oh good “This has been out of control for weeks, clearly,” said Atul Gawande, a former senior official at USAID. “Speed is everything. From when the first case happens is critical.” He said that the Trump administration’s closure of USAID had already impeded the response to the outbreak.

I would be absolutely livid; I hope the grads remember this when they start getting their first fundraising letters in a week or two ...

wish colleges understood that students can see you when you do shit like this. they know they’re being exploited. college should be a place where they don’t feel like that.

the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will typing it out barely feels real

ICE agent charged in shooting of man in north Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Omg the auto captions for my lecture #medievalsky

One only needs look at the current administration to see this in action www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

This should be the theme song of the 2026 mid-terms

Wilma Agustiano (BA, Media and Information, summa cum laude) featured student speaker at the afternoon UMN College of Liberal Arts commencement ceremony, concluded her remarks by saying as a student from Indonesia, she never felt more love from & for Mpls than this year during the ICE occupation 🎓

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

If you make plans today, make sure they include patience and grace. Make sure they include a haunted seashore, historic theater filled with dark secrets, or sword library brimming with knowledge and power.

Whether it's Democrats nominating the son of a Black Kenyan to be president or Republicans being bankrolled by white South Africans nostalgic for apartheid, both parties have notable ties to Africa.

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover and Grogu

buffy season 1 episode 8 is about a demon that gets scanned into the internet from a medieval manuscript and it's basically about ai psychosis

Yes today is the 42nd anniversary of the release of "When Doves Cry" on a 7" single. But it's ALSO the anniversary of "17 Days," the b-side track, which is the first release to carry a credit to Prince and the Revolution. (The A side of the single is credited to Prince only, but the LP credits band)

Lupita for James Bond. Let's fucking go.

My favorite Miles Davis track, and now also my favorite Miles Davis outfit; the man could blow a horn and wear a shirt and scarf like nobody else

Bumpin' that youtu.be/53g1RxfbrcA?...

Screaming at this Donna Summer, Kenny Rogers run through of the hits of the day. Summer does Gloria Gaynor better than Gloria Gaynor. And that 1980 hair, love love love... And Rogers' attempt to mimic Michael McDonald's voice - lol! www.youtube.com/watch?v=R69_...

Sadly, I never saw the Clash, but I did catch Ipso Facto in about 1988 and they were pretty great

listen, the only thing I have to say about the Odyssey is that these fucking asshole right-wing chuds don't fucking own history or literature. their racism and bigotry should be met with scorn and shame. read, instead, as James Baldwin (from an interview in 1963):

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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma: Hannah Einbinder says her new slasher film is an 'ode to trans sapphic sex' www.out.com/celebs/h... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Meanwhile in Minneapolis, a similar campaign saw the company that provided cement blockades to Whipple remove them because the company chose not to renew their contract.

i don’t take myself seriously, so my first urge is to make fun of the fact that i made the Time100 Philanthropy list. but i really am honored. not just to be on a fancy list (w/my buds Messi and Shakira) and have my work seen, but to have gotten to help people in the place i love so much

how it started / how it’s going

@elliottpayne.org how do we shut this down?

@aurinmpls.bsky.social - please be a strong "NO" on this. Our neighborhood gets enough state patrol helicopter traffic, we don't need MPD drones buzzing our houses, too.

We are thrilled to have two of our favorite people with us today to discuss one of our favorite genres! Ali Hazelwood and Adriana Herrera, the masterminds behind the AH2 Kickstarter of Historical Trailblazers are here to talk about all the ways historical romance is unmatched!

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

Don't mess with band and theater kids; they have creative ideas and zero mercy for overweening authority.

unfortunately, kim il sung's clothes hang a lot better

Local woman looking forward to 23 days between harsh winter and uncontrollable wildfires

Children agree not to get abducted after 8 PM so Amber Alert doesn’t wake anyone up

i have yet to see a single cis person say something about the fact that the government just designated trans people a terrorist group and threatened to kill all of us.

#2026Reading: "The Cleft" by Paul Tabori. I did not dig this attempt at satire from 1969. But for $1, I guess I can't complain too much. www.michael-hartford.com/2026-reads-t...

Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word? Right now my horror novel BEDFELLOW is on sale for $1.99 on Kindle and Bookshop. I have no idea how long the sale will last. www.amazon.com/Bedfellow-Je... bookshop.org/p/books/bedf...

📱| Minneapolis, Minnesota (2019) Help nominated Minneapolis for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize: www.mnominate.org

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this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Friends, please speak with a doctor if you spend more than 3 nights per week covered in moss, floating through the forest, whispering dead languages, and being the reason a forest is considered haunted.

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

Found my new side hustle. I will provide my own flannel shirt and will recommend where to source your Hamm’s.

3/ Videos show how immigration agents have used these weapons: at one point, officers hurl tear gas canisters at protesters without apparent provocation. Then, with the street flooded in white smoke, a CBP agent shoots pepper balls before muttering “Fuck yeah,” and “Woo!”

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

When Rubio abruptly halted foreign aid last year, cleanup crews in Vietnam were forced to abandon one of the largest chemical spills in the world for weeks. Left exposed: open pits of soil contaminated with dioxin, the deadly byproduct of Agent Orange. From Pulitzer finalist “The End of Aid”:

Simply enraging. We’re surrendering to the worst people without even putting up a fight.