Tina signs on to going after Hawley, Cruz

January 22, 2021

Well, I’ll be darned. The Democratic senators — Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Ron Wyden of Oregon, Tina Smith of Minnesota, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, Tim Kaine of Virginia and Sherrod Brown of Ohio — said the question for the Senate to determine is not whether Cruz and Hawley had […]

by Dan Burns

A parable for our times

January 19, 2021

This is where we are with the Boogaloo Bois, Three Percenters, Oath Keepers, their related cosplay idiots

by Steve Timmer

More underhanded crap from the sulfides-heads

January 18, 2021

These rules changes have been in the works at the Minnesota Pollution “Control” Agency for a while. It’s all getting a legal review, now. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) wants to avoid enforcing water quality standards that control pollution from mines, coal plants, and other polluters! MPCA has proposed rules to deregulate Minnesota mining […]

by Dan Burns

“A major tipping point”

January 10, 2021

Reenacting the Beer Hall Putsch

by Steve Timmer

What a great chance for Senators Klobuchar and Smith to show some real gumption

January 8, 2021

I wrote this, on another blog, when Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) made her POTUS run official, in 2019. AKlo’s political approach has always been to pick the safest position on every issue, and stay there as if welded down. It’s made her electorally invulnerable in Minnesota, and has absolutely nothing to do with being a […]

by Dan Burns

Kind of pithy remarks on the 2021 MN lege

January 6, 2021

First of all, “pithy,” which means having substance and point, contains an element of sarcasm, here. My record, when it comes to any kind of politics-related prognostication, is, in a word, wretched. The best thing is that I am comfortable suggesting that the DFL caucuses in both houses can legitimately be termed “progressive,” and that […]

by Dan Burns

The grievance and resentment are strong in this one

January 3, 2021

Writing to the Strib while gulping a tall glass of bile

by Steve Timmer

Are phone companies really trying to block robocalls?

December 20, 2020

You may recall this. The article I took it from is dated Jan. 1, 2020. The bipartisan legislation expanded the power of the Federal Communications Commission to deter spam calls and reinforced the responsibility of individual phone companies to protect their own consumers. “With this legislation, phone companies will be required to give all consumers […]

by Dan Burns

Why is Emmer’s the only Minnesota name backing the Trumper sedition? – UpdateX2

December 11, 2020

Why aren’t other MN Party of Trumpers proudly there?

by Dan Burns

Biden and education – who knows, yet?

December 3, 2020

I’m somewhere between progressives who are in “give the guy a chance” mode, and those who are already openly cynical about there being realistic possibilities of Pres.-elect Biden bringing about much, if any, lasting, positive change during his term(s). Nothing wrong with pushing for positives, whether you privately have any optimism that way or not. […]

by Dan Burns

A little pandemic doggerel

November 21, 2020

We are Blue and they are Red

by Steve Timmer

Why not crush this Line 3 nonsense, once and for all?

November 18, 2020

The Minnesota Pollution “Control” Agency just rubber-stamped permitting for the proposed Enbridge Line 3 tar sands sludge pipeline. Here’s one righteously brutal response: Twelve out of 17 members of a group that advises the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency on environmental justice issues have resigned in protest of the agency’s approval late last week of a […]

by Dan Burns