Not too shabby for sunset.

A trough-size sparkling peach black iced tea won’t fix everything about this shithole, but it’s punching above its weight class today.

don’t forget to experience joy everybody

Anyway, the Board of Regent's e-mail address is [email protected]. If you're connected to UT, they should hear from you. I just sent my e-mail.

I know it's Texas, and we left bc I had a pretty solid idea of what was coming down the pike, but this is still a brutal kick in the gut to see the state's flagship university and my alma mater "honored" and "enthusiastic" to cement its place in history as a fascist collaborator.

People running a police state shocked to learn people hate the police

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

I have no doubt that this guy’s bloodlust is very real, but my god what a fucking loser.

I once spent an entire college semester exploring various conceptualizations of the sublime, and now I just go on a daily ramble. Caught two great blue herons on a fly-by, soaring past a trumpeter swan, killdeer, Canadian geese, and mallards. #morningwalk

meanwhile at the Riyadh Comedy Festival

If I’m running messaging, the word on the street is that Democrats are refusing to fund a dictatorship. Either Article 1 means something or nobody gets anything.

lmao this bitch

Didn’t even catch this at the time. This is so turkeycore.

What a fire hose of shit today. Here’s a wild turkey from my morning walk today. Not pictured: the ring necked pheasant that wouldn’t shut up and which sounded like a rusty screen door slamming on an old squeaky toy repeatedly. #birdtok #morningwalk #minneapolis

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.* *lmao

Trumpeter swan at the watering hole this morning. Interestingly, NA’s largest native waterfowl & hunted to extinction in MN by the 1880s. By the 1930s, only 60ish remained at a Montana refuge. Due to conservation efforts, the est MN pop is now > 50K. #BirdTok #MorningWalk #Minneapolis

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

You could give this man an existential crisis by showing him the bottom half of a muppet

How many different ways do Dem politicians have of saying “I am credulous and not very good at my job, and so these people hoodwinked me again”?

I'm certainly willing to entertain the idea

can't even be struck by lightning and killed because of woke

Des Moines is the semi-liberal bastion in Des Moines, and the Des Moines Public Schools are one of the particular bugbears for the Iowa GOP. This is absolutely a specific political attack on the DMPS, on the African community in Des Moines, and on the most diverse city in the state.

A basic point, but the reason you go after flawed actors like Comey is to habituate people to the abuse of prosecutorial authority, so that when more serious figures are targeted the abuse of authority feels routine.

Pete Hegseth is planning a military coup in the right way by Ezra Klein

There’s a lot of bad, scary stuff out in the world. But there’s also still this: a perfect fall morning at the local watering hole before everyone heads south for the winter. #BirdTok #MorningWalk #Minneapolis

Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth* A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel” Person watching on tv: well if they say so

Ethical use of ChatGPT.

We DEFINITELY should get quaaludes back if we’re going to have to deal with this fucking bullshit all the time

Another reason the immediate elite capitulation is so aggravating.

Red shouldered hawk having some num nums this morning.

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

One thing I’ve idly wondered for the last nearly 10 years is how many of these pundits, CNN/MSNBC hosts, etc have bought golden visas elsewhere so they can parachute out when the time comes.

This is what fascist scholars mean when they say "don't give them an inch."

This great blue heron hangs out in the same spot pretty much every day very close to the trail. I suppose it’ll start its southward migration soon, but what a great delight to see my friend so often in the meantime.

If we keep trundling along this way, Jeffries will have plenty of time to reflect on this decision from a camp for political dissidents. Or at least *some* time given that authoritarian regimes historically haven't been too hype about keeping opposition figureheads around. A little time, at least.

This was delightful.

just eat the bay leaf. nothing matters.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

This week wasn’t all bad news. I went to Austin, and now I’m back in Minneapolis with 40 fresh tortillas in my suitcase. Small joys. 🤘

Ah. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move | US universities | The Guardian

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

Every centrist hagiographer: he said some very important stuff Everyone: oh, like what? Every centrist hagiographer: very important things Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said? Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no

Ezra Klein is really out here making it seem like whiteness is some intellectually crippling shit.

Questioner: “So, if you had a daughter and she was 10 and she got raped, and she was gonna give birth, and she would gonna give birth, would you want her to go through that and carry her baby?" Kirk: “The answer is yes, the baby would be delivered.” www.news18.com/world/charli...

If liberals like Ezra are saying that someone who called for Gay people to be stoned, trans people to be lynched, Black people to accept police violence and women to obey did politics "the right way", that is in some respects more alarming that the bloviation of the far right. Bend that knee, Ezra.

Dems rushing to venerate a man who made his life’s work bringing his vile views to fruition highlights just how complicit they’ve been in legitimizing right wing extremism all along. Guarantee many people had no idea who he was, but now Dems are holding him up as someone worthy of our grief.

When the group chat is suspiciously silent on yesterday’s events