Briar

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Minnesota enthusiast.

DOES want universal health care and ice cream. DOES NOT understand The Matrix.

Very poor at time management.

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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Being really annoying is praxis. Phone, email, fax, show up in person if that’s an option. Just don’t let up until you’re too irritating to ignore.

the unexpected thing about Talking To Your Representatives is that it can actually work, if enough people are similarly mad about the same thing. you won’t get the elected on the phone. but they will hear about it from their annoyed staff, who might not have time to do anything else

This is appalling. And stupid. And ahistorical. And just so so so stupid....

Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters issued this memo today requiring teachers in all schools to keep a Bible in their classroom and teach from it as a historical document. (Via KOCO 5 News)

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a ruthless predator, alligators will sometimes use jazz hands to lure musical theatre people to their deaths

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Incidentally, when Trump says that student debt forgiveness is "vile," remember that he has declared bankruptcy for his companies six times to get out of paying debt.

Honestly, this is almost the most Republican thing ever: “I will make life much harder on a bunch of Americans in a way that will not benefit any of you in the slightest.”

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WaPo is about to get Spanfellered, which is never a good thing. www.sfgate.com/news/article...

The Washington Post is about to embrace the darknesswww.sfgate.com SFGATE columnist Drew Magary on a major shakeup at the Washington Post after executive editor Sally Buzbee was unceremoniously forced out.

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NEW: I tried to sum up the free fall at the Washington Post, with its publisher trying to bribe an NPR reporter and forcing out an executive editor who wouldn’t cover up his alleged misdeeds. Plus, how silence allows the right wing takeover of media to fester. www.thehandbasket.co/p/washington...

This (what is happening, not Marisa's excellent writing about it) is awful. Billionaires are a scourge, and billionaires owning media companies are a fixing awful shitshow. What a nightmare.

i wrote about how fascist billionaires and their minions are destroying media and how we need to keep making their lives miserable to stop the rot

The Washington Post is in fascist-guided free fallwww.thehandbasket.co Former Murdoch employees have taken over. Now corruption and scandal abound.

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When we talk about "taxing rich people" there's folks who think we're talking about Aunt Edna who has the second summer home. The astronomical levels of "rich" that now exist are almost unfathomable to people. It's the stuff of vast empirical dynasties. We're talking about taxing emperors.

The ultra-wealthy will often take whole fleets of cars with them when they travel, loading vehicles, along with motorbikes and other toys, onto chartered cargo aircraft that follow their private jets. This is how they do it: cnn.it/3X8V14a

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Are you ready to get buzzed on boba? New news in food, closings, openings, and coming soon:

A Speakeasy With Spiked Boba, a New Cannabakery, and More May Restaurant News - Racketracketmn.com It's the May edition of the Racket Restaurant Roundup.

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I cannot control my wretched flagwife. Anyway here’s my ruling on abortion: no one can have one.

After losing a heartbreaker game 4 the stage was set for a classic MN sports disaster, but #Minnesota's PWHL team just broke the MN curse for all the rest of our teams. THANKS LADIES!! #CHAMPS

KENDALL COYNE SCHOFIELD!!! #PWHL!!!

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I posted this during Minnesota’s first game of the season and friends, we’re nine minutes from making this a reality. #PWHL

Hoping for a way for the PWHL to thrive while making Boston’s fans as chronically sad as possible.

NO PENALTY???? #PWHL that is goon behavior.

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Now, if you could please stop bothering Judge Cannon, she's busy carving “AC + DT 4ever” into her gavel, and after that she’s prepared a clean sheet of loose leaf from her Trapper Keeper to play MASH. GO. AWAY. www.wonkette.com/p/latest-stu...

Latest Stupid Thing To Happen In Aileen Cannon’s Courtroom Real Damn Stupidwww.wonkette.com Trump's stolen docs trial still scheduled for 'never.'

Cava got this #Minnesota crowd excited with that fantastic goal to put us up 3-1! #PWHL

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In the last five years MPD has cost Minneapolis: $71 million in misconduct lawsuits (2019-current) $24 million in worker's compensation settlements for MPD officers (2020-2023) $27 million to enact the DOJ consent decree and MDHR settlement (2024-2025 estimate) 🧵

Minneapolis facing $21.6 million budget holewww.startribune.com Expected worker pay raises -- and the end of federal COVID funds -- are driving a budget gap for the city of Minneapolis that could lead to a steep hike in property taxes.

Bally's app has stopped broadcasting the #pwhl Minnesota game and is now live with the World Poker Tour. 🙄 I didn't think I could hate Bally's more than I already did, but congrats to them they made the impossible possible.

Minnesota's PWHL team should be called the Kestrels. Please people, let me have this one great thing! It's a super cool bird and they live in MN WHAT A GREAT MASCOT!!!!

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Looks like Rutgers admins have agreed to vaguely entertain many, if not all, of the pro-Palestinian students' demands, almost like you could just ... do that ... instead of sending in cops to terrorize students protesting genocide newbrunswick.rutgers.edu/sites/defaul...

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It is bewildering to see how universities are reacting to student protest. Students have always protested! This is not at all new! I’d love to know what college parents think about all this.

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I increasingly think this elex is a referendum on whether anything matters anymore. There's no rational case for Trump, but there's a loud faction on the left that just wants to burn it down. Combine that w/low info voters & Rs circling wagons & you have outlines of a calamity. Hopefully we wake up.

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HEY MINNEAPOLIS: There's a new coffee shop called Corner Coffee opening up in the downtown area (by the target). Do not patronize them: they are owned by an Assemblies of God church, which is extremely conservative, Trump supporting, and homophobic/transphobic AF.

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Bernie Sanders: “No, Mr Netanyahu. It is not antisemitic or pro-Hamas to point out that in a little over six months your extremist government has killed 34,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 77,000 – seventy percent of whom are women and children." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Bernie Sanders issues scathing statement directed at Netanyahuwww.independent.co.uk The Vermont Senator, one of America’s highest-profile Jewish lawmakers, said the Israeli leader was head of an ‘extremist and racist government’ and that the US campus protests against the Gaza war ar...

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As you can see, the rise in profanity on Taylor Swift albums (left) is having the unusual effect of causing a dramatic rise in installed solar power capacity.

I wish my Buy Nothing group was anywhere other than FB because seeing that "ask Meta AI!!!" shit is going to be the last straw for me.

also rolling out tech that demonstrably does not work and people do not want at a massive scale is a *glaring* sign of desperation - it’s like a restaurant that made a huge stocking error putting all their expired rotting food on the menu while taking away the fresh items

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Good morning! A reminder that generative AI is a tool of the oppressor and should not be used for amusement, information, or income! Or for anything! Eat shit, robots! Have a great day, humans!

Minnesota people: North Memorial is a hugely important health care organization for our communities--in Minneapolis but across the state. You can lend your voice an encourage the Hennepin County commissioners and the state legislators to HELP NORTH MEMORIAL STAY OPEN!

OPINION EXCHANGE | A plea from North Memorial Health to the Legislaturewww.startribune.com North Memorial Health Hospital, Robbinsdale serves as a "safety net" hospital without the benefit of any official designation that brings additional funding.