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Reading about the MNGOP holding a moment of silence for Derek Chauvin gives me the same bodily sensation as seeing something too big move at the bottom of a deep hole.

☀️ 83°F didn't stop me from trying on just-delivered @saintpaulsaints Hipster Corduroy Jacket pre-order

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Apparently the republicans are on Gov ballot 9 and their actual legislative leader is losing to a rube who’s been getting stepped on by Ilhan for a decade.

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Autobiography

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Recipients should check the interior pocket for their specific instructions and rendezvous point for The Operation. The instructions will disintegrate within minutes of exposure to air & the text will not show up on any photo, so memorize your orders quickly. Oculo Porcorum.

Whenever The Jacket discourse heats up I see a couple folks muse whether the number of wearers diminishes the appeal. As a Jacket OG, I have steadily encouraged many a friend to purchase and wear it with pride. I want to see this city saturated with corduroy wings & wheel.

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Every time I am reminded we still have street gangs with cute names like The Muddy in town it occurs to me that there is a certain type of insecure young man who is just so desperate to be a part of the Ginyu Force.

when Tom responds to the invite

I generally don’t talk about my job or STP politics on social media because it is an objectively bad communications platform. But! One of the reasons I like working for The Engineer is that she is a voracious reader. Of email. Of attachments. Of technical docs.

Our Leaders Aren’t Readers

Everyone loves the Saints because some how every Saints game is like two notches more fun than you expect it to be. Like you go knowing you’re gonna see pig races but then you also get to pet a pig when you’re walking to get a beer.

Well it’s a Wednesday so we’re doing politics in Saint Paul.

Jucy Lucys are bad. They are a cheeseburger that you made dangerous and messy. Servers should not have to warn you about your food.

Gang. Chief OHara has gone to political heaven. He’s dead as a doornail. Let him go. It feels wild to fixate on the guy who just got tossed when Commissioner Barnette and that whole situation was literally quietly on camera the whole press conference.

Oculo Pocorum Suzuki San

Sproink

There’s an old politics guy who lost some races for office and moved out of the city now posting a long form Trump dunk in a neighborhood group and I guess I’m just wondering why he left if he still wants to hang out here?

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Covid radicalization hit a type of white collar lib whose work was irrelevant to the crisis. There was a moment where we thought we needed to cut all the chaff to survive and if they got cut AND that hurt them emotionally, then the radicalization set it. They needed a new politics to digest it.

Finally remembered my personal example of this: All cars should come with ignition interlock as a required feature so that we actually prevent drunk driving *in the first place*.

Cole in The Jacket who we met at the saints game last night. Sound off if you’re here King.

At da saints game. In da jacket. Perfect spring night. Saint Paul number one city in da world baby.

Sometimes I receive mail.

I for one am glad we went to war in Iran. I like having my soul blighted by highest Sin and everything more expensive.

My most libbed out sentiment is that it is continually astonishing that the president is obsessed with a *ballroom* and that huge swaths of the federal government have just gone along with it to the point of allowing a whole wing of the White House to get bulldozed with no process or oversight.

When your brother is doing a bad job eating.

Texting my dad out of context Marisa Facebook comments.

There’s a woman with a whole spare car tire on this 54 bus and I just… okay man.

I regret to do stencil discourse but his bellyaching about vacancies on Hennepin has bled through and annoyed me. He thinks it's construction but doesn't talk about Amazon v Retail or wildly changed dining/drinking habits post Covid for service industry.

I'm submitting poetry to the Saint Paul Sidewalk Poetry contest because I'm corny and I think it's neat! publicartstpaul.org/project/poet...

My personal and professional inboxes are at zero.

You’re a huge baby if you complain about car tab prices. You people drive entire air conditioned living rooms around on a whim and you whimper incessantly. Oh where will I leave my 5,000lbs of metal?? Oh I’m only going 60mph in defiance of God and Gaia. Boo hoo.

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I love the watershed map so so much

I am SO excited for this District Council event tomorrow- a Front Ave Community Crawl! I am MOST excited to see dogs try out the Canine Coach agility course <3 district10comopark.org/sd4event/

Rip. Real sign of the times for a guy who got to be in his late twenties when BauHaus hit the scene.

Europeans prove that you don't need to drink water. Beer and coffee is enough.

I think you’re over hydrating. You’re hauling a big metal cylinder around like a harried scientist with teenage mutant ninja turtle ooze. You look ridiculous.

I mean do what you gotta do just understand every time you use this thing it’s just removing oxygen from local retail.

good morning

There are like 4 functional non profits at the top. Most of them are minor league bullpens for politicos and corpos to cool their heels with health insurance between serious gigs. And then there’s this shit.

I have a bunch of crappy?? sports trading cards from the 90’s. Can I just throw them away or is there someone or someplace out there that would be happy to have them?

good morning

Submitting Hamster Dance.

Nameplate illustration St. Paul Globe May 8, 1887