Scott Norris

Oh, like every business in White Bear Township has to have a sign out front saying “XYZ … of WHITE BEAR TOWNSHIP”. Just to make the point.

New York Times: Scott Perry Says Democrats ‘Hate the Military,’ Echoing Trump’s attacks. The remarks by the Republican House member from Pennsylvania align with efforts by the president and G.O.P. leaders to portray the political left as un-American.

If given the chance, I'd lose my legs all over again to serve in our great military.

The leader of your party is a five-time draft dodger who has fired more Veterans than any other president in our history.

Square that circle then tell me who really hates our military.

I guess where I’m landing is less “oh no he’s a Nazi” and more “I just went through this shit with Fetterman and Sinema and a six year term is too long for me to take on faith that your Nazi tattoo was the accident but what you’re saying now is the truth.”

Trump destroying Eleanor Roosevelt‘s legacy (the east wing) feels a little on the nose.

Al helped Hartman get elected & was a major supporter. You besmirch her name & legacy by impugning his. We all know the circus that would have happened - exactly what Trump wanted to see. The media circus here would have pulled MN Red. Smith has been excellent but Progressives should still be PO'd.

We found the plant, everyone. Al is one of the solid Wellstone guys, who has decades of in-the-trenches Progressive work & gets funding to the young candidates; we all know the smear job that happened & the DNC's spinelessness. Gillibrand was NOT calling for Platner to get out - I AM.

Gillibrand is all about letting a state’s voters decide NOW I see. Minnesota would like a word.

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

Our higher-end grocery chain up in Minneapolis/St.Paul has started exclusively playing smooth/peppy GenX songs and do I appreciate the pandering? Yes I do. Do I start singing every so often? Yes I do.

A lone voice speaking truth may be drowned by a cacophonous enemy. But when true warriors stand together, add their voices to a chorus, the words gain the power to sweep away any perfidious clamor. Today of all days, add your voice, warriors, and sing for what's right.

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

Norris’ First Law of Logistics: the more ways something CAN be done, the more often it WILL be done, and that activity will more likely scale geometrically than linearly as options are added.

I love that the Iowa and Wisconsin coins are basically Minnesotan as well. Thanks, guys!

Many years, there’s the [almost peak color]+[several dark, rainy, windy days]=[sun comes back but all the leaves are down and you missed the beauty] combo. Hope this is not one of those times, because I need nature to counterbalance *this***

It would be great for them to do an installation here; Minnesota *gets* their kind of storytelling.

Yes, we always make the mistake of sacrificing right-of-way when dual-use is always sitting there. Highland Park, grumble grumble. Hugo to Forest Lake.

“It’s gonna bring in all those suited-up lawyers and medical insurance executives from Minnetonka! Think of the crime they’ll cause!”

Struck me this summer how truncated the Aquatennial had become: it was a two-week deal in the 1980s! If you don't give people ample opportunities and a variety of reasons to come, they won't come!

When we live through difficult times it can be easy to succumb to despair, to see nothing but darkness on the horizon. But one day, in happier times, songs will be sung of those who persevered. Strive to be sung about as one who brought hope, as one who carried light over that horizon.

A beautiful day at the lake, with the Minneapolis skyline in the background. There are two sailboats in the distance. All is peaceful and beautiful

Minneapolis burning

According to certain loud and very well paid voices in our media landscape, Minneapolis is a very dangerous hellscape and no one wants to go here. This is what we locals have to endure in the early evening:

There's so little for teens at the box office that Netflix released a movie that had been streaming for two months already and it still made $18M in just one weekend. KPOP DEMON HUNTERS is a great example of doing it right in 2025.

"Republicans blocked paying the troops during the shutdown but found $20 billion to bail out Argentina's bad crypto investments" should be the sort of thing that leads every local newscast, but...

I've been seeing license plates in the Cities this past month from places you NEVER come across, like Alabama and West Virginia. The only thing holding back a surge in interstate migration to Minnesota is the lack of housing!

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

Yes, please, this!

It’s a portal to the Hallmark Channel Christmas Universe!

I mean, my mom loved the band and played their 8-track nonstop when I was six years old. Kind of got my fill of it that year (1976). DO NOT want to imagine.