i dunno maybe it's because i'm in Minnesota and we kicked out Al Franken for squeezing his constituents' asses and now have a woman senator who is *currently holding the senate floor to save the boundary waters*, but you got a man with baggage? you can toss the man!
For some reason I am rewatching The West Wing, and I don't remember the lighting scheme being this insane: "Please come into my Executive Branch office: there is one overhead spotlight bright as the sun, but the rest of the office is draped in darkness, chiaroscuro-style. It is 9:30 in the morning."
I sometimes think about how Jonathan Demme wanted to do a concert film of The Feelies in the early 80s but could never get funding for it and if that thing had actually gotten made I would have watched it at least 5000 times.
Any top 20(!) list that does not include “Crushed” is not a serious list.
Very exciting! Can’t wait to read it!
Sign next to sliding chalkboard.
This sign is so passive-aggressively insistent that it must have been written with one person in mind. Like, the original draft was probably "It is important to apply very gentle pressure only. Avoid pressing hard, STEVE."
I cannot get over that this is how my dog sleeps at night.
repeat this mantra whenever someone reposts an article from the Atlantic: politics is not a conversation. the right isn't winning because the left made a bad argument. the right is winning because it possesses more wealth and power.
Same
I am getting young Peter Buck vibes from this pic
Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
This is so goddamned funny.
Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19
I saw him open for Jonathan Richman. Not an intuitive pairing, until you realize that they both deal in raw, unprocessed emotion, just at different ends of the spectrum. Anyway, he played that song, and it slayed everyone in the room.
As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵
academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
It does really hit you that American artists of color continue to make these aesthetically incredible, thematically rich works of art and the white supremacists that rule this country are just complete dullards
america could be such a cool fucking place if we’d just let it be
Oh no!!!!
We’re just not a free country.
Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.
It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
Yall outside of MN need to know that observers are STILL out protecting their neighbors. Right now. They know the news and they’re still out there.
So great that they got the Grain Belt bridge sign in the shot.
A picture of the Mary Tyler Moore statue in downtown Minneapolis, depicting the iconic moment from the show where she throws her hat in the air. But the hat has been covered over with a protesters cardboard sign, reading “FUCK ICE.”
On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”
"They were detained but acting as first responders to the man who had detained them." ...
'I was hit so hard with the fact that this man would not do this for me, [Amundson] said. ...
'We were willing to do for this man, this human, what they were not willing to do for Renee Good,' Zemien said."
Man, my hometown looks fucking beautiful.
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
