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In Minneapolis. Structural engineer, mostly lapsed improvisor, 3 day Jeopardy! champ. Happily married to a public school teacher. Two kids, a cat, and a dog.
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If you interact with MNDFLers or staff for them this week, please just try to be normal and gentle and not fucking weird. Everyone is gonna be on edge for a long time.

I really hope this is accurate.

If you’re in LA in a public space this month and someone tries to get you to sign a petition about wages and voting DO NOT SIGN IT. this is businesses trying to repeal an ordinance that increases wages for workers in hospitality spaces ahead of the Super Bowl, World Cup, & Olympics. Do not sign!

One day after one of his lunatics murdered a Democrat legislator he's telling them Democrats are stealing from them to give welfare to illegal immigrants and to cheat in elections

look, im not one of those guys who thinks every video game needs a movie adaptation. I'm just saying we are rapidly running out of time for a Rhea Seehorn portrayal of Samus Aran

can’t believe this still needs to be said, but: stop following altNPS. none of them work for the NPS and they exist to do Qanon numbers station crap and sell merch. it’s annoying for a lot of us that are actually NPS. thanks

This is a United States Senator mocking the assassination of a Minnesota legislator and her husband. He pretends to be a good Mormon. He’s a sick fuck.

Gov. TIm Walz did not know Vance Boelter, a source in his office said. The workforce board Boelter served on has about 60 members, many of whom are not politically connected or would have meaningful access to the governor or interactions with him.

The Minnesota assassin supported Donald Trump and had a kill list consisting entirely of Democrats and reproductive rights advocates. But it's unclear what his political motivations might be.

one of the really challenging asymmetries in american politics is that democrats are asked to answer for the actions of every single hypothetical democratic voter in the country but republican lawmakers are not even asked about the behavior of their own elected peers

I know a lot of folks like this account. But this is a wild, and unhelpful, exaggeration--it's a resistance version of sean spicer. It veers into #resistanceporn and trades accuracy for clout, like other "blue maga" grifters on here. Pls consider finding other sources of inspiration/news/motivation

if you put a finger on your baby's soft spot and poke her bellybutton simultaneously, it takes a screenshot

The fact that civilian leadership understands it can’t rein in the police without having their families physically threatened really is a democratic crisis.

I’m at the Pokémon 2025 North American International Championship this weekend, reportedly the largest gathering of Pokémon players anywhere ever. One thing I really appreciate about the Pokémon community, locally and nationally, is how visibly, unapologetically queer it is, 1/

that boelter switched careers from working at a speedway to private security only after 2020 is scary shit

Man it’s gotta be tough being a deluded murderous right-wing ideologue who devotes your life to the cause just to be on the run and watch a bunch of your fellow republicans on TV calling you a Walz-appointed Dem

An important thing to know about Donald Trump is that very few people actually like him! The structure of his support at this point is a relatively small number of psychotic groypers and a much larger swathe of the public who have been convinced by right-wing propaganda that Democrats are worse.

Also see everything in media about the Columbine shooters that didn't mention they were white supremacists who wrote eugenicist screeds and praised Hitler and nazi Germany.

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

We should make June 14th No Kings Day permanently.

Do people who aren’t old like me know that murder and bombings were used as a tactic against abortion clinics and providers, with a lot of them happening in the 1990s? I feel like maybe a lot of people don’t know this.

yeah it's gospel on twitter now that tim walz hired the killer to off the reps for being disloyal dems

Couple things I learned today: - Seniors are extremely fired up about this - "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now - People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA - We all we got, we all we need

Lookit this miserable sumbitch. I love it.

if I were sitting next to credibly accused pedophile Linda McMahon I wouldn't be so nonchalant, personally

The Pretty in Pink/Back to the Future crossover you’ve been waiting for. #NoKings Los Angeles!!! (Leah Thompson is a real one)

Oh my god

When I think about Melissa Hortman, I think about this list. Rest in power.

Do you know how badly you have to screw up as a Republican to get this kind of turnout in IDAHO? #NOKINGS

Love to everyone out protesting today.

Vance Boelter seems to be a Walz appointee in much the same way my classmates who passed the Presidential Physical Test were Reagan appointees.

State law enforcement officials are asking for help finding suspect Vance Boelter. If you see him, call 911. If you have information, call the tipline 877-996-6222

All the credit that Tim Walz got as a VP candidate for good stuff that Minnesota has done? Melissa Hortman (and a bunch of other women) led the hard fight to get bills on his desk and make it politically safe for him to sign.

Seeing a lot of hay being made about the assassin having "been appointed by the governor" to a board position. That implies way more of a relationship and intent than warranted. The verbiage on the appointment certificate is boilerplate and on every single appointment.