Nat Robbins

Well said!

Bill Clinton: “The Palestinians were offered a state. They refused. A state wasn't their goal. Killing Jews was."

Steve Jobs talking about artificial intelligence back in 1985 feels unreal today.

@RussoHockey @JoeSmithNHL @nytimes Colorado lists nine centers on their roster: Zakhar Bardakov, Ross Colton, Jack Drury, Nazem Kadri, Parker Kelly, Nathan MacKinnon, Martin Necas, Brock Nelson, and Nicolas Roy. I know that some are maybe wings, but how were they able to collect so many if it’s so difficult?

Wild GM Bill Guerin’s summer to-do list: Pursue No. 1 center, decide on UFAs, extend Quinn Hughes By @joesmithnhl and me nytimes.com/athletic/72801… via @NYTimes

@Bquittem Sorry I missed this. I follow @BitcoinersMPLS and didn't see anything about this meeting. I'm following @MNblockchain now.

Minneapolis Bitcoin community keeps rocking!

Two weeks ago, Gazan women testified to a system of rape by Hamas to Palestinian women living in tents. Last week, Gazan children testified to being raped by Hamas clerics. This week, a report revealed the extent of sexual violence on Oct. 7th. The NYT hasn’t written a word.

Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815. Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did. Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”

Exactly. 💯‼️

🚨 After Ilhan Omar failed to produce documents requested by the Minnesota House Fraud and Oversight Committee, Chair Kristin Robbins (R) moved to subpoena her. Democrats unanimously blocked the effort, protecting Omar. The fraud runs deep in Minnesota.

Bessent is the most important, most articulate member of Trump's administration.

Golden Tempo was in last place and somehow came all the way back to win the 152nd Kentucky Derby. Insane

@A_TwiceKSTP He stops and deflects Hughes' shot-pass to himself and backhands it in--pretty sweet goal!

Look at the reaction from Vladimir Tarasenko. That looks like a guy that was craving a goal in this series. His 50th postseason goal of his career tied the game at 2-2.

Here's another great comeback...the announcer had to check his notes to identify him!😂

Nice reporting @JennieSTaer !!

The announcer didn't spot Rich Strike until the last second--what a finish!!

Jerome Powell held 63 press conference as Fed chairman and over that time there wasn't a single question about the 40% money supply spike in 2020-21 or $18 trillion increase in the national debt during his tenure as the root causes of inflation. That's either unbelievable incompetence on the part of the most renowned financial journalists in the business or questioning/dissent is not allowed. Which is it?

Michele Tafoya just ROASTED Tim Walz for trying to take credit for yesterday’s fraud raids. “He’s taking credit for putting out a fire that he started, and it’s just ridiculous.”

Thomas Sowell is 95 years old. Let that number sit with you. Ninety-five years on this earth, and in all of them, he has never held public office, never had a viral moment, never begged for anyone’s attention. What he has done is write 30 books and spend 50 years of patient research building a body of work that has outlasted every fashionable idea his critics tried to bury him with. While the loudest voices in Washington were chasing polls and the cleverest minds on campus were chasing grants, Sowell was in the library reading the data, tracking the outcomes, and dismantling one bad idea after another. He doesn’t argue feelings. He measures results. He isn’t selling anything. His whole approach boils down to one line that every politician and activist in this country should be forced to recite before they open their mouths: “There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.” Sit with that, too. Every federal program, every mandate, every well-meaning crusade carries a cost, and somebody pays it. Sowell’s life work has been the simple act of asking who. Listen to him on the “help” our communities have been promised for two generations: “I’ve been doing studies now for 20 years of programs designed to increase equality. They increase inequality.” “Even when the programs are designed for disadvantaged groups, they help the affluent members of the disadvantaged groups, while the lower members of those groups fall further behind than ever before.” That is the whole affirmative action racket laid out in two sentences. The kids from the same zip codes as the Harvard faculty get the slot, while the kids from the neighborhoods that actually need a ladder are told to wait their turn. Sowell says it plain: “The vast majority of blacks who go to places like Harvard, Cornell, and Stanford are not blacks from the ghetto. They’re from the same neighborhoods as the whites there.” The race hustlers don’t want you to know that, because they need the grievance to stay in business. Sowell’s advice to young people cuts right through the hustle: “Stay away from the race hustlers.” “Equip yourself with skills that people are willing to pay for.” That is the whole ball game right there, a matter of skills, work, and accountability rather than slogans, hashtags, or another federal program designed to pad a consultant’s salary while leaving the South Side worse off than before. Here is the line I want every young person in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and every other corner of America to read tonight: “Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.” That one sentence explains our schools, our cities, and why the neighborhoods the War on Poverty was supposed to save are in worse shape now than they were before the checks started flowing. Sowell has pushed a whole generation of us to stop reacting and start asking harder questions. What are the incentives? Who actually benefits from this policy? What do the numbers look like five, ten, twenty years later? Ask those questions honestly, and the illusion falls apart. The most dangerous man in America right now isn’t the one shouting on television. He is the 95-year-old professor in Palo Alto who doesn’t need you to agree with him, because he has the data on his side. Ninety-five years of telling the truth. Thank you, Dr. Sowell.

The @StarTribune @grove loves volunteers helping people hiding from federal agents…just as it loved Chris Ostroushko. But it doesn’t say so exactly. Uncovering Ostroushkos powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/…

@JamieHersch Wild is a tough one, but how about:👣 or 🧌. We miss you in MN!

Time for my annual tradition… Presenting the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs in emojis: 🌀 vs 🏛️ 🦬 vs 🐻 ⚡️ vs 🇨🇦 🐧 vs 🔔 ⚔️ vs 🦣 🏔️ vs 👑 ⭐️ vs 🏕️ ⛽️ vs 🦆 #becauseitsthecup #StanleyCupPlayoffs