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Bill Childs

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Not a real doctor; real worm. I've done radio for kids for a weirdly long time. Not your lawyer, but maybe your amusement park law prof. SpareTheRock.com. Wrote a book: RecreationAndRisk.com (Carolina Academic Press). He/him; my views only here.

St. Paul.

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Bill Childs

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Sixteen years ago today I had sixteen Google Wave invitations.

November 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM

Bill Childs

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I remind you, in order to trigger your amazement, that I have never taken a course in lattice

A Concord grape pie with pretty janky lattice topping

November 27, 2025 at 2:59 AM

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Wes Burdine

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The observations of the Police Civilian Internal Affairs Review Commission chairperson are amazingly damning

Sarah Florman, Police Civilian Internal Affairs Review Commission chairperson, wrote to Chief Henry Tuesday that she was at the scene during the aftermath of the ICE action when St. Paul officers remained in unmarked vehicles.
"They were engaging the protesters and I personally witnessed both pepper balls and two types of aerosol gas ... deployed on peaceful protesters," she wrote. "While a few protesters were blocking vehicles, many ... were standing on sidewalks."
Florman wrote that she saw objects thrown at police vehicles as they were being driven away, but didn't see anyone throwing items at officers "or anyone impeding their departure."
"Instead of driving away from the crowd, one car of SPPD officers stopped and opened the doors of their vehicles to deploy so much gas it created a white-out," she wrote. "The officers were leaving the scene and stopped to deploy these agents even though they were safe inside their vehicles."
During this time, Kerem Yücel of Minnesota Public Radio News was hit by a less-lethal munition in the shoulder. The senior visual journalist was taken to the hospital by an ambulance and has since been released.

November 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM

Bill Childs

@billchilds.bsky.social

This worked like a damn charm.

Mike Bougie @boogieknights.bsky.social · 12h

I usually start a fire in the underside and wait. :/
I should probably get on that now.

November 27, 2025 at 1:47 AM

Bill Childs

@billchilds.bsky.social

The beloved traditional Thanksgiving Eve thawing of the grill so it will open

A Big Green Egg grill with a hair dryer in its vent

November 27, 2025 at 1:04 AM

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Ana Marie Cox

@anamariecox.bsky.social

People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.

November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM

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Sarah Manvel

@cairdiul.bsky.social

"pronouns stay the hell away from me" sorry, stay the hell away from what

November 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM

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Sarah Manvel

@cairdiul.bsky.social

"here for an unvaccinated and unmuzzled woman" this is where my eyes went black

October 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM

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Sarah Manvel

@cairdiul.bsky.social

"whether it's trying a new dish or diving into the latest blockchain trends, I'm always up for an adventure" until you see stuff like this you have no idea that your idea of adventure and someone else's can be so completely different

October 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM

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Sarah Manvel

@cairdiul.bsky.social

"my mother is like a sister to me" why would you say this, and why would you think this

November 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM

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Sarah Manvel

@cairdiul.bsky.social

"house and potty trained" in the name of all that is holy, WHY would you say this about yourself

November 18, 2025 at 3:01 AM

Bill Childs

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Maybe Harvey will end up being great, but this “study” does not establish that it is. It could just as well be called “We asked some people who are paying for Harvey if they think they made a mistake in doing so”

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November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM

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Chris Ingraham

@cingraham.bsky.social

From the MN Society for Professional Journalists: St. Paul police shot three photojournalists (MPR, Reuters, Sahan Journal) with "less lethal" munitions during an ICE operation yesterday. One had to go to the hospital. They say they were specifically targeted by St. Paul police.

MNSPJ condemns St. Paul police attacks on journalists

The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists strongly condemns attacks on journalists by law enforcement on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, during a federal operation in St. Paul.

At least three local photojournalists were injured by less-lethal munitions deployed by St. Paul police officers while covering the story. One was transported to the hospital in an ambulance. All three journalists were clearly identified as press with badges and/or vests, in addition to having cameras in hand, clearly at work. All three photojournalists and multiple other local journalists on scene were also injured by chemical irritants.

Kerem Yücel, with MPR News, was hit by a less-lethal munition in the shoulder and was transported to a hospital by ambulance. He has since been released and is recovering. Tim Evans, a freelance photojournalist with Reuters, was struck in the stomach with a pepper ball round. Aaron Nesheim, a photojournalist with Sahan Journal, was struck in the head with a pepper ball round. Evans and Nesheim did not require hospitalization.

The three journalists hit by munitions shared with MNSPJ that they believe they were targeted by law enforcement for doing their jobs. Photojournalists are on the frontlines of documenting history and it is imperative that they are kept safe and their First Amendment rights are protected.

Attacking journalists sends a message to both journalists and everyday citizens that their First Amendment rights will not be respected. The First Amendment protects the rights of journalists to report on their communities and provide information that communities need — information that, on Tuesday, was not transparently available from any law enforcement agency.

We demand answers from St. Paul city leadership about why the city’s police department attacked our colleagues and a commitment to seeing that this will never happen again.

November 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM

Bill Childs

@billchilds.bsky.social

Resisting responding to "please justify using your own casebook for the course you are teaching" with "it is literally the only book about this topic"

November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM

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Charlotte Garden

@charlottegarden.bsky.social

If it snows during week that also contains a holiday, work is cancelled

November 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM

Bill Childs

@billchilds.bsky.social

I definitely understand why one would use AI to show what Minneapolis looks like with snow; a TV station founded so recently (1946) certainly doesn’t have any archival footage showing that incredibly rare occurrence

daviss 📸 @chaddavis.photography · 1d

KSTP meteorologist posting AI videos on Twitter of what he says is what Minneapolis will look like if his forecast is correct is really something… not a valid weather news source going forward imo

November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM

Bill Childs

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Well, good thing it’s not a work day

November 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM

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Bill Childs

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Having a weird-ass family is good imho

November 18, 2024 at 7:40 PM

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Bill Childs

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I want whoever has this artwork to recreate the Step Off Sucka WMCN t-shirt I wore until it disintegrated

November 25, 2023 at 5:48 AM

Bill Childs

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Still mad at him for this assertion

Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · Nov 25

[stares at Chuck Klosterman in 1994 Macalester radio alum]

Footnote from Chuck Klosterman’s essay about Fargo Moorhead:

12. Arewelder was never particularly beloved by anyone except bookish dudes working at college radio stations, but they were still "established," somehow. They also had eross-demographic name recognition, since most farm kids in North Dakota know how to arc weld.

November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM

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Mark Joseph Stern

@mjsdc.bsky.social

Question about the dissent by (the far-right) Justice Ziegler: Does this quote actually appear in Moore v. Harper? Did Moore say that state courts' role in congressional redistricting is "exceedingly limited"? I don't think it did! vhdshf2oms2wcnsvk7sdv3so.blob.core.windows.net/thearp-media...

Worse yet, the plaintiffs’ theory disobeys the United States
Constitution’s Elections Clause which vests redistricting responsibility
exclusively in “the Legislature thereof.” U.S. CONST. ART. I, § 4. As the
United States Supreme Court recently reaffirmed, the role of state courts in
congressional redistricting is “exceedingly limited.” Moore v. Harper, 600
U.S. 1, 34 (2023). This lawsuit invites the very judicial meddling that the
Constitution prohibits. We see other states invoking fairly interesting
procedures to address congressional maps.

November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM

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Bill Childs

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What if I were to tell you I have in my hands a piece of creativity that includes contributions from Aerosmith, Peter Gabriel, Ace of Base, Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants, Sponge, The Chieftains, Basia, and literally dozens more?

November 23, 2024 at 10:22 PM