future of American cities benefit all of us, and that’s what we’re going to get out of LA between now and November. Rooting for Nithya and hoping to never again hear Spencer Pratt’s name.

❤️ @jonkrawczynski.bsky.social perfectly sums up why everybody in Minnesota is cheering so hard for KAT and the Knicks. www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...

Which states have the most progressive governors? My pre-coffee brain needs some brainstorming support.

I don't think New Yorkers have properly considered how much love we Minnesota fans have to have for a player to root for a New York sports team.

i really do think they believe that because they're "good" on policy that they don't owe people anything on a human level, and if you're a woman who believes in the same policies but also understands the capacity even "good" men have to be cruel then you're weak

Cool job alert: become a union attorney for UFCW Local 663! It’s a union of 14,000 hard-working grocery, retail, meat packing and processing, food preparation and manufacturing, healthcare, and other workers in Minnesota!

One week into June and my toddler is already referring to Mears Park as “the party park-y,” so safe to say he gets the Saint Paul summertime vibe. If you didn’t make it to Lowertown Sounds tonight, don’t make that mistake again.

Completely agree with @rickhasen.bsky.social. After tonight’s decision, it isn’t just impossible to win a Voting Rights Act claim—it’s also impossible to win a *constitutional* claim against egregiously racist gerrymandering. The supermajority massively expanded Callais. electionlawblog.org?p=156541

This afternoon, a school bus driving south on Snelling Avenue drove onto the Hamline University campus and struck a campus building. (1/2)

I went to Jenni’s Cafe in the Landmark Center for breakfast today for my first time and it’s an absolute delight. An excellent addition to downtown and an unfortunate development for my bank account.

🚨 Community: We have a person in crisis at the parking lot around the pavillion of Minnehaha Falls Park who is armed. Best thing you can do is AVOID and LEAVE the area. MPD negotiators are on scene doing their jobs. Please help by clearing the scene so they can continue and help this individual.

New from @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social and @mollycoleman.bsky.social: The same courts that can entrench political power are also making decisions that weaken workers' ability to organize for better pay and conditions, with far less scrutiny. Virginia's redistricting fight offers a stark reminder.

The Virginia Supreme Court made headlines last month for screwing over our democracy—but screwing over working people and defending entrenched power is nothing new for them. @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social and I wrote about it for @ballsandstrikes.org. ballsandstrikes.org/guest-essay/...

My god I love this place.

I firmly believe that we all live in bubbles of some kinds, and I have to say that I like living in one where people are really fired up over a great race and a great outcome in the state auditor’s race.