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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 1d

This is why I would trade Frey for a different moderate (like Jazz) in a heartbeat.

molly @mabbattista.bsky.social · 1d

At the Ward 8 for a New Mayor rally last Saturday, Commissioner Angela Conley said the county's been trying to work with the mayor on homelessness for seven years and he's shut them out.

taylr @taylordahlin.com · 1d

frey is talking about working with county partners extensively…

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 2d

If I’m reading Kyle right, Frey admits failing to issue 100 housing vouchers *that are funded this year because he wants to kill the program next year.* (This is not Stable Schools, but for single folks.) This is unallotment Trump-style, especially since county/MPHA are in.

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 5d

relaxed saturday evening reading through "women designers of book plates (1902)" and flipped past a couple of beautiful professional designs only to see this perfect plate by a young Miss Page

an open book with a hand-drawn bookplate on the right side. the top of the plate has "A. Helen Page" written in tentative cursive. below that is a child's drawing of a girl with wavy hair and a triangle skirt. at the bottom, in tentative print "HER BOOK 1899"

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Erik McDonald @erikmcdonald.bsky.social · 7d

This one still makes me worried about calling 911 for a medical emergency, and I doubt the people who ignored actual hypoglycemia suffered any professional or legal consequences. They assumed the man must be on drugs after being accurately told he was diabetic and suffering from low blood sugar.

'It was hell:' Ketamine shot sends Minneapolis man into intensive care, renews calls for investigation

Partner says giving man sedative put him in ICU.

www.startribune.com

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Erik McDonald @erikmcdonald.bsky.social · 7d

We should both hire people who care about the lives and comfort of those who are at their mercy while detained, and make it so people who callously ignore medical emergencies never work in these fields again.

KARE 11 @kare11.bsky.social · 7d

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 10d

“where’s the whale? did he get the whale yet?”

lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 10d

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 11d

There was a massive difference in the life of the average German between 1925, 1930 and 1935. That difference was not because the Nazi Party became more fascist over that period, but because a fascist movement was gained control over more state functions.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 12d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 12d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

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Erik McDonald @erikmcdonald.bsky.social · 14d

"Sad marble angels brood like hens
over the grassy nests where nothing hatches.
(The angels could just as well be described as *vulgar*
or *pitiless*, depending on camera angle.)"

Tamar @heartinamber.bsky.social · 14d

I tend to think every nerdy trans woman should read Margaret Atwood's The Loneliness of the Military Historian and sit with it for a moment no matter what it is exactly she's nerdy about, but that goes double for you www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47788/...

The Loneliness of the Military Historian

This is why few people ask me to dinner, though Lord knows I don’t go out of my way to be scary. If I roll my eyes and mutter, if I clutch at my heart and scream in horror like a third-rate actress ch...

www.poetryfoundation.org

Erik McDonald @erikmcdonald.bsky.social · 14d

Not sure why it came up when I was searching for an 18c novel, but it's amazing that the Five Find-Outers and Dog series has been translated into Russian

Cover of Russian version of an Enid Blyton novel for children, Пять юных сыщиков: Тайна ограбления в театре, on an audiobook app

Erik McDonald @erikmcdonald.bsky.social · 18d

“‘I got so much done. I got so much policy passed, I got really good budgets passed. I embedded some key racial equity things that it took a long time for Jacob to undo,’ [Betsy Hodges] says today, reflecting on her term.”

'Call It the Clown Car': An Oral History of Minneapolis's 35-Candidate 2013 Mayoral Election - Racket

Thirty-five candidates. Three dozen debates. Two unrelated pirate-centric elements. The first real test of ranked-choiced voting and, finally, a new mayor.

racketmn.com

Erik McDonald @erikmcdonald.bsky.social · 20d

This whole thread is interesting!

Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 20d

And that monologue is also something that I think is completely dependent on the actor to carry it, because "How dare you come to me now, when I am this?" is... awkward.

Don't get me wrong, that's something a real person might say. But generally, we don't want to hear actual realism.

