A literacy crisis means people are struggling to UNDERSTAND what they are reading, not that people can't necessarily read.

Guess who’s back.. back again.. Horace, the corpse flower, blooming!

“What they're not saying is that ALPRs are also frequently used for extremely low-level investigations, such as verifying whether a student lives within a particular school zone…police have even used this tech to conduct employment background checks and investigations into loud music complaints.”

I see a lot of people approvingly sharing that “being a dad is the best thing you can do” NYT oped piece and I just want to note that it’s still pronatalism even if it’s packaged as encouraging men to shed aggressiveness and competition in favor of caretaking

Clue

So, straight guys are super into mustaches this year huh?

Confirming with my own eyes and pics what several fellow Washingtonians have said about this post with hundreds of shares and earnest comments: straight up misinformation

Prince dropped this guitar pick at one of his Paisley Park concerts in 2009. I was there. I grabbed it! Today I used it to play the Let's Go Crazy solo with my music students at Prince Celebration 2026 Block Party outside First Avenue Nightclub 🤯🙃😎 Yea dude. That's cool 🎸

The TV era could have destroyed much more written communication than it actually did, but people forget there were intense and very intentional efforts to prevent this from happening. Now, feels like people react with a more “well, the written word is dead now and that’s just how it is” stance

Well that blew up! And here I was just hoping that one of the cool Minneapolis kids would like it! While I have a small audience: consider a small donation to Casa Maria, a food shelf in Richfield, MN (Twin Cities) that helps those most impacted by the ICE invasion. www.saint-nicks.org/casamaria

My kingdom for vegan horchata ice cream

Love this news but hate the "surprise comeback" framing. Teams around the globe worked incredibly hard to protect & expand mangrove forests & it worked! Please just say, "We tried and we succeeded! Go team Earth!" We must admit our victories to give people the heart to keep trying! #ShareGoodNewsToo

🗣️ Bald guys are hot. Embrace it.

Super cool that the grandfather I grew up in a house with,who wouldn't even talk about his time in France during WWII because of the horrors, fought for a country whose defense secretary is now IRL Hitlerposting from Normandy on the anniversary of D-Day.

Tankies would rather cum in your sink than go to therapy

If you think Bill Peterson will make a good MPD Chief, I’d encourage you to Google “Metro Gang Strike Force Minneapolis” and read up on some of his earlier work.

Birds in Donetsk are using fiber-optic drone wire to build their nests...

5th annual Big Pencil sharpening

"Marketers chose the slogan after consulting an AI tool, looking for suggestions, Shinsegae Group said. It turned out some managers who approved the campaign never opened the email attachments showing the marketing material."

the magical realism of Minneapolis in the summer

I specifically requested no more metaphors

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler as excerpted in William Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

The Claude Code leak makes clear the extent to which the wrapping around the “LLM” itself does so much heavy lifting. The stochastic flock starts a murmuration in these places, which are also Anthropic’s way of constraining it. The flock escapes the aviary when systems interact. ⬇️

I’m thinking about one specific social media popular guy from Minnesota who called me out my name on Twitter in 2024 for saying that a lot of people were not experiencing a good economy

Almost all his family came to MN in the 1860s/70s (all from Norway). There is nothing special about the outcome of arriving in Goodhue/Rice counties at that time and winding up with generational privilege. Land is money. It’s not shocking that fascism appeals to ahistorical people like this.

bull in a china shop

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Weimar Germany, 1932

It's been a brutal two weeks in Chicagoland with ICE pointing guns and tasers, multiple car crashes, violent arrests and a significant uptick in detainments overall. Feds continue to stalk courthouses across multiple counties. Today, agents were also seen at the rideshare lots at O'Hare.

Mars — Diego Velázquez, 1638

Oh hell no! www.minnpost.com/greater-minn...

More moths I forgot to pelt you with: 10. Big pink chonk season is upon us! Elephant hawkmoth caterpillars eat the willowherbs & bedstraws I've encouraged in the moth garden, & adults drink nectar from the wild honeysuckle. Want big pink chonks? Got some outdoor space? Grow weeds...

What do you think Newport Goku tastes like?

Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were removed by police during the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

What you have to know about ICE, they have a huge budget. Trump's administration is committed to funding them more by multiples. New facilities are constantly in the words. This is not about capturing immigrants, they're the canaries in the coal mine. It's about abducting & incarcerating everyone.

cw: death The little girls who lived with me for a year, and who I am an unofficial auntie for, lost their big cousin today. She had been doing really well and then she relapsed. The family needs help with funeral costs. Please help if you can. Cashapp: $LanceChicoCampbell Venmo: @autumnjoyc

Saype is asking community to show up Sat, June 6, @ 4pm & join hands for a group photo around “Beyond Walls”. tomorrow is a big MPS graduation day, grads come in ur caps & gowns! after, head to the Prince sing-a-long @ the 1st Ave Prince mural. Art is resistance. Art is healing. Art connects us.

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Albania is erupting for the second consecutive day in angry mass protests against the Kushner land seizure deal worth $4 billion.

The convergent forms and spaces of data centers and detention centers

This is super important. This is a shot across the bow of the Supreme Court. The administration is preemptively taking the position that a Supreme Court ruling against the ballroom project has no force and will not be obeyed.

Jacob and his complete lack of leadership skills have cost this city so much money

Jacob has always been like this, and his contempt has only grown as folks elect more left of center council members. He's holding all of us back when he could be spending his own money on his own therapy! It's a him problem!