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Keith Harris

@usefulnoise.bsky.social
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Creeping socialist. Premature anti-rockist. Oldest living Racket editor. Saving my labor for insane reading. Subscribe to Racket, or at least read it. racketmn.com/author/keith-harris

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 7h
New wrong Facebook election meme. Every ballot in a Minnesota polling place has handwriting on it - two judges’ initials, required by state law. If you doink it for this reason you‘re just wasting our time (perhaps the point of the meme-maker). Call out this wrongness if you see it in your feeds.
From fucking Facebook: This is PSA
PLEASE PASS THIS IMPORTANT INFO ON
****************** A very reliable source of mine just finished the
pollworker training, and she texted this .....!
"Just finished Poll Manager training! I passed all the classes. I want you all to know something...when you are checking in at the polls and they happen to write anything on your ballot before they give it to you to put in the voting machine...a letter, a checkmark, a letter star, an R or a D any writing of any kind...please request a new ballot. Your ballot will be disqualified if it is written on. Please be on the look out. Make sure poll workers do not write on your ballot. It will cause your ballot to be
disqualified."
Please forward this to everyone you know
Make sure poll workers do not write on your ballot.
It will cause your ballot to be disqualified
PassOn!Be cautious!2025 Minnesota Statutes

204C.09 BALLOT PREPARATION BY ELECTION JUDGES. Subdivision 1. Counting and initialing. (a) Before the voting begins, at least two election judges must certify the number of ballots delivered to the precinct. Election judges may conduct this count, presuming that the total count provided for prepackaged ballots is correct. As each package is opened, two judges must count the ballots in the package to ensure that the total count provided for
the package is correct. Any discrepancy must be noted on the incident log. (b) Before the voting begins, or as soon as possible after it begins, at least two election judges
shall each initial the ballots. The election judges shall not otherwise mark the ballots.
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Stick to Me will have its day next year
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I guess a lot can change in 40 years. Funny that among the records here least likely to have made that list are the solo Beatles.
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Truly a shame that Howlin' Wind and Heat Treatment clearly divided the Graham Parker vote.
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Mpls Music History @mplsmusichistory.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A City Pages piece about Nirvana and the “Nevermind” album, leading up to their First Avenue performance. Published October 9, 1991.
This Rough Magic When I was a kid, and rebellion I sensuality. wanted and I rock vulnerabil- to wanted be music to run alongside me, kicking cars and yelling fuck you, but I also needed it to acknowledge my longings, to tell me that other people felt shitty too. That's why, if I were a kid now, I'd be shelling out half the bucks it costs for those Use Your Illusions to buy Nirvana's Nevermind. Circles of Joy BY TERRI SUTTON When I first heard the single "Smells Like Teen Spirit," I was catapulted back to my first punk rock show; I remember how amazed I was to find people like me- -self-conscious, alienated geeks making a noise, a celebration, out of their loneliness. In a room bulging with discontent, we saw ourselves in each other's faces, and all that shame just melted into healing rage.
 
