TEN Things I Hate About You? In this economy?

David Brauer@dbrauer.net · 4d ago

NINE inch nails? In this economy?

Come on people. "The widespread accessibility of DNA tests has unraveled cases across the world where fertility doctors have been found to be biological fathers. More than 50 fertility doctors in the United States have been accused of fraud for donating sperm."

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 7d ago

Dr. Dennis Lutz, the chairman of the University of North Dakota’s OB-GYN department, did not deny the claims in a lawsuit. The university said it intends to fire him.

Fauci hearing underlines how much was broken (especially brains) during 2020 and COVID. We're still dealing with the inflation and the mistrust of science and public health. Maybe everything has to be partisan now, but it's nuts how many people still want to "take sides" on a global pandemic.

Have to get this out of my system

Michael Bluth

ALT: Michael Bluth

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Minnesota Star Tribune@startribune.com · last wk.

The City of St. Paul has hired an outside law firm to investigate sexual harassment allegations against Mayor Kaohly Her, including claims that she directed inappropriate sexual comments toward Police Chief Axel Henry and other city employees.

New Phoebe Bridgers is really working for me youtu.be/4KXnboPN1p4?...

Phoebe Bridgers - Lost Boys (Official Video)

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Truly outrageous - not a lot of details yet but it seems another peaceful law abiding gun owner suddenly stopped being law abiding and killed several people. We shouldn't have to live like this.

MPR News@mprnews.org · 2w ago

The charges state the shooting was captured on surveillance video and claim that Tsegaab Ademassu Binessu, 30, also confessed to his roommate. Court documents allege that Binessu “executed” the three victims.

“It appears we are about to experience what may be the largest wildfire in modern Minnesota history. It feels like a fire-breathing, town-eating dragon is coming for us,” writes Jana Studelska.

Opinion | What it’s like to watch northern Minnesota burn

Around Ely, it feels like a fire-breathing, town-eating dragon is coming for us, Jana Studelska writes.

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120 Minutes was one of those things I love/hated at the time, waiting through songs I wasn't crazy about (soooo much Love and Rockets) for the surprise gems, but there is no denying its lasting influence. RIP Dave

Phil Nobile Jr.@philnobilejr.bsky.social · 3w ago

120 MINUTES was an absolute oasis in pre-internet pop culture. So many bands that you could ONLY find there (TV-wise) became ubiquitous online later (and relatively recently). A pioneer. consequence.net/2026/07/dave...

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

I don't like to speak ill of the dead so I'll get this out now, Mitch McConnell has been one of the most damaging people to our system of government in US history, and I give him much of the blame for the cynicism many Americans have adopted towards our democracy

Yes, I will be casually dropping the term Bicenquinquagenary a lot today

Doing a little wallowing tonight, thinking about how many US adults have not seen healthy three branches of government in their entire lives. Do people remember what a democratic Congress is supposed to do? That laws should be passed by the legislature and not executive orders and court decisions?

It's wild looking at the transcript of this TAL episode from 2016 - residents in Tom Emmer's district afraid of Sharia law, immigrants on welfare, etc etc - and at that time he was pushing back!! www.thisamericanlife.org/600/transcript

600: Will I Know Anyone at This Party? - This American Life

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Tom Emmer: "Minnesotans are so afraid that you're gonna call us a racist, you're gonna call us an Islamophobe. You know what? I'm done being even the least bit careful. Somalis don't assimilate. And if they don't assimilate, then they should go the hell back to where they came from."

I bet Trump actually asked to make the reflecting pool "all gay" for Pride month and the workers misunderstood

This is what I've been wondering about the last few months

Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 2mo ago

This Reformer analysis breaks down the most comprehensive data available regarding where the thousands of Minnesotans arrested during Operation Metro Surge were held, for how long, and where they ended up. minnesotareformer.com/2026/06/16/o...

If potatoes turn out to be an intelligent alien species we're going to have a lot of explaining to do

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo ago

A giant potato, or what looked like one, was seen in the sky by an Army intelligence officer and four members of his unit in Colorado in 2022, according to new UFO files released by the Trump administration.

"What we saw, underneath all of the horror [of the ICA surge], was something that looked more like the future that I want to be a part of.” (no paywall, in more ways than one) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/d...

This Restaurant Stopped Charging for Food. And Profits Are Up.

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Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

Minneapolis police rarely responded to immigration-related emergency calls during Operation Metro Surge, even as the department spent $10 million on overtime and standby pay preparing for unrest that largely never materialized.

Minneapolis police rarely responded to ICE calls but still spent millions on overtime

The MPD prioritized preventing large-scale civil unrest over responding to calls from residents concerned about unlawful force by ICE, and racked up huge OT costs doing it.

startribune.com

In case anyone is wondering how our racial discourse has evolved in the six years since George Floyd was murdered, the Facebook comment people are still melting down

UN backs historic climate crisis ruling, despite US attempts to stop resolution

UN backs historic climate crisis ruling, despite US attempts to stop resolution

The US, Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia – some of the highest oil-producing nations and major greenhouse gas emitters – opposed the measure The UN has voted 141-8 to adopt a resolution backing a world court opinion that countries have a legal obligation to address climate change, with the US – which is the world’s biggest historical emitter – among the small group opposing it. The UN secretary general, António Guterres, said Wednesday’s general assembly vote, in which 28 countries abstained, underscored that governments are responsible for protecting citizens from the “escalating climate crisis”. Continue reading...

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"so what's your take?" "I gotta get in shape now. Too much sitting has ruined my body. Too much abuse has gone on for too long. From now on, it’ll be 50 push-ups each morning, 50 pull-ups. There’ll be no more pills, no more bad food, no more destroyers of my body." "Oh 100% agree"

paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)@danlehner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“so what’s your take?” “the city of New York must pay me $1 million cash in the next hour and I will kill one person for every minute they are late” “100% disagree”

Local governments reconstruct street infrastructure in order to keep your clean water flowing, sewage moving, and the street surface from crumbling. The safety and transit features of these projects are not the reason they happen. It’s the silver lining.

Would it blow your mind if I told you the Lyndale Ave reconstruction isn't a bike project? » The Wedge Times-Picayune

At a meeting Monday night at the Uptown VFW, organized by a group called “Vibrant Lyndale” (made up of Andrea Corbin and many of the same faces from the Uptown Association), business owners presented…

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I hope the families of Renee Good and Alex Pretti submit claims, along with the many others targeted by Trump's DOJ

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is insane. The terms of DOJ's slush fund appear to transfer control of $1.8 billion beyond US government entirely. Unless I'm misreading this, that would circumvent Congress *entirely* and put the money outside of *any* constitutional and/or legal constraints ofany kind. Straight up theft.

Went to a 3 hour kids dance recital last night. I think I'm invincible now.

Feel like stating the obvious - so much of the redistricting controversy comes down to no one believing that Republicans would ever act in the best interests of Black people

What is the mental illness via which someone becomes very legalistic and wants you to quote chapter and verse of policies and governance for simple routine things? Anyway, I got to talk with one of them today.

My view is that the American South never fully took to liberal democracy. And I think we have to reckon with that to face the moment we’re now in. I wrote about it for @thebulwark.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/liberal-de...

Waiting for Liberal Democracy in the American South

Our country’s constitutional order is withering before us. In the states of the former Confederacy, democracy never fully flourished.

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Kinda seems like if our goal is actually for Iran to give up pursuing nuclear weapons, we could ease up on repeatedly threatening to destroy their entire country