Nathan Petersen-Kindem

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I must inform you that The Many Deaths of Laila Starr is going to be incredible. If you’re bumping into this post on the MSP feed, and especially if you’ve never been to an opera before, get you some tickets. Message me for a discount code.

NEW! How MPD Built a Police Surveillance Operation Around Renee Good’s Memorial — and What It Cost the Community MPD dedicated 101 personnel to a memorial deployment where just seven people were holding vigil. It was part of a four-day MPD operation that generated $1.92 million in overtime.

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

Done! Anything to abate those abominable Angie ads.

The Minneapolis Police Department misused police coaching. 70% of Internal Affairs and 38% of Office of Police Conduct Review coaching cases in the historical backlog shouldn’t have been coaching at all. 1/ www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Post one photo of a painting that you took with your very own hands.

This is a cat checkpoint. Relinquish your most recent cat photo from your phone.

Added a hyphen, but for my favorite cultic crackpots of Silicon Valley, it’s worth it.

Birthday blue.

Be a tourist in your own town. Share a photo.

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Beautiful things happened today as we toured the downtown ice-hotels. Encouragement came from the Iranian demonstrators, from chance passersby, from restaurant staff. We will win.

Hey @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social - want to take a break from TV interviews and make this happen? I think you’ll find that’s where the majority of people land on the issue. 😒

I did this and so can you (probably)!

@klobuchar.senate.gov @amyklobuchar.com Your constituents love this message and look forward to your endorsement of a candidate who can ACTUALLY STAND AGAINST FASCISM instead of laughing it up at the inauguration!

Yourself but as a cartoon (according to the gym teenagers)

Not low enough! If any of them still have a conscience, salvation is two words away.

We interrupt your skyline with a shrimpcat.

you just know Kacsmaryk’s name is in the Files

My partner @jasoncapsaicin.bsky.social made a step by step guide on how to break up ice in your neighborhood in Minnesota. Enjoy!

Self care is key.

Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

Inspiring scenes from my city, and fantastic commentary by this group of neighbors. Notice how thoughtfully they avoid any appearance of “obstruction” 😂

I did this. Felt great. Highly recommend.

Nor ever forgive. The fundamental social contract is broken. No action of this federal government is legitimate, and state officials like @governorwalz.mn.gov need to treat their interventions as presumptively hostile.

I’d really like to see Keith decide to enter the Governor race. Minnesota needs a strong advocate for justice, not a stapler-flinging weathervane.

Shaving products with cartridges are wasteful and needlessly expensive. I love the Leaf and Henson razors I use, and their new blades are extremely cheap and perfectly recyclable.

Local duckling’s persistence pays off! A heartwarming political fable.

My daughter’s school bus was delayed this morning because armed ICE agents, some masked, were in the middle of 15th Ave in Cedar Riverside. So why wouldn’t ICE just get out of the way when the bus came? Perhaps they were busy harassing Somali-Americans, who are overwhelmingly citizens. But... (1/4)

Gandalf agrees this will improve matters.

Reduce the number of executives by 87% and redistribute their compensation to actual workers

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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Suspected ICE activity in South Minneapolis--6 unmarked cars containing cops at Bossen Park Field parking lot. If you're in the Twin Cities please spread the word! #ICEAlert #ICE

Abolish the Senate

Rest up this weekend if you don’t have plans. There will be more to do later.

I’m doing Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito with a wonderfully talented group of people. It’s got themes of friendship, politics, and the struggle of a compassionate nature when confronted with betrayal. It’s got a wonderful cast of singer-actors who are bringing rich insights to their roles. Come see!