Today is day 139 of the ICE occupation of MN. If ICE hasn’t come to your city or town yet, let us tell you: NOW is the time to organize. Build trusting relationships. Get folks into Signal groups now, based on trust and connections. It will make what comes next so, so much easier.

mtg becoming a butler assassination truther means we are one day closer to a disgruntled trump voter buying a pressure cooker and doing something extremely funny

>unarmed pleasure vessel inexplicably capable of running a blockade What did he know?

I love analysis of Trumpism as a fundamentally misogynistic pro-rape movement but it does make it even weirder, relative to the usual historiography, when people don't analyze how bad his base wants to fuck him, or more accurately be fucked by him. Because they want it desperately

This is also absolutely the best way to unify the party. People might disagree a lot on various policy issues, but there's absolutely no one in the primary electorate who doesn't want to see the people responsible for this hanging upside down.

i will vote for any democrat who promises this

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

Latonya posts about the importance of House financial disclosure reports. Back in December, Latonya neglected to file hers until after I called her out for not filing. She ended up filing her report 3 days after my Bluesky post.

I’m not even kidding when I say that a Dem candidate, whoever it is, that promises Tribunals on Day 1 will sweep the primaries and be the nominee by Super Tuesday at the latest.

imagine if we treated DoD the way conservatives treat the Post Office

MDP to Haley Stevens

cool!

all these years i really did think robyn was singing "i'm in the corner watching you kiss her, oooh, i'm right over here why can't you see me ohhh, i'm giving it my all but i'm not the guy you're taking home" like i really thought she was singing about being left out of a bisexual threesome

i don't know why everyone's being pedantic about this when he's obviously talking about 1933. do the math lol that was 100 years ago

i would describe my current orientation as wanting a "yes we can (hang the motherfuckers)", candidate, yes

I'm so glad this brave law enforcement officer is OK after being violently smirked at. Praying for him and his family

Thank you to the 100+ volunteers who made yesterday’s 2026 Minneapolis DFL City Convention an incredible success!

"we have to build socialist working class power outside of the liberal electoral system." ok. anyway hope to see you on may 1 lmao but i get the feeling your little ass won't be there

"....Israel is reportedly planning to expel only Shia residents, warning Sunni and Christian residents not to harbor their neighbors — a chilling instruction on the eve of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day." www.972mag.com/israel-leban...

Families of the children from Minab School sent a letter to Pope Leo XIV, thanking him for his peace efforts and urging him to be the voice for their voiceless children. “We ask you to continue to be the voice of children without a voice and to strive to open paths of dialogue"

tibs won't stop following me around to yell at me but it's the middle of the afternoon so he's doing it while squinting and swaying from the effort not to go to sleep. absolute freak hours

if i ever get access to a time machine i'm going back in time, kidnapping nabokov, and forcing him misery-style to write a romantasy trilogy. i just think it would be fun to see what he comes up with

The people of #Minneapolis and #SaintPaul don't exist to @amyklobuchar.com.

I've given up hope of Amy Klobuchar ever actually meeting with her biggest constituency (Minneapolis/St. Paul), but you know if she ever does, it's going be via an online town hall with limited participation, so she doesn't have to face any hard questions from the constituents she hates (non-rural)

the republican base is busy calling anyone who disagrees with trump a RINO panican and sending them death threats, so i think this distinction is more down to their base having the boot pre-loaded in their mouths

it's so interesting that michigan orgs keep inviting politicians in to give weird hectoring speeches like this

Bakeries will save the world! I visited Dahlia this morning. They share space with MN Nice Cream at Quincy and Broadway in Northeast Minneapolis. And they make tasty, tasty baked treats. Add them to your long list of must visit places in Minneapolis.

We should indeed upzone the shit out of Plainfield.

my wife's got roadrunner bikes "hit your brakes, not people" merch and people will literally lecture her about how it goes both ways, just because they don't like the button. car brain is unreal

he's correct that politicians can't talk like normal people, and correct that nonprofitspeak sounds like alien babble to normal people, but unfortunately for him this speech is an example of the former and the latter is none of his business

Not surprisingly, @blindeke.bsky.social’s 15-year-old take has aged well, unlike the Strib’s. I forgot about this knuckle-dragging so appreciate @wentrogue.bsky.social bringing it up.

it's funny that social media platform success & social import is basically proportionate to the number of deranged antisocial behaviors its architecture & regulatory environment enables, easily observable reality across multiple decades now,

Happy Bicycle Day! Please enjoy my ongoing and surprisingly robust list of every location-appropriate bike rack in Minneapolis:

Obviously this wasn't her real goal but still, uncritical support to Elena Kagan trying to get her conservative colleagues killed by screaming at Breyer not to accommodate conservatives re: Dobbs. Queen shit. Expand the court and give Kagan a gun

I'm really just fed up lately that lots of otherwise progressive people have decided traffic violence is an issue that we simply cannot address. How can people claim to care about equity and ignore the toll of car dependency?

people get hella mad when you say adult drivers should be more responsible than children on our streets.

Too many drivers basically view bicyclists and pedestrians as NPCs and not as real humans they could turn to mush with their cars.

Riffing on this: if you assume your neighbor’s house would become an 8-flat the moment it hits the market, you’re implicitly concurring that the housing shortage is real and that your local municipality is actively suppressing the market through restrictive zoning

Okay setting everything else aside, imagine being so stupid you think that's what soft power means

In red states, anti-immigrant bills are failing as businesses push back wapo.st/4sHlBgU

did i turn off the oven

For almost four years, the city of Joplin fiercely guarded the identity of a SWAT sniper who shot Clesslynn Crawford in the head during a hostage standoff. For two of those years, the officer and Joplin have fought KCUR and The Midwest Newsroom in court to hide the officer’s name.

when people talk about israel and electoral salience i really really really think they are missing something important, which is that increasingly the salience of the issue is not "foreign policy" per se, it's about constituent responsiveness and perceived honesty in communications

mRNA technology may be THE most underrated and unfairly scrutinized (fuck you COVID antivax crew) medical breakthrough in my lifetime. Like... The things this is already showing it can do in the last 5-7 years is incredible.

This is why you're starting to see a lot of sulking about "Israel all of a sudden being the important important issue in American politics" from people who were perfectly happy to keep kicking the can down the road indefinitely and don't understand why that's not an option anymore.

If it fits, I sits… moving day edition. Protected bikelanes are not for making moving day easier. Blocking a bikelane like this is illegal bc it pushes people on bikes/motorized wheelchairs into the street with drivers, where they are more likely to be hurt or killed. Don’t do this.

this reminds me, i don't think SCOTUS should be allowed to choose their own clerks. standardize the hiring schedule, put the applications in a pool, blind reads (perhaps by a panel of former clerks) and random assignments.