Kevin

When I asked him if he thought there was an ethical problem of having campaign signs on city property next to the police table, he feigned ignorance and said he was "just there for the kids".

Like, he could have set up anywhere along 13th Ave. Setting up on the fire station lawn was a choice.

There was a trick or treating event along the commercial corridor in my neighborhood with many businesses and organizations participating. It was fantastic.

What I didn't like was my council member setting up a campaign table on the front lawn of the fire station next to the MPD table.

I'm going to keep doing this until it happens.

Got a campaign mailer from a PAC today urging a vote for Frey because he is against corruption. It might have been a little more impactful if the Mayor's close friend and ally wasn't indicted today on federal embezzlement charges.

Rick Kupchella didn't pay me any money to rent space in my head so I think I'm going to just read a book or something.

For years I've dismissed concerns about gentrification in my neighborhood but now there is a Cybertruck parked out front. Really learned my lesson with this one.

I got a Spotify ad for a crypto wallet that was endorsed by Dave Portnoy and now I am really wondering why they think I would like that.

Not knowing how to say acetaminophen shows it's pretty apparent he never took any of his kids to the doctor at least once.

Screenshot of a tiktok from the New York Times. A reporter is pointing to a picture of a Chinese military parade and saying, "These unusual-looking weapons are laser guns"

Me showing my wife the picture I drew on the bus home from work of my plan to turn our house into a really cool fort.

A columnist in the Strib referred to CK as a "kind and bold soul." I wonder was the requirements are to be a columnist over there.

Tiktok comment: "Y'all it's not about the rebranding, Maddy is from my town and she's fairly mad that she and her family got banned because of one mistake one night, nobody should get banned for just one mistake and it's not right!!" Tiktok comment: "oooohh....tell us more."

Tiktok comment: "Parker got a little too drunk at the game right before dinner and it was right that the staff put him in his place like they did because he DID step out of line but it's ridiculous to punish a young father for just one mistake with a ban. How can he learn and grow and show his kids what a man looks like if he doesn't have the chance to make up for his mistake now?? The world is a fallen place that wanders away from god."

There should be restorative justice programs for people that have been kicked out of Cracker Barrel for being too intoxicated with their family.

Stop sign that has a sticker at the bottom that says "talking to cops"

Stop sign that has writing on the bottom that says "in the name of love"

Two different, but still very good pieces of advice.

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

YouTube video by Sesame Street Sesame Street: Song: The Subway!

Tried listening to the new Chappell Roan and got distracted.

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In December my employer sent out a memo several times reminding employees not to accept like a $5 bag of popcorn from a vendor and if they sent it to you in the mail, a detailed list of instructions on how to dispose of it and document it.

Screenshot from the Simpsons. A ventilator doll is saying "Posting random opinions? If this is anyone but Chris Steller, you're stealing my bit."

The most consequential Speaker in state history.

We feed you.
They hunt us.

Dozens of federal agents rolling in with an armored truck, masked and outfitted for combat... on a hunt for boxes of evidence. This could've been done with FBI agents in windbreakers. The intent was to instigate and terrorize. It should be the mayor's first instinct to stand up against it.

To "wait for the facts" is naive and dangerous. Abrego Garcia and two hundred others waited for the facts, giving the benefit of the doubt to a lawless executive, and their reward has been to spend 2025 and beyond in a Central American prison.

Our rights and lives are in peril. Use it or lose it.

Updated. But I still want people to know that Ben from Ben and Jerry's called me beautiful.

I was a student at Harvard and one time my professor, Steven Pinker, kept insisting Charlie Brown had hoes. "I'm from the Twin Cities, if he had hoes, there would be statues of him and his hoes. That isn't true." He accused me of having a Franklin bias. Which is true but irrelevant.

This is also a deep fake.

I think that is a different David Koch than the one we usually think of. I remember being confused when I saw David Koch listed as a donor to the Mill City Museum and it turns out the former CEO of Graco was also named that.

The average American has three friends.

So the whole point of better infrastructure is so that many more people can feel safe and comfortable biking. This is not about encouraging people to embrace a gritty urban adventure.

How I arrived on Bluesky.

thinking about cheese

Agree with this statement. I never seem to run into anyone I know while driving but I always run into @amityf.bsky.social while walking or taking the bus so that certainly makes me happier when I take the bus.

Wouldn’t it be cool if our mayor understood how parking works in cities?

Time for a new mayor (for this and MANY other issues).