Jon Feldman

An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below: 1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. 2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation … 3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people. 4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners … 5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice … 6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices … 7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. 8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. 9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. 10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: 11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: 12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit … 13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: 14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: 15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury: 16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: 17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: 18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. 19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people. 20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.
#NoKings

MinnPost Festival video: Kara Swisher interviews Sen. Tina Smith An (early) exit interview with Sen. Tina Smith by journalist and podcast host Kara Swisher at MinnPost Festival.

This was a good discussion with Tina Smith at the Minnpost Festival last weekend. One key thing she said was that the worst industry influencing DC right now is the crypto industry, which happens to be one of Angie Craig's big things. www.minnpost.com/inside-minnp...

Good work

And we lost ours for a much better reason

Strava post from a Muni Run Club memorial run for route 21 lost to service cuts

I love them

Reflexive fence building seems like a policy tailor-made to sow political cynicism and social exclusion

crazy idea for apple but what about a phone that fits in your pocket

A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

A reckless driver rammed through a so-called protected bike lane. These barriers clearly aren’t built to withstand the speed and size of vehicles on our city streets.

Next session we should start talking about state run or subsidized Intercity buses.

You should be able to buy a ticket to go to St Cloud, Mankato, Duluth, Rochester at an affordable consistent price with multiple trips leaving per day.

Are Minnesota drivers required to yield to pedestrians at unmarked intersections? - MinnPost

And yet... www.minnpost.com/fact-briefs/...

The clerks where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and it’s been there since.

The ampitheater is a nice idea, but it's an urban planning error in this day and age to put a road between the buildings and the water.

Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.

“Secret police” are your words, not mine. Seems like you’ve been giving them a lot of thought.

Unlike NYPD, your agents don’t identify themselves & wear masks that cover their faces. Now they ignore judges’ rulings, too.

What law enforcement agents are supposed to uphold … is the rule of law.

Bar chart titled “The Supreme Court vs. The Lower Courts: Rulings on the Trump Administration” showing three horizontal bar charts for May 1-June 23, 2025. Federal District Courts: large red bar (82 cases, 94.3% against) with tiny green bar (5 cases, 5.7% for). Circuit Courts of Appeal: medium red bar (15 cases, 68.2% against) with smaller green bar (7 cases, 31.8% for). Supreme Court: tiny red bar (1 case, 6.3% against) with large green bar (15 cases, 93.7% for). Shows dramatic reversal from lower courts ruling against Trump administration to Supreme Court ruling for it.

Since May:

Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time.

Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time.

A judiciary at war with itself.

Hi everyone

I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests

I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

Thanks to Rep. Koegel, Sen. Dibble and Rep. Jones for speaking the truth that the budget is being unfairly balanced on the backs of transit riders (and the future transit system we should be building), while road funding is protected. #mnleg (1/2)

First graph just completely ignores the service level cuts

Interview Pepsi’s CEO next and ask him what he thinks the best drink in the world is

It was actually worse than this sounds. Alkonis fell asleep/passed out behind the wheel with his wife and children in the car, woke up before crashing, and decided to keep driving. He then fell asleep/passed out again and killed two people.

~45% of US corn production is now used to make ethanol, mostly for mixing into gasoline.

That's ~13% of all US crop land already used for energy production.

Using some of the same land for solar panels would capture 50-100 times more energy per acre.

We want Winnipeg

You forgot to mention she resigned in protest in January after you killed her cartoon about your plutocrat owner.

I hope everyone working on LLMs has reckoned with their role in building a technology that, so far, has offered little to no benefit to humanity — while causing real harm by degrading art, undermining labor in creative industries, and straight up automating political propaganda

Mumford was also already warning us about car bloat and the need to tax broader and longer vehicles for the privilege of parking in urban areas

The current cost of this form of ‘freedom’ in the United States—40,000 dead and more than a million people injured or maimed for life every year—must be partly debited from the favorable side of the suburban movement. -Lewis Mumford’s “The City in History” (1961)

Uncanny to read this familiar stat in a 64 year old book and it’s still spot on. 40,000 traffic deaths in 1961; 40,000 traffic deaths in 2024.

"That's a refreshing question," the White House Press Secretary says to a far-right conspiracy theorist who posted child sex abuse material and Hitler's speeches on Twitter.

Illinois town mourns the 4 youngsters killed when a car barreled through their after-school camp Residents of a small central Illinois city are mourning the loss of three children and a teenager who were killed in a startling vehicle collision in a building that hosts a popular after-school camp.

If you have less compassion for these victims than the victims of school shootings — or if you believe there's nothing the government could have done to prevent this, even if you do believe sensible gun policy could save lives — I want you to look in the mirror and really ask yourself why that is.

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points