I have a feeling this guy that found me on Twitter because he has some alert set up for the word Somali (because he's terrified of anyone that doesn't look like him) isn't going to like the new hat I ordered.
@taylr The light blue house with house number 403 is the house my mom and her 8 siblings grew up in! It was gray and black when I was a kid and last I heard it was converted into a multi-unit home when my grandma sold it ~15 years ago or so. I have a lot of memories there.
The ICE plate detection software being tested on a vehicle at the site of Alex Pretti's murder, Jan 26, 2026.
I found this photograph haunting because of what it implies about surveillance, countersurveillance, etc
There was an international treaty in place and a complex system of management involving multiple countries but the current government doesn't understand how anything works. If not contained this will destroy the beef industry. Watch a YouTube video about screw worms.
NEWS: Screwworm has been detected in Texas, USDA confirmed - marking a serious threat to US cattle and other animals
Larvae of the parasite were found in the umbilical cord of a 3 week old calf
Screwworm was eradicated from the US in 1966
Algae blooms were a huge problem in Maryland due to run off. After there was regulation of fertilizer we began to see the Chesapeake recover. Similar policy may help Minneapolis
5 years ago today: Agape Movement patrols George Floyd Square with violent threats while working with the city to open it to vehicular traffic. Hours later, Winston Smith is killed by a U.S. Marshals task force on top of a Uptown Minneapolis parking ramp 3 miles away.
@lydiakauppi One of the houses my spouse and I looked at in St. Paul when we bought in 2015 had a teeny tiny sink and (normal sized) toilet **in the bedroom**. No door. Just in the corner. Very handy for emergencies but not so great for privacy.
In 2020, during the greatest unrest Minneapolis and the country has ever experienced, Minneapolis police spent $10M in over-time. Last year, during a period with nearly no unrest, MPD spent $33M in over-time. Time to defund MPD before the defund our city
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today marks 6 years since a cop shot me in the eye with a beanbag round at a blm protest on I-35 in atx. after 5 years of constant distorted double vision, my 10th surgery was removing the eye. its so much better now its hard to fathom sometimes, but i still mourn my past life 🥀
marvina haynes, vice chair of sd59, is at the DFL convention
her brother marvin haynes was prosecuted by amy klobuchar when she was hennepin county attorney in wrongful conviction for a murder that was vacated in 2023. he was awarded $4.5 million in recently after spending 2 decades in prison