Patrick Dowd

it's hard to take seriously the idea that the Pirates would be contenders if not for their big-spending rivals when they are a combined 28 games below .500 across the three minimum-salary seasons of Paul Skenes' career. You had the biggest edge in sports and wasted it, don't cry about the Dodgers.

I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.

Listening to back episodes of Strong songs (only recently discovered it) and was surprised @kirkhamilton.com mentioned the old theme was his composition. Always sounded like an arrangement/riff on Here Comes the Sun to me. Love the show!

The media’s favorite disillusioned Trump voter story is, “I never thought he’d come for my young, hot second wife.”

Senate Republicans add Lindsey Graham to standing conference call with Mitch McConnell.

The founder we should talk more about is Thomas Paine, who will fuck your shit up every time. Here he is in The Rights of Man just ripping into any ideas of "originalism" and that kind of garbage.

Absolutely this. Two kinds of people talk about IQ scores like they're meaningful -- very dumb people and very racist people, and they're usually both.

america is an ideal worth fighting for

Being an American during the 250th Aniversary of the United States feels a lot like if the terrorists in Die Hard demanded that the hostages continue having their Christmas party.

On April 15, 1935, Sgt. Gander was born in Newfoundland. He eventually became the mascot of the Royal Rifles of Canada and went with them to Hong Kong. At the Battle of Hong Kong in 1941, he gave his life to save his comrades and died a hero. This is his story. 🧵 1/10

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

It ain’t over til Minnesota has ICE’s battle flag

I’ll believe ICE is drawing down when I see it. And I’m not forgetting the terror they inflicted on our community.

Subway is a bowling alley. We’re not out selling sad-looking footlong subs at highway rest stops with no other options.

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

I have yet to see Armageddon even though it’s the most perfect answer.

I continue to believe that the fastest way to get Stephen Miller fired is to convince Trump that Miller's ICE operations are what cost him the Nobel Peace Prize.

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

One of the best organizers I know in the Twin Cities has a great line, "We can't always take away the hurt, but we can take away the alone."

sorry, but the Founding Fathers' original intent for the 2nd Amendment was always *just* to do school shootings

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Witnesses are being taken to Whipple. From a lawyer friend: “They’re trying to keep local PD and BCA from getting statements and confiscating any phones with video.”

we actually need to band together and let the dems know we will never donate another cent or vote for the party again if a single member of the party votes to give a single cent to ice ever again

@ilhanmn.bsky.social @repangiecraig.bsky.social please write impeachment articles today

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

My ass is old enough to remember when a President sending masked armies into American cities while saying "sometimes you need a dictator" would've been the end of it and whatnot.

Today, the US government is falsely claiming the Somali community is responsible for most crimes in Minneapolis. In 1908, the NYC police commissioner claimed "Hebrews" were responsible for half of all crimes in New York. www.timesofisrael.com/a-century-be...

Counterpoint: No, it’s not. Compete, sell, or shut up. No one forced you to buy the house and not furnish it. The leagues that broke their unions convinced US sports fans that leagues should be collectives. They should not. Competition rules.

Stop scrolling, post two characters who bring you happiness

In Minneapolis

Paul Verhoeven undefeated in creating a movie that flies right over the heads of the people it’s making fun of

Today would be a great day for Donald Trump to stroke out while taking a crap, J.D. Vance to sever his dick with his zipper, and Stephen Miller to fall into an open manhole. If you can dream it, it can happen.

Should they have cared about all this before now? Yes. Did you reach the right position before them? Sure, here's a gold star. Do we need their numbers to make this work? Yes. Please stop acting like the hipster who knew about this band before anyone else. We actually do need the normies.

Go Bears. Fuck the Packers. Abolish ICE.

they've got Raffi calling for regime change. something has shifted.

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

Last year, for Black History Month, NPR's Scott Simon spoke with Edith Renfrow Smith of Chicago, who has died at 111 years old. n.pr/4pqsvpa

The Truth about Venezuela.

Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them