Some work days you just gotta sit in your pajamas and answer all the dumb emails you've been avoiding.

Send the best of luck to our students who will compete in the Mayors Challenge: The Great AI Debate! Ani McQuillen - Roosevelt HS Max Ulven - Central High School Laura Afriyie - Tartan High School Sai Yang - Saint Paul Public Schools Join us at Minneapolis Institute of Art to cheer them on: mnudl.augsburg.edu/2024-mayors-ch…

Give me a private right of action, fee shifting, and a ban on arbitration and I bet plaintiffs' class action lawyers can get this done.

Forty point difference with undecided voters on their abortion answers. Widest gap I’ve ever seen in debate dials.

THEY’RE EATING CATS!!

This is a great ruling, and: There are no abortion clinics left in North Dakota.

I have never been around so many people who (a) talk on the phone in the bathroom loudly, (b) play music or video on phones at full volume, or (c) have clearly confidential work calls loudly as I am right now at the Newark Airport.

Great to see Coaches Tim Walz (Football) and Gwen Walz (Debate) at the MN Urban Debate League’s Annual Mayor’s Challenge yesterday!

Okay, Michele Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul Vote for all of the incumbents. They're great, the judicial selection process in MN is robust and excellent, especially under Gov. Walz & LG Flanagan, & almost all the challengers are wildly incompetent or extreme. Both prospective judges Yang seem nice but much less experienced.

All roads in and out of Asheville, NC are still closed! It sounds like Asheville is still only accessible by air unless you head up from I26, and even then you will encounter closures before the city. This is an absolute mega disaster for western NC on the order of Hurricane

You know what's super great? Having a weekend day off!!! (This thought brought to you by too many weekends of debate volunteering PLUS work travel.)

My daughter is serving as a first-time student election judge and the process has been great. ALSO she is SO PLEASED to get to say hi to all of her neighbors today and to help them vote.

No group of people is more indignant about the need to vote for Kamala and Tim and not voting third party than teenagers who are old enough to remember Trump getting elected but not yet old enough to vote. They are LIVID at the idea that they could get screwed a second time.

These are the ones that make me cry.

I firmly believe that all of the distraught takes on this election outcome from the "smart" journalists, talking heads and the like are because they did not read Derrick Bell's Space Traders and take it seriously.

I am beyond words about the commutation of Leonard Peltier. His release from prison signifies a measure of justice that has long evaded so many Native Americans for so many decades. I am grateful that Leonard can now go home to his family. I applaud President Biden for this

In the 19th century everyone was convinced that diptheria was caused by poor housekeeping, dirty houses, and failed wives (spoiler alert: it's bacteria). It wasn't any more true than RFKJr's measles lies but it's a pervasive American disease nonsense history repeating itself.

Kiernan!

You know it's NSDA debate nationals because I'm teaching a high school student to iron.