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It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.

American Hindenburg In the early days of flight, airships were hailed as the future of war. Then disaster struck the USS Akron.

I enjoy deep dives into historical events I didn’t otherwise know about. Did you know that the US had a rigid airship program? And yeah, it ended predictably, but the story is fascinating. magazine.atavist.com/2025/america...

Friday: MOHAI is screening the excellent From Rails to Trails documentary Tonight (March 13), MOHAI is hosting a screening of the Edward Norton-narrated PBS documentary From Rails to Trails at their South Lake Union museum. From 6–7 you can check out their Seattle cycling history exhibit. The film screening starts at 7. It's a great film! I've had a partial draft of a review of it written since it first came out, but somehow I never finished writing it.

Friday: MOHAI is screening the excellent From Rails to Trails documentary

#SEAbikes #Seattle

the boxcar painted with "OLD MAN DEPRESSION" gives you a real sense of that famous Minnesota humor

My grandfather was actually a railroad engineer in Minnesota.

If this video is from the 1930s, there's a solid chance he was at the fair - meaning this could be his career origin story!

Poor guy never got to crash any trains, tho...

1. They were caught on tape.
2. It was a particularly brutal rape.
3. The whistleblower who leaked the video was forced into house arrest
4. Pro-rapist mobs showed up to proclaim their support for the IDF rapists.
5. One even got a fawning interview on a radio station.
6. THEY WERE CAUGHT ON TAPE

This is repugnant.

This is who he is. This is who he's always been.

Prince? Yes. Absolutely. Morris and crew? Sadly, no.

For James Talarico, his stance on transgender rights flows from faith "When you grow up with that, you just kind of assume that that's normal."

This is a great read. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Uhhh, I think you might need a new doctor.

This may just be my own experience, but every time I've been abroad and mentioned any connection to Minnesota (I was born and raised there), people know two things about it - it's cold there and the people are regarded as genuinely nice and decent.

Sports gambling should be legal but you should have to go to an actual building to do it and it should be so off-putting and sad you’ll never want to do it again

I'd totally memory-holed it until I watched this doc! Watching them break down laughing at the ridiculousness of it all is so great!

You are not prepared.

I remember being in the living room with the fam and watching this live (dad was a big Home Improvement fan). I started laughing and was not able to explain to my confused family exactly why I thought it was so funny.

Apropos of nothing, @defector.com has the championship belt for best website on the internet right now. Both reminiscent of and better than the peak blog era internet.

OPB’s First Look: Visualizing the surge in Northwest ICE arrests Arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in the Pacific Northwest have exploded under President Donald Trump. Here's your First Look at Friday's news.

New map shows surge in immigration arrests in the Pacific Northwest. Heavy rain continues. Linn County residents line up to oppose a solar project. Public records show Blazers' pressure on Portland to fund Moda reno. Thorns back. What we're following on @opb.org today: www.opb.org/article/2026...

Voters in This State Overwhelmingly Said Yes to Limiting Money in Politics. Then the State Legislature Had Its Say. Some 78% of Oregon voters approved limiting campaign contributions in 2020. Four years later, the Legislature finally adopted limits, but an advocate for tighter controls says recent changes render Or...

Good reporting here from Rob Davis at @propublica.org on Oregon’s back and forth over campaign finance reform. Or, should I say, the legislature’s hemming and hawing over actually instituting campaign finance reform that voters overwhelmingly called for. www.propublica.org/article/oreg...

Yep

Rep. Neguse Calls For Inspector General Investigation Into OMB, National Science Foundation & Allegations of Potential Sale of NCAR to For-Profit Corporation Washington, D.C. — Today, Colorado Congressman Joe Neguse wrote to the Inspector General of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and demanded an independent investigation into allegations of potentia...

This is potentially huge. A whistleblower reported that OMB officials proposed transferring NCAR’s space weather program to a private, for-profit company, violating NSF’s public comment period and statutory limits.

The Onion has not lost their fastball.

If you, like me, have stumbled across the Wright Museum's GOLD TIER videos, you owe it to yourself to learn more about the place and the people who make it work.

So that's what the call with Putin last week was really about...

psssst
here's a secret:
trans people are just people
most of them are pretty cool honestly because surviving while trans in this timeline sort of forges them into diamonds
awesome, autonomy-grabbing diamonds

transphobes are petty weird losers
this has been my ted talk

Photos: Aftermath of US-Israeli attacks on Tehran Explosions are heard for a 13th day in Iran, Israel and several Middle Eastern states.

“The humanitarian toll continues to mount with more than 17,000 injured in Iran since the US and Israel launched their war on February 28. UNICEF described the situation as “catastrophic”, noting that more than 1,100 children have been reported injured or killed.” www.aljazeera.com/amp/gallery/...

This is an astonishing story, or, really, the end of one that began with the building of the LA Aqueduct.

The LA Aqueduct was a engineering miracle, a gravity fed system that brought water 100s of miles to LA from the Owens Valley, designed by a self-taught engineer named William Mulholland.

Okay, now I'm picturing Victor Abiamiri and Tommy Z circling Altman with large sticks...