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I finally saw "Sinners" and the hype was absolutely real.

I just reposted a bunch of comments from happy trans people who say that transitioning saved their lives. My son would not be here if he couldn’t transition. I want you to hear them because it’s true. Gender-affirming care saves lives.

Is the President sending troops to Portland just to beat the allegations that he was only sending the military into Black and brown cities?

The six-year-old has been insisting on new jokes all the time. Here's what I came up with so far: 1. Why is New York State the opposite of Minnesota? Because New York has the Big Apple, but Minnesota is where the Minneapolis ("mini apple is").

Me, being sensible: Of course I should not bring my concertina on a weekend trip to Minneapolis. There will be nowhere to practice without bothering people. Me, on a walk through the empty vastness of UMN on an early Saturday morning: Damn.

Every time SCOTUS has taken a right away, they've spoken all high and mighty about well, pass laws, or well, amend the Constitution. We fucking did that.

There is no measured way to say what I am about to say. If the Supreme Court agrees with the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship, we must end this current Supreme Court. I do not say this lightly.

CVS, in case you were wondering, does not carry sewing kits, so I've shored up these jeans with duct tape on the inside, because I need them to keep covering my ass for another 36 hours and 1,000 miles.

I remember, when I was a small boy in the 1960s, saying "Dad, what's an anachronism?", and he simply replied "Google it".

A little sunrise stroll past the UMN law school and over the river to the (improbably distant) (improbably closed until 8:00 am) nearest drugstore.

Graphic designer, disconsolate: I'm in a really negative space right now. Her client, an enthusiast of the Hartford Whalers and FedEx logos:

Can't decide if I love or hate the UMN M. The use of negative space to make an arrow pointing downward is a weird choice.

Your negative energy just makes me hotter.

I went to the Minneapolis neighborhood called Dinkytown and must report, with considerable sadness, that everything is normal size. I was hoping for a Gulliver's Travels situation.

Explained the concept of conspiracy theories to the six-year-old and she came up with two: Words are numbers. Lights are clams.

Visiting the 18-year-old at college. Constanza and I were asking all about her classes and her friends. Then her six-year-old sister says, earnestly, "Tell me about your enemies."

what the fuck is fuck you money for if you can’t say fuck you

This is like saying, "His shoe was untied, so it makes sense his family was destroyed." He went to every court date. The case was closed. He's been sober for five years. He's a leader in AA and supports others there. This is the morally lazy complicity my original post intended to condemn.

You're telling me there are two cities called "the Twin Cities," right by the nation's most important river, but the river *isn't* the border between them?!

UMN Teamsters!

I had a whole well-crafted speech about discerning people's values from their actions, but the quote is of me calling ICE "these jokers," as if I were an aging Frank Sinatra.

I was crying listening to these two teenagers talk lovingly about their father, who was taken into ICE custody for no reason this week. Our government is doing unforgivable things to good people in our community.

We're in ur Minneapolis, riding ur buses.

You can't bring water from outside the airport past security because the plane could get an imbalance of humours.

Chotiner: yet your frown, wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command / Tell that your sculptor well those passions read?

The Shadow knows

I get so mad when garbage people have cool surnames.

Going to Minneapolis for the weekend. What should we do? We'll have a six-year-old with us and we like art and music.

Maybe the new tariffs on upholstered furniture will prompt Ikea to import the furniture and the upholstery separately and make their retail employees here do the upholstering, and that will be the thing that leads to an organizing breakthrough and all the stores will unionize.

Look, I fully understand why Trump going after Comey is terrible, but if you want me to *feel bad* that the former head of the FBI is being subjected to a baseless prosecution? I don't know, man.

A battle rapper who defeats opponents by asking them a series of questions that inexorably force them, with logic, to admit his lyrical superiority: Socratic Method Man

My unexplained legal rulings are giving rise to a lot of questions not at all answered by my unexplained legal rulings.

On two separate occasions, I have seen two different people walking down the street in Hartford just spontaneously sing, "Ojalá que los míos nunca se muden." Bad Bunny got the diaspora in an absolute chokehold right now.

So you're telling me that Keir Starmer is the head of the *Labour* Party? And that's the major center-*LEFT* party in Great Britain?!

I am seeing at the state and municipal level a widespread inclination on the part of elected officials not to address topics they think will attract the ire of the feds or of right-wing trolls, because they are (1) afraid of the additional harm they believe it will bring to their constituents; and

This guy's a dunce and a menace, but side note: it's a little bit hilarious that there are two entirely independent organizations called TFA that are undermining teachers' unions.

Millions of people in this country DO NOT VOTE. They can and should be enlisted in an anti-fascist fight.

The worst part of dudes like this being called "edgelords" is that now that name isn't available to Black barbershops.

In an allegorical novel, one would-be dictator whose surname means "to win by doing something better" in his native language would be allied with another whose name means "my law" in his native language. And yet here we are. This is real life.

CHOTINER: what’s up ME: not much dude CHOTINER: right on

who cares who wins AL MVP, the AL isn't even a real league, ooh who's going to win MVP of the sheboygan beer softball league, grow up

The lack of due process in child welfare proceedings—up to and including termination of parental rights—is absolutely maddening, and it flies under the radar.

Yo

Disappointingly not a spinoff of the early 90s sitcom "Blossom."

Has she hewn flesh from her own body to hold defiantly aloft, or slain one of her kind in some nihilistic bovine ritual? Either way, she lifts her arms, and the bloody product of her barbarous act, exulting in the gruesome spectacle, demanding of passersby, "ARE YOU NOT AMUSED?!"

I keep trying to arrange songs for concertina with something other than the oom-pah left hand bassline, but the oom-pah just goes harder than most alternatives.

[new Isaac Chotiner interview]