Ant's energy in the 4th quarter tonight:

There are people in Dilley, Texas who get up every morning, kiss their loved ones goodbye, and go off to their job of terrorizing incarcerated grade schoolers.

Alright, a real basketball game again. Let's fuckin' go.

Stuck between "Watch the new episode of Shrinking with my wife when she gets home" or "Timberwolves game on the TV and NBA TV trade deadline coverage on the computer."

Given Le's statement in the transcript that she was actively trying to resign, this seems to be the rare "You can't quit; we're firing you!" www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Oh, thank your preference deity, the kid was running again today. Maybe things are looking up in the world.

Realizing I may be late to the party on this, but I just had my first "Who's on first?" moment trying to quickly read and parse a headline about Mayor Her. (I'm not proud of it, but it took me a couple re-reads to process "Her" as a name instead of a posessive pronoun.)

If you thought "This job sucks, please hold me in contempt" was wild, try reading the next 10 pages of the transcript. Just beggars belief.

My life force is being sucked away by the federal occupation of the state I call home. On the other hand it's being replenished by jokes about how Mike Conley just got dealt a second time in 24 hours and is now potentially eligible to once again be a Timberwolf by this time tomorrow.

Replace “terrible leaders” with “extractive owners,” but journalism chasing ever increasing revenue is a classic case of “When a metric becomes a goal, it ceases to be a useful metric.” Revenues don’t correlate enough with journalistic quality and those with “love of the game” get locked out.

OH at lunch: “You know why I use ChatGPT [over Copilot]? Because it’s easier to type in.” Reader, this was not about the interface; this was about the length of the respective URLs. There is not a sigh deep enough.

Ted, buddy, I don't think there's a way that I can be any clearer in my response to this question, one that I find to be fundamentally repugnant for an elected official to even consider, much less say out loud, into a microphone, on camera, in an official capacity: No. Fuck no, even. Get bent.

Meanwhile, Homan this morning, per AP report: "Was it a perfect operation? No. No... I don’t think anybody, purposely, didn’t do something they should have done." Bold words for the head of an agency that serially lies about kidnapping and killing citizens. apnews.com/article/immi...

An instructional course on how to properly filter and narrow down your search for new employment on the internet called Maslow's Hierarchy of Postings on Indeed.

Too bad "80, 90, 75, 68" is almost all numbers too high for people to enter the lottery. Was kinda hoping this could be a repeat of the time that guy in Queens won with Bernie Madoff's prison number.

Uh, oh. Second day in a row of this kid just kinda power walking it down the street.

Wolves now under the first apron by a couple million. Pick swap with DET means MIN consider the salary dump as their upside. This has to be angling for Giannis or Harden and taking a win-now stance. Question is what other pieces go in *that* trade.

Can confirm. I learned this at the ripe old age of [checks notes] 11 years old, taking rifle shooting merit badge in my first year at Boy Scouts summer camp.

Kid Rock To Lead Patriotic Alternative Super Bowl Halftime Show Exploring Classic American Themes Like Trucks, Chaw, Killing Protestors, Roadhead From Jailbait, Human Biodiversity

I used to host bar trivia. Law says employer has to give time off to caucus, but if I didn't work, that might bother the client (who could end the contract) and I also would be skipping out on income. Now that I have time, I'm also just so turned off by the reality the one time I went.

I went to caucus precisely once. Not enough conveners, so got roomed with another precinct. A guy brought a resolution that the DFL party platform not describe Gaza as a genocide, because genocide is what happened in the holocaust and we can't cheapen the word. Not an exaggeration. (1/2)

The one kid in my neighborhood who *always* runs home full sprint from the bus stop was merely walking kinda quickly today. An ill omen for our times.

Actually taking a lunch break and disconnecting for an hour today because I'm targeting to review this eARC in two weeks ("Steel Gods" by Richard Swan) and I've read maybe 40 pages in the three weeks I've already had it (not because it's bad, but because... [gestures broadly]).

Time for electeds to start coordinating so that *somebody* is in there on an oversight visit 24/7.

Just gonna throw out there that being the subject of an Isaac Chotiner interview is just the print version of appearing on All Gas No Brakes/Channel 5. They just sit there and let you ramble and make fun of you to your face in ways that go over your head.

Rental is a small lot next to two body shops. Offered me a Corolla Cross and I didn't fit. Only other option they offered was a white F-150 with a crew cab and out-of-state fleet plates. 🙃 Exact opposite of the "don't look like an ICE agent" I was hoping for, but at least I have something to drive.

