Mark Fyten

Another point about our cultural decline. We started watching the show Widow’s Bay. It’s really good. Fantastic writing. Perfect blend of comedy and horror. Last night’s episode was legitimately one of the finest episodes of television I’ve seen in years. If this same exact show came out in 2002, we’d probably remember it as an all time classic. But in 2026 most people haven’t even heard of it. It’s a blip on the radar. Another piece of content in the endless sea. You see it, or you don’t, and then it’s forgotten. It’s not that good stuff isn’t made anymore. It’s that even when good stuff is made, we don’t have any shared experience of it. There’s plenty of good music you can find on Spotify, recent stuff, but you experience it in your little algorithmic silo. Almost nothing breaks containment to become a bonafide cultural phenomenon. That’s what made Project Hail Mary so unique. Severance maybe also achieved escape velocity. But even in those cases the escape is fleeting. For the most part we experience the culture through the narrow pathway constructed for us by the algorithm. It might intersect with other people’s pathways, but only briefly. When we feel nostalgia for the Before Times, this is why. It’s not simply that we had a “better” culture back in the 90s or whenever. It’s that we had a culture at all.

@TheDibsterX @kate_p45 So what? Now do Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democrat congress.

@MarkFyten @kate_p45

Must be nice. Get elected screaming “America First,” spend years insider trading your way to millions, while your own state was flooded with illegals and foreign workers. Then, because Trump wouldn’t endorse you for Senate, you quit on your constituents, flip to the radical left, protect the same people who kept the border open, prioritized illegals, and laundered our tax dollars. Now you’re running away to your $5 million mansion in Costa Rica, bought with the money you got selling out your own country, to live with your beta cuck fiance. Pathetic traitor.🤬

@TheDibsterX @kate_p45 Where is the proof of Barron's insider trading?

@kate_p45 Many Americans retire in Costa Rica. Do you hate them too? She is not the one that did inside trading. It is Barron Trump who is doing it. Are you going to ask for an investigation on Trump's son, or are you in a cult?

@Truth_matters20 You don't like confession, don't go to confession. You can then argue with Jesus about whether you should have confessed your sins in confession. You don't have the power or authority to forgive your own sins, a priest has that power because of his direct line to the Apostles.

What good will confessing your sins to a man in a box do? You need to get before God and repent.

@stevecstny @marceelias @MagicMark9 Chinese Communist Billionaires are fomenting dissent in this country and you are nothing but a stooge.

@marceelias @MagicMark9 RW billionaires have been investing for decades to get a corrupt SCOTUS and Congress, while spreading misinformation to voters

The foundation of our democracy is burning. It did not begin with Donald Trump, but he stoked the flames. The conservative Roberts Court did not light the match, but it has repeatedly declared fire hydrants, sprinklers and smoke detectors illegal. democracydocket.com/opinion/the-go…

@MoundsViewMayor Democratic? You are either a tool or a fool. There was nothing democratic about how that False Flag was adopted. I didn’t get a vote.

My position on the flag conversation is that I think we should always be flying the current adopted flag. The reason I feel that way is that it respects democracy. I feel going back to the old flag would be very disrespectful and it would be undermining the democratic process that yielded the current flag. The new flag wasn’t my favorite of the options however it has since grown on me especially post metro surge. I saw the flag become the symbol of perseverance and unity and it really stuck with me and made me proud of our new flag. The pain and suffering we endured from metro surge was felt all across the state and right here at home in Mounds View. The flag was a central symbol of light in the darkness that was metro surge. We will likely do a proclamation and a flag dedication in the near future to cement our commitment to flying this flag and I would also like to see us adopt an ordinance stating we will fly whatever the current adopted flag is further reinforcing our commitment to democracy and the state and the place we call home. In regard to the old 1983 flag there had been attempts to change it for years. I don’t have any real attachment to it other than it’s all I have known. After 43 years It was time for a change. The old flag also had some racial undertones to it that does not reflect my values or our values as a city. I will admit I never saw the flag that way but have since learned about its history and nowhere in my conscience do I want us to be one of the cities who go back to that. Mounds View is a city where EVERYONE is WELCOME. We have done tremendous work to address our own racist past, and we will continue to work on it. We will continue to be a beacon of what is possible when good government works to serve its people and I think we are doing just that and the old flag does not fit in that equation.

