Bethany Lilly

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

judge a quarterback by whether or not he defrauds millions of dollars from poor people

I’m back with your yearly reminder that Whitney Houston sang the best National Anthem of all time. People are still pretending it can be beat. It can’t. Just put this on the Jumbotron every year.

So. This is my first year of taking a full mortgage interest tax deduction. Holy s***. No wonder the SALT caucus is a thing!

Should You Buy a Newspaper or a Yacht? Advice for Jeff Bezos

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

I do not make this comparison lightly.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

When Microsoft changed the hotkeys a couple of years ago, I screamed and threw some stress balls in my office.

sure they’re tear-gassing toddlers but what do the polls say

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

Violet saying: "How will that be?!"

We love Violet!!

The entire group: "Mrs. Crabtree!!!"

"but she understands my a-r-T"

Well, this is odd

Dallas native, Olympic sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson arrested in Orlando for allegedly speeding over 100 mph Sha'Carri Richardson has been arrested in Orlando, Florida, for allegedly driving over 100 mph on Thursday.

LET FAST PEOPLE GO FAST

Consensus is: Benedict is 1) a "good" guy (we are very reluctant about this) and 2) deserves all the yearning he is going to get.

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

@justdrinkyourtea.bsky.social re: Benedict Bridgerton in Ep.2: "He is a dog with a job!" 🤣

This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning

I was sent this video of agents at her door:

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

‘In a very real sense, Trinity Rodman is Greenland’ is a level of getting lost in the sauce I’m not sure we’ve ever seen.

there’s something about the fixation on polling when people are being brutalized in the streets by federal agents that doesn’t sit quite right

My wife saw the headline without seeing the author’s name and said “I just know a man wrote this.”

yes, there are no real signs of any big change in DHS activity here yet. In Chicago there really was after Bovino left and they basically ended "Midway Blitz" not so here so far.

It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.

This is the GM firing an assistant coach and hoping that will be the end of the questions, except with fascism.

I’ve never been prouder to be a Minnesotan.

Giants star Jung Hoo Lee detained by CBP The South Korean was traveling to California on Wednesday to take part in a Giants FanFest tour stop in San Ramon.

Everyone still think athletes will avoid DHS (ICE, CBP etc) racial profiling?
#WorldCup ⚽️

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE

Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune