#OnThisDay Feb 8 1915: Workers complete piers 2, 3, 4 and 5 on the 3rd Avenue Bridge between downtown Minneapolis and @eastbankmpls.bsky.social at the crest of St. Anthony Falls. An engineering marvel when completed in 1918, it remains today the longest S-curved concrete arch bridge in the world.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Franklin Avenue Station Announcement: "Use caution as the platform may be slippery"

My read of this document means if any fine and upstanding citizen sees Jake inside this radius, he'll be automatically arrested. And unfortunately for him, this also includes the front entrance of Regions Hospital.

#OnThisDay Feb 5 1939: Rebuilding of the 1862 "William Crooks," Minnesota's first steam locomotive and the Northwest's oldest, is nearly complete. Soon after this photo it went on a publicity tour for the Great Northern Railway to the New York World's Fair. Today it's on static display in Duluth.

The Grain Belt Beer sign built in 1941 is a Minneapolis icon and among the largest free-standing neon signs in the Midwest. First atop the Marigold Ballroom downtown, it was moved to Nicollet Island in 1950. After going dark in 1975 and a series of restoration attempts, it was finally relit in 2017

Julie Le's desperate, cloying need to be seen as merely overburdened by the system and not an evil person, despite signing up to do the evil work of that system, is exactly like this pivotal scene from Judgement at Nuremberg, 1961.

#OnThisDay Feb 5 1924: 15 minutes before the end of the day shift, the 200' deep high-manganese Milford Mine floods from an accidental breach into nearby Foley lake, killing 41 miners. It is Minnesota's worst mining disaster. 7 workers manage to climb to safety.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture repainted, every statue and street building renamed, every date altered. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right. - George Orwell 1984

A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan. It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash. “ICE GTFO OF MN” Minneapolis February 4, 2026

Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening

Since @soupformyfam.meatjacker.social is rarely here I'll do it: Closed. Most popular night club in University of Minnesota college town.

I stand ready. And if you're near the U of M campus, the sirens are much weirder: electronic Westminster bells begin, then a doomsday voice says "this is a test", then repeats. But you can't really hear that's what they're saying, so it could be also the end. HAVE A GREAT DAY EVERYONE.

I didn't see that thankfully, but did notice this new X trend: lefty accounts reposting Minneapolis trauma for clicks. A quick check reveals they're set up recently and "surprise" not from the US. And 40 of my mutuals are already following it! 🤔

#OnThisDay Feb 3, 1924: Last photo of William D. Washburn's stately 1883 Fair Oaks estate just before it is demolished. Donated to the city in 1912 and used during WWI for soldiers' recreation, it proved too expensive to maintain. The site is now the park in front of @artsmia.bsky.social.

This makes the Jan 23, 2026 action the largest strike in Minnesota History, and depending on which number you use, 3rd in American History after the massive national strikes of 1919, or the Great Railroad Strike of 1922. I note with extreme interest that mainstream media didn't report these facts.

#OnThisDay Feb 2 1920: Harland & Wolff workers leave for the day during refurbishment of Titanic's sister, "RMS Olympic." The massive post-World War I project converted the coal-fired troopship back into a luxurious transatlantic liner and the world's largest oil-burning vessel.

May 1936: Heinrich Himmler inspects "Dachau", intended as a model concentration camp to "restore calm" in the nation and "rehabilitate" political prisoners. These camps were made known on purpose to instill fear. By 1942 much larger extermination camps were conceived. These were a state secret.

Autumn 1940: Architect Hermann Giesler is formally commissioned by Hitler to take charge of rebuilding Linz, Austria, into the largest cultural center in Europe. At the heart of the city would be the "Führermuseum," intended as "the greatest in the world." Expected completion date: 1950.

Timeline cleanse: I love Jordan's photos. This old church in his original nighttime post also has a community kitchen that prepares and delivers 500 hand-cooked meals weekly to the unhoused in Minneapolis. Quiet strength is all around. What is your church doing? I bet a lot more than people know.

If you're wondering how mainstream media is covering the broad-based peaceful resistance in Minnesota, this morning @cnn.com aired footage of the Minneapolis 3rd Precinct fire *from the 2020 riots* as if it happened last night. This isn't just misleading, it's a dirty rotten lie.

#OnThisDay Feb 1, 1942: Vidkun Quisling becomes Minister President of Norway, actively supporting Nazi war efforts and the deportations of his own people to concentration camps. His name becomes a famous eponym for those who collaborate with enemy forces occupying their own country.

