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Minnesota, Chicago, Austin. NY, RI, Ann Arbor. Old books, gingham, Saabs, side tables. All opinions my own. RT ≠ endorsement. Director of the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan.

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And the Hives!

14.03.2026 00:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

People! When you are showing images of things from library/archival collections in a conference presentation, PLEASE identify where they are from!

13.03.2026 14:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Home.

10.03.2026 01:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a man in a captain america costume says i understood that reference . ALT: a man in a captain america costume says i understood that reference .
09.03.2026 15:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gordon Gee sitting by the phone, waiting for the inevitable call.

09.03.2026 15:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I hate it so much.

09.03.2026 14:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wrongest thing in the history of wrongness.

09.03.2026 14:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Otherwise known as "Tuesday."

08.03.2026 03:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That would be a very strong look.

08.03.2026 02:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

08.03.2026 00:29 👍 6051 🔁 3504 💬 290 📌 237

When I helped my parents move out of their house in 2004, I found a can of marjoram that I'm pretty sure they got as a wedding gift (in 1961).

08.03.2026 01:34 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I think of it every time I see someone in an airport with a pillow.

08.03.2026 01:30 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Walter Kirn has been a right-wing nut job for many years now.

08.03.2026 01:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We live in Michigan, so they're more common here than anywhere else I go.

08.03.2026 01:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Store brand Ny/Dayquil is the way. Especially if it's Walgreens.

07.03.2026 15:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I just got back from Australia, where I saw a lot of Mazda6 wagons on the road. Those would sell like crazy here.

07.03.2026 14:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love ours (a 2019).

07.03.2026 14:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We have a 2019 Buick Regal TourX, which is just an Opel Insignia with a Buick badge on it. It has the same 2.0 turbo engine that the Saab 9-3s had, so it's familiar, and is to my mind one of the best-looking wagons on the road. It's a dream on long drives.

07.03.2026 14:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I've owned ten of them. Only regret one of them, but that was mostly because I was living in Texas at the time, and the 900 Turbos didn't much care for hot weather.

07.03.2026 14:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It is true--there are many Saabs still running up there. I'm always on the lookout...

07.03.2026 14:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They just announced that they are paying $110 million to break the lease on their largest block of office space in downtown Minneapolis. So I'm not sure how much longer they'll be able to say they're actually headquartered there.

03.03.2026 17:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As a native Minnesotan, for years I refused to even set foot in a WalMart (which we did not have when I was a kid), because Target was always a better option, both in terms of what was on the shelves and how they acted. Not any more. It is amazing how completely they screwed themselves.

03.03.2026 17:06 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Didn’t he go to Princeton?

28.02.2026 11:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Noem’s luxury ‘deportation’ jet is the tip of the ICE-berg Kristi Noem's DHS has acquired at least nine new aircraft in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets.

SCOOP: Noem's DHS has acquired at least NINE new jets in recent weeks, with another one on the way.

Half are luxury jets.

gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...

27.02.2026 01:49 👍 3897 🔁 2148 💬 285 📌 313

One of the most unusually paced shows I’ve ever watched, and also one of my absolute favorites. (My wife. Who is otherwise a very fine person, hated it, so I haven’t rewatched it as often as I should.)

25.02.2026 11:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I bet whichever fucking Tkachuk that was will ask if he do a ride-along with ICE agents.

23.02.2026 05:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That’s why you collect!

22.02.2026 03:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Michigan continues to distinguish itself for having the most useless pair of “Democratic” senators in the nation. Gary Peters will retire from the Senate without having done a single meaningful thing.

18.02.2026 11:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I cannot like this on account of Wisconsin, but I do like it.

17.02.2026 05:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Beach in Australia

Beach in Australia

No, of course I’m not going to see “Wuthering Heights.” But I did go to Brontë Beach, which I’m betting was more fun.

17.02.2026 05:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0