The only author who could do justice to these times would be Nelson Algae

Ever since Nixon exposed Algae Hiss

Don’t want to say the Democratic Party has gone full communist, but it’s just been revealed that all three of the candidates Mamdani endorsed anonymously worked on the Roman Holiday screenplay.

Rosey never f——d with the Jetsons like this

“The United States of America controls the Strait of Hormuz"

🎶 “I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview”

I just watched Close Encounters for the first time since it came out and I don’t want to tell anyone how to live their lives but personally if I was married to Teri Garr I’d be making her portraits in the mashed potatoes

Also from In Memoriam at the @dfl.org State Convention today ♥️🐾

My Mom in “In Memoriam” at the Minnesota DFL State Convention today

I, too, will not be performing at The Great American State Fair.

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

Thank you for your service

“Irony is dead”

Working on my book about Chaplin and The Great Dictator and came across this unsigned 1940 piece from the Louisville Courier-Journal and thought I'd share it now: 1/3

Life imitates Krazy Kat

Yesterday at May Day, Minneapolis re-created the ICE siege in a collective show of grief, humor and most of all toughness for what lies ahead

see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them

Happy Pete Seeger Day to those who celebrate! Photo taken 2001 at Clearwater Revival, Croton-on-Hudson, by Annie Leibovitz

Any 15 issues of American Splendor

Robert Ebert’s review of Downfall in 2004 was as absolutely masterful as the movie itself. #history #wwii #skystorians #extremism

“Isn't there a war dragging on? Imagine if FDR had taken to the airwaves during the Battle of the Bulge to complain about a Little Orphan Annie comic strip he didn't like." — @jimmykimmel.com Pictured: Orphan Annie in the New Orleans Item, January 1, 1945 (during the Battle of the Bulge)

Happy National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day from Lobster (adopted 2022) and Scout (adopted 2011)

Sometimes I stumble on a clip from one of those CNN panel discussions and each one is the single most annoying restaurant next-table loud conversation imaginable.

When your lieutenant governor says, “Here, let me take the selfie.”

I have canker sores older than ICE

I dunno suddenly this week I’m in the mood to up my donation to the @splcenter.org

From 1971 and never more true

Without stating your age, post your favorite film released the year you turned 18.

Just drive them into the Superdome, works every time

Willie Nelson candle at Alex Pretti Memorial, Minneapolis

Here’s to all who went around Budapest putting little anti-Orban stickers on the Orban posters

Melania set to address Jimmy Hoffa disappearance at 2 pm today

I've completely lost track of what I'm supposed to be distracted from.

I believe in free media but can we legislate that every CNN panel must include one person with a horn and a Harpo wig

Tired: Holy war with Muslims Wired: Holy war against the Vatican

The traditional punchline to this joke is “The smartest man in the world just took off with my back pack."

“Left to Their Own Devices” by Barry Blitt, published exactly one year ago tomorrow

I don’t want to be controversial but I do think it’s turned out that the possibility of nuclear war is a bigger threat to the future of humanity than the woke mind virus

Share a gif from a horror movie you love

Listen to both Aarons … Rupar and Neville: “Tell it like it is Don't be ashamed Let your conscience be your guide”

In case your day needed a Krazy Kat

Me every night when Heather Cox Richardson releases her latest report

This week’s comic now up on @dailykos.com - www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

We are no longer the land of the free and the home of the brave. We are now, to many, America the reckless, unpredictable, predatory rogue nation. That is this administration and this president's legacy, and this is happening now. — Bruce Springsteen, Minneapolis, March 31, 2026

My least favorite protest march is the march to social media to complain about the protest march

so this giant puppet was at No Kings Twin Cities today … and I have no idea who this is

Just wondering how many of you can ID this guy

GOP: We won't fund airport security if it means we must reform ICE practices. Dems: Let's pay TSA and not inconvenience travelers. And then legislate ICE issues. Decent people: I feel for unpaid TSA, But I'll wait in a longer line so others are not shot dead or kidnapped without legal cause.