Nancy Martira

NANCY MACE: What is a woman? Have you learned that lesson?

WALZ: I'm the governor of Minnesota. I'm not here to be a prop for your obsession.

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

New Rhode Island aphorism just dropped:

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For nearly a year, ICE and Texas DPS covered up an ICE shooting that left San Antonian Ruben Ray Martinez dead. His family deserves justice and the public has the right to know the truth.

I don’t understand this account, but I’m glad that it exists.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

Brand authenticity is a no brainer when the brand is the damn charming.

Seattle Mariners' Naylor greets history-making umpire - Seattle Sports Seattle Mariners first baseman Josh Naylor talked about the nice moment Tuesday when he greeted Jen Pawol, the first female umpire in MLB history.

Umpire news: sports.mynorthwest.com/mlb/seattle-...

[Don Draper voice] That’s what the woims is for!

Hilary Mantel, British author. In this piece by Oliver Sachs, he cites passages from Mantel’s memoir about her first memories of migraine. archive.nytimes.com/migraine.blo...

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.”

They pulled a Target.

What We Rate Dogs Teaches About Strategic Communications A dog meme account forced Amazon to reverse course in four days. Three strategic communication lessons for knowledge-based businesses.

The @weratedogs.com guy (WRDG) is a better strategic communicator than most corporate CEOs. I only regret that I accidentally learned his name while doing research for this blog post. www.clewstrategy.com/blog/communi...

Last night, I was notified that another person has died in ICE custody.

That’s 39 people who have died on ICE’s watch during Trump’s second term.

We cannot grow numb to this. There must be immediate oversight and accountability.

Feminist Generation, a youth-led activist movement, has a portal devoted to their campaign to Protect Trans Youth. Take 10 minutes today to send some emails and make public comments. Tell your legislators to vote no on H.R. 3492. feministgeneration.org/protecttrans...

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

The seismometers at the end of the earth have names Scientists have placed two seismometers 8000 feet below the ice cap at the South Pole to measure earthquakes and support tsunami alerts.

Thanks to @lifewinning.com's newsletter, I learned there is an NPR story titled "The seismometers at the end of the earth have names" (Dr. Bob and T Storm) www.npr.org/2026/02/08/n...

Duolingo screenshot of a French lesson with the character named Junior. The French reads, “Elle n’aime pas commander des livres sur Internet.” The English translation below: She doesn’t like to order books online.

Duolingo gets it.

Okay, so that part of my memory is correct.

It’s weird that ice hockey is a real sport outside the context of Heated Rivalry. I thought it was a fever dream I had growing up Boston-adjacent in the 1980s.

Yes, he has Steadman Graham vibes.

V-Day alert: If you don’t live in NM, you should know that Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham married her long term companion in 2022 (her first husband passed in 2004.) His name is Manuel Cordova, but he is known colloquially as the First Manny.

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The title page of a 1971 book by Karen DeCrow. The book is called The Young Woman’s Guide to Liberation — Alternatives to a Half-Life While the Choice is Still Yours. The publisher’s name appears at the bottom of the page: Pegasus, a division of the Bobbs-Merrill Company Incorporated Publishers.

From my vintage advice book collection: a 1971 book for young women. (I can’t get over the subtitle.)

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Chomskyschmerz

Results may vary. For me, it was thinking that Notion templates could solve all of my problems. (They could not.)

Read that subhead again. And again.

Shut it down. Shut it all down.

Confessions of a bush: Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show, as told by one of the ‘grass people’ A cast member on becoming one of the halftime show’s instantly viral bushes.

They had somebody hide in the costume in the room that we were in, and then he popped out to the corner, and tried to scare us — like “Arragaaahahhhh!” And they were like, “This is your costume.”
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