Almost all of the law practice payment processors I looked at or spoke to are building buy-now-pay-later services into their software and pushing attorneys to use them. I wound up choosing one that, while they made a pressure pitch, ultimately allowed me to keep it disabled. A hard no from me.

The Twin Cities hottest club is the M Health Fairview Urgent Care in Highland Park. Open for 15 minutes and we have 20 people kickin' it

In response to a few questions, I have looked into this further - assuming there is no veto override vote this term, would there be a veto override vote in the new council? I don't think so. But the answer to this question is not entirely clear.🧵 bsky.app/profile/jos...

Big Jim they can never make me hate you

like aurin said on halloween… “as much as carol becker hates it, he’s coming to the southside, baby.”

aaron wagner is resigning from the robbinsdale city council because he is planning to move to minneapolis to live with his fiancee aurin chowdhury, ward 12 council member his last day will be jan 5th, 2026 ccxmedia.org/news/aaron-w...

Notes on promos before Avatar: Fire & Ash: - actual applause and cheers for the scene from The Odyssey - The Mandalorian and Grogu looks fun, and like they remembered Star Wars can and should often be Flash Gordon nonsense

This article is astonishing. Four Council Members are quoted about having restraining orders out against harassers, and a majority have them in total. Someone of the conduct in there is vile. If you have the stomach, worth a read to see what our electeds are dealing with.

thank you Kirkland Signature mucinex, you are my only friend

Yesterday, the Minnesota Supreme Court denied review in State v. Fohrenkam. This likely puts in the nail in the coffin, excluding the defendant's custodial interview from evidence This case charges the defendant with killing Deshaun Hill Jr. in 2022. The second trial is scheduled for February

strongly recommend, or do not recommend, listening to "Someday at Christmas" if you're tired and emotional, depending on whichever side of the getting teary-eyed at 12:04 PM divide you come down on www.youtube.com/watch?v=y__t...

Grinchatar: Tinsel and Hash

Three days notice, with the way we count under the law, means it could be Monday if called today, or Tuesday if called tomorrow. But it's not clear to me that the Council has the ability to call its own special meetings for the whole Council? Someone who knows this better than me, please help?

Not much with the Minnesota Supreme Court this week. Just one attorney discipline order, but it provides an opportunity to reflect on the nature of ethical conduct and expressly recorded communications.

emily koski was granted a restraining order against the man who is defacing her signs. she talked about him on thursday night, but also said she'd be sharing more info so i held off on this but she sent an email now explaining it taylordahlin.com/f/emily-kosk...

Yesterday, 10 days before Christmas, the City of Minneapolis filed 42 evictions against some of our poorest neighbors. Failure of management, failure of mission.

is this Cyndy Martin's burner lol

damn lol

Been too long.

Substackin' again. I talked with Tom Oszman of TCMediaNow about the nonprofit's mission to build up an archive of Twin Cities local broadcast pieces and how that work has changed over time: vtuss.substack.com/p/tcmedianow...

at least one of the attorneys discussed in this order approving a class action settlement follows me on here, so I just want to say: thank you for your service 🫡

at the summer camp I worked at, we would say "If you had fun, you won." and it's pretty clear which side is having more fun

Criminal cases are very serious matters and I try to keep my jokes about them relatively tasteful. BUT I do think recreating part of the plot to SUPER TROOPERS did not bode well for the defendant in this case.

Of note, the COA reversed a conviction based evidence gained from an anticipatory warrant, holding that the condition for arrest was not met because traveling on I-35 alone does not mean the defendant was going "towards Cloquet." The MN Supreme Court has never addressed anticipatory warrants.

State v. Tanna leads us to add a rule to our list: Rule # 2 of destroying evidence: If you’re going to try to eat the methamphetamine in your possession during your arrest, make sure you succeed in eating enough to avoid the weight necessary for a first-degree possession charge.

It's another edition of Minnesota Appellate Court Watch, this time covering the Court of Appeals opinions released December 15, 2025. With two murders and four terminations of parental rights, it's not the cheeriest week on the docket. But! There's meth-eating blog.minnappct.watch/minnesota-co...

Parenting an almost-four-year old boy in three pictures.

I wound up putting very similar language about A.I. on my practice's website, and it is BY FAR the thing people comment on most. 100% approval rating. Attorneys I network with, potential clients reaching out, friends checking in. Marked difference from the reaction I first got on here.

FYI: just realized this is only true through Wednesday, because after that AMC is going full Avatar. Catch OBAA as it should be seen while you can!

Good morning, woke up thinking about the "Soldier Boy" needle drop in One Battle After Another again. I will not countenance the backlash to this film or Teyana Taylor's work in it. Far beyond.

I don't bet on sports, but it would be extremely funny to bet one Social Security payment's worth on Old Man Rivers

Hey mihra, what should landlords do when immigration enforcement demands entry to a rental unit without a warrant?

Mihra would, canonically, speak in a New Zealand accent in a crude attempt to reflect the face of its creator

I very much encourage all of you to see what stupid responses we can get from the brand new A.I. slopbot run by our state's landlord trade org

Saw Children of Men in theaters, cold, because a friend and I didn't want to go home on a Friday night and bought tickets for whatever movie was starting next. Saw Revenge of the Sith on opening night. Long line. A kid showed up dressed like Darth Vader and the entire crowd erupted in cheers.

i'm told cyndy martin has resigned from ALL of her DFL positions - CD8, CBRC, code of conduct, itasca county DFL, feminist caucus - as of today she pleaded not guilty to vehicular homicide last month taylordahlin.com/f/cyndy-mart...

"The clues were all there! If you rearrange the letters in the author's name, it spells Littler Mendelson!"

This is so unhelpful to the cause of workers' rights that I considered whether it could be a false-flag operation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

HOME Line stands in solidarity with our immigrant neighbors: homelinemn.org/11558/home-l...

Just remembering how a City Council candidate expressly said "if you elect wacky leftists Donald Trump may come invade Minnesota," and so many more dogwhistled it about Omar Fateh, then we reelected Frey and the Council swung two votes back towards the conservatives and ICE is here anyway 🤷‍♂️

What are peoples' favorite local roasteries, particularly for espresso beans? Dana got us an espresso machine two Christmases ago, and we're finally incorporating it into our routines.

Trump take snowblower

Minnesota Appellate Court Watch returns for today's releases from the MN Supreme Court. We have two opinions. First, a statutory interpretation decision officially recognizing a new attempted assault offense. Second, my stab at writing about attorney discipline. blog.minnappct.watch/minnesota-su...

Mixture of > 45 yo bread dough ornaments and newer crafted and gift given ornaments. Might need more lights next year.

My personal philosophy on the legal profession is that our laws are, at best, a rough simulacrum for morality. Through the legislative process and the evolving common law we've arrived at a complicated, imperfect system to dole out responsibility for wrongs, both criminal and civil.

Richard will defend due process and the court of law when it comes to his buddy Cyndy though!

My grandma always did a white tree (white & clear ornaments, green tree) and gave me a bunch of her decorations from it. This is my first year using her pearl (not real) garland and I feel like it really completes the look.