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I am once again begging, leave those horrible Summit Ave people to their deteriorating street, and push all the cars onto that road they love so much by closing Grand to cars and making a bus/bike pathway

Going back to the MO of not reading internet comments ... will this heal me?

House shopping, and saw the spruce tree building out the window of one home... Room with a view

Learning about the history of homeschooling has shown me how important is it for us to have good data on it. Here's a way to help build that based on collected experiences!

Virginia is for lovers, the New Yorker is for cowards

Do I do more 'vibes-based' punctuation because I have a healthy respect for the variability and evolving nature of language or do I simply give fewer fucks???

The sentences handed down today in Texas are a threat to the possibility of a democratic society. The prosecution is rife with constitutional violations, but 30 years in prison (more than anyone for January 6) for moving some magazines? 50 years for those not involved in even planning the protest?

It's mind-boggling how these can feel safe to the drivers. Even if you're not around pedestrians, that gigantic blind spot can hold so many hazards. And the A-pilllar blind spot makes such a difference. My 2005 4runner was so much better than new Chevys, and it still felt sketchy.

"But doctor, I am Liberace"

Apparently there's Dog Owning Discourse here today, which I will address with the facts that what dog breeds lead bite lists have a huge amount to do with what breeds are popular, that racism and anti-pitbull sentiment are closely tied, and that there is no verification of breed in bite reports.

What is happening is larger scale than it has been, but it's been happening for a long, long time. The problem is not just ICE. The problem is policing.

One of the small, heartwarming parts of working in the news: we rarely print briefs about missing children in the newspaper, because they are usually found extremely quickly, long before deadline

When I was a teenager who went to church, I found it extremely easy to get on the women's board, run a Sunday School class, etc. as people who were more socially savvy and intelligent were trying for leadership in more difficult arenas. I'm sure this has absolutely no parallels politically

Strong independent women can little their own Debbies

I do not dream of labor, I just want to bang on the drums all day

They are officially down to One Person Making the Whole News Section tomorrow, and it's me. The temptation to make the whole section a compensation for our failure to adequately cover the May Day protests in today's paper is strong

Bring back the ancient knowledge

happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️

in some very real ways we have let an abundance of information fool us into thinking we live in a data-driven era, when in fact we live in an era of mysticism. the data's just the dowsing rod. poll x says y, focus group a says b, so carry the 8 and you get this exact position a lobbying group wants.

Lots of tech dudes think the "idea" is the important part of creating, not the creative journey you take through work to give that idea actual meaning. Ideas are the easiest, cheapest and least fulfilling part of it. Giving ideas life through work, and sharing that work with others, is the stuff.

Selling my car about two years ago was one of the best decisions I've ever made. These three great tricks have become, sometimes, the best part of my day. How else would I have discovered there is a house full of parrots about half a mile from my house if not for walking?

Doubly excited for a new bookstore and this discovery of the artist of the whimsical and wonderful map of Midwest bookstores!

Another edition of "what are people out protesting this weekend?" A periodic reminder of how deeply people care about our world, and how global our struggles and solidarity can be. Climate actions in Paris and Copenhagen today.

One of the best parts of this CVS coming down is that it is a victory of the neighborhood around it over the absent (and mysterious) owner, which seems to be a common type of fight that the landlords and owners often win

Going deep into the wikipedia rabbit hole of the "America First" movement which was an isolationist group who didn't want to enter WWII until exactly four days after Pearl Harbor, I found this Seuss comic which I had forgotten

A star was born! I found her work as an adult and love her sense of humor.

I don't need Things or Money. I need to look at my dog when she's sleeping so deeply her tongue comes out just a little

PBS as my only streaming service has led me to an exact sense of the timing of murder mysteries. Get one of these 40 minute bad boys and the cusp comes a bit early for the attuned 55-minute episode watcher

Metro Transit and the Metropolitan Council are expanding their roster of pre-qualified artists for paid public art projects across the transit system. Signing up is free at metrotransit.org/artist-roster-form

A lot of discussion about the Saints jacket on here but I'm just trying to decide whether this is my new school patrol Look

So many things clicking as I finally trudge my way through the Steve Grove book. Of COURSE his wife worked in venture capital with JD Vance!

"There is a genre of movies which dominated my childhood, which(. . .)followed a pattern where a normally peace-loving person who wanted to stay home had no choice but to risk everything and fight when masked goons came to their door." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-last-idi...

In the past month and a half at least two people in Minneapolis famously and specifically died defending a multicultural economic zone

Excited to go to the zinefest tomorrow. Been thinking about joy, marathon vs sprint, and the process of building the world we want after this, working toward a hopeful future

As businesses close in the Twin Cities, people shelter in their homes, and take action to avoid active surveillance by federal law enforcement, the perception of safety becomes so obvious as a rhetorical device. And it's so separate from actual danger, actual harm or potential harm.

This is a thread full of good points, but of course I'm biased. It's wild to me that marketing teams for newspapers don't fully embrace this angle for getting new customers.

The fantasy version of "decentralized" is a world where everyone is somehow communicating, deciding, & taking action as individuals yet magically coordinated. The reality is a massive venn diagram of overlapping groups (formal & informal) building trust through common cause, effort, & experience.

"I find myself wondering if I still have a home here in Minnesota, in America, in the world of the people who get to decide who is valuable and who is not, who belongs and who does not, who lives and who dies." - Kao Kalia Yang, one of the best writers in MN and in the rest of the universe

I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.

Metro Transit drivers are witnessing ICE arrests in the streets, and one operator from Somalia was held for over a month after being detained on his way to work, according to union leaders. Written by Andrew Hazzard.

Big loon statue outside Allianz for governor

Did you know you can just volunteer at a museum and they let you just stare at the art for hours

I had my first X-ray this month and immediately thought you should be able to get them recreationally

Lot of well-earned no. 1 awards for Metro in this thread, but the bus operators absolutely deserve this accolade too!

Good sales today: MeansTV is 50% off PM Press books are 50% off AK press has everything at 25% off 😈

People are protesting across the world all the time, but we often don't have a good spot to share this in print. A sample of some from today: The "Great People's March" demands real solutions to climate change alongside COP30 conference in Belem, Brazil.

If you make one of those vertical word poems with a pencil is it an acoustic acrostic

I love sitting down and working on my silly little novel that will not be literary even a tiny bit. I'm making maps of all the made up places. All the food will be described in intense detail. I'm going to publish it in a tiny little edition and it's so much fun

Excited to go to my first fight club Thursday night