I've been to Willmar. The thing to know about it if I recall is the speed trap to avoid when you come into town.

"Why do we even spend so much to maintain the world's most powerful military if we don't *use it*?" 🤏 SO CLOSE to a significant revelation yet 👐 SO FAR

I've been maintaining this now-massive running blog of news, links, commentary, videos, etc. all week. Hopefully readers find it useful:

Really tired of the era of the sardonic, gentle ‘own’.

They keep doing this it outstate Minnesota and they will quickly drain this purple state of all its red.

Freiheit 🇺🇸

The Price is Right airs at 10 am in Minnesota! Why are we hanging a story about violent state oppression on the peg of day drinkers in rural MN? Sure the big wheel isn't spun until later but I think 11 am is still too early to start drinking "most days." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

Using the infrastructure my colleagues and I built up

NYTimes has truly outdone itself with this latest in its "ask white guys in diner" genre. Thank goodness we get a perspective on what's happening in Minneapolis from people in **Nisswa** who probably mean Brainerd when they say they "prefer not to go the city anymore" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

"Insurrection"? Just another fight for freedom right?

When you see the mayhem in the streets of Minneapolis it's hard to believe that this is all about Trump and Stephen Miller's thirst for vengeance a psychologically twisted desire to brutalize immmigrants, people of color and political foes. The city was peaceful. They purposefully incited this..

"This is nuts" "This is wrong"

No one ever said "that fuckin' rules" about The Rules-Based International Order (even though it does, and hard)

journalists never take the cops at their word 2026 challenge

They have fucking assault rifles and we have whistles and they’re scared shitless, because they know we’d rather be righteous and dead than ever be them.

"Shoot me, bitch"

Brookings you scamp

🇺🇸 The American Moment 🇺🇸

Why isn't CBS News' Tony D profiling @whstancil.bsky.social, erudite urban America's everyman?

Oh shit how you gonna pay for that comin home to rooooost

The US Senate! The cooling saucer of democracy

This good-natured, 34-year-old, Muslim, immigrant man—who the Times bemoaned was too young and radical to “get anything done”—has accomplished more good governance in a *week* on the job than most liberal politicians accomplish in their whole careers. With a smile & a joyful heart. A blessing.

Cato gone woke

Dontcha know

Mmmhmm. You have to feel the anxiety, let it in, make it grow, lean into it, and use it

Happening Now: Students have walked out of school and are protesting against ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota

Denmark, just put a price on it already

Ding dong Dilbert's dad's dead

it's funny to see the wildly unpopular trump and his goons rip the wiring out of institution after institution without a care in the world and have NYT guys and congresspeople being like whoa dudes let's not get too crazy with the abolish ice talk

American hero. @atrupar.com go on a ride-along!

i think powell's response here is a demonstration of the folly of the idea that democratic accountability requires presidential control. what if the president is not acting in the public interest? you want independent agencies to be able to push back and pursue their *congressional mandate*

Login: tsp.gov Transfer: 100% to G fund. Wait what does G stand for? Government? Oh shit.

We're gonna win

I just found out last night that the $50k enrollment bonus only pays out after 5 years of service, and reader, the laugh I let out when I read that woke the dog from across the house. These absolute fucking grapes aren't seeing a dime of that money. No way they can ride out 5 years of this job.

Separate from the obvious misogyny of the last few days, it’s been striking to watch the right wing media apparatus really confront the role of normie middle-aged women as a leading and increasingly radical force of opposition to trump

Oh I see NOW we feature the irreplaceable talent that runs government. After they'd been fired (and no one cared) because no one ever thought to feature them and their important work.

Like I get legitimately emotional and patriotic thinking of a normal ass mom or dad working a 9 to 5 who runs for school board against some psycho in a way that no editorial writer has ever made me feel

I wonder how @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social will react when the US goes to war with a NATO member 🤔

The idea that real change can’t be controlled like that and comes from relentless hammering, hammering, hammering at every opportunity, until somehow through combination of fortune and sheer persistence you bend the arc of events at some unexpected moment, is inconceivable to our Honor Roll leaders.

every few months I have to go to twitter to see some video or prominent person's post that isn't anywhere else, and I find that a lot of you are still posting there. anyway, it's not ok that you are doing that, no you are not the exception, fucking stop posting there

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Hardcore af

Just had a guy going door to door among the businesses along Minnehaha Avenue drop this off. Hell yeah.

That's assault right there. Abolish ICE and shut its agents and enablers out of public employment forever.

Grateful for the sustained presence of religious leaders in #Minneapolis and across the country, keeping our focus on the life that was taken and the danger that a policy of fear and violence at the highest levels of government presents for us all. #ReneeNicoleGood #UU

Fascism acts as an autoimmune disease of liberals in, as Sartre noticed, its deliberate use of bad faith. Aggressively insisting on a falsehood means that you can only engage with them "under civil norms" by engaging with the falsehood. Then they wager you won't forcibly exclude them.

There are at least 100 Minneapolis residents for every federal agent in the city right now. Political leadership needs to organize them before it's too late. Stop telling people to remain calm and peaceful and give them a useful mission.

Look at these dumb bubbas

We're all 12 now: "I'm not touching you! I'm not touching you!" seems to justify any behavior.