After Bovino randomly stopped his convoy to assault a park in Uptown, I remember people on the ground wiping pepper spray out of their faces, someone shouting that there were bullets in the snow, and then the gas clearing and there was Jason Chavez with a big, resolute smile helping people up.

Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(

Would've been much more satisfying if Chief O'Hara had come to the City Council prepared to say something like "That's my bad, I'm sorry, I should never have said those things. There was never any chance my officers would intervene to stop lawless rampaging by federal agents."

For most of the history of cars, turning right on red was illegal due to its obvious danger, since drivers looking to their left for oncoming vehicles can't see pedestrians in the crosswalk on their right. It should be again.

Yay @kfai.org !

I'm the Pandora of Spring snowstorms

Inside Plastic Executives’ Late-20th-Century Campaign to Blame Consumers for Their Industry’s Waste talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/inside-...

The “shield” is intolerable here as well. “Parents tried to shield their children from water. Instead they died of dehydration.” That’s what the @nytimes.com headline here says. Both “shield” and “instead” appallingly reinforce anti-vax attitudes and frames.

Q: Was there a plan to get home after going to the bar? Marco Rubio:That's the plan we're carrying out, but the car just won't go anymore.In some cases, the keys just couldn't be found, or they were dropped underneath the car.In other cases the car wouldn't stay straight and we're stuck in the ditch

Yes

Folks at CURA found that even extending the pre-eviction notice period in Brookyn Center resulted in a drop in evictions relative to other similar places. I don't know what these other folks are talking about

Current events confirm the achieved wisdom of time-honored classics in the social sciences.

I hear Bill Guerin has Kash.

Read this cope about how prescient Netanyahu was in 2015 about the JCPOA failing to prevent Iran from enriching uranium, because the original agreement would have ended this year: www.yahoo.com/news/article...

It is this time of year, #MSP!

Is this why the NFL (and I'm assuming other leagues as well) doesn't allow community ownership of sports franchises?

There are like 20 billionaires in a group chat who are all exactly this stupid spending their every waking moment turning their brains and our world to mush. Probably fine.

Kudos to these three for rejecting Epstein's advances. I have some connections to minor wealth, so I'm not naive to how this works, but this nugget about how an idiot can access some of the best in a field stood out.

Remember in 2015 and 2024 when Netanyahu was invited by Republicans to give speeches to joint sessions of Congress, mostly because Democratic presidents weren't doing his bidding and starting a war with Iran?

so much incredible fundraising and mutual aid work is being done right now like this but it's like southwest minneapolis as a community is silent. the wealthiest area of this city should be a leader, but instead, we hear how kenwood school is struggling to pay rent for families on march 1

People will live in neighborhoods where all the houses are over $600k, send their kids to private schools, primarily socialize with other moderately wealthy people... and then tell a lefty person who makes $48k on blue sky that they live in a bubble.

The United States has become a proxy of Israel is something that I don’t think is even a moderate exaggeration. A truly remarkable example of surrendering national interest to a foreign country.

"steve sack substack" is the real life "bob loblaw's law blog"

Hennepin County Attorney debuts new evidence portal. Submit evidence you may have of federal agents conducting lawless rampages. www.hennepinattorney.org/news/news/20... Note: this is different from the now-closed portal for evidence related to the Renee Good and Alex Pretti murders.

Sleep scientists are virtually unanimous that Permanent Standard Time is the way, not Permanent Daylight Time. This is literally going to kill people.

BREAKING BEAVER NEWS: after a long hiatus and 2 previous foiled attempts, the Minnehaha Creek beavers have resumed tree felling operations near 47th Street. Unfortunately the Park Board has just marked their latest valiant efforts for removal, again.

Remember everyone

How Netanyahu got Trump to do a war for Israel.

No surprises here: Texas A&M's restrictions on DEI-related teaching led to widespread censorship (including pre-compliance/self-censorship) www.chronicle.com/article/insi...

one way to tell something is not very important to Jamie Dimon is that he's asking the government to do it

Red States: Only teach approved christian nationalist content Blue States: Teach anything you like as long as you hire an adjunct to do it cause you ain't getting faculty lines in the humanities lol

They are going to "accidentally" lose Article 1 and the 14th Amendment in transit.

Wait until we factcheck this war. They won't know what hit 'em!

🧵about the role Christian Zionism, the cottage industry of biblical "prophets," and spiritual warfare is playing in Trump's war in Iran

#OnThisDay Mar 2, 1974: Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore opens in South Minneapolis. Today it's the oldest independent bookseller of its kind operating in the United States.

Wars are always advertised with all the possible downside risks, but none of the possible upside risks.

Whoa, the child is going to college...

How about when centrists express that contempt?

The Voyageurs Wolf Project of Northern Minnesota tags & documents grey wolf ecology & behavior: www.voyageurswolfproject.org The video you see here is confirmatory proof: Wolves. Love. Blueberries. As much as 83% of a wolf's calories in summer months comes from eating berries.

you know, this is why you should not elect people who have never once learned anything about anything

Peanut butter and honey is the best peanut butter sandwich. And no one better ever include butter in peanut butter sandwiches.

Spring update: the Cole Anthony trading card at my bus stop has emerged from the snow

New family of flies for me - Megamerinidae This is Megamerina dolium - the sole species found in the British isles from this family 😎 From the @opwallscience.bsky.social @kneppwilding.bsky.social malaise samples I think only a few records from Sussex so I’m happy - check out their leg spines

A conversation earlier today reminded me of this slide I put into a recent talk. How did we decide the tiny human-sized machine is the special case, and the massive overpowered machine full of empty furniture is the norm?

Is it studs off time, Twin Cities cyclists?

Yes.

This is a very important point. The vaccines do reduce transmission. That bears out in the data. And it’s important to say it bc right-wing operatives like NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya use the lie that they don’t reduce transmission to support their pro-infection/herd immunity advocacy.

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

90% of evictions in MN are for nonpayment of rent. I did a sample a week ago and found the avg nonpayment eviction in Hennepin County would take $5,122 to stop. Studies (before the high inflation of the past few years) suggest stopping an eviction saves $6,832 in public costs. It just makes sense