William Linde
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When my local city council member Aisha Chugthai (DSA endorsed)spoke it was probably below zero
December 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
When my local city council member Aisha Chugthai (DSA endorsed)spoke it was probably below zero
Hosted by a tenant union after their building management opened an apartment door for ICE and now that neighbor is being held out of state
December 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Hosted by a tenant union after their building management opened an apartment door for ICE and now that neighbor is being held out of state
Last Saturday was a high of 3 with a terrible wind chill and still 60-70 people turned out on somewhat short notice for a demonstration/press conference in my South Minneapolis neighborhood
December 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Last Saturday was a high of 3 with a terrible wind chill and still 60-70 people turned out on somewhat short notice for a demonstration/press conference in my South Minneapolis neighborhood
My favorite line from Anatole France’s “Penguin Island” is “When the baptism of the penguins was known in Paradise, it caused neither joy nor sorrow, but an extreme surprise.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
My favorite line from Anatole France’s “Penguin Island” is “When the baptism of the penguins was known in Paradise, it caused neither joy nor sorrow, but an extreme surprise.”
(After the war on cars is won and in the voice of the Highway Man from Over the Garden Wall) “I’m the bicycle highway man”
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
(After the war on cars is won and in the voice of the Highway Man from Over the Garden Wall) “I’m the bicycle highway man”
My deceased grandfather, who was a coast guard captain whose brother was killed in the merchant marine in WW2 en route to Murmansk, would have been apocalyptic at even the hint of this policy
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
My deceased grandfather, who was a coast guard captain whose brother was killed in the merchant marine in WW2 en route to Murmansk, would have been apocalyptic at even the hint of this policy
I still get uncomfortable just remembering the time the person next to me at the theater watching Loving Vincent recorded approximately 1/3rd of it in 7-10 second chunks using Snapchat
September 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I still get uncomfortable just remembering the time the person next to me at the theater watching Loving Vincent recorded approximately 1/3rd of it in 7-10 second chunks using Snapchat
The paper the above article is pulling from: www.nber.org/papers/w2924...
New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
September 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The paper the above article is pulling from: www.nber.org/papers/w2924...
Color of Law is great, but I wish more people were aware of the academic discussions over the difference between the HOLC maps used in the book and FHA maps that were used for discriminatory lending (which were destroyed by the agency in 1969). www.governing.com/context/redl...
Redlining Didn’t Happen Quite the Way We Thought It Did
Scholars have always placed two New Deal era federal agencies at the center of the racist policy that steered private mortgage lenders away from Black neighborhoods. However, new research paints a dif...
www.governing.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Color of Law is great, but I wish more people were aware of the academic discussions over the difference between the HOLC maps used in the book and FHA maps that were used for discriminatory lending (which were destroyed by the agency in 1969). www.governing.com/context/redl...
If you enjoyed the film, please read Miyizaki’s Naussicaa manga. The world has so much depth to it
September 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
If you enjoyed the film, please read Miyizaki’s Naussicaa manga. The world has so much depth to it
They’re Stahlhelms
September 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
They’re Stahlhelms
The people most responsible for this mess (the trustees): bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/voices.uchic...
bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com
August 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The people most responsible for this mess (the trustees): bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/voices.uchic...
And to summarize what would take like a 10,000 word article, at any given time the administration was doing their utmost to suppress any attempt at actual deliberation about the direction of the university and to ensure the board of trustees remained as opaque and protected as possible
August 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
And to summarize what would take like a 10,000 word article, at any given time the administration was doing their utmost to suppress any attempt at actual deliberation about the direction of the university and to ensure the board of trustees remained as opaque and protected as possible
This is so frustrating because when I was a 1st year undergraduate there almost a decade ago, a considerable number of in-the-know faculty and students were saying that the administration’s and trustee’s decisions would lead to this situation
August 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This is so frustrating because when I was a 1st year undergraduate there almost a decade ago, a considerable number of in-the-know faculty and students were saying that the administration’s and trustee’s decisions would lead to this situation
Excuse me, but have you considered the possibility one of the plots from Jurassic Park might happen and I might have to speed away from an improperly drugged Tyrannosaurus Rex loping through my city?
August 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Excuse me, but have you considered the possibility one of the plots from Jurassic Park might happen and I might have to speed away from an improperly drugged Tyrannosaurus Rex loping through my city?
Let’s also make it so that HOAs can’t ban solar installations
July 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Let’s also make it so that HOAs can’t ban solar installations
At some point some EU entity is going to drop a multibillion dollar fine on Twitter/Elon right?
July 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
At some point some EU entity is going to drop a multibillion dollar fine on Twitter/Elon right?
They’re also seeing declines in ad revenue, print readership, and news only digital subscriptions. They’re doing well relative to the industry due to their games, cooking, etc and how they bundle those
July 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
They’re also seeing declines in ad revenue, print readership, and news only digital subscriptions. They’re doing well relative to the industry due to their games, cooking, etc and how they bundle those
When UNESCO inducted the baguette onto its world heritage list in 2022 it was disappointing that they did so only really in the context of France
July 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
When UNESCO inducted the baguette onto its world heritage list in 2022 it was disappointing that they did so only really in the context of France
Algeria also consumes significantly more baguettes both in total and per capita than France does
July 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Algeria also consumes significantly more baguettes both in total and per capita than France does
Let’s say you hand-wave away all the immense technical, cost, and political problems with space-based boost phase interceptors. If you put a five-figure number of missiles into space, you have the problem of retiring and de-orbiting them right?
May 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Let’s say you hand-wave away all the immense technical, cost, and political problems with space-based boost phase interceptors. If you put a five-figure number of missiles into space, you have the problem of retiring and de-orbiting them right?
I’d respect something like ChatGPT a lot more if it made fun of people whose use of it became too pathetic. “I asked ChatGPT to hire a clown for my children’s birthday party and it ordered a mirror to my house”
May 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I’d respect something like ChatGPT a lot more if it made fun of people whose use of it became too pathetic. “I asked ChatGPT to hire a clown for my children’s birthday party and it ordered a mirror to my house”
I had a friend in college who dealt with a similar situation but the alarm was the saxophone portion of Talk Dirty to Me on repeat
May 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I had a friend in college who dealt with a similar situation but the alarm was the saxophone portion of Talk Dirty to Me on repeat
I don’t know about most countries in WWI, but at least in the British army underage soldiers were not that uncommon and the youngest known soldier at the Somme was only 12 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younges...
Youngest British soldier in World War I - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
May 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I don’t know about most countries in WWI, but at least in the British army underage soldiers were not that uncommon and the youngest known soldier at the Somme was only 12 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younges...