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the league tried to hand game 2 to the spurs and the knicks still won

#better coaching and more experience #the playoffs are about matchups and the knicks are a nightmare matchup for the spurs #i thought this was gonna be a seven game series with the spurs winning #but after these first two games the spurs don't look ready yet #a finals team but not a championship team

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Randy. Randy Dean. You know, like James Dean. (2/2)

#the blueprint if we're being honest #it was a wrap seeing her on screen #all these years later and a soft butch with a great smile is still one of my weaknesses

The growing Ebola outbreak in the DRC is the predictable result of cruel aid cuts and failed markets that put everyone, including Americans,

#workers by the thousands keeping unseen threats at bay #but nope let's just cut their budgets cause it sounds good to our base #who don't have the capacity to understand all the government does for them

The government cut funding for the New World screwworm monitoring program and then reportedly ignored ranchers warning the parasite was work

The average American left or right doesn't know all the good the government does. Federal and state governments are protecting us from threats we don't even know exist because that's what good governance looks like. It's the base we are all standing on and it's only noticeable when it starts to crack.

#billions on waste management #billions on medical research #in 99.9% of places in the country you turn on the faucet and clean water comes out #that's government at work #our world is held up by systems and protections we don't even know about #i think about that every time i'm looking in the hennepin county archives #teams of people over the years created and now maintain those archives #teams of government workers whose sole job is to preserve our history #department after department #institution after institution across all levels of government doing the work behind the scenes to keep the nation stable #there is no individual wealth health or prosperity without these underlying systems #and most people don't even know they exist so they are taken for granted #it is those underlying systems that actually make a country great #and it is just those things that are under attack by the right #it's why maga is fundamentally an anti-american movement and should be identified as such #civic pride great public institutions and responsive government should be the pillars of the american left #but you're not getting any of that without a healthy dose of patriotism #how on earth did the right corner patriotism when it should be left coded?

Amar es para siempre is basically Spain's version of Law and Order

#combine amar es para siempre / hospital central / sdl / con el culo aire and i swear i can now vaguely recognize 80% of spanish tv actors #you pop up on a new show and i'm that leo gif

Universal experience of going to a new country and doubling down on your own national identity.

#it's funny cause it's everyone

#we're in a chain #most of the men in this photo would probably never claim me as an heir to their tradition #but that doesn't make me any less part of the chain #our shared past present and future #is there an american identity big enough for all of us? i hope there is #anything else is to cede the flag to the right #and we've come too damn far for that

#it's all there #basically a one to one match with the old street car maps #because transit can't be separated from land use

Wow. Making decisions with long-term financial goals in mind. Recession indicator if we're being honest.

#or maybe it's the opposite #locking in because something feels within reach #long weekend in chicago this october? nah. staycation

Crazy thing is I believe we could hire a thousand transit consultants from France to come work at MNDOT and they still wouldn't move the needle.

#the machine just keeps going

If I could I would only care about my state but we're all in this together so the Florida and California property tax and insurance situations are worrying.

#insane how anyone with a drop of fiscal sense could think that having the state as the insurer of last resort is a good idea

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The Ike was the city’s first superhighway. Decades after its completion, people affected open up about how it scattered ethnic neighborhoods

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#a minneapolis bungalow or a chicago three flat? can't go wrong either way #you can't get people my parents age to say a good thing about chicago #to be fair they lived through the collapse of us cities #times when walking down the wrong street could actually get you killed and drugs were destroying us #but it's a shame to stay stuck in the past when the future could be so bright

The Ike was the city’s first superhighway. Decades after its completion, people affected open up about how it scattered ethnic neighborhoods

#it's in the tens of trillions of dollars #across the country we spent tens of trillions of dollars to demolish cities and prop up car dependent suburbia #going on one hundred years of anti urban policy

Should I play myself and start learning Portuguese?

#it doesn't take much to maintain / improve Spanish #I'll pass French C2 this winter at a canter #gotta decide quick #French / Spanish for my twenties #but what two for my thirties?#Arabic and German? Korean and Hebrew?#Portuguese feels like the easy way out #the only thing easier would be Italian #but it would also be the most fun #something to decide before the end of summer

#soon #a straddle and paddle trip is calling my name #I think our landscapes are unbeatable but I suppose you just get used to whatever you grow up around #going to Utah for the first time was incredible #Alaska was also truly spectacular #but I just like forests and lakes #I had been planning for Spain in 2027 but now I'm thinking California #then again it seems a shame to repeat a state when there are so many others to see #maybe Montana? bikepacking in big sky country? hmmmmm

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got a giant and i mean GIANT fresh-squeezed strawberry lemonade at the farmer's market today. i'm talking like a full quart with a straw in it. very delicious. five dollars. nice. as i was leaving, laden with vegetables, a young man waved at me and asked where i had acquired my immense beverage. and after i pointed him toward the stall and informed him of the various prices and flavors, he looked toward the sky, basketball shorts flapping in the breeze, and bellowed to the heavens, "oh i am gonna SLUUUUUUUURP that." happy slurp that saturday everyone.

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There are so many reasons to hate Donald Trump but my super specific reason is watching people I love die while he is in office. Old school Minneapolis liberals. The kind of people who donate food and books and time dying while he is in office just feels like one more affront. These are people who spent their lives building good communities based on mutual support and strong morals. For them to be dying in a time when scamming and corruption are completely normalized is so bleak.

#Galatians 6:9 #Let us not become weary in doing good for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up

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