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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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Now That I Am Old Enough to Enroll in Medicare, I Am...

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What Is the Scale of the Resistance in Minnesota?

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More ways to help: Stand With Minnesota. How you can tell this...

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You can help: a listing of mutual aid organizations to support in...

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Ryan Coogler’s Sinners sets record for most Oscar nominations: 16! Includes best...

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10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents....

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The Great Crime Decline Is Happening All Across the Country. “What has...

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“When South Morningside Primary School girls football team won the prestigious Edinburgh...

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Water bankruptcy is a “chronic condition that develops when a place uses...

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“Most technologies are like guns. They tend to get aggregated and captured...

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“The uncomfortable truth is that the president of the United States is...

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The First Animation That Hayao Miyazaki Directed on His Own: Watch Footage...

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“A flock of ring-necked parakeets that were filmed feasting on the wall...

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Koyaanisqatsi In Five Minutes

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Incredible drone footage of a pileup of 100+ cars, trucks, and semis...

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In 1983 Steve Dyer created the Usenet group soc.motss, possibly the first-ever...

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One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We...

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Lydia Polgreen: In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War. “Good’s killing was...

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A report from occupied Minneapolis: So, How’s the Occupation Going for You?...

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Margaret Sullivan: With Democracy in Free Fall, the Media Must (Finally) Wake...

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Reporting on Homeland Security’s siege of Minneapolis. “No one…is even really bothering...

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“Scientists have been forced to rethink the intelligence of cattle after an...

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This is a wild Bluesky thread (and bus ride). “they switched drivers...

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A Visualization of the Evolution of Paris, 300 BCE to 2025

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The rate at which the universe is expanding differs depending on how...

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The Ping-Pong Hustler Who Inspired ‘Marty Supreme’. “If Chalamet has found, in...

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How Russia’s Children Got So Violent. “There is no positive ideology for...

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This website is compiling a sourced list of ICE abuses in Minnesota....

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Photos of China’s Green Energy Transition

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Wikipedia turns 25 years old. (I can’t believe it’s only been around...

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At the Stone Skimming World Championships in Scotland (at an old slate...

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