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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 · 14d

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 · 14d

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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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 16h

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 · 22h

There’s my demographer!

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

Let me swing the hammer I am begging.

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

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 · 22h

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

Jesus. Happy Halloween I guess.

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

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

Too cursed. Couldn’t hack the notifications.

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

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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

This kicks ass.

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Kevin McClean @kevinmcclean.bsky.social · 4d

Not too surprising (Jim Lee once upon a time helped creat Image Comics, expressly because comics creators weren't getting enough money and respect in the early 90s) but heartening to hear in these enshittening times

DC Comics declares it will never use generative AI

www.avclub.com

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

If the federal government functioned even a little bit my job would be Mickey Mouse level “Golly Goofy where do you think we should add the new bike racks at the new library?”

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

It’s budget season in Saint Paul and we have a school funding referendum on the ballot and I just have to watch the Feds spend all our money on helicopters circling nothing.

floyding @floyding.bsky.social · 4d

I have a good friend who lives in Portland and he said he and his wife counted five black hawk helicopters circling the city at their daughter’s soccer game last night. thank you mister president.

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

R E T U R N
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P I G S
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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 4d

Administrative code!

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

Left to Right:

Bucket Truck
Choo Choo
Bulldozer
Forklift
Steamroller

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

👁️

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