That the extreme cold both makes you cry and freezes your tears to your face is the surest proof of the existence of a spiteful, mischievous God.

The attitude of Hartford's political establishment toward reform, toward the idea that government could develop robust systems to help people as a matter of course, is shameful. Council and the mayor expect people who have suffered calamities to beg individually for help. Which the city...

A small band contingent came out to support the anti-ICE rally in West Hartford.

It is truly wild (and delightful) to see someone in leadership sonewhere say the stuff I've been saying to Hartford Democrats for six years.

6-year-old, eating a burrito: Dad, you're a burrito. Me: Soy burro en mi rodeo / y burrazo en rodeo ajeno / siempre me tuve por güeno / y si me quieren probar / salgan otros a cantar / y veremos quién es menos. Her: My wife: Me, to my wife: Do you ever consider your good fortune...

Mercutio, dying:

Every meeting I go to, I feel more confident that when we get to the far side of all this, the immigrant community - at least in Hartford - is gonna be more organized, more robust in its commitment to mutual aid, and more politically militant than ever.

Found a place where a bunch of people were raptured:

Me: [pulls cable to request stop] Bus driver, stopping where I expected him to: Just so you know, this isn't a stop for this bus. Me: I didn't know. But thanks! Me, in my head:

The thing about the term "outside agitators" is that it rests on the assumption that people will never be moved to fight an injustice that doesn't affect them directly. That is the administration's worldview, but it's not actually how most people are.

The problem is that racism is a cheat code for the relative rationality of voters.

I made this song last April and it stays relevant.

This! Totally this. And "Baywatch."

i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.

My new year's resolution was to corner the market on bilingual Wu Tang blues covers played on concertina, and I think I've done it.

Solo...

It's probably for the best that Grover didn't have the self esteem to realize that he should have blown up instead of Elmo.

My daughter listens to the songs from a Korean cartoon (Teeniepings), which are mostly in Korean, but with some English. In one song, the English words are "shooting star" and "harmony," but they pronounce them "shooting stah" and "hahmony," so I just sing along with a Boston accent...

"we don't want people thinking Democrats are for open borders" I am! who gives a shit!!! my life has been immeasurably improved by the presence of immigrants in my community, regardless of their status, there is literally no downside there! why would I give a shit!!!!

We have unlimited money for paramilitary forces that kidnap people off the streets but also have something called "school lunch debt" what are we doing here

Just saw Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's grandson doing stand-up on TikTok. What a time to be alive.

Here's a song I wrote about inscrutable cruelty of the sea!

Trying out this little drum machine.

Tamar: I have an idea: let's you and me have a couple drinks and you come back to my room and see if you can't give me the child your dead brother never could. Onan:

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

Asking earnestly, because I don't know: have Danes ever turned out like this to show solidarity with Greenlanders in the face of the world's highest rate of child removal by the Danish government?

@miblogestublog.bsky.social It just occurred to me that you should be called "Chairwoman of the Güeys and Memes Committee."

By this reasoning, whatever Steven Miller is carrying when he and I encounter one another in the street legally belongs to me.

the wildest thing is right-wingers acting like minnesotans in videos must be outside agitators when we can all hear their accents. i don't think i could do that accent convincingly if i spent a year practicing. and neither would i wish to. have you heard that shit? craziest american accent

You can tell qualified immunity isn’t absolute because “qualified” is in the name.

Many of his family members fought with the Allied forces against the Germans in World War II, and “I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.”

the racist team names in professional sports run a lot of cover for the fugitive slave patrol team name

I tend to think that it's silly that you can sue someone if your spouse cheated on you with them (as you apparently can in North Carolina), but this lawsuit against Kirsten Sinema maybe also has some evidence of what we might call crime:

oh bitch if you come for the best king cake in town during Mardi Gras season, the finding out will be unholy

Occasional reminder:

Honestly, I much prefer psychological thrillers to psychological westerns.

Memoirs Marine biologist: "The Porpoise-Driven Life" Designer of zoo habitats: "Egrets? I've Fed a Few" Inventor of allergy meds: "The End of Histamines" Developer of circuit boards: "We Were Solderers Once, and Young" Former spouse of famous DJ: "Moby: Dick"

journalists never take the cops at their word 2026 challenge

They have fucking assault rifles and we have whistles and they’re scared shitless, because they know we’d rather be righteous and dead than ever be them.

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

I've read most of the scholarship about US policing since the early 20th century. What you learn from this is that violence is inherent. You cannot "separate" out violence from policing. Police in the U.S. are violence workers.

I hope that Pam Bondi finds out that in Argentina, "bondi" means "bus," and I hope it bothers her.

This is how I sext:

This is just to remind you that they will lie directly and they will lie via statements to the press, and the lies will multiply and become a great crawling mass of vermin. Know this and be skeptical and fight back.

I am just a pollster, standing in front of a bunch of elected Dems, asking them to lead on public opinion rather than hedge and tiptoe and moderate for fear an imaginary future backlash that will probably be manufactured by the right wing ecosystem anyway, regardless of what Dems do or don’t say.

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

First of all, how dare you? Second of all, actually, yes.