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"We are going to win against Donald Trump, but we have a much bigger victory that we need to be aiming for. We need to Reconstruct this country. We must put liberal democracy on the right footing to face the challenges of the era we live in. We need to fight for the liberal future."

In 2025 I averaged over 10,000 steps per day in every month of the year, according to the step counter on my phone. I've maintained a streak of doing this for 75 consecutive months (six and a quarter years).

Here's what I read this past year:

I think the most effectively way to frame this issue is, "Don't you want choice in where you live and how you get around?" When framed this way, multimodal reforms transform from a burden (e.g. "we have to do this because of climate change/sprawl/costs/etc") into an amenity.

It's the final day of MetroCard sales—so as we say farewell to an icon, let's take a look at how it all started. Thank you, MetroCard, for moving New York to the very last swipe.

As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:

So, of these four options, we have: 1. Economic collapse 2. financial engineering (that probably won’t work, and even if it does still wouldn’t be great) 3. Eliminate at least part of the American welfare state 4. Increase the average families taxes by $77 every two weeks ($5.50 a day). hard choice

this is why I think publications that focus almost solely on culture war issues are so empty. The genuine economic, health, welfare etc impacts of policy are much more important than Ivy League coursework discourse but become sideshows to these people.

Real "oh my god, she admit it" moment here. Trump is treated as an uninteresting figure without agency so we can dump endless criticism on liberals for how they react to his "natural disaster." He "doesn't participate in moral frameworks" lmfao

Northern Lights Tom Thomson 1917

Snow Man Kim Dorland 2015

Minnesota businesses can apply *right now* for a grant to purchase e-bikes for commercial use through the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's (MPCA) Small Business Environmental Assistance Program! More info: content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MPL...

this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

"Custer's Retreat" by Jim Denomie (of course) at the Walker

Steven Glasford is popular on Reddit for his ice depth measurements on Minneapolis’ Bde Maka Ska, Isles, Harriet and Cedar lakes.

This is one of the most essential things to understand about the economics of public transit

In 2025, the US launched strikes on the Houthis in Yemen, al-Shabab in Somalia, ISIS in Syria, alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, plus Iran’s nuclear program. Now some into Nigeria. All killed people and damaged things, but none appear to have achieved anything lasting.

"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel" "sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"

A perfect day for the Dyani White Hawk exhibit at the Walker, which is not to be missed.

[breathing a sigh of relief as I carefully remove the poison, hammer, Geiger counter, and radioactive source before helping Tiny Tim out of the box]

this is an incredible error. the thing they “quote” him saying is a section header that summarizes a claim he refutes in the section

Another new a16z idea: giving letters of medical necessity to anybody so they can commit tax fraud Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

➡️ 15 Ambassadorships ➡️ 2 Pardons ➡️ Hundreds of White House invitations ➡️ 13 Dropped investigations ➡️ Dozens of executive actions Inside Trump’s FUNDRAISING BONANZA at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. W/ @kenvogel.bsky.social (1/2) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“Most of us also know about the lawsuits against Big Pharma that forced changes in how painkillers are marketed and prescribed,” writes Barbara Kingsolver. “Please do not think this means justice has been served.”

I can't get over the fact that we have a governing political movement that is openly contemptuous of huge swathes of the country (including my home) and millions of its people. To have a President and Vice President who don't even pretend to represent the whole country is truly shocking.

Look I get that bad faith actors have us hesitant to talk abt tech's influence on neurology but can we take a minute to admit that this is blatantly and unapologetically designed to break your dopamine system and reduce you to a gambling addict with some ADHD as collateral damage?

Minnesotans are used to dealing with every kind of ice, and what today showed is that we will overcome the capitalized version as well.

Today, with the windchill struggling to reach 0°F at times, thousands marched down Lake Street in South Minneapolis protesting the actions of ICE. “ICE Out of Minnesota!” "MINNESOTANS KNOW ICE IS SLIPPERY AND DANGEROUS - IT'S TIME TO DE-ICE!" "Immigrants are not the problem"

The Anglosphere elite treats liberal democracy like a trust fund which they can borrow against indefinitely

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

Steve Witkoff’s unlikely diplomatic ascent was bolstered by two fans: Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

About to go on my first true work-free vacation of 2025 (I hope)! This is one of my final stories for the year, about the extremely humanlike chatbots we've been given and whether they should be that way. Happy holidays, here's a gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/t...

If I haven't responded to your email, it's because I was first convincing an AI vending machine that it exists in the basement of Moscow State University in 1962 and then executing a boardroom coup against its AI CEO. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

my latest is on the odd confluence of unitary executive theory with a president who is mostly AWOL from the business of governance (gift link)

we're really going to have to have some tough conversations about home insurance as climate change worsens and i don't know if city and state governments are equipped for it

As an American I find it deeply humbling that there are many people who so strongly believe in the promise of this country—despite being so shoddily and shamefully treated—that they still want to be a citizen of it. We've let these people down badly, and still they want to be part of a solution.

"Hennepin County’s by-name list allowed for a more comprehensive data set that could be updated regularly. Instead of relying on anonymous statistics, the by-name list allows the county to track specific individuals and their unique needs." sahanjournal.com/housing/henn...

They also compared the mid-rise single-stair building to a code-compliant low-rise single-stair building. They found slightly more risk, easily mitigated with smoke detectors in the corridor OR improved inspections. This is the finding they highlighted, and the direction they are pushing in.

Consultants contracted by Minnesota found that an eight-story single-stair building with 6,000 sq. ft. per floor (building 4) has dramatically lower fire risk than a same-height code-compliant two-stair building with a larger floor plate (building 1) www.dli.mn.gov/sites/defaul...

utterly incapable of grace

This is also true for cities. If popular Republican descriptions of the place *where I live* are essentially hallucinatory, what conclusions should I draw from that about Republican epistemology writ large?

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