Giants OLB Abdul Carter on why he responded critically to Jaxson Dart’s decision to introduce Donald Trump: www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

for the first time since 2022, somebody besides Sinner, Alcaraz, or Djokovic is going to win a Grand Slam

Honestly, this is good because it removes any plausible deniability about the type of people Trump put in charge of his domestic paramilitary operations

a time-honored tradition for key affiliates of disintegrating Nazi regimes

This kind of shit talking only works when you can walk the walk to back it up and Tim Sweeney just fired 1000 people because his infinite money printer isn't growing as fast as he wants it to.

75% of state delegates were committed to the flanagan campaign. craig worked for months for endorsement, only dropping once it was clear she would lose, and began attacking the process

peggy flanagan campaign is giving info on the DFL endorsement process that is unique to minnesota to the press esp to benefit national reporters, and how it's a grassroots process that ensures candidates are talking to people active in the party, calling it "hyperlocal" as it begins in neighborhoods

Every time Trump's failures catch up to him, he falls back on the same tired racism and bigotry. We all know who enables fraud and corruption. Just a few of Trump’s pardons: •Philip Esformes — $1.3B Medicare fraud • Lawrence Duran — $205M Medicare fraud • Jason Galanis — $60M fraud

"We didn’t really believe that Eat Street had a chance to make it through that night after Alex Pretti was murdered,” Klukow said, adding that police leaders wanted to make sure the Whittier neighborhood wouldn’t meet the same fate as E. Lake Street six years ago" Talk about being out of touch.

angie craig dropping out now vs at the DFL convention is like jacob frey throwing his allied park board candidates under bus last year by walking out will her delegates skip? if so, how will this impact auditor? guessing they back ben schierer. won't help amy klobuchar's numbers either

It truly is incredible how much the MAGA world insists that the Biden DOJ was "weaponized" against them when the level of pure weaponization against perceived enemies in this DOJ is truly unprecedented.

I hope the next police chief will be able to bring their young family to Minneapolis instead of leaving them behind in New Jersey for 4 years.

reminder as angie craig positions herself as anti establishment for dropping out of DFL endorsement process that every congressional chair endorsed her in april. out of touch party leadership & insiders backed her, newcomers turned out for peggy flanagan, motivated to try to do something about ICE

This guy was not qualified for the job, handed out his business cards to jurors, told them to contact him. Judges tossed the murder indictment. "Such behavior could have easily resulted in a U.S. attorney stepping down or being fired. Instead, the Senate confirmed Mr. Smith’s nomination on May 18"

“Our lawmakers are elected to do their best to solve problems,” said Jesse Merkel, whose 8-year-old son Fletcher was killed in the Annunciation shooting. “And the fact that it wasn’t even brought to the floor, but they were able to pass a meat raffle bill, is pretty frustrating.”

In which Professor Wurman candidly admits why he sees the history of the common law differently than anyone who has honestly studied it, and why rather than doing scholarship he just wrote and op-ed and a (terrible, demonstrably wrong) article about the common law that should have been rejected.

Axios: Mpls Council floats end of Office of Community Safety as “failed experiment.” I supported overarching public safety dept concept (beyond just MPD, to boost other public safety efforts) but Frey made it a $330,000 flak-catcher & responsibility-dodger for him. www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Inside me are two lower-case wolves: - the fan who says let people be fans - the pretend gm who begs people to look at KAT’s cap figure and understand how different your team would look beyond Randle

I'm so happy for KAT, who's been a punching bag for years for the dumbest, most obviously coded reasons possible and now gets to be appreciated as a centerpiece on a legitimate title contender.

Cleveland Cavaliers complete mostly successful Game 1 in Madison Square Garden

Frey: focus on the fundamentals Council: focuses on largest city department which includes overspending (despite budget increases), accountability (highest-paid city employees not knowing why), overbuilding (spec purchase of training site with no plan) Frey faction: THEY’RE COMING TO TAKE YER COPS

Gotta say this is an all-timer from @maxnesterak.bsky.social, just legendary

NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy? McDONALD: I'll take a different question

good LORD @ossoff.bsky.social

We saw two weeks of coverage over “fiery tensions” at City Hall. Will we see anything about the Chief of Police being completely unable to account for a $20M+ overspend of their budget?

Angels Appearing before the Shepherds, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1910

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Hold elected officials accountable in primaries

this is not a pro- or anti-Stancil post. free yourself from the false dichotomy that demands every issue be viewed through a Stancilite or Contrastancilite lens. walk lightly in the meadow of free thought; be not darkened by the shadow of what you think Will Stancil may believe. live well my friend.

The Wolves proved to be the third best team in the West this season. But the gap between 1-2 and then 3 is quite large. Three blowout losses in this series.

The funniest thing about the “fertility debate” is that it has an easy answer as far as America is concerned (let in more immigrants) but people are like that is neither racist nor misogynist enough

So @johnspacemuller.com asked me what I'd do if I was suddenly appointed MLS commissioner, and somehow I skipped over the fact that I would do THIS. MLS teams insufficiently committed to doing media would be fined real money + GAM. And if that doesn't work, the CSO would be sent to the gulags.

I'm not saying "Obama shoulda done that." The record is that Americans actually do want to move on quickly, so I get their mindset. Trump just lied in 2024, and said he'd be too "busy for vengeance," when the plan was to use the DOJ to go after his enemies and help his friends.

important Sports Statistic from this newsletter

I love how she says "20 million dollars" as if it's an enormous number. That's like 50 cents a person in California if it's a flat tax. The combined payrolls of all professional sports teams in California is over $3 billion- put a 0.7% tax on that and it's completely funded. This is donkey brained.

Demuth is being a coward in not holding a vote because she knows it will hurt Republicans, and if she was interested in good governance over politics she'd hold a vote and let the chips fall where they may. It should be noted that she only is speaker because a DFLer lied about where they lived.

The City’s own survey results showed the community found that Rise & Remember's proposal was most closely aligned with their values and garnered the most strongly positive reactions overall. 1/

Results Age xkcd.com/3245/

This is a really, really good article: "[Building a big enough coalition to win] requires economic populism with teeth, candidates with genuine charisma, and—hardest of all for a party staffed by institutionalists—a posture of real contempt for a status quo we are arguably part of."

Yes, this is the single best insider story I've read about the Democrats' strategic and tactical mistakes (and what has started to work).

wrote a piece for @racketmn.com reviewing NA beers in 2021 and Bauhaus was CLEARLY ahead of the pack. racketmn.com/ranking-minn... they also have one of the best patios in mpls, and great outdoor music setups. genuinely sad about this

It's every 15 minutes from 5-6 PM during weekdays, aka rush hour. It's terrible that we treat transit as an underfunded, charitable floor if you can't afford a car rather than a legitimate alternative mode of transportation.

On the left is what it looks like when Bailey Ober doesn't have velocity or command. On the right is what it looks like when he has even less velo, but way better command. Below is a free story on how he's doing it. #MNTwins nytimes.com/athletic/727...

Doing a @mtsw.bsky.social on this but if Biden had said he doesn’t think about Americans’ financial situation in any context it would be the driving narrative for days (if not weeks) with second and third order stories along with being the only thing other elected Dems were asked about

I kind of rolled my eyes when I saw the headline and that the lead anecdote was about a $100K BMW EV, but $2,500 for tabs is wild

This reads like a Tucker Carlson impression except it's earnest

Wrote about the importance of adhering to an effective, disciplined nonviolence in fighting the Trump regime, especially given a growing obsession with “heroic” violence online (gift link). www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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