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In his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised voters that he would end wars, not start them. Over the past year, he has instead ordered military strikes in seven nations. His appetite for military intervention grows with the eating.

Source: Opinion | Why Have You Started This War, Mr. President? – The New York Times

I guess nothing should surprise you at this point. Vote in the upcoming election. Resist. Impeach. Hold him accountable.

Some trips this weekend are sold out on the train running between St. Paul and Chicago.
— Read on www.startribune.com/amtraks-popular-borealis-train-a-hot-ticket-on-mea-weekend/601496044

Now just imagine faster speeds and more frequent service!

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“The Minneapolis music scene has been adored by fans around the world. And many of the local Black artists — Prince, Jimmy Jam, Morris Day and the Time, Lizzo and others — who subsequently earned national acclaim were already staples on KMOJ before the world met them.”

Important article about KMOJ’s future in the startribune – I still believe radio matters and MSP has a strong culture of independent radio. I’ve been heartened to hear that The Current has been making progress towards their goal of 5,000 new subscribers, and I’m hopeful that KMOJ is successful in raising the funds they need to be a fixture of the Minneapolis music scene well into the future.

Fitting choice for the Oxford English word of the year. From The Guardian:

If you want to witness the last vestiges of human intellect swirling down the drain, hold your nose and type the words “skibidi toilet” into YouTube. The 11-second video features an animated human head protruding from a toilet bowl while singing the nonsensical lyrics “skibidi dop dop dop yes yes”. The clip has been viewed more than 215m times, and spawned hundreds of millions of references on TikTok and other social media.

Source: Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore | Siân Boyle | The Guardian

The collective action required to solve this problem is massive.