Dr. CSP

Shoot, I already used up “the best article you’ll read this weekend.” OK, this is the most heartwarming article you’ll read this weekend.

“…we’ve already won. The reward is right now, this minute, this moment.”

Anyone have a gift link? Thanks

“The latest trick of the regime has been to pretend that the occupation of Minnesota is over.“

The best article you will read this weekend.

This is well worth your time. (This is real and it is happening.)

I was gonna pull out some quotes, but you should read the whole thing. (I'd say most of this isn't new to us in Minnesota but I find it helpful to see how others frame it and again, to get confirmation we aren't exaggerating.)

Two silky grey cats flaked out on a berber carpeted floor in a sunbeam.

They didn’t stand a chance
#Caturday

“It’s the mass detention of civilians without due process on the basis of identities — political, religious, racial, ethnic. And almost always it is done to expand or entrench political power.”

Gift link

Colorful marker drawing of a ninja’s head clad in purple, with a kind of multicolored stained glass thing going on in the background

8-year-old drew this with markers this morning and instructed my wife and I to “show it to everyone.” I asked if I could share it on Bluesky and he said “are they nice,” and I said “yeah they’re all weirdos like you and they’re nice” and he said “okay.”

$500 billion a year is enough to guarantee a basic income via a negative income tax with a 50% phaseout rate for all Americans, ending poverty and significantly reducing inequality and insecurity.

Obviously, you can and should buy your own Girl Scout cookies from my kids, but there's also an option to buy them to donate for local mutual aid (because Minneapolis).

They will deliver to Soup for You and other efforts distributing food to homebound families.

Again, DM for details.

Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave

Close-up of a stunning black and white spotted/striped bird with iridescent green through its black head and neck plumage and a dark red eye is swimming on dark green water.

Common Loon showing off for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #WaterDroplets (birds with water droplets on them). I love how the droplets are in perfectly straight lines and patterns on the loon's head.

#birds #photography

Hits different during Girl Scout cookie season

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

I would really like for cis people to imagine a world where we're buying 3 years worth of underwear in advance, out of concern that bigots might mobilize and further restrict our access to basic hygiene and dignity.

Because that's the world that trans people live in right now.

Minnesota child: Is it cold out?

Minnesota mom: No, it’s nice. Sunny. No wind.

Narrator: It was 10 degrees.

A spider on a branch covered in moss and lichens, but it really just looks like a patch of moss, because most of it is flush against the branch.

The ultimate camouflage is when, even when you know it's there, it's still hard to see it.

Witness the wrap-around spiders of genus Dolophones, native to Australia, who have perfected the art of BEING the tree.

There are 17 species, each specializing in a particular disguise.

(📷: dustaway)

We did really all need each other here in MN. Absolutely nothing we did could have been done alone. ICE’s failure has been absolute and total: they tried to burn our community but somehow built one instead

Why are folks not asking more questions about this FBI complaint in the Epstein Files?

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study.

The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

i’m just trying to talk to enough press that Mackenzie Scott rolls into some MN rent funds with the checkbook, you know?

Frog chorus in Santa Cruz off West Cliff Drive 🌿

‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

“They threw my dad out like an animal, and now I have no dad.”

One vaccine may provide broad protection against many respiratory infections and allergens Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues invented a new vaccine that protects mice from respiratory viruses, bacteria and allergens — the closest yet to a universal vaccine.

Exciting! Stanford researchers have developed a UNIVERSAL INTRANASAL vaccine. A study in mouse models shows that vaccinated mice were protected against Covid & other coronaviruses. Still a long way to humans. This study was #NIH funded.

A potential game changer.
🧪 med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

The American cycle. Fight like a demon to secure rights for your family to flourish in this country. You succeed! Your family builds an empire. And atleast one great grandchild will inevitably betray everything you fought for to pull the ladder up behind them.

When someone illegally takes your money, that’s called stealing. It’s time for Trump to pay up and give back your money.

@elizabeth-warren.bsky.social

This is either a terrible marriage or an incredible one and there is no way to know

UPDATE: Thanks again to everyone who contributed to this fundraiser! We had a flurry of donations yesterday and now we're at $720 over the original goal of 8k!

all additional $ will go to our neighborhood rent fund

Just had a convo with my 10yr old son, he was wondering why LBJ disliked Malcom if they were on the same side of civil rights - thus begins a long lesson on how folks supposedly on your side will be disdainful of you for forcefully standing up in your own defense.

A small milestone: the first copies of After Covid are here.

This book exists because of the generosity of hundreds of scientists, clinicians, public-health experts, and patients who agreed to interviews over the years. Thank you.

www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Toad stands in front of an ice cream shop, clutching two towering scoops of what appears to be chocolate ice cream—though their inky hue suggests a confection of unusual mystery. His jacket flaps open, his belt sits a little loose, and his wide, bare feet root him to the ground in sheer frozen-dessert determination. Under the dappled shade of a summer tree, he is a creature of pure, unbridled indulgence, caught in the delicious dilemma of where to take the first bite. From "Ice Cream" In *Frog and Toad All Year*

Toad went to the store. He bought two big ice-cream cones.

Toad licked one of the codes. “Frog likes chocolate best,” said Toad, “and so do I.”