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In Minneapolis. Structural engineer, mostly lapsed improvisor, 3 day Jeopardy! champ. Happily married to a public school teacher. Two kids, a cat, and a dog.

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This is spreading all over Bluesky today and is wildly misleading--it is from eight months ago and it is in reference to working with NATO allies and arming Ukraine.

11.03.2026 18:47 πŸ‘ 1151 πŸ” 327 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 21
Facebook post by Nekima Levy Armstrong:

"Friends, A Breaking News headline just appeared in the Star Tribune, claiming that the national Target boycott ended today. This is false. The writer of the story, Carson Hartzog, is fully aware that the Target boycott was launched in Minneapolis on February 1, 2025. I have spoken to her several times since then, yet she failed to reach out to me, Jaylani Hussein, or Monique Cullars Doty, the three founders of the national Target boycott for the story. Carson even used the photo from our press conference that includes my daughter, Assata Joy and Ms. Rosemary Nevils, an elder in our community, to try to add legitimacy to a bogus story. 
I am once again disgusted by the Star Tribune and their attempts to minimize and erase the voices of our community. 
The nationwide Target Boycott is not over, unless and until Target reverses its decision to rollback Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as we said from the beginning. β€œPastor” Jamal Bryant does not speak for us or our community and has zero authority to end the nationwide boycott of Target, a company that is headquartered in Minneapolis. 
Please don’t believe the hype and these attempts to rescue Target from the effects of capitulating to the Trump Administration. Target rolled back DEI because of Donald Trump. They donated $1 million to the Trump/Vance inauguration committee. Target also allowed ICE to stage in its parking lots during Operation Metro Surge.
The nationwide boycott of Target is successful and it will continue. Please continue to shop elsewhere."

Facebook post by Nekima Levy Armstrong: "Friends, A Breaking News headline just appeared in the Star Tribune, claiming that the national Target boycott ended today. This is false. The writer of the story, Carson Hartzog, is fully aware that the Target boycott was launched in Minneapolis on February 1, 2025. I have spoken to her several times since then, yet she failed to reach out to me, Jaylani Hussein, or Monique Cullars Doty, the three founders of the national Target boycott for the story. Carson even used the photo from our press conference that includes my daughter, Assata Joy and Ms. Rosemary Nevils, an elder in our community, to try to add legitimacy to a bogus story. I am once again disgusted by the Star Tribune and their attempts to minimize and erase the voices of our community. The nationwide Target Boycott is not over, unless and until Target reverses its decision to rollback Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as we said from the beginning. β€œPastor” Jamal Bryant does not speak for us or our community and has zero authority to end the nationwide boycott of Target, a company that is headquartered in Minneapolis. Please don’t believe the hype and these attempts to rescue Target from the effects of capitulating to the Trump Administration. Target rolled back DEI because of Donald Trump. They donated $1 million to the Trump/Vance inauguration committee. Target also allowed ICE to stage in its parking lots during Operation Metro Surge. The nationwide boycott of Target is successful and it will continue. Please continue to shop elsewhere."

Nekima on the Target boycott.

11.03.2026 17:51 πŸ‘ 986 πŸ” 560 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 123

Sadly not a surprise but still, goddammit, can't he be a team player for once in his miserable career?

11.03.2026 17:35 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

It's a tell is what it is.

11.03.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Atonement erasure!

