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jeremy messersmith @jeremymessersmith.bsky.social · 23h

Okay. I’ll pick a spot!

jeremy messersmith @jeremymessersmith.bsky.social · 1d

Any place in MSP where transplanted Washingtonians are gathering to watch their beloved Mariners during the playoffs?

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 24d

Cool as hell pets not allowed.

Lord Arse! 🕹️ @lordarse.com · 24d

This should be encouraged, not banned.

A sign banning dogs on skateboards from drinking wine and smoking.

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 26d

This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen

Chris Washington 🧛‍♂️ @cwashington.bsky.social · 26d

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned.

Thought you'd enjoy this.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29d

this is just brutal and I'm old enough to know it's true

Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Nov 10

socialistexan on Tumblr: "I'm just going to warn zoomers, all your slang and memes seem like semi-ironic fun, but one of these days McDonald's is going to call their McRib Based and H&R Block is going to say their competitor's transactions fees are cringe. You'll live to see it commodified and seeing a 64 year old oil executive in a tailored suit talking about their favorite vtubers and say only simps support green energy will make you realize nothing can escape the decrepit reach of capital."

Source: socialistexan

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · Jul 28

For the next 97 days, I will post one thing per day about the late, great Tom Lehrer — one for each year of his life — unless I forget and skip a day.

Day 1: he found a rhyme for 🍊!

Eating an orange
While making love
Makes for bizarre enj-
Oyment thereof.

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jeremy messersmith @jeremymessersmith.bsky.social · Jul 31

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Sneaux Man @kojotaylor.bsky.social · Jul 30

How many y’all have visited? I’m up to 14

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The Blair Bitch @darlingstarling.bsky.social · Jul 29

"It's ok, honey. The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout won't hurt you!"

The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:

The Sears Tower looking insanely creepy during a blackout, including the impression of a scary face topped by a crown of spikes. It looks like a giant humanoid evil robot or a demonic Minecraft creature.

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jeremy messersmith @jeremymessersmith.bsky.social · Jul 27

Hard to imagine Newman, Yankovic and even Burnham without him

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jeremy messersmith @jeremymessersmith.bsky.social · Jul 27

One of my favorite songwriters. His dark humor is something I frequently try to channel when writing (Boomers, 666). www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

www.nytimes.com

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · Jul 26

They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway

Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking

And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere

New details about police activity after lawmaker shootings raise questions about response

The Minnesota Star Tribune found that Brooklyn Park police waited more than 60 minutes to enter the Hortman home and that several law enforcement agencies were unaware of the situation for hours.

www.startribune.com

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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @askaubry.com · Jul 16

Kudos Lisa

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My neighbor Lisa has officially won the award for most ridiculous garden supervisor.

Every evening around six, she puts on that hotdog costume and heads out to inspect her lettuce with her cat trailing behind. I thought it was just a one-time thing when I first spotted her through my kitchen window. Maybe a costume left over from Halloween, maybe she lost a bet with her grandkids. But no, this is apparently her daily routine now. The cat seems completely unbothered by the whole situation, just follows along like this is totally normal while Lisa waters her seedlings in full hotdog regalia. The costume came from someone, according to Lisa. She was looking for something to make her evening garden time more fun after her husband passed last year. The gardening helps with the loneliness, she told me, but wearing a hotdog suit just makes everything a little brighter. What kills me is how seriously she takes her garden supervision duties. Lisa will spend twenty minutes out there in that ridiculous outfit, talking to her plants about which tomatoes are coming along nicely or

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · Jul 12

A 15-yo is now caring for his little brothers bc ICE snatched their mom. And another family that the local Santa Barbara paper found, pretty much same thing. Think how many stories aren’t being told www.independent.com/2025/07/11/c...

Children Left Alone After Mothers Arrested in Immigration Raids

"I just hope I get my mom back," says 15-year-old Juan Martinez, who is now caring for his brothers, ages 8 and 9.

www.independent.com

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jeremy messersmith @jeremymessersmith.bsky.social · Jul 9

I wrote a survival guide for the 21st century and an anthem for a generation.

"Boomers" is now streaming everywhere.

Send it to that special boomer in your life!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vPm...

Boomers

YouTube video by Jeremy Messersmith - Topic

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · Jun 28

This broke me from the first paragraph

"For Melissa Hortman’s last day at work, they draped her coffin with pink flowers and filled the cold marble under the Minnesota Capitol dome with the green and growing things that she loved."

Thank you, @stribrooks.bsky.social

Brooks: Minnesota’s greatest honor for a family’s great loss

Former President Joe Biden paid his respects in person, and mourners waited in long lines to honor Melissa and Mark Hortman, and their dog Gilbert, as they lay in state at the Capitol.

www.startribune.com

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · Jun 26

the mamdani thing is showing you how limited the range of acceptable opinions actually is in america. republicans can be a stone's throw away from endorsing genocide and thats fine but one guy goes slightly to the left of dem party orthodoxy and we're right in the middle of soviet russia

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Derek (cosmic horror) @nocontroller.bsky.social · Jun 22

You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country

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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · Jun 20

When @scaachi.bsky.social tells you the internet isn't fun even for HER anymore, it's time to get off the internet. slate.com/technology/2...

The Internet As We Knew It Is Over. The Only Thing Left Is to Go Outside

We used to have fun online. Not anymore.

slate.com

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jeremy messersmith @jeremymessersmith.bsky.social · Jun 18

I just listened to the 14 minute version of "4th of July" by Sufjan Stevens and now nothing can ever hurt me again.

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jeremy messersmith @jeremymessersmith.bsky.social · Jun 17

I think about this every day

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · Jun 15

Saying "big marches are not enough!" is correct, but is also... not enough.

So here are a few resources and pieces of commentary on different ways to take yesterday's energy into tomorrow.

cc: @indivisible.org, @indivistwincities.bsky.social, @mn50501.bsky.social, @50501movement.bsky.social

What's next? Things to do after a big march

First, a personal note: I shared a poem at the No Kings rally here in the Twin Cities yesterday. Find the full text, some video, and a bunch of my thoughts on the process here. Before I get to the po...

guante.ghost.io

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Indivisible Twin Cities @indivistwincities.bsky.social · Jun 14

The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · Jun 14

Melissa Hortman, key architect of the Minnesota Miracle of feeding kids and protecting women’s rights, has been shot in her home as were her husband and dog. Another democrat, John Hoffman, was also shot in his home. I feel like I’m going to throw up. God help us.
www.huffpost.com/entry/minnes...

How Minnesota Democrats Passed A Raft Of Progressive Legislation With A 1-Seat Majority

Party unity and a political rebound years in the making produced the “Minnesota Miracle 2.0.”

www.huffpost.com

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jeremy messersmith @jeremymessersmith.bsky.social · Jun 12

Okay I legit want to turn this line into a song haha

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jeremy messersmith @jeremymessersmith.bsky.social · Jun 11

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been listening to the radio and I’m like “Who the hell is this?” and it’s her.

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