Whoa, I never thought about snakes as a metaphor for renewal like that.

Yeah, there’s something very Promethean about the role the serpent plays.

Minneapolis here. Savoy’s is amazing, but it’s not a style beyond that particular establishment.

Snakes really get kind of a bad rap. Cats are ambush predators of the same sort and people love em, but you make em slower, legless and less fuzzy and suddenly they’re monsters to everybody. I don’t get it.

Dude, like, the first thing he does in the good book is hand out free fruit to a naive young woman and teach her about critical thinking. That doesn’t sound particularly Republican to me.

I think that’s deliberate.

I didn’t realize until I was into my twenties that other states you had to register ahead of time. What a pain in the ass!

A lot of the MN left doesn’t like Klobuchar. She’s very much in the Clintonian centrist vein. For instance, she’s been pushing for expansion of wolf hunting in the state to pander to the hunting lobby. That’s upsetting a lot of people, myself among them.

It’s not a slam dunk here anymore, but this is still a blue state. It’d be surprising for her to get beat.

This. He’s not being fired for not supporting the victims. He’s being fired for being honest about his employer’s stance.

Can we not talk about dodging bullets? I’d like to digest the win and not think about ways we could still lose it.

Old meme is dank

Wait, is this the Taco Bell by MSP airport? If not it looks a hell of a lot like it

This. Sooner or later, Trump will be done, but the Trumpists won’t have changed. We’ll still be in a cold civil war and I don’t know how we get out of it or past it; there’s going to be millions of rural and suburban Americans who don’t share our values well into the 21st century.

Jorni is a known troll.

Come on, we’re being real self-righteous about this right now, but if the choice was between a reliable Democrat with a history of creepin’ and a Trumpist with all that entails, would that be an easy choice for you to make? Really?

And now it’s on news sites and gossip mags all over. One might say she’s simply been efficient here.

It took quite a bit of cajoling from street level organizers to get her to sign onto that. I wouldn’t credit her like it was her idea all along.

Betsy Hodges? Really? After the police got out of hand during her tenure, she doesn’t have a constituency.

I’d instead suggest Melissa Hortman. She’s competent, liberal, might actually get votes in the outstate, and if you look up the drama around her “white male card game” quote, you know, it’d be fitting.

I didn’t even think about the socialist/nonDem end of the left here. If he appointed Ginger Jentzen I think that would give basically everyone a heart attack. I’m not as radical as she is, but that kind of makes me want to see it.

In terms of stuff that might actually happen, I think the most likely women of color…