annnnnnd this is also minneapolis

Yesterday they indicted 15 people here *and* we had a glorious parade on a block where, in January, neighbors were kidnapped.

I cannot get over how gross and embarrassing it is to be alive today

Oh, so they have NOTHING nothing

this is insane and every USA involved should be disbarred

the musk *best case* scenario is like if wall-e began with developing world genocide

public adulation of celebrity adulation of the knicks is making me a spurs fan.

maybe we should stop calling it "misinformation" and starting calling it lying

I talk a *lot* of shit about MN but the number of people who do not live here thinking that everything good is a ruse is truly depressing. Sorry you don't have nice things! Yes, no one can merge, but also we have better arts funding and health outcomes and also my house was cheaper than yours.

Mr. McGregor in the Peter Rabbit books is the most misunderstood character in English literature.

The first meeting of the newly relaunched Translated Lit Club will be on June 30th at 7 pm. We will discuss Claudia Piñeros' CATHEDRALS, translated by Frances Riddle. ALL ARE WELCOME! www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/20260...

I’m very happy for Gilbert but I do want to keep in mind that these lists they’re talking about do not involve any pay for participants. This is crowd sourcing from culture experts, many of whom are under employed right now.

bow down

gen op is the way—this rules. trust people to know how to do what they do.

reading this while knowing that most of his rockets blow up

from the university that brought you "flirting with bankruptcy because of bad tech investments"

My dispatch from Lebanon. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

if you do an event / podcast with Zibby my assumption is you're an enormous racist

when is the last time you read john cheever’s short story “The Swimmer?” rectify that by reading it now. www.newyorker.com/magazine/196...

trying to imagine a world in which a woman could have an "accidental" nazi tattoo, sext randos while married, and pretend to be working class and have people think that makes her a real one.

Bezalel Smotrich should not be allowed to leave Israel without being arrested.

it's almost like our government is run by a bunch of venal idiots

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

I have once again done the onerous, soul-crushing task that takes five minutes.

“It’s like saying, do you beat your wife? It’s one of those accusations that there’s no response to.” um what

@spencerruchti.bsky.social just said "Afraid I’m not exaggerating when I say [BURY YOUR DEAD] is the best book I’ve read all year....Cormac McCarthy can eat his heart out" (is 😍 wrong for a book about road kill / murder?)

Freedom '90 >>>>>> Freedom 250

watched Glory, read For the Union Dead, felt very depressed about how far we have not gotten

the astonishing thing is that the BG reporter comes off worse than the online trolls

it makes me VERY happy (like, SO happy) that Lisa Robertson is having her moment

irrationally bothered by the whole packaged and commodified likability that is the celebrity-on-celebrity podcast

this is also why "appropriateness" is a red herring. ask me how much of the witches of eastwick I understood at age 12.

jail jail jail jail jail

this is still happening and anyone who touches it should be in jail

Nation Eagerly Returns to Wetly Coughing, Sneezing on Fellow Citizens

My friends Rebecca Sheir and Eric Shimelonis who have spend the past nine years making the excellent podcast Circle Round are independently launching a new show for kids!!! I kicked in a few bucks, and if you're a fan maybe you could too!!!

Boromir: and why do we not EMBRACE the ring's power?? Aragorn: and what would you have us do with it? Boromir: a lot of editing advice, and also a way to take care of busy work, you know, memos about orcs et cetera Aragorn: Boromir: and difficult break-ups, if you know what I mean

We don’t hate Jeff Bezos enough. And I say this as someone who reeeally hates him.

"You idiots!"

if you did not win the booker and are sad, just remember that now you are free to attend the royal chelsea flower show this weekend.

and the french bread prices were in part because of... the american revolution!

the more I interact with people the more I am like, bad concept.

art

"Dan Aykroyd's SOULHIDER, about an insurance adjustor from Upstate New York who finds himself and his family caught up in a secret battle on Earth between warring aliens, exploring the unseen forces shaping our world—both terrestrial and otherwise" stop

@ndbooks.bsky.social has a spring cleaning sale on today, so might be time to get a bunch of books to improve your life / street cred (20% off 2, 30% off 3, 40% off 4)

Archipelago offering 40% titles right now. Worth a peek. archipelagobooks.org

nothing I hate more than opening a link and finding out it is a PODCAST

according to Vasari, Donatello did a sculpture of St Mark & everyone hated it. he was like just wait it’s not finished, then he covered it up & pretended to work on it for 15 days. then he unveiled it & everyone loved it. but it was the exact same. this is one way to live

it's