Minneapolis Noah Kahan fans: don’t buy drinks or concessions at Wednesday’s show - that’s crossing a picket line.   Hundreds of Delaware North food and beverage workers in Minneapolis will be walking out on an unfair labor practice strike. Support workers by joining the picket line before the show!

Adult Man Genuinely Inspired By AI Video Of Lion Wearing Rolex https://theonion.com/adult-man-genuinely-inspired-by-ai-video-of-lion-wearing-rolex/

"i blurted out those policies in a heated gamer moment that lasted for 9 years"

Big Ol’ Mush@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2w ago

Annoying thing about that “I got carried away” quote from Elon is that’s going to be all these people post-Trump

There’s a lot in the CNN report that brought me back to the rage I felt 24/7 earlier this year. But the quote about Bovino targeting schools to try and piss us off made my blood boil. I saw it. They parked two blocks away from my kids’ elementary school and waited until drop off to scare kids. Evil.

Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 2w ago

CNN report: Federal immigration agents lied to prosecutors during Operation Metro Surge minnesotareformer.com/2026/07/23/c...

A pause in federal reviews of wind-energy projects has affected four proposed #Minnesota developments. A new analysis estimates 4,400 jobs could be lost and $1.6 billion in investment could be delayed or canceled as states challenge the freeze in court. #WindEnergy @northstarpolicy.org

Military's pause of wind farm reviews stalls MN projects

Minnesota is now part of legal action to jumpstart federal reviews of onshore wind projects. The Department of Defense hit pause on security checks and an independent think tank said

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good morning mr president, heres your daily list of things you can do to make everyones life worse but will make you the center of attention

maybe you should be concerned about the people ICE agents have buried

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Homan: "I said this a year ago -- if they hateful rhetoric doesn't stop there will be bloodshed. And unfortunately I was right. And I'll tell you something else -- it's not over yet ... I'm afraid we're gonna bury an ICE agent."

Outside the Civil War, the military budget for fighting Americans on our own shores has always been and should always be $0

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 3w ago

Mike Johnson says that the Pentagon is requesting an additional $350,000,000,000 for things like "fighting Communism on our own shores"

Read the full report, Headwinds: The Federal Government's Wind Energy Pause and Its Costs to Minnesota → northstarpolicy.org/headwinds

The numbers at stake in Minnesota: - 1,200 direct construction jobs (4,400 including indirect/induced employment) - $120 million in wages and benefits - $168 million in local economic activity - $28 million in tax revenue

These four projects alone would generate 1,119 megawatts of electricity, enough to power more than 335,000 Minnesota homes. And Minnesota utilities have plans for at least 4,800 additional megawatts by 2030, all of which now faces uncertainty.

Since the Pentagon stopped processing routine national security reviews, four Minnesota wind projects have been stalled which the American Clean Power Association is calling a "de facto moratorium" on new onshore wind construction nationwide.

Trump’s attacks on clean energy are holding back our economy. Add it to the pile of damage his administration and their enablers in Congress are giving us.

North Star Policy Action@northstarpolicy.org · 4w ago

New North Star Policy Action research: the federal government's pause on onshore wind energy development is putting 1,200 Minnesota construction jobs and $1.6 billion in investment at risk.

ICE murdered my neighbors and menaced my kid's school and beat us and kidnapped us and it's still happening and I can't wait until they all see justice for the crimes they've committed.

TPM@talkingpointsmemo.com · 4w ago

ICE's Office of Professional Responsibility—which has apparently switched from serving as an internal watchdog to targeting online critics–has tried to get people who posted criticisms of ICE to sign a "Warning Notice" admitting their posts were unlawful.

Damn. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Easy to oversimplify the imperfect comparison. But I believe that in the first half of this year, the majority of our neighbors did the memory of the 1st Minnesota proud. They didn’t cower or hide, they put themselves in the teeth of the assault, and broke it.

Commentary: Higher hospital prices are responsible for inflated premiums and smaller paychecks. Hospital prices have grown faster than virtually any other sector in the economy and are the biggest driver of insurance premiums. minnesotareformer.com/2026/07/02/h...

Higher hospital prices mean smaller paychecks and inflated premiums • Minnesota Reformer

The U.S. is on track to spend $6 trillion on health care this year and $9 trillion by 2034. Health policy experts have long known that high prices are the key drivers of health spending. The late heal...

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Wasn't planning on sobbing today but here we are.

Star Tribune Going Out@stribgoingout.startribune.com · last mo.

Whenever they hear “Ordinary,” Fletcher’s pals know what to do: “We just find each other,” 9-year-old MJ Roaldi said. And hold hands and sing along. (🎁 link)

Read the full report: northstarpolicy.org/health-care-...

And it's about to get worse. MNsure enrollees face a 54% average premium jump in 2026 due to federal cuts. For a rural couple in their 60s, premiums could go from 9% of their income to roughly one-third.

Health care prices in Minnesota rose 20% from 2019 to 2023, even as utilization declined 3.5%. People are paying more for roughly the same amount of care.

Over the last 11 years, employee contributions toward health insurance premiums in Minnesota have grown 67% while median wages grew just 42%. Health insurance is eating a bigger and bigger share of workers' paychecks.

New from North Star Policy Action: health care costs are rising for working Minnesotans and wages aren't keeping up. Our new report breaks down what's driving the increase.

Minnesota Republicans suggested *internal* and external genital inspections for 6 year olds, so states controlled by Republicans will probably pursue that. www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/202...

Nancy Armour@nrarmour.bsky.social · last mo.

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

What’s remarkable about all this stuff is the stolen valor. You didn’t build shit, you won a birth lottery. You are a podcaster not Emperor Vespasian. bsky.app/profile/just...

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · last mo.

9 years ago, NBC gave this woman $20 million a year to host a morning talk show and be one of the top faces of its news division.

I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.

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."

Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez shot and killed Alex Pretti.

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · last mo.

Jonathan Ross is the man who shot and killed Renee Good.

Naz was finally going to get his opportunity. Dammit.

Today we’re launching the Minnesota Affordability Tracker — a new county-by-county dashboard showing how wages and costs have changed across Minnesota from 2014 to today. Explore the data: northstarpolicy.org/affordability/ Read the full report: northstarpolicy.org/affordability-2026/