It’s really hard to bear the contrast on my TL of regular ass Minnesotans doing some of the bravest shit I’ve ever seen in the face of state sponsored terror followed by a deep blue state senator posting: “errrm how does taking Greenland help lower the price of groceries?”

This is why modern day Minneapolis does not fit into these peoples' worldview. They literally can't fathom a largely white city in an overwhelmingly white state being happy to live near and mutually benefit from people from very different parts of the world.

The Trump administration is the most aggressively online regime in history but it's also made up of morons in their mid-50s, so it's not surprising that they mess up the most basic internet terms that are second nature to anyone under 40

This is probably the closest to the median MN guy assessing the situation honestly. Not from the city, doesn't care about politics, not particularly nice, but sees the invasion for what it is

A week ago I think I knew maybe 3 parents at my kid’s preschool, and now I know almost all of them, and have steeled myself to give my life for their kids and their teachers if I need to.

Most right wing justifications of Renee Good's murder have nothing to do with an attempt to show she was putting the murderer in danger. They're explicitly about a gendered sense of entitlement, some sense that she's condescending to them by existing and not grovelling.

I was idly scrolling during an after school tutoring session today. There were only five kids, mostly doing their own thing, but I think one of them noticed me tear up when i came across this video. Dorky Minnesota kids, wearing T-shirts in the winter, being themselves and doing the right thing.

Things are shifting. A guy I met in grad school and friended on FB about 13 years ago, who I have not heard from since then and who is dead silent on social media, just posted RATM lyrics.

Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying. They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

Don't forget: most employers allow you to "retain optionality" for returning to work the first week of January

Dems are weak and stupid, yes, but we don't need to endlessly quote the latest Axios gossip story interviewing an anonymous centrist dem to know that.

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

Absolutely useless party of lawless warmongers

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it’s stupid to not use ai just because it can induce psychosis and generate child porn. it’s like saying you’re hungry when there’s a hot dog on the ground outside that induces psychosis and generates child porn

I don't have kids so I have no judgment for new parents looking to reduce the labor of childcare but this seems like one of the easier ones

Every collection of Trump approval / disapproval polls is like Yougov 35/60 Gallup 38/58 Median voter consortium 30/70 Pro Trump Gambling Pac 50/40

Senator, your Somali constituents are being terrorized by right wing psychopaths. This can wait.

What the fuck is going on with the Minnesotan senators making no statements about the terror campaign being inflicted on their own state?

Vanilla Ice performed at Mar A Lago with ninja turtles and Mamdani was sworn in at an abandoned subway station. New horseshoe theory of politics: everything ultimately converges around Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze.

A big part of what made Mamdani resonate in NYC and other urban areas is he had the audacity to actually depict urban life for the joyous, mutually beneficial experience it is when done right.

Some non negligible sector of democrats doesn't want to reckon with the work of finding candidates who don't completely suck and find it psychologically comforting to imagine that we won't even be able to put up candidates. It's like canceling plans with family members you don't want to see.

oh brother, another bad post from political influencer beltway brian. i am furious at beltway brian all of the time. i share screencaps of beltway brian's posts with people who have no idea who he is. i hate all of beltway brian's posts and i read all of them every single day, including weekends

Shao Kahn has successfully merged Earthrealm and Outworld

A singer known for making jokes smoking a cigarette the way Ariel from Little Mermaid would is definitely something to take seriously

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

I don't know if I've ever laughed harder in a theater than in Hot Fuzz where Nicholas Angel is on his first fun run in his new town and the music abruptly becomes sinister when Skinner rolls up next to him and releases like five terrible rapid fire puns

NYT editors: "we're having trouble shedding non-political readers, how do we alienate normies who occasionally skim the culture page?" Intern whose parents pay for their upper west side apartment: "how about something discouraging ingestion of the only thing that motivates anyone to do anything?"

I have mixed feelings about The Boys but one thing it does incredibly well is immediately immerse you in a world where the banality of evil rules, and it does so by showing Jimmy Fallon just being himself and giving softball interviews to some of the worst villains on earth

My best student by a comfortable margin works slowly and methodically. She is not as quick on the draw with calculations as some students but if you ask her to explain concepts she'd run circles around everyone else. Incidentally I also lent her my copy of Dr. Prescod-Weinstein's book.

A note on learning physics ⚛️ for starting PhD students: At the risk of saying something completely useless because everyone has it worked out There is no magic trick, your classmates *may* be faster than you, but they are still studying as long as they need to and you are quite capable of the same

The ascendant wing in the GOP is openly, unequivocally, violently antisemitic, meanwhile this man with zero history of antisemitism and the support of most young Jews in NYC has had to defend the fact that he's Muslim for like six months.

Saying things like this gives me the same vibe as people who are like "oh like we're even going to have elections again!" It's a very real possibility, but more likely than not we will. It feels more like a cover for not doing the work of finding a candidate who doesn't totally suck.

CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret

Liberal islamophobia strongly depends on depicting Muslims as socially backward, meanwhile the most visible Muslim politicians in the US are far and away more progressive on LGBTQ+ and particularly trans issues than the average elected democrat.

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

It would be fittingly stupid if Cuomo no longer needing to produce awful AI videos of Mamdani is what finally causes the bubble to burst

Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.

A proud Muslim socialist winning the NYC mayorship on the same day Dick Cheney finally croaks feels like a decades long cyclical shift, like cicadas waking up or something.

i don't understand why they're called the toronto blue jays and not the toronto baseballs. i'll never understand it. same with the dodgers, they should be called the baseballs too. more people should be like me and speak out when they see that something is wrong

Many serious people are saying that the Lonely Island song "I f****ed my aunt" wasn't actually about any of their aunts.

The absolute best they can do to smear him in the final week is to point out that he's still Muslim

The right has spent decades calling for the blood of the left and then turning around and acting outraged whenever one of their figureheads isn't treated with civility. They have no idea what to do when a normie with an average moral compass comes back at them with a fraction of the venom.

Curtis Sliwa is a bad person, a comically inept politician, and easily one of the greatest haters of all time

At this point I think the main difference between Schumer and Trump is that Trump's brain froze sometime in the '80s while Schumer's froze sometime in the '90s

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Susan Collins hasn’t held a town hall since Bill Clinton was president. I’m holding 21 town halls across the state in the next month.

I think John Oliver is safe, if only because I don't think Trump knows who he is, nor does he understand the concept of a guy talking for like 30 minutes straight without a commercial or celebrity guest

Being an elder millennial is a mixed bag, mostly bad in terms of cataclysmic world events I suppose, but we really lucked out in terms of when the internet hit us. Our median poster is merely insufferable and not insane.