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Even if ICE CBP presence in the Twin Cities goes back to pre-Dec levels (which to be clear it •has not• yet done), we will be living with this for a long time. The world will be moving on, the national press will forget about us no doubt, but we’ll be living with this.
Nobody here thinks we’re done. But a lot of us are cautiously hopeful that we are now entering a time where this is some room for repairing and rebuilding.
Cautiously hopeful. But vigilant.
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Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
TARRANT: Extent of damage, Orac? [pause, no response] Orac?
[Crew room. Tarrant enters and looks at Orac beneath the beam.]
[Shot of Zukan's ship in space, approaching another space ship.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/412/270 B7B4
The New Yorker has digitized its full archive covering 100 years, including covers and adding upgraded search capabilities; subscribers get unlimited access (Nicholas Henriquez/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/press-room/the-entire-new…
I used to valorize moving fast and breaking things, completely taken by Silicon Valley’s mythos around itself.
I remember thinking that enterprises were incompetent because they spent so long doing even simple tech migrations and tool implementations.
I get it now. Time isn’t saved when issues are ignored. It’s just put on other people’s plates.
It’s not your problem if you run a quick thoughtless fix, but it will be the problem of future teams and employees. (Or future you, potentially)
"Mr. Mamdani said children had been lobbying him for a snow day, and that one enterprising student had even found an email address for his wife, Rama Duwaji, and sent her a message making the case. “She thought it was a very good argument,” Mr. Mamdani said, nonetheless unconvinced."
Mamdani Announces Snow Plans, Including No Snow Day for NYC Schools - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/nyregion/mamdani-snow-nyc.html
Raiders name Mario Jeberaeel Offensive Run Game Coordinator https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-name-mario-jeberaeel-offensive-run-game-coordinator
Prominent GOP Senator Already Rejects JD Vance For President In 2028 (Ron Dicker/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rand-paul-jd-vance-president-no_n_6949063ae4b099a75cbd5d0d
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p70#a251222p70
Last night a Brandi Carlile concert came to a triumphant finish at Target Center in Minneapolis, having run over the scheduled time by 45 minutes— with, by all reports, every second beloved by the attendees *and* staff. The delighted fans, still singing along to Carlile's chosen exit music, found the doors where they had entered, on the upper level of the stadium, to be locked.
Minneapolis closes its skyways late at night, because it is run by cruel people who hate that somebody w…