Glad to hear the top pundits directly calling out @mnufc.com: how was DSC bungled?!

Culture over cash, amirite?

Excited to see this development moving forward with its variances finally approved! Curious how this dense node of single-family homes will work in practice in its Merriam Park surrounds and would love for it to be a potentially replicable model for other missing-middle(ish) infill in Saint Paul

Congrats to Meg Lugar Nikolai and Shelley Buck on primary victories tonight. Strong wins are testament to the hard work you and your teams are doing. Thank you to every candidate in the field. Excited to hit the doors with you both before the January general and to serve our neighbors together.💙

IASSIST 2026 invites you to join us for a virtual conference on June 2-5, 2026! We are currently collecting submissions embracing the theme "Championing Data: Data Professionals at the Nexus". The deadline is December 19, 2025, with no extension this year. ➡️ iassistdata.org/conferences/...

Skipped the ball cap today, but happy 3rd election in nearly as many months, Ward 4 of St. Paul and MN 64A! Though to be fair, this one is "just" a primary...but a primary in this blue of a district *is* the election. RCV in state elections would be wonderful. Let's do it: @fairvotemn.bsky.social

We put the bar in Hell (literally just say that Somalis aren’t garbage?) and people in positions of public trust still can’t meet it. www.startribune.com/opinion-trum...

This is a great writeup. Here's why I think folks in 64A should vote for @megl.bsky.social (not campaign-affiliated, I've just known her forever and she's my friend) 🧵: 1. Meg is exceptionally well-qualified to start legislating and leading on day 1 because she’s been doing the work now.

Saint Paul: This past weekend we held our DFL convention for the 64A race where public school parent & powerhouse labor lawyer Meg Luger-Nikolai earned endorsement after five rounds of ballots. Here’s her speech that shows exactly why she’d be effective on day one. Vote megfor64A.com on Dec.16th

Mostly agreed & not "taking it the wrong way", but still have note/questions: 1) the Loons against the ball unsustainability still generated more shots and xG than San Diego and that's not nothing, right? 2) if the XI is mostly set, *can* they hold the ball more? does 5-4-1 actually suit that?

🎶I don't practice Santeria, I ain't got no crystal ball🎵 Cheers to all the Loons and Loonlets out there -- the Prophecies are great fun each matchweek!

My World Cup "Right to Buy" (now converted to "Right to Ticket" from the ridiculousness grift of FIFA Collect) to a Kansas City group stage match has finally been revealed as: Ecuador vs Curaçao. Bandwagoning for the smallest qualifying country, here we come! Go Blue Wave 🇨🇼

this shit is just beyond parody, man

in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company

The president fails to realize how deeply Somali Americans love this country. We are doctors, teachers, and elected leaders working to make our country better. We will not let Trump intimidate or debilitate us. My op-ed: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...

This is amazing survey data and analysis of #MLS Fandom. And they provided open access to the raw data?! Be still my heart.

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"As you sit in your car on all of those highways, you might wonder: Why not build the actual *places* where the *roads* are? Then you wouldn’t need the roads, since you would already be in the place. Well, if they did that, the whole system would collapse. Don’t think like that." An excellent essay

Hey @mayorcarter.bsky.social what the hell? @mayorher.bsky.social are you going to take a stance on this?

The wild part, looking back, is we all knew it was over when Tani was sold without replacement. But man, we rode that wave anyway. Loondom was there-- can ownership and the front office be, too, please going forward?

#MNUFC season immediate closing thoughts: 1) I enjoyed champagne (of beers) soccer and its glimpses of the High Life 2) it was amazing how put out People on the Internet™️ (and commentators/press) were about our style of play 3) ownership, pretty please spend the Tani money. The next level awaits!

Didn't have a Messi defensive action in the opposing final third to launch a counter on my BINGO card tonight. #MLSCupPlayoffs

However the pens go, holy hell Whitecaps. Down to 9 and y'all hung on. Praise crossbar!! #VWFC

Yikes. Not easy to defend that as a second yellow card on Blackmon, nor there being enough for 9 mins stoppage, but gifting Son a chance for global headlines. Would hate to be a Whitecaps fan right now. Feeling very hard done. #MLSCupPlayoffs

He's misspelled Champagne (of Beers) Soccer

Tonight, the Department of Homeland Security announced that on Tuesday they detained 14 of our neighbors on immigration charges. What they initially reported as a targeted criminal enforcement action was in fact an identity-based raid on people who had done nothing but show up for work that day.

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

In sum, MLS is "Prioritizing the exponential financialization of the sport at the direct cost of fan experience: enshittification. It’s taking American soccer, something built on communities, built by fans creating unique atmospheres, and it’s sucking the blood out of it...and repackaging it."

Every case i see for “mls growth” prioritizes wealth at the expense of fans. Bigger franchises fees, more money, more subscriptions, more private equity. Nothing involved with growing the game apparently involves actual fans who make the game unique.

WE call ourselves smug, Y’ALL don’t get to call us smug! But this paragraph is gonna have me fist-pumping all damn day: (archive today version: archive.is/OcaC9 )

Once again, Jamelle Bouie is "the exception the proves the rule" that the NYT has capitulated. Honest reporting doesn't save for the Opinion section: "this isn’t an ordinary moment. The president is openly lawless...This extraordinary reality calls for something different." Gift link in reply.

"Will we sober up at some point after Son puts a hat trick up against us in the Conference Finals? Sure, but hey man, the darkness comes for us all and I’m gonna ride this rocket into the sun!" Grateful for the rocket fuel this past Saturday. Truly Champagne (of Beers) stuff. #COYL

The never ending fight of the Loons against all odds brought me joy. And against Seattle, to boot! #MNUFC #COYL #MLSCupPlayoffs

This match had everything! Nightmare beginning, red card, Sounders flopping like salmon, set pieces, more fucking set pieces, goalkeeper sub, Gene and Duggan (??) making pens, post and crossbar knocking balls in and out, goalkeeper scoring, shit talking by both sides, Loons sending Sea home! #MNUFC

Member when Seattle was up 2-0 in the 10th and up a man for most of the game, but still has to go to penalties. I will. #MNUFC

This is hilarious #MNUFC

Inside of me there are two wolves. Or: somehow my job of late is doing both of these things.

This new package slaps.

Fantastic explanation of St. Paul's #RankedChoiceVoting reallocation process inside. eg: "...voted for Chen first, Hilborn second, Dullinger third & Koahly fourth. Their ballot would effectively “transfer” from Chen to Hilborn, then from Hilborn to Dullinger, finally from Dullinger to Kaohly."

🧵 Ranked Choice Voting is Wonderful Even When my Preferred Candidate Loses: a thread (and meta-level takeaway from the St. Paul Mayoral election ...that also applies across the river to that other place they call Minneapolis)

Appreciate the new speed from Ramsey county in tabulating RCV! St Paul will have a new mayor.

As I wait for St Paul to finish counting, huge shoutout to my home for nearly a decade, Syracuse NY for finally electing it's first black mayor! Go 'cuse

Happy Election Day St. Paul! #YesForSPPS #VoteYesTwice

Chicago Fire starting quick with their When Playing Out of the Back Goes Wrong submission #MLSCupPlayoffs #WPIOOTBGW

Agree with this thorough summary! Being able to share saved me from writing more to some folk in my circles, too, so cheers to that.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.