Gamle Ode Aquavits

"We think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all...as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills...steel saucepans...and fleece vests...grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe"

—Le Guin

I went to DC with a bunch of Minnesotans who are asking Congress to defund ICE, and to make sure what happened here doesn’t happen anywhere else.

Sure:
Light rail, high speed rail, ocean wave generation, solar power generation, wind generation, heat pump tech, geothermal heat pump tech, last mile on-demand transit solutions, better wheelchairs, better wheel chair lifts, better flexible seating on public transit, maker spaces, tool libraries.

GEO Group also provides guards for ICE flights and buses between ICE flights and detention centers.

If and when we get to the justice and accountability stage, don't forget the contractors.

Wasn’t one of the major pillars of Team Frey’s argument to overturn the endorsement of Omar Fateh about credentialing?

The downstream of this is going to be bloody. Can we wrap up the murder machines now?

Demuth: GOP caucus directed YouTuber to Minnesota. A professor explains why it went viral University of Minnesota media law professor Jane Kirtley says the new viral video is flashy but absent of facts to back up its claims.

I'm going to need this to be talked about daily, local news needs to bring this up any time they talk about Demuth.
Let's put it on billboards, make some ads.
"Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth said Monday that her caucus steered YouTube creator Nick Shirley to day care sites in Minnesota"

Sheriff Klang sounds like the worst of the worst to me

This language on the TrumpRx site.

Speaker Hortman’s work will be felt for generations to come, not just in this chamber - but in the lives of every child who grows up in a better Minnesota.

And every time I pet a Golden, I’ll think of her.

Thread on DFL “leaders” choosing when the rules do and don’t apply yet again. It always seems that the rules apply when it benefits the older whiter folk and not the younger, newer, BIPOC/LGTBQ+ folk.

this is shit drives me 🤯🤯.

Scott Graham is on CBRC & SEC (along w/ Teresa Coryell House) & both sided w/ the Frey team’s smear campaign against the Minneapolis DFL, and at the root of their argument was CREDENTIALING.

so sick of these do-nothing pricks saying “rules for thee not for meee”.

this is true 👇👇

the same woman who has called for the abolishment of Minneapolis DFL over the endorsement btw

Jacob Frey and his corporate PAC donors spent $103 per vote to put Pearll Warren in office.

$159k in PAC money + $93k in campaign money for 2,437 final round votes so they could get their rubber stamp to defend the Laken Riley Act.

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

a fucking pedophile sexually abused nearly every prospective and actual Olympian gymnast for over two decades, and the political discourse is hyper-fixated on the hypothetical unfairness of trans girls competing with cis girls

a two-month-old infant who was so sick he was unresponsive in the last day, deported with his family and their total of $190

"the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children"

So THAT’S why the sunrise looked like it does when there’s smoke from forest fires in the air?!
The sun shouldn’t be this colour this high above the horizon. I’d never seen fog do that before.

Map from Ontario Storm Watch showing AQI scores in red in the 140-150 mark across Southern Ontario with a score of 174 in Michigan visible, all of which are deemed dangerously high AQI

Via a photo I saw on Instagram, someone who lives in the 51st floor of their condo takes a photo of the downtown Toronto skyline which is mostly invisible due to fog with just the tips of a few towers lime the TD and CIBC buildings peeking out

The lower Great Lakes region has super bad air quality today, and one of the big causes is, surprisingly, melting snow.

The warm snap is melting the snow banks, releasing all the car exhaust & toxins & rotting debris in the snow. Which,coupled with lack of wind and rain, sits in the air as smog

this, like Good and Pretti's murders, feels like a Mistake

That last sentence? That's the strategy. They've been pretty open about it.

Colbert’s James Talarico Interview Hits 3 Million YouTube Views, Surpasses Bad Bunny Appearance "The Late Show" aired the interview straight to YouTube after alleged pressure from CBS over the FCC's equal-time rule

www.thewrap.com/media-platfo... Brendan Carr may help flip Texas

“The ban forces nine sheriff’s offices in the state to immediately sever agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — including the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office, which had one of the nation’s longest-running 287(g) agreements.”

“At bottom, majority support for a path to legalization for longtime residents is an expression of support for a deeper notion: that they have become part of our communities and now have some sort of claim to staying.”

He should be censored for having the nerve to exist in his present state.

Imagine doing this with your one precious life. Other people are out there teaching children and curing cancer and you decide to spend your time telling outrageous, laughably unbelievable lies about a dementia-addled rapist and fraud whose legacy will be nearly ending US democracy

There is nothing legal or moral about the blockade. It's also terrible policy, and actively harmful to broader U.S. national security interests. But at least it's also costing taxpayers gobs of money.

This is interesting — Stephen Colbert’s show has an average daily audience of 2.7 million viewers. And the lineup for last night’s show that included @jamestalarico.bsky.social would likely be considered average at best.

In under a day, the YOUTUBE interview has 3.8 million views & climbing.

So…