DFL legislators need to insist on a compensation fund of tens of millions of dollars to offset economic harms of the ICE siege. It infuriates me that Mercado Central has to hold a $500,000 bake sale to hold onto their building. Tens of fucking millions.

Minnesota also has good ice, different spelling.

It's also subtler things like surveillance aircraft 24/7. Tonight it's a simple state patrol plane that's fairly quiet, but usually its helicopters which are very loud, constantly overhead, lately from stealth agencies with transponders off. The constant grinding stress of this is hard to explain.

After the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940, Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart was appointed Commissar, reassuring the Dutch people that life would return to "normal" if they cooperated. He then introduced measures to stop resistance, and after a general strike in Amsterdam, summary executions began.

Attending services at St. Paul's other cathedral.

It’s totally unfair they’re not, but also:

#OnThisDay Jan 29, 1951: "Pleasure Dome" lounge cars enter regular service on the "Super Chief" flagship train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. The most luxurious domes ever built, they featured the famous "Turquoise Room" private dining rooms.

For Minnesotans who want a short mind break from all the latest insanity, consider that right now but 50 years ago we could all be going over to Highway 280 and Industrial Boulevard for the fabulous Dayton's Warehouse Sale.

More than a week before his crucifixion by Roman law enforcement, Jesus of Nazareth infuriated other authorities as he overturned vendor tables at the temple farmers market and cursed at an innocent fig tree causing it to wither, according to newly unearthed videos. Watch here.

The iconic chimneys in the distance are a key part of Minneapolis industrial history. The Southeast Steam Plant was built in 1903 to power the Twin Cities Rapid Transit streetcar system. Restored in 2000-5 and converted to natural gas, it now provides efficient district energy to the U of M Campus.

As you'd expect, the @ilhanmn.bsky.social campaign is way ahead of the rest of the DFL on this.

All of these people are defiant as fuck. The federal government has lost all legitimacy here, everyone knows they’re rotten to the core.

Rabbits United Against ICE Minnehaha Parkway Minneapolis, MN 1/28/26

Any outrage about WWII comparisons by the US Holocaust Museum must be tempered with the understanding that its board of directors was replaced by Trump, one of whom is a reality TV star with a son who's a J6er. Can't make this stuff up, wish I could.

Last train for the night.

A lot of non-Minnesotans are asking how they can help people in the Twin Cities. Here's a very easy way that will cost you absolutely nothing. Do not vent in the replies to videos or other posts from Minnesotans. We're all on edge, and your rageposting and doomposting isn't what we need right now.

These hotels harboring DHS agents, whether StayBridge or Home2 or Spring Hill or whatever, should evict these tenants and donate their ill-gotten war profits to communities being harmed. Otherwise its time to petition city councils to revoke their business licenses for being a "public nuisance"

There's a lot of criticism lately on drawing comparisons to the 1930s: "it's not the same" "you're minimizing what happened before" etc. But a big parallel is highlighted in the article below and in this much earlier "Inside the Reich" clip. This part is happening again, and it's only the beginning

In case you are unaware: -it’s not illegal to have a group chat -it’s not illegal to film anyone in public (and it’s important, bc otherwise people just disappear) -it’s not illegal to tell people when you see masked officers -it’s not illegal to collect and distribute food ICE must leave MN.

This was on Saturday @mattmfm.bsky.social. I'm begging well-meaning people to stop posting misinformation like this. It doesn't help and can do real harm. If you're not from here, you especially don't understand that.

Wausau also has a world famous railway station, featured in award-winning print and TV commercials for decades. Even after passenger service ended in 1970 these ads were a staple on 60 Minutes. It's the main reason Wausau is on my "to visit" list, and now I know where to go for lunch!

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

Deleting Signal now that I know it's compromised. Find me at the telegraph office.

March 20, 1945: Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, who lacked any real military knowledge, is removed from front-line command of Army Group Vistula by Adolf Hitler, following a disastrous 2-month tenure in which he failed to stop the 1st Belorussian Front from advancing.

MN Department of Public Safety post about this incident. For those of you who don't speak Minnesotan, “federal agents arrived without communication” is Minnesota nice for “we had it all handled and then complete idiots from DHS showed up swinging their dicks around and ruined everything.”

Home2 Suites Prospect Park right now, front and back. Right wing media claims this build was destroyed. All I saw was the final stages of graffiti removal, and the sidewalks haven't been this clean since the day it opened.

#OnThisDay January 26, 1948: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (3M) introduces Scotch 111 magnetic audio tape. Considered THE standard for decades, many of the world’s most famous recordings from the 1950s and 60s were made on this medium.