Correction: Bovino is modelling with an M4 carbine.

Congratulations to Meg Luger-Nikolai!

So here's Gregory Bovino, a 56 year old man who never served in the military, sporting full combat regalia, in a dense residential neighborhood. His hand is on the grip of an AR with a scope, in case he wants to shoot someone over a hundred yards away. What a maroon.

Gotta hang this racism around the necks of Emmer, Fischbach, Stauber and Finstad. Until they denounce it, they have to own it. The press won't do it for us.

Subzero morning lights an amaryllis.

Target clears their sidewalks pretty well, as does the Holiday station. But Concordia seems to clear all their on-campus walkways before they address the public sidewalks. The 5 blocks from Concordia St. to Selby were pretty miserable walking.

Wednesday at 5:00 pm I got off the green line at the Hamline stop. The snow had stopped falling 14 hours earlier, but that strip mall with a Verizon store, Jersey Mike's etc. had not shoveled the sidewalk at all.dozens of people were really struggling through the deep, lumpy, slippery muck.

Evergreen.

Gramps here, lecturing leftists who say the Dems can't change that in 56 it was aligned with Southern segregationists (who got the VP noms), but by 64 with MLK, because of successful social movement organizing. Take the party over, leftists. Else you're not actually involved in US politics.

It's Friday and the dfl64A convention is Monday. I've spoken with Dan McGrath, Lois Quam, Meg Luger-Nikolai and Beth Fraser. All decent candidates. I am undecided. Who do you support and why?

Loon and moon

Spring, summer and autumn are the party seasons for trees but winter is when you really get to know them as people.

Two ways to look at the fraud scandals that may sink Walz: 1) The Republicans wouldn't allow us to build the administrative capacity to properly supervise these contractors. 2) The Republicans wouldn't allow the administrative capacity to do what needs to be done without outsourcing to nonprofits.

"They," by which I mean all the waves of immigrants in my lifetime, are not taking over Minnesota, they are joining it. Not 100% comfortable. Should it be?

True in cities all over Europe and North America. True in Finland. Let's do it here.

So it's Monday, 11/24. Quam has a website with nothing on it. Luger-Nikolai has none, and not much lit to drop. Fraser seems to have the jump, as does Hill for the regressives (anti-progessives).

Planet does a spit-take.

For the the 64A special election, I've been getting calls from candidates. Beth Fraser knocked on my door and I liked her. Only candidate with a website, and she put some detail on it. Luger-Nikolai needs to get up to speed. Quam's website goes live Monday. I am undecided.

Hey twin cities friends! There’s a new website for the Mn Rapid Response network, now called Monarca. It has the hotline to call if you see 🧊 activity as well as Know Your Rights information and lists upcoming community trainings. A great resource. Please share widely! monarcamn.org

Beth is running for Kaohly Her's vacated seat. Her website, BethFraserFor64A.com has some detail and is worth a look. I'm intrigued that she favors allowing cities to create Land Value Tax districts.

Neighbor had surgery so we've been walking his chihuahua. He's clever and knows the neighborhood, leads us on a different journey each day: north and around the block, south around that block, west around the school.

The dam is breaking. The world's leading public health news organization is now reporting US driver violence as a public health crisis. "American roads have become more dangerous than violent crimes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and other major cities." t.co/BEcu5JJ457

More of us are going to feel the burn.

Too close to a flower in morning light.

Vance characterizes opposition to Nazism as "infighting."

Baby-talk of the mandarins.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

If you live in Saint Paul / Senate District 64, I write emails about what our local DFL party unit is up to. Subscribe to get updates on the 64A endorsing convention at the bottom of our homepage: www.sd64dfl.org

Want it for the midway?

This breaks some people’s brains. In most cities, Costco stores fuel sprawl & car dependency. In Vancouver, our full-sized downtown Costco has residential towers above & a skytrain station next door. LOTS of customers don’t drive to it. We live a block from it. We call it “the convenience store.”

AI phrenology! Like it was meant to be ...

Hoping for a buddy comedy with Inflatable Frog & Sandwich Guy as they travel around the country battling injustice.

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