I love this guy. He seems to appreciate the breaks he has received and what it would take for others to get the same down the line.
Dan Gunderson, longtime MPR journalist and master Minnesota storyteller, retires
It has been a month since I heard about his retirement but I wanted to make note of how great it has been to learn about this state from his reporting. Damn shame but great he is able to move on.
This Man Made the First Canned Cranberry Sauce
A little food history related to cranberry sauce.
For reference, we do the canned stuff AND a homemade sauce here.
Campbell Soup executive called its products food for “poor people,” lawsuit claims
I am not sure anyone in corporate America isn’t a piece of shit. Maybe heads of smaller organizations and folks who work on the ground and have to interact with “real” people but we, just in the last week, have seen NPR, Nike, Target (again!), the St. Paul police department, and a host of other outfits either bending the knee or outright rooting and financing fascists and racists, if not being the shock troops for them.
Anyways, the main story here is about Campbell Soup hiring a guy who is an outright racist class war bigot. I’d be surprised, but, yeah, that tracks.
Biologist cautions next generation against trusting a career with the federal government
Well, they did it.
Republicans broke regular citizen’s trust of government. Now they are warning others never to trust the feds.
We could win back every major office, reorient the Supreme Court and it wouldn’t mean a goddamned thing because our best and brightest are done with the project. Call it a country, carve it up, and let’s let the idiots suffer in their hate-filled hellholes. We have a future to reclaim.
Archaeologists Find 1,900-Year-Old Snacks in Sewers Beneath the Colosseum
You can eat as the Romans did.
Just don’t ask where they found it.
Actually, it is a cool bit of detective work.
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
Trump is a mass murderer, as is everyone who let this agency die.
‘We went from invisible to visible’: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier navigates changed political landscape
We have a long way to go to get to racial justice, but Peltier’s release is a good example that progress has been made. Slowly for sure, but it exists if you squint a bit.
Episode 600 – Spirit Halloween | 99% Invisible
Hopefully the below link will play. If not, go here.
Charlie Kirk tributes run contrary to sports’ uniting power
This is almost refreshing given that almost all of the NFL and a lot of other sports teams have seen fit to honor a bigot and a racist.