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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul

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Your friend and Neighbor. Local Oaf. I work for Saura. I foster teeny little kittens. I love you.

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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 15d

I spent a lot of time writing about the Saint Paul election so I’m re-posting myself for the weekday crowd even if it’s gauche.

Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 16d

I de-facebook-ified it:
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2025 STP Mayoral Election Thoughts

Below is going to be the long version of my thoughts on the 2025 Mayoral Election here in God’s Greatest City: Saint Paul. Before I write a novel, if you trust me implicitly, here is the short version...

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Hecate @danademaster.bsky.social · 5h

Save the Date!

Monday, November 10 7 pm
The Spot Bar

50th Anniversary of the Loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald

What:
History lecture on the Fitz and Arthur Anderson by yours truly

Sing-along with Gordon Lightfoot

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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 7h

Me too homie.

Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 11h

You will come to love and understand King Boreas’s gentle rule.

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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 11h

Holidazzle should be incorporated into the Winter Carnival. Let it be a sort of Wonka Tunnel-esque affair. A hallucinatory journey, Alice’s fall into a Winter Wonderland where the Winter Court and the Vulcans wage seasonal war.

Nate Pentz @natepentz.bsky.social · 21h

This is a bummer. Holidazzle was quite a lot of fun before the parade was pulled and the current iteration the last few years. Still miss the 8th floor at Dayton's. Sigh. www.startribune.com/downtown-min...

Minneapolis Downtown Council pulls plug on Holidazzle and Aquatennial, seeks new organizer

After years of inconsistent funding, the business group is hoping others will continue or reimagine the city’s signature events as the area keeps working on its post-pandemic rebound.

www.startribune.com

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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 22h

ACTIVATE THE TOLBERT PROTOCOL

Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 1d

Listen. Columbus was historically relevant. But a lot of murderous, imperious fuckers were and you don’t see me honking my horn for Nero or Cromwell twice a year. Let go!

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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 1d

You’re wrong but forgiven.

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Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1d

real Saint Paul heads know

Legendary Saint Paul restauranteur Nick Macini and his sons.

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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 1d

Every toilet must have a bidet. Also build your house around the room you use the most.

Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 2d

This cat is named Choo Choo.

Read the mayoral election analysis above. This very cute kitten was a trap.

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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 2d

There’s my demographer!

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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 2d

Let me swing the hammer I am begging.

Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 2d

And I fully agree that flirty bots are bad and should not exist but also people keep telling me that AI is a tool and not something I’m allowed to kill with a hammer like my brain keeps telling me.

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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 2d

Also weren’t the numbers for drugs like always in the 90% range?

I remember my DARE guy being like “You WILL be offered drugs!” And that man was correct. There is a whole economy being constructed right now premised on flirty bots. The kids will be exposed to it.

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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 2d

Our foster organization has had a paraplegic cat with the org for 3 years. Filbert finally got adopted. Congratulations buddy.

Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 3d

Man if you fired me via email on a Friday night I’d be telling people a decade later about what a chickenshit you are.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 4d

Jesus. Happy Halloween I guess.

Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 4d

Okay but what is Jamison doing to censor this man let alone anyone?

Is this man willing to teach me how to get the signs very high up cause I have much more fun ideas than him.

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gretchen brown, real snoopy enjoyer @gretchenbrown.bsky.social · 4d

huge st. paul w www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

St. Paul solved more crimes, had drastically fewer homicides in 2025

A remarkable shift is under way in St. Paul. The city is on track for a 70 percent drop in homicides by the end of 2025. And they’re solving more than 70 percent of crimes.

www.mprnews.org

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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 4d

Too cursed. Couldn’t hack the notifications.

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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 4d

I have deleted a post where I linked to a news article that made my brain recoil like touching a lit stove top.

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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 4d

I feel bad for posting this because as soon as I did I had to put the phone down for a hour and a half and I fear I’ve just done psychic damage to a number of people I like.

Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 5d

Literally 20 years of the entire budget of Saint Paul shipped off to bail out some Memeified Right Wing maniac half a world away.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the US has finalized a plan to give $20 billion to Argentina.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 5d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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