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Keith Harris

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Creeping socialist. Premature anti-rockist. Oldest living Racket editor. Saving my labor for insane reading. Subscribe to Racket, or at least read it. https://racketmn.com/author/keith-harris

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · Dec 20

Please forgive me, I have committed a "year in music" essay.

The Year In Music 2024: Accepting Sadness as a Gift in the Age of the Oligarchs - Racket

In 2024, my favorite music didn't always prepare me for the fight ahead, but it always reminded me what was at stake.

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 8h

it moved on

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Glacier Lakes State Park rules, in case you were wondering.

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 18h

"Just tell 'em I'm in Tobago" -- how I will always hear the final line in the bridge to "Life Is a Highway"

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All of Mpls strikes back

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 1d

It’s kind of crazy that the first hour of this movie is just the detailed account of a messy open marriage between two hot but terrible poets from Portland, OR! And then suddenly the Russian revolution breaks out and all hell breaks loose. But that’s what history is like, I guess

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I am being energized by this conference but not in the way they intended.

Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 1d

I'm at the Freedom Summit in Alexandria MN today. #pray4keith

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 1d

Big crunchy/organic overlap with conservative Christians here

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 1d

Anything for my readers.

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 1d

Every mom here, but add mentions of mRNA, fluoride, and China.

My Baby? My Baby Seems So Smart But I'm Also Scared About My Baby

Dear New York magazine,My baby. My baby! Recently my baby had some tests. My baby is 2.5 months old. My baby! Sometimes my baby seems different than other babies. My baby should have be accepted to a ...

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 1d

Yes they feel like they're occupied by the leftist Twin Cities

Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 1d

we're communists or something

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 1d

Grateful to be fully vaxxed.

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 1d

I'm at the Freedom Summit in Alexandria MN today. #pray4keith

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe more info is coming NE > XT

Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 2d

Next, Forward to our Future!

Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 2d

FYI

Next, Forward to our Future

president.umn.edu

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someone got so much money for this

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oh no, when did this happen?

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2d

Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.

And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 2d

"I was told that it would be a positive spin on downtown Minneapolis, so I agreed to do it" said Fitzgerald, who is shown talking about a shooting hotspot in the Warehouse District.

Downtown Minneapolis leaders divided on how to talk about the city

A film by former TV anchor Rick Kupchella has downtown leaders talking

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 3d

this clip has entertained me all day

Jason Kelce Shouts Out 'Axiest' in 'Minneanapolis' - Racket

Plus let's talk about Betty McCollum, asset seizure on the rise in MN, and signs of Dinkytown's changing in today's Flyover news roundup.

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 3d

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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