Easter service is a lot like Thanksgiving dinner in that it is not time for new stuff. The hits, the recipes, the A team. We have 51 other weeks to experiment. Big dogs on the big songs only lol

As many have already said--though it bears repeating--the fact that it's going to be anything less than 9-0 should put the final nail in the coffin in the belief that the Supreme Court is anything but a political entity.

Justinian makes an appearance!

The question isn't about the size; it's about the follow through. If the past provides any indication, the Schumer, Jeffries, et al. will follow this massive show of populist outrage and energy with a tight set of talking points focused on "kitchen table issues" and bringing down the prices.

And this is why I could never work in the health care field 🤢

Bah Gawd!! That's Fetterman's music!!

H.

Andrew Jackson would be all for it, so this tracks.

there's a whole world on LinkedIn that I just know nothing about.

perhaps someone could tell schumer and jeffries. or are we still focused on the price eggs?

Minn-e-apolis. Not Minn-e-an-apolis.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

Some professors at the University of St. Thomas are doing a research project on the effects of the ICE occupation on Twin Cities parents. They're looking for parents who are US citizens, who live in the Twin Cities metro area, and who have kids ages 5-10. stthomas.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Can't say this enough

all of Minnesota howling WE TRIED TO WARN YOU. WE EVEN SUGGESTED YOU PICK SOMEONE FROM WISCONSIN, OUR MORTAL ENEMY

Would Ben Wikler have been this sterile and inadequate?

Not great.

Fun fact: John Piper's Mpls church is the mother church to Cities Church in St Paul (the site of the protest after which Don Lemon and Georgia Fort were arrested)

Bold strategy. This admin has spent the last two months demonstrating to federal judges IN THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA that they obfuscate, mislead, and choose not to operate in good faith. I'd be surprised if there isn't a stay by Friday.

i didn't watch the sotu. it's the small wins that will keep you going!

I need to address this immediately, because I am WAY too Minnesotan to ever claim credit for this. I built a thing to point the fire hose of people's generosity in the right direction. That's it. I am thankful for the piece, because hopefully it means people will donate more money.

"Interconnected, interdependent communities are resilient communities. Crisis will come to you...[We're told the] answer...is the police, or...giving to a charity. But really, the answer is actually just helping each other, knowing each other, depending on each other." Well said from @ziibiing.com

Also, these are definitely bumper plates.

When you see pictures of Pete Hegseth lifting weights in a group with others, remember that he famously doesn’t believe in washing his hands after he goes to the bathroom.

Code of Honor

My favorite art of the John O'Sullivan/onminutetours thing is that he lived here for five years but that was apparently not long enough to learn that if you disparage the Great State of Minnesota--especially from the outside--you're dead to us.

But there is nothing healthy about this...it is the same kind of zero-sum politics that leaves NO PLACE for the "opponent" to exist...It is intended to destroy and not to build solidarity or common cause Social media, as practiced for clicks, is almost always antithetical to creating common cause

Whenever I see Yglesias' name, I think about when his old podcast featured a discussion of one of my papers, & he completely misunderstood the argument. The other two hosts totally got it & were like what are you talking about, and he just diligently plowed forward confidently in ignorance.

Hockey parents are the best.

As a McCollum constituent, I can't believe she doesn't regularly face credible primary challengers. Name a single McCollum signature issue or bill from her 25 year tenure. I'll wait.

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

I would like to repeat my suggestion that @ag.state.mn.us go on a hiring spree.

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

why is adding a friend to a child's minecraft account more complicated than workday?

it's sad that they only come out to jey's music and not their music. that's not very ucey.

A lot of the most principled and committed people I know are ideologically homeless and professionally marginalized right now because they cut ties with libertarianism. And I’m proud of them but they shouldn’t have had to be so courageous and so lonely.

Axios had a story today about how hard Minnesota’s economy is being hit and how slow the recovery could be. So, I’m going to take this opportunity to say that if you want to support the Twin Cities, you should plan a visit for this summer, spend some money here, & see how amazing it is for yourself.

MN has caucuses & primaries. Parties use caucuses to select delegates for local/state conventions. At the state conv, delegates vote on endorsements for statewide office (eg, gov, senate, ag). Voters vote in the Aug primary to choose who will be on the ballot. Tonight is precinct caucus night.

"Photographic evidence from the shooting scene of a Venezuelan man by federal agents last month in Minneapolis supports the account of witnesses there — and appears to undercut the narrative provided by federal officials."

There've been so many stories about this, but seriously why should I care? Sure, it's a terrible, but it's one of a hundred things he's desecrated (he tore down part of the WH!) His gov't is doing horrifying things to ppl here and around the world, so it's hard for me to shed a tear about this rn.

The courts continue to extend the government an apparently inexhaustible presumption of good faith despite all evidence to the contrary.

The MN AG office should start hiring.

$14 Billion is like 40% of Minnesota's entire annual budget.

She was ready to go after him. Which is admirable and obviously bad ass. But it's disgusting she is in a situation like this. It could have been much, much worse.

This is the correct answer.

Strikingly dystopian post just strolling through the feed.

Why do they keep messing with the Klingons? His voice doesn't need to be ran through a modulator. It's lame and annoying.

New at The Watch: I dug into archival witness accounts of the British siege of Boston prior to the American Revolution. They are remarkably similar to what we're seeing in Minneapolis. open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

I hadn't realized this was one of Piper's churches. Makes more sense now.