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People who are married love to gossip about dating and when you’re dating, looking for a partner is a problem that consumes your brain
December 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
People who are married love to gossip about dating and when you’re dating, looking for a partner is a problem that consumes your brain
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Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research.
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say
A new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice, which gives millions of sufferers new cause for hope.
futurism.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research.
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
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No one in the media criticizes Jim Nobles because they’re both into fisking gov’t, but there’s a legit reason why Walz pushed back on Trump US Atty $9 billion fraud # … it WAS speculation & IS part of a political project. Doesn’t mean Walz hasn’t done other stuff. www.startribune.com/mn-fraud-sca...
December 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
No one in the media criticizes Jim Nobles because they’re both into fisking gov’t, but there’s a legit reason why Walz pushed back on Trump US Atty $9 billion fraud # … it WAS speculation & IS part of a political project. Doesn’t mean Walz hasn’t done other stuff. www.startribune.com/mn-fraud-sca...
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Also we need to be real that the GOP is using “Haitians” or “Somalis” or such with a hard R
December 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Also we need to be real that the GOP is using “Haitians” or “Somalis” or such with a hard R
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Also, news is less and less linear. All content is — look at engagement baiters ripping off stuff that worked for someone else three months previous. But influencers can discover a story they missed, ask why No One is Talking About It… politicians who already dealt w it aren’t ready to respond again
As Dave gets at, Dems content to operate in an info environment dominated by the right surrender the initiative to their political foes.
The right can propagate damaging narratives at will — as Dems wait in vain for a chance to “get the facts out” so they can “let the voters decide.”
The right can propagate damaging narratives at will — as Dems wait in vain for a chance to “get the facts out” so they can “let the voters decide.”
But step back and look at the machinery and you see how sturdy this media/WH infrastructure is. If they want to make a humiliating Democratic scandal the biggest story in the country, they can do it. Dems who think it'll go away if they "win" with local media are going to lose.
December 29, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Also, news is less and less linear. All content is — look at engagement baiters ripping off stuff that worked for someone else three months previous. But influencers can discover a story they missed, ask why No One is Talking About It… politicians who already dealt w it aren’t ready to respond again
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it's official that Minneapolis is now just a big town instead of a medium size city
December 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
it's official that Minneapolis is now just a big town instead of a medium size city
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What are your 2026 predictions?
December 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
What are your 2026 predictions?
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Minneapolis no longer has a daily print newspaper.
December 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Minneapolis no longer has a daily print newspaper.
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Great summary of the right-wing ratfu*kery BS surrounding Tim Walz*
* which many of you seem to be falling for
* which many of you seem to be falling for
I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example.
Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)
Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)
December 29, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Great summary of the right-wing ratfu*kery BS surrounding Tim Walz*
* which many of you seem to be falling for
* which many of you seem to be falling for
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Someone moving to the Wedge in 2026 will never know Hennepin Avenue without the E Line. streets.mn/2025/12/22/n...
Perspective of a Newcomer to Minneapolis: Getting to Know Uptown by Bike and Bus
Why I uprooted my life in Denver to settle in Minneapolis.
streets.mn
December 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Someone moving to the Wedge in 2026 will never know Hennepin Avenue without the E Line. streets.mn/2025/12/22/n...
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this isn't 'america good,' beyond an observation that America is a unique polity in history in terms of its ability and willingness to integrate immigrants and even a former class of slaves (and to an extent genocided indigenous people) into whatever makes the US the US.
December 29, 2025 at 8:17 AM
this isn't 'america good,' beyond an observation that America is a unique polity in history in terms of its ability and willingness to integrate immigrants and even a former class of slaves (and to an extent genocided indigenous people) into whatever makes the US the US.
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the one guy who could send us down the path of so many other countries, and the bloody uncertain future it portends, and we gave him two shots at it, and he's going to fumble the bag because he's a senile pedophile with psychotic viziers lacking any facsimile of his political rizz.
December 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
the one guy who could send us down the path of so many other countries, and the bloody uncertain future it portends, and we gave him two shots at it, and he's going to fumble the bag because he's a senile pedophile with psychotic viziers lacking any facsimile of his political rizz.
