The underpinning of this nonsense is the idea that “deficits don’t matter,” which is a very bad idea, especially in the aftermath of four years of an administration destabilizing the rules based international economic order and our position at the center of it. (That’s what underwrites the debt).

One of the moments I felt most patriotic in my life was standing on line at the Miracle of Life Barn at the MN State Fair with my friend's daughter, watching as a dozen children with ancestry from all over the world waited to pet a day-old lamb.

A U.S. Army staff sergeant and his wife arrived at his base in Louisiana last week, expecting to begin their life together as newlyweds. The couple checked in at the visitor center, ready to complete the steps for her to move into his home on the base. Within hours, ICE agents detained her.

it's worth noting that the quote they went out of their way to make look stupid was expressing a reasonable point — a restatement of the long-standing official US policy in fact! — and the quote they clean up and sanitize is expressing a deranged threat of war crimes in an illegal conflict

There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such.

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

the rise of the incel and the rise of the strongman are two connected and mutually reinforcing responses to the evils of modernity. new post

I'm biased of course, but I think the extent of this progress will start becoming obvious in the next few years as gaps are filled in and seamless connections between AAA bikeways come online. We're really just at the start of knitting individual corridors together as a network.

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We don't talk enough about how Pete Hegseth's Christian nationalism and revisionist "stab-in-the-back" history is corrupting the US military, as he remakes the Pentagon with all the anger of a frustrated mid-level officer from the glory days of the “GWOT”: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-mythol...

What the fuck was that

I will never understand, and I think I will find it very difficult to forgive, any individual who helped raise this man to power and lower the United States into the gutter. I'm honored only that he hates my state and my neighbors with special fervor. We welcome his hatred, it does us credit.

April is here and so is 30 Days of Biking! 🚲 All you have to do is commit to riding your bike every single day this month — any distance, any reason. Big ride or tiny spin around the block, it all counts. Tag us and use #30DaysOfBiking so we can cheer you on. See you out there, Minnesota! 💚

Nils Lofgren and Tom Morello trading the solo on Purple rain, that’s all it takes to fix me for a minute or two.

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

Not one for theories of everything (other than the housing theory of everything, duh), but I do think "we undermined the material basis for patriarchy without destroying its grip on the collective imagination, thereby driving many people insane" is a sort of skeleton key to most of what's happening.

It's no defense of other social media sites to note that this one has a significant problem with mobs of people who lack basic reading comprehension and who aggressively export the consequences of that deficiency onto others.

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There are cathedrals everywhere

Another important detail is 35% of the arrests were "collateral" rather than targeted. That means these are folks that federal agents swept up at bus stops and sidewalks as they roved the streets. That jibes with anecdotes but doesn't factor for all the "collateral" people caught and released. (3)

Federal officials said in public statements during the surge that they were targeting the "worst of the worst." The new data shows that fewer than a quarter of those arrested in Minnesota had a criminal conviction on their record. The vast majority were arrested for civil immigration violations. (2)

Thanks to a FOIA lawsuit from @deportationdata.org, Minnesota is getting its first credible numbers on arrests during the federal government's surge here this winter. About 3,800 Minnesota residents were arrested. Most from Latin America (only 106 from Somalia). (1)

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...

This is such a good point. One illustrative example: when Japan was trying to gain respect as a regional power in the First Sino-Japanese War, it made a huge show of trying to conform to western expectations regarding conduct of war and diplomacy, which hugely contrasted with the Qing.

100% of the people who claim to be “defending Western civilization” think Western civilization is Christian ethnonationalism

Minimum weight of a Toyota Tacoma over the past 30 years. 1995 2,560 lbs 2000 2,910 lbs 2005 3,140 lbs 2010 3,430 lbs 2015 3,645 lbs 2020 4,075 lbs 2025 4,145 lbs

Hard not to read this and detect a kind of radicalization among the techies that makes me pretty uncomfortable. Either they are all leaving us in the dust or they are all going insane, but regardless neither option seems like it ends well for the rest of us.

This is a paragraph that wouldn’t pass muster in a ninth grade compare and contrast essay where the teacher had specified the students had to include at least one similarity, not just differences.

This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...

Bruce Springsteen performs "Streets of Minneapolis" at the #NoKings rally in St. Paul. Video by Neal Justin.

Walz: We will never leave the side of our Somali Minnesotans. Here's our pledge to you, our Somali Minnesotans, your great grandchildren will still be here when that orange clown is in the dustbin of history.

Walz: Our weather may be a little cool, but our people are warm and we're fierce. Don't ever mistake our kindness for weakness. We demand justice for Renee Good and Alex Pretti. We demand justice for every single person who was hurt or traumatized. We will never forget what they did

Walz: Welcome to the freest state in the nation—a state where you love who you choose to love, a state where you make your own healthcare decisions, a state where you worship—or not—according to your own beliefs, and maybe most importantly, a state where everyone belongs.

🫡 Star of the North

My baby has been biking for over a year as of today 🥹 Glad to live in a place that has all ages all abilities cycling facilities. We still have a ways to go, but we appreciate what Minneapolis has done so far.

good study design from the New York Fed on the effects of gambling legalization on credit delinquencies they find the effects are ~double among people under 40 libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/03/spor...

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

1/ It's not just that unilaterally paying TSA agents is illegal. It's that Trump has now repeatedly undermined the core of the congressional power of the purse. He's not spending money that has been appropriated by law (impoundments) and he's spending money that has not been appropriated.

I wrote about three great tricks for saving money on gas. See if you can guess what they are. www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...

I wrote an article for @theatlantic.com on the legacy of Paul Ehrlich, who died last week, and his legacy of scarcity politics www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Minnesota* Star Tribune is No. 7! pressgazette.co.uk/north-americ...

One of my first screen printing on paper projects and still one of my favorites

It's always been perplexing to me why OpenAI in particular was deploying this incredible tech to perform such low-value tasks with such poor-quality output. Now we may know—they were just plain stupid! It would be extremely heartening if the market for slop machines was fundamentally unprofitable.

Why I got out of the gambling business: defector.com/why-i-got-ou...

the 'elite centrist' viewpoint is as esoteric and narrow in appeal as the stereotyped critical social justice viewpoint it defines itself in opposition to; it fails in the marketplace and has to be subsidized by billionaires who imagine it to have either utility or intellectual significance

President Trump "is a consummate narcissist, and he is, without question, the most solipsistic person ever to occupy the Oval Office," our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes. "Over his decades on the public stage, we have seen little to no evidence that he believes in the existence of other minds."

i think writers would be well served by finding actual people of influence who hold the views they want to contest, and then contest them head on.