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Minnesota community leaders are calling for an “ICE Out” general strike and...

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A huge collection of graphic design archives and resources, like The People’s...

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“There isn’t a lot of reliable information out there about how to...

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Prettifying Graffiti

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“AI skeptics need to update their priors: Plenty of cause for concern,...

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Vimeo was recently acquired by a private equity firm and you know...

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Your Friends Are Still Acting Like Everything is Normal in America. What...

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Defund Science, Distort Culture, Mock Education. “We have a very focused and...

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Thing I did not know I was looking for (but totally was):...

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Vintage Tourist Maps of Japan

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The Copyrightability of Fonts Revisited by Matthew Butterick, a type designer &...

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Clint Smith visits the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery,...

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Bruce Springstein wrote & recorded a song about Minnesota’s battle against tyranny:...

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David Lynch Went to the First Beatles Concert in the US (1964)

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Why do RSS readers look like email clients? “When we applied that...

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A collection of “well-made apps and sites” gathered by Marcin Wichary....

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People Photographed With Their Vehicles

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Why Some People See Collapse Earlier Than Others: Perception, pattern-seeking, and the...

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Kristen Radtke remembers Alex Pretti. “I didn’t realize, in the hours before...

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An Archive of Italian Graphic Design

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An impressive isometric map of NYC, built with AI agents. “I’m particularly...

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Watch Classic Episodes of Sesame Street for Free on YouTube

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You Need A Kitchen Slide Rule. “Kitchen work is all about proportions,...

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Information You Could Hold in Your Hand

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Science magazine: US government has lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs since...

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The Comics Journal’s obituary for Scott Adams. “Dilbert’s tone shifted during the...

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This video from December is about a pair of teenaged ICE trackers....

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A 90-minute ICE Watch training session via Zoom “on effectively protecting your...

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Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong. “Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection,...

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A collection of dartboards used in different areas of the UK. “The...

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Scientists have detected a swole neutrino, a potential signal from a primordial...

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The Best Book Covers of the Past Decade

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“For a month, I tried: swapping my iPhone for a Nokia which...

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“The imperial boomerang is the theory that governments that develop repressive techniques...

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M. Gessen: “It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic...

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Thomas Zimmer on the stakes of Minnesota’s struggle against tyranny. “A society...

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ICE/DHS has killed nine people in 2026 (that we know of): Keith...

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Emily Witt reports on The Battle for Minneapolis for the New Yorker....

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I thought this said “Winamp” and I got really excited....

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Daft Punk Deep Cuts DJ Set

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A review of Sven Beckert’s Capitalism. “‘No religion, no ideology, no philosophy,...

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Nice piece about the forgotten queer artist Marlow Moss, whose work and...

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A Chinese factory mistakenly stitched a frown on a Year of the...

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How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota, including donating money, hassling...

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Today, Minnesotans are striking (“no work, no school, no shopping”), protesting, and...

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The Best Films of 2025

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Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95....

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Mestra is a forthcoming short story from Madeline Miller (Circe, The Song...

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Pilot Captures Amazing Aurora Photos During Flight

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From director Rian Johnson, a collection of some of the screenplays of...

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