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In the Blink of an Eye (Murch book) - Wikipedia

The new video made me think about Walter Murch's book, specifically the part about what film editing lost when we moved from physical reels (Moviola) to NLEs (Final Cut Pro).

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_...

Trump administration locks MPCA out of $200 million in federal grants • Minnesota Reformer The Trump administration has locked Minnesota out of $200 million in federal grants awarded to the state last year for community-based climate projects, leaving projects in limbo and underscoring the ...

Heeeeeeere we gooooooo...

Trump administration locks Minnesota Pollution Control Agency out of $200 million in federal grants ino.to/dPnSHHa

Image courtesy of Mondo Fest. A drawing of the Tower tarot card with jugglers falling from the sky as lightning strikes the tower, surrounded by balls, clubs, hoops, and a giant jester's hat.

Is BALLS Cabaret on this week?

Why yes of course! And it's our last show before Mondo Fest 2025♣️😍🤹

Will our beloved circus friends turn up to throw one last coat of varnish on their main stage acts? There's only one way to know for sure!

2:00 Sunday
STRIKE Theater
824 NE 18th Ave, Mpls

I wish the Senate handled a coup in the US treasury the way Philly handles winning a ball game

it’s impossible not to be tempted to yell “FAFO” and “leopards eating faces” as people who voted for this start feeling the pain

but “welcome back, we missed you, here’s a bucket, we’re putting out the fire” gets us out of the hole faster

A storyteller stands gesturing on a lit, bare stage with many audience members in rapt attention.

BALLS Cabaret THIS Sunday
(and every Sunday)

2:00
STRIKE Theater
Minneapolis NE Arts District
824 NE 18th Ave

Come, bring us your 7 minutes of weird, wonderful, thoughtful, daring, confusing, or kind. We're making art, goddammit, and we will not be stopped!

$5-15 PWYC
Performers never pay

That's useful to know, thank you.

Oh i just groked the byline-- isn't Kinshasa in the middle of a fresh conflict? I don't know the civil war in the DRC impacts USAID even before this gutting, but i bet it isn't great.

And they likely lack the independent infrastructure to "just do it." Trucks and airplanes that they are accustomed to using may have been impounded or reassigned. I don't know the details, but all logistically complex systems are vulnerable to disruption. It's a supply chain problem but in reverse.

“One of our senior senators has said she supports mining, and so this may give her the opportunity to support a really, really good bill that helps mining in northeastern Minnesota,” Stauber said.

Call Klobuchar, demand she get on the record opposing this bill.
612-727-5220 (MN)
202-224-3244 (DC)

Attended the EPA press conference.

When I arrived, I heard that members of Congress were talking to security.

So I walked over and into what turned out to be a private press briefing. Guess anyone can walk into anywhere nowadays. (learned that trick from DOGE)

That’s Sen. Ed Markey in the center.

Oh okay, easy: There are no good-faith arguments to show up for. There, done, byeeeee.

Hey Minnesota: I'm looking for folks (particularly in Duluth) who want to talk about how changing winter climate has impacted their sense of identity as Minnesotans and changed how they think about winter.

It's for an upcoming @startribune.com column. Hit me up!

Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions A public resource tracking the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.

So I like this tracker. I like that it has dropdowns.
www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...

That made it really easy for me to determine that there's nothing happening on environment, industry, or climate yet. I don't like being in wait and see mode.

You better show us the wrench. If it isn't total withdrawal of unanimous consent then this is all just theater.

Looks like Bob Kroll is on the short list to be named US Marshal for the State of Minnesota.

He's currently barred from serving as a law enforcement officer in Hennepin, Ramsey, and Anoka counties. I'm sure that will go fine.

Stauber reintroduces bill to reverse mining ban near Boundary Waters, return leases to Twin Metals Northern Minnesota Republican Congressman Pete Stauber has reintroduced legislation to overturn a 20-year mining ban near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. If passed, the bill would also retu...

Secretary Burgum signed an Order and then Rep Stauber reintroduced a bill to overturn the mining ban on the BWCA, and give Twin Metals their federal permits

www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

I called Atty Gen Ellison's office to urge use of force to physically remove Musk's people from the OPM and Treasury.

Boilerplate: Ellison is working together with other States Attorneys General to Do Something, and he asks that everyone who calls also call their Congresswomen and Senators.

I am not a journalist, but it turns out, they almost never ask.

When I asked if he could tell me why it happened, he let out a heavy sigh and said "Folks here are trying to interpret the executive orders. They aren't very specific."

And then he directed me to call the NSA's PR department for more information. Which I can't decide if I want to do, or not.

So this morning I called the National Cryptographic Museum and spoke to a gentleman who confirmed:
- Yes, this happened over the weekend
- It has since been fixed ("fixed" were his words, I confirmed that this means the paper has been removed)

Day 10

#musicsky #musicchallenge

Because they shouldn't get to have sex either. Sex is nice. In Trumpistan brown people don't get to have nice things.

Mining could return to the Boundary Waters under new Trump administration After former President Obama issued a mining moratorium in 2016, Donald Trump reversed it during his first term -- and returned mineral leases to Twin Metals Minnesota.

To whit: let's not lose the Boundary Waters too eh?
kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

I know, I know, I'm over 40. I love my CDs and I went swing dancing on Thursday nights at the Wabasha Caves in 1995. If wistful nostalgia ain't the point of this exercise, I don't know what is.

But LOOK at that fucking track list, good lord.

JFC I guess I'm glad I never got rid of my CDs

Day 9

#musicsky #musicchallenge

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the terminally online Left that the New York Times is the boogieman.

Many of the EOs do use "woke," in really dumb and offensive ways (of course). This headline makes sense, and the scare quotes imply that it isn't real in a way that makes the Administration sound like morons, as if they were trying to outlaw unicorns.

Day 8

#musicsky #musicchallenge