Interrupting governmental politics for figure skating politics: Why isn't Tutberidze banned from the sport? Jesus Christ, this Egadze kid from "Georgia" is noticeably skin and bones. Tutberidze has one trick and it's starving her skaters.

@bradtabke.bsky.social This seems like a good thing to get on the legislative calendar

finally getting around to watching Ken Burns' American Revolution, and whoo boy, we've really decided to celebrate the 250th by replaying all the greatest hits haven't we

from our cold dead hands, asshole

Rarely to I want someone to write a book about politics, but I would like to hear how this went down and what the discussions were like in the Dem conference rooms

Demons entering your mind were supposed to be a medieval thing... www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Operation Metro Surge tested our city’s separation ordinance like it never had been before. It’s critical that we take the lessons we’ve learned over the last five months and use them to make Saint Paul stronger and better protected. kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

of course i think that being a liberal makes me morally better than other people. if i thought some other option was morally better i would be that instead.

*screams in xennial*

I dare him to come here and say that to our fucking faces

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good ------ must be in want of a wife."

Please know that ICE in Minnesota isn’t a last month thing. It’s a now thing. And at Nick Universe?

Every woman knows if your boyfriend is nice in private but trashes you at parties, you need to dump him.

Look, sometimes when people say they hate “liberals,” they mean “women.”

look at these faces

I don't think we should assume that just because one airport hasn't had violent incidents in the first couple hours means we should get confident it will stay that way. As someone from the Twin Cities, I can tell you these guys are not great at impulse control when faced with people who hate them.

Market manipulation. The timing of Trump threats (usually Friday nights) then backing down (usually early Monday mornings) on war and tariffs tell you all you need to know.

USAID existing is not a matter of someone earning your vote. It's about whether hundreds of thousands of children die of starvation and disease, or if they live. 'Well I didn't vote for it.' The bodies remain. They are past all caring.

newborns have more object permanence than wall street

by the way if you are at an airport tomorrow and see ice take pictures so we can id them with their masks off spread the word dunno where to send them but you fuckers are smarter than me and will tell me in the replies

what are we doing here

coming soon to a Delta counter near you

Phones Up, Whistles Out

Dems need to hold the line. The idea of ICE being put airports and cause harm to the entire air travel industry is so dangerous and stupid, but every place people have been forced to see the agency’s work up-close they realize it needs to be abolished. This is the domestic version of attacking Iran.

One of the first, but certainly not the last, to fatally underestimate both Trump and the precarity of the entire American political system. In a different era, or with a different president, his careful and measured special counsel work would have been more than enough.

How to say you are using a paramilitary force without admitting it's a paramilitary force.

⚠️ WE FOUND IT! THE DUCKLING MOTHERLOAD! LITERALLY A LOAD OF DUCKLINGS WITH THEIR MOTHER. GLORIOUS GLORIOUS BABY BIRDS KEEPING US AWAY FROM THE HORRORS!!!! 😭 😭 🪶 🐣

This is an effort to turn the Minnesota rapid responders into criminals. If Democrats make this deal, they will send me, and many others like me who have been out protecting the community, to jail.

You succeed in your career and meet your role model. "I really enjoyed chatting with you" you say. "Huh?" they're confused. "You were probably talking to Claude." you bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn

Lenin was bad actually

i'm not giving up on a livejournal renaissance and you can't make me

content warnings are very useful, I've found them personally useful, but this is a bloody complex topic, it contains more nuances than 'not providing content warnings is bad'.

*grinds teeth in Minnesotan*

Netanyahu is a war criminal who belongs in the dock at The Hague, but when you need to intentionally lie to your audience to make Israel the center of a global conspiracy beyond the actual evidence against it, I think it is reasonable to suspect bigotry is involved.

over my dead body.

It's as unmistakable as it is unpleasant to contemplate. And it's at every level. We're past "just" complaining about globalism,or conflating Jewish people with Israel. I'm out here reporting random accounts for actual blood libel weekly now. I can only imagine how bad it is for Jews on here.

A quick note: I believe that Netanyahu lured/bribed/flattered/blackmailed Trump into attacking Iran. It is not an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory to think individuals do vile things. It IS anti-Semitic to blame Israel as a whole and/or all Jewish people. Be specific in your language.

I love this analogy for all the reasons you would think

see, you’ve locked onto the issue here, which is not antisemitism or bigotry per se, but the fact that there’s a class of people who think activism is just being antisocial for a cause

If someone yelled "9/11 was bad" at my wife while she's wearing a hijab, our being angry about that would not mean we co-signed 9/11. If you cannot understand that an anodyne (or even correct!) moral sentiment can be weaponized by racist assholes, your brain is cheese.

The story of this decade is how we're speedrunning a performative maximization of society's worst impulses

calling on @mayorher.bsky.social and @cityofsaintpaul.bsky.social to rename Cesar Chavez St to Dolores Huerta St

the spruce is weird and dated and an eyesore and if there was a SINGLE WIFF of tearing it down i would chain myself to the doors

This is a great article that gets everything on the record in one place. It's also wildly triggering. I was having trouble breathing by the time we got to Liam's picture. The feds have inflicted state-wide PTSD and owes every Minnesotan reparations for emotional damages.

I know reading comprehension is on the downswing, but it's still not hard to tell when someone is making a policy argument versus when someone is using "AIPAC" as a codeword. If you didn't like how Arab-Americans were treated post-9/11, watch what your timeline is saying about American Jews now.

The amount of antisemitism on this website is growing incredibly fast. Calling Jews “Zionists.” The unrelenting AIPAC obsession. Someone - seemingly a left-winger - just straight-up called me a Jew as a term of derision. There’s something really bad happening here and we need to put a check on it.

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared