Must-read from @jimowczarski.bsky.social at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: www.jsonline.com/story/sports...

I gotta admit: I’m pretty proud of sneaking this into a work baby photo contest.

"Pit-Pat!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wFU...

Concur.

I was in college during the height of the ice beer craze. I gotta say: 19-year-old dorm dwellers loved a beer that's cheap, light and slightly stronger than Busch Light.

This place is underrated. IYKYK

From Angry Catfish, independent bicycle shop in Minneapolis

A small part of Alex Pretti's story Milwaukee folks should know. His friend has posted a photo on Facebook of Alex at the Riverwest 24, holding up his bike and proudly posing for the camera, his team spoke card (#94) visible in the wheel. This is a guy who had joined your community too.

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

Candlelight hiking in the Southern Kettles.

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

The Minn Star Trib has an excellent frame-by-frame analysis of the Good homicide. A couple things (also noted elsewhere) stand out. 🧵: 1) ICE agent Ross's first shot, when he *might* have felt in danger, hit 'the bottom corner of the driver’s side windshield.' www.startribune.com/breaking-dow...

The New York Times states it plainly in display type: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

Tab (1963-circa 2020): A sugar-free cola from Coca-Cola, and the company's first ever "diet" drink, clocking in at 1 calorie. Famous for its trademark pink can, and long-running debates about the safety of its artificial sweeteners

I wrote section 230 to protect user speech, not a company's own speech. I've long said AI chatbot outputs are not protected by 230 and that it is not a close call. Given that the Trump administration is going to the mat to protect pedophiles, states should step in to hold Musk and X accountable.

You remember Raji, Shields, Jay Cutler and maybe Aaron Rodgers' tackle of Brian Urlacher. What about the special-teams aces? Rodgers' injury scare? B.J. Raji on OFFENSE? American Idol? www.jsonline.com/story/sports...

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

It’s old-fashioned to defend mainstream journalism these days but some of the most reliable reporting from people actually on the ground will be the AP and Reuters the next 24 hours. Your Substack journalist writing takes will be using frontline reporting from them.

Sigh... www.jsonline.com/story/sports...

I hate this phrasing and how it buys into what is essentially a falsehood about the autonomy of chatbots that is RIGHT NOW deforming our entire law and society. Grok doesn't say anything. That's like saying 'Microsoft Word apologized for losing everyone's files' www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

One of the best to ever do it

you should never keep a baseball bat to defend against home invasions. because what if the guy breaking in has a baseball. you're just going to end up trying to hit that instead

Very sad to say it seems Mike Fossey, aka Mike F. has died. Truly one of the funniest posters of all time and a talented artisan. Had been friends online for many years, but I got to hang out a couple times at shows in Boston and he was funny and sweet in real life too.

NEW from me — I broke down Trump's claim on local right wing radio that the US carried out a Christmas Eve land strike in Venezuela, how he doubled down Monday, the subsequent media reports with no substance, the potential role of social media rumors about an actual fire, and how we need the truth:

one thing of many that would be really good to rebuild in this country is local news reporting

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

Aren’t we all.

i hate how competitive hot dog eaters dip them in water. thats the wrong kind of gross, i need them to pretend they're enjoying them

Thanks to various corporate mergers, many of my web “clips” only live there and might not exist otherwise.

This is going to trigger another round of abuse for this woman but the basic facts appear to be that she was separated at the time and so was the CEO. She recoiled on the jumbotron because her husband was attending the same concert.

Whether you give a damn about dog mushing or Alaska or the Iditarod or not, do yourself a favor and read this gripping, big-feels story about @quincemountain.bsky.social's 2025 Iditarod odyssey. One of the best stories I've worked on, ever. www.milwaukeemag.com/quince-mount...

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Just to be clear: if 'no one was ready' a lot of people fucked up, bc those of us who work on this laid out what was going to happen 8yrs ago. The twofold issue that 1)it's not just a tech problem, and 2) Big Tech allowed itself to be ref-worked into spinelessness. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/t...

the right attitude

I've been laughing at this all day. All three of these people nailed it. 10/10, no notes.

in case anyone was wondering wtf happened to @thelouvreof.bsky.social/Louvre of Bluesky: the creator got doxxed, bsky did nothing, and they decided to go out in a blaze of glory

This could have been worse.

If Stranger Things was remade today and set the same number of years ago as S1 it would be in 2003 and instead of a resurgence of a Kate Bush song it would be Hoobastank, the kids would dress up for Halloween like Neo and Trinity. No I can’t prove this is actually correct I am not going to do math.

cleaning up my desktop, ran across this helpful guide to our presidents

I named my fists "Dunning" and "Kruger" because I haven't trained in any sort of martial art but am confident I would do pretty well.

did a spider post this

THANKSGIVING is actually a very easy to break down: THA = tha, a way of saying “the” NKS = don’t know what this is GIVING = giving, when you give something

Possibly one of the BEST deadpan line reads in the history of sitcoms