There are people out there still pretending it’s an existential crisis that conservatives on college campuses occasionally feel pressured to stfu.

one of the key motions of protest is that it places the adversary in zugzwang: either they abide the protest, and look weak, or attack the protest, and look cruel

Ex’s entire family is short. Her mom once told me about telling an ER nurse that she’s 4’ 11 3/4” and nurse said “well give you benefit of the doubt.” Cue doctor audibly laughing about the chart saying 4’12”.

I don't necessarily have any faith that it will go anywhere, but I absolutely think that this is what the moment calls for.

How I imagine it in my head: Falvey: "I would generally like to be in the business of baseball." Twins: "We would despertely prefer not to be in the business of baseball." Falvey: "So how about you cut a little more salary and let me go?" Twins: "... done."

Related: Felt weird buying a new phone a few months ago and cutting off the (clearly trainee) sales guy launching into a pitch about AI features to explain that I'm buying my phone in spite of them, not because of them, and that I was saying it as someone working with machine learning at my day job.

"Legal, ethical, moral, you're on camera... but other than that? It's what we do." The implication is clear: when they're not on camera, they feel no obligation to do anything they feel is legal, ethical, or moral. They *know* that what they're doing is wrong, and have pep talks about it.

Shit, look around enough and I bet that we can find video of this SUV being used in the country's largest ever human trafficking operation just 11 days before being brutally assaulted by a tennis shoe.

BREAKING: tautologies are tautological.

Really driving home that the same tactics and mindset US forces used in the GWOT are now being used at home. Unfortunately this probably means the same (lack of) strategy. Congrat's, y'all, we're now a presidency-defining quagmire with no politically comfortable off-ramp!

Even Playboy is advertising their reporting on ICE in Minnesota, covering Smitten Kitten's aid work. I went to check and sure enough the hompage was, in order: - Miss January - "The Science of Bodybuilding and Boner Pills" - "The Sluts Will Save Us: The Minneapolis Sex Shop Resisting ICE."

REAKING: A federal judge in Minnesota has barred the Trump administration from arresting / detaining the state's 5,600 refugees while they await lawful permanent resident status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Tighten rules on warrants? Body cameras? HOW ABOUT A SIGNED JUDICIAL WARRANT FOR EVERYTHING! HOW ABOUT THEY LEAVE MINNESOTA AND NEVER CARRY OUT ANYTHING AKIN TO MINNESOTA IN ANY OTHER STATE. I DON'T WANT BODY CAMERA FOOTAGE OF THE ATROCITIES I WANT THEM TO STOP. I AM SO FUCKING FURIOUS!!!!

Been having a lot of talks over the last few weeks with a lot of people I know outside of this site that even well-intentioned misinformation is still harmful. This whole thing yesterday was a perfect example.

For reference, Blatter: - Had to step down as president of FIFA after the US DOJ and FBI got a bunch of FIFA officials on a RICO case - Oversaw the awarding of the 2018 World Cup to Russia and 2022 to Qatar When this guy says "You're too corrupt and evil," we should listen to the expert.

Jesse Ventura (and I can't believe I finally get to use this cliché wording for somebody actually of his professional background) off the top rope.

Can't wait for another round of self-righteous hand-winging by conservatives who only listened to the chorus, and never the verses, or "Born in the USA."

If the MPD won't intervene as it's been reported they were instructed to, maybe 311 can really ramp up towing vehicles illegally parked in bike lanes? 🤔

This administration only understands force as power and fundamentally doesn't understand how soft power works and serves the nat'l interest. Too many voters were so baffled with chess that they elected to send a tic-tac-toe enthusiast to a tournament and lie about winning without knowing the rules.

Not me personally perceiving and identifying the dual state model occurring in realtime on my own social media account. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_st...

Seeing a mutual from outside the Twin Cities like a post and suddenly remembering that I actually follow people and have my own feed that isn't the "Minneapolis/St. Paul" feed. Really scoring some anxiety/doomscroll own-goals on myself lately by simply forgetting to sometimes look at "Following." 😶

Manslaughter Honked At

Grander horrors certainly persist outside my doors, but my personal horror this morning has been having issues with my espresso machine and then finding a random bit of wire in the basket when I tried to grind a new dose. Really hoping that wire didn't come out of my weeks-old grinder.