Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

For so long Amazon has had a monopoly on selling self-published books. Good to see that @bookshop.org is ready to compete in the space! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

A statement from Sahan Journal, Minnesota Star Tribune, Minnesota Public Radio, Minnesota Reformer, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association:

You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.

someone just tried attacking rep ilhan omar at her town hall in north minneapolis, reportedly trying to spray her with something, but was tackled before he could get to her. she returned to speaking

Solidarity forever.

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

Remember: Everything they are doing to sex workers and queers— the special designations, the censorship, the taxes, the attacks, the restrictions, the surveillance — they can and will do to you. "Protect the children" gives broad cover for crackdowns on political dissent.

This is why there is no free speech without anonymous speech. This is why online ID checks / age verification is incompatible with the 1st amendment and human rights. This is why "make everyone use their real names" is not a real solution to online hate & harm www.politico.com/newsletters/...

There is no way to do this without it becoming a privacy and security nightmare, not just for the wearer but for everyone around them, and the companies just don't care.

I’m also convinced that anybody who says this is “just like the dot com bubble” has not actually read about the dot com bubble. Fiber optic companies weren’t holding up the stock market! Corning and JDS Uniphase were about .7% of the S&P500 at their height and had much smaller revenues than NVIDIA.

I drove down Lake Street today, almost end to end across the city. There was graffiti all over the section between 35W and Hiawatha with FUCK ICE, FUCK 12 on banks, and construction signs and street signs, but not the murals. The art was untouched. I fucking love this city.

January 10, 2026 in Marquette, MI #ICEoutForGood

It's incredibly demoralizing to constantly see the highest institutions of government and academia and the most important and widely seen news outlets knuckle under one after another, but then to see the gulf between that and the bravery of communities and neighbors and teachers - that's something

If you’re in Minneapolis and need a place to just BE right now, Big Hill Books and Birchbark Books & Native Arts are both open and ready to welcome you with open arms.

They're going to cover it up.

It’s easy to think that schools in Minneapolis are closed because the Feds murdered someone in the street but no, the actual reason is that while that was happening, the Feds were busy doing other heinous shit across the city like tear-gassing a school

a major american city is being forced to close schools because armed government agents are raiding and pepper spraying and terrorizing children and teachers for social media content

Look for the helpers. Faced with evil, watch for the decent people standing against it.

Minneapolis.

I moved to the Twin Cities as a kid. I lived here, left, and came back. I've bounced around a lot, but this is the place I come back to. I'm lucky. The Cities are filled with people who stand up, work for good in public and in private even in the face of unspeakable harm. They do not stand alone.

We are strangers, you and I, We stand, stranger still In the world beyond, Too far from center To garner any notice. Oddballs and eccentrics, The ones who do not fit. We are stars with pointed tips, Who refuse the hammer Dodging those dulling blows That force the star into a cog. #vss365 #oddball

"The primary explanation is going to be price and affordability.” Via: @whqr.bsky.social

“I talk to people facing eviction every day. t’s not because the tenant doesn’t want to pay their rent, it’s because life has hit them.” Via: @kstptv.bsky.social kstp.com/kstp-news/to... #housing+ #urbanism #urbanism+

these streets are gone now. lost to hwy 94 coming in :(

On keeping hope right now, from @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on stream with @katmabu.bsky.social.

the other thing that strikes me about dreher’s take — and related ones — is that they depend on the conceit that political history began, at most, 10 years ago.

If you're planning on shopping during black Friday or cyber Monday, why not consider supporting artists, writers, creators? Buy a book, purchase an indie video game, commission an art piece, gift someone a Patreon. Your support means everything.

“Across the state, homeless service providers and local leaders are convening emergency meetings to figure out just how bad the cuts are going to be and what to do about them.” calmatters.org/housing/home... via @calmatters.org #housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism

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The function of the waffles joke is an in-group signifier. Singal, Graber, and Oppiliappan are showing in-group solidarity; they're all in on a joke. The joke is they have institutional power, and you don't, and they feel contempt for you, that you still want to have opinions about how power's used.

The Trump administration is withholding funding for 78 units of permanent supportive housing in the Twin Cities metro. PSH is a road-tested, highly effective method of treating the worst cases of homelessness. Unfortunately, the economics of fighting homelessness run through the federal government

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

"By framing urban transportation as a social construct, Fan and her co-authors call for a shift toward understanding transportation as a socio-political force that structures inequalities, reinforces or challenges power, and shapes urban life."

Mississippi’s age verification law poses an “existential threat” to smaller platforms like Bluesky and Dreamwidth, which cannot afford to implement expensive AV systems or risk hefty fines. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Fear and over-compliance are central to these laws. Bookstore owners, websites are encouraged to self-censor broadly to avoid potentially devastating litigation and prosecution. Want to stand up for yourself? It’s going to take $250k to even get in a court room. Legal threats are censorship.

Tell me you never had reason to doubt. Tell me that you always believed, and I will know that you were never truly tested. You never sat in the shambles of a broken faith rebuilding yourself. You never grew; you never changed. This does not make you strong. It makes you brittle.

No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.

Pfizer reports strong phase 3 clinical data for 2025-26 COVID vaccine The data show at least a fourfold increase in neutralizing antibodies. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c... Photo: Camosun College / Flickr cc

Something I see often in defenders of "AI" in the classroom (especially those who discuss "responsible" uses) is that, in using LLMs and then "critiquing" its output, we can then teach students to become more AI literate. This irks me to no end. 1/

I always love those lists of "35 under 35," but as I get older, I find that I would love to know about innovations/art from people over 65. "65 over 65" please. Elders have incredible ideas that are the result of having seen the full lifecycle of previous ideas and learned from it.

I just issued an executive order to safeguard vaccine access in Minnesota. While the Trump Administration attempts to limit Americans’ access to preventative care, Minnesota will continue to be guided by science and the freedom to seek out medical expertise.

The Vaccine Integrity Project isn’t here to replace public health agencies or to tell anyone which vaccines to get. We're here to analyze and share the evidence.

This is the most frustrating part in so many of these discussions. In the end it doesn't matter who is doing the censoring. Just oppose censorship - full stop. Censorship will always end up being used as a way to silence marginalized voices.

We warned legislators and regulators this would happen. We showed them data on consumer non-compliance and the surge in VPNs and pirate sites. They knew this would happen didn’t care.

If not for Chicago, we might not have Labor Day. Keep your eyes peeled on Monday for a much longer video where I dive into the history of unionization, violent strike suppression, and workers’ victories in Chicago, and how they impacted workers across the country.

Amid Stripe's confusing messaging about what they do and don't allow, Rascal talked to its own blog platform about reliance on the payment processor.

Policing and punishment don't solve homelessness – they make it worse.