Mike

Co-Host of @flyover_logic podcast. Husband. Father. Business owner. And a bunch of other stuff.

[Flyover Logic Podcast @flyover_logic]

Episode 243: A Conversation with Jordan aka @Off_JaWaggon

We invited Jordan on to discuss going viral and his recent success, the pros and cons of social media platforms for news and information, and more.

Listen Here: https://t.co/jsvkD3DTNN

[Mike @MrMinnesotaMike]

Sigh. I hate learning new things. 😂😂 https://t.co/jaJIzfPMiE

[Mika Edmondson @mika_edmondson]

I remember someone marveling about how Jonathan Edwards spent 13 hours a day in his study. I’ve never been comfortable with that as a model.

Sadly, Edwards was only able to spend countless hours working in his study because others spent countless hours working in his fields.

[Mike @MrMinnesotaMike]

Good grief Florida.

[Alexander - Sex Critical 🦢🦜 @etotheipie]

This is a statement from two of the people who wrote Florida's new education standards on slavery. In it they give several names of people to exemplify slaves who learned skills they applied later in life.

Let's go through the supposed truth of this list one by one.

[Nancy French @NancyAFrench]

Timeline cleanser: ❤️❤️❤️

[Mike @MrMinnesotaMike]

@shannonkwatson @mbrodkorb @aleryrl @jpkolb @drscottjensen Correct.

[Mike @MrMinnesotaMike]

@shannonkwatson @mbrodkorb @aleryrl @jpkolb @drscottjensen Whoa. 6 min. and already 👀👀👀

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Rep. Jamie Raskin just obliterated the GOP’s Hunter Biden conspiracy theories in a pitch-perfect takedown. (h/t @atrupar)

[Mike @MrMinnesotaMike]

@alex_blondeau , this sounds like something that would (has?) happened to you! 😂😬

[NW MN Biologist @NwMnBiologist]

Just because you see some weirdo walking down the gravel road all sweaty and carrying a machete and a hand sprayer, it doesn’t mean you need to call the sheriff.

I was just killing weeds in my prairie restoration, ok?!

[Mike @MrMinnesotaMike]

Hotdish is not just for wintertime!

[Flyover Logic Podcast @flyover_logic]

Episode 241: Headline Hotdish!

Today we tackle a myriad of topics from the Republican House $hitshow to dizzying campaign propaganda from Gov. Walz and more!

Listen Here: https://t.co/VF2AoJz7rC

[Mike @MrMinnesotaMike]

@CheyCab I love the fact that I am more excited that @CheyCab posted SOMETHING about my hometown than the story posted itself!😂

[Mike @MrMinnesotaMike]

@SenTomCotton Every time there is a 'but the media won't cover it' post a quick Google search turns up this.

Every. Time.

'No one will cover it!'

Except the AP, Fox, USA Today, MSNBC, WSJ.......

[Mike @MrMinnesotaMike]

@DavidAFrench Frustrating, yes. But their audience doesn’t watch/read/look at Mainstream Media. They actively avoid it.

[Gretchen Ronnevik @garonnevik]

As this was my last year of homeschooling (except my high school senior this next year) and my 4 younger kids are going to various traditional schools, I’ve been doing some major processing.

When we started homeschooling, 14 years ago, we got the side eye from several people. I felt the need to explain that while we are Christian’s, we were homeschooling for academic reasons, not Christian reasons. Certain kids needed me, and it was just that simple. It wasn’t my master plan.

Though discipleship was a huge part of our reason, but that had more to do with logistics and living on a farm, and travel time to and from school, not toxic things my daughter was learning in kindergarten.

Over the years, we have made friends with unschoolers, classical homeschoolers, fundamentalist/Gothard homeschoolers, secular homeschoolers, and during the pandemic, virtual homeschoolers.

Our kids did sports with our local public school and were always treated with kindness and respect.

We joined a local co-op, which ended up not being a good fit due to some overstimulation issues with my own kids. We had some years with no homeschool group, and then we joined a classical group an hour away, which was a big commitment if you knew that road, and the winter weather we get here.

The structure was helpful. The friendships were rich. I don’t regret homeschooling the last 14 years. Not at all.

But I will say, there were some in our circle who were stuck in the Gothard/fundamentalist, or similar. And the older my kids got into the program, the more it became less classical methods and more conservative agenda. My Lutheran theology started sticking out like a sore thumb in Baptist/Reformed spaces.

It’s not that I’m not conservative. I am. But I want my kids to be conservative based on the merits of the argument, not because we demonize others.

Representing the opposing side, putting the best construction on what they’re saying matters to me. It’s in my catechism. Treating people I disagree with, with the respect of someone made in the image of God matters to me.

After we prayerfully made the decision last fall, based on our family’s need for this next year to stop homeschooling at year end, things started falling apart in my homeschooling world.

Red flags started blinding me. I started selling my leftover curriculum to other homeschool families. At my book sale, I joked with a little girl that she might be able to find it at our library, her mother glared at me and said “we don’t allow government books at our house.”

I got drawn into an awful conflict involving one of my kids listening to Silly Songs with Larry rap music, and faced racism square in the face as another parent said it was Satanic because of the African beat, and the creator is now a liberal.

The few years leading up to our decision I stopped counting how many homeschool graduates I saw grow up leave the faith, not because they hated God, but because they were exhausted from trying to be perfect, and they gave up. For some of them, I’m the only adult from their childhood they still talk to. We process through together in our coffee dates the evil of legalism and how faith destroying it is.

So, while I don’t regret our years of homeschooling, I’m deeply aware of the toxic level of legalism in homeschooling circles.

Homeschooling can be wonderful. It has its ups and downs.

But as soon as you make homeschooling your children’s savior, you have switched over to idolatry. Watch out for that. Satan is crafty, and will use the law to crush your children if you don’t teach them the liberating power of the gospel. I’m so tired of seeing it.

I don’t know what the next years will look like, with our oldest at college, our 2nd finishing up here at home next year, and 2 of my kids going to private and 2 to public school next year. I don’t know.

But I don’t need to know. God holds my kids, wherever they are. We walk by faith in that promise.

[Mike @MrMinnesotaMike]

This is pretty cool.

[Steve Grove @grove]

Congratulations to all Minnesota high school graduates! 🎓🎓🎓

As a gift to every single 2023 high school grad in Minnesota, the @StarTribune is offering a FREE 1-year subscription. No strings attached; no payment info needed.

Sign up here! https://t.co/JyzMPVqpq3

[Mike @MrMinnesotaMike]

@davethul @RonDeSantis @Disney @GovTimWalz @Uber @lyft https://t.co/GnZeGdCRmH

[Brian Bakst @Stowydad]

Ride-share standards bill vetoed and an executive order filed. It’s the first veto by @GovTimWalz in his time in office.

[Mike @MrMinnesotaMike]

@garonnevik That's what keeps us here! 😂😂

We forget....every dang time!

[Mike @MrMinnesotaMike]

This was such a refreshing conversation. If you care about books, or education or kids or the future please take a listen. You will be glad you did.

[Flyover Logic Podcast @flyover_logic]

Episode 240: The Kids Are Alright. A Conversation with Maggie Hiekes & Ashlee Donley.

We thought it would be great to get some perspective on the issue from those who would be most affected. We were not wrong.

Listen Here: https://t.co/w25liv4Yxv

[Mike @MrMinnesotaMike]

@jretz41 Yeah. This is not ok.