I ordered some t-shirts today.

It's a Cookie Oven Fire! Snag this pin, complete with moving lenticular flames, along with the final two pins in our cookie emoji set, at this upcoming #PAXUnplugged2025! We're looking forward to seeing you all soon and bringing even more pins, merch, and of course, cookies!

If you're in the Minneapolis / St. Paul area, and need a coffee fix that isn't Starbucks, I strongly recommend Wildflyer if it's on your commute.

It's that time of year! The @desertbus.org charity event starts this Friday and once again I'll be making the poster for it! Every year I watch the entire week long event and add their antics to the poster over time, which you can buy! Find out more info about the event at desertbus.org #DB2025

Absolutely don't think my question will be asked during tomorrow's town hall, but I still had to ask it.

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

Tomorrow at 12 PM, I’ll host a virtual town hall to discuss the end of the disastrous Republican government shutdown and the ongoing health care crisis. Join my live streams on YouTube and Facebook, and click the link to submit your questions! → bit.ly/4nWNMpY

In an effort to expand on James's annual thing, I will match the next $500 in donations made through desertbus.org/2025/ The total is currently at $9039.

Bus is coming.

CCing @lindseyportmn.bsky.social @davidformn40b.bsky.social @leighfinke.bsky.social @erinmayequade.bsky.social

Overheard today in CB Organizer chat: "How do you manage to get things done?" "By all of our combined clumsy efforts, we form a neurospicy Voltron, capable of functioning as one human being."

It's that time again, for this PAX Unplugged's WHO'S THAT PINNYMON! Put your best guesses in the comments, and be on the lookout for a full reveal soon!

So moved and enraged by the replies to this and was thinking... maybe we should collect them and send them to Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Senate cowards. Form here, won't collect emails unless you provide them. forms.gle/YnhsgtKTWD9A...

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I’m “commentating” tonight’s megabonk race between @peebs.bsky.social and @drex23.bsky.social!! be there >:(

There are four comic strips I've ever read that whenever I think on them, I laugh. One is a Calvin and Hobbes. One is a The Far Side. Two are Oglaf.

If you live in Saint Paul / Senate District 64, I write emails about what our local DFL party unit is up to. Subscribe to get updates on the 64A endorsing convention at the bottom of our homepage: www.sd64dfl.org

Senate Democrats need to do their job and that job is to protect the least powerful. 🧵

Sometimes you need to have folks read over a message before you send it, so you don't send it pissed.

Woke up still mad. Will post the letter to my DNC members later.

Tonight was a very bad night.

I am now too mad to set up my modular engine factory.

Bet you're pissed at the Federal Democratic Senators right now. Want to chop out ~10% of their annual campaigning budget? In '24 the DNC spent 12.5 Million on the DSCC. Let your state DNC members know you want that money taken away from the DSCC in '26 and put towards folks' medical debt.

Y'know what? I'm not done yet. The worst part about it is that one of the people who abandoned the caucus was Dick Durbin. The second highest ranking Dem in the Senate whose job title is "Democratic Whip". Responsible for getting everyone on the party line to stay on the party line.

The deal the dumbest Dems made was to hold a vote on health care in a month, and for the Republicans to follow the laws that they're supposed to. Just absolutely useless idiots more concerned with being inconvenienced in their day to day than helping the people they serve.

The nice thing about having a project wrapped up unexpectedly early is that I get to actually take some time for myself. Which is why today I've alternated between house cleaning and setting up Satisfactory.

Hi folks, this is again a plea for help. There still is no cleared donor. People working through the system but again-if you're at all interested in trying to help, it takes months to get cleared as a donor. There's a lot of delays/appointments. So please consider and spread it around, thank you.

Robbing from the poor to give to the rich.

Going through my music collection and just deleting all the Marty O'Donnell OSTs. Man, what a douche.

Took yesterday off and recovered after getting vaccinated. Already knocked out most of my required tasks for the day today. Feels real good.

🧵🧵have a lot of thoughts about the Fateh loss, and most of them are that he lost because of racism and xenophobia. We invited all 3 rank for change campaigns to Micah’s lemonade stand fundraiser for the Supply Depot. Omar and Dewayne came. I was happy to let the campaigns use photo/video 1/

Here is Micah with @dewayneforminneapolis.com, just for the record

Treat Republican office holders and officers like they treat others.

Hey everyone, early heads up, @50501oc.bsky.social is planning a boycott for Black Friday weekend through Cyber Monday, and I’ll be joining in. Feel free to participate and send a message to corporations who continue to bend the knee to fascism!

Giving myself permission to take it easy today and let my body deal with the covid vaccine.

I also hit "I talked with my doctor about fiber" years of age. So hey, go me.

Spent two hours talking political strategy for 2026. Am I the sicko?

SD64 DFL business: our team met to start planning the special convention. Hoping we see a solid field of candidates that have served our community and have a solid understanding of the task ahead representing Saint Paul at the Capitol. If anyone is considering running, send me a DM.

Happy Awoosday! 🐺

The time is NOW to get involved in your local DFL unit. If you want to see change in the DFL, change will only happen from within, not by complaining on social media. At a more basic level, we simply need more volunteers, to run caucuses and conventions, and to win elections.

No. Fuck Target.

Just thinking of Weird Al's commentary from UHF: "Orion... Orion... Is bankrupt... Now..."

Fuck yes!

Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, for winning the NYC mayoral election! Zohran will be a real changemaker, making life more affordable for New Yorkers.

live view from cuomo hq

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

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