Jake Rudy

Who’s up pregaming the Zara concert with today’s NYT Crossword?

Rick Astley on Traitors

Naming my first daughter Solyndra

Seems to me that if you're upset that there's not more of a student movement fighting fascism in 2026, the first place to direct your anger is the people who crushed the wave of student organizing that crested in the months immediately preceding the fascists' rise to power.

If this reads as elitist and out of touch, it’s because I intended it read as such (light sarcasm)

There are RULES in PLACE to help EVERYONE have a BETTER time

Few things kick me straight into conservative boomerism like bad concert behavior. (Airport security is a close second) #lapsedcatholic

Please pick one:

-applauding between movements
-persistent loud cough
-wrestling with bag of individually wrapped cough drops

before you choose to drive into the city for the orchestra from whatever fourth ring exurb you call home.

A mother-daughter duo offered, unprompted, to save my spot in a packed First Ave 🥹

It’s so refreshing to be in the younger quartile of concertgoers tonight

Ever since I was a little girl I knew I wanted to read executive summaries

Get ready for a lot of stuff to happen for “purely financial reasons”

MPLS M MILLERS

For our Minneapolis siblings seeking a comparably sick design for their version of The Jackets, I suggest raiding some Minneapolis Millers looks as part of your vision board

I can save everyone's time reading another @startribune.com puff piece for the Downtown Council, in which the writer consults no historians or urban planners and relies merely on one personal anecdote. Parking. It's just about parking. It's only ever about parking.

*zara larsson voice* “boots”

“You gotta be ready for some ego death” sir I think you’re on the tenure track

The economy must be bad. I’m observing Gen Z order Coors Banquet in real time

Am I contractually obligated to do the Mayor Pete dance if I hear “High Hopes” in an Iowan college town?

Watching Gen Z obsess over John Jr.

Tyne Daly Snatch Game when?

Every large construction project in the middle of nowhere has people asking AI Data Center or Concentration Camp?

The terms of the debate haven't changed at all for Republicans, but now comes the part where "respectable" anti-trans actors like the NTY are forced to shed the fig leaf of "fairness in sports," and join in on directly questioning "the validity of transgender identity."

I think that a PILLION and BLUE MOON double feature day would simply destroy me.

I love being old enough to shake my head in disappointment when I see my undergrad has delayed the start of campus operations due to supposedly “cold temperatures”.

I think it's worth saying plainly that Ashley is doing what our government should be doing but refuses to

the thing about the Olympics is that they combine one of the most corrupt organizations in the world and also pure joy.

I should show up to work with ashes on my forehead tomorrow just to really throw people off

Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."

Olestra is such a beautiful name for a baby girl 💜

This is inevitable for “institutional neutrality”—it is meant to look like rising above the political fray but inevitably means silently accepting whatever position becomes dominant.