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Economic demographer & govt stats. Living my best life in Mpls St Paul. Disclaimers: Views found here are my own & NOT representing my employer. PFP from 1988. Same handle at my other accts.
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every single transportation conversation ever

Theyre firing the black 4star generals... bc they're black. That's illegal, right? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... ... right?

A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

Trump: I AM A KING! NYT: Trump displays a "fondness for regal themes"

over the course of 13 years, Minneapolis proper saw the addition of almost 40,000 housing units. Not everyone is happy about that?? www.minnpost.com/community-vo...

They were careless people, Trump and Musk — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that held them together.

Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

A good moment to remember the Russia thing was always real. Trump's goal is to help Russia and Putin, always has been. He's trying to throw our democratic allies under the bus and America as well. Again, the Russia thing was always real.

Anyone spending #FormerPresidentsDay the traditional way? 🇺🇸

Commute & activity patterns are much changed #postpandemic. Veh. mi. per capita are down. Mostly that's good! (just wish we still had dept. stores.) www.startribune.com/daily-travel... 🎩 h/t interview bits w/ @jnehrlich.bsky.social @elindie.bsky.social

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

Sure, I, a hater, enjoy this, but the Minnesotan in me wonders if these folks are so up their own mythologizing they haven’t thought to try snow tires.

In retrospect, I probably should’ve written about Trump’s secret plan to send journalist to the camps instead of holding it back for my book

Back in my day there was so much toilet paper and so much eggs that we gathered at night and threw them at the houses of our enemies #EconSky

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz (@zezvaz.bsky.social):

This is not the trade deficit you're looking for. #buyMerican

Gutsy, comefrombehind WIN by @gophermbasketball.bsky.social Hell yeah! #skiumah #goGophers

doge has a gov web site so insecure you could literally push your own update to it www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

I mean, Jesus Christ, can you people even *hear* yourself? I'm about to die of secondhand embarrassment just reading this crap.

Give power to criminals 👉 expect criminality

TwinCitiesResearch.org considers public data to be a resource for the public good. Not a partisan issue. This week we joined @copafs.bsky.social and 200+ others, petitioning Congress to protect and preserve federal data. Our letter 👉 copafs.org/wp-content/u...

Donald Trump's week so far: Gets told off by a 4 year-old in the Oval Office by the son of the guy who was nice enough to let him sit in his chair Ignores court orders teeing up a Constitutional crisis Lets food and medicine across the world spoil MaKEs BriBeRY GrEaT aGaiN

i do not understand what elon and trump would be doing differently if there weren’t themselves actual agents of beijing and moscow

Finally got around to watch @kare11.bsky.social TV segment on Twin Cities population forecast. It's not bad! And provided me a good LOL😆 at the end of the segment.

Government inefficiencies continue driven by an administration that does not care about its staff and workers.

Met Council forecasts where population will grow across Twin Cities: Look up your city | via @startribune.com www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...

I realize now that I have a “trade deficit” with the store across the street. I walked over and bought a jug of milk. The store is abusing me and I’m tired of subsidizing it by buying something at a fair price that I want. I’m going to apply a tariff that will raise the future price of milk for me.

Look, we gotta keep beating this drum: THESE AREN'T CUTS, THEY'RE ILLEGAL IMPOUNDMENT Not only do "cuts" sound normal & suggest a proper legal process brought them about—which is a lie—but they also sound like something that fell out of the sky, a natural happening, rather than a unilateral decree

I ain't going to try to alt text this, just go and read the source at the link. This feels painfully believable, to me. www.reddit.com/r/AITAH/comm...

Don't forget.

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