Mike Hicks

#mtfarecheck by TRIP agents on northbound Blue Line car 263 all the way into downtown. Also had a fare check yesterday morning

THIS ALERT IS OVER

I HAVE MORE TO REPORT BUT IT IS OVER.

I have reason to believe they are going elsewhere in MPLS but there is a car following them with bullhorns

Two unmarked SUVs, two unmarked chargers, AND TWO MPD SQUADS

This would just reduce defense spending to like 2018 levels and let veterans have teeth

That was too much for Lockheed & Northrop's bipartisan hold on 90% of the US Senate

As always I see warhawk Amy Klobuchar once again was in favor of bigger war budgets... Not teeth

~40% of the ENTIRE corn crop of the US is used to make ethanol. This gets blended with gasoline to power well under 10% of our vehicle miles. If we converted 100% of our vehicles to EVs installing solar on a small fraction of the land this corn is grown on would power them all.

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

Go for it, Taylor!

also, if you were born before 1987, you are older than honey roasted peanuts

From Justin to Kelly movie poster

From Justin to Kelly is slightly older than ICE.

I went ahead and did the starting work for someone who wants to chase this angle. Most right-wing influencers who participated in the "Antifa" roundtable at the White House yesterday have easily provable ties to TPUSA (8 of 12). The other four need a closer look I don't have time for right now.

Libertarianism WIN! This country decided to run on libertarian principles and almost immediately needed a bailout from another government

YouTube video by Twin Cities PBS Why Is A Rainbow Curved? | Newton's Apple

Everyone sees their own rainbow
youtu.be/6PrrPOvEU6w

I'm sure it's supposed to be like a dictionary entry, and that's the pronunciation part of it

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Try explaining this to a toddler: red means STOP, except for this one thing

YouTube video by Some More News The Making Of Stephen Miller - SOME MORE NEWS

Many people are saying, this guy's a bit of a bad egg
youtu.be/vlKDQ3fwI5w

House Republicans have been on vacation for 20 days.

The government is shut down and health care costs are exploding.

Cancel the vacation, and let’s get back to Washington. We have work to do.

The @nogodsnomayors.com podcast gets a great shout-out from Cory Doctorow at the start of this interview

The one good innovation of Meta's Threads is that they include a little "1/3" icon in the bottom right showing the position of a post within a thread if it's been reposted

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Even that amount doesn't feel like enough to me, though I'm not sure on the details. I figure that here in MN, we should be spending $100 million annually on expanding passenger rail (perhaps just a fraction from our own funds if we can get an 80/20 match from the feds), so Illinois should be more

Paulinkskill Viaduct in New Jersey. Part of the Lackawanna Cutoff. "When completed in 1910, it was the largest reinforced concrete structure in the world." Soon to reopened for trains.

Luncheon - Averting the Fiscal Cliff: The Road to Regional & High-Speed Rail | High Speed Rail Alliance This gathering will spark vital conversations shaping the future of transportation locally and nationally.

They're also having a lunch event in Chicago tomorrow from 10 am to 2 pm talking about the fiscal cliff the bill aims to fix
www.hsrail.org/events/lunch...

YouTube video by High Speed Rail Alliance Illinois Transit Bill Could Deliver the First Real Money for Intercity Rail

The High Speed Rail Alliance is asking Illinois residents to tell their representatives to support House Bill 3438 to provide transit funding along with $135 million for intercity rail projects
youtube.com/shorts/p7wLe...

I'm curious how widespread this already is. It makes sense for transit agencies to only pay for the net amount of energy they consume

Caltrain’s Brakes Feed Power Back to the Grid. And Now They’ll Reduce Its Cost | KQED Caltrain’s regenerative braking is performing better than anticipated, returning 23% of the power used by its new electric trains. Policy changes will allow it to be compensated.

Caltrain has set up an agreement with power providers Peninsula Clean Energy and San José Clean Energy to be paid back for electricity returned to the grid from regenerative braking
www.kqed.org/science/1998...

13 arrested, 4 police officers injured during pro-Palestinian protest in Boston Thirteen people were arrested, and four police officers were injured during a pro-Palestinian rally in Boston Tuesday night.

If Democrats want to stop fascism, they have to stop their cops from beating & arresting anti-fascism protesters in their own cities

Why is that a thing I have to say out loud

I was honored to represent Robin Wonsley and Michael Wilson. I admire them for their commitment to the hard, necessary work ahead of us and required of us. I got fired from a good job for taking this case, and yet I wouldn't change a thing. Thank you, Robin and Michael, for fighting for Minneapolis.

Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month.

But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.