Mike

This map overturned something I thought I understood about the fur trade. Look at the routes. They don’t radiate outward from Montreal like Europeans were exploring an empty continent. They connect Indigenous villages. By the early 1700s, French traders weren’t inventing a transportation network across the Great Lakes. They were learning one. Every major route depended on Native pilots, Native diplomacy, Native portages, and communities that had been moving people and goods through this landscape long before the first trading post appeared. Even the forts make more sense when you notice where they’re built. Mackinac. Detroit. Niagara. Vincennes. They sit at bottlenecks. The fur trade wasn’t controlled by whoever trapped the most beavers. It was controlled by whoever controlled movement. That’s a very different story than “Europe opened the frontier.”

Cipotle $CMG just said that its first Chipotle restaurant in Mexico 🇲🇽 will open on Thursday in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León

being a cyclist kinda sucks politically because your options are always Candidate A: loves bike infrastructure, but refuses to jail bike thieves Candidate B: wants to send bike thieves to the gulag, but hates cyclists anyway my bike was stolen last week, RIP

My new strategy is going to be Geomaxing. The United States is far too brutal of a dating market to compete in, so im going to geomax to countries with poor economies to mog people.

Flowers and tributes outside Sen. Lindsey Graham’s Capitol Hill office

Ohio is America’s Top State for Business in 2026, per CNBC

What y’all look like In 2014?