11.03.2026 14:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

we beat canada at their sport and italy beat us at our sport so to restore equilibrium canada must beat italy at bocce

11.03.2026 04:17 πŸ‘ 493 πŸ” 85 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2
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Mike Johnson refuses to condemn anti-Muslim comments by Republican lawmakers Andy Ogles said Muslims do not belong in the US and Randy Fine made a comparison of Muslims to dogs

It's not just that he refused to condemn Ogles and Fine; he endorsed the substance of their vile messages, taking issue only with their "tone," and he introduced a new line of bigotry-fueled conspiracy theory about Muslims wanting to impose sharia law. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

11.03.2026 11:02 πŸ‘ 1280 πŸ” 374 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 22

democrats still seem to be laboring under the delusion that they can introduce stuff to pass while trump is president and they, not trump, will somehow get credit for it. they learned nothing from trump taking credit for covid stimulus checks

11.03.2026 00:13 πŸ‘ 2796 πŸ” 425 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 13

Imagine scoring 83 points in an NBA game and not even being the best basketball player in your relationship

11.03.2026 02:10 πŸ‘ 174 πŸ” 61 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 7

Malacca

10.03.2026 23:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
β€œSuper Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, β€˜What if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?’
- Shigeru Miyamoto

β€œSuper Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, β€˜What if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?’ - Shigeru Miyamoto

Happy Mario day!

10.03.2026 21:02 πŸ‘ 8258 πŸ” 1737 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 49

I want this for SGA.

10.03.2026 19:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why...did CNN do this

10.03.2026 12:56 πŸ‘ 3198 πŸ” 344 πŸ’¬ 294 πŸ“Œ 359
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The shingles vaccine is incredible #learnsomethingnew #sciencefacts #vaccineswork TikTok video by Alex Falcone

This video is imparting genuinely amazing news about the shingles vaccine, but also contains a description of vaccines that made me laugh so hard I had to sit down. β€œWe inject the dead version so that when the live one shows up it knows we’ve killed before” is both accurate and SO FUCKING FUNNY

10.03.2026 15:07 πŸ‘ 190 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4

Fully expecting this is the start of a drumbeat that ends with Hegseth getting Noemed.

10.03.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not looking for a level of detail that would doxx the mayor, but which W13 neighborhood did he land in?

10.03.2026 15:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

He’s incoherent. Any larger strategy you see is you trying to impose order where there is none.

10.03.2026 12:52 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t even have anything in me to be snarky about the compromises on our rights that have emboldened these legislatures. They’re trying to make mandatory reporters for social transition. I don’t even have words.

10.03.2026 02:28 πŸ‘ 94 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

This is how I access BlueSky

10.03.2026 03:04 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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Hasbro’s CEO on J.K. Rowling. We just published our new Decoder interview with Chris Cocks, the head of Hasbro. I asked him directly about how he thinks about author J.K. Rowling’s politics and what it’s done to the Harry Potter f...

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch

www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

09.03.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 9016 πŸ” 2502 πŸ’¬ 128 πŸ“Œ 176

US (2019) d. Jordan Peele

10.03.2026 00:40 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This might be controversial but even the braindead use case of AI as a parlor trick for you and your erudite friends to hyuck and gee whiz over in between doing the Wordle and overnighting dongles on Amazon is miserable and corrosive to your humanity

09.03.2026 22:17 πŸ‘ 109 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought this.

09.03.2026 20:29 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

turning a big dial that says "military adventurism failure" on it and constantly looking back at the stock market for approval

09.03.2026 19:54 πŸ‘ 117 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Democrats should try to solve actual problems in society rather than jumping on the Grover Norquest-lite slop train

09.03.2026 18:36 πŸ‘ 516 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Counterpoint: taxation-funded governance and programs are good, actually.

09.03.2026 18:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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holy shit

09.03.2026 01:20 πŸ‘ 14137 πŸ” 3083 πŸ’¬ 236 πŸ“Œ 602

Name names

09.03.2026 15:16 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is the warning on the blood pressure monitor my dad just got.

Exceptional work. Anybody know what the fuck it’s supposed to mean?

Last line is especially ominous

09.03.2026 13:36 πŸ‘ 2871 πŸ” 648 πŸ’¬ 185 πŸ“Œ 209
Mega Man 2 Select Screen Stereo
Mega Man 2 Select Screen Stereo YouTube video by Jeremey Stevig

It's in rarefied company, for sure.

09.03.2026 12:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0