$200 Million from the State for a billionaire's sports team to renovate -- when HCMC needs $300 Million to keep from closing??? Fuck off!!!

AG Ellison better be ready for him.

Was super nice to take the Green Line from Target Field to the Capitol and then down to Union Depot and back a few weeks ago. Gave me a view of both cities I don't usually get and new appreciation. (So many restaurants I have to try now!)

The OTHER proposed sulfide mine in ne Minnesota. Gov Walz could have put a stop to it for years now but refuses to do so. threatenedwaters.com/northmet.php

"Oh, no! I have to pay taxes on my grotesque wealth!"

Do you have any idea what it takes to get the USCCB to do something, if it doesn't involve a uterus?

Did...this fucker ever hear about why Minnesota was all over the news recently?

A shocking new poll result: Many Americans somehow don't have a favorite dinosaur. And only 6% give the correct answer (triceratops). Check out YouGov's new polling on Americans and dinosaurs: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/whats-your...

"We’re literally throwing away money, walking away from almost completed projects because the people guiding national economic policy think this is somehow 'owning' Joe Biden or the libs." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/as-tr...

For those not following Aallyah's reporting, the railroad company, run by the white descendants of slaveowners, is now trying to seize a plot of land where enslaved Black people were forced to work but their descendants managed to buy out. capitalbnews.org/georgia-rail...

Hail Mary full of grace, punch the devil in the face!

i'm going to be beating my "get off substack" drum again. because seriously: get off substack. stop helping literal sex traffickers make money.

I wrote my state rep and senator about getting our priorities right - fund HCMC, not rich guys with sports teams!

The country's descent into fascism cannot be understood without interrogating U.S. policing. But folks across the political spectrum are allergic to this so here we are.

Americans are so easily satisfied crumbs.

I actually love this - make MAGA Catholics choose the American Pope or their dementia-ridden President, let's go

the imaginary version of the criminal legal system in people’s heads—where cops believe everyone, where prosecutors do what victims and survivors want them do—gets such a clear light shone on it in these moments, I hope people learning this now remember the next time we’re right back here

A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.

MPLS and StP Bluesky dads are a trip

Thread full of cats watching the Artemis II splashdown

Co-sign

“We always seem to have money for war. But not to feed the poor.”

Thank you, NASA. 🌕 🌎

Just a reminder that we can fund science, and save the earth, and feed everyone, and have health care and housing too. All those things are within our reach, together.

Space is cool and we shouldn’t hand it over to billionaires who want to turn it into a new Epstein island

astronauts on the moon. affordable college for everybody. building a ton of housing for families. vaccines to end cancers. we can have all this cool stuff if you just vote for the people that want to do it. we can do so much great stuff. put down your anger. great things are right there.

Shoutout to the Mets for this 📸 @mets.com

The next administration must take the lesson of this one; every single immigration judge hired under Trump 2.0 must be fired on day one.

Elizabeth, I love you, but you've lost the edge, get your head back in the game.

We saved the fucking Union more than once!

Happy Confederate Surrender Day from Minnesota where we still have your goddamn flag and we’re not giving it up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_Vi...

Just like Bibi - using endless war to distract from his crimes

Trump so desperate to distract from his role in Jeffrey Epstein's child rape ring he is now vowing non-stop wars. He realizes is that is the only way to stop the media from covering Epstein!

Threatening the Pope, wtf

Eastern N. America folks, it's just about go time for the start of the ~3 week peak migration (unless you're on the Gulf Coast, in which case it is go time NOW). Expect waves of incredible birds for the next month and a half Turn those overnight lights off to protect them! [stolen from local news]

Americans suffer from a desperate need to believe in the inherent goodness of the American electorate--the idea that a voter in 2024--after nearly a decade of unfiltered, widely broadcast, deeply fascist rhetoric from Donald Trump--was simply "tricked" by a Facebook algorithm or a Fox News segment.

Count me among those who believe that we need to drive these fascists out of power, stooping to dirty tricks if necessary. Strip their assets, hound them out of public life, make them afraid to even express their beliefs in public. Drive them into exile before the only alternative is mass violence.

It's also true that the American political system was designed, explicitly, to perpetuate minority rule by an elite. The founders were, by and large, elite, wealthy land speculators, merchants, and enslavers. They feared majority rule because their wealth depended on them owning land and people.

Strip away the "economic anxiety" and "traditional values" and you're left with people voting for a monster because the monster promised to eat the people they believe must be eaten. The cruelty is not a side effect of their politics so much as the glue that holds their entire worldview together.

Fucking cut Israel off already!

Brutal.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

*Yesterday The next pro forma session is on Thursday. Instead of just posting about how Congress needs to convene: get on a plane and be there to force the issue through Motions to Suspend the Rules via unanimous consent. Strike a deal with 8 GOP members to vacate the Speakership. Go. Do something.

I've now seen several posts from Democratic US Senators and House Reps calling for Congress to return to DC, and my only reaction to seeing these is: Do it. Just get on a plane and go back to DC. The House is in Recess, not adjourned. There was a pro forma session today. Go. Lead by example.

Let's annotate. 1. Begins with a CLEAR statement laying out WHO the culprit is and what he is doing. 2. Specifically says what he thinks needs to happen next. 3. Calls out his own institution. THIS IS THE BASEMENT in terms of a response & his colleagues are underground. bsky.app/profile/fros...

Can someone tell me how the fuck we're supposed to go about as business as usual when the President of the United States is tweeting this shit??? How is God supposed to save us when we are doing literally nothing to save ourselves???

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of Trump’s second administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. 🔗 Full story: https://propub.li/4e5vZLL