'Cause I'm a Jayhawk

I block stupid people.

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

If Lance Armstrong actually believed people are pretending to be trans to cheat at sports, he would have tried it already

[Mike Figueredo @HumanistReport]

Can anyone identify the cisgender individual to the right of notorious sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell?

[regular steve albini @electricalWSOP]

Thread:
I work in an arcane field where the job requires specific technical knowledge, built on a ladder of understanding and breakthroughs going back over 100 years. It's not immunology but it's not nothing.

[Katie Mack @AstroKatie]

Nothing exemplifies a complete failure to understand the point of science like demanding to settle a scientific issue through the medium of emotionally persuasive public shouting

[The Hoarse Whisperer @TheRealHoarse]

Actually, ma’am, your father getting an advanced education in Canada for free and then being able to do the thing your party hates - immigrate - is what was responsible for your success.

You’d still be in Manitoba if it wasn’t for handouts and help.

[Minnesota Reformer @MNReformer]

A good day to read (or re-read) @maxnesterak and @webster 2020 investigation into how and why MPD kept their worst officers on the force long after it was clear they needed to go. https://t.co/X13uQk5vfs via @mnreformer

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Y’all wanna hear the TRUE story of Nikki Haley?

A thread

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

GOP: We want a balanced budget!

So repeal Trump’s $2.1T billionaire tax cuts?
•GOP: NO!

End corporate welfare?
•GOP: NO!

Audit bloated military budget?
•GOP: NO!

How will you balance the budget?

GOP: Ban free school lunch

(Not even exaggerating)
https://t.co/6OekrJSdjU

[Radley Balko @radleybalko]

DOJ just released the report from its two-year investigation of the Minneapolis police department.

Here's a thread of notable excerpts.

This first one happened *while a DOJ investigator was on a ride-along.*

[CZEdwards.bsky.social @CZEdwards]

… ya know, complaining about household laundry machines when there are many, many giant data centers using 1000kW per square meter per day to run online gambling, crypto, stolen image manipulation and the predictive text scam is maybe missing the burning forest for the trees.

['Cause I'm a Jayhawk @LRoeSTP]

@bengeary @dhmontgomery It has a spreadsheet!

[puppy enjoyer @BokononsProphet]

While we’re at it, @startribune… here’s a picture of Shawn Holster (the chair of the Minneapolis GOP) flashing a white supremacist sign while standing with a member of the Three Percenters (a fascist white supremacist organization).

https://t.co/BaAcXOGIIn

[Michael O’Brien @DrOBrienMD]

Hey @NikkiHaley — I’m a pediatrician right here in South Carolina who has worked with countless suicidal kids, and zero have ever cited trans kids in sports… but plenty mentioned anti-LGBTQ rhetoric akin to the words coming out your mouth.

[Indignant Minnesotan @IndignantMN]

“Check out what's happening in Minnesota”

Always good advice.

[James Scott @GamingDrudge]

The same people who say Ukraine should just give the land to Russia are the same ones who will shoot you for stepping on their lawn.

['Cause I'm a Jayhawk @LRoeSTP]

@joliehawk @maxnesterak @MNReformer Which of the pending bills are you referring to?

['Cause I'm a Jayhawk @LRoeSTP]

@joliehawk @maxnesterak @MNReformer In MN, funding for the arts is guaranteed and permanent due to a constitutional amendment passed in 2008.