Probably down a research rabbit hole.
📖 The Not-Quite States of America, about the U.S. territories (W. W. Norton).
🍟Agreeably nerdy food history newsletter: https://snackstack.net
He/him, just another dad in Minneapolis.
Doug Mack
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sometimes listicles are good
(obviously it's terrible that FIFA won't let the team wear them, not trying to deny that! Just saying, if anyone else wants one...)
FYI you can still buy these shirts
www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/2026-27-hait...
“I think this spectacle is emblematic of our city’s particularly white and liberal cultural shortcomings, our inauthentic affect, our obsession with our own relevance.”
open.substack.com/pub/gayzoofa...
The most visible form of Minnesota resistance to ICE was the swarms of people whistling and watching and following agents in their cars. But the mutual aid groups keeping immigrant families afloat have become more necessary than ever. @brycecovert.bsky.social reports.
prospect.org/2026/06/10/i...
World Cup starts on Thursday and this is such a horrifying/perfect welcome for all the tourists and journalists (or at least the ones that our government didn't already turn away)
Before I was a dad, a bookstore owner, and an all-purpose cranky old man in the news, I was gonna start a green roof installation business. Just got up to do a maintenance check on the largest roof I installed (480 sqft) for the first time in over 6 years. Here's a 🧵 of some info about this roof:
NEW. SYLVAN. ESSO. TRACK.
been learning live storytelling. last night i was on an official event line up, first time.
when AI is furiously eating creativity, live story is the antidote to that poison. people stumble, have feelings, it's imperfect and human.
(here's the story i told)
www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2026/02...
Editor on phone with novelist: "Yeah, I get that it works on multiple levels. I do. But it's just TOO obvious. You can't use a *Monster Energy* sign there."
Many immigrants forced into hiding are still unable to work and facing rent hikes. Aid money is drying up.
