Reminder: they are never as powerful as they want you to think they are

Very cool idea that’s near and dear to my heart - take this survey to help bring an indoor playground to downtown Minneapolis: mplsindoorplaygroundsurvey.netlify.app

Thank you! This happened to me twice yesterday afternoon, and both times I felt like I had been tricked into getting interested in a story.

It has come to my attention that not all of you are aware that this exists. So, here it is. It exists. Dozens of channels of randomized music videos and bumpers. Choose your era and return to your childhood. Bookmark it for when you need to escape back.

wantmymtv.vercel.app/player.html

try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

I think most people do not enjoy thinking, in the way I don't enjoy exercise, and that they organise their lives to avoid it wherever possible. And I can't really criticise them for that. I think those of us who get pleasure from thinking are weird freak outliers.

When it’s 630pm this evening and it’s still light out, it is legitimately one of the happiest moments of my year.

These sound amazing!

Yuen: Even if ICE left tomorrow, the damage to kids is already done “They’re all suffering,” says one Minnesota immigrant dad who has been sheltering in place with his children.

Stories about what ICE's presence in Minnesota has done to kids — something I'm seeing firsthand — are hard to read. It's unfathomable that kids have to go through this. www.startribune.com/ice-children...

Finished knitting! Pattern up!

Jeff Wheeler, The Minnesota Star Tribune

Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

The surge of DHS agents into Minnesota has done tremendous harm to the people of Minnesota, and I urge those who have personally experienced or directly witnessed that harm to share their stories with my office.

To submit a report, visit: ag.state.mn.us/Federal-Action/

Basically there was "proper time" where a year lasted a year, roughly 1978-1998; "grown-up time", the five years that were 1999-2012; 2016, which lasted from 2013 to March 8 2020; Lockdown, which was a year again; and then The Eternal Now of May 2021 onward, which lasted a second and a millennium.

Episode 78: Inside the Working Cranberry Marsh — Water Talk A conversation with Professors Leslie Holland and Amaya Atucha (University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of Extension) about cranberry production, water use, recycling, and enjoyment. Released Novembe...

Super fun episode of Water Talk out today! Whether you like them fresh or canned, cranberries are both well-loved and mysterious. Leslie Holland and Amaya Atucha, UW Madison, tell us about cranberry bogs v marshes and why cranberries float. Bonus: recipes! www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/epi...

I'm not sure where it has gone, but it's quite thin.

Beautiful northern lights

Good timing for my small community.

www.isd391.org/page/operati...

Brown: As a small Minnesota town mourns its only elementary school, opportunity grows from loss "I knew this feeling well. My rural elementary school closed when I was in second grade, adding an hour to my bus ride. My kids’ small town elementary school was bulldozed shortly after they moved up ...

True nostalgia is the pain of knowing what's gone for good. When a small town loses its school, it's the only word that applies. And yet the lasting value of rural places are not in bricks, but in the people who are still here, doing what must be done.

Ramp C

TIL: I’m one of the authors being ripped off too.

I had no idea. Take a moment to check for your academic papers. Consider making it easy for lawyers to find you as their class action suit proceeds.

Person taking a picture with their phone of the Washington monument on a gorgeous day in DC

Challenge: post your last photo taken in D.C. to show what a hell hole it is

The dismantling of the research apparatus that made America the science and tech giant it's been over the past century is the greatest own-goal in history. We haven't even begun to calculate or feel the losses

Monster romance. For sure.

The sun will rise in #Minneapolis #SaintPaul #Minnesota tomorrow at 5:25, 0 seconds later than the day before.
It will set at 21:01, 23 seconds later than the day before.

Opinion | How to lose the 21st century, in three easy steps Trump is throwing away what could have been the next great American century.

As I wrote earlier: slaughtering your golden goose (science & research, by gutting government research agencies and kneecapping non-government research institutions) is a good way to lose the 21st century
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Kids grow up so fast.

You hear about.

Then you live it.

Days are long.

Years are fast.

As a surgeon, could not agree more with these reflections that Pope Francis wrote this in the Hospital.

“The walls of hospitals have heard more honest prayers than churches...

They have witnessed far more sincere kisses than those in airports...
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UBC is re-opening admission to a bunch of programs for US citizens looking for grad opportunities. You can check it out via the link below 🇨🇦

Sorry I haven’t been very active on here the last week my 11 year old has been describing a video game to me.