the best part about living in the Midwest is that I don’t know a single person who goes to Burning Man

If we want to bring about *real* change, what we have to do is look for, support, and elect more leaders like Minnesota state senator Zaynab Mohamed #mnleg (no paywall) startribune.com/lets-make-the-…

Underappreciated ironic crop art

Here's the thing about revoking a license for DWI/DUI: Research shows that abt 50%- 75% of those drives continue to drive. What's more, 25% to 35% of ppl convicted of DUI/DWI will reoffend within five years. What we're doing--or what we want lawmakers to do--*isn't working.*

The abundance of *native bees* grew twentyfold in just five years on solar farms at test sites in Ramsey, Minnesota | no paywall, reposted due to my initial transcription error (native BEES, not “native honeybees,” which don’t exist in the U.S.) nytimes.com/2024/09/05/cli…

A man WOULD tweet this before googling

Go to the WNBA page on ESPN.com. Their headline: "Clark drops 25 in Fever loss.'' Not, "Collier drops 26 in Lynx victory."

Why do we still tolerate this kind of anesthetizing euphemism? This is a site for rapists, aspiring rapists, and rape fetishist, plotting their violence, entering into misogynist conspiracies against women, and seeking victims. theguardian.com/world/article/…

"A whole lot of pro-abortion people need to go die or leave the state," says Steve Pape, a candidate for the Minnesota state legislature #mnleg minnesotareformer.com/2024/09/09/swi…

Neighbors say Big Al is losing business not only because of his sign but bc he’s an asshole. I'm back on Twitter to beg John Reinan to come out of retirement and fill in some gaps: what bridges did this guy burn? And how much did he get in PPP funds? startribune.com/tolkkinen-inte…

startribune.com/speeding-motor… "Park Avenue was converted from a two-way street to a one-way mini-freeway in the late 1940s to accommodate suburban commuters before Interstate 35W opened a decade later." Let's discuss what I35 did to Southside's Black community for a moment:

Attorney General Ellison has stepped in to help former employees of Rainbow Health get the pay they’re owed since the org imploded in July and everyone was suddenly out of a job startribune.com/minnesota-ag-s…

If you’re in line to vote for Jacob Frey to be the next indicted mayor, stay in line!

A lot is on the line this November, including our Senate DFL Majority, which has allowed us to protect reproductive freedom, advance policies to make it easier to get a roof over your head, expand voting rights, and so much more. We must elect @AnnJSMN to continue our work (🧵)

(9/X) How hard would it be for the Atlantic to decide "We are living under the threat of fascism, maybe we'll dial the percentage of articles we do about campus wokism down to 20% of all articles"?

MPD has sat on a warrant for this white man’s arrest since JULY, they refused to execute the warrant citing the most absurd reasoning, and this Black man was shot as a result of this negligence, completely failed by this system. youtube.com/watch?v=g-RPTu…

Scott Gillespie, Lori Sturdevant, Jim Boyd, Steve Sack and a dozen other former Star Tribune editorial page voices pen an editorial for the Minnesota Women's Press that the The Minnesota Star Tribune won't run -- Kamala Harris/Tim Walz for President/VP: womenspress.com/reprint-an-edi…

Every time I come here to check in, which isn’t often, I have about 42 notifications and most of them are pornbots “liking” one of my grief posts I wrote after my brother died. Anyway, it’s good to see so many people migrating to BlueSky. I’m over there with the same handle.