Ken Paulman

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

Sign with red individual letters on a concrete block retaining wall that is supposed to read Reliable Insurance Network but two letters have fallen off.

Made me think of this place

Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets.

The End Times prophecy is central to evangelical politics and their support for Israel and it’s amazing how it’s almost never mentioned in mainstream reporting.

Have things returned to normal in St. Paul’s Latin quarters? No, they have not: www.facebook.com/share/18R8ez...

So much easier if we just call it “Greater Saint Paul.”

Gate attendant just called it “Minneanapolis”

Very woke of them to have a Black Viking. I’m good with this.

imo the threat posed by CBS News and CNN getting absorbed by pro-regime billionaires isn't that they're going to produce right-wing slop that convinces people to be right-wing, it's the dismantling of newsrooms capable of doing investigative reporting on the administration. Fewer eyes on the street.

Played on the console stereo

Oh hey, this sounds familiar encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...

Also there is a Grimace mural behind the McDonald’s.

Wait is this real?

Perfection

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Can confirm this. I engage with people on our community FB page all the time. Always polite, always in good faith, never believing for a second that I’m changing their mind. And have had other people IRL tell me that it’s meaningful to see someone sticking up for them.

The drunk uncle theory.

You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

Former President George W. Bush declaring victory in Iraq in 2003. The war would continue for 8 more years.

The person photographed here who is in their bathrobe filming armed, masked federal agents in St. Paul is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social @mprnews.org . She is an incredible journalist and person. We do not deserve her.

The electricity grid making an appearance at the Super Bowl half-time show 🤯

Our notably apolitical oldies station in MSP was playing a block of ‘60s protest songs last night. Not a huge listener but pretty sure they’ve never busted out Richie Havens before.

I feel like I read a book once where this was a thing. In England.

“Actually this doesn’t really matter” is maybe not the play right now.

I’ll ask around

Was just thinking about how when you’re a compassionate person of color, there is a melancholy when uprisings finally happen when a white person dies. Cause you affirm humanity, so you believe it is the right thing to happen AND because you know how many of your own people were denied that dignity.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

The “speakeasy” trend feels extra stupid now that businesses actually have to guard their doors to keep from getting raided.

Remote desk jockey here - I’m taking PTO and donating my salary for the day to a community organization, and will volunteer where needed. Feels like a bare minimum kind of thing to do.

I feel like an outlet with the time and money to send a stringer to a bar in Nisswa could have someone ask around about this.

As anticipated, zero mention of ICE targeting houses of worship.