that ICE statement is BULLSHIT. The mayor, klobuchar, everyone in fucking leadership needs to name that. loudly, and often.

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

Apparently in the late 1990s some Americans said "Russian Georgia" as a replacement for "Soviet Georgia"? I had forgotten that.

Lately, I’ve become fascinated with public memory, and how people & events ebb & fall in emphasis, and also how public schools & book publishers contribute to these phenomena For instance, until the 1960s most Americans would have had no idea who Lewis & Clark were www.nps.gov/articles/000...

Love the last sentence of this post, and the class at the top of the thread sounds amazing.

Today in 1975, Minneapolis passed the nation's first law protecting trans people from discrimination

First time on the E Line! It's great so far.

I talked my doctor into giving me this vaccine in my late 40s and I'm very glad. A relative had shingles before 50 and was miserable for weeks and in danger of losing sight in one eye.

How did I see this word in French before English?

I spent much of my life believing in this. More important, I thought, that the poor have a floor under them than that no one be too rich. The last ten years have changed that. And a note to John Roberts: if you hadn’t gutted campaign finance laws, I might still be on board with this.

Thanks to @socialistdogmom.bsky.social and Weird Little Guys, I immediately got the reviewer's username

Ironically I'm really getting into one of the recent translations of Crime and Punishment

Finally finished my blog post on the Minneapolis Mayoral Election and demographics. I posted it to an old medium account that I forgot I had. Let me know what you think. Here's what I found 🧵 medium.com/@damia025/pr...

If you look at our electorate in off-cycle years, we don't have a normal distribution. Instead of most voters clustering in the middle, our two biggest blocks are at the ends of our distribution. Neither end of the distribution has a majority on its own. Read the alt-text about building a majority.

Listening to this and feeling good I kept my 5D chess thoughts about downballot ranked choice to myself

here is steve minn telling jewish insider in may that he voted for donald trump three times. his company lupe gave $30k to safer hennepin. he also maxed out to jacob frey, shelley madore, michael rainville, josh bassais, tim peterson, and paula chesley this year

I like the rhyme mon chéri/стой мужик

Bulldozing encampments is as expensive as it is ineffective. 90% of people who are living in encampments are already on waiting lists for housing. Mayor Frey's approach is to make our unhoused neighbors invisible. That’s not a solution, that’s playing politics with people's lives.

I endorse Omar Fateh because I've been impressed with the drive & energy he brings to the campaign &, more importantly, to fighting for & with working people as a public official. At this moment we need leaders aligned with regular folks not wealthy interests, and Sen. Fateh is that kind of leader.

I endorse DeWayne Davis bc I've been impressed w/ how he is bringing people together in his campaign & his mix of political experience & dedication to serving people in our community. He's shown a high level of integrity in how he’s navigated challenges in Mpls, & that's especially important now.

James Sullivan Obit (2024-25) #pouroneout

It makes sense, but I never realized that хорошей поездки isn't just "have a good trip," but also "have a good ride" (on a horse, for fun)

Not very reassuring words from a man who runs a publication founded in order to provide a watchdog role against corrupt government and speak truth to power. Trusting Trump to “figure it out” is the height of cowardice + a total abdication of duty as a journalist. Honestly horrifying.

Because the mayor forgot to mention it, I’ll remind folks that he vetoed the budget for the Dinkytown lights—champion led by @robin4mpls.bsky.social— because they were a “pet project.”

I'm currently purchasing some Hegel translations that are only possible because there are English-language academics who are trained German studies with an understanding of the needs of an anglophone audience If German departments stop training new PhDs, we will stop getting new translations

This thread makes the Star Tribune front page look even worse. At least the note sending us to below the fold in the B Section wasn't behind the Bonfe ad.

Buses running slow and lots of people at the stop, have to think that's a good sign for No Kings Mpls!

This is why I would trade Frey for a different moderate (like Jazz) in a heartbeat.

If I’m reading Kyle right, Frey admits failing to issue 100 housing vouchers *that are funded this year because he wants to kill the program next year.* (This is not Stable Schools, but for single folks.) This is unallotment Trump-style, especially since county/MPHA are in.

relaxed saturday evening reading through "women designers of book plates (1902)" and flipped past a couple of beautiful professional designs only to see this perfect plate by a young Miss Page

We should both hire people who care about the lives and comfort of those who are at their mercy while detained, and make it so people who callously ignore medical emergencies never work in these fields again.

“where’s the whale? did he get the whale yet?”

There was a massive difference in the life of the average German between 1925, 1930 and 1935. That difference was not because the Nazi Party became more fascist over that period, but because a fascist movement was gained control over more state functions.

"Sad marble angels brood like hens over the grassy nests where nothing hatches. (The angels could just as well be described as *vulgar* or *pitiless*, depending on camera angle.)"

Not sure why it came up when I was searching for an 18c novel, but it's amazing that the Five Find-Outers and Dog series has been translated into Russian

“‘I got so much done. I got so much policy passed, I got really good budgets passed. I embedded some key racial equity things that it took a long time for Jacob to undo,’ [Betsy Hodges] says today, reflecting on her term.”

This whole thread is interesting!

This is the guy on the credentials committee that ousted me as a delegate for being an “outside agitator.” He lives in WAYZATA. I live in Ward 2. This is outrageous. Ward 2 needs new leadership, stat.

"The older you get, and the worse your hearing gets... the more adventurous you are with rhyme... So in that way, the old brigade have an advantage, if they cared to use it" (42:34)—Pushkin translator Antony Wood

On why matrimony is different from patrimony (answers are in the comments)

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

I think copaganda would be more effective if more of it was police officers deciding who takes the station guinea pig Ivanych home

Без копья = "without a spear," or in informal Russian "without a cent, broke"

Word of the day: raccourci. "En raccourci" can mean "foreshortened (visual arts)" or "in summary." Or "shortcut," like an Excel keyboard shortcut. And apparently in one context "wrinkle."

Endorsements! In ranked order (key races): Mayor: Davis, Fateh, Jazz BET: Bernstein, Brandt Parks At-Large: Olson, Wilson, Frederick W2: Wonsley W4: Haynes W5: Burnett W7: Cashman W8: Stevenson W10: Chughtai W12: Chowdhury Parks D1: Englehart D3: Deshpande D4: Garcia D5: Carvajal Moran D6: Jourdain

"For every degustation spot for fine wines, or craft beer popups in Moscow suburbs, there’s a ‘Red and White’ booze discounter. Red and White has over 21,000 little stores across the country. That’s twice as many outlets as there are McDonalds in the US."

"Imagine for a moment how odd a time the first half of the 20th century was, how dizzying its noise...A distinguished officer who in the 1910s made a lasting impression on two literary giants was by 1938 appearing as 'Professor Von Stupor' in the Three Stooges short 'Violent Is the World of Curly.'"

Reverso used to be so much more useful (though tbf if you scroll far enough you get better results)

Word of the day: подвох, usually 'mean trick, attempt to deceive someone' or 'catch' as in "there must be a catch," but whimsically used as a shortening of ПОДВодный ОХотник 'underwater hunter, spearfisher' by spearfishers.