It's wild looking at the transcript of this TAL episode from 2016 - residents in Tom Emmer's district afraid of Sharia law, immigrants on welfare, etc etc - and at that time he was pushing back!! www.thisamericanlife.org/600/transcript

I bet Trump actually asked to make the reflecting pool "all gay" for Pride month and the workers misunderstood

This is what I've been wondering about the last few months

If potatoes turn out to be an intelligent alien species we're going to have a lot of explaining to do

Thinking about my dad who could have his team up by 30 and still say "I have a bad feeling about this"

"What we saw, underneath all of the horror [of the ICA surge], was something that looked more like the future that I want to be a part of.” (no paywall, in more ways than one) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/d...

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

I see that the "Trump administration announces some new outrageous plan, everyone talks about it like it's already resolved, and then a couple months later the courts strike it down" cycle is still in effect

Minneapolis police rarely responded to immigration-related emergency calls during Operation Metro Surge, even as the department spent $10 million on overtime and standby pay preparing for unrest that largely never materialized.

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In case anyone is wondering how our racial discourse has evolved in the six years since George Floyd was murdered, the Facebook comment people are still melting down

UN backs historic climate crisis ruling, despite US attempts to stop resolution

"so what's your take?" "I gotta get in shape now. Too much sitting has ruined my body. Too much abuse has gone on for too long. From now on, it’ll be 50 push-ups each morning, 50 pull-ups. There’ll be no more pills, no more bad food, no more destroyers of my body." "Oh 100% agree"

Local governments reconstruct street infrastructure in order to keep your clean water flowing, sewage moving, and the street surface from crumbling. The safety and transit features of these projects are not the reason they happen. It’s the silver lining.

I hope the families of Renee Good and Alex Pretti submit claims, along with the many others targeted by Trump's DOJ

Went to a 3 hour kids dance recital last night. I think I'm invincible now.

Feel like stating the obvious - so much of the redistricting controversy comes down to no one believing that Republicans would ever act in the best interests of Black people

What is the mental illness via which someone becomes very legalistic and wants you to quote chapter and verse of policies and governance for simple routine things? Anyway, I got to talk with one of them today.

My view is that the American South never fully took to liberal democracy. And I think we have to reckon with that to face the moment we’re now in. I wrote about it for @thebulwark.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/liberal-de...

Kinda seems like if our goal is actually for Iran to give up pursuing nuclear weapons, we could ease up on repeatedly threatening to destroy their entire country

We need to take away his access to the nuclear launch codes.

"trans ideology is a sickness." [reads the news] "people's personal affairs are none of our business and we should talk about immigration"

So, as we all figured, thousands of ICE agents running wild around Minnesota for two months resulted mainly in arresting people with no criminal record, and who weren't targeted but just in the wrong place at the wrong time

Administration officials are now discussing releasing more Epstein files to distract voters from the war.

Heather Cox Richardson has a larger audience than almost any dudefluencer. More informed. Better values & policy preferences. And yet there are no profiles, no elevation or lionization, because there's *nothing* US media is less interested in than middle-aged lib women. No diner interviews for them.

The fabulous Rebecca Solnit on never surrendering - "I'm big on not burying the not dead" www.youtube.com/live/6MHnPdp...

I couldn't make it to No Kings yesterday, but I joined the Palm Sunday rally against Christian Nationalism today #PalmSunday2026

Just checking, has there been an AI video of Trump dumping 💩 on everyone yet?

patiently explaining to national political reporters that the people who organize No Kings are also doing the daily advocacy, voter registration, mutual aid, and immigrant defense, and that just because the cameras show up for the big crowd does not mean that work did not exist before and after

Tell me again about the worst of the worst

I know I know, nonviolence is the right approach. But man sometimes I just want to get one good slap in.

Spinning a big wheel covered with words like "Pickleball," "Knitting" and "Podcasts" Like, how about a place where people get together to listen to podcasts together? Is that anything?

So yes, TSA lines are out of control, but at least gas and groceries are more expensive, and immigrants are dying in ICE custody, and kids are getting the measles again, and cancer research has been disrupted, and we've alienated our traditional allies, and wait where was I going with this

Trump is giving us fascism but without the efficiency

When ICE kept their customers away, the owners of Amigos One Stop immediately pivoted to delivering food and other necessities to customers. Written by Shubhanjana Das

Many of the most significant assertions made by the Trump administration during the ICE surge in Minnesota were wrong, misleading or unsupported by evidence.

Gen X night out with Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy and many lesser known R.E.M. tunes

Say no to euphemisms like "boots on the ground" and "collateral damage"

I'm sure Noem was fired for all the dumbest reasons, and the replacement with Mullin will continue the clown show, but I will celebrate her removal anyway. Minnesota isn't going to forget what she did anytime soon.

I think what some of us very compassionate people are struggling with is the fact that at our moments of most acute crisis, MPD has shown itself to be pretty useless, despite the piles of money we shovel at them.

Shameless

When Prince sings “animals strike curious poses” what is the first animal you think of and what pose is it striking? For me it’s a lemur up on its hind legs looking around in mild alarm.

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane Doe?

We need to take away his access to the nuclear launch codes.

The people who sent thousands of DHS/ICE agents into the state to cause chaos and terrorize (or kill) the population are now going to lecture us about being good stewards of tax money

Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation. Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.

sooo does this mean no tariff dividend check? Huh

I hope it is OK with everyone, I was never a big NIN fan but I think the Reznor / Ross soundtracks are great

According to the Heritage Foundation tracking site (electionfraud.heritage.org/search) there have been 34 cases of "Impersonation Fraud at the Polls" in the last 42 years.

"I can give you a 15-minute history lesson that will explain ICE and our current politics.” “Can I use a timer?” he asked. I said certainly. I prepared the lesson, and my nephew started the timer. Here is what I told him: terikanefield.com/let-my-peopl...