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This is something that I carry with me and play often. It comforts me; I hope it does the same for you.

It’s a spot-on soundtrack for this particular 4th of July.

Thank you, Mssrs Toussaint and Simon.

youtu.be/u6Mv0X-1qLA
Allen Toussaint - American Tune (Live on Austin City Limits)
YouTube video by Nonesuch Records
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That’s exactly right: Raw Power makes me feel less alone in the world. I suspect it always will.
Raw Power by Iggy and the Stooges was released 53 years ago today and it changed my life. For me, it was the first album that sounded like what rock and roll should be. Hearing it, I suddenly felt less alone in the world.
February 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
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The aurora last night in Beaver, Alaska was just incredible. This is a real-time video (not sped up) of the crazy motion I saw. Also, look how BRIGHT it is, wow!
February 7, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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message from MN
February 7, 2026 at 6:19 AM
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"Hey I'm going back to the dildo box, I just had the idea to juggle them"

Cameraman who would later be arrested after singing "FASCIST DILDO CLEANUP CREW DOO DAH DOO DAH": @ckinferno.bsky.social

But don't ask him questions, he won't say shit ✊

(posted with permission)
February 8, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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Assault/hate crime on Uptown parade route last night near Washington Ave. Attackers had Mississippi plates on their trucks. Let's help these folks who were assaulted
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February 7, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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Need a mood boost?

Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl
February 6, 2026 at 5:09 AM
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Last year, I wrote about Jeffrey Epstein and Twin Peaks. I wrote about Laura Palmer. A generation of girls, now women, who grew up in Laura Palmer’s world.
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/laura-palm...
Laura Palmer’s House
Jeffrey Epstein, Twin Peaks, and dreams of justice.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Gorgeous! Please don’t miss this.
"My country is full of lies sing-scream-screeches Nina Simone in the middle of ‘Mississippi Goddam’ and more than six decades later I scream it back from the other end of our shared river.”

Magnificence from Danez Smith.
Minnesota Goddam
In the Twin Cities, the hand of a polluted country reaches to choke the future out of us.
jewishcurrents.org
February 7, 2026 at 7:53 PM
See? Art.
February 7, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Definitely art.
At Whipple where expired dicks are being thrown at ICE vehicles and those believed to be agitators. The area has been a place of protest since thousands of federal agents arrived in the city.

Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026
February 7, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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RIP Lynn Blakely
February 7, 2026 at 3:34 AM
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35 years ago tonight, the Replacements played their last show in their hometown of Minneapolis, the 2nd of two nights downtown at the Orpheum, a stop on the national tour for the "All Shook Down" album. Steve Foley was just weeks into the drummer job after the departure of founding member Chris Mars
February 7, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
Just because good news is worth celebrating:

There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.

HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
February 7, 2026 at 1:37 AM
“People Have the Power” started playing on KEXP as part of #InternationalClashDay just as I opened this—a good mail day and a good omen, methinks.

Thanks, @carynrose.bsky.social. 💜✊
February 7, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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Brett Goldstein.
Who do you want to guest host a potential revival of The Muppet Show?
Here’s Who We Want to Guest Host ‘The Muppet Show’ If It’s Revived
February 6, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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They abducted this person from Mayo Clinic and not even an elected rep has been able to get them the anti-rejection meds they need to not die AFTER AN ORGAN TRANSPLANT.
These are the worst people empowered to do the worst possible things.

I really do not see how we can have a functioning democracy & keep DHS.
A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.
February 6, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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Dems: You can't just *do* that.

Mamdani: Hold my tea.
February 6, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.
February 6, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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the twin cities pride cultural arts center at 1201 harmon place in loring park is collecting donations of food, baby items, household goods and personal care items. open today until 4pm and saturday 2/7 from 11am to 3pm
February 6, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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Ooookay here we go. Bad Bunny 101 condensed into six weeks of music, reading material, and perreo
Bad Bunny 101
docs.google.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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We made a special episode about the damage being done to public mental health here in Minnesota. Even if you don't live here, it's a bracing look at the dangerous position we're in, what we stand to lose, and what our community is doing about it.
The ICE surge is having a huge effect on mental health in Minnesota. People who've never struggled now are. And those with severe mental illness are at real mortal risk.
A special episode with Marcus Schmit of NAMI Minnesota today. Out today because it couldn't wait.
maximumfun.org/episodes/dep...
February 6, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
February 6, 2026 at 4:11 AM
February 6, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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In show of support, Canada, France open consulates in Greenland

u.afp.com/S27D
February 6, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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In NE Minneapolis and Columbia Heights today, Weds. 2/5/26, ICE has been focusing on schools and schoolbus stops. SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLBUS STOPS. This is their “softer touch”
Everything you’re hearing from the Trump administration is a lie. Today was one of the most active days in Northeast since the entire Operation Metro Surge began.

Nothing is changing on the ground in Minneapolis, no matter what headlines Trump and Homan try to create.
February 5, 2026 at 11:29 PM