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The Golden Chutzpah Award goes to Rep. Andy Biggs for personally occupying a full minute of airtime during the 1 minute and 23 second interval he was questioning @governorwalz.mn.gov‬ and yet maintaining it was Walz who was doing the filibustering.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Wow. There's a lot to read in the 119-page "Northside Forward" planning document. The first thing I turned to was the definition they used of "Northside" Minneapolis, since there isn't any one standard definition. aalftc.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

I find it rather remarkable that 23% of Trump/Vance votes would at least somewhat approve of the job Walz is doing as Governor.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

There are lots of stories to tell about Susan Shogren Smith. Among the most important: * Her role in tearing the MNGOP apart. * Her connections with other MNGOP figures including some in party office and the legislature as well as unsuccessful candidates for statewide office.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

More from the annals of election deniers tearing the Republican Party apart.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I hope I am not the only one to recognize how lucky we are to live in an age when noted legal scholars such as Goldsmith and Somin carry on their discussion in a forum easily accessible to the general public. One doesn't have to be very old to recognize this as astonishing.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

As a resident of that other once-great city, Minneapolis, I welcome Los Angeles to our number. Next thing you know, the mobs there will find a pencil sharpening to swarm, too.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Via "One First," my quick write-up of President Trump's "Presidential Memorandum" purporting to federalize 2000 California National Guard troops; the relevant legal authorities for doing so; and how the move is both a modest *and* dangerous escalation of what's going on in and around Los Angeles:

submitted 4 days ago • 60 comments

I'm still pondering a MN CD7 GOP post two weeks ago that called for local organizing to "help choose a conservative, Constitution-respecting candidate" for Secretary of State. I read that as more than merely a contrast with the DFL incumbent. Sounds like gearing up for within-the-GOP fighting.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I posted this 7 years ago and still believe it:

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

On this day five years ago

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Wait, she said *what*? First, multi-million-dollar restaurants are not an everyday thing in Minneapolis. Second, if one were to arise, it almost surely wouldn't be from a food cart. Third, even if it were to, it wouldn't be a food cart anymore. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

In Minneapolis, "The Wedge" neighborhood doesn't have a corner on the market for wedgitude. The east bank has its own wedge, which I walked for the latest installment of my All of Minneapolis series. allofminneapolis.com/the-east-ban...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

We're about to find out if lèse-majesté is still on the books.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Lots of good coverage of this great event. I'll just link to the Brained Dispatch. www.brainerddispatch.com/news/local/m...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Democracy dies massively.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

One shouldn't overlook how many of the people with an unfavorable opinion of Frey have that unfavorable opinion because they think he is too far to the left. If his challengers are yet further left, those voters may still rank Frey first even though they don't like him.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I got very confused looking for some historical records of a building in the 400 block of Central Avenue. Turns out that's because in that area, what was called "Central Avenue" in the early 20th century was what we now call "Hennepin Avenue." I ought to have been looking for "1st Ave SE."

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Yeh, I'm that guy who looks at this and immediately thinks, "That first comma in the title should be a colon!"

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Minneapolis history buffs, check my sanity. Looking at the building permit index for what is now Nye's Piano Bar, the 1913 "Rep. to church" *must* be a mis-filed permit from the nearby Our Lady of Lourdes, right? There can't have briefly been a church in that building, can there?

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I feel so seen.

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the need for the inclusion of the graphic is a sad reminder of the shockingly low literacy rate among geese

submitted 13 days ago • 174 comments