Driftless Thinking
@mndriftless.northsky.social
Nerd by birth, HHS wonk by trade. Cis, white, 🏳️🌈, autistic ↙️↙️↙️ Trying to do better every day, because as Baldwin said, all children are our children. The profile picture is not recent. 🧊 delenda est
Remember when crimes were crimes? And consequences could happen to people who committed them? Just asking.
Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 10h agoLeaked audio: Michigan Republican Mike Rogers asking for officers at polling stations to intimidate voters "We called the RNC early and said hey... Let's put police officers, retired or off-duty police officers as our poll watchers in Detroit because go ahead, try to intimidate them. Please."
Your Harry Potter dollars funded this.
Sophie Molly@sophiemolly.co.uk · yesterdayShe was murdered by transphobia 😥😥😥
Shooting at a car to stop a shoplifter is not justified. Even if no one was harmed, let alone shooting to death a 1 year-old baby.
Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 10h agoJUST IN: The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said on Monday. Her office will not charge the white officer who shot the child.
“Both things cannot simultaneously be true!”
Julia Serano@juliaserano.bsky.social · last mo....Assumption #4 has been driving me batshit, yet no one seems to realize it: if you're worried trans ppl might potentially harm your Dem candidate's chances, then YOUR CANDIDATE MADE A BAD DECISION! so why not join us in trying to get them to reverse position? juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...
i still think about how MPD was able to disappear completely in January
Is it bad if major defense contractors have their own foreign policies?
Simon Marks@simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 3d agoOh.
The Dakota and Ojibwe language archive that leaders feared was lost in a Minneapolis fire survived, and it is being moved to the basement vault of an old bank building.
Dakota and Ojibwe language archive survives Minneapolis fire, group says
Wicoie Nandagikendan says the room holding its language historical records was the one space on its side of the building left undamaged. The rest suffered severe water and smoke damage.
cbsnews.com
I’m pro-abortion. Im pro-vaccines. I’m pro-insulin. I’m pro-gender affirming medication and surgery. I’m pro-cardiac bypass surgery. I’m pro-chemotherapy. I’m pro-colonoscopy. And don’t leave your trite copy/paste. Just take the L. Or take this down. Wevs.
Dr Elisabeth Kosters@elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 4d agoNo, Marjory, you’re not “pro-life”, you prefer to deny a woman to decide over her own body. Rep Ilhan Omar isn’t “pro-abortion”, she defends a woman’s right to decide over her own body. Nobody, literally nobody, is “pro-abortion”. Abortion is sometimes the best decision, no matter how conflicted.
Really unfortunate to see Evil cynically sending voter suppression attack mail about Lesser Evil for a thing Evil supports twice as hard.
Wedge LIVE!™@wedge.live · last wk.Cynical voter suppressing MAGA mailers don't get to talk about our Klob this way. Only we get to talk about her like this.
Here’s the thing (and I know I’ll catch some heat for this). I’m going to hold my nose and vote for Amy. And it’s taken me months to get to that point. But I think a progressive legislature can get things done with theoretical Gov AKlo. And that’s not true with theoretical Gov DeMuth.
This is it. There are so many levers of power that would be wielded with more animus and destruction under Demuth. She cannot be allowed to win. I don’t take joy in saying this. But it remains true.
Flan@flanknits.bsky.social · 4d agoHere’s the thing (and I know I’ll catch some heat for this). I’m going to hold my nose and vote for Amy. And it’s taken me months to get to that point. But I think a progressive legislature can get things done with theoretical Gov AKlo. And that’s not true with theoretical Gov DeMuth.
Yup. Our best recourse is to run up margins in the MNLEG for a DFL caucus that can push AK. Most of what Walz takes credit for was the work of Kari and Melissa. Remember that.
Fossilized Tree Sap@amberrl.bsky.social · 6d agoI would fucking love it if you all would stop making me come on here and tell you to grow the fuck up. You have to fill in the box next to Klob’s name. I hate her too—probably even more than you do. But DeMuth is worse. If you do not vote for Klob, you are voting against Minnesota.
When there’s jars on the deck Of an old Greek shipwreck That’s amphorae!
it’s really frustrating to sit down and write a detailed thing like this, get 1,500 likes and not have @bencollins.bsky.social respond. not even like a “thanks for saying something, i’ll talk to the team.” having to do this labor is shitty. having to beg for basic respect is embarrassing.
ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · last wk.hey ben. the guy in the picture here is an actual person, my friend’s dad, and a spiritual leader of Lakota people, Chief Arvol Looking Horse. not only does he support Indigenous People’s Day, he’s the founder of World Peace and Prayer Day. feels weird to use his image and not his name.
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
Excited to see that we’re replacing new housing with chatbots that tell you to kill yourself
Jason Furman@jasonfurman.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is what crowd out looks like.
From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.
The find/replace all redactions are a worse version of the old jimmy kimmel bit. “In***bent” are you kidding me?
audreyii_fic@audreyii.bsky.social · 3w agoThere are comments being left. Ahem. stpaul.legistar.com/MeetingDetai...
I feel dumb even just having to say this but the reason passports are mailed out in plain regular envelopes is that so that people do not attempt to steal easily recognizable passports in the mail. bsky.app/profile/carn...
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 3w agoI love that the U.S. government now has ideas so dumb that the fact checks are simply “yeah this isn’t a parody, it’s real”
Absolutely disqualifying lack of judgement here while under legal suit. I just can’t get over what a gift this is to any plaintiffs counsel to have a defendant go live like this.
Frederick Melo, Reporter (TwinCities.com, Pioneer Press)@frederickmelo.bsky.social · 3w agoFormer St. Paul City Council Member (and 1-time mayoral candidate) Dai Thao has a podcast, and Mayor Her went on it last week to dish for an hour in Hmong. Getting this translated was a bear 🐻 — ask 2 people to translate a turn of phrase, expect different answers: www.twincities.com/2026/09/30/m...
Why would the Mayor of Saint Paul go on a podcast and discuss these lawsuits?!?
Frederick Melo, Reporter (TwinCities.com, Pioneer Press)@frederickmelo.bsky.social · 3w agoFormer St. Paul City Council Member (and 1-time mayoral candidate) Dai Thao has a podcast, and Mayor Her went on it last week to dish for an hour in Hmong. Getting this translated was a bear 🐻 — ask 2 people to translate a turn of phrase, expect different answers: www.twincities.com/2026/09/30/m...
We needed our barista to pull some hot shots. Go Nia!
