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The Dependent Clause
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Once you decide that human rights should be conditional on how that human voted, you too can be "past" empthy like this evolved individual
jvb1217.bsky.social 9 hours ago This is just horrifying but I'm about be unkind. How's that whole we supported Trump because "the Democrats left us" bullshit treating you? As black Muslims what did you all think was going to happen? In response to my quoting this person's previous post and writing "Liberal empathy," they responded: jvb1217.bsky.social 9 hours ago This is just horrifying but I'm about be unkind. How's that whole we supported Trump because "the Democrats left us" bullshit treating you? As black Muslims what did you all think was going to happen?
December 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Case in point
Screenshot of my reply to an @minnesotadem contending (incorrectly) that the local Somali community voted for Trump or third-party in large numbers. I said “Also it's pretty gross that your main takeaway from the illegal federal kidnapping of our Somali neighbors is that too many of of them voted for Trump.” They replied three times: 1. “I never thought leopards would eat MY face," sobs Minnesota Somali leader who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party." What a difference a year makes 2. My main point is that elections have consequences. Wake up. 3. They put us all in danger due to their voting. They are not the only immigrant group that refused to acknowledge how harmful Trump is.
December 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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If only there were somewhere for this person to park
A car is parking the bike lane with a large red arrow pointing to an available parking spot directly next to the car parked in the bike lane
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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For example eastbound drivers w/a green light, rather than wait for the bus to clear the stop, will either block the intersection or pass the bus by driving into the oncoming turn lane—usually at full speed bc they have the green! Insanity
Drawing of an eastbound driver passing an eastbound B Line bus by driving into the oncoming turn lane
November 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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This is pretty close to the set I have (mine has a few more pieces). A distant relative sold it to me for a steal
A blue Ludwig Vistalite drum kit, photographed from behind the kit A blue Ludwig Vistalite drum kit, photographed from in front of the kit
November 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

Once again taking this opportunity to post this under-appreciated classic
Album cover of Body Exit Mind (1992) by the New Fast Automatic Daffodils
November 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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In my alley, surrounded by light pollution, but still
Photo of the reddish northern lights above a utility pole and house
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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“This model of political engagement removes from you the burden of being an omniscient being w/the ability to predict the future. … What could you do w/that free time? You could think about what kind of world you want to see. Then you could fight to make that world a reality.”
Some of this analysis is conducted by professional pollsters and political consultants and campaign managers and candidates. Some of it is conducted by pundits and commentators and the press. Much of it, though, is conducted by regular voters. Conversations among political junkies become a mini-version of a Face The Nation panel. Discussions of who our preferred political party should nominate and what that candidate should say and how they should campaign and how they should win over other people take on the quality of an interminable Nate Silver post. Engaging with politics, to many voters, means stepping into the mind state of a political consultant and then imagining what tactical choices can dominate the 4-D chessboard of public opinion. Critiques of parties and candidates and issues are freighted with a meta-heaviness in which the things are judged not simply for what they are, but for how we think they will interact with the infinite other quantum ripples of the world to produce a political outcome. At the risk of stepping too firmly on The Rake of Obviousness, I want to suggest a different mental model of politics-a different way of engaging with the political process. It is this: Think about what you want to happen. Then fight for that thing. Note that this model of political engagement removes from you the burden of being an omniscient being with the ability to predict the future. Whereas in the other model you are required to spend a great deal of time gaming out probabilities about how each and every word and action and position will interact with every other word and action and position in the world and what thoughts those refractive combinations will produce inside the minds of people you don't know, the model that I am suggesting does not require that. You can wipe that off your schedule. Now you have a lot more free time. What could you do with that free time? You could think about what kind of world you want to see. Then you could fight to make that world a reality. Despite this, the bulk of the political consultant class has not retired in shame. The bulk of the pundit class has not rethought its priors. The belief that political success flows from running to the middle, from triangulation, from reading polls and then selecting the exact midpoint of everyone's belief on every issue —that belief is, for many in the professional politics world, quasi-religious and ineradicable no matter how much evidence there is to the contrary. One towering idiot narcissist is on the verge of squeezing the last breath out of American democracy and turning us into a fascist state and Third Way still, somehow, exists. This is simple insanity. If someone is kicking your ass, the thing to do is to figure out why they are kicking your ass, and draw some lessons from that, and implement the lessons in order to kick their ass instead. The thing to do is not to say, "I read a book about every single martial art, meaning it is highly unlikely for you to kick my ass, so I will just keep on doing what I am doing."
November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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GOTV LOL OMG LFG
A photo of me wearing Omar Fateh and Robin Wonsley campaign buttons, and holding campaign literature for both candidates, canvassing on the East Bank at the University of Minnesota
November 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year.
Cover art for Tears for Fears’ 1989 album THE SEEDS OF LOVE
October 30, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year.
Cover of the 1989 album COSMIC THING by the B-52s
October 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Mayor Quimby delivering a televised address from a fake mayor’s office in the Bahamas
October 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Oh no. That's me in the back doing an inadvertant photobomb
October 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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I couldn’t help noticing her “all lives matter” response here
How will you advocate for immigrants and communities of color? All citizens should feel safe in our city but we know that is not often the case. We must continue to support police reform that includes practices that are not discriminatory and put people in danger. My political ideology will not guide my decisions on the council, but the community will. I will commit to meeting regularly with community leaders to get
October 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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October 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Dean, tenured professor, tenure-track professor
October 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Carol, is that you??
Right-wing troll and frequent Racket commenter neoliberal shill bleats: “This comment section is basically just the tin foil hat leftist version of right wing MAGA crazies. As your resident normie dem, this is a level of ‘everyone is out to get us’ paranoia I have not seen since the tea party. A lot of grass needs to be touched by a lot of you guys.”
October 4, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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A man hitting himself in the head with a hammer
October 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point
October 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Anytime I have to repeat myself while using voice-activated technology
Knightboat saying, “You don’t have to yell, Michael. I’m all around you.”
October 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Me whenever I do pretty much anything:
Barney Gumble saying “It begins!” after drinking nonalcoholic champagne
October 2, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Homer Simpson saying “this time …” as he once again attempts to eat a potato chip without a puppy snatching it out of his hand
October 2, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Very honored to be part of a group receiving @mapeunion.bsky.social’s Union Service Award for our work organizing and winning a union at Macalester!
September 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Actual footage of you doing oppo research
September 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM