It’s astounding how much damage Miller has done — morally, economically, safety-wise — because he can’t stand brown people. We are so much worse off bc of him. And yes, there’s much blame to go around - Trump, Vance, Noem, etc. - but Miller is the heart of it (ironic since he seems to lack one).

Israel has carried out attacks in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Qatar and Yemen, as well as in maritime waters https://aje.io/b18296

“When’s the next nationwide protest?” You might be asking yourself. Here’s a big one that’s happening in less than a month! Jan 20th. Free America Walkout. Women’s March, 50501, & More. Be There.

How to stop waiting and start living – a jolt from Henry James www.themarginalian.org/2022/10/17/h...

Who decides what is normal? Normality is an invention of those without imagination. Alda Merini

A simply lovely, not too hard, not too easy literary quiz to end the year, from the wonderful Places and Books over on IG. He does one every week! This year-end quiz is a doozy; get a pencil and paper handy. And be ready for your next trivia night! open.substack.com/pub/placesan...

For those of us who can’t get through the WSJ pay wall, here’s the nuts and bolts of what in any other era would be the greatest presidential scandal in history. boingboing.net/2025/12/27/t...

Think how many millions of public school students have created glorious holiday art with their own minds and hands this month. Weingarten could be sharing actual art and celebrating actual human kids whom the @aft.org is supposed to be serving. But no. She's sharing "A.i." garbage based on theft.

A long way to say, “He lied to the voters.”

Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice. Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.

Oh now come on. Who approved this font choice??

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

It would be far less time-consuming to count down the number of times he accidentally told the truth. shorturl.at/j6eU3

The future: Russia slams a drone into Odessa. Ukraine calls up their American partners -- we're claiming our Article V protections, they bombed us and therefore they bombed you. America: They didn't bomb us. We can just bomb Russia, that'd start WWIII. Good luck!

Once again raising the question -- why is the president's son-in-law at this official event?

Are your kids “boooooored”? We’ve got hundreds of book recommendations for them right here:

It's only corruption if it's from the Corrupte region in Southern France. Otherwise it's just blurring the lines between business and government.

The most adorable chess piece ever! A knight, made of antler. Dating 11/12th century Found at the Burgstein, Lichtenstein-Holzelfingen. 📷 me #archaeology

As if MN prosecutors haven't been investigating and prosecuting this for years. First with the Feeding Our Future scam, and now with HHS fraud. Most of this was initially uncovered by investigative reporting by KARE 11 (NBC) reporter AJ Lagoe. Excellent digging! Patel isn't needed.

Humans matter. I want art to be made by humans and enjoyed by humans. And I want that to be true across the chain of creation. From idea to implementation to publication to presentation and distribution. Fuck AI.

This letter pretends it is reasonable and obvious but ultimately is an attempt to excuse a dozen or more ways of letting anti-human, pro-techlord, environment-destroying septic AI into our industry, organizations and processes. But there just isn’t an ethical use of generative AI, full stop.

Wonder, play, and how to be more alive – a poem that will brighten and broaden your life: www.themarginalian.org/2025/08/11/i...

Key takeaway: No state or district will be spared from bigger health care bills next year. What that means: Congressional Republicans could have helped their own constituents with these skyrocketing healthcare costs - amid a larger affordability crisis - but they choose to slam the door on them.

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.” - Carrie Fisher

May 25, 1867: Minneapolis Tribune prints its 1st newspaper, 15 weeks after the city is chartered. The Tribune was an innovator, receiving the 1st Mergenthaler typesetting machines in 1891 and printing the 1st cartoon in 1897. Until today, it was the nation's 7th largest in print circulation.

Ooh that sounds amazing!

Oh crap. Need to head home from Rochester before 10am then. It is 70 minutes door to door. Do not want to drive over an hour through a storm.

In AZ many big corporations pay only the min income tax, $50. They get so many loopholes that they do not pay for the benefits they use -public roads, public safety, public education. Talarico tells the truth. The biggest welfare queens are big corporate freeloaders fortune.com/2025/12/20/j...

lemme take off my beautiful woman wig real quick, replace it with my realpolitik cap: if a candidate delivered me free tampons i would vote for her. i would vote for her all day long

Trump's most successful business, by far, is the presidency. Up until the presidency, we were being told he was a brilliant successful businessman by people eager to lie their way into reality. In a better world, he'd have died in debt after declaring bankruptcy a dozen more times.

Wait, is Grenell a Trump appointee? Sounds like it. Aw. Did he get his feelings hurt?

Don’t use Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky

It’s very weird—and telling—to treat politics as something unimportant that’s wrong for people to act on, while treating a jazz concert as an issue of public concern so serious it calls for legal action.

One of the most incredible shots I've ever gotten, in Yellowstone. This coyote walked over a ridge in the blowing snow and posed for me, with a small grin on its face, the snowfalkes like stars in the background. The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.

DOJ official Todd Blanche promised to dump his crypto holdings no later than 90 days after his Senate confirmation in March. But about a month into the job — before divesting — he ordered an end to investigations into crypto companies. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social @shaw.al

I just taught my lecture course on mid-20th c US history, which starts with Harding and concludes with Nixon. For the first time, I had to pause and stress that those scandals were actually shocking at the time and, what’s more, that Americans actually demanded people be held accountable.

The biggest divide in America today is not between “right” and “left,” or between Republicans and Democrats. It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The old labels — “right” and “left” — prevent most people from noticing they’re getting the shaft. Know the truth.

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.

"Trump is supporting the Arts" - my man is literally gutting the National Endowment for the Arts, which they cannot conceive of as anything beyond Les Mis or the Beach Boys performing at Mar A Lago

Oh this sucks. I once worked for the printing trade association. Printing, and all affiliated industries, has a long and storied history in MN, going back to logging and paper making, publishing, and innovations in print. This is just downright sad. But you saw it coming when they changed the name.

Because nothing says COMFORT like... marble? 🙄 jfc Also, who the FUCK is paying for all this?!?

My mother in-law a retired public school art teacher was telling me how when Photoshop first came out a bunch of the schools started laying off art teachers only to have hire them back a few years later.

Here’s to more laughter in 2026.

We need those who claim to be “left” to stop punching down on the disabled, covid cautious and immune compromised. Masking is resistance. It’s community care. The ruling class wants you sick and weak so you won’t fight back. Healthcare is being gutted. There’s never been a better time to mask

Support public media! Most other networks have been bought and sold to oligarchs

Remember a few months ago, when Trump tried to tell you the Epstein saga was over? Seems it has only just begun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzwEQVJ4gOA&list=PLmHDGpDOjacoTxbrY068uPDU6lYhubjg4&index=18

OH THANK GOD.

“Im not allowed to earn any money” is something only billionaires should be forced to say. This system is broken, and no I don’t mean it’s not working as intended, it is. I mean this system has been co-opted and twisted to benefit those at the top. It is up to us to change it. 2026 will be the start

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