I need to get back to Chicago.

This 🧵is worth your time. Great insight.

Include Michigan and it’s a deal.

Worth the click.

The Fred Rogers Production has started uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for free. www.youtube.com/@misterroger...

With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Will you look at the time, it’s old-fashioned o’clock.

dammit YNAB stop screwing with the UI.

This is a really good vid on how Hoboken, NJ achieved vision zero some years ago.

Harry S Truman would like a word.

No special treatment for Space X in the S&P 500! Just announced. Wow. That profitability requirement means it might never get in.

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

Actual lol at “Whiteteenth”.

He’s holding up the Gordie Howe Bridge, but wants to build a tunnel under the Bering Strait to link with that economic powerhouse, Russia. Got it.

June 4. 5 days to A Pox on Fools' pub. date. It's not too late to pre-order! Doing so at your local bookstore (& library!) is a such a powerful message: it tells them that a title has an audience. So, if a weapon against our vaccine apocalypse is of value to you... You know what to do.

Remember when you used to wake up in the morning and not immediately feel crippling anxiety? I miss that.

Pride isn’t about defining ourselves by our sexuality. It’s about not being defined by other people’s fear and hatred of it. #Pride🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

The Flame in Ann Arbor

Man I hope so. I’d even stop talking shit about Ohio (for a little bit).

How does one have more than 4 grandparents?

Only bollards can deliver this much happiness. #WorldBollardAssociation

God-tier NYT correction: Correction (left), original (right) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/n...

I hope it’s a tie, I love both. I was at Selden just last week.

I may be crazy, but I just applied to become an election inspector.

the only depths to which they will not sink are the ones that would give us useful data www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

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lol

On his birthday, we remember René Auberjonois, who was Odo for all 7 seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and directed 8 episodes, guest starred on Enterprise, and played Colonel West in an eventually deleted scene from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. He is very missed.

I took this flying into Detroit

Nadine and the Butterflight of Fancy

the kicker in the nyt’s best 100 restaurants list is pretty special

I'm going to repost this very kind review of A Pox on Fools in @arstechnica.com because my obligations to the tribe of eager scriveners require accelerating self promotion as a book approachs pub date (6/9). My thanks to everyone who has given this book a boost. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

It won’t be long before Mike Pence does a full Bill Kristol.

The only message from Dems around trans issues is this: Why are Republicans scapegoating trans people rather than actually fixing the problems we all face? And btw: they need to point out any idiot can shut down the border—real leaders fix our immigration system-Reps blocked fixes for years

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

The closest Trump gets to Elvis is the strong probability he’ll die on the toilet

I have this book pre-ordered. I’ve read several other books by @tomlevenson.bsky.social and all were very good, so I’m looking forward to reading this one.

🧵 This is a good explainer

🙀 🙀

Lord I want to believe

Seeing more and more videos created by GenZ that have record turntables in the room with them.

This is a great vid on Detroit radio in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Among other people, it discusses The Electrifying Mojo, probably the most influential DJ during that period. Highly recommended, especially if you’re from SE Michigan or southern Ontario, Canada.

Why do people keep crashing their cars into terminals at DTW?

AGAIN???

This seething indictment of a prominent music school teaching students to use generative AI by one of its alumni is really good and very disturbing.

The degree to which this isn't going to happen has never before been seen

This has aged remarkably well.