I appreciate religious figures who actually support their core tenets rather than trying to find dogmatic reasons to create outgroups.

This is a real issue that needs addressing. NE has a bunch of great restaurants in general (including very good Thai and Vietnamese, and of course great Central/South American) but to get some good sesame chicken you need to voyage elsewhere.

There's this myth that non-voters are just as aware of and engaged with current events as voters are and that they just haven't found the candidate that inspires them and no, that's not true at all, it's usually that they don't know anything about politics at all, which is the entire challenge.

This is pretty cool

Thank God, even if our team is trash Buck deserves to have a healthy season.

This got a cheer that might end up being the loudest of the season at Target Field.

He just hit an oppo solo homer to go up 3 so he's clearly doing alright

Feel like this is gonna be an evergreen post this season

Any team can make two outs on the bases in six innings but it's only the One True Team TOOTBLAN that can have both guys injure themselves while sliding

The sentiment of this comic came to my mind when I read this article from today's Star Tribune: www.startribune.com/republicans-... Frustrating to see Republicans balk at the cost of transit projects even as we pay far more to widen I-494 and replace the Blatnik Bridge by Duluth.

Therapist: So imagine a post on the Internet. BlueSky user: It makes me angry Therapist: I meant like a joke BlueSky user: I'm even angrier

This kind of explicit gutter racism goes beyond what Buckley would have been willing to publish in his pro-Jim Crow days

From my limited understanding about the manner of death determination (had a very strange summer internship in college) this actually is meaningful. Homicide means that they were killed by another person, so this ruling means that they're attributing blame to a human rather than the elements.

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

"This is how the center of the Democratic Party keeps the left at bay. They forge alliances to their right and leave the left isolated from power. Convening with the right is practical politics; convening with the left is beyond the pale"

Laying down a marker now: The first time a Supreme Court pundit uses John Roberts's "It's a new world, but it's the same Constitution" line to cast him as Our Principled Defender Of The Rule Of Law Agains Trump, I am going to go their house and give them a swirlie

A similar dynamic with putative centrists urging Democrats to stop talking about Trump's violent and unlawful deportation of law-abiding immigrants. Which oddly stopped after Minneapolis and the resulting opinion polls. It is important to have fixed stars in your personal constellation of beliefs!

CB Bucknor, who is not even looking at the base, ruled Jake Bauers didn't step on first base on his infield single here. He stepped on literally the middle of the base.

In 2015, when Caitlyn Jenner announced she was trans, Rick Santorum (!) posted "If he says he’s a woman, then he’s a woman. My responsibility as a human being is to love and accept everybody. Not to criticize people for who they are.” Like that's how far the GOP has descended.

Our office was made aware of an incident involving two bounty hunters pointing weapons at civilians who were chanting at them from alongside and in front of the bounty hunters’ van. Both have been charged with felony threats of violence and displaying a replica of a firearm.

The death penalty but it only applies to one ethnic group in the seperate courts you’ve set up to try them in www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...

This is quite a chart www.startribune.com/ice-action-t...

Again something that is basically normal for this administration but should be impeachable in any functioning society

Federal officials said in public statements during the surge that they were targeting the "worst of the worst." The new data shows that fewer than a quarter of those arrested in Minnesota had a criminal conviction on their record. The vast majority were arrested for civil immigration violations. (2)

There it is. Walter Hudson was armed and hammered with Elliott Engen while he was drunk driving about 12 hours after they had skipped out on committee and started drinking earlier that day.

Orienting the party towards the edge cases in red areas would be great for the party, now a quick sip of water before checking Labours recent election results

Per YouGov Rahm Emanuel is the 78th most popular Democrat, behind everyone from Michael Dukakis to Barney Frank. He is 12 places behind Harry Reid, who died five years ago. To the extent anything's happening here it's *entirely* media-driven. yougov.com/en-us/rating...

the NCAA uploaded raw footage of the UConn buzzer-beater from every camera CBS had in the building to youtube (will drop in the replies) and the best part has to be this hard pan to Dan Hurley's mom yelling HOLY FUCKING SHIT followed by a synchronized simultaneous HOLY SHIT by both Hurley parents

Fortunate for Wallner that he’ll only be the second-worst decision maker from Forest Lake.

There’s the Bailey Ober I’ve come to expect & be depressed by

there's also something so weird about this idea that what appeals to, say, someone in Baltimore won't appeal to say, someone in Detroit. like, every state has a few major cities, and those cities have more in common *with each other* than they do with their neighboring rural areas

i like to call this "electoral college brain," when politicians (or hell just regular people) confuse the fact that the electoral system privileges closely competitive interior states with some deeper, fundamental meaning

These types of articles are why I unsubscribed from the Strib. The spin on almost every article about Minneapolis is pro-Frey/anti-progressive where they just take the face narrative from Frey allies and make that the story. They have a lot of reporters who do great work, but I can't give them money

"Engen, 27, was reportedly spotted drinking Thursday afternoon with Rep. Walter Hudson (R-Albertville)—allegedly after bailing on a House Education Finance Committee, and before returning to work to vote against gun control measures."

Tiger is the very rare GOAT in his sport whose career is also a gigantic "What If?"

Best money I spend every month

Every year I share this theres still someone who hasn’t heard the Creed guy sing this song about all the things that can happen in a baseball game www.mlb.com/video/stapp-...

as an outsider looking in, what this looks like to me is unscrupulous partisans leveraging norms of academic collegiality to do hack work, and then getting the vapors when people point out, correctly, that theirs is hack work

you are going to see AI image posters and your eye is going to twitch and that is Democracy

"The organization we quoted reached out to correct us, but their correction is wrong" is a pretty wild statement to make. NYT hasn't fallen to the quasi-state media levels that CBS and WaPo have, but their coverage of transgender rights has only continued to have a noticeable slant

Kind of a wild choice for the NYT to have its corporate PR team adjudicate complaints about coverage

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Honestly expected worse from the opener. Twins got unlucky with their hits, Baltimore lucky with theirs; you play that game 10 times Twins probably win half.