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hannahmross.bsky.social @hannahmross.bsky.social · 21d

This is the guy on the credentials committee that ousted me as a delegate for being an “outside agitator.” He lives in WAYZATA. I live in Ward 2. This is outrageous. Ward 2 needs new leadership, stat.

taylr @taylordahlin.com · 21d

suitor questions wall, asking where he lives. says he has a couple residents but his primary residence is in wayzata

HE JUST CAUCUSED IN WARD 2

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Erik McDonald @erikmcdonald.bsky.social · 23d

"The older you get, and the worse your hearing gets... the more adventurous you are with rhyme... So in that way, the old brigade have an advantage, if they cared to use it" (42:34)—Pushkin translator Antony Wood

Antony Wood "On Reading and Translating Pushkin” -- December 7, 2020

YouTube video by READ RUSSIA

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Erik McDonald @erikmcdonald.bsky.social · 23d

On why matrimony is different from patrimony (answers are in the comments)

Matrimony. : languagehat.com

languagehat.com

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Erik McDonald @erikmcdonald.bsky.social · 23d

I'll believe it—I heard it go by in a scripted show from ~2018, used by a kind of over-the-top aging criminal character

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23d

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s.

Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 23d

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds

open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

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Erik McDonald @erikmcdonald.bsky.social · 26d

I think copaganda would be more effective if more of it was police officers deciding who takes the station guinea pig Ivanych home

Five men sit at a table with a guinea pig in the middle

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Erik McDonald @erikmcdonald.bsky.social · 26d

Без копья = "without a spear," or in informal Russian "without a cent, broke"

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Erik McDonald @erikmcdonald.bsky.social · 26d

Word of the day: raccourci. "En raccourci" can mean "foreshortened (visual arts)" or "in summary." Or "shortcut," like an Excel keyboard shortcut. And apparently in one context "wrinkle."

French movie poster with the title "Un Raccourci dans le temps"

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 27d

Endorsements! In ranked order (key races):
Mayor: Davis, Fateh, Jazz
BET: Bernstein, Brandt
Parks At-Large: Olson, Wilson, Frederick
W2: Wonsley
W4: Haynes
W5: Burnett
W7: Cashman
W8: Stevenson
W10: Chughtai
W12: Chowdhury
Parks D1: Englehart
D3: Deshpande
D4: Garcia
D5: Carvajal Moran
D6: Jourdain

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Erik McDonald @erikmcdonald.bsky.social · 27d

Plus a grim picture, even if it's a joke.

Colorful chalkboard that says "message from the barista: leave a review on Yandex cards so the boss gives me back my passport!!!" in Russian

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Erik McDonald @erikmcdonald.bsky.social · 27d

"For every degustation spot for fine wines, or craft beer popups in Moscow suburbs, there’s a ‘Red and White’ booze discounter. Red and White has over 21,000 little stores across the country. That’s twice as many outlets as there are McDonalds in the US."

‘Spiritual values’ of the booze shops. Russia’s convenience economy as part of the soft administrative regime, Part II

Consumption according to station is a moral virtue – achieving some kind of comfort and habitability becomes an ethical marker, rather than a purely socio-economic one

postsocialism.org

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Erik McDonald @erikmcdonald.bsky.social · Sep 16

(I cut some commas for character count, source here)

From Mandelstam to Mr. Peanut: Another Hollywood Émigré Journey

This week Paul Dry Books made me a very happy man. My translation of Alexander Voloshin’s mock epic Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood, which will officially appear in April of next year, now ha…

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Erik McDonald @erikmcdonald.bsky.social · Sep 16

"Imagine for a moment how odd a time the first half of the 20th century was, how dizzying its noise...A distinguished officer who in the 1910s made a lasting impression on two literary giants was by 1938 appearing as 'Professor Von Stupor' in the Three Stooges short 'Violent Is the World of Curly.'"

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Erik McDonald @erikmcdonald.bsky.social · Sep 15

Reverso used to be so much more useful (though tbf if you scroll far enough you get better results)

Russian and English sentences where the word "rotaprint" is incorrectly translated as "rosary," then "roads"