[Tim Curry voice] The Constitution was just a red herring!

I've been racking my brain to remember how old I was when I saw it. Because my son's at a liminal age now, where I don't know whether showing it to him would be amazing or terrifying.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

Heineken to cut up to 6, 000 jobs, reports €1.9 billion profit: Heineken, the Dutch beer brewer, announced on Wednesday that it plans to eliminate between 5,000 and 6,000 jobs globally over the next two years as part of a significant cost-saving initiative. This move … https://ranked.news/168326?u=b

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

I like this @blockclubchi.bsky.social Chicago pizza guide for a few reasons, like pushing back on the "deep dish is for tourists" malarkey. But it omits the credible claim that double decker came from the burbs. As a double decker disciple, this I cannot abide. blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/02/t...

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

I'm about to read through a Contributor's Agreement for an edited volume at a university press. Any tips on what I should look for/focus on?

The stores around me would be flabberghasted at the idea that 31 different pasta shapes exist 😔 Don't worry, though, they all got farfalle.

Are you an aspiring history podcaster? Hear how @drzara.bsky.social and Dr. Joanna Cohen created "Thing 4 Things," their series on the stuff of history, on the latest @oieahc.bsky.social Digital Projects Coffeehouse. youtu.be/erPGyh9QmQU?...

Better Know a Beer Cap #83: Bud Select 55, a discontinued and now obsolete one-up on Miller 64. From that romantic, bygone stretch of the early 2000s where calorie conscious drinkers hadn't yet discovered Michelob Ultra, yet still thought Bud Light was just too dang viscous.

Astra reminding you to beware of "Schlägertypen" or "thug types." I consider this one of the funnier beer ads I've seen, with an unusual streak of socioeconomic commentary (laudatory). (I explain a bit more in alt text)

Miller 1855 Celebration Lager (2005-2006): A special "hand-crafted" golden lager, brewed to celebrate Miller's 150th anniversary in July 2005. It was initially given out to employees and sold in-house, then sold solely in Wisconsin, then nationally in six packs and loose bottles in November.

Any subscriber quitting on Dave over this can't have been reading his stuff too closely...but you should! Beer has *always* been political. If you don't see that, it's probably because the politics was designed around your comfort. Dave just helps us make sense of that reality.

I hollered because Frederick Douglass absolutely did pose down lol

Budweiser, likely from a mag like Ebony, but I'm not 100% sure. Unknown date.

your first draft isn't perfect? what? that's weird. i've never heard of that happening before. maybe you should give up

ICE is not welcome here. Want a sticker? Venmo [@]austinlouisray any amount of money and include your mailing address. 100% of the proceeds go to Minnesota mutual aid funds. Let's do some good this week: how-id-fix-atlanta.ghost.io/ice-is-not-w...

Publishing a print beer zine in 2026 is, as you might guess, not a good way to get rich quick. We do, however, believe it can be sustainable, and we need your help to ensure that sustainability for Final Gravity. 🧵

Hey @maureenogle.bsky.social, just letting you know that my mother has finished The Price of Plenty, and she loved it. Let me know where I can submit her blurb for the jacket.

Geraldo Rivera has the chance of a lifetime, here

My office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis. This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg

Here's a great read about Mack and the Peoples story, written by my pal John Harry: www.goodbeerhunting.com/blog/2020/7/...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

The Mariners will wear Steelheads uniforms on all home Sundays this season, and are launching the Steelheads Community Fund with a $500,000 commitment "in support of local Black-led baseball and softball organizations and community initiatives."

Pls help me spread the word! Registration is open for my virtual course on Chicago's Lager Beer Riot of 1855. Learn how German Chicagoans brought European food riot traditions to the US, and how a few minutes of brawling shaped decades of Chicago beer & politics. www.newberry.org/calendar/bee...

Brewery workers, bar owners, and union organizers in MSP are setting the mark on how to actually care for their community, rather than just invoke as a buzzword. At @vinepair.com, I reported how their work doubles as a playbook for colleagues nationwide whose homes may face MAGA sieges soon enough.

Listening! Immediately saw Maria on the list. One of Rage's best, IMO.

The Beervana Blog is about to turn 20. The thing about retrospectives is you never remember anything. So, wise hive mind, what are the watershed changes/developments in beer over the last two decades?

Yeah, yeah, data security bad. But the framing of this article is atrocious. The fact that these children's conversations were recorded at all is horrific and exploitative. Bad actors might exploit the data, you say? The *company* is the bad actor here.

I love the implication that anger and resistance aren't an appropriate response to the mass violation of rights. Especially while we're preparing to commemorate *checks notes* the American Revolution.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Just became aware that this book, on beer legislation, has come out www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

Clearly ICE just needs the benefit of our awesome pedagogy.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

New at The Watch: I dug into archival witness accounts of the British siege of Boston prior to the American Revolution. They are remarkably similar to what we're seeing in Minneapolis. open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

Would that I were in Ireland...

We have a Final Gravity writer working on a story about homebrewing in communal living situations. If anyone has leads on possible sources for the article, please DM me! (And, obviously, I can google things myself. Solid leads only, please!)

Please share. 💔

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

His name was Alex Pretti, he was 37. He was recording ICE, directing traffic, and helping up someone agents had shoved to the ground. They murdered him for it.

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Want a break from current events? Join my @newberrylibrary.bsky.social course this April about a demagogue who rises to power in a close election, and foments civil unrest by wielding government force against immigrants! ...well, at least my story has beer. www.newberry.org/calendar/bee...

I know there's real risk from the coming storm for a lot of people, but I still wish some of that snow was blowing toward Washington. Despite the ridiculous rain we just had, our mountain snowpack isn't great right now (plus, snow is fun).

An inspiring thread.

Pls help me spread the word! Registration is open for my virtual course on Chicago's Lager Beer Riot of 1855. Learn how German Chicagoans brought European food riot traditions to the US, and how a few minutes of brawling shaped decades of Chicago beer & politics. www.newberry.org/calendar/bee...