Denis Villeneuve: Yeah, I’ll do the rest of the Frank books. For the right price.

You can’t really “disagree” with a perspective unless you understand it, and you can’t understand it unless you can argue persuasively for it. If you don’t, that’s not disagreement, that’s prejudice.

Sees ICE, "Get a real job!"

Why does any immigrant community congregate in one place or another in America? Because that's where the jobs and opportunities were when they arrived. That's as true for Somalis as it was for Scandinavians in the mid 19th century.

Anyone else feel like the last 10 years have been stolen from them?

The loss of local news media is not just a problem because it makes it harder for people to understand local issues in context. In the absence of context, people experience local problems as a consequence of national politics.

The reason pretty much all European Americans are here is because our ancestors came from countries that were "shitholes" at the time. They were, by and large, refugees fleeing war, famine, and persecution. A lot of them were criminals or declared enemies of the states they left.

Rest in Play, Tom Stoppard.

Visiting friend: “Why are there two I-35s?” Me: “Because Minneapolis and Saint Paul can’t share and it will be a cold day in hell before either let the other have it.”

Every American conservative perspective eventually just devolves into, “You just don’t understand my argument.”

Mama called the doctor and the doctor said, “I have notified child protective services and the local humane society that you are consistently and lethally negligent of your monkeys.”

We should assemble fans of Welcome to Night Vale to follow ICE around pointing and gravely intoning, “Interloper.”

Why I would make a lousy politician: (Knocks door) “I’m a policy and political junky and would hate this job. Please don’t vote for me. I will represent you if I have to. Have a good day.”

Bloomington Police partnered on “Operation Creep” with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and police from Eden Prairie, Roseville and Richfield, as well as MSP Airport Police. The man arrested is a civilian ICE employee.

Senate Democrats: That was worse than a crime. It was a mistake.

@smith.senate.gov and @amyklobuchar.com thank you for not betraying us.

It’s time for a hostile takeover of the Democratic leadership.

I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them

Donald Trump’s approval rating has tanked and Republican suffered heavy losses in last week’s elections. There’s never been a better time for Senate Democrats to cave on the ACA extension.

“People are blaming republicans for food prices and flight cancellations and health insurance costs and are furious about gilded ballrooms and Gatsby parties and the president is falling asleep on tv and is the most deeply unpopular president in history, time to cave” is a hell of an argument

What the hell do you think you’re doing, @schumer.senate.gov? Are you seriously arranging another surrender when you have leverage? Please resign. You have proven again and again that you are not up to the critical role of leading the opposition party when the country needs it most.

I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave. It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.

Most political journalists are preoccupied with the election results, but there's something really interesting going on within the right wing echo chamber. Tucker Carlson's interview with Nick Fuentes has resulted in a heated debate about whether and how to denounce them.

Somehow, I had not heard of Christopher Buehlman's *The Lesser Dead* and picked it up on a whim after finishing *Buffalo Hunter Hunter* by Stephen Graham Jones where he mentions being inspired by the former in the epilogue.

There's sort of an amusing interview with Steve Bannon on Politico today in which he freaks the fuck out about Mamdani winning.

Rs are trying to kindle a scandal around Biden using an autopen and Trump just said on 60 minutes that he doesn't know who the guy he pardoned last month is (that would be C.Z., the billionaire who pled guilty to money laundering in 2023, but who also has lucrative business dealings with Trump).

Ah, yes, the annual tradition of older Minnesotans reminiscing about the Halloween Blizzard, as if we do not hear this story once a year.

"But how are we going to pay for SNAP benefits?" We already have. There's an emergency fund appropriated by Congress for this reason exactly. POTUS is refusing to use it, functionally using 42M people's hunger as a political weapon.

has anyone seen twin cities restaurants doing the same? this is a great resource

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Noticing a pattern here, we would like to extend an olive branch to the generation after the next (I.e. alpha). More and more of us agree we need fundamental, structural change. Maybe we can work together on that? - Cringe Millennials

Listening to a doctor friend explain some horrible affliction with technical medical language. Me: “I don’t know what that means, and I’m totally fine with that.”

I’m not calling you a Nazi or Klansman. I’m telling you that you’re increasingly sounding like Nazis and Klansmen and you really should think about that.

Kinda suspected.

Long overdue and well deserved. Congratulations @podcastle.org!

Horror Recommendations: Honestly, I think I should not have read Clay McLeod Chapman's *Wake Up and Open Your Eyes" right now because it's way too on point. If you want to read a novel that is the opposite of timeless, but Current Events Horror, this is a good one.

Agreed.

They are trying to provoke a response that they can use to crack down even harder. It's important not to give them an excuse, while also using every non-violent means at our disposal to fight back.

This is something the left in general needs to do. Part of the reason we keep losing is that we are not offering an inspiring vision of the future, just a defense of the status quo.

Lately, I have noticed an increasing tendency to portray the 1960s as so violent that it could have become a second civil war. Which is weird because 1) It’s just not true, and 2) It was a watershed decade for nonviolent revolution.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

Keep taking videos of what ICE is doing. @govpritzker.illinois.gov is right, document what’s happening. This is why they hate journalists so much.

Horror Recommendations: *Pearl* by Josh Malerman. For horror junkies, imagine a Stephen King premise and small town complex character development blended with Lovecraftian cosmic(ish) horror and steadily ratcheting up one dreadful revelation after another.