To be fair, Jesus was also opposed to handwashing. It's not clear why.

This Super Bowl kind of sucked as a football game (unless you're a Seahawks fan!) but the Bad Bunny Halftime Show was great. Especially combined with Kendrick Lamar's show last year it makes a powerful statement about America in striking contrast to the Trump administration's messaging.

The underlying point may have some validity, but this is a very misleading map. Among other things it implies that the Pacific Northwest was actually colonized by Spain (rather than just claimed, which is true). The actual country that colonized that area is of course Hawaii.

Green chile stew for our Super Bowl party tomorrow. Simmering nicely.

Oh nice!

Great piece about a great sandwich.

Dems: Here are our demands to support a DHS funding bill: [long list of moderate reforms] Internet leftists: Fuck you! Abolish ICE or GTFO! GOP: We refuse to even consider this list of extreme leftist demands. We'd rather shut down DHS. Internet leftists: Fuck yeah! Where are the Dems on this?!

The median American voter is white and sort of racist but in a kind of incoherent way, and very offended by being accused of racism. This trips up both parties every single time.

Indeed.

JKT's fine but I'm not really sure what he's trying to do here. Claman and Begich have clear lanes on the right and left sides of the Dem coalition respectively and I don't know where he fits in that picture. www.adn.com/politics/202...

Great map. I love the way the colonial territories are overlaid on the Native ones. A couple of quibbles on the language classification however:

It's very funny that the part of the Minibus funding Transportation and HUD is literally called the "THUD Bill."

I had a friend in high school who worked at Little Caesars. He had the cost of one popular order memorized and when people would order it he would make the order and pocket the cash. (I guess it must have come to an even dollar amount so no change was needed.) Anyway, this checks out.

Trump is playing one-dimensional chess.

See also: Tok Thai in Glennallen, AK. www.yelp.com/biz/tok-thai...

Feels like a good time to do another thread on public archaeological site distributions. Here's the Southern Plains: www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...

It was too early for the Jesuits, but otherwise yes, this is basically what happened.

Former Texas Lege reporter here. A Dem hasn't held this seat since 1990. Tarrant is the safest of red suburban counties. There is no way the TX and national GOP aren't in panic mode right now.

Ha, this district is suburban Fort Worth, which is like the Inner Sanctum of Republican Texas. The state party must be *terrified* right now.

Neighborhood patrol.

There’s been a lot of attention to Anchorage’s micro units project, which is innovative and promising, but we also do more traditional types of housing development. This is Baxter Family Housing in East Anchorage, a Cook Inlet Housing Authority project. The Municipality funded the land acquisition.

Good article on the recent Point-in-Time Count and the changes we've recently made to the shelter system. We're still in a transitional period so it's a little too early to tell for sure, but there are some signs that the changes are working. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

Marx himself wrote fan mail to Lincoln personally!

Okay, finished the Hospitallers article. It was interesting, but I'm glad journals no longer accept 300-page articles.

There was a period in the late eighteenth century when the Russian Tsar unilaterally took over the Hospitallers at the same time they were being kicked out of Malta by Napoleon, thus arguably saving the order from oblivion. Something similar happened to the Jesuits around the same time.

One thing I've learned from this interminable Hospitaller article is that a "bailiwick" is, etymologically, the area of jurisdiction of a bailiff. It makes sense but I had never thought about it before. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailiwick

Hm, almost as if people are "predestined" to either be part of an "elect" or not.

The US Government, through the National Science Foundation, does in fact have effective control of the South Pole, so this is actually a possible thing to do.

OMG, guys, Jeffries is well aware that this is already illegal! This, like all of his other demands (and Schumer's) is a messaging thing to draw attention to all the illegal shit they're doing. The GOP is extremely unlikely to agree to these or any other demands, and DHS is certain to ignore them.

Some people even seem to be treating the very existence of a deal as a loss for the Dems, which is telling. Like there are people posting headlines about Schumer announcing a deal with no details about what's in it and expressing their discontent.

I didn't realize Alaska had phased out *all* their Q400s, although I had noticed that all my recent non-737 flights have been on Embraers. Good to know.

It's funny how many of the people who were complaining earlier today that the Democrats' demands were insufficient are now claiming the Dems backed down by making a deal that incorporates those demands.

A large crowd rallies at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau in protest of ICE, murders of Minneapolis residents Alex Pretti, Renee Good and others in ICE custody, and calling for an end to ICE operations + immigration crackdown

Moderately hot take on generative AI: Its use is ethically acceptable only in cases where plagiarism is already acceptable (there are some!), but in almost all of those cases using AI involves more work for less benefit than regular plagiarism so there's not actually any advantage to using it.

Finished part 2 of the Hospitallers article, which includes a brief mention of the period in the seventeenth century when they controlled several Caribbean islands. I had known about this at one point but had forgotten.

The Hospitallers' main rivals, the Templars, were famously discredited and abolished after the Crusading era ended and the Hospitallers generally ended up with their assets, some of which they retain to this day. Resiliency!

It's funny that Franklin, despite being the oldest Founding Father, would clearly be the one who would best fit in if he somehow showed up today.

I'm reading a long article from 1938 about the medical work of the Knights Hospitallers. It's really interesting; over several hundred years they were very much in the forefront of developing ideas about both hospital administration and what we would now call nonprofit management.

Remember when Chris Christie did this exact same thing? How'd that work out for him?

At a bar in Silver City and one of the other guys at the bar broke his glass. Bartender said “mazel tov!”

It’s like they’re going out of their way to kill the most sympathetic people imaginable.

The mockery is well deserved, but the rule of legislative procedure here is “you need a majority to vote against him” and that majority doesn’t exist (in Congress!) regardless of what Democrats do.

Nice little structural ambiguity for the #linguistics feed

This basic pattern has been well known for a while but it's interesting to see it quantified.

When I worked for the State of Alaska I had a co-worker who had this map hung up in his office.

Apparently two of the hotels I've stayed at in Nome have since burned down (Polaris and Nugget). The Aurora Inn is still there and is definitely the best choice if you're headed out that way.

The interesting thing here is really how small the margins are on the Republican side.

Seems fitting that Twitter has devolved into the John Birch Society dunking on Elmo.

This has turned out to be a surprisingly competitive game.

I disagree. Americans are not paying any attention to statements like this, but Europeans are. Democrats need to be calibrating their message here to the people who are actually listening and actually care, which does not include anyone in the Trump administration.