Patrick Rhone

The miscalculation they made here: There are no strangers in Minnesota. Only neighbors you've never met.

This has been a reason and opportunity to meet many more of them.

And we are made better and stronger by it.

Then, like it or not, that choice not to do so would mean you and everyone else you love live with whatever results come from that.

All I'm saying, as I often do, is saying no means saying yes to other things — explicitly or not.

People who choose not to vote *hate* being told that their choice influences the result. Especially when the result negatively affects everyone and everything they love. Especially when it negatively affects them.

They want to personal power without the personal responsibility.

In fairness, we need the Tupperware back so we can store the leftover bon-bons were just sitting over here eating.

Let us not forget those that actively — with great conviction — choose not to vote for a particular candidate(s) or in a particular election(s). That is a non-zero number that some could argue with supporting data is a bigger problem than we often give credit to. Also needs digging into.

Feeling Helpless? Here are Some Things You Can Do Right Now I've had a lot of messages from out-of-Minnesota friends asking "What can I do to help?" Others, even here, are feeling like they don't know...

There are a lot of things you can do to help right now, even if you are too burned out/overwhelmed/far away: prologuist.blogspot.com/2026/02/feel...

Tarragon.

Minnesota is a trial run. This is exactly how they will keep people from the polls.

Opinion | This Is Not a Drill

A must read: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

Another Minnesotan saying: There is no pause! Because there isn’t one, believe no one who says otherwise.

Pay attention to the thing you see. But pay even more attention to the things you aren't seeing:

www.patrickrhone.net/the-things-y...

This. So much this.

It's The Good Bits I Find Hard to Talk About The MSHSL Competitive One-Acts are A Thing that did not exist when I was in high school. Every January, schools compete with 35-minute-or-le...

A bunch of high school kids, including my daughter, remind me why theater is so very important:
prologuist.blogspot.com/2026/02/its-...

You know things are bad in Minnesota when they have to release a tiny fraction of the Epstein Files as a distraction.

Constitutional rights regularly abused and/or ignored by agents of the Federal government here in Minnesota:

The 1st, 4th, 5th, 10th, 14th.

And, in the case of Pretti, the 2nd.

Remember, if they can do it here to us they can and plan to do it there to you.

This whole thread. 👇👇👇

So say we all.

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Maybe he has a plan (or several) for not having them.

(I can think of a half-dozen myself)

I might have to do a daily series here of uncomfortable questions.

Here's today's question I'd like you to ask yourself:

Is Donny Dictator acting like someone who cares about legitimately helping his party win the midterms?

No?

Why do you think that is?

Minnesota in January I want you to know what Minnesota is usually like in January. Sure, it's cold, and snowy — so we take advantage of it. We're visiting the Ar...

This January is not like other Januaries: prologuist.blogspot.com/2026/01/minn...

Someone should make posters of every one of these heroes, post them all over the city, and make sure they never have to pay for a beer again anywhere in the metro.

You speak for all of us.

And, yes, if one has to explain the humor it wasn't funny in the first place so... No moonlighting in stand-up for me I guess. :-)

Yes, I got what you were saying on the second pass.

I was tongue-firmly-in-cheek joking that ICE were the missing well-equipped paid agitators. Because, well, they obviously weren't very well-equipped (but are paid agitators).

Oh, you mean on the part of ICE?

My question stands. :-)

Where are the well-equipped paid agitators when we need them?

;-)

He doesn't understand that we would print out those pictures as posters and put them up around the city as heroes.

They would drink in any local bar for free and be at the receiving end of hotdish brigades for the rest of their lives.

And, we will never forget. We will 91 Halloween Blizzard this.

Do not rest until every last ICE agent is out of our cities, our neighbors who have been disappeared are found and returned, and the murderers of Renee Good and Alex Pretti are in jail facing trial for their crimes.