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Anishinabe nerd living in Dakota territory. Probably not one of the grandfathers they told you about.
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Heads up for crafters: Great American LLC has won the bid for Joann. They’re a liquidator, so ALL Joann stores will be closed by end of May. Stock up on everything NOW and if you have an independent fabric store near you, start using it 😢

And believe me, we hear that hard R

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

Love seeing people still say "He can't just sign an executive order declaring he's a king because that's not how it works". Man how many times is this gonna happen until you believe it's happening?

“Segregationists are dismantling the last 60 years of gains achieved by the civil rights movement” is clearer and rejects their framing though

It’s worth emphasizing that the Colombia fight was not about accepting deportations. It was that the Colombian president demanded deportees be treated humanely, and not as props for Trump’s performative cruelty. That simple request for decency was enough for Trump to instigate a trade war.

Yesterday they renamed it the Gulf of America. Today it's snowing on the Gulf Coast. I'm not saying I did it... but I'm also not saying I didn't.

Guys when Chris Rufo and Trump say "We're destroying DEI, we're salting the earth underneath it" and they're talking about regulations that reach back to 1965, they're not talking about corporate diversity trainings. They are talking about civil rights

BREAKING: Latest horror a distraction from many other horrors

Person holding a bowl, or a sad black duck with a man bun?

In one of his last official acts before leaving the White House, President Joe Biden released Leonard Peltier from prison. The action is an extraordinary move that ends a decades-long push by Indigenous activists, international religious leaders and human rights organizations.

It wouldn’t be a start to a new decade without some mysterious ailment. Started my 40s with food poisoning or stomach flu, and now starting my 50s with an oddly swollen ear.

Currently in the heavenly state of a burrito coma. If you’re in the 612, I highly suggest the Tacos El Primo truck on the corner of 60th and Portland.

This is one of those days where it would be to have a listing for Coffee Roaster Repair in the phone book

Ouch.

Dipping my toes into Audible Driving back and forth to Canada every other week should give me plenty of time to form an opinion of it.

I have such sights to show you

Rosie Perez was a nice surprise

Kinda surprised that I’m watching the fight while waiting for my wife to come home.

Dusted the app off to find a whole slew of followers. Welcome to Bluesky, I promise I won’t be the one cluttering your feed. Maybe.

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The Star Tribune regularly publishes letters from readers who proclaim they *were* registered Democrats up until whatever affront caused them to switch party registration, but NEVER appends an asterisk explaining to readers that voters do not register their parties in Minnesota. It’s not a thing.

Hey #Minneapolis people who know Minneapolis kids in 1st through 8th grades! Do they want to try playing lacrosse? There is a FREE (but you do need to register) TryLax event this Saturday 12-1. Come try it out!