Aaron Klemz

Columbia Basin Salmon in Peril Wild fish populations in the Columbia Basin are in serious trouble, with key stocks teetering on the brink of extinction.

Dams are the primary cause of salmon declines on the Columbia, there was a plan to address it, Trump reneged on it, and now we have a D congresswoman saying that sea lions are the cause? Make it make sense. earthjustice.org/feature/colu...

Um, WTH is this? cc: @melissaf.bsky.social

Here's a group of DLers gathered, circa. 2013, at the 331 Club, not for DL per se, but to observe the Winter Solstice darkness with Surly Darkness and other imperial stouts.

Some of you will recognize @aaronklemz.bsky.social as part of the group. Aaron's running for the DFL nomination in Dist. 39A.

MN Power is withdrawing from Nemadji Trail gas power plant proposal, per filing with MN Public Utilities Commission today. Since there are several other part-owners of this proposed gas plant (Basin, Dairyland), it's not clear what it means for the future yet. Here are two key snips:

One in six Minnesotans get their drinking water from our district - that's a big responsibility. Every person deserves to know that the water at their kitchen tap is clean and safe for their family to drink. I'll work hard to protect the water we all depend on.

Voting is even better than donuts! The line at Krispy Kreme should remind us that our work to mobilize and motivate voters to elect DFLers up and down the ballot in 2026 is just beginning. Join us for the campaign launch on December 3rd 5-7 PM to learn how we can work together to do it.

Aaron Klemz standing in a check shirt in front of a tree

Hello! I'm running for MN House District 39A. Paul Wellstone’s saying that “We all do better when we all do better” is a central tenet of who I am and why I am running. Please join me in creating a MN that helps everybody do better, not just the wealthy and powerful. www.aaronklemz.com

This interview between Star Tribune's Dennis Anderson and a rep of the MN logging industry was very interesting, as was the earlier installment. Anderson does a fine job of correcting some of the misdirection attempted by Mr. Horton: www.startribune.com/anderson-min...

Completely wild. I still don't believe what I saw.

I take it all back

And it somehow gets worse. I give the f@@$ up.

30 f$%&ing years of stupid collapses from MN men's sportsball teams and the Loons are living up to the tradition. What the hell Boxy?

Looks like 34-33 DFL MN Senate is back. Congratulations to Sens-elect Hemmingsen-Jaeger and Holmstrom. Now to the next special election!

Woof, this is gonna be close in the end. Frey at 41 is just at the edge of what Fateh can catch.

Polling and social media both lost their way when they were explicitly about manipulating public opinion, rather than reflecting it

YouTube video by Paddle and Portage Founder of Midwest Mountaineering, Launch Point for Many BWCA Trips, Dies at 76

Rod Johnson was a cornerstone of Minnesota's outdoor adventuring community, and Midwest Mountaineering was where you went to meet and connect with people around protecting public land. He will be missed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV8X...

Genuinely want to know which consultant recommended Target give 100% of their corporate workforce five days of limbo on whether they keep their job, while mandating work-from-home for a week. I mean, great for morale and productivity, amirite?

You know, it is theoretically possible to win MLS Cup while scoring zero goals in regulation (and overtime). #COYL

Late autumn photo of the wild ricing waters of Flowage Lake, northwest of McGregor, Minnesota

Confluence of the Mississippi River and Big Sandy Lake west of Duluth, MN

Time to brighten up the TL with some drone pix of Minnesota threatened waters. Here's the source of the St Louis River in northeastern Minnesota

As incredibly stupid, childish and destructive the White House ballroom saga is, please stop thinking there are passionate constituencies ready to leap to the defense of Warren Harding's memorial magnolia tree. It's a great metaphor and metonym, though.

Memo directs agencies to use "major questions doctrine" to preemptive repeal "illegal" regulations, and provide a brief justification through "good cause" rulemaking, where there is a "reasonably good" chance of prevailing on the merits. In other words, repeal and make other go the courts.

White House announces intent to quickly remove "ossified" rules that protect Americans from pollution, fraud and more through an expedited process with 28 day and 14 day comment periods and no tribal or state consultation.

Uh, looks like Department of Homeland Security Secretary Noem is coming to Minneapolis .... tomorrow. This can't be good.

Join us for a screening of "Plastic People" and a discussion about how we can address microplastic pollution in Minnesota and beyond. 6 PM doors at Fridley High School, details and RSVP here: www.facebook.com/events/89266...

Check out Room 5 at the MN Capitol circa 1905 (via the MN State Capitol Facebook page.) All of those inconvenient columns are pretty darn structural. This post is for #mnleg geeks.

This is the football equivalent of coaching NBA teams to take only 3s and dunks

Trump Can Now Send SEAL Team 6 To Assassinate Dancing Inflatable Frogs - Above the Law Court lays a little more track on the authoritarianism express.

Joe Patrice @abovethelaw.com really nails it: "When courts declare that even fantasy threats justify real-world force, we’re no longer interpreting the Constitution, we’re narrating empire." abovethelaw.com/2025/10/nint...

Just a reminder that for the second time since 1950, the Defense Production Act has lapsed. I think maybe people need to be reminded. www.congress.gov/crs-product/...