This line ought to set off a huge alarm at MLS HQ: "The Loons were negotiating transfer deals with Slovenian midfielder Tomi Horvat and Dutch defender Cherrion Valerius, but both players cited concerns about life in Minnesota for them and their families as why they declined contracts with MNUFC."

I really do believe comics are a perfect tool for curing tiktok brain and regrowing attention spans, and we should publicize that

Instead of “buying things” and “contributing to the economy” as a “consumer” while also “making a child happy,” perhaps I can talk you into hoarding a little more wealth?

Trinity Rodman. Emma Hayes. Iconic.

I think about this post a lot.

Rehearsing with my rocking students for next Monday’s faculty recital. If you’re around Brookings, maybe you want to experience this thing live with us.

Set the DVR for Phrenology Phridays

Hell yeah brother

I'm not a gun guy, is holding a shotgun with your dick while you fumble with a smoke grenade considered good trigger discipline?

First day on the job, @jeffrueter.bsky.social has to summarize the feelings of a soccer fan in an occupied state. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

We are once again debating if closing out the Clippy window is the same as child abandonment.

Is The Weather Channel turning into Weather Underground?

McVay screaming into the laminated paper. Been there bud. Got the wrong empanada one time and it was my fault

eating a can of Campbell's tomato soup for lunch: normal, comforting heating up an entire jar of Ragu Chunky and eating it with a spoon: concerning, possible cry for help the line is somewhere between these two but no one knows where

The media should cover sport the way they cover the state murder of civilians: ‘Jannik Sinner appeared to win the French Open yesterday after what supporters say was a comeback from being two sets down.’

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

Hope this gets as much coverage as the “Dear Colleague” letter got in the first place.

Feel like I need to bring this theremin/piano/human-sized cat duo to the attention of as many folks as possible, but to @hollyanderson.bsky.social and the @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social universe specifically. www.wpr.org/culture/hiss...

I’d like to thank the university for including this fabulous bit of one line poetry in today’s “It feels like -35, but don’t worry, we’re still open” email.

Big cat digging the “Kenny Rogers’ Roasters” vibes in the 12 y/o’s room.

Destroy All Monsters (1968)

Hero. “He was tearing them up and just shoving them in as fast as he could,” said Ali Martinez, a witness to the event. “Like when you see people in a hot-dog eating contest.”

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

I just thought everyone should see this

i think about this often

As someone who spent the last 15 years working with aging brains & dementia, I can't stop thinking about this. It is gerontocracy: leaders who are substantially older than most of the adult population. When did we accept this? The new generations can't show up because the old generations never left.

It's so exhausting to to be constantly told by American leaders that the defining policy of the 80 odd years during which the US became the most wealthy and powerful country in the history of the world was a grossly unfair failure for them.

We’ve examined our bongo’s new baby, and are delighted to announce it’s a djembe.

Seems like the b-ball Hogs would be a lock for a Natty if they could get the tournament moved on campus.

Andruw Jones getting into the HoF puts one in the plus column for today.

The part that feels most fraudulent is “We had run almost 1,000” simulations.

Guess we might need the big jacket later this week.

I’ve seen a lot in my 26 years teaching in Saint Paul but today’s the first no school day due to the city being terrorized by the federal government

The old world is dying. The new one struggles to be born. Now is the time of Hoosiers.

Palms are sweaty Curt Cignetti

the marching band playing the Uruk-hai theme goes pretty hard ngl.

This is a really important story, and one that explains the place of the Hmong community in the Twin Cities and why this entire occupation is really just ethnic cleansing (my words). Also, props to Marisa for doing the work to get this story right when so many out-of-town journalists have failed.

Canes right now...

This is an all time night on the site that supposedly is dying

"But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right." www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlk...

Banana pudding king cake…

Go Hoosiers.

Leaving this here.

the rest of the world deferred to us not because they needed to but because it was easy, all to great benefit of us, and we destroyed that to get out of having to watch one hour diversity training videos once a year

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

I mean…

Can’t go to sleep because I’m as mad as I’ve ever been at someone over a post and it’s because someone in my mentions told me I was lucky not to remember the Ray Goff era at Georgia. LADY, RAY GOFF ONCE DROVE TO ATLANTA TO TRY TO FIGHT MY DAD BECAUSE HE THOUGHT MY DAD WAS GONNA GET HIM FIRED

The first thing you learn is how strong you can be if you have to… And the next thing you learn is how cold it can get at night. youtu.be/pv53gRqjvxY?...