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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 4h
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 3h
the Hawks/Hawkeyes thing is really funny, but the fact that the brains of a sitting U.S. Senator *and his entire staff* are so thoroughly cooked that they thought this nonsense meant anything at all is going to make me go doomer if I think about it too much
Katie Britt enduring the stupidest fucking piece of posterboard ever displayed in the US Senate
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☀️ @vamospeat.bsky.social · 4h
she was doxxed by an alum of the fraternity. burn greek life to the ground and salt the earth where it was
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 7h
additionally you can put "hotdog" into the chat box and this happens
hot dog
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UghObWi @ughobwi.bsky.social · 9h
College Gameday is in Iowa City this weekend. Would pay good money if someone could get a sign on TV that says "It's the IOWA Hawks not Atlanta Hawks, you dumb Schmitt"
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sarah @sarahcastic.bsky.social · 12h
also WTF they left him in the game???? he could have died!!!! wild training staff malpractice here
He played the next shift and three more shifts total in the period before being pulled in the third period and taken to the hospital.
Asked why the training staff didn't pull him from the bench immediately in the exhibition game, Guerin said, "Yeah ... there wasn't. You know, it just didn't... he seemed OK. As things progressed, we had to pull him."
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smcgee @smcgee.bsky.social · 14h
And then since I was already late to work
View from the Franklin bridge over the Mississippi the looking south east. The trees are green, red and orange. A railroad bridge also spans the river.  A wider view from the Franklin bridge over the Mississippi the looking south. The trees are green, red and orange on the west side.  The east side is mostly green. A railroad bridge also spans the river in the distance.
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smcgee @smcgee.bsky.social · 15h
I’ve been waiting 3 years to see this chicken of the woods on river road fruiting again
Orange and yellow mushroom on a tree stump.
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Anna Megill @annamegill.com · 20h
"You could never create a single account on a single Meta service, of which there are many, and you still aren't safe. If you're talking to someone who has installed Muse, Meta could, presumably, access, read, analyze, and upload that information to its services."
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Rory Stolzenberg @rorystolzenberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This "founder LLC" setup seems particularly corrosive. In ordinary supervoting share structures, a split between supervoters can at least lead to the common stockholders getting a say on contentious issues — but here they're always voting their shares as a bloc, so ordinary votes become irrelevant.
Under this arrangement, a majority vote of the seven co-founders ​will direct a single share of Class F stock that amounts to 50.1% of the total voting power over key corporate matters, including the election of some board directors and other matters ​submitted to investors.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 29/09/2026
“the person who is CEO at the time a company goes public will, until their death, have sole power over company decisions, regardless of how much investment they have taken from the public” was just never how any of this was intended to work and it is a catastrophe for corporate governance
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Rick Ellis @toomuchtvcom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Holy crap. This is just insane choreography.
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K Jumbe @kjumbe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don't we know about the fraud because he charged people? The AG doesn't manage social service programs. His job is to respond if fraud occurs. I find this whole campaign re: fraud a sad indicator of public literacy on how government works and who does what.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
These sound like non-trivial problems.
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Jen the Tired RN @jenthetiredrn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A warning for my fellow celiacs:
PRODUCT RECALL
UNDECLARED WHEAT
BROWN SUGAR & POWDERED SUGAR RECALLED DUE TO PRESENCE OF WHEAT
"Certain light brown and powdered sugar products sold under the United, Good & Gather and Crystal Sugar brand names have been recalled due to "Potential Wheat Kernel contamination." Sold in IA, IL, IN, KS, MN, OH PA, TX. See Caption for affected lotsLight Brown Sugar - Packaged in the follow configurations:
1. United, Net Wt. 50 Ibs., (22.68kg). Item Number
810051. Distributed By: United Sugar Producers & Refiners, Minneapolis, MN 55439.
2. Good & Gather (Target), Net Wt 2 lb. (32 oz) 907g Item Number 817773. UPC 0 85239-08454 0. Dist.
By Target Corp.,
Batch numbers -
United Brown Sugar 1. MHD26223, MHD26224, MHD26225, MHD26226, MHD26227, MHD26228, MHD26229, MHD26223, MHD26225, MHD26226, MHD26223, MHD26225, MHD26226.
