Can confirm Open Streets Lyndale was spectacular this year 💫✨🌟

I’m Team Tomatillo. He doesn’t deserve a PIP and hopefully his union steward is working hard to defend him

$15 million down the drain. Good job, University of Minnesota!

Rocky’s was my favorite restaurant at the mall food court growing up. And we always stopped at Rocky’s in Madison, WI after forensics state competition in high school. Most importantly, my mother gave me the Heimlich maneuver outside a Rocky’s when I was six after I choked on their free mints

OMGOMGOMGOMG I also went on this pilgrimage back in like 2012

We really needed this wind

Campus during the summer is so special

This morning, a neighbor was kidnapped by ICE in the Corcoran neighborhood. The individual had his window broken into, and he was snatched from his car. It would be great to get more observers out today and, moving forward, it would help to be more engaged in your local areas from 6AM-8AM. 1/

Just looked through the individual GoFundMes for NJ families linked from this page and the donation numbers are very low. Donate if you can! linktr.ee/SupportOurFa...

I also learned from the @wedge.live podcast that federal funding to help support Lyndale reconstruction will expire in 2028. What world are these fools living in that they don’t want this road reconstructed? The inability to tolerate temporary discomfort for long-term gains is frankly embarrassing

I just signed a permission slip to let my 4yo take the bus to the library this summer with her preschool. There’s gonna be like a couple dozen kids and four teachers

Hudson the Cat learned how to curl up in my lap tonight 😻 But it was precipitated by several rounds of vomiting and one round of diarrhea 🤢

This afternoon was the final meeting of a nine month seminar I took on psychoanalysis. After a few years of deadening and burnout, it rekindled my vitality, my ability to think, my ability to hold.

Former human rights lawyer here: under international human rights law, bombing or gassing a medical facility is a crime against humanity. Last night, the NJ state police gassed the medic tent at Delaney Hall over and over and over again until medics had to abandon it and flee for their lives.

No one knows how to clamp down on truly transformational protest like a Democratic mayor.

RIGHT NOW: NJ state troopers with riot gear are forcing protesters supporting the hunger strikers of Delaney Hall and media ppl down the street. They’re firing flashbang grenades at the ground to force people to disperse, per the @statuscoupnews.bsky.social livestream www.youtube.com/live/yTlpCYk...

This is why psychoanalysis is back, fascists are weirdly obsessed with blood and milk and normal people are like what the fuck WHY

What happened at 9th and Nicollet? It's taped off and I see blood on the sidewalk, lots of little yellow markers, and crime scene investigators?

Angie Craig is a lesson in identity politics: being gay doesn't mean a damn thing if you prove time and again to be a self-serving asshole.

A Black teenager was accused of stealing a backpack and ended up dying by suicide because he was kept in solitary confinement at Rikers for years. His name is Kalief Browder. He spent over 700 days in solitary confinement AWAITING TRIAL. I guess in racist America that’s worse than this.

There is something so satisfying about completely wiping an old computer’s hard drive

Hudson the Cat thankfully eats his $4 per pill allergy medicine if hidden in his wet food. This is great because he hates treats and won’t take a pill pocket, and we don’t have enough trust yet for me to easily pill him (he doesn’t like being held). But also $4 per pill allergy medicine 😫

That time of year when I add back all my AQI apps to my home screen 😷

Maybe they accidentally thought they were performing at the Minnesota State Fair since it is the greatest American state fair in the country

There is nothing better than Kopp's frozen custard. Except maybe Leon's. Culver's is trash and everyone from the Milwaukee area knows this.

"deleted contact from work phone" seems tame compared to what other cops promoted into MPD leadership have done. Such as the "assistant chief of community trust" who railroaded an innocent man for murder (and faked portions of an investigation for TV). www.propublica.org/article/firs...

Chief Arradondo, Interim Chief Huffman, Chief O’Hara, Commissioner Alexander, and Commissioner Barnette – have resigned or been forced out after high-profile stories about MPD’s continued failure to reform. The common denominator is not any one leader of MPD, it is Mayor Frey.

Statement from Council Member Wonsley pointing out Mayor Frey's handling of O'Hara situation differs from other local police agencies: Metro Transit, Golden Valley, Rosemount "all placed their Chief of Police on administrative leave once allegations triggered investigations..."

We love the myth of a Heroic Police Chief who will transform a corrupt/broken institution---because it exempts citizens and other elected officials from doing the hard, slow, grinding work of changing our corrupt institutions. BTW. we do the same thing with Minneapolis Public School superintendents.

I can imagine O’Hara is fuming that he had to resign over deleted texts but Frey gets to continue to do whatever he wants

We’re calling the botched Davis Moturi shooting and Allison Lussier death investigations “PR flubs” now, Star Tribune?

one week ago today, brian o’hara was in front of the minneapolis city council, unable to explain to aisha chughtai why the police department was $20 million over budget this year as she went through line item by line item. and now he’s resigned as the police chief

Imagine having a mayor with the moral and ethical backbone of @elliottpayne.org. We could only be so lucky

Any local media? Any national media?

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.

George Floyd should still be alive today. Abolish MPD. Fuck12.

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Don’t listen to anyone’s hot takes, especially if your kid is neurodivergent. Those hot takes often won’t work, and you’re not a bad person

I found a nest of baby bunnies in my raised garden. Can I plant around them??? Am I doomed to have my plants eaten by bunnies all summer? (To be fair all I was really going to plant were some tomatoes and zinnias, maybe some beans, but the bunnies are in the spot where I would have put a trellis)

tomorrow night is the culmination of the rise and remember festival marking the 6th anniversary of george floyd's murder by minneapolis police. brass solidarity band leading a processional from the square to the say their names cemetery is always such a wonderful moment

We haven't solved the power issue. Or the cooling issue. Or the chip availability issue. Everyone's power bills are going up. We created a new mental illness called Ai psychosis responsible for actual suicides. And our model is just wrong 9% of the time. But you're just not evolved enough to get it

The way NPR chose to write the post below is exactly why I don’t donate to NPR or MPR.

Taco Bell on Highway 100 in Hales Corners, WI, 2002-2003

I am being forced to learn how to French braid and my perfectionism + ADHD is really making this difficult

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem

Does anyone know of realtors who specialize in or have knowledge about the City of Lakes Land Trust program? @natepentz.bsky.social, do you know anyone?

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

“Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?”

Someone figured out how to hop onto the couch 🐈😻