Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding

As ridership swells, bill to study expanding passenger rail service out of Twin Cities revived More people than ever hopped on Amtrak trains in Minnesota last year, including nearly 200,000 in St. Paul.

Not enough trains too many riders:

"Rail ridership locally is surging. In fiscal year 2025, just under 200,000 travelers got on or off Amtrak trains at St. Paul’s Union Depot." 58% increase "the highest ridership in the Twin Cities by far in the past 15 years."

www.startribune.com/as-ridership...

Text of graphic: Did you know? The Republican megabill enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history in July 2025. By December, 2.5 million fewer people were receiving SNAP benefits.

New USDA data show 2.5 million fewer people participated in SNAP in December compared to July, when the Republican megabill (H.R. 1) enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history. This is only the beginning — even more people will lose SNAP as the full brunt of these cuts take effect.

You know, “yellow lines and dead armadillos”

You’re a better man than I am. I just think it sucks because the premise is so inane and change the station as quickly as possible every time I happen upon it.

Yeah that show suuuuuucks

52% of men have a sports betting account like fan duel or draft kings. The addiction economy of sports - picking the meat off of what’s left in the wallets of fans - is a growing sector of our economy. So we got *that* going for us. Which is nice. 🤪

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

Hey terrible news! Mn Sen. Ann Rest has cut the HCMC-saving sales tax plan from 1% to .25%, hiked the Twins’ skim (from $7m to $9m, way above current $1.1m). The sales tax will fall far short of what HCMC needs, so will do more to save the Pohlads than the hospital. assets.senate.mn/committees/2...

Angie Craig supporters like to tout her "electability," so I looked into it.

Tl;dr: Angie Craig's electoral success is because the Twin Cities suburbs moved towards the DFL after 2016. She did neither better nor worse than other DFLers on the same turf.

#MNSen

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guest speakers at sd63 will have to walk by this school poster reading “WHAT WOULD JESUS THINK ABOUT YOUR HEART FULL OF ICE”

roosevelt high where students were gassed by border patrol

let’s see if the sheriff speaks

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

The hungry red panda at the Prospect Park Zoo? Adorable.

The HungryPanda delivery app scamming small businesses? Not adorable. So they will be paying $580,000 back.

We'll keep pursuing companies that take advantage of New Yorkers, and we'll keep asking if we can pet a red panda just for a second.

What we fail to say is also a message. Not calling for Trump's impeachment and removal conveys he has not committed offenses that warrant these actions. Or, at best, that you feel he has and are unwilling to do your duty and use the remedy written into our Constitution for presidential crimes.

URGENT: 7 PM CT PRAY FOR IRAN WHEREVER YOU ARE LIGHT A CANDLE & PRAY FOR PEACE

URGENT: Tonight at 7 PM CT, light a candle wherever you are.

The people of Iran deserve peace, safety, & dignity.

Say a prayer. Stand in solidarity. Refuse to be silent in the face of violence.

BREAKING: Lobbyists for big corporations oppose taxing the ultra-rich.

The Middle-Class Suburbanites Who Sell Their Blood Plasma to Get By

MN House Taxes Co-Chair Aisha Gomez right now is talking about this article, showing how increasingly middle class people are selling their blood plasma to make ends meet, to argue for her Wealth Tax bill.

Folks, it's time.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/b...

knaves, fools, and murderers there may be

🔊 Listen to Pastor Ian McConnell on what Palm Sunday is really about.

“This faith belongs to the hungry. To the immigrant. To the sick. And to the neighbor.”

🌿 Join us this #PalmSunday2026

📍 Find an action near you: palmsunday2026.com

Trump: ICE agents are real men, not like these blue-haired liberal commies in the streets

Blue-haired liberal commies in the streets: we're willing to risk our lives for our neighbors, it's the right thing to do

Head of ICE: call an ambulance, this desk job is giving me anxiety

Child Care is Community Infrastructure Tour highlights pertinent issues in industry The tour included a stop in Bemidji on Sunday, starting off with a discussion and facility tour at Pine Pals before an afternoon panel session at Northwest Technical College.

www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/local/c...

Only half of calories produced on croplands are available for human consumption, study finds Study: 1/2 of the calories produced on croplands are unavailable for human consumption

This is one of the most important issues with the global food system, yet it is often ignored.

Put simply, we don't actually grow much *food* in our farms around the world. Instead, we grow grossly inefficient animal feed and biofuels.

drawdown.org/news/only-ha...

HCMC — the most important safety net hospital in the Upper Midwest — is on the verge of collapse, while Mayo netted $1.5 billion in profit.

It’s not just a struggling institution, it’s a broken system.

There’s a reason AARP basically has urbanist politics around city planning stuff.

We should all hope to live long enough to age out of driving. Should be we so lucky, we should still be able to get around!

Minnesota's new paid leave program is a godsend to some, frustrating to others Minnesota’s new Paid Leave Act allows most Minnesota workers to take up to 12 weeks of paid time off for an injury or illness or to care for a family member. About 65,000 Minnesotans have already appl...

Wow - over 34,000 people have been approved for Paid Leave in Minnesota so far! Very proud of our state for helping families take care of each other.

Minnesota's new paid leave program is a godsend to some, frustrating to others www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Dang I mean like it’s already Paris why they gotta go making the rest of us even more jealous

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE (to me, anyway). IIRC Ryan also pledged to suspend in the Hennepin Attorney’s race 4 years ago & didn’t, but pulling this trick twice definitely won’t help him in a primary fight. bsky.app/profile/lind...

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy - 3/25/2026

The good news is MN House Republicans failed to carve out small business *owners* from Paid Leave.

The bad news is now they want to cut 450,000 small business *workers* out of Paid Leave.

Plus widen the seasonal exemption to 180 days!!

🚨Time to speak up!🚨
www.leg.mn.gov/cal?type=sin...

The President of the United States said I insulted Jesus.

You want to know what insults Jesus?

Kicking the sick off their healthcare.
Bombing schoolchildren in Iran.
Deporting moms and babies.
Covering up the Epstein files.

It's going to be a very hard summer for so many people and so many species. We can already feel here in BC, with the weak snowpack currently washing down mountains because of an unseasonable atmospheric river. The only ones doing well are the oil companies, with their record war profits.

$200B would’ve covered 6 years worth of ACA tax credits (yes, the same health care funding they shot down as too expensive)

They’d rather spend money on yet another unjustified war in the Middle East than health care for our own citizens.