joelcfc25.bsky.social
Minnesota dad of 2. Fishing, history, housing/zoning, GIS and maps, board games, European football, cooking.
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i'm really bummed she's retiring. don't think i can come up with anything significant she's been on the wrong side of since January 20.
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and the head of FIFA is a thumb-headed bootlicker of authoritarians bent on making the worst possible decisions at every turn
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urine real trouble now
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i appreciate you owning this.
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seems to be confirmed
bsky.app/profile/mike...
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blocking is good, but it's funny how this soft-as-shite muppet did it when i had the temerity to be annoyed that he hadn't viewed a primary source. look at the info that's come out if he'd waited just a few hours instead of hyping up the "it was a cop" narrative. total poltroon
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agreed. the number of accounts with huge followings just idly doing Sling Blade-tier musing about what happened without watching the briefing is maddening.
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my list of beefs with the state of law enforcement in this country is a mile long, but for pity's sake it's not even midday and this remains a live situation. there are umpteen "maybes" that we won't have certainty on until after an apprehension
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thank you for this. i'm losing my mind watching all these people speculate, clearly not having watched the briefing.
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have any of you speculating *watched* the briefing? the Brooklyn Park chief was clear that it's not a real officer, but an impersonator. if he's shading the truth at a podium w/ the governor and head of state public safety there, we have a whole host of bigger issues
www.youtube.com/live/VHtHNAb...
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was addressed by the Brooklyn Park PD chief during the briefing. one of his officers assisted at the shooting in Champlin, realized it was the state senator, called in to suggest a proactive stop at Hortman's home since she is the House rep for Brooklyn Park. confirmed on record shooter isn't a cop
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multifamily juices tax base much more on a per-sqft basis than single family, AND 40% doesn't get siphoned away for Fiscal Disparities like with comm/industrial. relevant for job-rich cities who are net contributors to FD (put in more than they get back): metrocouncil.org/Communities/...
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Yggie stands ready to uncork a whopper of a take, i have no doubt
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don't disagree with the "compete everywhere and start yesterday" ethos, but even allowing for the fact that he's not on the ballot, it's hard to think of an Iowa statewide without picking up the cosmic microwave background of the late Selzer poll in 2024
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"ah sweet...manmade horrors beyond my comprehension"
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an inveterate grasper, and it's an alarming indictment of the elite commentariat that so many bought into it from the jump and have tried to retcon some complicated story onto his shapeshifting over the years
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yep, that's fair. in any event, set against a backdrop of the admin poised to slash the program when it should be increased 10x or more. in the Twin Cities there is effectively no supply of vouchers, almost have to move out of region to get one elsewhere, live there for a year, port it back
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if owners want to refuse to consider Sec 8 holders, fine. but i don't have a lot of time for the bleating about maintaining minimal standards and going through an annual inspection if you want the guaranteed payments--it's not that crushingly burdensome of an ask
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also compelling: the methodical way of demonstrating how the gov't loses on every single factor of what they sought, and pointing out the absurdity of claiming she can't mount a challenge for failure to accurately name the custodian when they intentionally created that situation
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every single sentence of that passage inched me closer to throwing something at my monitor. by the time i got to "fails to guarantee creation of affordable housing" i was channeling @infinitescream.bsky.social
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even *thinking* there's a comparison to Soviet anything is laughably deranged. saying it out loud on the public record is so far around the bend that it ought to instantly torch one's credibility.
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Whiskey Pete in the barrel aging, and aging very strongly
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yup, if a single district judge was able to coopt Biden's control of immigration policy by yoking him to Remain in Mexico, we can be pretty certain that the Fifth Circuit will be standing by to resume application of the "Democrats exercising power is illegitimate" principle
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making lemonada out of lemons--gonna be plenty of free time for DuoLingo coming up in May when West Coast port activity comes to a near standstill
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i'll miss your MN reporting but will continue to follow--best wishes on your return to the Empire State!
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the Mi-Sant Special is one of my lunch faves, like to the point of "why eat Jimmy Johns ever again"
www.mi-sant.us/product/mi-s...
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amazing future ahead of him at Chotchkie's
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closer look at the memorial: www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=78365
but it seems to strain credulity that there's a museum. the village hall is on the National Register for i guess New Deal era architectural reasons? npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/...
my Waverly info ends at having fished the lake 2 years ago
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John Roberts in hot dog suit: "we're all trying to figure out who they're talking to"
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this is a good shout, but the sign on the gantry at the 90/94 split says St Paul, not Minneapolis
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good point, i think that's simultaneously true!
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this is the part that's got to be breaking Judge Xinis' brain (though she can't say that)...he's the DAAG! this is not some junior AUSA way down the org chart. the idea that he can't get someone authoritative on the blower is just farcical
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CBP has updated guidance apparently
bsky.app/profile/davi...
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Sauer couldn't get to the end of the 2nd paragraph without a baldfaced lie (that KAG is a member of MS-13), and the whining only gets worse from there
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showing his face 🤝 baring his ass
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@minnesotajosh.bsky.social and i have a friend with a camper on Trego over in Wisconsin and we've hit Grindstone and other Hayward area lakes. in October 2023 had a legendary smallie smashfest on Trego itself when they'd all pushed up to the dam for the winter
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quieter bays of Minnetonka and small-ish lakes of western Hennepin and Wright Counties...kayak, no boat
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nope, i never harvest bass. walleye for sure.
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the MN bass enthusiast community is hot to trot for the annual legislative proposals to allow year-long c&r, but as last i knew they're nowhere near accumulating enough support to get that over the line
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well, i mean intentionally fishing for bass, not catching by accident. bass season for inland waters has always kicked off on Mother's Day weekend and except for the NE zone starts with a 2 week c&r only period. the rivers bordering SD/ND and the Mississippi bordering WI are more permissive though
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desperate for MN to someday greenlight a longer bass season like WI has
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clown question to twiddle the erogenous zones of exurban Boomer viewers who have many thoughts about the city but never go there
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24b: tens of millions on South American teenagers absolutely no one’s heard of and will at best be loaned to Strasbourg before fading into obscurity
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if Ken Dilanian is somehow still cashing checks, he fits the description perfectly
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pfff, at best he's a +900 long shot when compared to the bodies of work Ho and Cannon have put together
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“Rubio principles” always had the whiff of a pump and dump scheme
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she’s completely inept in the cozy confines of FoxNews hits, hard to imagine she’ll up her game in an environment where facts matter