So, if I'm reading this right: 4 prosecutors at the Dept of Justice Civil Rights division quit because the Trump-appointed leadership won't investigate Good's killer, and 6 from the Minnesota US Attorney's office quit when they were told instead to investigate her widow. (HT @benjaminkabak.com)

I just felt a sudden spike of panic that I haven't checked my phone in long enough and if any calls had come in about my mom, I might have missed something. She's been dead for almost three years. It never really goes away.

Become uncontainable

“Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the US central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department threatening a criminal indictment related to his June congressional testimony on ongoing renovations of the Fed’s headquarters” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

John Cage, submitting the sheet music for "4'33"" to his publisher: What do you think? Publisher: No notes.

I never thought World War III would be quite this stupid.

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

Meanwhile, over on Mastodon: mastodon.social/@mhoye/11586...

I was having a rough day, so I went and found some cuddly friends. Always choose the bear. …and the pika. (Bear and pika not to scale.)

New: Trio of Dem senators urge Apple and Google to enforce their own terms of service and ban X, Grok apps for their flood of nonconsensual sexual imagery. I've repeatedly asked both Apple and Google about this for three days. They're completely silent, seemingly hoping the question just goes away.

A good example of how misunderstood or distorted retelling of information can send things off the rails in a big damn hurry.

Like, really. We helped push multiple cars full of immigrant neighbors out of the snow yesterday without a second thought. It’s just what you do

Minnesotans will help anyone stuck in the snow, except these murderers

I spent nine months with the fire system annunciator from the next building over beeping in complaint about a hard-to-find broken part, every five seconds, 24/7. It's stopped now. But I must reiterate: nine months. So imagine my reaction every time a nearby bird lets out a call at the same pitch...

The article may be paywalled, but the public notice from NW Natural (the utility company in question) is here: www.nwnatural.com/services/202...

BREAKING NEWS: We are opening a formal investigation into the shooting involving federal agents in Portland today. Our office will take every step necessary to ensure the rights and security of Oregonians are protected. #orpol #breakingnews

I invite all Americans to join Minnesota in a day of unity tomorrow.

My only question is how a school official can be surprised by this when schoolyard bullies have behaved like this since the dawn of fucking time. This is what happens when you hand them authority.

They’re bleeping it in headlines, but not in the story proper. Good.

Occasionally I have cause to remember how my mom (Minnesotan, go figure), who was fortunately sane politically, still went full “I can’t think about it. It’s not my problem anymore” by the end. The lack of care or understanding for what it felt like when she said that straight to my face broke me.

This will sound like a joke, but it's not. When TWO "Minnesota Nice" politicians drop the F-bomb in front of live cameras, we're at Defcon 1.

Today in Oh Hell No

My daughter just walked in and said she's scared because in the trilogy she's reading everyone is happy "and there are two books to go."

Oh my god STOP PUTTING AI IN EVERYTHING it is bad for us, it is bad for the world, it is also just BAD AT THE JOB YOU GIVE IT jesus fucking christ

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

Elsewhere in settings, you can also set whether or not you want videos to autoplay. I recommend turning that off just in general. I chose to watch this one, but it’s best to go in informed first.

Died (alas!) on this day in 1619, in London, the great miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard. Here by himself in 1577. Surely a top candidate for Most Dashing Renaissance Painter!

Tonight's truly dire mood: I spent years being taken advantage of at best and abused at worst by people who wanted me to be responsible for managing an impossible problem that I didn't cause and couldn't fix. Now ask me how I feel when people start yelling at me about politics.

Comic Sans and Blackletter, I hope.

Sometimes in life you just need to stop and yell in a basket on the sidewalk. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

This is fucked. Impeach now before we go (further!) down a really dark path.

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

Adventures in anxiety and self-criticism, episode 46,422: finding myself derailed by humiliation over remembering a dumb mistake I made during an event in high school. I'm pretty sure I was a sophomore at the time, so it was over 30 years ago. And yet, here it all is again. It never quits.

30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine

They kidnapped the head of a Latin American country, replaced him with an insecure white racist who has spent his entire life arguing that Latinos are subhuman, and made clear that their primary aim is to plunder the country for its resources. If it isn't yet clear, yes, we're the fucking baddies.

I also enjoy that they renamed Remote Desktop to Windows App and the Windows App is available in the App Store for Mac where the tab title becomes "Windows App App - App Store" apps.apple.com/us/app/windo...

There’s lots of reasons why being colonized by aliens would probably be terrible, but increasingly I’m willing to do it for the irony.

If you accuse people of AI use for using em dashes, then you really need to go read some books because AI only uses em dashes BECAUSE AUTHORS USE THEM

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

A shitpost so great Billy Joel actually heard about it

This is how you do it. No preamble to swear to God you don't like Maduro.

Spotted at the neighborhood grocery store: NINJA COOKIES

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes