Bill Lindeke

and yet

And so it begins...

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

The 2026 Urbanist Legislative Agenda Let’s check in with some of our favorite urbanist advocacy organizations about their goals for this year’s legislative session!

learned this via the great @streets.mn podcast on leg. policy streets.mn/2026/02/16/t...

A St. Paul to Kansas City passenger train? St. Paul City Council urges a go St. Paul is asking the Minnesota Legislature to direct MnDOT to submit a grant application to the Federal Railroad Administration.

Apparently the missing link here is that MnDOT does not have enough staff able to study state passenger rail: www.twincities.com/2026/02/06/a...

Never watched a single video made by that guy.

With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules

“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups…

“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”

They don’t make em like *that* any more

But then, why do it?

This how you isolate and capture "the worst of the worst" of these dangerous immigrants. You show yourself to be in need of help, and the worst criminals reveal themselves and their criminality by doing whatever they can to provide you with help.

Masterful law enforcement.

Place was on its last legs for a decade anyway so it’s fine

Lotta rumors. I talked to Billy about it

The ICE stuff was the final straw. (They came in, he asked them to leave, but people were upset,)

Hmong grandmother detained in Texas for 2 weeks still doesn’t know why After being repeatedly visited by ICE, Thi Dua Vang and her husband, both in the U.S. legally awaiting green cards, are in hiding.

Federal agents convinced an 11-year-old boy to open the door at 7:30 a.m. and then detained this Hmong grandma for 2 weeks in Texas. She shared a cell with 20 women. What did she do wrong? She has no idea, but ICE has returned repeatedly. She's still in hiding. www.twincities.com/2026/02/15/h...

In Minneapolis, Native American patrols keep watch – and see history repeating: ‘We are still being chased’ The American Indian Movement was established in Minneapolis more than 50 years ago in response to police brutality. After ICE agents flooded the city this winter, neighborhoods reprised citizen patrol...

History repeating itself in Phillips. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Great win for the US women’s curlers today, coming back to beat China!

RIP

a rainbow and a star with the words " i know you know " ALT: a rainbow and a star with the words " i know you know "

I was unaware of this!

Good collection of terrible vintage Valetine's Day cards here. They are bad. https://datavizblog.com/2018/02/14/my-2018-innappropriate-vintage-valentines-day-cards/

The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.

Massachusetts is the Los Angeles of the East Coast

ICE Agents Menaced Minnesota Protesters at Their Homes, Filings Say

NYT: ICE Agents Menaced Minnesota Protesters at Their Homes, Filings Say www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

Has ICE Debuted New ‘No Lying’ Policy? Yesterday, one of ICE’s and the White House’s prize ICE-as-victim cases blew...

"As the public mood shifts, or perhaps as it hardens, against ICE, everyone gets a bit more insecure and worried..." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/has-i...

Western US states fail to negotiate crucial Colorado River deal: ‘Mother nature isn’t going to bail us out’ Negotiators disbanded on Friday without a plan for the basin supplying water to 40m people, thrusting the region into uncertainty

Update! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump’s Minnesota Retreat Points to the Power of Public Anger

"The entire exercise was an unmitigated disaster" [for
Republicans]. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

Worthington man back home after five days in ICE custody Lozano shares experience of arrest, detention

Would have been nice if they’d gotten a bit more context and included the (very visible/well-known around town) story of the Latino dad of 2 (“legal,” honors graduate, going to college, family man, ”did everything right” who was recently racially profiled & illegally detained!

Who Cares if Matt Damon’s ‘Odyssey’ Helmet Is Historically Accurate?

FYI The Odyssey (Homer's version) is not historically accurate. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/m...

Best thing about Man U is.... the fans that hate the owners of Man U

Here ya go! bsky.app/profile/rodg...

Ghost bikes for people.