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the US has made choices in the last 20 years that in nearly all other countries would lead to a prolonged period of authoritarian rule, civil conflict, and likely the fragmentation of the union. and somehow it looks like we're going to survive voting in a would-be dictator because he's dying.
December 29, 2025 at 8:11 AM
the US has made choices in the last 20 years that in nearly all other countries would lead to a prolonged period of authoritarian rule, civil conflict, and likely the fragmentation of the union. and somehow it looks like we're going to survive voting in a would-be dictator because he's dying.
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here’s 2025 in minneapolis politics, starting with the SD60 special election endorsing convention and ending with jamal osman on a tiktok live and everything in between. it’s been a wild ride this year
youtu.be/MwgSXt8p-WE
youtu.be/MwgSXt8p-WE
2025 wrap up
YouTube video by Taylor Dahlin
youtu.be
December 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
here’s 2025 in minneapolis politics, starting with the SD60 special election endorsing convention and ending with jamal osman on a tiktok live and everything in between. it’s been a wild ride this year
youtu.be/MwgSXt8p-WE
youtu.be/MwgSXt8p-WE
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its a convergence of female pop stars from katy perry onwards, anime waifus, video game characters, and of course porn
Tangentially, I remain perplexed by harcore gooners' collective taste in women. Not that mine is conventional, mind you, but so often they seem to be chasing a half-remembered impression of male heterosexuality, as if they feel they should find women attractive but don't
"And I never say no"
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
December 29, 2025 at 6:12 AM
its a convergence of female pop stars from katy perry onwards, anime waifus, video game characters, and of course porn
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Please join me in thanking @stribrooks.bsky.social for years of good Strib column work; her year-end piece was her last. She’s not leaving; she’ll be doing features, likely good ones. But she was a news columnist who didn’t go out of her way to punch the left, as Strib opinionators increasingly do.
December 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Please join me in thanking @stribrooks.bsky.social for years of good Strib column work; her year-end piece was her last. She’s not leaving; she’ll be doing features, likely good ones. But she was a news columnist who didn’t go out of her way to punch the left, as Strib opinionators increasingly do.
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The NYT story travels widely. Conservative influencers, who for years have been portraying Minneapolis as a Camp of the Saints hellhole ruined by Somalis, hype the story. One Fox News segment even asks why Biden's DOJ didn't probe it. (Again, the probe *started under Biden.*)
December 29, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The NYT story travels widely. Conservative influencers, who for years have been portraying Minneapolis as a Camp of the Saints hellhole ruined by Somalis, hype the story. One Fox News segment even asks why Biden's DOJ didn't probe it. (Again, the probe *started under Biden.*)
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this fellow has broken loose from somewhere; he’s talking about something and somebody we don’t know
December 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
this fellow has broken loose from somewhere; he’s talking about something and somebody we don’t know
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Tariffs as a % of GDP are at the highest level in more than 100 years amidst Trump's trade war—even though tariff rates are still lower than in the 1930s, they have a much higher impact because trade volumes are much larger than in the past
December 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Tariffs as a % of GDP are at the highest level in more than 100 years amidst Trump's trade war—even though tariff rates are still lower than in the 1930s, they have a much higher impact because trade volumes are much larger than in the past
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It really cannot be overemphasized that almost none of the very angry and abusive and confident leftists on this site have had three seconds of practical participation in electoral politics in their entire lives
This entire fucking premise is so asinine. People simply do not understand the sheer amount of paperwork and accounting required for even the most regular political campaign. None of this works practically once you think about it for longer than five seconds.
December 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
It really cannot be overemphasized that almost none of the very angry and abusive and confident leftists on this site have had three seconds of practical participation in electoral politics in their entire lives
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A big difference between Midwestern suburbs and Southern suburbs is that whites in the former genuinely did become more democratic, while whites in the latter stayed more or less the same.
November 8, 2025 at 4:42 AM
A big difference between Midwestern suburbs and Southern suburbs is that whites in the former genuinely did become more democratic, while whites in the latter stayed more or less the same.