🦇James Knight🦇

Thoughts and…

Y’all do yourselves a favor and listen to Ludwig Göransson’s Sinners score while reading @sgj.bsky.social ‘s Buffalo Hunter Hunter. It’s such a visceral experience it almost feels like the score was made for both.

The thing about watching a JD Vance speech is that everyone knows he’s a little pig man. Everyone knows he exists to squeal for Trump‘s amusement. No one respects him and he clearly doesn’t respect himself.

The difference between most red states and blue states is gerrymandering. That's it. Blue states have largely sensible districts, while red states will have districts shaped like the spiral from True Detective to avoid letting Black people have a fair say. Abandonment is further capitulation.

The coolest dude came to town last night. Thx to Louise Erdrich’s incredible Birchbark Books team and @sgj.bsky.social #BuffaloHunterHunter #HorrorLit #HorrorSky

Concerned About Your OB-GYN Visit? A Guide to What Should Happen — and What Shouldn’t. As we’ve reported on sexual misconduct by OB-GYNs, many women told us they didn’t know what was normal. With the help of providers, patients and experts, we created this guide.

As we’ve reported on sexual misconduct by OB-GYNs, we’ve learned that many women felt they didn’t know what was normal during a visit, or didn’t know what they could do to speak up.

We created this guide to help fill this gap.

Walz hits road to rip Trump policies as he works to keep his own national profile up Gov. Tim Walz, the 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee, held the first in a series of forums in Republican-held congressional districts outside of Minnesota. He is using them to dissect Trump ad...

Walz said he is holding public events in places where the incumbent House members have been reluctant to do town halls, which have quickly become venting spots for people upset with the swift Trump remake of the federal government.

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.

Tomorrow is the cloture vote.

KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️

Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.

Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.

Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.

Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.

TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

On the note of improvements: Lyndale Ave. S should be turned into light rail only going from Target Field/Center to Lake St. at least and ideally to Lake Harriet if the NIMBYs ever could allow it.

Every building is a bit much but how about signs at major intersections? Although, I’m not sure how to make it simpler than “Go North” since most avenues run N/S except the poorly named Washington Ave. which should be named Washington Blvd.

This February, we saw a 275% increase in new Libro.fm memberships compared to February 2024.

More and more individuals are choosing to support their independent bookshop—and their local communities—over Amazon/Audible. Thank you for supporting your indie with us ❤️

My music taste has shifted from a Chappel Roan-fueled Pop summer to a Castle Rat-inspired Doom Metal winter with a steady stream of Kiki Rockwell. The common theme is women in armor. 💪⚔️🏹🔥🏰

America first. Dr. Seuss

Hmmm this guy is on to something

I'm old enough to remember when trump tried to say people in the Biden Administration were incompetent, but none of them accidentally fired the Ebola team. Or the nuclear weapons folks.

Just sayin'.

The numbers don’t lie.

The cost of living is up since Trump took office. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

10 days ago Trump fired hundreds of FAA employees, weakening the systems air traffic controllers rely on.

Maybe instead of handing Elon a $2 billion FAA contract, we should use that money to actually hire and retain the workers who keep our skies safe.

Just a thought.

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

Dear @klobuchar.senate.gov, I received an email from your office urging me to reach out to the GOP to “persuade” them to stop throwing us under the bus…but I am not represented by the GOP. You are one of my Senators and I expect you to act like it. I expect you to fight back like it’s your damn job.

Finish line at the American Birkebeiner.
#birkie #americanbirkenbeiner #xcskiing

Starting line at the American Birkebeiner.

Evening view of Lake Namekagon from Lakewoods Resort’s restaurant.

Skiers selected to reenact the roles of the Birkebeiner soldiers for whom the race is named.

There was a man with a live goose for some reason.

Main Street Downtown Hayward, WI - 300M from the finish line.

Some photos from this past weekend’s shoot: The 51st American Birkebeiner.

#birkie #xcskiing #americanbirkebeiner

If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long.

They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

MAGA stands for cutting funds for education including disabled children.

MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-Democracy, and most importantly MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat but that is what it is.” 3/3

MAGA stands for firing Air Traffic controllers while planes are crashing.

MAGA stands for firing the people overseeing our nuclear arsenal.

MAGA stands for firing military veterans and those serving them at the VA including cancelling research on veteran suicide. 2/3

#EndMAGA @chriswarcraft.bsky.social’s incredible speech:
“[…] I’m going to take my time to say what MAGA has stood for these past three weeks.

MAGA stands for trying to erase trans people from existence.

MAGA stands for desegregation and racism.

MAGA stands for censorship and book-burning. 1/3

Minnesota doesn't have a Democratic Party — we have a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.

Ken knows better than anyone what we can achieve when we help workers organize.

‘Outrageous’ and ‘chilling’: Local orgs react to new DEI restrictions from the National Endowments for the Arts The Playwrights’ Center of Minneapolis has rejected a $35,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts due to new federal restrictions barring grant recipients from promoting diversity, equity, ...

“Freedom of expression is the cornerstone of our organization, and we cannot accept federal funding or any funding that says we have to censor what our artists want to say,” said Nicole A. Watson, the producing artistic director at the Playwrights’ Center of Minneapolis.

This is why you fight these cowards.

The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.

Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.

He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

This blog post perfectly captures what @flashes.blue is all about! Awesome writing!