Daughter Number Three

A.R. Moxon had a recent essay about one of the big problems underlying our current polycrisis. I think of his subject in terms of the 20 (o...

The title of a Forum News wire story, printed in the St. Paul Pioneer Press ( gift link ), gives the gist of the problem: "AI-generate...

Three things I saw today about policing. Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data (from Reuters): U.S. police spend...

Quoting Minneapolis City Council President Elliot Payne: ACLU Minnesota reported yesterday that the federal government filed sworn statemen...

Today I saw a post showing the form anti-diversity and anti-immigrant thinking takes in the U.K. The post belittled the perspective: The go...

People in Minneapolis and Saint Paul are now getting caught up in ICE tear gas attacks who are not involved in trying to deter them or darin...

Warren Wells, policy and planning director at Marin County Bicycle Coalition, posted a long thread (all worth reading) about teens and cras...

No one expects news coverage to reflect reality 100%, but it's eye-opening just how distorted it is. And I'm not talking about Fox N...

I've mentioned before the dissonance I experience with family members who are fully MAGA-aligned or in some way pro-Trump. The closest o...

I've been away from my computer all day pretty much, and I am not going to try to catch up on all of the bizarro world Trump news of the...

In the U.S., it seems as though the so-called urban/rural divide is a relatively recent political phenomenon: maybe something that has becom...

I went to a family reunion last weekend in Wisconsin where close to half the relatives are evangelical Christians. It's a picnic, only a...

Dartmouth professor and writer Jeff Sharlet posted a thread on BlueSky today that resonated with my experience. It's about fear of citi...

Over the weekend, The Guardian ran an article about how air conditioning is "destroying the planet." Joshua Foust, assistant prof...

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins held a press conference today to talk about how all those "lazy" people getting Medicaid s...

Late last week I heard news the Trump administration was reversing course on two high-profile bad decisions: revocation of thousands of stud...

It was hard to miss yesterday's news that Tesla's first-quarter 2025 earnings were 71% lower than the same quarter in 2024 , which —...

As anyone knows who has paid any attention to the illegal renditioning of Venezuelan men to El Salvador, the Trump administration's oste...

Today I learned, via Dr. Genevieve Guenther @doctorvive.bsky.social , that these are the companies that we must force governments to disman...

There was a letter to the editor in the Star Tribune a couple of days ago that left me aghast. I dug it out of the recycling pile to rerea...