@Faithful2Pray None

Reasons to ask the Saints’ Intercession… Which Saint do you turn to the most?🤔

@SenSanders Climate change isn't a hoax. Climate has changed on Earth ever since it was formed and started spinning. Thinking that mankind can affect the climate in any manner is stupid. Anyone who listens to this clown (Bernie) is also stupid. Man-made climate change is a hoax.

The past three years were the hottest three years in recorded history. The past eleven years were the hottest eleven years in recorded history. Trump thinks climate change is a “hoax.” He is dangerously wrong. We must break our addiction to fossil fuels and save the planet.

Spencer Pratt has released another banger.

@OVRT1ME @EricLDaugh I care you foul mouthed shill. Some of us are smart enough and financially conservative enough to survive a temporary economic set back. If you can't afford to survive, that is YOUR fault, not Trump's. Iran's regime needs to disappear.

@EricLDaugh Nobody gives a fuck about Iran when American families are being decimated and can no longer afford to survive. Fuck you you fucking shill

🚨 WOW! President Trump CUTS OFF a reporter and DROPS THE MIC REPORTER: The average price of a gallon of gas is now $4.00— TRUMP: —And you know what? And we're not going to have a NUCLEAR WEAPON in the hands of Iran. The gas will go down. As soon as the war's over, it'll drop like a rock! 🔥🔥

@AlexDuncanTX You don't like the Rosary, don't say it. You worship God in your way and we will worship Him in His way.

Praying the Rosary is straight-up PAGAN IDOLATRY imported straight from heathen religions; it is NOT biblical! This bead-counting mantra system originated in ancient paganism: Hindus and Buddhists used prayer beads for repetitive chants to false gods centuries before Christ. Rome “Christianized” the pagan practice in the 13th century through St. Dominic’s alleged vision from Mary. Jesus thundered against it: “When you pray, do not babble on like pagans… for they think they will be heard because of their many words” (Matthew 6:7). Yet Rome has you chanting “Hail Mary” 53 times like a demonic spell while clutching beads! There is ONE Mediator between God and man, Jesus Christ (1 Timothy 2:5). Mary is NOT co-redemptrix or “Queen of Heaven” (that title God condemned in Jeremiah 7 & 44!). This is textbook idolatry, violating the 2nd Commandment and robbing Christ of His glory. Repent. Burn the beads.

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@GovTimWalz I would like to see you go 1 week without opening your lying yap. You are disgusting.

While the Trump Administration sees voting as a threat, Minnesota knows voting is a source of empowerment and pride. We will continue to lead the fight to protect every American’s right to an equal voice in elections.

AI Shows America Without Democrats

@richardcarlbom @Michele_Tafoya How do you know Tim Walz is lying? His pie hole is open and noise is coming out.

I think @Michele_Tafoya is incapable of being honest.

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@catholicbob I sincerely doubt that the Vatican has intelligence anywhere near the sophistication of the US.

People saying the Pope shouldn’t comment on the war on Iran because he doesn’t have access to all the Top Secret information that Trump has don’t seem to know that the Vatican has a very sophisticated intelligence service of its own. In fact it’s the oldest intelligence service in the world. I’d bet folding money that the Pope has intelligence as good if not better than the President.

@catholicbob @mjarman775 The Iranian negotiators told their American counterparts that they had enough nuclear material to produce 11 warheads. But why take their word over "experts".

@mjarman775 scientificamerican.com/article/iran-w…

Among Catholic priests who were ordained in the late 1960s: 68% describe their theology as progressive. 16% said it was conservative. Among priests ordained in the last few years: 2% describe their theology as progressive. 84% said it was conservative.

@mamboitaliano__ Attractive.

Alright boys, time for a vote 🗳️ Is Lady Gaga actually attractive… or not? I genuinely can’t figure her out