Tactical Norm: “When you hear the whistles, inform the rapid response chat and call in the cavalry.”

It's not just Minneapolis. It's Saint Paul. It's Elk River. Detroit Lakes. Duluth. Rochester. Worthington. Places in between there. Calling it Minneapolis or even Saint Paul ignores the geographical scope of this shit.

Also for real if anyone has guesses as to what this is, I would very much like to know.

Oh yeah, like the fish are gonna throw away their trash …

To summarize: “Fear not, people of Minnesota, the day of retribution is coming.” Ummm, okay? That doesn’t make me feel better.

Wait, how did the existence of protein become a weird MAGA thing? As an omnivore, I am curious about this.

The Timberwolves posted this graphic on Twitter and I can't tell if they won or lost:

Everyone dunking on the guy from Buffalo being "based in MPLS" My thought is this: The suburbs end once you enter unincorporated land. Going NW on I-94 from Mpls, you don't hit unincorporated land until you leave Otsego for Monticello Township. Is that the end of the suburbs?

CBP/ICE quickly learning how few places there are within the city limits of MPLS/STP for the general public to take a piss.

Welp, I’ve written a popular skeet. 😕 How long until I regret this.

FYI for folks: FOP isn’t the union for Minneapolis PD. They aren’t even the primary org that lobbies on behalf of cops in MN. That’s the MPPOA, which Minneapolis also isn’t a part of (or wasn’t, back in the day) The union that represents most cops in MN is LELS.

STRANGER THINGS (2016-2025)

This is such a funny sentence, from the Guardian's Jeremy Barr on Bari Weiss' CBS www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Who here is running for governor?

My goodness, that's a bleak strip! (I love revisiting old Peanuts strips as a middle aged doomer.)

I expected Tim Walz to Hold Steady, but I guess now we have to figure out The Replacements. Worried that Minnesota could become a Soul Asylum.

Good luck to the DFL candidates for Governor who now have less than 30 days to prepare for caucus night.

JJ McCarthy - not the sharpest knife in the drawer!

I stumbled across this first-hand account of a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site from 1957 and couldn’t stop reading it. So I put it up on DOOMSDAY MACHINES. Something to ring in the New Year with, perhaps… doomsdaymachines.net/p/zero-time-...

heads up sports fans the Anthropologie at 50th and France has yankee caps

The problem isn't the Constitution or Congress. The problem is we keep sending feckless cowards to Congress who are all too happy to abdicate all power to the White House while collecting a taxpayer salary. Being an MOC is now just a sinecure.

Somewhere, a federal public defender realizes she's on call to do the President of Venezuela's initial appearance on Monday.

Did walking the 20 meters from the adjoining room over to the podium take the wind out of Trump?

I dunno, is this something?

Are we basing our foreign policy on whichever action movie Trump watched last?

Is this driver a Virginia Battle Flag cuz they are never leaving MN now.

The Wi-Fi at LAX prevents you from visiting homes.com?

Now playing at the Santa Monica Pier: “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.” 🎶 🧑‍🎄 👵🏻

Ran into an unexpected delight.

This bridge is the worst kept secret in Los Angeles.

Every six months some guy says he’s figured out who the Zodiac Killer was and the answer is always the same: he was some guy

SCROOGE: you there, boy! what day is it? BOY: i don't know, i'm like six SCROOGE: well fuckin – can you ask someone

the president announcing a class of warships named after himself

This letter enrages me. "Life is unfair." How many girls and young women had their lives affected by this creep? Imagine how they feel! And now we see this guy in his final days proclaiming"oh woe is me, life is unfair." Narcissist.

Dang

All this talk about “60 Minutes” makes me recall the time in 2004 they fell for a “memo” typed in Microsoft Word thinking it was written on a typewriter in the 1970s.

Winter just started right this moment. Welcome to winter. The sun is on its way back, promise!

me: nice looking coat, what does it look like zipped up? every brand website: it's a secret :)

Are they going to arm wrestle

What if we just replaced him with something else, like Jabba the Hutt. Kevin asks for directions and all he gets is: "Boska, puny human pateessa!”

Occasionally Instagram tricks me into clicking on Threads. This is the first time EVER I’ve seen something there that delighted me

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

Humble brag that I actually got this one: Wordle 1,644 5/6 ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

"The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. It's going to be spectacular." Um, I'm too old to do a sequel. That part of my life is behind me, but okay. What are some other options in the top 10 from that year?

lol, so now it will just leak. What is gained?

Day 18 of my #AdventCalendar [sound up]

View: Dayne St. Clair was a huge success for #MNUFC. As a draft pick, club and its fans should be proud of what he developed into — a bona fide No. 1 goalie who gave #Loons a shot, a real competitor who did it swagger, won awards, spoke his mind to public, gave back to community.

[tune of Walk Like an Egyptian]