Ari Ofsevit
@ofsevit.bsky.social
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You guys have no idea how good this car is for what we’re doing. You can lurk in alleys or behind parked SUVs. It drives like a go-cart. You’re three feet off the ground with exceptional visibility so I can pull snap u-turns or cut behind convoys
January 18, 2026 at 12:08 PM
This is a thread for @resultsboy.bsky.social
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I don’t want a humvee, I want a 2020 Honda fit
January 14, 2026 at 6:08 PM
I don’t want a humvee, I want a 2020 Honda fit
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You cannot find a car that excels in handling, fuel efficiency, passenger space, cargo space, and convenience like this one. I can transport almost anything, park almost anywhere, navigate any road, and most importantly PURSUE ANY FASCIST in this thing
January 18, 2026 at 5:34 AM
You cannot find a car that excels in handling, fuel efficiency, passenger space, cargo space, and convenience like this one. I can transport almost anything, park almost anywhere, navigate any road, and most importantly PURSUE ANY FASCIST in this thing
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Food $200
Data $150
Rent $3,000
Disneyland $50,600
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
Data $150
Rent $3,000
Disneyland $50,600
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
January 18, 2026 at 5:17 AM
Food $200
Data $150
Rent $3,000
Disneyland $50,600
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
Data $150
Rent $3,000
Disneyland $50,600
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
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Yeah but Perkins Coie didnt have a 2011 Honda Fit
January 17, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Yeah but Perkins Coie didnt have a 2011 Honda Fit
Minneapolis is an interesting case because in 1970 it was still 94% white, ~ the last large city in the county to diversify. (Even Milwaukee had its "late great migration" 20 years earlier.)
ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
January 18, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Minneapolis is an interesting case because in 1970 it was still 94% white, ~ the last large city in the county to diversify. (Even Milwaukee had its "late great migration" 20 years earlier.)
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ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
January 18, 2026 at 2:39 AM
ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
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We have ~15 separate radio dispatches, one for each neighborhood, and dozens more for the suburbs/Saint Paul. Each dispatch/monitoring channel contains somewhere between 500 and 2000 people. At any given time there are probably a dozen mobile patrols and 100 on-foot observers in each neighborhood.
Does Minneapolis have a radio dispatch set up for the people who are following ICE? That's brilliant.
alright here you go
January 17, 2026 at 8:37 PM
We have ~15 separate radio dispatches, one for each neighborhood, and dozens more for the suburbs/Saint Paul. Each dispatch/monitoring channel contains somewhere between 500 and 2000 people. At any given time there are probably a dozen mobile patrols and 100 on-foot observers in each neighborhood.
Did the study find that the Pope was Catholic, too?
Evergreen: “The men who were less-skilled at the game and performing worse relative peers—made frequent, nasty comments to female gamers. In other words, sexist dudes are literally losers.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-int...
January 18, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Did the study find that the Pope was Catholic, too?
One thing I will never understand is why anyone wears camo any time they're not in an actual combat zone in like the desert or jungle.
It's all cosplay.
It's all cosplay.
Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military
January 18, 2026 at 1:39 AM
One thing I will never understand is why anyone wears camo any time they're not in an actual combat zone in like the desert or jungle.
It's all cosplay.
It's all cosplay.
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Actually I think if you are Target and your execs all live in MSP, it is not a bad idea to rotate execs through local Targets to play this role and to volunteer to be arrested with the full weight of Target’s legal team behind you.
The general theme of this commentary is "stop asking MN companies to ban ICE from their properties." The argument is that enforcing the ban would fall to individual low-paid employees, who would be placed in danger.
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January 17, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Actually I think if you are Target and your execs all live in MSP, it is not a bad idea to rotate execs through local Targets to play this role and to volunteer to be arrested with the full weight of Target’s legal team behind you.
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Simply updating and codifying this as qualification criteria for grants would help massively: bsky.app/profile/ndha...
Here are the Subway/Metro Station design guidelines that were compiled by UMTA/USDOT in the 1970s in an attempt to prevent WMATA-style cost overruns again.
It got shelved when everyone at UMTA got laid off and we forgot it. But it's prescient about cost drivers -- rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/11352
It got shelved when everyone at UMTA got laid off and we forgot it. But it's prescient about cost drivers -- rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/11352
DOT ROSA P
ROSA P serves as an archival repository of USDOT-published products including scientific findings, journal articles, guidelines, recommendations, or other information authored or co-authored by USDOT ...
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January 17, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Simply updating and codifying this as qualification criteria for grants would help massively: bsky.app/profile/ndha...
Gotta love the Hampden and NW Middlesex Snow Holes @universalhub.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Gotta love the Hampden and NW Middlesex Snow Holes @universalhub.com
I'm old enough to remember when The Left was complaining that Spanberger was a mealy-mouthed do-nothing centrist.
