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One goal. Dominated Posession. Saige Wimes is your @startribune.com, Star of the Match! 🌟

ME: Just one last pdf to open and review then I can shut down for the weekend. COMPUTER:

Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse

The Memorial Day Message from the President of the United States of America, in memory of those who have given their lives defending America, the Constitution, and the freedoms that we Americans enjoy on this Memorial Day 2025.

It really is hard to overstate how good the world building in Astro City is. Even re-reading the earlier trades for the fourth or fifth time, I’m struck by how smoothly Busiek sets up the mysteries surrounding each character, and how the answer never feels cheap, or like cheating.

Thunderbolts* is a fun and welcome movie for the season! Been a minute since I’ve been to a theater, just a blast to watch something as entertaining as this for my day-off.

The gerontocracy has consequences, episode one million and three.

Dems are out of touch with working people, not like this guy.

This is obviously thinly-veiled racism. But it’s also a bullshit premise. Haitian refugees were thriving in Springfield. Bhutanese, Congolese, other refugees from Africa & Asia have reinvigorated Rust Belt towns and cities. Trump wants to send them all back.

My garden hose sprung a leak and burst in my face this morning and it feels like a metaphor for reading any US headlines any day of the week.

Tim Blake Nelson is 61. 6yrs ago, he made some remarkably prescient & depressingly true observations on filmmaking in the age of streaming.

DEEP DISH COMMUNION WAFERS

🔥 GOV. WALZ: “When did government get to tell you how many dolls your child has? Government just big enough to fit in your bedroom, womb, and apparently now your toy chest… Trump is picking the winners and losers — the billionaires are winning and the rest of us are losing.”

When the pudding brain bubbles

I respect AOC but now I want Pritzker and Walz to team up and go on a Dad Tour of the states just ripping on Trump and Musk.

Stay safe Twin Cities… keep emergency packs close.

September 5. Great flick, great example of building story, character, and world, all at the same time. We watch the characters manage problem-solving and learn about things WITH them instead of the plot being intentionally hidden from us.

I've heard execs/Wall St analysts take comfort in fact that consumer spending has held up even as consumer views of the economy are tanking. After all, revealed preferences matter! But I wonder how much of that disconnect could be explained by cases like this (from a reader):

As a working professional screenwriter, my target page count is 3 pages a day. That's just 750-900 words. If I hit that every week day, that's 15 pages a week. That's a whole script in less than 7 weeks. (I usually hit it in 5) The industry standard contract for a completed first draft is 12 weeks.

Project UFO is a UFO mystery set in Poland in the early 80s, less about UFOs and science fiction, more about the media/political climate of the time. The plot works, for the most part, and the visuals and music/scoring are worth the look.

Couldn’t happen to a more talented person. Well done, Paul !

I have somebody who does my decks, all stock or found, no AI, but I want to see this become normalized so I’m getting Bryan out there.

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

ROMEO stands for "retired older men eating out," and it's helping guys in one Maine town get out of the house and into more friendships.

Cc @amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov

Delroy Lindo is overdue for awards recognition.

SINNERS is a great movie, and a great movie Experience. Scary, fun, suspenseful, masterful crafting and layered storytelling. If you’re able to see it on a huge screen with an audience, do it!

RFK Jr. is very loud and very WRONG about Autism. 1. It’s not a disease 2. There are thousands of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder who pay taxes, have jobs, can use the bathroom on their own, and are thriving in life.

Trump Derangement Syndrome is real. Dude needs a detox.

JD Vance just broke apart the College Football Playoff National Championship trophy on live television.

You can talk about co-equal branches and checks and balances and the influence of this document or that system, but when it comes right down to it, the thing that made the American idea special was the notion that the government couldn't just fucking kick you out for saying what you think.

Every day I discover a brand new reason to hate this motherfucker

He said the Insider Trading part out loud.

Dow shoots up over 2,000 points on the news that Trump is pausing most of his tariff scheme for 90 days. It's the kind of move that would generate massive profits for someone who had an early head's up. Speaking hypothetically here, of course.

North Korea would like their propaganda playbook back

Yesterday I took my daughter to Target, then an indoor playground, then to a children’s clothing store to shop. She was wiped, but not so much she couldn’t enjoy a play date with a friend in the afternoon. I love being a dad. Enjoy your Sunday!

Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff