Latest essay from my partner Bruce.

it's especially funny because demand for air conditioning is highest when solar irradiation is at its most intense and you know what also happens when solar irradiation is at its most intense? solar panel go brr

If someone from the FBI visits you about your algae posts the correct thing to do is to say you won’t talk with them. Please do not talk to the FBI. Like, at all. They have no sense of humor and they will take your stupid joke and charge you with lying to an agent.

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

Head Minneapolis precinct election judge here: Relevant section of the Minneapolis elections manual. Would note ICE agents ARE NOT police. Will keep you posted on our training this year about what to do in this situation, but I would ask them to leave and have other judges call head office.

Hennepin County sheriff conceals bodycam footage by calling officers ‘undercover’ even though they wear vests that say "sheriff," conduct traffic stops and sign criminal complaints with their names. My latest: minnesotareformer.com/2026/06/25/h...

Hope we’re getting extra pollworker training this year on turning away federal agents from the site.

It sort of makes me very irritated that Thiel also wants to spout off about religion and it's like, no, both Catholic theology and cancer are serious areas of scholarship, and YOU'RE A BILLIONAIRE, you could command the finest tutors in the world but instead you just wanna be a pundit

I am going to spend the next week as an adult chaperone at scout camp, eating what the scouts cook, so tonight for dinner to make up for six days of canned fruit cocktail and the shredded lettuce part of a walking taco I made MASSIVE SALAD the chicken-cabbage-cuke-fishsauce-lime-basil-mint kind

But I’ve been planning for this since I was eight years old and read it in a magazine

Hello fellow Americans! This right here is what you call a cult!

Reading this thread I simply cannot fathom the speed with which some scholars *resign* their vocation the moment the option to defer to AI arises. I fought many years for the privilege to write and teach. Even if AI *could* do my job (it can’t) they will have to pry it from my cold dead hands

The tree of liberty must occasionally be watered with phosphates

My great grandchild: grand papa, how did you celebrate the semiquincentennial? Me (92 years old): well, mostly by learning the chemical processes involving pool painting and the phosphate cycles of algae blooms

historians are divided on whether trump was actually a real person, or the stories of a large series of petty tyrants over a period of perhaps 100 years whose stories got merged and blended together back when AI was unsophisticated and new

We are so spoiled rotten living here in Minnesota. Imagine not being able to just bike around the lake. Or the other lake. Or the other lake. Or the other lake. Or the other lake. Or the other lake. Or the other lake

I’m sorry did Vance just say that working class folks are aggressive and uncharitable

Am I wrong in thinking that the best possible outcome is that Trump throws Vance under a bus and makes him politically untouchable just prior to vacating office (one way or another)

Legit question for rural Aeaeans - How do I kill the 30-50 feral hogs that run into my yard within 3-5 mins while my small nymphs play?

tbf, I am pretty bad at baseball but I *did* serve as statistician/scorekeeper for the eighth grade girls softball team, which (a) on brand and (b) was a lot more fun for everyone than me playing would have been

RFK Jr: Kids with autism will never hold a job. They'll never play baseball. They'll never write a poem. They'll never go out on a date.

The achievement of Minnesotans is to set up a massive, coordinated, LEGAL system of observation intended to monitor the movement and activity of hidden federal agents in our communities. The feds, thwarted in their ambition to be secret police, despise this, and want to de facto criminalize it.

Hey, who did the spraying? Weird to leave that out

In March of 1854 Joshua Glover was arrested in Racine Wisconsin because he had escaped slavery in Missouri. Feds participating in arresting him alongside his master. Sconnies said fuck that and Sherman Booth went out on the town raising a group of 5,000 to break Glover out.

As the government raids “antifa groups” in Minneapolis with the SAME charges levied against myself and the rest of the Broadview Six, we need to be asking how they got this indictment. And as charges (hopefully) get dropped, we must remember the process is the punishment.

now the real question, is "with a gun" describing the agent or the protester? I feel like without context that quote could be either..

DOJ announces list of Minnesotans who will never pay for their own drinks again

Bookmarking this entire thread as a source of future bedtime snack ideas

Each and every death is in fact one count of premeditated first degree murder. Not only were they killed by Trump's orders without due process, the crimes they were accused of do not carry the death penalty. Trump ordered the murders, and all that assisted are complicit. bsky.app/profile/theb...

Minnesotans’ holding the line, our protests peaceful and focused, constitutional observers & rapid responders disciplined and trained, the work of our army of volunteer lawyers—all that was what made the admin too uneasy to invoke the Insurrection Act/suspend habeas. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...

a) Nutella b) Anything dyed blue

I truly could not ask for a clearer example of what Republicans mean when they talk about “Judeo-Christian values.”

Interview w /the human behind NYTConnections: “My intention is to not make people mad. I love people, but I also love being bad…. This is the most adorable way to be bad. I love being a little bad by making a puzzle game that people will be a little frustrated by.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

I regret I do not remember title or author, but I was absolutely obsessed with an old used book I had that told the life story of an ordinary female North American gray squirrel. I think this is do-able.

To anyone out there who suggests that the “Freedom 250” UFC fight on the White House lawn is supposedly some celebration of America and that it’s wrong to not support it, let me point out the obvious. Today is not America’s birthday. That’s in July. Today is the wannabe dictator’s 80th birthday.

This is so damn true and also makes me wish once again that more American politicians would embrace the multicultural joy of the USA, especially the cities. It's fucking great and it's every bit as "Real America" as any rural small town

THIS

It's incredible that the entire panic over "ultra-processed foods" is based on the results of just *five* RCTs, four of which were less than three weeks long. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A couple of months ago, I stopped by a taproom in Wisconsin. A single bottle of Dom Perignon was sitting on a shelf behind the counter. They do not appear to otherwise sell wines… at least not anything expensive. That was a very specific bottle sitting at the ready in small-town Wisconsin.

A historic African-American Catholic parish once home to Homer Plessy, A. P. Tureaud, and Venerable Henriette DeLille has returned to in-church worship after successful fundraising and repair efforts to address catastrophic roof and wall damage.

Normalize describing the details of the scammer who almost scammed you! Protect others and reveal the schemes to disarm them.

Cheer them on, Minnesota folks.

I am not a sports watcher but I dearly love the way a whole city gets hyped up and full of love when their team is heading toward a championship. It’s so wholesome and adorable and transcends the Business Machine Of Sport somehow

We don’t usually see each other’s headers. Here’s mine. QT with yours

I am maybe built different but I would be ashamed to show my face in public if I were caught on live tv saying anything close to what they’re all saying about Somalis

Reminder: calling the legal observers "protesters" is doing the propagandist's work for them. Renee Good was not protesting. She and her wife were there as constitutional observers. So was Alex Pretti. They were not engaged in protest - they were legally documenting crimes as they happened.

this really stuck out to me, too.

"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

This thread belongs on the shelf next to Rice Truck Saga

If for whatever reason you used to be a real piece of shit, and now you look back on that period of your life with regrets, that is good and laudable, and also, there might be some jobs that you shouldn't have. I do not find this to be especially complicated.