Lars Negstad
@larsn.bsky.social
MN dad. Policy, politics, politely. Mostly.
Just want things to go well
Just want things to go well
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The Price of Democracy tells the history of taxation from colonization to the present day. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about preserving democracy. n.pr/48Io9DM
Believe it or not, this book makes taxes fascinating
The Price of Democracy tells the history of taxation from colonization to the present day. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about preserving democracy.
n.pr
December 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The Price of Democracy tells the history of taxation from colonization to the present day. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about preserving democracy. n.pr/48Io9DM
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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
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Corn [relies] on heavy fertilizer use to sustain today’s high yields.
"But... America’s obsession with corn has a steep price: The fertilizer used to grow it is warming the planet and contaminating water."
Ethanol consumes more than 40% of the U.S. corn crop
wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/12/03/c...
"But... America’s obsession with corn has a steep price: The fertilizer used to grow it is warming the planet and contaminating water."
Ethanol consumes more than 40% of the U.S. corn crop
wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/12/03/c...
Corn’s clean-energy promise is clashing with its climate footprint • Wisconsin Examiner
America’s obsession with corn has a steep price: The fertilizer used to grow it is warming the planet and contaminating water.
wisconsinexaminer.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Corn [relies] on heavy fertilizer use to sustain today’s high yields.
"But... America’s obsession with corn has a steep price: The fertilizer used to grow it is warming the planet and contaminating water."
Ethanol consumes more than 40% of the U.S. corn crop
wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/12/03/c...
"But... America’s obsession with corn has a steep price: The fertilizer used to grow it is warming the planet and contaminating water."
Ethanol consumes more than 40% of the U.S. corn crop
wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/12/03/c...
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📢 New parents: You can start applying for Paid Leave NOW!
Paid Leave passed by DFLers in 2023 goes into effect January 1, 2026!
If you welcomed a baby in 2025, you can apply for up to 12 weeks of bonding leave in the new year. Learn more at paidleave.mn.gov.
Paid Leave passed by DFLers in 2023 goes into effect January 1, 2026!
If you welcomed a baby in 2025, you can apply for up to 12 weeks of bonding leave in the new year. Learn more at paidleave.mn.gov.
December 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
📢 New parents: You can start applying for Paid Leave NOW!
Paid Leave passed by DFLers in 2023 goes into effect January 1, 2026!
If you welcomed a baby in 2025, you can apply for up to 12 weeks of bonding leave in the new year. Learn more at paidleave.mn.gov.
Paid Leave passed by DFLers in 2023 goes into effect January 1, 2026!
If you welcomed a baby in 2025, you can apply for up to 12 weeks of bonding leave in the new year. Learn more at paidleave.mn.gov.
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Hey, I want to offer some helpful tips for coping with the cold for ICE folks who might have come from warmer places.
1. Wear cotton socks! Cotton is nice and soft next to your skin and will absorb your sweat so your feet stay warm. Cotton everything but ESPECIALLY socks!
1. Wear cotton socks! Cotton is nice and soft next to your skin and will absorb your sweat so your feet stay warm. Cotton everything but ESPECIALLY socks!
Good morning to fuckers in our neighborhood kidnapping our neighbors! Can you see the city skyline? No? You’re wondering if Minneapolis burned down again overnight? Oh no, sweetie. That’s ice crystals in the air . It looks like it will get to around -8F without windchill! Please enjoy your stay!
December 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Hey, I want to offer some helpful tips for coping with the cold for ICE folks who might have come from warmer places.
1. Wear cotton socks! Cotton is nice and soft next to your skin and will absorb your sweat so your feet stay warm. Cotton everything but ESPECIALLY socks!
1. Wear cotton socks! Cotton is nice and soft next to your skin and will absorb your sweat so your feet stay warm. Cotton everything but ESPECIALLY socks!
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I went to the Nevada desert to see one of the world’s biggest AI data center buildouts. It’s so big it was hard to wrap my mind around.
Downriver is the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the data centers’ water and power consumption could put their land at risk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Downriver is the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the data centers’ water and power consumption could put their land at risk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west
Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech datacenters
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I went to the Nevada desert to see one of the world’s biggest AI data center buildouts. It’s so big it was hard to wrap my mind around.
Downriver is the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the data centers’ water and power consumption could put their land at risk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Downriver is the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the data centers’ water and power consumption could put their land at risk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Too many big corporations are buying up mobile home parks, jacking up the rent -- 42% in this case! And that's just the tip of the iceberg, with marked-up utility rates, charging year round for lawn mowing, & other predatory practices.
The time for action is now!
www.startribune.com/corcoran-mob...
The time for action is now!
www.startribune.com/corcoran-mob...
Large mobile home park on edge of Twin Cities at center of affordability dispute
A legal dispute raises allegations of a misinformation campaign and a conflict over the majority of the affordable housing in Corcoran.
www.startribune.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Too many big corporations are buying up mobile home parks, jacking up the rent -- 42% in this case! And that's just the tip of the iceberg, with marked-up utility rates, charging year round for lawn mowing, & other predatory practices.
The time for action is now!
www.startribune.com/corcoran-mob...
The time for action is now!
www.startribune.com/corcoran-mob...
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Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
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"Ancient King Herod ordering the execution of young children in order to eliminate the potential threat of a challenger feels like a plausible news story this year."
Advent in a Time of Authoritarianism
The work we can and must do while we wait
ourmoralmoment.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
"Ancient King Herod ordering the execution of young children in order to eliminate the potential threat of a challenger feels like a plausible news story this year."
