Dan Miglets-Nelson

Same for FCA…

3 Scandals in 4 Days That Would Define Any Other Presidency During the second Trump administration, corruption scandals that would typically define a presidency receive a day or tw

Last week:

-Trump pardoned Binance's founder after a $2B deal with his crypto firm
-Hegseth awards a DoD contract to a Don Jr.-backed firm
-Trump orders his DOJ cronies pay him $230M in "compensation"

We must not become numb to this. https://popular.info/p/3-scandals-in-4-days-that-would-define

Cue Wonderwall... #CuzMaybe

“You have sown much, and harvested little; you eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes.”

Morning prayer readings are…ripped from the headlines. ⚓️

The Rt Rev’d Craig Loya, 10th Bishop of Minnesota, speaking outside the federal building—named for his first predecessor—where the Secretary for Homeland Security was making an announcement about increased immigration enforcement in Minnesota. This is what moral clarity looks like!

I rock the sauna at MBP 2+ per week, and my quality of life is through the roof.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Yeah…. I was afraid of this.

Howdy from down south.

a man wearing a red adidas shirt with a target logo on the front ALT: a man wearing a red adidas shirt with a target logo on the front

DSC was lights-out tonight.
#mnufc

You mean “taught him everything he knows”, right?

This is why Silence is Violence! #silenceisnotanoption #sino_charleston

One of the most defining features of contemporary journalism is its condescension: the noble desire to explain to its reader–ignorant and unworldly–the complex viewpoints of the world. Nowhere is this more evident than In the Star Tribune’s employment of Karen Tolkkinen to help enlighten sheltered and parochial urban dwellers of the views of “Greater Minnesota.” Tolkkinen’s most recent “Shooting sounds different in rural Minnesota than in the city,” is a perfect encapsulation of this style of writing. Tolkkinen, you see, believes that we city folk just don’t understand real America. Never mind that many of us grew up in such places, never mind that a vast majority of us are quite familiar with rural America. I’m not Minnesotan born, but I was a Boy Scout, so I grew up shooting guns. My Uncle Earl used to sit on his porch in Shreveport, Louisiana with his pistol and shoot the heads off turtles that would poke out of the lake to eat his garden. I’ve been around guns. It sounds the same in rural Louisiana as it does in Midway, where I live. Most of the people I interact with on a daily basis came from rural places or have spent a good portion of their lives there. We do not need Tolkkinen to enlighten us, especially since it is always just so she can reinforce a Republican talking point. She does not have any interest except in the most crass and basic of politics, dressed up in carharts and trucker hat cosplay.

In her article, she tells us how gunfire culture means something different in rural Minnesota. In “the big cities,” we’re to understand that guns mean gang-banging and danger lurking around every corner. And in Outstate Minnesota, guns mean fathers and sons bonding. It’s this sort of kitsch propaganda that doesn’t serve the reader at all, because it presents false cliches as insight. In 2021, 80% of suicides by gun happened in Outstate Minnesota and 67% of all gun deaths that occured in Minnesota occurred from someone taking their own life (from Protect Minnesota’s 2022 report). The sound of gunfire sounds different in Outstate Minnesota because writers like Tolkkinen and the Star Tribune editors are not concerned with shining a light on issues in Minnesota, they’re concerned with partisan political fights and the endless drivel of culture wars. If you were interested in the truth, you would think about the ways in which gun shots in Outstate Minnesota carry just as much violence and threat as they do in Saint Paul or Minneapolis. Even the political fight that Tolkkinen wants to have is the laughable (and I mean laughable) contention that to ban the types of weapons used in mass shootings would “open the door” to more violence such as driving vehicles into crowds. She even invokes the Oklahoma City Bombing to argue against gun control. It’s guns. It has been and always will be the unfettered gun-lust of people so obsessed with violence that the rest of us have to suffer. Do better.

Here's the Letter to the Editor I was worked up enough to write about Karen Tolkkinen's inane article.

Happy Labor Day, from Wallace.

I teared up, that’s for sure.

Very interesting data that shows that bikes are twice as fast compared to motor vehicles in London city.

The average speeds of cars around London City is 10kmh (15kmh in Greater London). 74% of car trips are less than 10km.
#builditandtheywillcome

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Obligatory “Augsburg Mentioned”.

No kidding though, they played with great heart in the second half.

It became a loss that almost felt like a win, aside from the obvious injury concern.

Just a reminder that reciting the Magnificat counts as praying for your government leaders.

Week 2 fit for the Bavarian Derby! @fcaugsburgusa.bsky.social @fcaugsburg1907.bsky.social

It is a choice, for sure.

*youth pastor voice *
You know guys, i know another leader who didn’t have any events for 3 days. Let’s turn to Matthew 28

“Monsters of the Midway”

“Let’s not get carried away…” - some clown.

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

I still find it amusing that the serving size on my “One-A-Day” vitamins is 2 gummies.

Jason Momoa is about to tackle Henry Cavill. Henry Cavill is captioned as "Me" and Jason Momoa is captioned as "The Church Program Year"

I described my current mental state to my therapist by using this meme. ⚓

i put my pants on just like everyone else: by removing the empty la croix cans from the day before first

YouTube video by Wedge LIVE! DeWayne Davis: Jacob Frey is isolated — no relationship with city, county, state leaders

I thought this was a pretty compelling answer from DeWayne Davis to the question, how do you convey the problem of Jacob Frey to your friends who don't think he's a problem?
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“3” is one of my favorites, after Clyde’s!