CBS is dead to me!

Four from Open Streets Lyndale. Minneapolis, Minnesota

I am so in love with my city.

Pack of coyote babies at the northern end of Nicollet Island. June 7 at 12:55.

The directive from Bari Weiss to make the protesters killed by ICE look “more violent” came after Scott Pelley voluntarily had already gone to great pains to make them look violent in the first place:

It’s hot and muggy in VA but the grill is going strong. Enjoy your Sunday.

HAYES on Albania protesting Kushner & Ivanka’s obscene corruption: “It is a land grab. A physical theft of a place so brazen and entitled it could only be done by colonial conquistadors or the family of Donald Trump.”

It sure *sounds* like we’re supposed to live in a world where working class men can be toxic and awful and we should embrace that’s as authentic, and working class women presumably simply get abused. And that’s supposed to be ok.

It’s an insult to “working class voters”—many of whom are women!—to claim that a candidate who represents them is bound to have a history of partner abuse, mercenary soldiering, and acting like a Nazi tattoo is cute.

Believe it or not, men across class boundaries are willing to overlook the bad behavior of other men. And I don’t think we owe Graham Platner the benefit of the doubt just because he wears jeans and farms oysters

Klippenstein still at it over on Twitter / X Even if this voter is saying this, I simply don’t consider Platner’s issues to be rough around the edges stuff. And Ken is clearly not at all shamed by the latest revelations, as he’s still sharing his lol Pete Buttigieg has no genitals essay.

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

This is just heartbreaking. Demand better.

Minneapolis today: Lake of The Isles Pencil sharpening party Tour de Luce alleycat bike party Prince Block Party They thought they could break this city. Minneapolis will never die.

Thank you to @indivisiblemn03.org members and neighbors who marked D-Day with a #VisibilityBrigade message of "DEFEND DEMOCRACY" over Interstate 494 in Minnetonka, Minnesota today. We remember courageous defenders of democracy and emulate them. Teamwork makes the dream work.

Line & Wash workshop today. That's an ink drawing overlaid with watercolor. And ... OMG! I know I say this almost every time, but this was my best class ever!

They did the thing at the Loti Pencil… it’s been sharpened! ✏️

amy and john higgins, owners of the lake of the isles pencil, read a note from the pencil at the sharpening on the ICE occupation: “i live with you, among you. i know what this amazing city did this winter. but people of minneapolis, you chose love over fear and love won. people have the power.”

The smaller the pencil gets, the larger the crowd. You don't need fancy mathematical modeling to see where this is headed. When the last nubbin of the pencil is sharpened away, the entire population of the world will be present to witness it. Imagine all the people. The world will live as one.

Minneapolis is one of a kind.

even more people were watching the lake of the isles pencil sharpening in minneapolis from trees and from kayaks this year! the street was closed for traffic and it was the biggest crowd yet

the pencil crew delivered the sharpener, which is carved from wood and weighs 100lbs, to the lake of the isles pencil and then danced

America’s Greatest City

5th annual Big Pencil sharpening

dedicated pencil fans wearing pencil hats are showing up already for the lake of the isles pencil sharpening more than an hour ahead of time

When we take the pets out, what do they love to do? Swim Chill Dig And Watch Over Us! 🎥 Bernoulli swimming, Brix chilling, Beaker digging, and Bunsen protecting.

You guys, the White House accidentally ordered 10x the amount of Porta-Potties that they needed. The lawn is just acres of Porta-Potties. It’s all fenced off and you can’t see, but I took this photo through a hole in the fence netting.

I'm curious which company is getting paid for those, and who owns it. Because that's a big mistake to make, but "mistake" is an easy way to cover up giving lots of money to someone...

And for you Hubert Humphrey aficionados, when mayor of Minneapolis from 1945-8 he lived in this modest home at 890 19th Ave Southeast in the SE Como neighborhood. On Feb 6, 1947 a notable incident took place when a gunman fired shots at the house. Humphrey was uninjured and no suspect ever found.

Oops Sidn3y is quite right @taylordahlin.com's 3rd photo is instead the Lawrence-Nelson House (1872) at 622 5th Street SE, a less elaborate copy of the Fisk home built in the same buff-brick, limestone, with wood trellis porches. HHH indeed lived in a back room when a U student. We regret the error.

This might come as a surprise but you can’t get horribly sick from raw milk if you don’t drink raw milk

82 years ago today my grandfather, who lied about his age to enlist in the military, was in one of the first waves of landing crafts to hit the beaches of Normandy. He's been gone a long time now, but today I remember him and the other brave souls who fought and died for a righteous cause.

An OpEd in Diabetes Care would not have been my first candidate for scientific samizdat, but such are the times.

Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were removed by police during the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

Are you a scientist attending this meeting? Walk out. Are you a physician attending this meeting? Walk out. If you're silent, you're complicit. Use your voice.

Tell the computer she doesn’t need a child-safe prescription because she’s not a child. I swear, the nonsense around codeine and a few other medications in this country is the closest I come to feeling libertarian

Palliative pain prescription of codeine with Tylenol for Lola rejected because she’s under 12, and now they want the vet to see if they can find an alternative. She’s a dog, of course she’s under 12

Forget the ocean. After this, you’ll be afraid to go on dry land. It’s MeanCat, history’s greatest monster. Be very afraid.

front doors and porches of marcy-holmes, minneapolis

4/4 there are many interesting houses in Marcy-Holmes both in and outside the 5th Street Historic District. Two prominent are Thomas Andrews 1869 (not the Titanic guy) and the Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve Home 1858, among Old St Anthony's finest buildings. This would become Minneapolis in 1872.

3/ The other two on the right in taylr's photos are respectively 400 6th St SE (1885), a large rooming house which once had a grocery store, and 403 5th St SE (1895), built on the site of an old church, and otherwise about which I know nothing! Perhaps @chrissteller.bsky.social knows.

2/ Woodbury Fisk House (1869) 424 5th St SE, the most elaborate extant example of Italianate architecture in the city. Fisk married well, his brother-in-law was John S. Pillsbury. He was also a director of several banks and the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad.

1/ Octavius Broughton House (1859) 511 4th Ave SE, probably the 3rd oldest still standing in Minneapolis. A simple Greek revival, as was the style at the time, built by a millwright for his family. There's also a little model of it by Aldo Moroni on "Sculpture Row" by Cafe Alma.

All four of these houses in SE Minneapolis were built between 1859 and 1895. The two on the left have a particularly important history for different reasons. A fun Friday mini thread in @eastbankmpls.bsky.social !

The Art Institute of Chicago has censured a faculty member for making an assignment that has “anything with Palestine in it,” in this case just quite literally the existence of a Palestinian. US higher education is actively policing Palestinian existence as ‘antisemitism.’

This is the two-page assignment that elicited a complaint on the grounds of discrimination (against an Israeli student), although it contains no other mention of Palestine or Israel. At all.

Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I'm demanding information from ICE on what happened in Danbury today. Contrary to their statement, ICE is not targeting criminals - they are targeting peaceful, law abiding immigrants. In Connecticut and everywhere else. They are a lawless agency.