Letter From Minnesota: “If They Take Me and Leave the Children…” Today is Tuesday, January 27th, 2026. I got gas for the first time this year by myself. The gas station was mostly empty. I drove into the station, heart thudding in my chest. I did everything as f…

we are never getting over this

Kao Kalia Yang is one of Minnesota’s greatest writers. I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing her a couple of times and she is every bit as lovely and poetic and magic as her work.

Across the globe even! I saw flyers for events in Germany and Australia too.

26th and nicollet in minneapolis is closed to vehicle traffic now as brass solidarity performs

Maybe UCI CX needs a reverse 80% rule.

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

I’d watch it.

Men wearing rolled up shirts to cool their torsos.

How about one that tucks up into itself to easily achieve the Beijing Bikini look on the go?

Me too!

You could let it drop.

He wasn’t faster. The hat was already in the kid’s hands when he took it. So, besides being blindly egotistical he’s also factually inaccurate.

No notes

They might consider alternatives.

You can live out of the FJ60 and park in walkable neighborhoods wearing nice outfits.

That intersection is horrible. 20mph parkway with traffic very regularly over 40mph blowing through the crosswalk to Cedar Lake South Beach with tons of yellow signs. I’ve seen and experienced multiple close calls.

This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.

I might take up that challenge.

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.

Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters

Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

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What did you choose? I know what my pick would be: youtu.be/BlIREcAu0PI?...

Grainy, black and white photo of a person in a suit, white shirt and tie with a mustache. Several sources say this is black American inventor Isaac R. Johnson, from Wisconsin, born in the middle of the 19th century before the Civil War. Johnson also invented turn signals for cars and a kind of folding fire escape.

United State Patent Office, Bicycle Frame Patent No. 634,823 Figure 1. showing the bicycle frame, and signatures. Full patent copy at https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/25/8d/74/941d0ae8d58528/US634823.pdf

United State Patent Office, Bicycle Frame Patent No. 634,823 showing the component parts of the folding bicycle frame, plus signatures. Full patent copy at https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/25/8d/74/941d0ae8d58528/US634823.pdf

United State Patent Office, Bicycle Frame. "for a bicycle frame that can be made separable so that it can be compactly stored -- as, for example, in trunks or compartment or other small places, or conveniently carried, as in elevators, cars, or the like." Full patent copy at https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/25/8d/74/941d0ae8d58528/US634823.pdf

African American inventor Isaac R. Johnson patented the folding bicycle frame in 1899, "so that it can be compactly stored -- as, for example, in trunks or compartments, or other small places, or conveniently carried, as in elevators, cars, or the like."

🎉February is Black American History Month🎉

Better than “bud” or “pal” imo.

Challenge them to a battle of the wits?

Markwayne Mullin on Hegseth’s drinking:

TAPPER: Drinking at 10 in the morning, that’s a drinking problem.

MULLIN: Yeah & there’s probably a lot of media that has a drinking problem too.

TAPPER: A drunk reporter who is drinking at 10 AM…is not in charge of the 3 million person defense department.💥

If you see this, post a concert pic you took.

8pm and 2am over here. It’s gonna be a long day.

We are all Reuben, although I’m more of a stubble guy.

Lovely stroll around Amsterdam after a long week of meetings. Heading back to MPLS to plant a boatload of tulips before the ground freezes!