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My tween child asked me today when was the last time things weren’t awful politically.

It’s really rough to explain that there were times of progress and hope and there will be again.

We were literally chanting “we have hope” 😭

I’m wearing sandals. I’ve decided we’re done.

I can’t even make an Adam Ant joke about my lack of drinking and smoking at the doctor because everyone is so young now.

(For the young, the song goes “don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do you do?”)

I know it’s not even funny, but I hate clinic visits and also god I’ve gotten old.

It’s probably why I really didn’t think anything of living in an apartment. When I watched Sesame Street, they all lived like us. Though when we eventually bought a house, it definitely felt enormous and was exciting.

This made me remember something else—if you look at old Sesame Street episodes (like 1980s), the people they have in them are very, very normal. Things have gotten increasingly stylized since the 1990s and it has given people a weird sense of normal.

(My mom loved Roseanne for the reason below)

Just made another call. It's voicemail most of the time. You can do it.

We definitely have income inequality problems, but there are so many grifters out there trying to encourage despair. When people stitch them or quote them with a list of what their family used to do I’m just like—your family was well off, my friend.

We were not poor. That was a totally normal way for a family to live. I did sports and dance lessons and whatever, but you have to budget and live within your means.

I thought Hard Rock Cafe must be so fancy because the kids who flew to warm places on airplanes came back with those shirts.

I’ll add to this, because the quoted nonsense is all over the internet and massive disinformation for young people or those who were actually well off and think they weren’t.

I grew up with only one parent working. Four of us lived in a 2br apartment. Vacation was driving to visit grandparents.

Minneapolis schools are still being targeted by 🧊

What’s described in the article reminds me of the 1980s/90s. I was trying to remember what was going on that compelled me to phone bank for NARAL in the 1994 elections before I was old enough to vote, but I think it was just the cruelty and violence of the anti-abortion movement.

Here is the spreadsheet DOGE had ChatGPT produce, to determine which grants were too DEI www.historians.org/wp-content/u...

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There was a serious house fire earlier this week on Polk street. Not only is the family suffering from the damage to their house, but early in the morning after the fire their house robbed and belongings were stolen. Let’s help our neighbors in Waite Park recover.

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Also mentions Charles Coughlin, the rabidly antisemitic and increasingly pro-fascist during the ‘30s Catholic priest whose radio show spewed poison in far too many willing ears. That stuff doesn’t just disappear.

Following the completion of the book yesterday with Posner’s “Unholy,” which covers part of the same time period and includes a thorough history of the roots of anti-desegregation politics of the evangelical movement, which Alberta was either ignorant of or ignoring. (My guess is both, in a way.)

North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.

Not sure why I torture myself, but I like to try to understand people and make myself suffer, I guess.

I know there were people who celebrated that book, but I come away from it knowing that the lack of any criticism of the content of the culture wars means that while Alberta would be nice to my face, I don’t know what he’d have done to my marriage or my rights.

The culture war nonsense has always had its flames fed by the Falwells of the world—this has been going on for my whole life! Political power over people as an end that justifies the means has been the overarching goal regardless of the movement for at least 50 years.

Public Opinion on Abortion | Pew Research Center While public support for legal abortion has fluctuated some in two decades of polling, it has remained relatively stable over the past five years.

Support for access to abortion is such a good proxy for this. Evangelicals are out of step with the people in other denominations (even if the leadership of those denominations are absolutist, that doesn’t translate to the people).

Finished the book this afternoon and since it predates the election there are some things that can’t get resolved in its pages. My main thought overall is that the desire to control others will be the Achilles heel of any movement (religious or otherwise).

I definitely have critiques of my religious training (more than plenty, and they’re more nuanced just because I know it better), but it never ceases to amaze me how different the issues are in the different denominations based on very different frameworks.

Photos from a benefit concert today across from where federal agents killed Alex Pretti and just over a mile from where Renee Good was killed 17 days earlier

Dropkick Murphys performed prior to their show tonight in St. Paul.

L signs during "First Class Loser".

Minneapolis March 6, 2026

I apologize, you’ve all unintentionally signed up for my one person book club.

I’ve hit a point in the book where he talks about things changing post-2022 elections, the MAGA movement in retreat/demoralized, and I am like — this is the danger of writing about current times (with no small amount of hope in a certain outcome).

we don’t have money for Kanopy but Dawanna Witt’s goons get paid overtime to brutalize observers in the Government Center

very cool

It creeps me out when I block an account and that account immediately puts me on some derogatory-named list. What’s the purpose of that?

It does make me feel pretty correct about the block decision, especially for some rando.

This is the song they play in movies when things get extremely Irish. Can't believe they performed it so close to where I live.

My current takeaway from the book (which I doubt Alberta will get by the end of its pages) is that an extreme anti-choice position, an extension of misogyny coupled with ignorance, was the gateway to the evolution of evangelical church spaces into MAGA ones. Absolutism led to absolutism.