Hey, a quick hint for anyone trying to follow the news in Minneapolis from out of state: if you add ?utm_source=gift to any Star Tribune URL, it'll let you read it. Also, some reliable local outlets that are both better and free: www.mprnews.org www.minnpost.com sahanjournal.com

JD Vance supports murdering American citizens. He's made that perfectly clear today. If he's willing to defend the murder of Renee Good, he would defend your murder, too.

This man is a fucking lawyer. Yale law school should be embarrassed. The state that gave him his law license should be embarrassed. His wife, another Ivy League lawyer should be embarrassed. I’m embarrassed as a lawyer that he is one.

This is what finally broke me today, for some reason. It's lovely.

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

THANK YOU FROM MINNEAPOLIS Please understand this is huge

Some people are just better than others but it’s a character issue, not a skin color one

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

They picked the wrong city (Cities!). We’ve done this before.

Trump wrote three total sentences here. Sentence 1: 49 words, 8 commas Sentence 2: 29 words, 3 commas Sentence 3: 128 words, 16 commas Mush brains

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

Minneapolis.

The people out at the site right now blowing whistles and yelling at ICE are doing so KNOWING THEY WILL BE PHYSICALLY HARMED because what’s at stake is THAT IMPORTANT

Been going solid with tutoring sessions almost all day, and still one more session to go tonight. So I have scheduled ALL THIS for a 9pm “sinking in.” Ugh.

This.

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

I work hard to be compassionate and extend loving-kindness. Lack and loss of humanity in some is what brought us here. But damn if there isn’t a sizable and specific group of people that make the endeavor SO DIFFICULT…

More Costcos. Fewer Targets and Hiltons. Please.

This may be the greatest thing I've ever gotten from the thrift store

Walz is out of Fs: "Not a single Republican supported this, so every Minnesotan from here on, whoever uses this program, there is no bit of thanks that would go to the R legislators who did all they could to stop this ... our schools have money to pay their teachers? I'll take credit for that too."

I think my least favorite quality in a person, one that is so often praised as an asset or virtue, is: "doesn't take no for an answer." We're living through an extended nightmare of what that looks like when brought to its logical conclusion.

Neil McCabe—former director of external affairs for the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office and now a senior adviser to DOJ’s Ed Martin—asks, “Why is it a problem?”

Very rare to find corporations with a spine. Do these companies not pay attention to what happened to Target, Tesla, Disney and Home Depot. Costco is thriving because they wouldn't kiss the ring.

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

For nonlawyers, it’s worth noting that statements like this have—as a formal matter—important legal effects as a matter of international law. If such statements are *not* made, and in volume, future arguments that Trump’s invasion sets a legal precedent will stand on much firmer legal ground.

5. I have no respect for Donald Trump. He diminishes everything he touches. But focusing on him right now is like being bitten by your neighbor’s unleashed, unfenced rabid dog and focusing on the dog. If we don’t hold his enablers to account we’re going to keep getting bit.

I am reminded here to tap the sign encouraging you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free newsrooms how and where you are able

Over the next few days, the news will cover Venezuela and Maduro. They won't be talking about: * slow-walking the Epstein files release * Jack Smith's deposition * childcare funding frozen based on a staged video * Trump's questionable health and whether he had an MRI So, Mission Accomplished?

I seriously wonder how any successor can win an election in Venezuela without demanding some kind of reckoning from the US for the death of all those people at sea.

And here it is... your moment of Zen.

This is a good visual. Looks like in order to ensure we have proof that we mailed something on a specific day, we will have to stand in line at the post office and request a manual post mark.

Hey Minneapolis folks, please shop on Lake Street right now, if you can. I’ve been to Panaderia San Miguel, Pineda Tacos and the Mercado Central in the last week and they’re all pretty deserted. Going to visit the Somali Museum and the Midtown Global tomorrow. Show our immigrant communities some 💖!

Oof. And yes. We need a cultural and education revolution. Being back truth. Bring back shame. Bring back respect. Bring back integrity, and intelligence, and expertise!

like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

A smaller but related point: can folks please stop contrasting academia and “the real world”? Last I checked, we academics are real, too.

I made it through this year…. So did you!

All of the top 10 books borrowed through the public library app Libby were written by women. And Kristin Hannah's The Women was the top checkout in many library systems around the country.

This is con artist constitutionalism. One weird trick they don’t want you to know about. As if no one until now has ever considered whether Congress can fund highways

Pardoned by Trump after convicted of 12 counts of bank fraud and tax evasion. Don’t have to pay back $17.8 million in restitution or serve 12 year sentence. Not Somalis.

It is WILD how people are pissed off because a random daycare - in a place where there was a school shooting less than six months ago - isn't letting random adults *with cameras* into their buildings to "see what they're doing."

This is the single greatest piece of rock art in human history

I hired professionals to help design and launch my personal legal tutoring business, focusing on the intersection of mental health, psychology, and legal education. I’m so proud of it!

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Minnesotans love to give incoming shoppers their cart as they leave the store and say “This one’s all warmed up for ya!”

I’m a motherfucking Druid, bitches!

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

With the death of Bardot we're down to the last three of Billy Joel Roulette. Chubby Checker Bob Dylan Bernie Goetz Will someone try and rob Goetz of the title? Will there be an entertaining twist? The answer, my friends, is anyone could win, The answer is anyone could win.

This is no joke. Absolutely nobody can stop today. Please be careful out there, it’s just sheets of ice

This is the 7th person whose sentence was commuted by Trump that has been rearrested on new charges. And don't pretend Trump cares about fraud in MN. This guy bilked over a $1 billion and Trump let him go.

CHATGPT: wow George you’re absolutely right. $8,000 is a lot of money. Mary would be better off without you.