The Sundays, Wild Horses

Marcopathy

Marcurochrome

Marcointhemiddle

Marcomania?

Marcolonoscopy?

Marcolepsy

Narcomentum?

Marconium

Operation Metro Surge's impact in the Twin Cities can still be felt three months after it ended. Many immigrants are at risk of losing homes and businesses, and some are dealing with mental health challenges.

In case anyone needs a reminder that ICE still needs to be defunded & DHS eliminated & its functions rolled back into DOJ

You can’t have exactly that, but may I interest you in a shiny new ballroom?

I have a friend on vacation in Vietnam. He just posted that they’re building a high speed rail from Ha Long to Hanoi, about 100 miles, that’s supposed to cut the travel time from 2 hours to 20 minutes. I WANT ONE 😭

on our shores, of course, we the People have a long history of going away quietly when ignored

I been saying, if voting is the most powerful nonviolent tool in a democratic society, and lawmakers then take that tool away, they need to think very carefully about what tools remain...! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735353...

Things that should not be run like businesses: universities, hospitals, and government. Things that should be run like businesses: businesses. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

The entire Cal State system has been severed from Instructure completely as of 5/7. Chancellor's Office now dealing system wide. That's 500,000 students who were about to walk into finals week starting on Monday after mandates 2 yrs ago that every class is required to use Canvas 💁🏻

Pants: America’s napkin

It is working for me. We regained access very late last night. I wonder if parts of the country are back up, but not all parts?

I am 40 or 50. All tech news looks like this: "CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA? PLOOPY HAS LAUNCHED THE BEAN"

Canvas is still down, and this is why I keep my own gradebook files & batch-download the stuff I need to grade. Fucksakes

Listen, until the courts & state licensing authorities start using their disciplinary power, lawyers are gonna keep filing this bullshit. It’s a simple cost-benefit analysis for those with flexible scruples.

SANCTIONS.

My conservation biology-major child tells me that it’s peak bird migration season across the Midwest. Lights off/blinds drawn after dusk to reduce window strikes, and you can track the migration here: birdcast.org/migration-to...

I have yeeted the LMS my uni has paid for and which you were probably thinking helps you teach Forgive me it was surveillant so mid and so broke

Among the most disturbing parts of a recent conversation I had with a number of biglaw partners re use of AI* in legal practice was their wilful ignorance re what the technologies actually *were*, leading to a kind of cargo cult reverence for the wonderful mystery of AI*. /1

A lot of people have left the Bureau, but they are still Bureau people, and good at their jobs. If you follow me.

So today is the National Day of Prayer, apparently. It’s also Final Exam Season. And so I have a theory about the Canvas hack which, if true, requires me to attend shul much more frequently

At a certain point, "Farmers are racist" stops being a real diagnosis & just turns into a thought-stopping cliché. "I did my job by saying something super obvious out loud. Good job me! What a bold truth-teller am I!" Ok… so... where does labor law actually sit on your political priority list?

I’m old enough to remember when the whole point of new technology was to improve people’s lives

Fucking Canvas

It’s fine, I still have masks from last time 🙄

The correct director for an Odyssey adaptation is Taika Watiti. I will not be explaining any further.

My dad wanted me to create a new e-mail account and address, as he has shut down his business e-mail. I informed him that to change his contact e-mail, everyone's first move will be to send a confirmation request to his now defunct account.

There's an easy solution. They just need to become the head of a major world religion and then find an employee of that religion who is friends with the bank's president.

The two genders

You don't know what it's like when John Roberts and jurisprudence are alone, you guys. Sometimes he has to slap around justice, but that's because his job puts him under a lot of stress.

What happens if elderly folks cannot navigate your website or show up in person? As my parents have entered this phase of their lives, my sister & I have been thinking about the difficulties & limitations of current financial services customer service accessibility.

Was waiting for your take on this. Succinct and comprehensive

Check in with the law professors in your life, they may have seen this

this fucking guy

I don't think she did academic gobbledygook; I think she oversimplified to a point of uselessness. We also didn't need the 35% of evil people voting for her, just 250,000 more people in a few states.

As a plain language proponent, I’m always willing to consider ways that general comms can be more effective. But also, I don’t think Harris’s problem was academic gobbledygook & I don’t think plain language can overcome 35% of voters preferring evil shit

I happened to be at this very show and am now stranded in the parking lot, waiting for the jam to clear and that isn't bothering me in the slightest. I'm still in a reverie from seeing David Byrne. Take all necessary steps to see him in concert.

Relatedly, do what you can to see David Byrne’s current tour!

Me before the concert: Ugh, it’s cold. It’s late. I’m tired. I don’t wanna to put on hard pants. Me after the concert: That was the best thing I’ve ever seen, that band is genius, why don’t we do this all the time

Many people are saying

I will also point out, yet again, that 2025’s capricious destruction of the federal workforce doesn’t save any money, it just makes it more expensive for taxpayers to hire qualified workers. These meager little retention & hiring bonuses are just the beginning (bc they won’t work)

This is like watching the Yankees hold open tryouts

That won't pay for the bar fines for doing the unethical things the DOJ has been required to do lately. #Satire