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Recovering perfectionist. Long-suffering Minnesota sports fan. (Don’t get me going on the Twins.) Nature heals the mind, and dogs make everything better.

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Minneapolis You’re So Many Things To Me
Minneapolis You’re So Many Things To Me YouTube video by jaybyrdfilms

Here's some nice counterprogramming for the images the world has been seeing out of Minneapolis for the last few months

27.02.2026 14:21 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

I'm not watching. My husband is. I'll be in the bedroom, watching a movie or reading a book with headphones on so I don't hear that voice.

24.02.2026 15:12 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've shared your contact info with a couple of neighbors who are there, and go there every year for six weeks.

23.02.2026 18:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Well, we're glad we aren't still in Puerto Vallarta. We know two neighbors who are, and they're locked down.

23.02.2026 03:08 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Yuck.

18.02.2026 02:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Apparently pickleball rules in Florida include stay out of the kitchen or get punched in the face.

14.02.2026 04:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Coming back from the economic harm is going to be a monumental task. The mental harm is going to be even harder to alleviate.

13.02.2026 17:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Do you know their specific concerns? Have there been incidents of ICE grabbing corporate types?

13.02.2026 17:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What's going on? I've heard that knee replacement either works perfectly (my husband, for instance) or ends up with constant pain.

09.02.2026 05:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don't think I could stay on my feet in curling. I did get to take a bobsled run in the summer on rails at the Park City Olympic Park. But we had a pro driver. I kept my head down the whole way.

08.02.2026 18:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Inside the ICE Forum Where Agents Complain About Their Jobs “I'm all for removing illegals, but snatching dudes off lawn mowers in Cali and leaving the truck and equipment just sitting there? Definitely not working smarter,” writes one forum user.

SCOOP: A look inside the ICE Forum where agents complain about their jobs and so much more.

“I'm all for removing illegals, but snatching dudes off lawn mowers in Cali and leaving the truck and equipment just sitting there? Definitely not working smarter.”

read @telliotter.bsky.social:

04.02.2026 16:02 👍 81 🔁 27 💬 3 📌 3

How long before Project 2025's plan requiring every student in schools that receive federal funding to take the military's Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery test is implemented?

03.01.2026 18:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe it's karma for eliminating all those jobs, but northern Iowa is under a blizzard warning until 9 a.m. Monday. Good luck getting those delivery trucks to and from Des Moines tonight after the first printing there.

28.12.2025 16:53 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I once subscribed to 12 podcasts. Too much hard news.

26.12.2025 18:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I grew up next to the old site. I hope some use for it will be found.

23.12.2025 02:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Last night after 10, our building's snow plowing service showed up to plow and use leaf-blowers on our parking lot and sidewalks. For an hour. We didn't have an inch of new snow.

19.12.2025 15:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That is exactly what the Strib and Pioneer Press are aiming for: transition to full digital.

15.12.2025 14:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They might be leaning hard into local, local, local.

14.12.2025 15:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Do they no longer have veteran Republican panelists other than Fritz Knaak? It's to the point where I have to leave the room when they get to this segment. It no longer serves any purpose.

13.12.2025 05:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I can go to bed confident I will not wake up to news of the Twins signing anyone.

10.12.2025 03:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The only reason I remember they exist is they keep sending me emails asking if I want to buy a season ticket package. Then I get mad all over again.

09.12.2025 23:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And said parent’s reply?

09.12.2025 16:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Somehow I figured it out in the 90s before we had a home computer. Family, pediatrician, friends, books.

09.12.2025 16:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I thought Republicans were very concerned about vetting. This guy obviously wasn't vetted. That's probably the case with the majority of the ICE thugs.

08.12.2025 23:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A friend who worked in a MN county social service program said part of the problem is an antiquated computer system and employee training. This has gone on for years, and the Somali population is far from the only ones trying to game the system.

29.11.2025 15:51 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s our new favorite apple.

29.11.2025 13:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pope stands holding a baseball bat on a plane

Pope stands holding a baseball bat on a plane

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

29.11.2025 12:13 👍 12217 🔁 2369 💬 246 📌 451

Another concern in our household is whether my husband can keep his one-team (Brewers) subscription he’s had through MLB for years.

20.11.2025 14:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just waded through The Athletic story on the ESPN/MLB broadcast deal. I still can’t figure out if I choose to subscribe to Twins TV again, would I also have to subscribe to ESPN Unlimited to get access? I hope Twin Cities sportswriters explain.

20.11.2025 06:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Photo of a common meme of a man standing up alone to speak out at a public forum.

Photo of a common meme of a man standing up alone to speak out at a public forum.

People should be allowed to have a THC seltzer if they want to

14.11.2025 17:34 👍 3345 🔁 437 💬 77 📌 54