2. Good & Gather Batch Numbers: MHD26223, MHD26224, MHD26225, MHD26226, MHD26227, MHD26228, MHD26229.Powdered Sugar
1. United 6X, Net Wt. 50 Ibs. ((22.68kg), Item Number 810087. UPC 7 85921-07090 4. Distributed by: United Sugar Producers & Refiners, Minneapolis,
MN 55439.
2. Crystal Sugar, Net Wt. 25 Ibs. (11.3 kg), Item Number 810097. UPC 0 70090-08090 9. Distributed by Crystal Sugars Corporation, Moorhead, MN
3. Good & Gather, Net Wt 2 Ib. (32oz) 907g. Item Number 817774. UPC 0 85239-08455 7. Dist. By Target Corp. Minneapolis, MN 55403.
Batch Numbers
1. United Batch Numbers: MHD26223, MHD26224, MHD26225, MHD26226, MHD26227, MHD26229.
2. Crystal Sugar Batch Numbers: MHD26230
3. Good & Gather Batch Numbers: MHD26223, MHD26224, MHD26225, MHD26226, MHD26227, MHD26228, MHD26229.
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smcgee @smcgee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That’s my alma mater 🐻
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smcgee @smcgee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
hey @umdawgs.bsky.social you've got some training to do
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Man Rides Mountain Unicycle 100 Miles Through Upper Peninsula Wilderness
This is one of the toughest races in the country, and he decided a bike wasn't hard enough.
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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don’t people not to use it because I want to scold, I tell them not to use it because you’re going to end up in deepfake porn
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smcgee @smcgee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Maybe I need to get back to litigation ...
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smcgee @smcgee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A to Z Creamery did a collab with Brasa tonight and I missed it. Green Sauce ice cream.
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smcgee @smcgee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Overheard at dinner, a mom to her two kids explaining why they’ll never go to Universal Studios: “JK Rowling will get none of my money.” (The kids were unphased, they had clearly heard this before)
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
LOVE this story. I was in Maine this summer and was thrilled to get some honestly pretty good French-style hard cider from a local business that was gathering apples from some of the ancient trees scattered throughout the local area.
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Katie Jones @katiejonesmpls.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Correction: he’s preserved over *** $7 billion*** for Minnesotans, which the Trump govt tried to deny us. That’s roughly equivalent to 10% of our state budget.
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smcgee @smcgee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In other news, my assistant has had a gross, hacking cough for 3 weeks in a row but today I overheard her in the bathroom say she didn’t test for Covid because it didn’t feel like the last time she had it. Have we not learned anything!?!
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smcgee @smcgee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I subbed in a league tonight for the first time! I’m super slow but that was fun.
Mahjong league score card showing the poster winning 2 out of 4 games and winning over all.  The card sits on top of overturned mahjong tiles.
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Erica @ericaaaaa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A fact I pulled from SPPS Board notes, because yes I am a person who sometimes reads board notes: 23-24 school year: 452 newly arrived English learners 25-26: 13 newly arrived English learners. THIRTEEN.
Text box that reads: The presentation concluded with a detailed breakdown of English Learner (EL) enrollment and staffing.
Presenters highlighted a multi-year decline in EL enrollment-driven in part by federal halts on US refugee admissions that drastically reduced newly arrived English learners from 452 in 2023-2024 to just 13 in 2025-2026. Because EL staffing is calculated using a weighted ratio (giving higher weight to students with lower English proficiency) and relies on average daily membership trends, reduced numbers have led to 26 split-position EL teaching roles across schools this year. To support staff and ensure contract compliance, administrators conducted multi-party scheduling meetings with split-position teachers and principals, with final fall adjustments planned following the official October 1 student count.
