I've said this before, but part of why I continue to be bleak on prospects of prompt war termination are because Iran has *very strong incentives* to continue pain infliction (against the US/Israel/GCC and the broader world) to deter a future war by credibly communicating the magnitude of costs.

The Deets is back with opinions about Target's direction. thedeets.com/what-can-we-...

A great write-up on brand-new research I was involved in. We used a really different approach from the ones that we & many others have used previously to estimate how many Covid deaths there *really* were--almost 20% more than known. Our results broadly accord w others but add new demographic detail

National Geographic's missing link: Why Voting Is Important. education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/why...

Still the top story. So that’s perky. Here’s a gift link.

This is a major victory. Thank you it @smith.senate.gov and all those who worked to protect our most precious places.

I wrote about why St Paul Snow Plowing is dumb for a city its size but may be getting slightly better. thedeets.com/minneapolis-...

Judge protects children from US Secretary of Health and Human Services.

It's so tiring to constantly see these men who have no actual skin in the game advocating for others to suffer while making millions in Substack revenue, speaking fees, and consulting. He's not the one losing healthcare, or an immigrant being sent to a concentration camp. It costs him nothing.

Under Kansas law, he must use the women's bathroom or be subjected to criminal charges in government owned buildings or $1000 vigilante lawsuits in public spaces. I think everyone can understand why this is absurd and causes more problems than it was ever intended to fix.

Viewers noticed Ryan Coogler appears to have a guitar and treble clef braided in his hair at the #Oscars

Latonya needs to address this immediately. You have no business running for CD5 if you cannot respect people's identities and the LGBTQIA+ community.

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

Armed gun owners in VA showed up outside the State Capitol in Richmond this afternoon to rally against new gun control measures. Governor Spanberger is due to sign into law a ban on the sale of assault weapons & large capacity magazines in the state. Oh, and the larger the gun the smaller the penis

Absolutely gutting story on Annunciation parents pouring their souls into enlightening legislators, knowing they’d the GOP brick wall. But the piece contains one of the most horrifying paragraphs an American parent could read; it will stay with me: www.startribune.com/in-living-ro... (gift)

Looks like things have changed in less than five years.

It's easier to plow for cyclists when vehicles are off the road.

The war with Iran is driving up more than gasoline prices. It is beginning to hit semiconductors, medical imaging, backyard gardens, and even children’s party balloons. That’s because Hormuz is also a major shipping route for helium and fertilizer. Fertilizer shortages will also raise food prices.

Watching Politico get told they're sanewashing shit by the guy they're sanewashing is just excellent. Media cooked. Getting dunked on by the people they're protecting. We are in the post-dignity era of the press.

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

GOP leader Harry Niska said this, and I’m glad Zack called it out. Niska professes to be religious, but is publicly odious.

Does this mean that our Hennepin County Sheriffs - who've already been acting like ICE - are going to be busy terrorizing some the most vulnerable residents in our city through evictions?

Mayor Frey can thank Minneapolis Public Housing Authority & affiliated nonprofit Community Housing Resources for 43 filings yesterday. Significant bump in Mpls filings the past few days. Approximate* Minneapolis eviction filings 3/1 thru 3/11: 2025: ~54 2026: ~237 A 339% increase compared to 2025.

This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.

All the other despots and dictators who have hosted Olympics and World Cups have known they're supposed to say all athletes from all the countries will be welcome and safe. That hosting is a chance to show how their country is powerful yet benevolent. Not Trump, he can't even get that part right

“The scale of assistance and the number of habeas cases really points to how coordinated and cooperative and incredible this legal community has been the past few months.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income? Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero. Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit? Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.

This URL is amazing for unsubscribing from email lists in your gmail accounts. If you're logged into more than one gmail account, change the 0 to 1 in the url, etc to work through different accounts. mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#sub

Can we consider this piece for a minute? A journalist friend and I just hopped on the phone to make sure we were seeing the same thing: A story about a boycott initiated by Minneapolis' Nekima Levy-Armstrong that has supposedly been declared over by Black activists in other parts of the country. 1/

the important thing i think is that they get comfortable now with living in federal facilities

What's so insidious about this particular line is that it sets a framework for courts to bless any number of coercive measures by state and federal governments to get people to not transition. It establishes coercing people not to transition as a legitimate government interest.

We shut down USAID but: www.mediaite.com/politics/pet...

hennepin county sheriff's office racked up $1.3 million in overtime in jan 2026. commissioner angela conley says they could overspend budget by $15 million+ this year if they don't change course. today county board unanimously passed a BAR conley introduced that sheriff cannot exceed their budget!

TPUSA is teaming up with Google and NextEra in both municipal and statewide races in Arizona, in part to control the future of a gigantic, publicly owned water and power utility, the Salt River Project. Note the coalition here. Masks are coming off at the utility and energy intersection.

What can we do to prevent Forest Lake from creating more war criminals?

this is what society gets for stigmatizing drugs and sex because now some adults are experiencing euphoric feelings for the first time ever from their computers and defining it as celestial and otherworldly and not for what it is - another chemical reaction in the brain

A federal judge ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return or replace property taken from unlawfully arrested ICE detainees and released without their belongings, giving the government 30 days to comply.

This was his actual response to the question “Why hasn’t Target taken a stronger stand against ICE?” (Source: AP; link in quoted post)

INBOX: data from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migrations show that in the most recent three months, every single one of the 1,651 refugees accepted into the United States were of (white) South African origin. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

Cricket was the name of the puppy that Kristi Noem murdered.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out. Just because you got fired, Minnesotans won’t forget what you did to our neighbors. We will continue to fight for you to be held accountable.

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

I remember finding King’s post very shocking & it’s sad to remember that at the time, it felt like a dangerous but fringe sentiment, not the Republican Party’s default setting

This is something that has always bothered me: landlords always talk about COVID like they were absolutely gutted. But this massive study by a national trade org, which was conducted on a month-to-month basis, shows the industry never took a bath www.nmhc.org/research-ins...

I was proud to author an ordinance in 2023 moving mandating a 30-day rental pre-eviction notice in Minneapolis. Sadly, we’re barely going to pass the temporary 60-day notice tomorrow and then face the threat of a veto. Thank you Saint Paul for being pro-human.

Good thing nothing egregious happened 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ “Police Chief Brian O’Hara said police officers can’t stop federal agents from enforcing federal law unless they witness something egregious.”

This is known as the riddle of the trash barricades: We've established MPD is never going to intervene in cases of reckless, dangerous behavior/driving by federal agents. So why send cops to disassemble barricades erected to address a problem that police won't?

Early 2026 Hennepin County Sheriffs are throwing early 2020 MPD vibes. This is not a compliment.

"The biggest change took effect in Florida on Sunday, when officials cut off benefits for at least 16,000 residents living with H.I.V." "cut off benefits" sounds like they lost access to Hulu. Call it what it is: "told 16,000 people they no longer get the medication that keeps them alive"

this is brian flakne, who represented landlord john wall in the suit robin wonsley and michael wilson had to file against him last summer for violating voters' rights by not allowing them to doorknock his buildings! taylordahlin.com/f/landlord-j...