This song is that huge cleansing, drenching guitar chords cascading out of delicate, hoarsely melodic verses, drums flying everyplace as the band lunges into the - chorus: "With the lights down/it's less dangerous/here we are now/entertain us." "Teen Spirit" is thick with defiance, but it's also smart; it makes fun of the whole idea of music-as-rebellion and at the same time kicks you in the butt and screams, "THINK!" Nirvana knows too well how temporary those rock show rebellions are, how easy it is to slide back into passive apathy the day after, when the adrenaline's worn off and all the shit in your face is still there. Further, they understand how weird it is that they should be up on the stage, trying to incite people to not listen to them, to think for themselves. Singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain surfaces from the maelstrom going, "I feel stupid and contagious"; he feels like a freak. This isn't "The Kids Are Alright" or "Won't Get Fooled Again" -Nirvana knows the kids aren't and will. But "Teen Spirit" is brighter than, say, "Welcome to the Jungle" in its desperate trust- little band has always been," Kurt promises himself, "and always will until the end." Not much to base a…
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Racket @racketmn.com · 14/10/2026
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Five years ago, Racket pioneered a worker-owned, reader-funded model of alternative digital journalism in the Twin Cities. Since then, we’ve published almost 5,000 articles, written by more than 200 t...
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"But we'll lose money..." That. Happens. Sometimes.
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
My Big Idea for improving Uptown is to make the people who own the big empty buildings rent them to someone.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Do this and more. More! prospect.org/2026/10/13/t...
prospect.org
Time to De-Privatize - The American Prospect
When the Democrats take back Congress, we need an agenda to return public functions to government and reverse decades of privatization.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Good: Abolish ICE Even better:
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
why are the moderators at the kids' table?
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
my new hobby is blocking hyperactive resistance lib accounts from out of state who reply to local stories about the MN Senate race, complaining about how close it is
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Oughta be a law against this Jess Williamson record coming out just when my SAD is kicking in.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
NEW: I wrote about why so many people wanted to believe that Ukrainian airstrikes on a Russian data center reduced troll and bot activity online, even though it's almost certainly not true. Featuring @noupside.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Drone strikes didn't take out a Russian bot farm, but we were primed to believe It
A viral rumor illustrates people’s hunger to make sense of the division we see online.
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
open the schools genius.com/40753432
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The American dream is outdated
Originally, the American dream was about democracy, liberty and equality, but in recent decades has focused on material wealth.
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
haha how sad and yet perfect
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Audrey Hepburn, Telly Savalas
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Steve Lieber --> Bedrock City Comic Con @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Frank Frazetta shirtless outside in an armchair, posing with his palette and the original art for the Fire & Ice poster. Behind him Eleanor Frazetta poses in a bikini on a Honda dirtbike.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Muskism from apartheid to AI “call bullshit on the idea that these people are “futurists.” They’re not futurists. their political and economic ideas are the worst failed, most discredited ideas of the 20th century. Why we should look to them for political and economic leadership is baffling to me."
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
haha what the fuck
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Just saw a TikTok explaining that Rubber Soul was a pun. Wait till they find out about the band name.
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Listen to more Tom Zé.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It’s pretty funny that we always just think consciousness is whatever our most popular technology is at the time
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Right? What a twist!
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
me, but with pitches
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
reminder that 1) if you haven't watched part 1 (and you probably haven't, let's face it) it's streaming on Mubi and 2) you get a free 90 days of Mubi when you join the MSP film society
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
They've installed new roundabouts in the Wedge, but there are no signs yet to show clueless drivers how to use them. Now is the time of monsters.
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Ross Raihala (Alpha Male) 🌈 @rossraihala.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I wrote a column about The Jacket. “There are a lot of people wearing it who have been through a thing, you know? Even if they weren’t doing it together, we went through it together.” (gift link)
twincities.com
Ross Raihala: Here’s the story of the St. Paul Saints jacket that went viral
The Saints sold 37 of the jackets, designed to look like a thrift store find. Then came the Stump Party.
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Loungewehr @outerhalf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Maybe Hourcar and Evie should be subsidized by a tax on driver less vehicles. It's pocket lint for Waymo.
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
oh good idea, thanks
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I've got reviews of The Social Reckoning & Digger here, might have more to say about them both/together.
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 09/10/2026
Last time I succumbed to this feeling, I asked myself, “If I wake up on November 4 and this happened, and I could transport myself back to today, what would I do?” That’s when I began doing two doorknock shifts a week. If your life allows, please do what you can now. You can help change the future.
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I've got reviews of The Social Reckoning & Digger here, might have more to say about them both/together.
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 08/10/2026
I wonder how nice Lisa Demuth & Michele Tafoya feel about the president inciting a pogrom on my neighbors. Will the Strib political desk look up from its civility politics and push them, noting Demuth effectively invited ICE here before or will they just accept an email from Tafoya’s human shields?
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
OK I deserved this
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I don't even want to look and see how many inaccurate Brechtsplainer videos Digger must have inspired on YouTube.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Finish every day and be done with it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to his daughter in 1854.
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it’s me AC @wellgoshacs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
if a child came to me and said he wants to murder people, I would simply not encourage him to join ISIS, but this is the kind of big brained thinking we’ve come to expect from the FBI
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
and making Spin best-of lists
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This happened at online pubs too. "We need blogs!" "How is that different than what we already publish?" "It's! A! Blog!"
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
incredible rubber stamp here from @hamatron3000.bsky.social 's personal collection
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Skill issue. You just gotta quit watching a show after season 3 or 4.
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Piper Laurie's dead, for starters.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You know, you can just use a different phrase
Online marketplace ad for a “crib cum sofa”
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
buttons are maybe bigger than ever, in certain scenes at least
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