There are objectively worse people in the world (Hitler, Pol Pot, maybe others) but nothing activates a Pavlovian anger response in me more than adult men stealing home run balls from children

This is just heartbreaking 💔

a ballroom has a core strategic weakness: the man in the back saying “everyone attack”

I loved the 2006 Mitchell & Webb TV sketch show, but I never imagined “are we the baddies?” would graduate from funny catchphrase to the defining philosophical aphorism for our age

Jaden McDaniels, Donte DiVincenzo and James White take Flight in Minnesota. Free read www.nytimes.com/athletic/721...

The NBA has digitized most game footage from the 80s and 90s but won’t release it online because it would be used to find evidence of gambling

City transportation official opts for white line and signage instead of gate to keep their baby off the stairs.

My daughter says KEXP is for ‘young 50 year olds’

All of his businesses and property should be nationalized and dissolved and he should be stripped of literally every single asset and dollar. Put him in public housing and let him live off of whatever UBI the next Congress passes.

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example. www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...

Wonderful news for this unique complex of 3 buildings. The Grain Exchange is from the golden era when Minneapolis was milling capital of the planet. And I'm also long overdue in making a longer history🧵, so here goes:

Hey terrible news! Mn Sen. Ann Rest has cut the HCMC-saving sales tax plan from 1% to .25%, hiked the Twins’ skim (from $7m to $9m, way above current $1.1m). The sales tax will fall far short of what HCMC needs, so will do more to save the Pohlads than the hospital. assets.senate.mn/committees/2...

There is not enough ink in all of Iowa to print the number of op-eds this would generate

The party that claims to be bravely defending “Western Civilization” from its supposed imminent destruction by barbarian hordes, has empowered a guy who eats roadkill to shut down research on one of the most significant scientific breakthroughs in decades.

Very cool idea that’s near and dear to my heart - take this survey to help bring an indoor playground to downtown Minneapolis: mplsindoorplaygroundsurvey.netlify.app

Having worked at both, I can assure you I am worried about this! I hope @anthropic.com is doing outreach to those types of orgs

I hate the too-cool-for-school attitude of dismissing this with a "but they won't." That is surrendering in advance. The pressure should be put on them, the message should be unrelenting that this is what must be done and they're the ones refusing to do it. Don't act like they don't have agency.

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

CHARLIE BROWN: I HAVE AN AMAZING SECRET PLAN TO KICK THIS FOOTBALL

“I never thought Elon would muffle *my* legitimate news sources” says guy who uses the “Elon muffles legitimate news sources” app.

The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”

NYTimes: Trump Takes Renewed Approach Towards Diplomacy (honestly I have no idea what Trump could tweet that would make the Times report on it anymore)

Untranslated headlines in German are much clearer than New York Times headlines in English

One cool dad trick is that I can drink a coffee and then immediately take a nap now

Thirty-one years ago today, the New Orleans-based alternative rock band Better than Ezra released its hit single “Good,” marking the first-ever Good Friday, which has now grown into a major holiday celebrated throughout the world.

objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country

The next administration should prioritize seizing the assets of insider traders and using them for the public good.

Love the Lake Loop concept here. And I've been saying it for 20 years, but what this city needs is a Euro-style playground where parents could sit in a nearby cafe with a coffee or a beer so they can chat while their kids play.

"You gotta mike the box." the engineer Bill Halverson on the making of "Ain't No Sunshine," 1971 (from a Mix interview in 2012)

I’ll admit that the newborn stage is sorta boring but it’s nice that you can just set them anywhere and they stay put

They’re absolutely conditioning us to having ICE around before they start putting ICE at polling places

… Bob Mould’s story of (briefly) taking guitar lessons from Chris Osgood ends with the (in retrospect, historic) admonition: Go start a band. (2/2)

FACT: Craig Finn of the Hold Steady and Bob Mould of Hüsker Dü both took guitar lessons from Chris Osgood of the pioneering Minneapolis punk rock band the Suicide Commandos. Both students were on hand at the Commandos final show tonight and told stories about those lessons. Here’s Finn first … (1/2)

Three people in a bar in Nisswa at 10am? The voice of the people. Millions of people across the country showing up for 3,000+ simultaneous protests? A whimper. It's not a mystery why your reporters are hanging out in bars at 10am, @nytimes.com You don't have to be this embarrassing.

We had literal years of coverage of the "tea party" which had a fraction of #NoKings support and was entirely astroturfed by rightwing moneyed interests. Seriously, fuck The New York Times. Fucking trash rag.

NGL, I'm captivated by these new shirts at temu

My latest for The New York Times: a look at the life & legacy of the late great D. Boon. Visited San Pedro to talk to the surviving Minutemen, Mike Watt and George Hurley, as they continue to carry forward the spirit of Boon and the band. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/a...

NYT quoting AOC when she says “um”: This dumb girl can’t talk NYT quoting Trump after sticking a fork up his nose into his brain and rambling about sharpie pens: Doth thine lion howl with instincts known not learned by man, or sound his sonorous roar as prophecy to gaze back upon history itself?

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

I feel like you cross ISAIAH at your own peril. If they think you should do something, you probably should.

Welcome to the world, Stella! Mom and baby are doing great after delivery over the weekend. We are so excited to welcome you into our family!

Iran sent Trump a giant horse on wheels. It is about to be wheeled into Mara Lago's grounds.

🔊 Pastor Todd with a Minnesota mic drop for Christians everywhere: “It’s time to pray with our feet, because the politics of cruelty, greed, and abuse of power is out of control.” 🌿 On #PalmSunday2026, Christians across the country will do just that. 📅 March 29, 2026. Show up: palmsunday2026.com

🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon suggested that President Donald Trump deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to major U.S. airports as part of a “test run” for using them to meddle in upcoming elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

A year later, I'll say: we will never know— we will never have the faintest idea— how much money is getting made in insider trading windfalls from people in Trump's circles who have an hour of notice about the chaotic swings in stuff Trump just *says* about the war with Iran.

removing the real, faltering trump from the news and replacing him with an imaginary trump of their own invention. more he falters, the more the imaginary reasonable trump shows up in the stories and especially the headlines

despite being concentrated in ameria’s largest cities, america’s media is terminally car-brained