America’s team back in the Super Bowl! #GoPats

New England's long, regional nightmare is over. A six-year old finally gets to see a Patriots Super Bowl appearance.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

They murdered Good and Pretti, a poet and a nurse, one whose last words were “I’m not mad,” another whose last act was shielding another. Because of course that’s who they killed. Everyday people.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

Once again I am asking local TV news stations to not highlight crimes in distant states that have no impact within their broadcast area. It's poison to viewers' brains.

Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make. www.statnews.com/2026/01/20/c...

So great that European leaders have to use gentle parenting techniques to try to convince Trump not to do something completely idiotic in Greenland. We have a military base there! I'm sure Greenland and Denmark would be fine with us expanding it, it was once much bigger. How is this happening?

With the Nobel Peace Prize is in the news and it being MLK Jr. Day, now is a great time to listen to or read King's breathtaking Nobel acceptance speech. "…right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant" www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

Jack Reacher is going to beat the crap out of so many of them in the next season of the series.

Absolutely definitive video analysis of Renee Good killing here. Look at the image framed in red. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...

Do not use bleach on tear gas or pepper spray injuries. This is crazy

In June 2020, Chara walked next to me while we protested police brutality and supported the BLM movement. It was beautiful, he was an amazing captain, and so happy to see him celebrated tonight.

There is maybe an argument to be made that Democrats should vote NO on every bill in Congress, but this is a standard appropriation bill to fund activities of the federal government, some bad ($3.3B to Israel), some good ($3.5B for global health, $0.5B for the Peace Corps, $50M for DC schools).

Didn’t peg Mike Johnson as a “the purpose of a system is what it does” adherent.

Poor Jeremy Renner, dumped by his wife for a Phish fan in the new Knives Out movie. Are we thinking the message board was Phish Net or PT? #phish #weareeverywhere

Hearing a Spoon song on an H&R Block commercial is kind of shocking.

Bob Dylan writing about Bob Weir in The Philosophy of Modern Song

Fare thee well, Bob Weir. An incredible life filled with some of the best music ever made. So happy I caught him one last time at the Sphere last spring. All the wrong people keep dying.

Proud to have been a part of this.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

A New York Times video analysis of an ICE agent’s fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis contradicts the Trump administration’s account. Watch our investigation here.

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

This is murder.

no one is acknowledging it because it’s a conspiracy theory that can largely be traced back to one crank on twitter

Hospitalizations from rotavirus in Denmark (doesn't vaccinate for it) and the US (stopped vaccinating for it yesterday).

These fucking nickname people are still at it and drives me nuts open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

So many reasons to like this guy:

The Spock’s Brain bridge has been one of my favorite little bits of a Phish song since I first heard it on my Lowell tape.

The Fishman mannequin on the rocket pop was supposed to be a nod to Slim Pickens (Major Kong) from Dr Strangelove, right? Hence the cowboy hat?

YEAR ONE MAHA

I said the Station Eleven TV series was good and provided a link to an interview with the author of the book where she said it was good. Got told to “grow and develop as an individual.”

It's possible that a year from now, on Dec. 31, we will be able to say that things are better now than they were a year ago. I don't think that was possible a year ago. So there's something to hold on to!

The Patriots are your 2025 AFC East champs

“Dad, put the Steely Dan back on, I was in the zone.” -21yo daughter. Gonna count this as a fatherhood win.

Of the 10 people mentioned by name in Bob Dylan's I Shall Be Free only Sophia Loren (91) and Bob himself (84) are now still alive

Dear lord I would throw a book across the room if it footnoted its own fictional characters to say that they are racist.

Should the US adopt Denmark's vaccine schedule for children? @jakescottmd.bsky.social argues no in a piece that points out the risks such a move would pose for American kids. www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d...

the president should be a person we can go a few days in a row without thinking about. our brains simply weren't made to think about a president every waking hour. it's unnatural.

A Gaston prequel is an incredibly stupid idea for a movie but a great reason to listen to the cover of "Gaston" by The Bad Plus, which is way better than it needs to be: youtu.be/oEiQkWCgnM4?...

RIP Rob Reiner. I recently read his memoir about making Spinal Tap and it was shocking how much of it was a seat-of-the-pants operation that barely made it into theaters. Just a few people with a vision of something great and they made it happen.

This fucking piece of shit. The worst man alive.

Credit default swaps?!?

People are dunking on this and not being able to imagine it is very bad, but I gave ChatGPT some questions about baby care and they were at least as good as Google. ChatGPT explicitly said "Vaccines do not cause autism." when I asked. A Dr. Spock book would probably be better than either, though.

You could've given me 1000 guesses and I would not have gotten the surprise

I’m so happy to see @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social Professor Colin Calloway in the Ken Burns American Revolution series. Took a very memorable (and depressing) course in post-civil war Native American history from him as an undergrad. Incredible teacher.

📘Attention all! 📘We have a dug out from the archives a brand spanking new, mint condition, original, still-boxed, unopened copy of the out-of-print AND hard-to-find third edition of The Phish Companion!

Fake medicine (marketing terms: functional, integrative, naturopathic) and demonization of real medicine (vaccines) are inextricably linked.