Sometimes it hots in October.

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

Gonna tell my kids this was MS-13

My Loons Player Ratings Minnesota United 0-3 Chicago Fire Sat Sep 20 2025 MLS Regular Season St Paul MN GREAT: - GOOD: - OK: St Clair, Gressel, Romero, Markanich, Trapp, Gene, Fitz, Randell, Dieng, Boxall, Pereyra, Lod, Hlongwane, Rosales BAD: Triantis, Duggan, WOOF: -

Fine, I’ll come out of my cage. But this is just to warn you that I am not doing just fine.

I don't know, but... 🎵"to-day's not gonna be the day"🎵

and he’s clearly had enough of Ezra Klein’s shit

Patrick McGovern, an archaeologist who analyzed ancient cauldrons, shards of pottery and broken bottles to discover and then recreate the alcoholic beverages that intoxicated prehistoric civilizations, including booze found in the tomb of King Midas, died last month. He was 80.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

Farm Aid and the UMN Departments of History, American Studies & Anthropology Present Collective Power in the Countryside: A Conversation With Sarah Smarsh & Sarah Vogel, Moderated by Sonja Trom Eayrs Thu, Sep 18, 5:00pm Best Buy Theater, Northrup, UMN @sarahsmarsh.bsky.social @umn-amst.bsky.social

Ok, doomer

My parents took me out of a country where this was the norm and where it led to the execution and imprisonment of millions of innocent people. They brought me here, to America, believing that it would not happen here. And yet here we are.

Many congratulations to Laura Garbes (University of Minnesota) on the publication of her pathbreaking sociology of the culture, idealism, and contradictions of public media. Out today on Princeton University Press.

University of Minnesota hot take: Williamson Hall is a glorious modernist underground concrete oddball. I wish my department would move here. It’s as close to Vancouver cool as we are likely to get. Ofc everyone here hates it.

Kermit the Frog was once the show's on-the-scene reporter. What pushed him into show business? Did he rage-quit? Was he forced out? The media memory hole runs deep.

“Listeners like who?” Think about this op-ed by UMN sociology professor Laura Garbes when the fall pledge drive starts up. No paywall.

War criminals, not tepid liminals. Don’t be vague, try them at The Hague.

Coming out of our @seiu.org 284 office these students had walked out and are demanding action on gun safety in South St. Paul. Solidarity with them and the thousands of their fellow students who are taking action to end gun violence today around the country!

I felt a real, disorienting rush of gratitude when I saw that the NRA doesn't think I should be barred from owning guns just for being trans. The NRA works to keep mass-murder weapons on the streets, they suck. But so many orgs and people whose other values are so much better have failed on this.

📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2025) It's that time of year again when some of us voluntarily submit to being Blinded by the SADs light reminiscent of the Springsteen tune about youth, frustration, and the desire for escape. Blinded by the light Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

what does “establishment” mean to these people?

slightly diminish a band: the skirmish

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This is literally the most pro-Suarez statement I can find on the internet today.

They tried to put him through the grinder, but the people recognized a hero.

I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.

The left, minutes later: - “It’s a sub!” - “Only Democratic shills say ‘sub,’ it’s a hoagie!” - [one guy in the back that everyone ignores] [muffled] “itsagrinder!” - “you shoulda made it a banh mi bro, rookie move”

How do we make judgments of whether ideas are widely believed? People easily develop illusory consensus beliefs. We can believe our ideas are widely shared. We also develop consensus beliefs based on seeing ideas repeatedly. @maddyjalbert.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ment...

Just fyi that you can get your flu shot at the Minnesota State Fair … Cub booth in the Education Building. We got ours!

I would like to see Minnesota launch a huge investigation of every church, every club, every gun store, every security firm, every aspect of society that brought this motherfucker to the point of murdering people. Every politician and candidate that rants about abortion.

Following Bob Dylan feeds on here means seeing a lot of people over 60 saying "Why doesn't anyone write protest songs like Bob Dylan anymore!" and every time I can only think that these people 1. stopped listening to any new music after Bob Dylan and 2. stopped listening to Bob Dylan after 1964

US OUT OF DC!!

Today in parallel/not parallel news items

Given that I am a constant tinkerer when it comes to class material, it is really such a joy to pick up a syllabus for a class that I haven’t taught in a while and realize that it’s really pretty solid as-is.

I would trade all of the AI offerings for the return of a really good RSS reader (and more sites with RSS feeds)

If only there were some way professionals could do this.

very same

The one thing I see as an unequivocal good in the first Trump administration was the development of Covid vaccines. But MAGA is too loopy to take the win, and now this roadkill eating eugenicist conspiracy monger is going to get lots of people killed.

A big storm rolled through St Paul last night. I’ve had three predatory “complimentary roof inspection” calls so far today. And it’s really no wonder home insurance rates are spiking.

😢😢😢😢😭

NYU should petition the Ivy League to let them replace Columbia. Shooters shoot.

Today, the University of Minnesota announced via a very chipper email that Google’s AI “will now be available to students, faculty, and staff.” I have thoughts! 🧵

The Supreme Court derives its power from its legitimacy. It earns its legitimacy by explaining its decisions. The endless stream of wholly unexplained orders in favor of the Trump administration is not just indefensible—it's a threat to the court's own long-term power. This reeks of illegitimacy.

Shameful. I was sad to ditch my subscription to WaPo last year after that had done such crucial work. I think about the investigative journalism of David Fahrenthold during the first Trump admin for example. But it’s clear it was the right decision.

Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended. This is so horrifying I made a bar graph www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

I need everyone in the airline industry to understand that these ghouls do not have enough airplane contracts to deport everyone they want to deport. NOW is the time for you and your union to tell your airline: If you contract with ICE, I will refuse to fly.

@nathanaclark.bsky.social How do we turn Tottenham Hotspur into Minnesota United?