Fred Beukema

Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last

Newspaper screen shot; • U.S. NATIONAL PARKS PARKS FREE ON TRUMP'S BIRTHDAY, NOT MLK DAY The National Park Service will offer free admission to U.S. residents on President Donald Trump's birthday next year- which also happens to be Flag Day-but is eliminating the benefit for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth. The new list of free admission days for Americans is the latest example of the Trump administration downplaying America's civil rights history while also promoting the president's image, name and legacy. Last year, the list of free days included Martin Luther King Jr Day and Juneteenth - which is June 19 - but not June 14, Trump's birthday.

This shit is so embarrassing.

Dammit.

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.

One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.

When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

I did not know this

O dang!

He was so good in his couple of episodes of Twin Peaks.

there is only one political party in the US that constantly says that their own voters are weird and unreasonable

Yo

The amount of people complaining that there won’t be low resolution dinosaurs taking up the entire frame for the first time in 30 years is wild.

One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.

Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.

Be a housing fan.

Staircase suggests related, but different questions. Maybe a way station, a limbo.

Updates:
1. Confirmed that it's the Hobbit.
2. The classic rock side of the soundscape is now the long version of Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida.
3. They replaced the syrup on the Diet Dr. Pepper, to my relief.

That's the one!

Looking through a wide, round brick archway of a fast food restaurant, we see a stairway going down.

This Arby's:
1. Looks like it used to be a Taco John's.
2. Has classic rock playing, which is overpowered by a loud audiobook of The Hobbit (?) being read by an American who can't pull off the British accent, playing in the kitchen.
3. Appears to have a downstairs:

If Stephen Miller is really good this year, Trump will let him have it.

We Minneapolitans are not especially sanguine about it. We trust O'Hara and the department very little.

Emily Bear's cottage during a blizzard always seemed wonderfully cozy.

Conveniently they only figured this out about a month after the election.

I've never been so excited. It's happening. #ReleaseTheOriginalTrilogy www.starwars.com/news/star-wa...

Screenshot from The Onion, originally published October 9, 2002. Headline: Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches for Grandkids Below it, a photo of a plate with multiple deconstructed sandwiches balanced precariously, vaguely resembling a Frank Gehry building.

Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...

I'm very excited to see this after waiting more than 20 years. I'm fascinated to hear about the changes the context had on the pacing for you. Great piece!

(One factual quibble: Reservoir Dogs and Death Proof also received no Oscar noms.)

The Minneapolis Police Department overspent their budget by 20 million so far this year, according to a discussion among council members during today's budget markup session.

OMG make another choice than the screaming kid for the vax story. Laziest option ever.

Thanks, I hate it.

Scrum's sister?

The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991.

From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...

I will roll the dice with Netflix over giving any more media to those Ellison maniacs any day.

Netflix is better than the alternative, and who knows, maybe now those dopes will decide they're Jack Lipnick

This was maybe the hardest class I took in college.