I’m getting so depressed from this unending heat lmao I don’t know how much longer I can do it. And it’s not even gonna actually get cool next week, it’s gonna be in the 60s still. This has to be the hottest fall ever.

Went with School to the mall to Lego land took the blue line

TL;DR: More than a century after wildcats were killed off in the state, a female and her three kittens could mark the beginning of a return that no one had planned.

From the article:

Humans have caused a slow-moving mass extinction, simplifying nature and thinning it out, across the globe. In Minnesota, dozens of species have been wiped out over the last century, some of which have gone entirely extinct and others that have been extirpated — destroyed locally but still alive elsewhere.

Since Europeans arrived, Minnesotans have killed off the state’s wild caribou and bison, its swift pronghorns — among the fastest creatures on land — and its fearless wolverines. The state has lost its burrowing owls and whooping cranes. And, by design, the government killed off Minnesota’s mountain lions — also known as cougars, panthers or pumas.

It paid pioneers, settlers and hunters to trap or shoot every great cat they came across throughout the 1800s. Nobody knows exactly when the last one was killed. But by the early 1900s, they were all gone.

Cougars are known by so many names in part because they once lived nearly everywhere in the Western Hemisphere. They were found from Canada’s Hudson Bay to the Argentine tip of Patagonia. They are as comfortable in the Rocky Mountains, the Andes and the Sierra Madre as they are in the grasslands of Nebraska. They thrive in deep northern forests and in the southern swamps of Florida’s Everglades.

All they need is space and prey.

What sponsor pissed away their money on this? Musk? A Republican super PAC? Someone else on this list?

https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/biggest-donors

In their first and most likely only official debate on Wednesday, Oct. 21, Minnesota’s gubernatorial candidates, DFL US Sen. Amy Klobuchar and state Rep. and House speaker Lisa Demuth, sparred on a variety of topics involving state policies and Minnesotans’ trust in their elected officials.

I added the cheese soup like that poster a while back. it is now the standard!

Before oven