Got up at 5, filled thermos w/coffee, walked thru rosy, freezing dawn to work at the polls. Glad I did not read threat of war crime & genocide till shift ended. 7 hrs watching orderly voting, helping patient uni students thru process of registering to vote. They believe in civic duty. 1/2

It was the annual new foods at Target Field event for the media today so I'm posting the 1973 Twins concession menu.

Crazy how the reality TV pretty boy can't run DOT. How many more catastrophes before Sean Duffy is gone? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Donald Trump is surprised at how poorly the Iran War is going — but the news media is covering all of this uncertainty and sham-handedness as if it’s all part and parcel of a normal conflict. Every article needs to start leading with: Trump is lost at sea. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-surp...

FBI official doesn't know where Wisconsin is, per Epstein release. "I just googled because I really didnt know lol. Looks northwest of Chicago"

Reading about Europe in the 9th century AD (The Oathbreakers by David Perry & Matthew Gabriele) and couldn't fail to note this sentence: "It destabilizes a society when elites attempt a coup, fail, yet suffer few consequences." ROK seems to have taken a lesson from history which the US has not

CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”

This is fascinating because this is such a new field and somehow they are going to hire 100 tenure-track faculty in the next 5 years who specialize in it. And yet when asked to fill spots with faculty of color/women/marginalized groups, administrators often cry about how the pipelines don't exist.

"grate a pear" is the new "go fuck yourself, nerd"

again, these people should be exiled from society until they have changed in some pretty fundamental ways

I remember crying when I read the headline on the left in 2010 - seeing it splayed out in black and white in my own school paper made it seem so real. Once again, the headline on the right this week made everything seem so real, and I ~may~ have cried again, albeit for very different reasons.

An Amazon delivery confirmation photo is the last time a Palisades resident saw her house standing. Amazon drivers say they have been delivering in neighborhoods that were evacuated soon after they left, are delivering in adjacent neighborhoods. Scary situation www.404media.co/an-amazon-de...