What's making me lose my mind is that Hegseth made a career out of defending American soldiers who committed war crimes, now is openly ordering war crimes and bragging about it, yet our media does not have headlines screaming "Sec Def is Ordering War Crimes."

literally just stealing from us so they can line their pockets

Print is the rent strike, as @mattseybold.bsky.social says

Would be amazing if we could get some non-Minnesotan neighbors plugged in here. Minnesotans have majorly overextended themselves paying their neighbor's rents and we know there is more capacity to chip in from outside the state.

$20 million over budget in 2025 alone.

we don’t have money for Kanopy but Dawanna Witt’s goons get paid overtime to brutalize observers in the Government Center very cool

If you’ve read about the Trojan War, you’ve read about Tyre.

“Never again” is meaningless if it doesn’t include this. There’s no reason to mince words other than cowardice: these are concentration camps and never again is now.

This is the thing about bathroom bans targeting trans people - assault is already a crime! Indecent exposure is already a crime! And laws that protect trans people don't suddenly make them legal

Target has allowed ICE to abduct its workers and use its property for staging. Now Minnesota organizers are building a pressure campaign against the company. "There is no neutral here," says labor organizer Veronica Mendez Moore. Vital reporting by Isabela Escalona.

Why do the dumbest most arrogant venal fucking ghouls never suffer any consequences!

If allying yourself with an anti-vax lunatic and helping him gut public health in America while children die of vaccine-preventable diseases doesn’t get you expelled from academia, then the whole system is utterly broken.

Perhaps an early (bad) sign of what is to come: Vinay Prasad, who helped lead a campaign against lifesaving mRNA vaccines at FDA, is being welcomed back to the University of California San Francisco, where he was prior to joining the Trump administration.

I took this picture on Weds (it’s on East Lake, across from the library and next to the Coliseum building) The mural was gone when I dropped by the library today.

This is so absolutely predictable: ‘please feel sorry for our sad bag of math we are pretending has feelings, and that may or may not have been used to murder scores of Iranian schoolgirls’

Fun thing to think about very briefly: who currently has better lawyers, the United States or Nintendo

Minnesota still needs your help

is it so hard to see people are not waiting to be told what’s possible

particularly when people are putting their safety on the line to defend people from abduction by the state—is that expressing “disagreement” with anti-immigration “policy”? or maybe, more simply and directly, it’s people standing in the way

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

Friends from outside Minnesota have asked me if there are celebrations in the street over Noem being fired. To anyone not in MN: no. people are still buying neighbors groceries and collecting for their rent and patrolling. If ice is abolished or trump dies, then mpls will celebrate

Line go down

all media companies are gravely underestimating my willingness to teach teenagers how to use bittorrent

No, see, this time Lucy is gonna let Charlie Brown kick that football

We need your help bringing two pregnant women back home from ICE detention! Their loved ones and community are asking for financial assistance to support the family during these difficult times. givebutter.com/bring-pregna...

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Ask him if he believes housing is a human right. We are not asking for the sun and the moon. Just a lifeline to help folks get back on their feet.

Imagine if you single handedly had the power to delay thousands of evictions & keep families in their homes. Jacob Frey can do that by signing what Council passed yesterday. Or he can help evict thousands of people with a veto. Let him know what you would do: www.minneapolismn.gov/government/m...

A really cool example of investigative reporting from @businessinsider.com, mapping (the often undisclosed) locations of US data centers by tracking permits for the diesel back-up generators they use: www.businessinsider.com/data-center-...

unlike Target, which is reactionary but has a near-monopoly on acquisition of some household products in town, it is very easy to avoid the traitorous Chicago-Lake Liquors (and the very questionable Matt's Bar)

Gone are the days when “cloud” as a metaphor could hide the material impacts of data centers, so now they are sold with AI hype.

american century of humiliation incoming

The Faux Faculty Senate are back with another round of helpful advice for our brethren throughout the state. Here we warn faculty not to teach Huck Finn or the Modest Proposal, if they know what's good for them.

80% of crypto is wash trading and that's how I'm starting to think about Trump 2.0. The whole admin is just making proclamations and smashing about to inflate the value of their holdings. Occasionally a policy entrepreneur like Miller aligns the market manipulation around war or ethnic cleansing.

I believe this means Doc Rivers has joined more public statements calling for the defense of higher education against the Trump Administration than has the President of the University of Chicago.

“.. National average gasoline price is now up by 10.8% over the past 4 days ... the only other time we've seen a larger increase was in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.” - Schwab ⛽️

They are still kidnapping our neighbors. Abolish ICE.

This is actually fascinating and UVA should be doing this (and more) in Cville

have you called Jacob Frey today? Don’t worry, you won’t have to talk to anyone. Just leave a message.

Krugman describes them as VSPs (very serious people) and in the Econ field they only serious if they recommend austerity. They remain serious even if a spreadsheet error causes them to come up unsupported conclusions, but become unserious if they suggest not-austerity

Did you know you can shrug and say "No can do boss" when a court orders you to do something

Unexpectedly if you are stupid

my university is already looking to cut somewhere between 7 and 15% of its full-time faculty next year, for reasons that wave of austerity was dictated by policy to do labor discipline but this + an oil price hike and you get a regime that just isn't counting on elections for survival

Congrats to @ncaaup.bsky.social & all who fought against this surveillance policy that would've allowed admin to hijack microphones in the classroom for secret recordings. This move would've chilled classroom discussion & suppressed students' willingness to ask questions & take intellectual risks.

Worth noting here that nothing in the published evidence changed. Just a hack at the head of HHS was enough to shift behavior.

“Make something weird and wonderful of your own, if you're so inclined.” I joined a web ring for the first time in 25 years, rebuilt my personal site from scratch, and recommitted to my love of RSS this year. Thrilled to see that, in 2026, the craft of web-making is alive and growing.

Part of the disconnect is of course that techbros insist that a total revolution in the way that software is made is taking place, but anyone who uses software can observe that software continues to suck more than ever before

Time once again to share the little lesson from my Local Media class (drawing on the work of myriad other scholars!) about how this happened — and why it doesn’t have to be like this. The post office could + should be a vital institution for public connection — from postal mail to internet access