Mpls Public Service Announcement: Healther's Mpls Patio is booked up (and has two private events today.) 😭 3/21/26

I would also note, in the Booker desegregation case, 1 finding was that MPS varied building size to maintain predominantly white attendance zones within diversifying neighborhoods. That legacy, of how capital budgets were managed, can still be seen. law.justia.com/cases/federa...

Just FYI - a lot of Ecuadorans don't have a great asylum case. The odds get better the longer they are here, but on the face of it they tend to be immigrating for economic reasons (which doesn't count). We've got to work on changing the laws.

A lot of the people now telling you that generative AI is the future whether you like it or not and you'd better get onboard or be left behind said the exact same shit about the Metaverse

I can’t shake the feeling that Mary Moriarty is running out of time. Even if she files charges, she won’t be in office to prosecute. All you dflers going to conventions. I hope you are pressing Henn Attny candidates on what they will do to seek justice for Renee & Alex once in office.

Alexander the Great drank himself to death because his boyfriend died and his soldiers wanted to go home

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

What To Know About ‘Sinners’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-sinners/

Make Jack Aubrey a commodore with that mission and give him almost no material support

We dressed in old-timey clothes and went to a one room schoolhouse. There was also a lumbering museum there.

I liked Sinners better, but my sister made the costumes for One Battle After Another and it is hard to be too sad

I salute the pedantry of the child’s new toy.

Our Somali neighbors have their windshield wipers flipped up for the storm. Who can still question they are just as minnesotan as any of us?

The unique beauty of an urban snowstorm is the quiet, resulting from the lack of cars

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

Every now and then, it's worth reminding yourself that every single crisis of Trump 2.0 -- the economic downturn, the chaos in our cities, the rising health crisis, the foreign wars -- has been a direct result of their own actions. If they'd done nothing at all, they'd be coasting comfortably.

Sustained good faith diplomacy leading to enforceable multilateral agreements and shared prosperity for all.

As true now as it was then

I think if they developed the part of the E Lake Target parking lot along Minnehaha, as well as the remaining lot in front of Aldi, you could put in a mid-block pedestrian crossing and really kickstart downtown Longfellow.

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

800-588-2300 Empire! (Today!)

"You'll save big money! You’ll save big money! When you shop Menards! Plumbing, electrical appliances too! The saving will always come right back to you! You'll save big money! You'll save big money! When you shop Menards!"

Just saw a flying squirrel while walking the dog! So cool! I've never seen one before

In the game "Bloc by Bloc," which dramatizes the experience of participating in an insurrection, there is a "chief of police fired" card. When you draw this card, you gain nothing—you simply reshuffle all the cards in the police strategy deck and continue playing. crimethinc.com/blocbybloc

Congrats to Rep. @katiejonesmpls.bsky.social and family, who biked to the hospital last week and came back with baby Hans. Here's what she told me about the ride:

What is the point of abstaining? Unless there is some conflict or something, seems like it is a council person's job to make a choice (looks hard at my council person)

Maternal: Engineer in the Army, School Teacher, Worked for Social Security Administration Paternal: Airplane Mechanic in the Navy, Machinist, Owner of Machining company, Owner of Machine Tool sales company

feeling compelled to post this new yorker reject from years ago, for some reason

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?" Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

@mikeduncan.bsky.social I'm re-listening to the Martian Revolution Living in Minneapolis, the martian response to the annulment crisis really hits differently now. We're living it!

Last night I was down a rabbit hole of why fish can't exist deeper than around 8000 meters and I realized that the deepest a fish has ever gone in the ocean and survived was in a submersible. The fish were people. All vertebrates are fish. I hope this helps with ~~the horrors~~

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

How do we gain the world's trust (such that it was) after this?

Btw, if you are following the Anthropic debacle, and Minnesota is fresh in your mind, consider the limits your government was not willing to budge on, according to the Anthropic CEO: www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

Need to transport 2 extra neighbor kids to/from school? There’s a cargo bike for that! My car can’t safely fit this many kids, but my cargo bike can. It felt SO good to use my bike again for school drop off. Day maker for all 5 of us, I think. 🚲❤️

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Discourse on my latest post: PROBLEM: this model has a dozen different fudge factors! SOLUTION: we will replace all the parameters with distributions and do Monte Carlo analysis PROBLEM: this model has two dozen different fudge factors.

My 9yo is reading a book on the womens suffrage movement - this morning he asked me what "picketing" was and I told him. He asked why the government allowed people to harass the picketers for suffrage.

As well as being evil they are also very dumb.

As the midterms approach a fun counterfactual to think about is how things might have played out in Minnesota if the ICE surge never happened and the Trump administration more or less just let MN Republicans continue to hammer Walz, who remained in the gov race, on fraud for basically a whole year

Click through to read the context lol

February 2026 so far in news photos

the elder millennial urge to come on fhqhwhgads

The original "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" i.e. Jurassic Park 2 I actually liked the book (I was young) and was disappointed that the movie had nothing to do with it

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

Today is Fredrick Douglass birthday! He was born into slavery, and didn’t know his real birthday. He picked Valentines Day because it was the last day he saw his mother, as a child. Sharing the page from the NPS website, since it will piss them off it’s still there. www.nps.gov/frdo/learn/h...