uh oh. * TWO OIL TANKERS LADEN WITH SAUDI CRUDE MAKE U-TURNS IN RED SEA, HEAD FOR SUEZ -- DATA @reuters.com

15 million guns were sold in this country last year alone. And people think police drones are going to stop gun violence? We have kids (sorry if you’re 18 I still think of you as a kid because I’m getting old as shit) shooting each other in front of squad cars and police. A drone won’t stop this.

Well, this article is incredibly depressing for cooking enthusiasts. The short version: private equity has, over the last couple of decades, quietly bought up most of the classic brands you’ve heard of and then traded on their names while drastically cutting quality and closing American factories

RAPIDAN: We “no longer assume a near-term return to freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz. Instead, we expect ongoing military risks to constrain vessel transits .. well into next year ..” 👀

I hate it. Make it stop. Fuck El Niño.

Would be nice if he didn’t operate as if he’s always on campaign mode. And maybe another reason to elect fewer attorneys. Not everything is a prompt to make an argument and you don’t need to always be “right”.

All the smart oil and gas people predicted crude would pop to $200 a barrel but it never happened. Well, sure seems like Trump wants to prove them right by restarting the war.

I get handcuffed and charged by MPD for jaywalking on an empty street while not jaywalking. But for years people have been doing mass shootings here with no arrests while MPD stands around and sit in their squads working off duty for fake bars.

Water you can’t swim in and cancer is spiking. You can’t lie to people forever, especially when the impacts are fucking with your life and everyone you know.

They’re having a completely normal one over at the National Review this weekend

i remember erin fitzgerald who is part of the warehouse district rebrand from her dinner du nord post last year from her willow peak account bragging that nicollet mall "looks so much better with no buses!" so why doesn't she want to pedestrianize 1st ave in the warehouse district?

Surreal. Driving out to Minnetonka and this apartment bundling is ablaze in St Louis Park. I’m the passenger. Hope everyone is safe. It looked so awful. Firefighters on scene and several more trucks flew by us.

You’d think the “W” would just refer to “Warehouse” given it’s the “Warehouse District”. But that’s false. Never forget the three pillars.

TIL that flies are pollinators. 🤯

Very interesting. Since younger people are more likely to move to another state, it’s good they like MN more than before. Let’s get back to forgetting about GenX (sorry for the good ones out there, but you know you know)

I think I do this to myself but I’ve become the person at work who gets all the projects nobody wants to touch

I haven’t listened to city council meetings in awhile and I’m remembering why I stopped

CM Warren appears to believe that nobody asks questions or cares about what happens with their data when using other technology. Lady, you must be speaking for yourself. Lots of people do care and think about it even if they use things like Alexa.

Trump to the teleprompter operator after leaning about this:

Wait, hasn’t Rainville been fine with projects to improve streets in his ward? But he doesn’t want those of us living in South to benefit from similar changes that Ward 3 got on Hennepin and First?

You know what, I give Palmisano a lot of shit. But at least she’s principled when it comes to street reconstructions. Nice to see her vote yes on Lyndale.

CM Shaffer wants to vote no on Lyndale and trigger some weird mediation thing with the county. She doesn’t like lack of specifics with other amendments. But how is sending to mediation a clear improvement or helpful. Seems like it’s just more chaos.

The sky is so gross and brown it's like we also have diairrhea.

Facebook comment says the wildfires are due to wind farms. Y’all, we are COOKED COOKED.

What a day for the city council. Debating Lyndale Ave in the middle of a climate crisis. But don’t forget about the drones either. That’s also on the agenda, with the social context being people hating tech companies pushing invasive tech on us, such as pervert glasses.

AQI inside is 60. I have 2 air purifies I paid way too much money for going at full blast and it’s still not enough to keep up. My house is not exactly air tight either.

I have no more patience for anti climate people and car people. I’m not sorry. But if you’ve been doing nothing but driving for the past decades and fighting against any change to our streets, go fuck off. I don’t care that you’re “fighting for the trees”. The trees are burning now, babes!

Fucking looks and feels like the apocalypse out there. So depressing.

The internal polling is that bad

Ossoff has the energy I want for a presidential candidate in ‘28. We also deserve a smoke show as president after having to look at Trump for so many years. America’s comeback will be hot and sexy.

Ok, cool. Now we don’t need to bend over backwards and let our downtown turn into a giant data center.

Would it shock anyone to know that local fan favorite, Carol Becker, has publicly made this argument? Anyone know if these two are besties?

📢 We’re excited to share the final design for the Franklin Avenue Station Renovation! Join us July 15 from 5–7 p.m. at the Minneapolis American Indian Center to view the design, meet the project team, and share your feedback. Learn more: metrotransit.org/franklin

Oh no

The @startribune.com keeps churning this flag non-story for rage clicks. First posted yesterday on Twitter, then here today with a different lede. Aren't the handful of legitimate journalists who still work there embarrassed by this?

Still up on their website to demonstrate their enduring commitment to fielding only the best and most qualified candidates this fine city can produce

This game would make me so fucking annoyed

Can’t get diarrhea lettuce from a cinnamon bun. Follow me for more health tips!

Adults whose spicy food intake averaged six or seven days a week had a 14 percent lower relative risk of dying than those whose intake averaged less than once a week. Here’s what else we know about how spicy foods affect our health:

There is no compelling urban planning reason to concentrate apartment buildings on loud, polluted, dangerous main streets. This is solely a political strategy by planners trying to avoid NIMBY backlash to proposed apartments. This political strategy DOES NOT WORK. Homeowners oppose housing anyway!

Perhaps St Paul neighbors need to hire the Minneapolis Bike Lobby. I hear those people, all 6 of them, can get the mayor and others to bend the knee whenever they demand it

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Which would be significantly more than the toll Iran wants to charge 🤷🏻‍♂️

Did my daily walk a couple hours earlier than normal and it was still crazy hot 😫

Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and stalwart Trump ally who was a forceful advocate for an interventionist U.S. foreign policy, has died, his office announced. He was 71. He died of a “brief and sudden” illness on Saturday evening. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...

The Maine secretary of state says Graham Platner *has* formally withdrawn from the Senate race. This is ahead of the Monday deadline, and so the Democratic party will be authorized to replace him, by July 27th.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves. It’s up there with gum chewing (which should be banned and criminalized).

I see that our new health policy has become “Parasites and Peptides keep you trim and healthy”. You just have to ignore the leaky diarrhea and organ damage.