I just returned from Chicago, and looked into Divvy while there. For non-members, $1 to unlock and $0.44/minute. All day is $19.90. I was surprised by the cost.
I only now looked at membership, which would have worked better for us - $8.25/mo, unlimited 45-min analog bike rides, 0.20/min after.
I love how this map shows how insanely inefficient it is to source our energy this way, rather than boosting homegrown energy like wind and solar - sources that don’t have to be continuously restocked!
I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail.
Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.
a bunch of peeps in a gaudy Oval Office wearing too-big shoes.
The winner of this year's WaPo Peeps Diorama Contest is "A Shaming of the Shoes."
www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
Aw crud- here is the alt text:
PJ Media
Philando Castile got pulled over a lot, and deserved it
By Walter Hudson
July 16, 2016
Yes - he wrote a whole article on this nearly ten years ago.
PJ Media Philando Castile Got Pulled Over a Lot, and Deserved It WALTER HUDSON | 4:04 PM ON JULY 16, 2016
And Hudson cared about consequences *so much*!
PJ Media Philando Castile Got Pulled Over a Lot, and Deserved It WALTER HUDSON | 4:04 PM ON JULY 16, 2016
You’ll never guess what else he said.
PJ Media article Philando Castile Got Pulled Over a Lot, and Deserved It WALTER HUDSON | 4:04 PM ON JULY 16, 2016
You speak of what is deserved? Hudson had ideas on that.
PJ News article Philando Castile Got Pulled Over a Lot, and Deserved It WALTER HUDSON | 4:04 PM ON JULY 16, 2016
He probably thought he didn’t deserve it.
speak loudly and ask if you can borrow somebody else’s stick
ICYMI - Samuel L. Jackson (!!) narrated this powerful video for Saturday's No Kings rally about the strength of Minnesotans protesting ICE:
"When your neighbors are being attacked and your communities are being targeted, you don't give up. You don't look away. You don't back down. You showed up."
Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...
No Kings is worth attending for the entertaining signs.
Protestors lined up along Highway 52 in Preston, Minnesota
Woman in a lawn chair with a sign saying “No Kings in America”
Protestors lined up with “NO KINGS” letter signs
Person holding out a container of No Kings sugar cookies
In my hometown of Preston, Minnesota, population 1,316: 105 protestors and a #NoKings cookies to match.
LOVE 🥰
Biking is a great way to arrive at a protest, too - you can easily maneuver and arrive very close to your destination and then leave whenever you’re ready. If you are traveling far, biking can be the “last mile” of your trip. Though today is not the best day to bring your bike on the bus or train.
Four screen printed fabrics: Minnesota Strong butterfly, Rebel Loon, No Kings, and Love Thy Neighbors
Show me your protest signs for No Kings! I’m readying my screen prints from Art Price Printing - they’ve been offering free printing for weeks. 💜
This! There will be no cell service. Bringing a kid? Make a duct tape bracelet and write an agreed-upon meetup location (and phone number, for when cell service is available). If the kid gets separated, tell them to find a parent with kids for help.
“Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object,” a young representative named Abraham Lincoln wrote in 1848. This was “understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.” This quote, incidentally, is immortalized on the House’s website, if any members of Congress are looking for it.
In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Don Petty and the Lawbreakers
As we grapple with the aging urban freeway that sliced through the Rondo neighborhood of St Paul, this framing resonates. Is our city for those who live here or for those who live elsewhere but want to speed through it, polluting our air and water and choking our streets with noise and traffic?
It’s always projection for him. Love my Somali-American neighbors.
i’ve always said the generally hellish experience of going through TSA would be improved by bringing in other federal agents with no understanding of airports who love to shoot people
Movie poster for the documentary "The Empty Grave"
The Empty Grave: Screening and Discussion Thursday, March 26 | 5:00PM-7:30 PM CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, NYC Posnanski Auditorium (concourse level) The documentary The Empty Grave (Germany/Tanzania 2024) follows the emotional journey of two Tanzanian families in search of their stolen ancestors. Their quest leads one family to Germany where tens of thousands of human remains from former colonies are stored in museum depots - a haunting legacy of colonial plunder in the early 20th century, taken for racist research and as macabre trophies. The other family locates their ancestor in the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York. The film unveils the enduring traces and traumas inflicted by colonial crimes on families and highlights their resilience while probing the complexity of identifying and repatriating these human remains. Konradin Kunze, an artist and researcher who worked with the Kaaya family, will be present to discuss the challenges of repatriation, and will deliver remarks on behalf of the family. Introduction by Marta Millar (CUNY), moderated by Jonathan Bach (New School). Admission is free. Non-CUNY participants will need to show a government-issued ID to enter the Graduate Center. This event is co-organized by the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center and the African Studies Initiative and Global Studies Program at The New School. Link to register: https://forms.gle/V8S9cTfgArudazff8
The US just denied a visa to a Tanzanian man coming to visit to remains of his grandfather in the American Museum of Natural History where they're - bafflingly - still held.
You can still support him by coming to a free screening of this gorgeous doc about his quest in Manhattan on 3/26!
![From the Star Tribune: “The damage to Harper's body was so severe, we were not allowed to see her, hold her, or be with her body ever again," [her mother] said. "And then, months later, as the pews were removed from that church, more of her remains were found. We had to cremate our daughter a second time. Imagine receiving that
phone call. And then tell me, what is this gun for? Hunting?
There are other tools. Home defense? There are other tools.
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From the Star Tribune: “The damage to Harper's body was so severe, we were not allowed to see her, hold her, or be with her body ever again," [her mother] said. "And then, months later, as the pews were removed from that church, more of her remains were found. We had to cremate our daughter a second time. Imagine receiving that phone call. And then tell me, what is this gun for? Hunting? There are other tools. Home defense? There are other tools. What is this one for?"
Absolutely gutting story on Annunciation parents pouring their souls into enlightening legislators, knowing they’d the GOP brick wall. But the piece contains one of the most horrifying paragraphs an American parent could read; it will stay with me: www.startribune.com/in-living-ro... (gift)
