This is going to culminate in Pizzagate-style vigilante violence if we do not protect our neighbors www.startribune.com/police-inves...

re: childcare payments in Minnesota: the administration is so clearly letting a Project Veritas-style video "sting" be an excuse for a cruelty they already wanted to inflict.

new healthcare system, new opportunities to...be encouraged to verbally opt out of AI recording at every single appointment, rather than click a button in the EMR once. I worked for an EMR company years ago: this would be a very easy flag to add to a record!

man, Minnesotans do not jaywalk nearly enough.

Anyway the single best check on your espoused prescriptions for social change is whether you yourself are doing what you say others need to do. It's extremely clarifying and usually very humbling.

what is best in life? to have fresh vegetables after weeks of busy/tired/holiday eating. to have the time/energy to marinade them and even massage the kale. to toast some pistachios on the stove while you're at it.

Starting tomorrow morning, it'll be printed on dried corn husks in Iowa and hurled over the state line in the vague direction of the Twin Cities. Subscribers will have the option of home delivery only if they swear allegiance to the butter cow.

*stares directly at camera*

sometimes you wait to have a really good reason to learn a very easy task, and then your life changes completely.

I've been knitting since I was a teenager, which is probably how I managed to sit still long enough to never be diagnosed with ADHD. now that I'm trying to become more intentional and skilled about it, I keep discovering all kinds of quirks to the way my mom taught me that just...don't...fit...

joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this

sequel to The Thing where it turns out Kurt Russell and Keith David are both Things but don't know it until there's only one bed.

pretty cool that the last non-Gannett paper in the Midwest is only afloat on the back of a billionaire / anyway, long live all the Twin Cities indies doing the good work.

One of the highlights of my year was joining @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social to talk about OpenAI’s attempts to capture higher education and the AFT + Big Tech partnership (🙄) and you can listen to our chat here:

desperately learning how to do custom phone ringtones so I can change mine to Benoit Blanc muttering "Scooby Dooby Doo"

merry Christmas one and all abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

yet again begging my family members to wear headphones on the holiday Zoom call.

Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)

The last 24 hours have seen some of the most dehumanizing, disgusting posts of the year. This reporting is about internal comms from the team that makes them. The things they were instructed to show are horrifying, but the things they were told to remove or de-emphasize are even more revealing.

ICE Watch welcome, a Christmas Eve special! – Wednesday 12/24 1pm-2pm Minneapolis and the Twin Cities has begun to experience another massive surge in abductions and disappearances. New to ICE Watch and want to get involved? (1/3)

nothing will ever be as cathartic as immersion blending a good soup

Shout out to the people who did this and fuck you to everyone who made me feel like shit for saying they should just leak it.

It's Day 19 of the ICE occupation of MSP. Today thousands of Minnesotans poured onto Lake Street to rally in support of our immigrant neighbors and against ICE. Take a moment to look at this crowd of you and your neighbors rallying in below zero windchill. 📸 @roblevine82.bsky.social

the rzn for the szn.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/p...? Yes yes we can reward the truly hungry young among us. The patriots with a yawning appetite for security. We will choose a hungry warrior from among their kin. Maybe we call them to D.C. — the capitol, as it were — and promise them satiation. A game. For the hungry.

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

YOU DUMB FUCKS. THIS IS ME. I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center. People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.

Good look at what would happen if S230 gets pulled medium.com/wikimedia-po...

Spending my first day of winter break as ADHD God intended: off my meds, doing whatever neglected household chore catches my attention first, mainlining too much news.

FYI because there will be false claims: Carbon capture has never been used successfully at a commercial gas-fired power plant in the U.S., and no existing carbon capture facility has ever consistently achieved a 90 percent capture rate. heated.world/p/exxons-new...

Beyond the pale. Medicare and Medicaid pay for such a large % of care in the US that hospitals will be forced to comply with a youth trans care ban or close. The same mechanism the government used in the 1960s to desegregate hospitals but this time to retrench civil rights instead of advance them

oh no i forgot he was doing a thing tonight

I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In a world of absolutely dogshit news about trans athletes, it was such a pleasure to write this piece about the derby community and the way they're stepping up for their trans + nonbinary + gender diverse athletes.

This is likely going to get me yelled at or at least grumbled about again but lots of young people were not told the truth about PhD programs over the past 2 decades. There wasn't an honest accounting that most of them were not going to get tenure track jobs even if they really wanted them.

Ma'am, this is an insomniac grad student with a loud upstairs neighbor.

I have one last paper due tomorrow night so of course what I would rather do is make a list of which NYC bridges various movies opt to feature in pivotal scenes. "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" went Manhattan! Bold! But it does give you a chance to pan to a very nice Brooklyn Bridge silhouette!

this is another small step on the general slide toward "flexibility for me but not for thee" enshittification, but it's so cool that Megabus doesn't let you get a refund on your bus tickets, charges you $7 to reschedule, and won't let you rebook past 3 weeks after your initial travel date.

but sure let's use AI to manage all our human relationships and critical thought.

your annual reminder that Brazil is a Christmas movie.

I keep thinking about how important this is, and who benefits from the narrative that only a guy named Edward can be the hero who intervened to protect Jewish lives, not a guy named Ahmed

Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

is the new Knives Out worth paying for a month of Netflix / what else should I watch on Netflix over winter break while I mend pants and rest my brain

What a great piece! This just gets better and better as you read. prospect.org/2025/12/11/s...

This scene was devastatingly correct about what it's like to be a first-year grad student struggling to find your own thoughts/voice amid the cacophony of your reading workload / very wrong about how much time or energy you have to be classist and pick up girls in bars.

The time has come... to share the curse... to label some students... "a pleasure to have in class"

The US State Department plans to demand visitors from the EU, Japan, Britain etc submit 5 YEARS of social media, DNA samples, 10 years of work & personal email addresses. THE most important thing to know? US citizens have until February 9, 2025 to submit public comments! Short URL: is.gd/DfVM5M

It's clear from the article that ICE is *miserable* here. They're freezing their asses off and being harassed everywhere they go. Property managers aren't allowing them access to rental properties and people know their rights and aren't letting them in. KEEP IT UP.

speculative promises about what AI could maybe possibly be used for don't match up with reality, and drawing contrasts to how much water humans take to live, or to raise cattle, or to manufacture a t-shirt, are all wildly different from the question of AI facilities and their eminent impacts