Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Thanks, Trump. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08... 001 0
Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026“There was a kind of cognitive dissonance of having my lips and my embouchure so close to the barrel of what used to be a firearm." —flautist Jeremy Tatar on playing a flute made from surrendered guns by artist Pedro Reyes. 100 0
Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Can you _really_ call it a movement if you only can muster millions of protesters three times? Real @nytpitchbot.bsky.social material here. 010 0
Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026“It’s the role of the artist to make the revolution irresistible,” Alsa Bruno told me about the work of Brass Solidarity, the street activist band he sings with and an integral part of the Minneapolis resistance to ICE. “By coming together in music... 140 0
Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 03/02/2026The pillow guy just texted me to alert me that he aims to ban Sharia law in MN. Whew. 010 0
Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Unfair. This is my favorite of the membranes. 020 0
Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Scenes from the anti-ICE rally in Minneapolis’s Powderhorn Park 1102 0
Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 31/10/2025On Halloween, I’m remembering fondly the headless Marie Antoinette of the 2024 Paris Olympics. 050 0
Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Too bad we can’t ask the crew of those Venezuelan fishing boats about the peacekeeper part. 010 0
Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 05/10/2025@jamellebouie.net on why Hegseth/Trump are attacking the military. @onthemedia.bsky.social 214446 0
Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 10/07/2025the things Firefox finds "thought-provoking" these days. 👀 120 0
Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Best part of the Mekons show at the Fine Line: when they turned “I Love a Millionaire” into “We Hate a Billionaire.” 1110 0
Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 02/07/2025An unusual sight met visitors to the National Mall on the morning of July 19, 1974: a formal breakfast in front of the Lincoln Memorial, complete with horse-drawn carriage, a string quartet, and candelabra. 100 0
Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 19/06/2025A sign on the Sabo Bridge in Minneapolis stating all of our feelings about Mike Lee 223046 0
Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Awaiting report that he’s the fittest president in US history 030 0
Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 10/04/2025The Great Gatsby was published 100 years ago today, April 10, 2025. 041 0
Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 05/04/202525,000 at the Minnesota State Capitol today! 0111 0
Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025This is not what my friends are talking about. 031 0
Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025The aptly named Mpls-based graffiti artist IMPEACH created this freight years ago; so apropos. (Unfortunately, I can't find an image of another car he did, which bore the title of Sinclair Lewis' 1935 novel about fascism coming to America, "It Can't Happen Here.") 140 0
Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 14/02/2025"Analysis of multiple waves of the American National Election Studies (ANES) reveals that racial resentment and white grievance now explain twice as much variation in anti-democratic beliefs as they did in 2012." www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 010 0
Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 12/02/2025They’ve been telling us what they’re about for years. 210 0
Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025With another winter warmup coming, make sure to check out the Art Shanty Projects (and Lake Harriet Kite Festival) this weekend on Bdé Umáŋ. Pic by Jenn Ackerman from last year's event, right before it canceled. 1111 0
Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025This has been up since 2016. Longfellow, Minneapolis. 0130 0
