hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.

Sat down last night and wrote a bit about red hats, resistance, and Norwegian identity. paper-tiger.net/2026/02/06/o...

Anne Frank likely died in a typhus epidemic that spread through the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp History rhymes, it rhymes Close the camps, set fire to the prisons

State control of historical memory is a classic hallmark of authoritarian regimes, just FYI.

It is my final week commuting through DC, where I’ve had to pass the national guard every day for months, before moving home to Minnesota. Lots of feelings, mostly rage.

gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...

An underrated element of this series is the way the pictures progressively deteriorate, a la Dorian Gray

7th grade history teacher insisted Henry VIII never had a son and refused to believe me when I corrected him, despite telling him the son’s name, which wife gave birth to him, how the wife died, and how and when the son died.

You found a "solution" for autism? Is it accepting everyone's place in the beautiful mosaic of human life? Okay I'm guessing from the look on your face that it's not that

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

On the eve of her 2nd gotcha day, I made Barbara shrimp. You can see how much she appreciates it.

Well, he sent in the troops: defector.com/well-he-sent...

Nobody prepares you for the greatest struggle of your mid-thirties: Pairing a perfume with the scent profile of Tiger Balm

Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope

This is not what I meant when I said I hoped it was the pizza guy, but it may somehow be even funnier? TBD

LADY, STOP. @paperbackparadise.bsky.social

Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.

“The Great Gatsby is dated and irrelevant.” You’re right. What could a novel about a generation of young men becoming hustlers and white nationalists because they were sold a lie about the American Dream possibly have to say about our current moment?

"Republican states may not be successful in repealing Section 504 as part of the attack on treating gender dysphoria, but it begs the question of what they might come for next," writes David M. Perry.

The real MeToo “cancel culture” was what happened to the women and other victims who came forward. They were retraumatized, harassed, humiliated, sued, fired, and blacklisted. Then they were the subject of a revisionist history that MeToo went “too far” and deserved a reactionary backlash

Look at this ridiculous creature

ahem

Sourdough bagels. Baking an unfamiliar recipe in an unfamiliar oven probably wasn’t the best idea, but not a bad start. Left to right: Plain, Sesame, Everything, and Asiago with Herbs de Provence. #pinkskyPost

Really weird staring at the Washington monument every morning on my way into work, wondering how much the country will regress by the time I see it again in the afternoon.

It's Free Friday at Defector! From now until Sunday night, all of our posts on here will include free-to-read gift links, so you can check out all of our blogs, even if you're not a subscriber. Just look for the gift emoji and enjoy. 🎁🎁🎁

I can’t believe there are people who are like: “Do you still think AI is stupid now that it can make an ad for Coca-Cola that’s a mashup of their previous ads that looks worse and all it costs is an acre of forest?”

How to buy a sweater that doesn’t suck: defector.com/how-to-buy-a...

For me it was the Bermuda Triangle, but in my defense it did take out a family member

Spread. Aesthetically, the epi baguette wreath & cheese plate could be better, but I’m not mad.

The case for Thanksgiving II:

Imagine looking at a bird this gorgeous and calling it a “rat with wings” Couldn’t be me, I instead bring my camera to shopping centers for close-ups Thread of Rock Pigeon portraits:

I don’t have enough followers or fun facts to do the likes for lore thing, but here is my Thanksgiving turkey tip: Stuff it with apples, onion, herbs, & garlic. Roast breast down. The apples etc. will infuse it with flavor, the fatty bits will self baste the dry bits. Both will prevent drying.

Minnesota turkeys Peach and Blossom were pardoned by President Joe Biden at the White House earlier today.

Still the greatest interview exchange in the history of rock and roll. Bob Dylan. Playboy Magazine. March 1966.

A police report has revealed details of the assault allegations against Forest Lake native Pete Hegseth, who is Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary.

Let's talk about peeing in space. Several people, in response to my NY Times essay, have said that women couldn't go into space because we lacked the technology for them to pee in space. www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/s...

Love to ban trans women from capitol restrooms in order to “protect women and girls” while suppressing a report about the incoming attorney general paying for the statutory rape of a minor while in congress and showing women’s nudes on the House floor

With so many of my Twitter friends migrating this way, I look forward to continuing my trend of almost never posting. anyway, here’s a picture of my cat.