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smcgee @smcgee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Uline sucks.
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smcgee @smcgee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy Cava opening day to all who celebrate
Cava storefront on Washington Ave. not pictured: the block long line at 1:30pm
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A. Cosmographer @acosmographer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Going to skip over the city rivalry joking and just point out the shocking failure of Mpls politicians in response to the ICE occupation and the brave leadership in St. Paul’s city council.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What this provost’s use of AI has also made scandalously clear is that AI is wrecking higher ed so fast a lot of faculty have no idea how far it’s gone. Or that many of the students using it hate it—but use it because higher ed has sat on its hands & allowed its hierarchies to become AI incentives.
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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
More on the minnetonka chicken food truck cult
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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 22/09/2026
Minneapolis uses Insight fixed LPRs, Axon Fusus for data sharing. Tear it all the fuck OUT.
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smcgee @smcgee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Taking action against "Flock" brand cameras and not ALPRs in general ... smdh
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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Um, this is happening this weekend. The St. Paul one was one of the coolest things I've ever seen. www.redbull.com/us-en/events...
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The degree to which police departments have financial incentives to over-respond to situations where their presence is straight up not needed at ALL, because they can make a bunch of extra money for zero personal risk, is something that even the pro-cop brigade should be concerned about.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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smcgee @smcgee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Applies to even the Klarbrun 30 packs
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Rachel Widome @rwidome.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“She paused. I could see the pain of this admission etched in her face. “It is important to not, in our pursuit of being antiracist, lower expectations,” she told me. “Because this is what happens, right? It’s racism under the guise of antiracism.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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KP @gokp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Quid Pro Toe
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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/09/2026
I do not think that AI will collapse but I do think Oracle might and it’s an outcome we should all be rooting for mightily
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Patrick Stephenson @patiomensch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We need to find this woman!
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 18/09/2026
Robyn Wefel has been the gardener at the landmark St. Paul Hotel for 14 years. She’s the third person to hold the position since the garden was built in 1994. “I only have to have it looking good roughly 365 days a year,” she said.
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Hotel gardener shares what it takes to keep plants looking good
Robyn Wefel has been the gardener at the landmark St. Paul Hotel for 14 years. She’s the third person to hold the position since the garden was built in 1994.
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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m reading the newest missive from @mollypeonies.bsky.social and flames are shooting out of my ears. www.thisisbydesign.com/how-mpd-buil...
MPD records reveal a coordinated system of drones, city cameras, command-post intelligence, body-worn and helmet cameras, person and vehicle checks, and evidence preservation around the memorial site — part of an operation that generated $1.92 million in overtime in just four days. At least 101 MPD personnel were assigned to the memorial deployment, where records identified only seven people holding vigil.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026
This is the far more likely pathway for how AI will end us all, btw. Not via some superintelligent swarm of paperclip maximizers, but by a cascading sequence of dumb fuckups driven by human beings who have arranged things to be fast-moving and catastrophically fragile while also being really lazy.
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smcgee @smcgee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hi friends - learn from me, please. Vote early so when your family member ends up in the ER on the eve of an election, you can leave the state guilt free. (Dad is fine, although who really knows, boomer parents aren't great at communication).
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smcgee @smcgee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Opinion by none other than Judge Patrick Schiltz
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Jesse Mortenson @jk9.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
When you broadcast that you, the nominal opponent of fascism, actually agree with foundation of Elon Musk’s preferred pro-fascist wedge issue, you legitimize that idea. You give that wedge issue more power, rather than neutralizing it. Thats a betrayal of society.
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Molly Jeffery, PhD MPP @mollyjeffery.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Really powerful details about the federal courts in Minnesota during Metro Surge. The Clerk's office was staffed 16-hrs/day, 7 days/week to make sure habeas petitions were processed timely. I am so grateful to them. They were working with no extra pay to protect our neighbors and the rule of law.
nytimes.com
Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns (Gift Article)
In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
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