Marantz Model 2 amplifier upside down on a repair tech's auxiliary bench. The bottom panel has been removed so the circuitry is exposed. Various tooka including fluke meeters, Weller soldering irons and a power supply surround it.

Current state of the bench

My partner is a repair tech and we have a vintage audio repair shop. In St. Paul though. And yes, we have the piles of parts.

Mount on wall and hang tools

Three illustrations. On top is "Worst Case Scenario: Ecological Disaster ", showing an abandoned streetscape. In the middle is "The Fun Future: Techno fix on the march", featuring a futuristic streetscape with flying cars. On the bottom is "The Ecotopian Solution ", featuring a streetscape with a lot of trees and people riding bicycles.

The Future According to Robert Crumb

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Mar Espinar criticized Isabel Diaz Ayuso for her alignment with Trump during a government hearing: (English translation in the post) “Cójase al mafioso de su jefe de Gabinete, tire para Mar-a-Lago y déjenos aquí — que somos más de los valientes de Minnesota”

Mar Espinar, Spain’s PSOE deputy, on Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s support for Trump:

“Take your mafioso chief of staff, go to Mar-a-Lago, and leave us here — because we are more like the brave ones from Minnesota”

A beautiful homemade flan

One of the moms of the families I’ve been delivering groceries to asked today if I’d be willing to accept something from her. And she came back with this beautiful flan she’d made to say thank you for helping us. I am crying. People are too kind. This is whom our government is forcing into hiding.

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Trying to do my taxes and having a hard time focusing.
ICE spent $30 million just on bullets.

Photo of Lake Phalen on a sunny winter day with all its ice covered by snow.

Can't see it, but the ice is still there

Photo of Lake Phalen on a sunny winter day with all its ice covered by snow.

Can't see it, but the ice is still there

The best coffee. It ruined me for coffee shops because no coffee tasted as good as what I could make at home.

MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter

Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes

Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked.

This one too:

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ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

Actually they pulled him from a car and beat him so viciously that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

A reminder to the haters it takes this many states to outnumber the American citizens in Puerto Rico

(~3.5m v. ~3.2m)

halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

A stack of thin pink books that say OBSTETRIX * NAOMI KRITZER on the spine

HEY I AM DOING A FUNDRAISER FOR MINNESOTA RENT FUNDS

AND GIVING AWAY A SIGNED ARC (advance review copy) OF OBSTETRIX

THAT'S RIGHT YOU CAN HELP MINNESOTA FAMILIES AND MAYBE GET A FREE EARLY SIGNED COPY OF MY BOOK

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Signal is free

At Lk Nokomis in Minneapolis tonight for an ICE OUT event.

The group bike ride for Alex Pretti is about to depart in Minneapolis, stopping at his memorial, then Renee Good’s, and finishing at the VFW. If you can join, hop on anywhere. It’s a warm 17° & sunny!

I’ve never seen this many cyclists for a group ride. ⚡️✊🏽⚡️🚲⚡️✊🏽⚡️ #RIPPretti

Huge group of cyclists slowly passing the site where Alex Pretti was murdered

💚Mpls

St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to the first time local police in...

St. Peter police chief blocks federal agents from arresting resident | MPR News share.google/KBIOUFyspzNV...

Donate to Help Save Mercado Central from Closure, organized by Cooperativa Mercado Central Mercado Central, a cooperative founded by latino entrepeneurs with… Cooperativa Mercado Central needs your support for Help Save Mercado Central from Closure

Mercado Central says the cooperative is in danger of losing the building ☹️ gofund.me/cf76f8dcb

Those who make whistles impossible make vuvuzelas inevitable

Birmingham, UK, is answering this call.

Saturday, 1 PM, Victoria Square.

We ride in memory of Alex Pretti and against fascism.

All welcome. Will you join us?

The people of Minnesota did that. Not Schumer and Jeffries, not Walz and Frey, not the standard-bearers of decorum. The People.

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

"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport

In The Nation, the Left Should Fight for Small Business | Independent Business Stacy Mitchell and Susan R. Holmberg argue that the left should embrace small business again; it is crucial to reversing inequality and rescuing democracy.

Great article about how small businesses used to be a core constituency for Democrats, and why they should be again.
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