Pat Thompson

“Zeteo can now reveal more on how the ad came together, and who else was involved. Somehow, the depraved, sleazy story of how this happened – a new low in a race that [NYT] has declared likely the “ugliest” in the nation – is even worse than you already think it is.” zeteo.com/p/republican...

She has been quoted as saying that she wouldn’t rule it out. www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/...

The same guy who endorsed tafoya in the strib today wrote that "70 percent of the teams in the NBA could fold tomorrow and nobody would notice a difference with the possible exception of increase in street crime." He's considered a moderate.

Sign+share! Union proposals our newspaper's parent company has rejected: Content under a reporter’s name must be their work, not AI; AI content must be reviewed by a human journalist and LABELED as AI; AI may not be used to generate deepfakes; Pioneer Press may not lay us off and replace us w/AI

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.

For trivia buffs, Lula's victory margin in Brazil was more than twice as large as Trump's 2024 "landslide" here.

All the millions of tax dollars spent creating a structure to combat these trump-led onslaughts is a dollar that could have conceivably gone to something else and money that should not have to be spent in the first place and it would be completely irresponsible at this point to *not* spend those…

😡You knew it was organized by Heritage Foundation, you knew Trump is a sociopath & you knew it was 2 weeks before an election😡 Hypocrites or Liars? Or both? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/u...

Ya think?

It’s really not that hard to say this!

Making disparaging remarks about Saddam Hussein just shows how out of touch you are with Middle America’s Ba’athist working class

After the end of car-sharing service Hourcar, the dream of being car-free in the Twin Cities lives on.

Look you can say whatever horrible racist shit you want. But I draw the line at making fun of my favorite chain restaurant bsky.app/profile/mari...

So @lilianasegura.bsky.social and I just co-wrote a piece about the bodycam footage in the Kohan Wiley case. theintercept.com/2026/10/23/k...

So, everyone realizes the most recent season of Slow Horses mashed together the plots from the books Joe Country and Slough House, right? Plus and minus some elements.

I served as a Mpls Election Judge for most elections over 25 yrs. These roles set up us 1-day/year employees to welcome every voter, avoid problems, and follow all of MN's (overly)complicated election law. It's shortsighted to ruin what works & builds trust in gvt. bsky.app/profile/sera...

What we learned is that former petrochemical lobbyists now inside the EPA are meeting with former clients and then moving to force career staff at the EPA to rollback public health protections. We found the actual documents detailing these moves. Smoking guns. (Redlines striking protections)

Haunting. Beautifully sung. Heartbreaking.

This is so thorough and timely, thank you @mollypeonies.bsky.social ! @startribune.com editors should be utterly ashamed for their complete journalistic malpractice in service of a racist lie - especially in this profoundly dangerous moment for our Somali neighbors.

Prospect Park (Minneapolis) Thursday morning bridge brigade over I-94. People will also be out there with "vote" banners at some point each day from Tuesday before Election Day to November 2.

better yet, sue the sleazebag for defamation. This is exactly the sorts of lies that God gave us defamation law for.

Print this on an index card, stick it in your pocket, and take it to the polls with you when you vote. 18 US Code §592: Troops at Polls, prohibited by law. [You can copy the text in the Alt-txt box directly.]

Fall color on a blue beech, Carpinus caroliniana. Others if this species have orange or red leaves in fall.

Ramsey County sheriff Bob Fletcher’s racist gang task force was broken up years ago. Now he’s getting it back together, leveraging Trump and Emmer’s anti-Somali screeds. The Star Tribune is helping him.

BREAKING: Anthropic reports an $80 billion net loss in the first half of 2026.

Before Rep. Tom Emmer accused Minnesota journalists of ignoring the threat of “Somali gangs” in July 2025, the phrase had appeared zero times in Star Tribune crime coverage dating back to January 2020. Since then, it has appeared 56 times.

DEEP DIVE is up! How the Star Tribune turned Republican “Somali gangs” rhetoric into an election-year crime narrative—and helped give demands for expanded local, state, and federal enforcement the authority of news.

This is what the MAGA Republicans are asking for. It’s not about bathrooms. Or sports. It’s not about us at all. It’s all about their own obsessive gender policing and need for total control of others bodies.

Anyone know if St Paul Police have the right to launch a drone from a privately owned parking lot?

I don’t take the city seriously on Nicollet Mall bc they don’t understand and value the adjacent pedestrian way they HAVE NOW with Loring Greenway. Where the lights are on 24/7 bc if they go off, the old electrical might not come back on. Where’s the $ to fix those? And the fountains? And when +

Keep tracking these stories. The bubble… the bubble…

I forgot to post this morning! Lots of herbs for the last week of harvest at the St AnthonyPark library, outside the book return door. Much basil, parsley, chives especially.

EV = early voting, electric vehicle ICE = internal combustion engine, Immigration & Customs Enforcement

I have no reason to think this was intentional, but imagine that you had brought your rifle to a kids soccer game, and somehow set it to full auto and then dropped it, spraying the crowd with bullets. Would you just be *let go* as long as you were "cooperating" with the investigation?

Why is @jamellebouie.net the only major media figure routinely pointing out that Elon Musk, who is spending a quarter of a billion dollars to prop up Republican candidates, is a white supremacist? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/17/o...

I voted. Wrote in Jeremy Ellison for Ramsey County sheriff.

IRS refuses to publish report. Ahead of the midterm elections, the Trump regime is withholding detailed information that illustrates how King Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act hurt millions of Americans. The data from the IRS was originally scheduled to be released in July & updated in September.

“There are more gun deaths in the US on a single day than there are in the UK, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Japan in a year combined. Our weekly total is roughly equal to the annual total of gun deaths of France, Canada, or Germany.”

The Supreme Court burns to the ground in Albania, Parliament and the Department of Education has been stormed, the Prime Minister is in hiding and the country is effectively in the hands of the rebels. Albania rejects blatant corruption and their country being sold.

Mainstream media vs. independent journalists.

Chaska MN 10-17-26

I can’t be the only person who has heard elderly people with dementia start talking openly about their long-suppressed erotic longings, often at great length. This is a known thing, right? Dementia horniness?