Love that Fetterman has ALREADY announced he'll vote for Mullin's confirmation. I'm not even sure Noem knows yet... that fuckin' guy.

I've been thinking, as I often do, about Kurt Vonnegut. There's this scene in Slaughterhouse Five where Billy, who is having some time-traveling issues, watches a war movie backwards. It's just such a powerful example of speculative fiction, of imagining a world that could be better... here it is:

Worth remembering that many of these students spent high school under Florida's education censorship laws allegedly meant to protect them from learning "divisive" material or feeling a bit sad or icky about the history and current state of race relations in the US.

I think Nate and I had a great conversation here... and also my audio is awful and depression had slowed my speaking down by about 60%... but still... got to give lots of love to all (not Jacob Frey) of Minneapolis.

Love this!

1. This morning, Texas AG Ken Paxton just released a chilling new declaration: Mental health therapists, counselors, and psychologists must cease affirming trans youth - using their name and pronouns - or potentially face child abuse charges and loss of licensure. Its a horrifying escalation.

Before the US started another dumb war in the Middle East, I had a great conversation with my friend @mrtomrad.bsky.social about his decision to move his family to Spain and the ICE siege of his beloved Minneapolis. open.spotify.com/episode/2Y4R...

So many words in one headline signaling just how much danger we're in as a society. People are BETTING ON BOMBINGS. www.npr.org/2026/03/01/n...

“The persecution is the point,” said Rep. Abi Boatman, Kansas’ only trans state legislator, in a statement to the Star on Wednesday. “It tells me that Kansas Republicans are interested in being on the vanguard of the culture war and in a race to the bottom.”

Today, I'm excited to launch SmrtTails, an AI-driven boutique hard mocktail disruptororporation. We're taking the health and popularity of the mocktail movement and adding alchohol to make those mocktails really POP. With AI, also. AI will be super involved and scaleable. Agents. Growth. .

Bush era war monger Bill Kristol continues to run absolute circles around Democratic Congressional leadership in standing up for democracy and fighting against authoritarianism

This is about @ziibiing.com , who has been doing important and beautiful acitivism work since forever. It's inspiring, but that one piece is one I'll be thinking about... building a helper reflex. How do we build our own, how do we help others build theirs?

"We’re building a helper reflex where instead of encountering a problem and saying that we can’t do anything, we’re just trying to do it. Anyone could start with something like this, by collecting together where they see people asking for help in their community." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Oh boy, as a trans person, if this doesn't hit home right now

So if 90% of tariffs were paid for by U.S. consumers, and if $134-billion dollars of that money could now be sent to businesses... then America will be great again? fortune.com/2026/02/13/n... www.bbc.com/news/article...

I've been reading about DaVinci and have found two reasons why I feel some sort of kindred spirit that connects us. For one, my guy started about 10,000 projects based on a sudden fascination that he never finished. "this pattern of noncompletion was to become a feature of his career as a painter"*

This is giving me an undue amount of hope: "The Thames Valley Police said in a statement that it had 'arrested a man in his sixties from Norfolk on suspicion of misconduct in public office and are carrying out searches at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk.'" Just a man. Just an ordinary criminal.

SHOCKING. I am SHOCKED they had plans to use this against people. Next, we'll find out that all the surveliance tech that ICE purchased might be used against U.S. citizens as well! (also, thank you 404 for your reporting and for being a sanity harbor in this storm of WTF)

Look, I'm sorry I missed the funeral, but the company I bought my new cell phone protector screens from seemed really desperate to get my review of their service.

This could be very helpful to educators

Me: Surely if I was just a better person or doing work that is more meaningful and helpful to the world around me I would be able to make enough money not be so worried all the time... The World:

What did people do before the internet? Much better things: www.mylondon.news/news/nostalg...

This story is not surprising to a lot of us but also hugely important, especially for 🔭 because this is who the space sciences are being handed to 🧪 "Musk’s posts repeatedly echoed prominent white supremacist narratives and ideologies"

I wish university presses would try to get some physics textbooks by women published Too much push for memoir, not enough push for “write about the thing you do”

A few folks in my life with "chronic decision paralysis" are increasingly telling me "well, I asked Chat or Gemini and it said...." Habibi, there is literally no faster way to get me to stop listening to you than uttering that sentence.

Working on something in In Design and clicked the font button. Instead of a list of fonts I've been using, it said "describe the font you want to use." Anyway, that's it. That's the end. If you want me, I'll be using typewriters and tape or just shouting from my window from this point forward.

Minnesotans who work with high schoolers... this looks like such a great opportunity to help them build tools and focus for organizing and community building. www.americasfuturesummit.org/application

A friend of mine recently lost his niece. I'd heard her talk of her often and know his whole family is living a nightmare. In the letter she posted, she asked that people give to the Trevor Project to support other LGBTQ teens. To Give: give.thetrevorproject.org/fundraiser/6...

This is true (and not confined to Minneapolis)

There is no hell hot enough.

I used to daydream about good-looking people and winning lots of money. These days, I mostly daydream about ways to harness the tides to produce clean energy.

“…all these years later, I find myself wondering if I still have a home here in Minnesota, in America, in the world of the people who get to decide who is valuable and who is not, who belongs and who does not, who lives and who dies.

The universe is too fucking fabulous for capitalism and Nazis y’all www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwst...

I'm honored to be working with a team of volunteers to raise awareness and action around two rule changes that have been proposed by HHS that could effectively make it impossible for transgender youth in the United States to get affirming, life-saving care. Time is running out to be heard..

I deleted lots of social media in the run-up to moving to Spain... but I'm back (online, and living in Barcelona).