I had Roni on a t-shirt when I was little. Loved that shirt.

I would like a silver metallic ball gown-style puffer coat like the sign bearer ladies in the Olympics. Thank you.

Talking myself out of stupid, overpriced Seattle real estate by looking at listings in Buffalo, as one does. For under a million in Buffalo, you can buy Ani DiFranco's house: www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

Do you: 1) Live near/in Buffalo? 2) Like to organize stuff? 3) Hate what the government is doing to science? If you answered yes, help me organize the Stand Up for Science rally on March 7th! I need reps from UB, Buff State, Canisius, D’Youville to spread the word. I need general support. DM me!

The disposability of girls and young women is so built in that there isn’t really any discussion around lost futures or potential because any woman who could offer something important must be remarkable and rare. In short, the expectations of them are low, and nothing much of value is lost.

To put it another way: Jeff Bezos could easily ensure there are no staff cuts at The Washington Post for the next decade, and he'd still have more than $249B in net worth left over.

Most of the Washington Post’s tech reporters were laid off today, including me. I have loved my time at the paper, which is where I wanted to work from age 15. I take some consolation in not being among the survivors who will have to work harder with less for fewer readers. On to better things.

Man. Women are picking up the pieces after some seriously sorry-ass men right now. Says something that this enormously philanthropic woman immediately pivots to the wrongs done to the girls and women who were Epstein and company’s prey

In MN there are many families currently needing food assistance due to the ice occupation making it too dangerous for them to go to school, work,or leave their homes to get food. People facing hunger is another aspect of the occupation that is hurting people. Below are links to some MN food banks.

Today I learned I should have started using Costco baguettes for tuna melts years ago.

Context: collecting Skymiles to fly people home who were kidnapped in Minnesota and released in Texas.

If I’m quoting mf-ing REAGAN, you know shit is bad. “You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany... Turkey... or Japan, but you cannot become a Japanese... but anyone from any corner of the earth can come to live in America and become an American"

To paraphrase Carrie Fisher, things are getting worse faster than we can lower our standards.

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

GIVE HIM HIS HAT AND BACKPACK BACK YOU GHOULS

Breaking news: Catherine O’Hara, the actress and comedian who delivered deliciously silly performances in movies such as “Beetlejuice” and “Home Alone,” and gained a new generation of fans as Moira Rose on “Schitt’s Creek,” has died. She was 71.

This is huge news. I have spent the past 6 months wondering wtf was up with Amazon: they filed 380,000 AI-related CyberTipline reports to NCMEC in the first half of 2025. Turns out ALL of it was known CSAM they found by screening their AI training data. It's NOT AI-generated or AI-morphed CSAM.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

"Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not."

Seriously. Might wake some folks up.

Pipefitters from the top rope

William Foege has died. He was a central architect of smallpox eradication, pioneering surveillance-driven ring vaccination when vaccine supply was limited. That strategy helped eliminate the deadliest human pathogen we’ve ever known. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

An additional fuck you to everyone who preached against voting for Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, while we're saying our fuck yous...

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Find your neighbors. Be in community. Many churches holding vigils. Call yours to find out.

What we are watching is a paramilitary force learning that they can kill with impunity, that the regime will smear the victim and defend them. Unless politicians and the legal system exerts accountability, it will not stop. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

As we watch the remarkable resistance in Minneapolis, people need to know that #Buffalo successfully fought off a Nativist invasion a hundred years ago when the Klan came to town. 🗃️ buffaloresearch.com/buffalokkk/

2026 has radicalized pop crave (complimentary)

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

My mom loves trolling the door-to-door Andersen Renewal window salesman by explaining that she doesn’t need replacement windows because the original 1939 Andersen windows in her house are still in great shape (with some help from storm windows).

Journalists and bystanders are capturing what JD Vance really doesn’t want us to see. Is this the country we want to live in?

ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement. "I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish. Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature. Minneapolis, MN

definitely not sobbing as i sit here and watch this

Thousands here at Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, the site of deportation flights. Clergy have blocked the road at terminal 1 departures singing “before this campaign fails, we’ll all go down to jail. Everybody has a right to live.”

The existence of this agency, staffed the way it is today, is just completely incompatible with a democratic society.

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

Solidarity with Minnesota today.

From @ipostnews.bsky.social in June: www.investigativepost.org/2025/06/13/f...

Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since. That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

Apologies for what is probably AI slop but I think this is true. White dudes of a certain age, we need you at protests, visibly denouncing these goons.

Did Romo just call Josh Allen “Mahomes”?

🚨 HEADS UP, alert your networks! 🚨 #Buffalo

Honestly, this has also been the greater Seattle area for a while . East & West are hard. North and South are hard. I-5 north down to two lanes for a year, backing everything up. Yay, us.

Great city imo

This is why we celebrate the Boston Substack Party, when the patriots wrote strongly worded pamphlets about tea.