I hadn't realized that Metro-North had also ordered a bunch of Siemens Charger locomotives, with dual-mode capability for use with third-rail power Funny how difficult it still is for North American trains to match the roof height between locos and passenger cars, though. youtu.be/QXRw5ncTGzw

A nexus of Midwest Mexican food. I believe that is actually the Taco John's headquarters now. There is not actually a Taco John's restaurant anywhere nearby.

Chimichanga was decent but they were full up when I showed up so I ate at the bar and I didn't feel like trying to get a fried ice cream in that situation.

The policy being debated, which I think the mayor is likely to veto, is temporarily adding an extra 30 days notice (60 total) on evictions thru the summer, after which it will revert to existing 30. Seems like an especially small gesture considering the magnitude of what people have been through.

Absolutely beautiful out this evening

This is the Democratic Mayor of Minneapolis who told ICE to “get the fuck out of our city.” People from the community are having an event to plead with him not to veto legislation that would pause evictions.

I didn't realize they had Claire's in the UK www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7C9...

NEW MAP MEN VIDEO!!!!! 🗺️ ...in which Mark and I play another game of GeoGuessr travelling to the real places. Will Mark get his revenge? Share and enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tO2...

3/9/26 6:50am delivery of more Chevy Tahoes to the Whipple Federal Building.

No healthcare for many, but the Chevy Tahoes are fucking endless.

3 ICE vehicles were in a parking lot of a Columbia Heights restaurant on Central Ave this afternoon and there was a potential ICE vehicle by Pillsbury at pick up today. A lot of politicians think it’s time to move on, but how can we move on when this isn’t even over.

I'd say we need his modern equivalent, but that would mean I entertain the delusion the current legislative branch would do anything.

Excited for future CEOs Tony and Toné

Dating profile: "I am still angling for that mega bass that got away" She was talking about fishing

For sale. Marco's shoes. Size 11. Big shoes for Little Marco. Bigger than you'd think. I would have guessed 10. You go with 10, right? Round number, some say the roundest. 10 commandments, 10 toes, so many things come in 10, but you can't talk about that. They won't report that.

There’s… a lot going on in this 1918 poster announcing the establishment of Daylight Saving Time…

I feel like Metro Transit is doing a lot of fundamental things right, but the glaring neglect of light rail speed and headways is biting them in the butt big time.

RELATED: Heard last week from several people that the feds got a huge shipment of unmarked cars at Whipple, bigger than shipments even at the peak of Metro Surge. What gives? Doubling down? Replacing rentals? Or did someone order a bunch of cars and now they're stuck with them?

"This probably sounds like nightmare fuel to many, but to wealthy VCs and AI and crypto entrepreneurs it’s the next gold rush." is the quote of our time

Bill Kurtis will be retiring from weekly scorekeeper and announcer duties on Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! after the May 23rd show, but still plans to fill in from time to time www.instagram.com/p/DVq1BkQEZn1/

A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year

FYI the 1970s oil crisis was the impetus for Copenhagen turning into a cycling city

Great day to watch this movie and think about the long legacy of AMC

I genuinely believe we’d be in a much different place today. If every single day of any Trump presidency there has been a new impeachment filed with all Democrats voting for at every opportunity. Even if there had never been a republican defection it would frame things far more accurately.

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Per @heatmap.news newsletter, QCells restarted construction on their solar panel factory in Georgia. By the end of the year, it could be making 3.3 GW of panels, or the equivalent of 10% of what the US installed last year.

"the Haters" my books cartoon for this week's @theguardian.com

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Put me in the yes and no camp?

John Oliver on right wing grifter, "brain" behind the "censorship industrial complex" and USAID destroyer, Mike Benz: "a chronically online lunatic" www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU8S...

“At some point, the family said, they lost Naqvi's location that was being shared from her phone. Relatives said federal agents continued to tell them that Naqvi was not in custody, despite her location previously showing her at the Broadview Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.”

Good news & bad news: I know folks had heard the CVS was definitely coming down tomorrow, but our office just got word from the contractor that it will be next Monday, 03/16. It is coming down, and soon!! But for those who had parties planned for tomorrow, I’m sorry to say it’ll be one more week.

A bit of room left to get to the inflation-adjusted historic high of around $208/barrel (nominal price at the time about $140/bbl) www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-o...

Hmm. A new Wikipedia article was recently added for Cities Church, and a factoid showed up in the "Did you know" section of the home page

set your clocks back again, we fucked up

Everything the US moves around needs diesel fuel to power the trucks, trains, & boats: food, goods, crops, commodities, everything. Oil products powers ~90% of US transport. It's why we should electrify transport as a national security imperative: to reduce the risk of price shocks to the economy.

Analysis of the design and usage of a plaza in Pamplona, Spain. I'm mostly jealous of having any bench space at all youtu.be/pt_MlLioKUU

The Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks will play five games as the Woodchippers, a tribute to the 30th anniversary of Carl Showalter’s grizzly death. Read about it on @sportslogos.net at news.sportslogos.net/2026/03/08/f...

[screaming underwaterly]

The Props to History guy (Michael Corrie) is trying to get a short film going using practical effects, along the lines of Naked Gun or Airplane, and to use that to jumpstart the languishing industry in LA. Modest $28k goal to start with youtu.be/WoREBxdQTuw

Note that these incidents occurred *after* Waymo did a recall to ensure its vehicles wouldn't keep passing stopped school buses. The company doesn't seem to know how to fix this.

in the wake of the bounty hunters with fake plumbing decals, we’ve discovered that public works also uses decals that look temporary and fake on their rented fleet vehicles 😭

it's like there's a war crimes bingo card somewhere

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

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The best time to electrify freight railroads was 50 years ago. The second best time is now.