Merry Christmas, friends

The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.

"Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy."

I feel like even a small infant would listen, nod, and then go, “So, just to be clear though: The machines — they didn’t work?”

There was a trick or treating event along the commercial corridor in my neighborhood with many businesses and organizations participating. It was fantastic. What I didn't like was my council member setting up a campaign table on the front lawn of the fire station next to the MPD table.

I'm going to keep doing this until it happens.

Got a campaign mailer from a PAC today urging a vote for Frey because he is against corruption. It might have been a little more impactful if the Mayor's close friend and ally wasn't indicted today on federal embezzlement charges.

Rick Kupchella didn't pay me any money to rent space in my head so I think I'm going to just read a book or something.

For years I've dismissed concerns about gentrification in my neighborhood but now there is a Cybertruck parked out front. Really learned my lesson with this one.

I got a Spotify ad for a crypto wallet that was endorsed by Dave Portnoy and now I am really wondering why they think I would like that.

Not knowing how to say acetaminophen shows it's pretty apparent he never took any of his kids to the doctor at least once.

Me showing my wife the picture I drew on the bus home from work of my plan to turn our house into a really cool fort.

A columnist in the Strib referred to CK as a "kind and bold soul." I wonder was the requirements are to be a columnist over there.

There should be restorative justice programs for people that have been kicked out of Cracker Barrel for being too intoxicated with their family.

Two different, but still very good pieces of advice.

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

Tried listening to the new Chappell Roan and got distracted. youtu.be/mNBVTCJ9Dks?...

In December my employer sent out a memo several times reminding employees not to accept like a $5 bag of popcorn from a vendor and if they sent it to you in the mail, a detailed list of instructions on how to dispose of it and document it.

The most consequential Speaker in state history.

We feed you. They hunt us.

Dozens of federal agents rolling in with an armored truck, masked and outfitted for combat... on a hunt for boxes of evidence. This could've been done with FBI agents in windbreakers. The intent was to instigate and terrorize. It should be the mayor's first instinct to stand up against it.

To "wait for the facts" is naive and dangerous. Abrego Garcia and two hundred others waited for the facts, giving the benefit of the doubt to a lawless executive, and their reward has been to spend 2025 and beyond in a Central American prison. Our rights and lives are in peril. Use it or lose it.

I was a student at Harvard and one time my professor, Steven Pinker, kept insisting Charlie Brown had hoes. "I'm from the Twin Cities, if he had hoes, there would be statues of him and his hoes. That isn't true." He accused me of having a Franklin bias. Which is true but irrelevant.

This is also a deep fake.

The average American has three friends.

So the whole point of better infrastructure is so that many more people can feel safe and comfortable biking. This is not about encouraging people to embrace a gritty urban adventure.

How I arrived on Bluesky.

thinking about cheese

Agree with this statement. I never seem to run into anyone I know while driving but I always run into @amityf.bsky.social while walking or taking the bus so that certainly makes me happier when I take the bus.

Wouldn’t it be cool if our mayor understood how parking works in cities? Time for a new mayor (for this and MANY other issues).

Let's be clear that this thing Trump just said about having no trade deficits with any country would be far more radical, more disruptive, and more expensive, than every single leftist dream you have ever heard put together, including Medicare for All, Guaranteed Housing, and Universal Basic Income.

can't normalize without normies. make your peace with this now

A criticism that I have of the Capitol is that the space in front is too big, even a large protest like this still looks small. Shrink the Capitol lawn.

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

Cannot be emphasized enough: Barack Obama successfully negotiated a deal to stop Iran's nuclear program. Trump, having inherited a vastly improved situation with Iran, deliberately tore it up. The fact that they are now on the verge of having nuclear weapons is entirely his fault.

I keep watching this clip with something approaching yearning and I’m realizing it’s because we don’t hear this level of strategic realism—that the old world is gone and the old rules don’t apply—from anyone in leadership in the Democratic Party.

Many libs over here are dunking on this, but it's indisputably correct. Since before starting kindergarten in America, I was subjected to a relentless bombardment of quotes from the gospels

Everywhere you look, regular people with everything to lose and not a lot to protect them are standing up to their elected officials and doing what they can to stop the fascists. That powerful people who make more in a day than most people make in a month can't do the same is pathetic.

On a daily basis, I marvel at how many people in putative positions of power are willing to help obliterate American democracy. The US has faced a series of very easy moral tests in the past decade and it’s staggering how often people in once-respected positions have failed.

I have to say, this is how you write an email subject line.

just a quick rundown for ya: a “right” is when you have the freedom to do something without being punished by the government

The whole thing is important, but listen until the end: the US depends a lot on the flow of capital into the country because it is perceived as the safest port in a storm. Once that is no longer true, a lot of things Americans take for granted go away.

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

We cannot preemptively and "pragmatically" kick our more vulnerable allies off of the plane. The end result will be having to face the fascists later on anyway but with a significantly diminished coalition. www.welcometohellworld.com/dumping-weig...

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Just saw a thread about a guy calling into cspan saying his diabetic supplies increased from 5 dollars to 80 dollars and somebody in the comments, probably multiple people but I stopped reading, replied “FAFO” and I can’t stress enough how much you need to stop doing that shit

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country