Peggy in Purple Rain shirt

When Bruce Springsteen covered Purple Rain in Minneapolis a few weeks ago, I thought about how Prince would have shown up these past few months.

More recently, I’ve been stuck on his lyric “You can be the President; I’d rather be the Pope.”

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
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lol

I hope other Democrats running for office are paying attention. Probably not, but one can hope.

Uhhhhh

Anyone who does that fake throwing a ball for their dog thing... well done, you outsmarted a dog. A dog that loves you and really, really wanted you to throw a ball for them.

You should be on some kind of register.

Dear Right Wing Pundits,

It would be nice if you came to the conclusion that the Oval Office occupant is flailing like a 5th grader trying to pretend he did his homework rather than play video games all night. You’d look a little less pathetic.

Love,
The Entire World

Norm rules

thing about the Trump administration's24/7 stream of funds from the public exchequer into private hands is that you no longer have to explain colonial wealth extraction or tell people to read Dadabhai Naorojiwhen they are doing a live demo of how the British operated in Asia and Africa but at home

correction, these fascists are stupid, but the refusal to answer isn't stupidity, it's greed and cowardice, the wrong answer cuts you off from the gravy train that is the mass looting club currently in govt

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fallen orange lies
on bed of green
food for ants

#DailyHaikuPrompt #Micropoetry

Screenshot of my Wordle stats, indicating that I won the Sea of Greens badge today, for the 134th time

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This is glaringly obvious to everyone except for the faces of corporate media, who desperately want to walk a red carpet

The passive voice is even more wild when you open up the article and it says they suspect he was driving under the influence. What a joke

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

So you understand why Trump wanted Ellison to control #TikTok and Dina McCormick to head #META. You can read and share this without a subscription.

The A.I.-generated fake influencers have surged on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook & YouTube to hook conservative voters.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

The Public Scholar publishes one week from today. Please consider pre-ordering and/or asking your library to order. Authors really need your pre-orders to make a book go.

I think it's a useful book! More importantly, so do real scholars and writers!

www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Smart people on ice!!

You guys. A goose is nesting under the Spoon Bridge and Cherry. This is our Romulus and Remus moment. We already became ungovernable. Now we become myth. #Minneapolis.

Um, I’ll bet not as old as me (who had never heard of JNCO until you mentioned it)
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I just enjoy reading the phrase:

“mid-air junco battles”

Seems to me like Trump is desperately begging Iran to sign a replica of the Obama JCPOA he tore up. All for the low low price of thousands dead, global instability, high energy prices, and a toll on ships through the once-free strait of Hormuz.

Newly released records detail police response to lawmaker attacks Authorities first identified Vance Boelter as a suspect within three hours of the start of the politically motivated rampage.

Newly released records on the police response to the assassination of Melissa Hortman show officers knew a woman was lying motionless on the top of the stairs inside the Hortman home but waited 30 minutes to physically check on her.

remember how, in the hours and days after the assassinations became public, we were all being told to thank the cops for their fortitude and bravery

Leaving aside the basic fact of its absurdity - no, the average IQ in Somalia isn’t 70 - all I see here is a couple of idiots desperate for an unearned reason to think they’re better than others. Pathetic.

FBI director Kash Patel files $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic | CNN Business FBI director Kash Patel has sued The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick over a story that alleged Patel has “alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.”

Two thoughts: 1) Truth is a complete defense to an allegation of defamation and 2) discovery is going to reveal a lot that Kash Patel wants to keep hidden.

Please, The Atlantic, do not settle for a nuisance fee. Free press depends on you.

www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/m...

To expand:

Emotions are neither right nor wrong, but they can be informative

If being around someone always makes you feel good, that's something to pay attention to. If doing a certain thing makes you tighten up, that tells you something else.

I’m sure it’ll be worth seeing for Tim Curry if nothing else

What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.

Grenell instructed me to “get rid of” the center’s permanent art collection. New art to adorn the building’s walls after its renovation, I was taken aback. If the donors of the works didn’t pay for their removal, he said, we could auction or give them away.
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

I decided to check Hennepin County Library and turns out they have the director’s cut dvd, so I’ll be watching it soon. Yay?