Gus Dahlberg
@dahlbergcentral.com
Domestic relations attorney. Dad Band warbler. Public school parent. Lifelong nerd. Leave the world better than you found it.
Columbus, OH. #Crew96
this machine begs for luck
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Columbus, OH. #Crew96
this machine begs for luck
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Ohio GOP U.S. Sen. Jon Husted has taken at least $75,000 in campaign contributions from Centene, including more than $29,000 after the company paid $88.3 million to settle allegations that it had fraudulently extracted tens of millions from Ohio Medicaid. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/16/h...
Husted took thousands from company that paid Ohio $88 million to settle Medicaid fraud allegations • Ohio Capital Journal
U.S. Sen. Jon Husted says fraud is a reason he's against ACA insurance subsidies. But a big contributor allegedly defrauded Ohio Medicaid.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Ohio GOP U.S. Sen. Jon Husted has taken at least $75,000 in campaign contributions from Centene, including more than $29,000 after the company paid $88.3 million to settle allegations that it had fraudulently extracted tens of millions from Ohio Medicaid. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/16/h...
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I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
January 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
retire, husted
Sen. Jon Husted: "What the Insurrection Act threat means to be is Gov. Walz, Mayor Frey, take action or you'll see an escalation"
January 15, 2026 at 3:27 PM
retire, husted
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This is the safest, most moderate course of action that offers some prospect of de-escalation. It is the only way for Democrats.
Don't do it and we're on a glide path toward brutal fascist dictatorship or civil war. This isn't going to just stop on its own.
Don't do it and we're on a glide path toward brutal fascist dictatorship or civil war. This isn't going to just stop on its own.
Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.
January 15, 2026 at 3:53 AM
This is the safest, most moderate course of action that offers some prospect of de-escalation. It is the only way for Democrats.
Don't do it and we're on a glide path toward brutal fascist dictatorship or civil war. This isn't going to just stop on its own.
Don't do it and we're on a glide path toward brutal fascist dictatorship or civil war. This isn't going to just stop on its own.
This was always a concern for us as our kids were growing up, for the baseball/softballers, in particular. I think we handled it okay but I was always amazed at how far some parents were willing to push their kids.
Thinking alot about this with a middleschooler involved in multiple sports that are demanding an increasing amount of time and commitment www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/b...
As Youth Sports Professionalize, Kids Are Burning Out Fast
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:57 PM
This was always a concern for us as our kids were growing up, for the baseball/softballers, in particular. I think we handled it okay but I was always amazed at how far some parents were willing to push their kids.
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Columbus: this is a clear signal that Trump will be sending his Gestapo our way in large numbers come mid-March. We need to be prepared for it. bsky.app/profile/nbcn...
The Trump administration is ending temporary protected status for Somali immigrants, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed.
Somali immigrants in the U.S. with TPS must leave the country by March 17, she said. nbcnews.to/3LscuRW
Somali immigrants in the U.S. with TPS must leave the country by March 17, she said. nbcnews.to/3LscuRW
January 13, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Columbus: this is a clear signal that Trump will be sending his Gestapo our way in large numbers come mid-March. We need to be prepared for it. bsky.app/profile/nbcn...
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yes, "other people exist, they might disagree with you, you should have a strategy for dealing with them" is "standing up for being mealy mouthed."
go outside and talk to a real person for once
go outside and talk to a real person for once
still standing up for being mealy-mouthed in an era where the republican president is a brain melted fascist ogre who says things every single day that were politically unspeakable not even ten years before is a complete failure of imagination
January 12, 2026 at 8:08 PM
yes, "other people exist, they might disagree with you, you should have a strategy for dealing with them" is "standing up for being mealy mouthed."
go outside and talk to a real person for once
go outside and talk to a real person for once
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Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
From the minnesota community on Reddit: ST. PAUL, MN: A sobbing resident calls 911 as federal agents force their way into her home to chase down a DoorDash driver who was just trying to deliver food.
Explore this post and more from the minnesota community
www.reddit.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
after unwisely watching the MPLS shooting video, thinking that might be enough internet for me for one day. Will probably just read the newspaper later.
January 7, 2026 at 6:15 PM
after unwisely watching the MPLS shooting video, thinking that might be enough internet for me for one day. Will probably just read the newspaper later.
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It's an MTV simulator with almost 30,000 videos, organized by decade, with special sections for Headbanger's Ball and Yo! MTV Raps. This is so good.
January 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
It's an MTV simulator with almost 30,000 videos, organized by decade, with special sections for Headbanger's Ball and Yo! MTV Raps. This is so good.
I know we keep saying it but WHAT THE ENTIRE FUCK
TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
January 6, 2026 at 1:37 AM
I know we keep saying it but WHAT THE ENTIRE FUCK
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Another day, another gazillion false claims by bigots against Americans from Somalia who take care of children.
Bigot: Look at 40+ centers open the same date! That has to be fraud!
Governor: That’s when we updated our software, dim-iot.
www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...
Bigot: Look at 40+ centers open the same date! That has to be fraud!
Governor: That’s when we updated our software, dim-iot.
www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...
January 5, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Another day, another gazillion false claims by bigots against Americans from Somalia who take care of children.
Bigot: Look at 40+ centers open the same date! That has to be fraud!
