Scott Norris
@scottnorris757.bsky.social
Husband, father, progressive Minnesotan with his head in the clouds, trying to build a museum to reach the sky. I like dogs. I like travel.
the entire Chinese internet has embraced what's basically a work of outsider art; a terribly animated film about a cow's dream made by a mother-son team and distributed by a former interior decoration company. It's now made millions at the box office.
Accented Cinema@accentedcinema.bsky.social · 2d agoNiu Lai (lit. Cow Come) was released without a press kit. Movie theaters in China have begun making their own posters. Surprisingly, not an AI in sight, just ppl living in the mement.
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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New in PN: Transgender athletes are a red herring "None of this discourse happened bc there is a new high-profile trans athlete in the news. Instead, Republicans are starting a culture war to rile up their base, co-opt Dems into agreeing with them, & push trans people out of public life altogether"
Transgender athletes are a red herring
It's a non-problem meant to exclude people from public life.
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“Russia was able to influence our election because they figured out that racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, and transphobia are America’s Achilles heel. These issues aren’t only civil rights — they’re also a matter of national security. We have to deal with that.” -Kamala Harris, 2/5/2019
Peggy Flanagan: "Republicans are going to run against every Democrat on fraud, because they want to distract from what's happening under the most corrupt president we've ever seen ... Michele Tayofa and Republicans up and down the ballot are going to have to answer for that. The grift has to stop."
The number of people being flown out has subsided a little bit from the crescendo we saw three weeks ago, which was the busiest since February. ICE is still hassling our community, and our volunteers are still watching. Stats: ottergoose.net/ice-flights-msp/data Support: mn50501.org/donate
This time for real - I’ll be on the @fox9mn.bsky.social 9 pm newscast for the @northwestairlines.bsky.social museum - newscast on the air right now!
I want everyone to stop for a second. Imagine what the Republicans and the news media would be like RIGHT NOW if Capitol One had closed President Biden's accounts because of a pattern of money laundering. Trump = hardly a peep. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe
The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to the president's family business.
reuters.com
I’m going to be on @fox9mn.bsky.social news at 9pm tonight, talking about the @northwestairlines.bsky.social museum! It was a fun interview, eager to see how it edits.
To be clear: he's talking about tax revenue. Seldom framed this way on cable news, but he's talking about higher taxes on American businesses and consumers generating obvious revenue for the federal government. Every tariff is a tax hike on Americans. Donald is a tax and spend fascist.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoKILMEADE: Are you worried the tariffs you put forward over the last couple days will hurt the economy? TRUMP: No, because it's bringing in hundreds of billions of dollars
I've spent the last two weeks talking and learning about fish. My findings:
Racket@racketmn.com · 4w agoThe long, up-'n'-down-'n'-slightly-up-again history of harvesting Lake Superior treats from the deep.
More Americans have been killed in the Iran war Trump started than in the Afghan withdrawal Biden was handed and completed. The implications for America’s geopolitical situation is much worse with attacking Iran than leaving Afghanistan. But going by tone of coverage, one would think the opposite.
This is the best TV coverage of ICE Air that I’ve seen - the interviews with detainees, longing to see their children, are gut-wrenching; the facts are well-researched and presented. Fuck ICE.
WATCH | ICE AIR: Inside America's Secret Deportation Network
YouTube video by 9NEWS
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political candidates should be tripping over themselves to run on this message (and we know why they aren't)
Aaron Sojourner@aaronsojourner.org · last mo.We need a War on White Collar Crime
I am sure the Uihleins, after giving Demuth all this money, won't demand she force THEIR agenda on all the people of Minnesota if she is elected. (Sarcasm!) They already use their money to control others. minnesotareformer.com/2026/07/01/w...
Who is the billionaire supporting Lisa Demuth’s campaign for Minnesota governor? • Minnesota Reformer
If House Speaker Lisa Demuth becomes the Republican nominee for Minnesota governor in August, she’ll have one donor in particular to thank: Richard Uihlein. Uihlein owns one of North America’s largest...
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On this day in 2016, 32-year-old Philando Castile was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop for a broken taillight in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.
Jul. 6, 2016 | Philando Castile Killed by Police in Minnesota
Learn more about our history of racial injustice
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It’s been a hard and yet triumphant year for Minnesota. Ordinary people have been targeted by their fellow countrymen, and made heroic sacrifices for their neighbors. So, appropriate to remember that 163 years ago today, 262 average Minnesotans sacrificed themselves at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Wait, it's noon in #Minnesota - no AWOOOOOs because the alarm test is postponed: there is actual heavy weather out there & they don't want folks to be confused.
Dred & Harriet Scott were the most heroic & consequential Minnesotans in modern history. They should be central to our identity as a state. They deserve a memorial on the capitol grounds.
ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 2mo agothinking about Dred Scott today in advance of the birthright citizenship decision. the 14th amendment it isn’t just about status or paperwork—it’s about humanity. that all people born here are citizens.* Scott died after being free for just 16 months. he had fought for his daughters, not himself.
Court can't go on like this. The Constitution as plainly as possible says people who were born here have an unequivocal right to citizenship. Four people whose ONLY job is to read the Constitution for the rest of their lives just tried to overturn it because they're tired of brown people. Pack it.
If you eliminated all the Republicans and MAGA fools committing election fraud, election fraud would be pretty much non-existent in the country. heartlandsignal.com/2026/06/26/s...
South Dakota state Sen. Tom Pischke faces up to 4 years in prison for election fraud charges
South Dakota State Sen. Tom Pischke faces up to 4 years in prison after turning himself in on felony election fraud charges.
heartlandsignal.com
Obama shouts out "those ordinary people in the Twin Cities who braved frigid temperatures, risked their own safety, standing shoulder to shoulder to look our for their neighbors and sometimes for strangers because they knew that was the right thing to do"
If the president throws a tantrum when he's pressed about his lies about election fraud and walks away from the interview, your response should be to remind your viewers of all the ways in which those lies were dismissed by the courts. Not promise to give him a do over after he's had nap time.
Charles Johnson@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 2mo agoAnd then she ends by saying she spoke to Trump and set up ANOTHER INTERVIEW. This is why I’ve lost all respect for the cringing complicit corporate media. Spineless. Pathetic.