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If you're in the Twin Cities eight county metro area and have a device that can access Libby, the Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA) has thousands of free magazine subscriptions, including The New Yorker, National Geographic, kids magazines, tons of foreign language options.

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Truth Coming Out Of Her Well To Shame Mankind - 2025.

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More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

If you people start rehabilitating Gavin Newsom over this I will speak the seven secret names of God and end the world

submitted 15 days ago • 47 comments

Cannot emphasize enough that the people who live in the city where stuff is happening will know stuff that the NYT opinion writers do not.

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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 18 days ago • 639 comments

I don’t like personal. This was another reason I didn’t like human security consultants. Some of them enjoyed their job too much.

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What I really can't believe is that I went to Japan four times pre-GPS/smart phone and the worst thing that happened was one time I got on an express train out of Kyoto by accident and knew I had to get off when I saw rice fields.

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empathy is important, people falling down those rabbit holes NEED to know that you their loved ones will be there for them when and if they leave but empathy must be paired with a hard line. "No I do not believe this. No I will not debate certain things. If you cross this line we no longer talk."

submitted 51 days ago • 60 comments

In Soviet Minnesota, the last piece takes you!

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

sure. fine. that's nice. that's not a scalable solution and it condemns a lot of people to death. we are a collective and a society and it is our right to have safe nonpoisonous food. and we should fight for it.

submitted 54 days ago • 69 comments

Tomorrow, nearly 300 unsheltered people in Minneapolis will be at the mercy of the storm, because our mayor’s ego is too big and he has to maintain the lie that unsheltered homelessness is down to 27 people.

submitted 57 days ago • 4 comments

not that it should have to be like this for people to care, but everyone should understand that anti-trans bigotry is a threat to cisgender people as well as to trans people.

submitted 68 days ago • 33 comments

Just in case folks didn't know, because we have who we have in the HHS: Autism isn't something that needs to be cured. Thank you.

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

I recognize that I am approaching broken record territory on this point, but Jacob Frey is lying about the number of unsheltered homeless folks in our city. This article lays out lots of evidence that contradicts his claims.

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

submitted 71 days ago • 1167 comments

It's never been easier to get around the Twin Cities by bike, but even committed cyclists say lack of secure bike parking at destinations is an obstacle to making trips on two wheels. www.startribune.com/secure-bike-...

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Susan Crawford, a liberal candidate for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, overcame $25 million in spending from Elon Musk and defeated her conservative opponent Tuesday in a contest that became a kind of referendum on Musk and his slashing of the federal government. Read more: nyti.ms/42cKEgz

submitted 82 days ago • 36 comments

Trump is cutting hundreds of millions in federal funds that Minnesota uses to monitor infectious disease outbreaks like measles and avian influenza. This decision will leave Minnesotans more susceptible to illness. Attorney General Ellison and the State of Minnesota are suing Trump.

submitted 83 days ago • 104 comments

It's also the day for my favorite meme! If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.

submitted 84 days ago • 126 comments

I'm the guy who replies to aphorisms and banalities with edge-case corrections. It is, somehow, still illegal to throw bricks at me

submitted 87 days ago • 8 comments

www.reuters.com/business/hea... HHS canceled around $12 billion in federal grants to states Public health officials in Lubbock, Texas, received orders to stop work supported by three grants that helped fund the response to the widening measles outbreak there

submitted 88 days ago • 15 comments

Liberals and progressives are the only ones with any agency, according to most political discourse. You never hear about a conservative need to understand liberals. It’s always on the left to fix things.

submitted 88 days ago • 36 comments

Maybe I’m late to this but please enjoy the DFL’s response to Messy Jen Carnahan’s latest acting out. Would that the national party was as pitch-perfect.

submitted 89 days ago • 6 comments

All evening long, MN State Patrol circling low over South Mpls. Even with a sound machine, it has made bedtime for kiddo near impossible.

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

a few hours after posting this, Amy Klobuchar voted to confirm another one of Trump's nominees

submitted 91 days ago • 26 comments

A reminder: posting is not activism and not all activism should be posted. ESPECIALLY when the US gov’t has been targeting people based on their social media (which they’ve always done but have gotten much more visible about it). Anyway, don’t be this guy. Literally nobody likes this guy.

submitted 91 days ago • 3 comments

Cars ruin cities and once you show peeps how nice it is with less of them, it's unsurprising they want that.

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Just went and got my second dose of the Covid (spikevax) vaccine. If you had the first dose six months ago and you're over 65, or have any kind of immune compromised issues, consider getting a second dose. Or getting a first dose if you haven't had one yet.

submitted 110 days ago • 10 comments