Ari Ofsevit

Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”

The G.O.P. Senator Who Can’t Stop Thinking About the Boy ICE Detained Katie Britt is uniquely positioned to reason with the Trump administration — when she chooses to speak up.

Representative Joaquin Castro of Texas said in a post on social media that he had picked up Liam and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, from the Dilley detention center on Saturday night and escorted them to Minnesota on Sunday morning. He shared photos of the two on social media, including one showing Liam at the airport clutching what appeared to be a Pikachu toy and wearing a Pikachu backpack. Mr. Castro was part of a delegation of Democratic lawmakers who visited Liam and his father at the detention center last week, where he said Liam’s father had reported that the child was “very depressed” and hadn’t been eating well since they were detained earlier this month.

This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen:

A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained"

But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.

The G.O.P. Senator Who Can’t Stop Thinking About the Boy ICE Detained

Dear Katie Britt

These puff pieces will not go down well in history books. Appeasement is appeasement.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

These people are morally grotesque.

Make these permanent like in Fulton. (Maybe someone in Mpls knows the history of these, and why they only exist here and in Como.)

And I thought I couldn't love Jessie more than I already do. Silly me.

I've done a couple of BlueBike rides here and there and it's nice, but the roads are still messy in places. Get your riding in today and tomorrow, this weekend is going to be le suck.

Bluesky is that special place where someone will take time out from serialposting about how ICE can never defeat one mid sized midwesern city to post about how ICE is going to commandeer every voting booth in the US and all is lost

Currently ISO-NE is importing 1100MW of power from HQ via the NECEC for $75 less than the LMP.

That saves ratepayers $82,500 per hour, or about $2 million per day. And that's all hydro which would instead be gas or oil.

(Does this actually work this way?)

Here's the Venn diagram:

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Jeez this is before hyperloop (all the urbanists knew he was full of shit in 2013)

so for everyone who’s got an “I bought this before Elon was bad” bumper sticker, did you buy your Tesla in 2012

Opinion: People over party — Why I’m changing my affiliation  - Concord Monitor New Hampshire State Representative leaves Republican Party, becomes Democrat to fight for vulnerable and improve healthcare. Goals remain the same.

Interesting: a NH state rep just switched from R --> D (Rs currently have a majority in the 400-seat house).

www.concordmonitor.com/2026/02/05/m...

A Profile of the 2023 Federal Workforce A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working towards effective government for the American people.

The Federal Government is very diverse; a lot of bureaucracy in DC is run by solidly middle/upper-middle class Black folks. Why do you think they want to tear it down?

ourpublicservice.org/fed-figures/...

DOLORES!

Europe, being downstream of the Atlantic, has much more temperate weather than the US. Much cooler and less humid in the summer, warmer in winter, and less precip than the East Coast, especially in winter (although cloudier).

It's too big to fit on a poster so

* Scan this QR code
* Go to this website

Nah, 2001: ask for a brochure!

You should add them to a block list so we can all block them.

Congress will be flipped in places like NY-21 (Stefanik, not the craziest reach this year), not NY-14 (Ocasio-Cortez).

The flip will happen in the suburbs, not the cities. Targeting these districts will go especially poorly.

The Red Line is arriving in geometric sequence today.

They can't slot two RTs in on the existing infrastructure?

I dated someone who wanted to live in a single-family home walking distance from work and could not comprehend that this didn't exist (without a lot of money).

(It ended not long thereafter.)

$1.6 billion for … what? A couple of platforms?

Comic. [Person talking to person with black hat.] PERSON 1: Historically, it refers to a ceremony to predict the weather using a rodent. But nowadays people often use it to mean “a time loop experienced by one person.” PERSON 2: …What. [caption] Easily our weirdest holiday.

Groundhog Day Meaning

xkcd.com/3202/

Went for a walk at lunch to enjoy a “warm” day on the frozen tundra of the Charles.

If @speakertip got off of the bad site and came here, I bet he would have something to say about this!

A lot of this is from states going to mail-in voting, so the actual numbers aren't as drastic. abcnews.go.com/US/protectin...

Of course …

Huh, interesting. Glad I wasn't trying to get somewhere this morning.

1m*1kg = 9.81 joules.
1 ton * 1500m = ~25m joules = 8 kWh per ton.
75 10,000 trains per day @ 83% efficiency = 5 GWh of potential energy = nearly 1% of California's daily energy use.

At 26¢/kWh = $1.5m/day or $500m/year, more if trains are scheduled around high/low energy demand times.

Each roundtrip here currently gains and loses about 1500m of elevation. This potential energy is currently bled off as heat by dynamic braking. How much energy is that?