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Affordability is dominating the discourse. What I don't like about the conversation is that it focuses almost entirely on prices—as if the only way to make life affordable is to make things cheaper. But affordability is determined by prices *and pay.* 1/
December 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Affordability is dominating the discourse. What I don't like about the conversation is that it focuses almost entirely on prices—as if the only way to make life affordable is to make things cheaper. But affordability is determined by prices *and pay.* 1/
Happy thanksgiving!
I’m thankful we came in about the middle of the pack
I’m thankful we came in about the middle of the pack
November 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Happy thanksgiving!
I’m thankful we came in about the middle of the pack
I’m thankful we came in about the middle of the pack
what could possibly go wrong
November 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
what could possibly go wrong
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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As someone who drove free buses (and rode free buses) in Iowa City for years: the quality of life improvement that comes from quality, accessible public transit cannot be overstated. I wish it for everyone, everywhere.
Here's an idea, double parking fees (from $1 to $2), raise utility taxes by 1%, and make buses free. Iowa City did that and reduced traffic by 5,200 cars and emissions by 24,000 metric tons of co2/year.
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
As someone who drove free buses (and rode free buses) in Iowa City for years: the quality of life improvement that comes from quality, accessible public transit cannot be overstated. I wish it for everyone, everywhere.
ut oh
"We have a 2000s housing bubble level of financial engineering on top of a 1920s level of private unregulated lending on top of something bigger than a 1990s internet (or 1870s railroad) level of technology and infrastructure build-out." prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
The AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think - The American Prospect
It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath.
prospect.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
ut oh
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Yesterday's outage at Cloudflare is the latest in a string of internet outages.
It's past time to crack down on anticompetitive behavior that forces us to depend on a tiny handful of tech giants.
We should not be held hostage by the failures of a few dominant companies.
It's past time to crack down on anticompetitive behavior that forces us to depend on a tiny handful of tech giants.
We should not be held hostage by the failures of a few dominant companies.
November 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Yesterday's outage at Cloudflare is the latest in a string of internet outages.
It's past time to crack down on anticompetitive behavior that forces us to depend on a tiny handful of tech giants.
We should not be held hostage by the failures of a few dominant companies.
It's past time to crack down on anticompetitive behavior that forces us to depend on a tiny handful of tech giants.
We should not be held hostage by the failures of a few dominant companies.
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What we know about an effort to protect NorthWestern Energy’s customers from higher bills amid surging electricity demand spurred by proposed data centers.
Groups push back on Montana’s ‘data center boom’
What we know about data center development and a petition to protect NorthWestern Energy’s existing customers.
montanafreepress.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
What we know about an effort to protect NorthWestern Energy’s customers from higher bills amid surging electricity demand spurred by proposed data centers.
Look, I'm just saying you can't get affordability without
A) taxing the rich to fund public goods
AND
B) standing up to over-concentrated, predatory corporate power
So, let's do both these things, k?
A) taxing the rich to fund public goods
AND
B) standing up to over-concentrated, predatory corporate power
So, let's do both these things, k?
November 19, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Look, I'm just saying you can't get affordability without
A) taxing the rich to fund public goods
AND
B) standing up to over-concentrated, predatory corporate power
So, let's do both these things, k?
A) taxing the rich to fund public goods
AND
B) standing up to over-concentrated, predatory corporate power
So, let's do both these things, k?
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Now THIS is American progress!
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Now THIS is American progress!
hard agree, but this is Taylor Swift erasure
Billie Eilish asked an important question: "If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?"
There are FIVE ways to accumulate a billion dollars:
1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance
Billionaires are the result of a failed system.
There are FIVE ways to accumulate a billion dollars:
1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance
Billionaires are the result of a failed system.
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
hard agree, but this is Taylor Swift erasure
People Magazine is... actually On It?
November 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
People Magazine is... actually On It?
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Trump’s new caps on student loans will stop people from going to college and pursuing fields like healthcare where we already have critical shortages. Why would we punish people for wanting an education? #mnleg #studentloans #highereducation
youtube.com/shorts/1dboV...
youtube.com/shorts/1dboV...
Trump is punishing people for going to college. #mnleg #highereducation #studentloans
YouTube video by Minnesota Senate DFL
youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Trump’s new caps on student loans will stop people from going to college and pursuing fields like healthcare where we already have critical shortages. Why would we punish people for wanting an education? #mnleg #studentloans #highereducation
youtube.com/shorts/1dboV...
youtube.com/shorts/1dboV...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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We’re building a movement in NYC that’s strong enough to push back against Trump’s fascist takeover and attacks on U.S. cities.
Across each borough and on every block, we’re organizing to protect NYC and our communities—but it’s going to take all of us.
Learn how you can help:
www.HandsOffNYC.com.
Across each borough and on every block, we’re organizing to protect NYC and our communities—but it’s going to take all of us.
Learn how you can help:
www.HandsOffNYC.com.
October 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
We’re building a movement in NYC that’s strong enough to push back against Trump’s fascist takeover and attacks on U.S. cities.
Across each borough and on every block, we’re organizing to protect NYC and our communities—but it’s going to take all of us.
Learn how you can help:
www.HandsOffNYC.com.
Across each borough and on every block, we’re organizing to protect NYC and our communities—but it’s going to take all of us.
Learn how you can help:
www.HandsOffNYC.com.