Governor: That’s when we updated our software, dim-iot.
www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...
Bigot: Look at 40+ centers open the same date! That has to be fraud!
Governor: That’s when we updated our software, dim-iot.
www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...
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This is powerful footage because of what it depicts, but also because of the way the arrest interrupts our expectations of the on-the-street interview; which makes the arrest more shocking both for its brazenness and the way it impacts the viewer.
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:51 PM
This is powerful footage because of what it depicts, but also because of the way the arrest interrupts our expectations of the on-the-street interview; which makes the arrest more shocking both for its brazenness and the way it impacts the viewer.
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I’ll respond to this disingenuous question exactly one time.
Maduro’s rule does is immaterial to the violation of sovereignty and international law that this strike represents. Go bother someone else with this nonsense.
Maduro’s rule does is immaterial to the violation of sovereignty and international law that this strike represents. Go bother someone else with this nonsense.
Do you dispute their description of maduro’s rule?
January 3, 2026 at 5:44 PM
I’ll respond to this disingenuous question exactly one time.
Maduro’s rule does is immaterial to the violation of sovereignty and international law that this strike represents. Go bother someone else with this nonsense.
Maduro’s rule does is immaterial to the violation of sovereignty and international law that this strike represents. Go bother someone else with this nonsense.
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I don’t carry “immigration documents” with me at all times. Americans have not had to produce “their papers” for police without cause. Is this the new standard, given Kavanaugh stops? reason.com/2025/12/31/d...
DHS says REAL ID, which DHS certifies, is too unreliable to confirm U.S. citizenship
It's the punch line to a bad joke that started 20 years ago when Congress passed the REAL ID Act.
reason.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:21 PM
I don’t carry “immigration documents” with me at all times. Americans have not had to produce “their papers” for police without cause. Is this the new standard, given Kavanaugh stops? reason.com/2025/12/31/d...
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NYT editorial board, in an extensive and reflective piece, calls the period we are now living in "a political era that began on Jan. 6, 2021."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
Opinion | Trump Is the Jan. 6 President
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:09 PM
NYT editorial board, in an extensive and reflective piece, calls the period we are now living in "a political era that began on Jan. 6, 2021."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
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Rian Johnson Breaks Down a Scene From Wake Up Dead Man. Johnson grew up evangelical but isn’t anymore; the film was “a way for me to take both of those perspectives inside me and get them talking with each other”. [kottke.org]
Rian Johnson Breaks Down a Scene From Wake Up Dead Man
Along with Sinners and One Battle After Another,1 Wake Up Dead Man is one of my favorite films of the year. So I enjoyed director Rian Johnson breaking down the investigative scene in the bar in this Vanity Fair video.
kottke.org
December 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Rian Johnson Breaks Down a Scene From Wake Up Dead Man. Johnson grew up evangelical but isn’t anymore; the film was “a way for me to take both of those perspectives inside me and get them talking with each other”. [kottke.org]
this is going around elsewhere and it's obviously stupid beyond imagination, but I confess that my mouth dropped open in wonder at the allegation that the 1990s - the decade that birthed THE MATRIX, X-FILES and Oliver Stone's JFK, among other such wondrous conspiratorial delights, was "optimistic"
Fascists truly cannot distinguish fiction from reality
This has ELEVEN THOUSAND likes on the hellsite
This has ELEVEN THOUSAND likes on the hellsite
December 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
this is going around elsewhere and it's obviously stupid beyond imagination, but I confess that my mouth dropped open in wonder at the allegation that the 1990s - the decade that birthed THE MATRIX, X-FILES and Oliver Stone's JFK, among other such wondrous conspiratorial delights, was "optimistic"
timely read for me today, both on its own terms and in the larger context of "what other devices are you maybe using as a crutch in your writing?"
A late counterproposal, to a suggestion that I write "more traditional" songs. I will probably continue to edit this post as I think through the issue. But I provide some I think new and unique takes on the matter.
stlenox.com/2025/12/29/t...
stlenox.com/2025/12/29/t...
The Tyranny of Rhyme and Metaphor in Songwriting
A number of years ago, when I was beginning to write my own songs, a fellow songwriter confronted me very seriously about my writing, telling me that I should have a go at writing more “tradi…
stlenox.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
timely read for me today, both on its own terms and in the larger context of "what other devices are you maybe using as a crutch in your writing?"
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Reading this at the same time I’m rewatching WAKE UP DEAD MAN and at the exact moment of Blanc’s first appearance in the church, fantastic lighting through the church windows as they have the sun shine on O’Connor at a particular moment in his monologue. Gorgeous.
DIE HARD has great lighting. Look at those blues and skin tones enshrouded in darkness, we got a light blasting through smoke in the next room to give you the contrast; you wanna know why I dunk on modern blockbusters? This is why, the visual poverty, the fear of lighting a set properly
December 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Reading this at the same time I’m rewatching WAKE UP DEAD MAN and at the exact moment of Blanc’s first appearance in the church, fantastic lighting through the church windows as they have the sun shine on O’Connor at a particular moment in his monologue. Gorgeous.
Best bit.
It's a Wonderful Life "I Love You Truly"
YouTube video by Steven Bishel
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Best bit.
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Merry Christmas! Let’s go kill Skeletrex
December 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Merry Christmas! Let’s go kill Skeletrex