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USDA cancels $18 million in funding for school meals and food banks in Minnesota • Minnesota Reformer The U.S. Department of Agriculture is cancelling roughly $1 billion in already-promised spending on local food purchases for schools and food banks nationwide, Politico reported this week. The Local F...

We might need like, I don't know, maybe a Democratic-Farmer-Labor coalition of some sort to respond to this attack on Minnesota farmers, children, and working people. Oh, and people who love democracy.
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Boubville video. If you listen closely maybe you can hear some awesome teenage rockers in the background.

Boubville is a Central Hillside (Duluth) holiday experience. Humblebrag, my son and his band played a set in their lovely performance venue which is literally someone's garage. The rest of this magic took place in adjacent back yards. Absolutely punk rock. Absolutely delightful. #glow #dlh

I also did a few of these. Gonna see if I can find a cool font for "What Would Chewbacca Do." Easily one of the best gifts ever in 16 years of marriage.

Got a new label maker for my anniversary. No, yes it is romantic if your husband is a nerd. Now I'm going to spend 20 minutes putting these in random locations in the kids' bedrooms.

I drove by there about a week ago but couldn't stop. Didn't realize it was open yet. Maybe we'll make time for a visit today.

Attack on public employees in all sectors just for being public employees is disgraceful. None of us are perfect but most of us work really hard with the best interests of the overall mission in mind every single day. These traitors don't want reform, they just want to burn it down.

YouTube video by Adam LeBlanc Merv Griffin - Christmas City

Today's the day, Duluth! Sing along! You know you wanna. #DLH #ChristmasCity

Canon rebel DSLR with the external shotgun mic. As if we'll need it when the bands and drumming begins.

My phone is a little light on juice so I expect that to cut short my ability to live-blusk (or whatever you call it) the whole parade. But I have this #nerdery here so, maybe there will be some delayed posts. #dlh #christmascityparade any other hashtags I'm missing? #kbjr?

A little light reading ahead of tonight's #christmascityparade. As one does. #dlh #Duluth

Thank you for that detailed answer Joe! Our school is legendary for being in a very special location between the bay/River and those foothills. But it also gave us a cool little weather event to enjoy.

Oops. That reply was meant for @wxjoe.bsky.social but I'd welcome a response and insights from any weather genius. Time stamp might be in the metadata but if that's not there it was around 10ish am CST in Duluth, MN this morning. 55808 good enough for lat and longitude?

This morning when I looked north(ish) I saw this great rainbow over my place of employment, Denfeld High School. Then I looked south and saw whatever *this* is. Sun still peaking out but I figured this was some kind of weather phenomenon a smart person like you could maybe explain?

Whatever the edition is that would come out a day or so before Thanksgiving would be double or triple the thickness of a typical edition, right? Us Gen Xers would voraciously pore over the ads. Sometimes we'd literally clip out ads and post them in our lockers or bedrooms.

Rainbow over Denfeld Senior High School. Seen Thursday morning around 10 am.

After days of gloom the clouds parted and I caught a snapshot of this rainbow over Denfeld High School today. This building is home to a thousand of the best and brightest young people Duluth has to offer this world. A blessing. #HunterPrideDHS #dlh #wx #mnwx (image edited by me, not AI)

Most of our problems could be solved by properly funding public education.

Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted, sparking warnings of possible ‘hybrid warfare’ | CNN Cables connecting Finland with Germany, and Lithuania with Sweden, have been disrupted, just weeks after the United States warned that it had detected increased Russian military activity around key un...

Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted, sparking warnings of possible ‘hybrid warfare’

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I finally let my DNT subscription go a couple of months ago when I switched to the Star Tribune and Duluth Monitor. But I can probably afford to add the DNT back before too long.

I appreciate you. One thing is that local newsrooms have become husks of what they once were. Obviously you know this better than I do. I'm open to any suggestions to fix it.

Solidarity forever.

The celebration included some powerful drumming and singing with three Denfeld students sitting in with members of the Vermillion singers. At the end we were able to gift outgoing Indian Ed director a Denfeld blanket. Just a beautiful experience.

Last week was #RockYourMocs2024 as part of our ongoing Indigenous heritage month celebrations at Denfeld High School. The your worked with their non-Native peers and the student government advisor to hold an assembly celebrating #NativePride

Pleased to meet you, at least digitally. I'm a card-carrying, dues paying, grateful, dyed-in-the-wool member of AFSCME Council 5. I guess I'm 4th generation union while raising Gen 5 in my spare time. Thanks for your service.

Or is this all a little too 2009 for everyone? I admit to being both a nerd and an over-the-hill nerd at that. I just enjoy the instant community these things could magnify.

Also, in addition to the #dlh thing there were a couple of events that were instantly WAY, WAY better with hashtags. Homegrown Fest in the spring and the Christmas City Parade in ... well, this week. So can we work those out now? #xmascityparade? #xmascitydlh? #xmascity2024

Are hashtags gonna be a thing here? Just because for me peak old twitter joy was popping in that #dlh hashtag and learning something new or finding a friend in my hometown.

@mistystarr.bsky.social is this what you were talking about about?

Horn and/or wind section of Denfeld High School Jazz Band performing at Wussow's Concert Cafe in West Duluth last week.

My son took his first solo and I didn't really register it at first because I was enjoying *all* the music and *all* of these kids. And they sounded wonderful. Also, Jason Wussow personally cut up a plate of the best carrots and dip I've had in about 5 years.

Denfeld High School Jazz Band at Wussow's Concert Cafe last week.

You know that lactic acid build-up, except it's in the soul, not the muscles? That was my day Thursday. Then I went over to Wussow's Cafe on Central Avenue to enjoy these miracles doing an extended set for open mic night. I felt better the second I walked in. DHS Jazz Band. #HunterPrideDHS