This is so true

I’ve loved/love revisiting science as an adult. There are so many talented writers who make it so accessible. I wish schools would take note. Learning, not memorizing, is where you create people who are curious and ask questions the rest of their lives.

I really love the idea of Too Good to Go, but so few restaurants local to me participate. There are much more in the cities, but the drive defeats the purpose of sustainability.

There have been a lot of pictures taken the last year. We are looking at what photos will be accompanying what our grandkids will be studying in school.

This would be fantastic.

Definitely check out Peculiar Book Club, lots of great authors, books, and people in general.

I don’t understand why headlines are saying ICE has left MN. They’ve entrenched themselves and are continuing their operations just with less visibility and lower volume. It’s still ongoing.

I can always tell when my data has been sold. Huge uptick in spam calls and emails. Our country is so far behind in consumer protections. The EU isn’t perfect either but they’re far more aggressive in protecting their consumers.

If you’re into Icelandic crime fiction, definitely check this out.

Bruce Springsteen apparently can’t get enough of the Twin Cities. Before he kicks off his tour in Minneapolis, he’ll perform at the No Kings rally on Saturday at the Minnesota Capitol in St. Paul.

One thing I think about every once in a while when I’m reading is that this is the closest I will ever be to being in someone else’s mind. It’s wild.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Nuclear safety, on Trumpism. What could possibly go wrong. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Either Flowers in the Attic or The Stand. I learned a lot about the world real quick.

I am 1000% for this. Also banning them from becoming lobbyists post tenure. Big dreams that are very unlikely to happen though. They’re not giving up their cash cows.

I would want to be an angel investor and invest in as many underrepresented small businesses as I could.

The Covid-19 pandemic’s early death toll was much higher than the official US count, according to a new study that spotlights dramatic disparities in the uncounted deaths. https://cnn.it/3NtbZYM

What an amazing politician.

truly believe that it’s unhealthy to have a take on every single topic. It’s Good Actually for there to be discourse that you are not informed on

Seeing as it's the season, here is a selection of Irish writers to check out because why not: Catriona Shine Paschal O'Loughlin Anakana Schofield Adrian Duncan Keith Ridgeway Lyn Buckle Madeleine D'Arcy Caitriona Lally

Please read this important work. I tried to get at the larger issue in an essay called "Oligarchical Corridor." snyder.substack.com/p/the-oligar...

Wow it’s almost like there’s an appetite for people to stand up to the administration and not capitulate your morales. Cough. Cough.

In case anyone needs a palate cleanser… the fish doorbell is live again visdeurbel.nl/en/

I have seen very few movies this year so I can't really judge the oscars, but one of the movies I did see was Sinners, and its portrayal of the Jim Crow economy is the film's driving force, even more than its supernatural elements www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Delta swore to its employees and unions that it was not transporting deportees this way.

Been difficult to find time to really sit down and read lately but finally was able to get a few books read this week. ohwherewillwegoadventuresthroughbooks.wordpress.com/2026/03/16/1...

Every time this discourse comes up I point out that it’s only a concern for a) racists and b) people who believe that economic growth must be endlessly exponential in order for society to survive, ie neoliberal capitalism

The Swiss have broken with neutrality for the first time in 400 years the last few weeks. Nobody but Nero and his cronies want this.

"As of earlier this week, the tornado mapping contract still had not been renewed..." www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/p...

My humanity is the one thing they cannot take from me through legislation, through force, through fear. It belongs to me. And I will not surrender it, not even to my own rage, not even in the name of the people we have lost. I will not let them take that too.

Pretty disappointing the new Buffy got nixed. With 90s-2000s nostalgia as high as it is, would have drawn a ton of viewers.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

A lot of us in MN have been feeling this way, but it’s also lacking how at the beginning in March 2020 many of us felt like we were in it together. This year, we know there are people who do not care about their neighbors or the wellbeing of others.

I’ve been seeing reports that people are not reading as much nonfiction and here I am devouring it. I’ve been preferring it to fiction right now and of course all the library holds I am able to check out are fiction. Still good but definitely going down the nonfiction path right now.

One thing that’s been on my mind since seeing images of the oil burning in Iran is, if ground troops are sent… they’ll be breathing that air. Burn pits but on steroids. To be clear, nobody should have to breath what is in the air there right now, but now we’ll have another generation of men and …

Whoa. This is big. "The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

I had a friend who at one point told me we weren’t going to have a conversation about who we each were voting for because we wouldn’t change each others minds and they had to vote for who was best for the troops. I think about that conversation daily.

Am I exhausted and should be sleeping? Yes. Am I binge watching The Pitt instead of sleeping? Also yes.

1/ On yesterday’s @lastweektonight.com about USAID, John Oliver cited several of our investigations. First up was our reporting about how DOGE operatives had arbitrarily cut aid programs, in some cases by literally clicking through a spreadsheet: propub.li/4cCsSKP

My mom sewed what she could and my parents relied heavily on my grandparents. My grandparents canned everything you can think of and most of our meat came from what my dad hunted and fished, and produce from what he foraged or grew. Sometimes he’d buy meat direct from farmers.

This thread is dead on. My mom didn’t work when I was a kid (couldn’t afford to; she had seven kids) but she did every home repair she could manage, never bought premade food, we wore hand me downs and rarely had ”new” clothes, AND…

If we can agree on any one thing in 2026 can we please agree to just stop changing the time after this last time? There’s no purpose to it. Let’s just all agree to stop.

'...exposed UK museums and universities as “imperial charnel houses where the bones of Indigenous peoples torn from Britain’s empire in the past, with little or no regard to the spiritual sensibilities of its people, continue to be retained to this day in circumstances that beggar belief”.'

Finally finished my timelapse of the lunar eclipse under the aurora in Fairbanks, Alaska! Check out the massive substorm turning the ground green in front of the eclipse, too! This is one of my favorite timelapses I have captured!

Historians are quite capable of explaining the hellscape that is the US at this particular minute, and its kind of telling that you imagine we won't because it means you haven't been listening or reading

Stephen Fry: “I’m deeply worried by the darkening shadow that’s going over the world, a shadow that we have to call fascism” Laura Kuenssberg: “You would use that word?” Stephen Fry: “Oh absolutely. It’s a cult of power; and power only speaks to power” #bbclaurak

Acclaimed author Rónán Hession to headline major writing masterclass in Derry

March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.

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