the lake street taco tour is next saturday, september 19 from 12-8. then you can go to powderhorn porchfest after, from 4-10. it's a perfect southside day where you can support this cultural corridor lakestreettacotour.com ppna.org/porchfest

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Join the Taco Tour on Lake Street on Saturday, September 19, 2026 from 12 - 8 PM for music, food, and fun. Explore local tacos, enjoy entertainment.

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Nate Pentz@natepentz.bsky.social · 22h ago

"City leaders have estimated the operation delivered a $700 million blow to the local economy. Some businesses already have shuttered and cultural corridors are quieter now that Latino immigrants have left the Twin Cities in droves." www.bizjournals.com/twincities/n...

#LocalAngle

Ben McKenzie@benmckenzie.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is literally a plot point in “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis. Written in 1935, it predicts the rise of a fascist populist who promises each family $5,000 per year if he’s elected.

Fuck we cannot afford this

David Brauer@dbrauer.net · 20h ago

Anyway, here’s a section that will cut you to your core. Odds are 1-2% of the local Latino population has been deported & one community member thinks 25% have left.

This is a powerful story from a trans Texan (who's also quite a talented independent journalist). I've been arguing that trans people have the right to be upset with Talarico, and I think we do. This is the case for vote for him anyway, eloquently made, and by someone with the standing to make it.

Aleksandra Vaca@transiticsnews.com · 2d ago

I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.

I, the only data reporter at the Charlotte Observer, am among the McClatchy layoffs in the bloodbath today. The HR person asked me not to talk about it! AMA. Anyway, here’s a link to one of my most important stories this year. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

A Black teen found hanged near Charlotte church was a suicide, police say. Questions remain

In May, 16-year-old Juliana Nzita was found dead in a Charlotte churchyard. CMPD called it a suicide. Her family isn’t so sure.

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I am never not myself, regardless* of audience.

Every time we hear "The homeless people didn't use the resources we offered," the next questions should be "What specific resources did you offer? Were they actually meant to be helpful to people you claim to want to help? Did you offer actual shelter? Did it accommodate couples? Pets? Wet or dry?"

Wedge LIVE!™@wedge.live · 3d ago

Mayor Her says the whack a mole strategy would've worked if they'd brought more mallets.

Oh wow this is GREAT news please tell your hubs to send someone to come unionize my healthcare HR department immediately tyvm @dewayneskareem.bsky.social

taylr@taylordahlin.com · 2d ago

congrats to dewayne davis, new political director for SEIU healthcare MN & IA! saw him at keith ellison’s labor day bbq and he said he wasn’t sure if he wanted to join a church and decided that the fight is in politics now. he used to be a confessional staffer in DC working on issues like healthcare

Lol just read a CBA that said "grandparented" instead of "grandfathered." 😂😂😂

Ageism in hiring is for sure a thing, but I just hired a 70-year-old who only has a landline and shares an email address with his wife.

Girl Scouts are going to start selling dog treats and I cannot believe this didn't happen years ago. GENIUS.

3/20 of @banjompls.bsky.social's new squeaky balls are currently in my bed.

Why men great till they gotta be great

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Talarico: "I oppose trans athletes playing in girls' sports if it endangers safety or fairness"

Wow Her sucks so much more than I realised

Naomi Kritzer@naomikritzer.bsky.social · 3d ago

It genuinely blows my mind the degree to which people in power do not grasp (or just refuse to acknowledge) that encampments are preferable to shelters for a whole lot of people, for a long list of reasons.

The call is coming from inside the house. AI researchers themselves are warning of an existential threat to humanity. Congress can’t wait. Mike Johnson needs to cancel recess so we can get to work immediately – hearings, investigations, and comprehensive regulation.

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 3d ago

1. Earlier today, AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who spent the past three years working at OpenAI and Anthropic, publicly resigned from Anthropic, warning that both companies are racing toward superintelligence and “gambling with our lives.”

This is so fucking sad. Goddamn you Frey.

Wedge LIVE!™@wedge.live · 2d ago

Residents from Heritage Park testifying to the BET about unlivable conditions. Lack of heat and hot water, mold that makes them sick, cracks and holes in the buildings. They want them torn down and rebuilt.

I mean, we know what would make some changes, but most of the people who would want them have been conditioned to believe that's no way to solve problems.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is why all of the awful & illegal things keep happening in American politics. They will keep happening until we stop failing at elite accountability & actually enforce the law & the Constitution & stop rewarding lawless authoritarian criminals with elite private sinecures after their crimes.

We were by the river on our normal path, and Banjo dragged me through a fancy yard. I pulled her back to the street but suddenly we were SEVEN BLOCKS away. If this is a Butterfly Effect incident I do not appreciate it but I would like to hang with Laura Linney.

Breaking spiderwebs with my face on the regular 😫😫😫

Look, if I'm wearing this dress and a Donatello band-aid and you comment on neither, you don't get to have sex with me. I don't make the rules.

Ughhhhhhhhhhhh

Awoo?!

Srsly!

ICE OUT State Fan@therealjoro.bsky.social · 4d ago

2-second awoo??

Just when I think trying to have any kind of relationship whatsoever with men can't get worse, the beastiality people start coming out of the woodwork. Why. Are. Men.

THIS JUST IN! Nytt avsnitt av VILJANS OPTIMISM. Valspecial om a-kassan, sossarnas förunderligt dåliga strategi och att folk i allmänhet är goa. Paroll: Välj glädje – inte nazism! podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/v...

19. Ackumulerad dumhet uppifrån

Poddavsnitt · Viljans Optimism · 8 september · 28 min

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Death by chimpanzee has got to be among the dumbest ways to go. Right up there with refusing to get vaccinated because some guy with a calcified brain parasite told you to

Cool cool cool cool cool

Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · 4d ago

A significant portion of my work, for several months now, has been focused on AI. Specifically, understanding use of AI in healthcare and in public benefit determinations. So I've extensively used 'frontier models' from Anthropic and OpenAI as well as the Chinese models. I've used Grok a bit. 🧵

Shabbos goy

SarahJSloat@sjane.bsky.social · 5d ago

Happy labor day (USA). What's one of the oddest paid job you've had? Mine was probably as a reader for a medical professor at Rutgers, whose eyes were failing. I read him many academic texts, as well as Samuel Butler's "The Way of All Flesh."

Seriously, what's the enchanting draw for "AI" evangelists? And do they not see the disservice to artists, authors, academics, the planet, the less-privileged, & even the notion of *real* *actual* artificial intelligence?? Y'all would be better off if you rode a cart around making tea for neighbors.

Pete, the Antifascist Nisse 🌈🔨🌈@nanou2.bsky.social · 4d ago

Maybe that's it? I dunno, I can't really fathom the willingness to jump into the vat of kool-Aid for the everyday person. All I have is conjecture about so many things being shit, and this looking like a way out, a la any other magical thinking born of privilege or otherwise not doing the work.

It is in fact a myth! Courts actually tend to support men over women in custody disputes *when men actually request full custody.* Courts don’t favor women; men just overwhelmingly don’t want to parent their own children. www.dadsdivorcelaw.com/blog/fathers...

Fathers and Mothers: Child Custody Myths | Dad’s Divorce Law

Some beliefs about fathers’ rights in child custody and child support cases are untrue. A skilled divorce attorney can provide legal help to divorcing dads.

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Princess Ozaline@princessozaline.bsky.social · 6d ago

Is it a myth that courts do tend to support women when men do request custody all other factors being even? Not that that would constitute misandry either, it'd be because women are seen as caretakers which come from patriarchal norms as well as our individualized model of child care. But...