this is a boring take but if we want this from a Dem President in 2029 we need to deliver the type of huge legislative majority Magyar just achieved and not the razor-thin one that Biden was forced to work with.

Woman Walking in an Exotic Forest, by Henri Rousseau, 1905, via @garrett_TFE

Everyone wants wages to rise but hates inflation. Everyone wants to light warehouses on fire but wants cheap stuff

We could have a "choosing pizza toppings -- the walking subcaucus way!" video that they show on that screen where they showed Keith's recorded speech.

Curious whether Feynman ever experimentally tested this belief.

One of the trans folks I interviewed for this article isn't Catholic. Neither is their doctor. Or the clinic their doctor works at. Or their pharmacy. But their spouse has insurance through part of the church's massive healthcare networks, so their testosterone is now "non-approvable."

I would hope The Economist knows the difference between vice and a vise. Apparently my expectations are too high.

If google gave a shit about their users, the top hits for any hotel wouldn't be sketchy intermediary booking sites. It's a perfect example of enshittification.

One of the first things I ever did with chatGPT was ask it to write a sermon in the style of Billy Graham about the sin of plagiarism. Turns out, stochastic bullshit generators are pretty good at writing sermons. 🤷

Now that’s what they call a deus ex machina.

I think that our next leader should destroy all of Trump's changes to the White House live on TV. I'm not even joking.

Xelas by El Sauzon in Stillwater has re-opened after an extended occupation-induced closure. Definitely worth visiting if you’re in town.

The alt-text on the post below follows the LOESS trendline instead of the data. The data show persistent happiness NEAR 90% through approx. 2015 before plummeting. What happened in 2016?

There is so much discourse about GP, but this statement alone is disqualifying. If true that he didn’t know, he’s too clueless to be a Senator. If false, he’s too untrustworthy to be one.

If there is a state with greater scenic beauty than Oregon, I haven’t seen it. Mountains, high desert, Pacific, Hood, Columbia, Portland — it’s just spectacular. I don’t want to spoil anything for residents, but it’s a truly underrated state. I’m lucky to have married into it.

While I know this is a more than four year old tweet, I do believe with the successes of both Artemis I and Artemis II, Boeing is better at building large rockets then SpaceX is.

There are 14 DFL conventions today. Good luck folks!

I recently tried to buy a product from a company that clearly uses a lot of AI. The experience included them not sending my order, randomly sending extra orders, and then falsely trying to lock me into a subscription I didn't request. It was a disaster.

Take a look at the CNN sourcing and fact-checking on their Swalwell article. Look at how many extra people they contacted in order to corroborate claims. They viewed screenshots, called parents/husbands/friends/colleagues. They viewed TV footage and interviews, & more. Two things worth pointing out:

Waiting for these anti-Catholic conservatives to find out who the only Protestant on the Supreme Court is

“Hegseth mentor Doug Wilson's vision for a Christian nation means married women can't vote *** During a town hall at an Idaho University, Wilson and his fellow pastors pitched a vision of America with no LGBTQ+ rights, no divorce and no voting rights for married women” 4/10/26 … 1/

There are eleven commandments

Things that work: giant rocket, very precise math, orbital mechanics, cameras, iPhones Things that don’t work: Microsoft Outlook, toilets, sat phones

Alleys in low density residential areas make it so both your front and back yards are designed around and affected by cars. Keep all your car infrastructure in one place, and kids can play in back yards that border each other without cars.

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

I really need health care reporters to get educated on ABA because I am extremely tired of seeing stories about ‘autism services’ being cut and then it’s just ABA uncritically represented as the best thing ever and no discussion of services autistics have actually asked for and benefit from.

I asked myself "how do golf courses possibly afford property taxes" so I looked it up and came away convinced we could virtually eliminate the entire sport by simply removing several dumb tax loopholes

Here is a safe for life description of the video the president shared.

This is the slimy <<Man’O’God assaulted by Demonic Powers>> discourse that absolves every powerful Christian leader of personal responsibility for his moral failure.

angie craig complaining about peggy flanagan on school board 20 years ago. “republicans are dying to bring her record forward.” the goal of DFL isn’t to run candidates republicans like. what is craig thinking with, “republicans love my record the most”? girl, we know! you voted for laken riley!

Skylar is correct, both about the science and the impact. I saw people saying this was the corona and I knew it wasn't (it's too smooth and too far from the sun), but I'm a little overwhelmed with stuff right now and didn't get a chance to write anything. She covers this well!

The USPS does not need to turn a profit. Just like the Dept of Defense does not need to turn a profit.

Silly me, but I think the American people deserved to know this a long time ago

Greatest. Correction. Ever.

This is a bad take. If Bluesky thought GP was losing we wouldn’t be talking about him.

There. Are. No. Women. Aged. 15. Girls. You mean girls. Racists keep trying to spin declining child abuse and the resultant teen pregnancy as a bad thing. It's not.

What is a safe way to verify the story that I don’t want to verify first hand?

Hey, has anyone visited TRAC Immigration and looked up asylum denial rates in US immigration courts? October 2000-January 2025: 56% of cases denied February-November 2025: 75% denied December 2025: 84% January 2026: 91% February 2026: 95% tracreports.org/phptools/imm...

i'd bet if you did some analysis, it'd show rupar was a pretty big factor why the MN ICE occupation dominated media coverage more broadly than the CHI invasion. there are other prominent factors too, ofc. but if i were from MN, i'd feel grateful for him for wielding his loudspeaker for his community

No! No!!

Happy Confederate Surrender Day from Minnesota where we still have your goddamn flag and we’re not giving it up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_Vi...

Hall of fame FT correction

New from 404 Media: the FBI was able to extract incoming Signal messages from a phone even though the app was deleted. Why? Because parts of messages were stored in the iPhone's internal notification database. Shows how secure chat data can come from unexpected places www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...

I have a strong moral objection to anyone visiting the website that produces this garbage, but I really enjoyed coming across this awful AI generated political cartoon portraying Sheriff Witt as a white man with no legs and no eyes carrying big bags of cash.

7% decline in fertility rate for children age 15-19.

this is just stunningly corrosive to public trust and there need to be congressional subpoenas and jail time this is actually a great use of oversight power the second dems take control of congress - haul polymarket execs up there and make them give you everything they have on this shit

If anything it's a reasonable filter, someone who we're trusting other people's kids with should be stable and responsible enough to arrange a week off work to attend classes. Basic parenting tips aside, there's mandatory reporting and other legal concerns they absolutely need to be informed of.

Impeach, Imprison, [redacted]

Minnesota poll question asking if folks participated in ICE-related protests or mutual aid. Don’t sleep on the suburbs! www.startribune.com/poll-results...