I see people are still ignoring my idea of what if everybody got a free coca cola but to get your coca cola you had to solve a scavenger hunt of 20 cryptic clues hidden in the skyway system

This is what oligarchy looks like:

If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break.

If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry.

Obscene.

This explains it better than I can

hm.

condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some
prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.

Whether it’s Republican politicians joking about the murder of Melissa Hortman or Democratic politicians expressing their condolences after the murder of Charlie Kirk, both parties have a extreme rhetoric problem.

After a mass shooting in Minneapolis killed two children and injured at least 17 other people, Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve criticized the inaction to reduce gun violence.

"It’s such an indictment of our society, our lack of regard for life."

We're going through all this, because deep at his core, Donald Trump actually hates himself

45 years ago this month—before a half dozen books and thousands of articles on the band—a shortlived magazine called Trax published the first written words on the Replacements. As Bob Mehr notes in his Replacements book "Trouble Boys," it was barely three weeks since the Mats' first proper club show

schadenfreudescrolling

One of the beautiful things about Bluesky is that this is exactly what your Following feed shows you: every post from every person you follow, in reverse chronological order

I object on aesthetic and maybe quasi-moral grounds to language like “devout” and “deeply religious” in this context. If his fanaticism adhered to a different faith, he’d get “fanatic,” “extremist,” “zealot” etc. Perverting the Cross to commit murder exempts you from “devout”

Important reading in moments like this:

Seriously, though... Yvette protected Hope. Hope made the call to 911. And then one officer had the thought, "The Hortmans live nearby. Can someone go check on them?"

Those three actions might have saved so many more lives.

A photo of Sen Hoffman watching his daughter Hope speak at Disability Visibility Day at the Capitol. You can see the love between them on his face. Hope is the reason more people were not gunned down yesterday. She’s a force in the disability community and a hero to our state.

"So I looked on my trailcam and said to the missus, that looks like a person. So I reported it."

The fact that the Brooklyn Park police proactively went to the Hortman residence and interrupted the attack in progress, thus separating the perp from his weapons cache, saved untold lives.