I gotta thank y’all posting about the historical & sociopolitical meaning of Bad Bunny’s choices. This is going to make tomorrow’s class pretty special. The NYT Popcast gave me some more context, eg the 64 on his jersey at the beginning is the original official number of deaths from Hurricane Maria.

Bro literally came out and said “it’s our labor and culture that has always made the Americas great: y’all are just the beneficiaries of slave owners from sea to shining sea,” and I am here for it.

Puerto Ricans have been fighting for energy democracy - the right to control their grid locally and build the clean energy future on the island - for decades. If you want to support an incredible effort, get plugged into the work led by Queremos Sol! queremossolpr.org

Commenting on energy injustice is now the floor for any halftime act.

We are going to be working on a timetable of events leading to and following hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico - including effects on the grid - in my intro to sustainability class on Monday. You better believe Bad Bunny will get a shout out.

Gift shop in the Minneapolis airport is selling "ICE OUT of St. Paul" posters next to cute onesies and fridge magnets.

IT'S HAPPENING: Great Horned Owlette season is upon us! Several weeks earlier than last year, not one but TWO owlettes have been documented AND verified. By me. 10 minutes ago. Let's goooo!!! And observe from a safe respectful distance! Alt status: IT'S A SUPERB OWL MIRACLE! 🪶 🐣

What a superb owl! Perky pre-Colombian finial.

Happy Superb Owl day to all who celebrate.

I eagerly await FIRE's amicus brief and legal support on behalf of this HBCU.

The US food system is highly dependent on the exploitation of immigrant labor from farms to processing plants - the trump administration is ratcheting up unjust policies that have been developed through decades. These workers are showing amazing courage under terrible circumstances.

I thought I could not be more disgusted by plastic jeff but here we are

Ditto

Also please learn your own history. English is not this nation’s first language. Not even the first colonial language. Don’t forget the Spanish arrived in Florida way before the British. Aquí estamos. No nos vamos. Seguiremos hablando español. Aprende o jódete. Y siempre siempre chinga la migra.

that winter the wolf came

Bad Bunny isn't an immigrant. This shit is cooked through. 150 years of being a newspaper and now you're a 4chan comment thread.

This is a good day to share my 2018 essay on the Obama portraits and the history of African American portraiture. hyperallergic.com/obama-portra...

Only if they wreck it

All streets surrounding & exits leading to the Whipple Federal Building have been closed. This will be the first night AFAIK that the Feds, with help from local PD and Sheriff, have eliminated all protesters from Whipple since early January. There's been nearly 24/7 presence until now.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “Sustainability is not just about the environment and outcomes”

More than 40 growers across the U.S. are working to preserve Palestinian heirloom seeds, along with the history, tradition, and identity they contain.

did anyone get a picture of the frogs with the homemade costumes? i loved how minneapolis they were. paper mache frog heads with bright colored paint.

A caturday Pippo post - we finally bought him a more enclosed cat bed because at the tender age of 20 he really does not like to be cold.

I swear to god man

Been thinking about this yesterday... Opposite of a shout-out to my fellow economists, who have collectively created a discipline so cravenly incapable of engaging with structural issues such as power and racism that I'm positive ALL our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Trump & Zeldin are conspiring to violate Americans’ right to clean air & water. They are intentionally harming the American people in service of polluters.

Our "Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration" series is accepting submissions on an ongoing basis. niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c...

Wisconsin Tribes Worried About ICE Tactics in Minnesota

How fitting that this happened at Morrill Hall, named after the 1862 act giving stolen Native American land to land grant universities like UMinn to promote settler colonialist agriculture and its extractive practices. Another colonizer institution perpetuating racism and ignoring its own history.

another year of us not running a super bowl ad

Remember when Emily Oster said listeria isn’t a big deal? “A newborn baby has died in New Mexico from a Listeria infection that state health officials say was likely contracted from raw (unpasteurized) milk that the baby’s mother drank during pregnancy.” arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

Agricultural exceptionalism manifests itself in many ways in the US. Amping up the “poor farmer” narrative is consistently one of them. Ignoring logic is another: this is the president the farm lobby wanted, and his policy* approach was clear. *I really hesitate to call any of this mess “policy”.

Considering the challenge in suggesting we eat more plants, proposing insect products seems ridiculous. But it's received $1B to try to scale & now ~80B insects are farmed. It can actually emit as much as some beef & has major risks. My first in the Drawdown Explorer: drawdown.org/explorer/dep...

This time of the year, the Iowa River also hosts geese, big ag’s favorite species, since according to them, geese, golf courses and septic systems are the REAL reason why our waters are heavily polluted by nutrients and various other contaminants.

A clear sunny day for eagle 🦅 watching

students lead

Eagles 🦅 galore from my window this morning in Iowa City, mostly flying south to the low-head dam for breakfast.

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Pretty much how every New Yorker is feeling about this unrelenting winter! Our resident Great Blue Heron dreaming of spring in the Central Park Loch. 💙🩶💙 #Herons #CentralPark #birding

I'm sorry but this story is bullsh*t. Katie Britt was so worried about Liam Ramos that she did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO HELP HIM? Come on. This section right here shows Britt's true self.

The failure of higher ed (and public universities in particular) to lead in this moment and during the COVID onset maybe shouldn't have surprised me but it did. What we teach our students is ultimately being proven empty words at the institutional level. From public health to equity and justice.

Me on bsky today

Charles Evers met with Trump at the WH back in 2017, so naturally the president waited after he died to desecrate the memory of his brother. appalling

I agree with this, but, and this is important, I really also wish we had listened to the law students who spoke out about his sexual harassment, and about his wife (Amy Chua) enabling and threatening those who also spoke out about it.

Trump, standing in front of a chart depicting the angelic hierarchy as described by Pseudo-Dionysius and explaining that while Angels, Archangels and Principalities can be executed in the street by masked paramilitary goons, procedure requires Dominions and Seraphim be given warning shots.

The whole Epstein thing has been leaving me speechless for the last few days but Woody Allen and his wife (that is his stepdaughter) conniving with Epstein so as to ensure their daughter gets into Bard (!) is just a bit too on the nose.

That Jeff Bezos's Amazon gave Brett Ratner, someone photographed with Jeffrey Epstein and in the Epstein Files, $75 million to make a doc about Melania Trump, while he chooses to destroy The Washington Post, says about all you need to know.

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Coverage of agriculture and agricultural policies in local papers provides a ton of evidence of that. From Jim Crow to the New Deal to today…

A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan. It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash. “ICE GTFO OF MN” Minneapolis February 4, 2026