Matt DeLong
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Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.
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Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
mattdelong.bsky.social
ICE but for people who stand in a coffeeshop line for several minutes and still have no idea what they want to order when they get to the counter
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"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
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In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.
mattdelong.bsky.social
The Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management has issued a license to Lake of the Woods Cannabis Company in Baudette. The dispensary's address is just a stone's throw from the Canadian border and it will certainly be a contender for northernmost marijuana dispensary in the continental US.
mattdelong.bsky.social
I don’t know the specific criteria. I assume one continuous fixture. It’s the length of a soccer field.
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Nice shot of the world’s longest light fixture (allegedly)
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Main Post Office, Minneapolis
long hallway with a counter in the middle
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repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
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An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
mattdelong.bsky.social
Reminds me of that time the Twins started their season with a ridiculous losing streak and we made a website called havethetwinswonyet.com with this same format and it was only up for half a day because of course the Twins won their next game

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Is Portland Burning?
No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.
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"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president
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Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."
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Tried a Cosmic Crisp apple last night. A+ apple: crunchy, super juicy, both sweet and tangy. Arguably the apple against which all others should be judged imo.
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Despite seven mass shootings this year — four since August, including at Annunciation Church, and three others on or near a troubled stretch of Lake Street — Minneapolis remains on track to see a fall in all categories of major crime this year.

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Minneapolis crime is falling in 2025, even amid high-profile violence
Most crimes are down in Minnesota’s largest city, continuing a pattern following a pandemic-era spike. That doesn’t alleviate concerns among wary residents after mass shootings.
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Law enforcement historically loves announcing their undercover operations ahead of time
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Launches Under- cover Operations to Infil- trate and Uproot Leftist Terror Cells in Texas After Increased Political Violence
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