jeremy messersmith

Cool as hell pets not allowed.

This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen

this is just brutal and I'm old enough to know it's true

For the next 97 days, I will post one thing per day about the late, great Tom Lehrer — one for each year of his life — unless I forget and skip a day.

Day 1: he found a rhyme for 🍊!

Eating an orange
While making love
Makes for bizarre enj-
Oyment thereof.

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The Sears Tower looking insanely creepy during a blackout, including the impression of a scary face topped by a crown of spikes. It looks like a giant humanoid evil robot or a demonic Minecraft creature.

"It's ok, honey. The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout won't hurt you!"

The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:

Hard to imagine Newman, Yankovic and even Burnham without him

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

One of my favorite songwriters. His dark humor is something I frequently try to channel when writing (Boomers, 666). www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

New details about police activity after lawmaker shootings raise questions about response The Minnesota Star Tribune found that Brooklyn Park police waited more than 60 minutes to enter the Hortman home and that several law enforcement agencies were unaware of the situation for hours.

They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway

Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking

And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere

r/EmotionalCrafts u/Aromatic_Degree2276. 9h Join My neighbor Lisa has officially won the award for most ridiculous garden supervisor.

Every evening around six, she puts on that hotdog costume and heads out to inspect her lettuce with her cat trailing behind. I thought it was just a one-time thing when I first spotted her through my kitchen window. Maybe a costume left over from Halloween, maybe she lost a bet with her grandkids. But no, this is apparently her daily routine now. The cat seems completely unbothered by the whole situation, just follows along like this is totally normal while Lisa waters her seedlings in full hotdog regalia. The costume came from someone, according to Lisa. She was looking for something to make her evening garden time more fun after her husband passed last year. The gardening helps with the loneliness, she told me, but wearing a hotdog suit just makes everything a little brighter. What kills me is how seriously she takes her garden supervision duties. Lisa will spend twenty minutes out there in that ridiculous outfit, talking to her plants about which tomatoes are coming along nicely or

Kudos Lisa

Children Left Alone After Mothers Arrested in Immigration Raids "I just hope I get my mom back," says 15-year-old Juan Martinez, who is now caring for his brothers, ages 8 and 9.

A 15-yo is now caring for his little brothers bc ICE snatched their mom. And another family that the local Santa Barbara paper found, pretty much same thing. Think how many stories aren’t being told www.independent.com/2025/07/11/c...

YouTube video by Jeremy Messersmith - Topic Boomers

I wrote a survival guide for the 21st century and an anthem for a generation.

"Boomers" is now streaming everywhere.

Send it to that special boomer in your life!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vPm...

Brooks: Minnesota’s greatest honor for a family’s great loss Former President Joe Biden paid his respects in person, and mourners waited in long lines to honor Melissa and Mark Hortman, and their dog Gilbert, as they lay in state at the Capitol.

This broke me from the first paragraph

"For Melissa Hortman’s last day at work, they draped her coffin with pink flowers and filled the cold marble under the Minnesota Capitol dome with the green and growing things that she loved."

Thank you, @stribrooks.bsky.social

the mamdani thing is showing you how limited the range of acceptable opinions actually is in america. republicans can be a stone's throw away from endorsing genocide and thats fine but one guy goes slightly to the left of dem party orthodoxy and we're right in the middle of soviet russia

You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country

The Internet As We Knew It Is Over. The Only Thing Left Is to Go Outside We used to have fun online. Not anymore.

When @scaachi.bsky.social tells you the internet isn't fun even for HER anymore, it's time to get off the internet. slate.com/technology/2...

I just listened to the 14 minute version of "4th of July" by Sufjan Stevens and now nothing can ever hurt me again.

I think about this every day

What's next? Things to do after a big march First, a personal note: I shared a poem at the No Kings rally here in the Twin Cities yesterday. Find the full text, some video, and a bunch of my thoughts on the process here. Before I get to the po...

Saying "big marches are not enough!" is correct, but is also... not enough.

So here are a few resources and pieces of commentary on different ways to take yesterday's energy into tomorrow.

cc: @indivisible.org, @indivistwincities.bsky.social, @mn50501.bsky.social, @50501movement.bsky.social

The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible

How Minnesota Democrats Passed A Raft Of Progressive Legislation With A 1-Seat Majority Party unity and a political rebound years in the making produced the “Minnesota Miracle 2.0.”

Melissa Hortman, key architect of the Minnesota Miracle of feeding kids and protecting women’s rights, has been shot in her home as were her husband and dog. Another democrat, John Hoffman, was also shot in his home. I feel like I’m going to throw up. God help us.
www.huffpost.com/entry/minnes...

Okay I legit want to turn this line into a song haha

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been listening to the radio and I’m like “Who the hell is this?” and it’s her.

Someone I don’t think anyone has mentioned yet is Caroline Polachek. Her vocal flipping technique is insane and that doesn’t even touch on her genre-bending songwriting.

Image text: “justice for Isa: banner making June 10, 7pm, 2482 University Ave.; public show up June 11, 11am sherburne county jail; donate to indigenous roots- add dedication note to fund legal fees.” Plus a photo of Isa wearing an "indigenous protector movement" shirt.

A developing situation here in MN: lots of people talking about it over on IG but not seeing it on here: looks like local poet and activist Isa Lopez got snatched by federal agents. Georgia Fort is reporting on it too. For now, just re-sharing the call(s) to action that Jeremiah Ellison shared:

Graphic with a cartoon bald eagle carrying an upside-down crown over a banner reading "NO KINGS." Now in glorious color with a bit of 35mm film clouds at sunset as the background. NO KINGS logo and nokings.org URL at bottom right.

#NoKings in America. NO KINGS.

Find a rally near you and go this weekend, friends.

nokings.org

Read this before next Saturday's No Kings rally

I think we should not only arm teachers, but also give them skis so that way they can compete in the biathlon.

This is my exact kind of clickbait

Good morning to everyone except the person throwing cigarette butts in my garden beds