Update to the update. We're all talking about UVA but don't sleep on the changes at George Mason and VMI.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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January 17, 2026 at 2:34 PM
I'm old enough to remember when The Left was complaining that Spanberger was a mealy-mouthed do-nothing centrist.
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The second quote that Weigel highlights is what Bernie fundamentally doesn't understand, and it's an incredibly serious error that leads him to a deeply immoral conclusion. When people immigrate to the US, we're importing demand as well as labor supply! You absolute maroon.
One of the Great Texts in this discourse is Bernie Sanders's 2015 interview w Ezra Klein. Klein gives the globally minded progressive view that the US should be sharing its wealth with more migrants. Sanders says no, a nation has to increase quality of life for citizens. www.vox.com/2015/7/28/90...
January 16, 2026 at 2:25 PM
The second quote that Weigel highlights is what Bernie fundamentally doesn't understand, and it's an incredibly serious error that leads him to a deeply immoral conclusion. When people immigrate to the US, we're importing demand as well as labor supply! You absolute maroon.
A few weeks ago my dad said he was getting rid of a box of old maps.
I said “the he’ll you are” and he got rid of it to me.
So I’m going to log going through it and if you want anything, let me know.
If not I’ll probably eventually put most of it in the recycle bin. Or gift wrap.
#oldmapbox
I said “the he’ll you are” and he got rid of it to me.
So I’m going to log going through it and if you want anything, let me know.
If not I’ll probably eventually put most of it in the recycle bin. Or gift wrap.
#oldmapbox
January 17, 2026 at 1:59 AM
A few weeks ago my dad said he was getting rid of a box of old maps.
I said “the he’ll you are” and he got rid of it to me.
So I’m going to log going through it and if you want anything, let me know.
If not I’ll probably eventually put most of it in the recycle bin. Or gift wrap.
#oldmapbox
I said “the he’ll you are” and he got rid of it to me.
So I’m going to log going through it and if you want anything, let me know.
If not I’ll probably eventually put most of it in the recycle bin. Or gift wrap.
#oldmapbox
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You can design elevated stations that are so much better and less imposing when they are above a public space
January 16, 2026 at 8:53 PM
You can design elevated stations that are so much better and less imposing when they are above a public space
I mean, sure. The airport is heated. The forecast high temperature in the Cities in the next week is 12.
They snowflakes can't handle the cold.
They snowflakes can't handle the cold.
It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.
ICE agents to begin checking documents at MSP airport, patrol jet bridges - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will begin checking documents of travelers and workers at MSP airport, with patrols inside jet bridges.
www.bizjournals.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:13 PM
I mean, sure. The airport is heated. The forecast high temperature in the Cities in the next week is 12.
They snowflakes can't handle the cold.
They snowflakes can't handle the cold.
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Generative AI will never be as fun as shitty photoshop
January 16, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Generative AI will never be as fun as shitty photoshop
It's just the Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku Lines, Michael, how many of the five busiest train stations in the world could they serve.
(Four. The answer is four.)
(Four. The answer is four.)
So apparently several major Tokyo train lines went down for hours during rush hour because of a maintenance error , where the workers left the grounding strap on, then voltage was applied which caused a massive short and damaged loads of equipment
January 16, 2026 at 5:46 PM
It's just the Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku Lines, Michael, how many of the five busiest train stations in the world could they serve.
(Four. The answer is four.)
(Four. The answer is four.)
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So apparently several major Tokyo train lines went down for hours during rush hour because of a maintenance error , where the workers left the grounding strap on, then voltage was applied which caused a massive short and damaged loads of equipment
January 16, 2026 at 2:33 PM
So apparently several major Tokyo train lines went down for hours during rush hour because of a maintenance error , where the workers left the grounding strap on, then voltage was applied which caused a massive short and damaged loads of equipment
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Dropkick Murphies, doing the good work.
Dropkick Murphys are releasing a new song called "Citizen I.C.E."
The lyrics go: "Too scared to join the military/ Too dumb to be a cop."
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The lyrics go: "Too scared to join the military/ Too dumb to be a cop."
consequence.net/2026/01/drop...
Dropkick Murphys' Unveil Anti-ICE Song: "Too Scared to Join the Military, Too Dumb to Be a Cop"
Dropkick Murphys are releasing an anti-I.C.E. song, "Citizen I.C.E.," as part of their tour-only split LP with Haywire. Learn more.
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January 15, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Dropkick Murphies, doing the good work.
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Going hard after Minneapolis, with all the social infrastructure built up after George Floyd, will end up being a huge tactical error. Pure hubris.
They have quite an operation going.
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
Minneapolis church has delivered more than 12,000 boxes of groceries to families in hiding
DHH church has hundreds of volunteers packing and delivering groceries to families who have been too scared to leave their homes during the immigration operation.
www.mprnews.org
January 16, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Going hard after Minneapolis, with all the social infrastructure built up after George Floyd, will end up being a huge tactical error. Pure hubris.