My phone doesn’t do it justice but there was a lovely harvest moon over the lakes tonight.
Olivia Miles goes between the legs on a drop pass to Kayla McBride for 3
EVERYTHING COMES BACK TO BODY AUTONOMY. guess what gender is? BODY AUTONOMY. it is about WHO is allowed to do WHAT with THEIR BODY. administration of exogenous sex hormones is value neutral; the core difference between this and a trans person is that one supports the fascist regime and one does not.
Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social · 3w agoHegseth announced they're gonna start screening for T and administering testosterone treatment for warriors found wanting
1/ Some chatter about who’s funding those Angie Craig ads. One prominent group, North Star Dawn, is about 3/4s a hedge fund dude from Connecticut and several All of Mpls (Frey) donors, including longtime DFL anti-lefty Vance Opperman & Roger Hale; both former CEOs. 1/x www.fec.gov/data/receipt...
Excellent sports writer + excellent publication + excellent team
Britt Robson @brittrobson.bsky.social · last mo.Hey folks, happy to announce that I will be writing a couple of columns per month about the Lynx for Racket. Fulfills a longstanding desire--when I was at The Athletic, they were too slowly assembling a WNBA core staff before branching into team coverage and Minnpost has the very capable Pat Borzi.
Cutting to fans right before a shootout is so mean. “Look at these poor fuckers about to have the worst 10 minutes of their lives”
It's the time of year where the Ants With Wings appear and they are just so bad at flying. They are constantly falling onto your head straight out of the sky. I like to imagine it's because some ants just wake up with wings one day and are freaking out the whole time they're flying
I wrote about Mona Khalil's life and death, and what it means to do conservation work amid bombs, invasion, and occupation defector.com/mona-khalil-...
Mona Khalil, Who Devoted Her Life To Protecting Turtles, Killed By Israeli Airstrike | Defector
For half a century, a house on the coast in southern Lebanon has kept vigil over Al-Mansouri beach and the blue Mediterranean waters beyond. Mona Khalil’s grandfather built the house in the 1970s, aro...
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Can I interest you in the gospel of Olivia Miles and Cheryl Reeve?
Big Baller Brandon@brandonbeck4.bsky.social · 2mo agoOh you don't believe in God? explain Olivia Miles
Richfield has been setting a high bar on bike infrastructure, and I hope they continue! streets.mn/2026/06/02/o...
One-Way Is the Right Way for Richfield’s Penn Avenue Bike Lane
Penn’s 2028 rebuild is our chance to fix its broken, unsafe paths. Take the county survey to advocate for a one-way cycle track.
streets.mn
It was a massive error in judgment for Mayor Frey to nominate Chief O’Hara while there were active investigations into very serious accusations that had been rumored for months. This is what happens when you prioritize optics and political expediency over governance and accountability.
When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 3mo agoMemphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.
minnesota gov. tim walz has signed a bill banning prediction markes (kalshi, polymarket). first state-level ban of its kind. (sports betting via traditional/mobile sports books is still illegal here too)
Juniper Blessing should have had a long, full life.
As the sun set yesterday, GOES-19 (image 1) and GOES-18 (image 2) kept watch on a massive dust storm sweeping across the the northern High Plains.
Hot off the press. A well referenced high quality statement from the International Hantavirus Society. High level: - Andes strain is different - some spread will occur - pandemic potential is tremendously low - lots to learn - what happens next is up to us zenodo.org/records/2007...
Statement from the International Hantavirus Society and members of the international hantavirus research and clinical community regarding Andes virus transmission and the current outbreak investigatio...
This statement summarizes current scientific evidence regarding Andes virus (ANDV) transmission dynamics, including documented person-to-person transmission, outbreak epidemiology, infection control c...
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The title says it all. I'll add that this is entirely self-inflicted and will get much worse as the consequences compound in the years to come. "Hantavirus misinformation runs rampant as the US is unequipped to respond to infectious disease health scare" www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Hantavirus misinformation runs rampant as the US is unequipped to respond to infectious disease health scare
But the US’s withdrawal from the WHO – and cuts to the country’s health system – stymie officials’ response
theguardian.com
This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.
‘Hondurasgate,’ the alleged US and Israeli interference plot to destabilize Mexico and other progressive governments
A leaked audio recording points to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, Javier Milei, and Donald Trump as attempting to create a platform to spread fake news about the administrations of ...
english.elpais.com
Deepfakes are everywhere, but digital forensics investigators are fighting back. Learn more: https://scim.ag/42dMPBg
Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...
Bamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditions
A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal stab...
phys.org
