Donald Trump canceled Direct File after giant tax prep companies spent millions lobbying. Why? Because Direct File let you file your taxes for free. So today, I’m introducing a bill to make Direct File the law of the land. And 160 members of Congress are joining me.

Another perfect morning to support tcpipeline.org www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati... But also…

Milkshake puck

i know that doing this shit on the fly isn’t impossible either because i’ve seen it done for fucking football games here; meanwhile the sidewalks & bus stops are wholly inaccessible for people using mobility aids of any sort

I used to eat weird snack foods during the FOIA reminder during work calls and somewhere there’s recordings of me eating “tailgate” candy corn. The face I made after the hamburger flavored one became a custom Slack emoji for “tastes bad.”

KISS KISS KISS KISS KISS KISS (I don't know how hockey works, this is the best I can do.)

SCREAMED AND SCARED THE CAT AAAA! 🇺🇸🏒

Canada USA OT three on three gold medal hockey?

Read too quickly and thought a headline said “comic uncertainty” instead of “economic uncertainty” and I don’t think I was wholly wrong.

Pizzaballa from downtown

Sure, but who could have predicted this? *reads contemporaneous reporting and policy analysis from mid-2025* Oh, everyone. Everyone predicted this.

The fundamental breaking of the social contract of neighbors helping neighbors feels evil in a way that's very hard to articulate.

Good morning from Combustible Edison! youtu.be/HMWBGaKs_UU?...

Just had a memory of how quietly disappointed I was after finding out “Agricola” was a board game about farming and NOT about competitive beverage developers trying to sell stranger and stranger flavors of soda.

Over the last week, I’ve seen several posts from prominent devs wrestling with what “AI” has done to their craft. I wrote this book because wherever you work in tech, I wanted you to know that there’s an alternative—a better future, even. And you and your coworkers can build it together.

joyce is going after elon again

Minneapolis sign game is strong and weird.

I'm going to promote the heck out of this: The Minneapolis Foundation has $4 million in grants available to small businesses for everything from rent and payroll costs to legal help and temporary relocation. More details and the application here: www.minneapolisfoundation.org/stories/comm...

The answer to "Do I need an IKEA-made Mimic ottoman in my house?" is an unwavering OF COURSE. www.ikea.com/us/en/p/grej...

HEY so the whole world is on fire and that's certainly an aspect of feeling bad aaaand it's ALSO worth checking on how well your meds at their current doses are working (or not) for you! Signed, me (a person with newly rebalanced neurotransmitters who feels like she can breathe again).

Someone in whistle chat called people saying “I love your work, but I just thought of this other, different work you should be doing too” idea fairies and it’s so accurate. Don’t be an idea fairy unless you’re also going to be the project planning and volunteer coordination fairy.

Which we will keep in a drawer out of view and refuse to return.

Blocked someone for replying to me that Beastie Boys were overrated. Mostly blocked for being rude enough to reply that way to my BB positive post. But also for having that opinion at all. We need to collectively isolate and shun anyone who thinks that way. youtu.be/kq-VNCGBDRU?...

On Lincoln's birthday, it's useful to remember he believed the primary goal of the American experiment was to guarantee "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" and the best way to achieve that goal was through free and fair elections. It's basically the thesis of the Gettysburg Address. 1/2

Neighbors helping neighbors. That's what it looks like because that's what it is.

I become incandescently furious when I think of the mRNA research being paused or cancelled. there was a vax in the works to prevent pancreatic cancer from coming back for YEARS. Most folks have only months, sometimes weeks, after diagnosis because it’s spread before it’s found. Imagine extra YEARS!

Everything reminds me of him.

[frantically raising hand] ooh, ooh. I know. Because Americans have a constitutional right to vote but don't have a right to open a bank account or drive a car.

Since I more clearly named reading as a hobby, I’m more particular about the resources I put towards it. Money is part of it, but time is huge too. I’m far more brutal about ditching a book I’m not into, and comfortable making plans to be cozy and reading for hours.

I’m just sowing dragon’s teeth in the fields the way ATHENA TOLD ME TO, jeez.

Traditional Monday music here from one Costello to another. youtu.be/FJTIIfhk2k4?...

you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

I'm not old enough to remember it specifically, but had I known I would have asked my parents for an Amik (Algonquin stylized beaver) stuffed animal, official mascot of the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics.

Nothing has changed here. So you might ask - how will we know when things have changed? For me it’s all the kids back in school.

Imagining the dog teams being part of the Parade of Nations and wearing sweaters and being SO GOOD????

📱 | Saint Paul, MN (2026) Buses are a democratic floorboard. No algorithms or paywalls, rather temporal trajectories over public arteries. The cast of characters reminds me I'm not the only person living here. A bus is the city’s nervous system in real-time. #MetroTransit #photography

Just like I eventually stopped "hearing" the vuvuzela note during the 2010 World Cup, I'm sure the whistling drone sounds during the #Olympics will fade into the background.

Things have not improved. The government won't comply with court orders. Agents are behaving more aggressively. Schools are offering remote learning into April. The tapering of national media coverage has emboldened DHS. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0... www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

One reason Minneapolis remains in the world's eye is we have one of the most robust & independent media ecosystems remaining in the country. You all need this...and more! @mprnews.org @startribune.com @sahanjournal.bsky.social @minnesotareformer.com @minnpost.bsky.social @racketmn.com etc.

Hometown laundromat owner and high-end dry cleaner compete for customers... and love? Pretreated Rivalry

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

Sneakers (1992)

Do any of my Twin Cities followers have recs for in-town movers? I'm moving to a new place in a few weeks and the last movers my wife and I hired sexually harassed us (The Move Crew! Don't hire them!), so I'm looking to vet the people we hire this time a bit better

We peaked at HayNet

Threats to public servants have increased at every level of government and across every state in the country since 2013. Isabella Ulloa and Abby André explain what can be done to stem the rise of political violence and make public service safer nationwide.

People have been shouting for years that no one should be a billionaire, that wealth on that level is personally poison and societally catastrophic, and now we have millions of terribly written emails demonstrating in the clearest terms that every one of those shouts was impossibly correct.

Up at Silverwood Park in St Anthony, MN, they built an ice carousel. Drill a hole in the ice, put in an outboard motor, cut the ice in a big circle, fire up the outboard, ice carousel. People do fun weird shit outside in Minnesota all winter long. Park was packed. It’s delightful here.

twin cities drum collective protest against ICE on nicollet mall in downtown minneapolis. drummer in front of the mary tyler moore statue has a trans rights flag and the other drums say “PRINCE WOULD BE PISSED” and “ICE OUT”

Worse service to taxpayers one of the completely predictable outcomes of Trump gutting the IRS modernization project and DOGE cutting jobs.