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Good sign.

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Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.

submitted 3 hours ago • 308 comments

Assassins dress like cops & the secret police wear masks and no ID

submitted 5 hours ago • 30 comments

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

submitted 5 hours ago • 290 comments

This country just cannot get over its default to brutal, extreme violence as the answer to absolutely everything, and it's very hard to know what other solutions could even possibly be on offer in the face of that determination to kill every perceived enemy.

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The Star Tribune newsroom is doing a great job. I have my issues with Grove and his editorial board quislings but that newsroom is full of pros.

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[non-Minnesotans, before you re-post the thing about the splits in the House and Senate: the legislature is not in session (literally just adjourned in the last week) and won't be back in session until next year]

submitted 7 hours ago • 12 comments

In re: LRT, Minnesota is the opposite of a news desert - the Twin Cities has dozens of responsible news outlets staffed by incredibly professional journalists. They do not need your breathless, speculative assistance in covering this story. Post local coverage as it emerges, and ignore the noise.

submitted 6 hours ago • 17 comments

Every Minnesotan is yelling at all of you to knock this off. Not competitive districts. Lege is not in session. You don't even go here. This is bad enough without the rest of the country parrotting this. Just. Fucking. Wait. For. Local. Reporting.

submitted 7 hours ago • 11 comments

In case you're just waking up: there were at least two assassination attempts on Minnesota legislators overnight.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

This is everywhere. Every academic institution I know is held together by some exhausted woman in her early 40's who waits until the old white male professors have finished their vague rants and says, "alright, so concretely can I propose the following next steps..." She makes half their salary.

submitted 10 hours ago • 32 comments

Something that jumps out to me is the shifting boundary of “professionalism” with respect to law enforcement as opposed to say the military. Trump’s Bragg speech is getting vilified precisely because it throws away the professional distance of soldiers. No such expectation holds for LEO, it seems.

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PSA: Fully fleshed out stories with confirmed details do not appear instantaneously. Reporters must get information, confirm it and then write it up in an article that then needs to be edited prior to publication. Everyone is working as fast as possible I assure you.

submitted 8 hours ago • 15 comments

This is horrific.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

I have just learned that the house that inspired Toad Hall in the Wind in the Willows was an SOE station in WW2 so am now of course pondering Mr. Toad's career as an anti-fascist paramilitary operative.

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

andy ngo is so pants shittingly scared of the very idea that people would stand up for what’s right that fully three years after the 2020 uprising he was still giving powerpoint presentations about how scary we were

submitted 17 hours ago • 81 comments

Had an extended dream where a friendly but kangaroo-sized porcupine was continually trying (and succeeding) to get into my house.

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The donors don't want their workforce deported. But you'll be subject to deportation if you quit your job or join a union or try to bargain for better wages or complain about sexual harassment.

submitted 17 hours ago • 25 comments

Oh, you're doomscrolling current events? That's baby shit. I'm doomscrolling the events of 536. A volcano just erupted in Iceland. Snow just fell during the summer in China. Crops are failing. All of the crops are failing.

submitted 20 hours ago • 111 comments

Junk food wouldn’t present half the problems it does if we had infrastructure that allowed people to walk a city block without getting hit by a big ass truck.

submitted 20 hours ago • 10 comments

me, day before I get my work bonus: it costs the same to buy a carton of cream to make the butter yourself, plus the butter is higher quality and you get the free buttermilk! me, day of getting my work bonus: I should get a jewel encrusted scepter. Do people still carry scepters?

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

"-le" is a forgotten suffix in English - it's integrated so far into words that we no longer register it. It indicates continuousness: to sparkLE is to repeatedly spark, to scribbLE is to continuously scribe, etc. Which implies that to chortLE is to repeatedly do something called a chort.

submitted 22 hours ago • 28 comments

This is gonna make a great campaign ad for somebody.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

What. You do something else on the first night of your summer camp?

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

Oh youre jacking off to the sabrina carpenter sexy dog pic? Boring. Ill instead be jacking off to the album covers of Schubert , and Strauss

submitted 22 hours ago • 130 comments

Passed a Dollar General semi on the road today, and it had the slogan, “today’s general store“ on the side, and man, you’ve got some nerve driving that slogan through rural New England.

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every time I have said this on here I have had people [usually the same ones who cite Chenoweth's 3.5% statistic (which she points out isn't to be interpreted in the way many people interpret it)] screaming that this isn't true. It isn't true 2 them because it doesn't FEEL like people are protesting

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It is our worst tradition, I'll grant you, narrowly edging out white musicians stealing constantly from Black musicians and men pretending that women aren't good at music because the estrogen gets all over their guitar strings and corrodes them prematurely.

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Watching the crowd work episode of Game Changer, and one of the people in the crowd says she's married to one of her college professors, and before she even said what class, I was like, this is 100% gonna be a music prof and probably a conductor.

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Woke up thinking "what am I going to do at work today, I got everything done by midweek," and then I remembered that I have rehearsals from 10-3 and the 2-1/2 month summer camp which I run starts this afternoon.

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It’s not just Gaza. Attacking Iran is also meant to distract from annexing the West Bank.

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I am not a very prolific composer unless you count all the songs I have spontaneously written every time I look at a cat

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