Hod Irvine

How would knowing that Covid came from a lab - assuming for the sake of argument that it did, and that we could know that with certainty - have saved lives? What would have been different about our response?

Renee Good and Alex Pretti should be alive today. Because of ICE, they’re not. That’s the reason why.

The People of Minneapolis really should be Time’s person of the year this year. The way they stood up to Trump and won, in the face of violent ICE thugs, will go down in history.

If the Oilers plan all along was to let Knoblauch go, then their handling of this has been horrendous. If they wanted to explore Cassidy as an option, and if it didn’t work out retain Kris, then it was risky - if it got out, they’d be scuttling a coach they just re-signed and were considering keeping. The fact it got out made a return for Knoblauch impossible. Arguably the most important off season in 30 years for this franchise gets off to a rough start. Have to think Bowman and Jackson are very much on the clock as well. Fatigue and injuries only go so far in masking a body of work with some massive mistakes at critical junctures. Brett Kulak with a series winner last night puts an exclamation point on mishandled assets and mis-reads on players. Will be an interesting few months for the organization.

with us through it all 💚 best fans in the game, thanks for sticking by us Wild fans

Oh, Amy Klobuchar. The human embodiment of “Minnesota Nice” which is just passive-aggressive with extra hot-dish and a side of staff trauma. She’s the senator who wrote a book about how great she is at getting things done during a pandemic… while her own staff was reportedly melting down, eating their feelings, and dodging staplers. Nothing says “leadership” like making your team cry harder than a Vikings fan in January. “But I brought them salad!” Yeah, Amy, because nothing heals workplace abuse like wilted romaine and performative Midwestern guilt. She ran for president in 2020 like it was a church potluck she didn’t want to host but felt obligated to show up for. Campaign slogan energy: “I’m boring enough to be electable!” Her big moment? That viral debate clip where she tried to dunk on Pete Buttigieg and just… gently placed the ball on the ground like it was made of lutefisk. The woman campaigns like she’s apologizing for existing. Klobuchar’s the queen of optics: tough-on-crime moderate who somehow always lands right in the middle of whatever the Democratic Party needs that week. One minute she’s the reasonable voice of the heartland, the next she’s voting with the Squad while clutching her pearls. It’s like watching your aunt at Thanksgiving; she smiles sweetly, then slips a $20 in your pocket and whispers, “Don’t tell your uncle I voted for that.” And that voice. That nasal, “I’m just a regular gal from the frozen tundra” cadence that makes every speech sound like she’s reading the church bulletin. “Fellow Americans… could you pass the Jell-O salad?” Look, Amy’s survived longer in the Senate than most of her staffers’ mental health. That’s not nothing. But if competence porn had a cautionary tale, it’d be a 400-page memoir about how she once fixed a snowplow with sheer force of personality while her aides hid in the bathroom. Keep doing you, Amy. America needs more senators who treat governing like a book tour with better health insurance. Just maybe ease up on the salad. Your team’s already suffered enough.

Middsy is a great dude. Simply can’t be on the ice in that situation. He’s a minus-5 this series, and this is not a good look. 5, 17 and 71 on the ice for both goals against late. It can’t happen. I understand 14 and 25 are out, but holy shit, there has to be better options.