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​Your friendly neighborhood resistance​

"A couple of weeks into this incursion, the Twin Cities are settling into a new rhythm, a relation between occupied and occupier." Out this morning, new reporting from the ICE invasion and the resulting resistance in Minneapolis.

New York | Kerry Howley

​What ICE is doing is different​

On ICE abuses as a decisive break with normal policing, erasing even the pretense of public accountability.

New York Times | Radley Balko

​Lessons from YIMBYism​

How to YIMBY (almost) everything: what other areas of public policy can learn from the abundance approach to building more housing.

Roosevelt Institute | Ned Resnikoff

​How Norway’s ski jumping scandal rocked a proud nation​

With an extra centimeter of fabric in the crotch area providing five or six extra meters of flight, sneaky stitching in suits is the new doping in ski jump.

The Athletic | Matthew Futterman

​Why did the rubber chicken cross the road?​

And a midlife crisis leads to attempting to set a new world record... for long-distance throwing of a rubber chicken.

Slate | Byard Duncan

​Dorothy Stratten almost lived the Hollywood fairy tale​

Revisiting a tragic Hollywood story and its subsequent exploitative tellings in film and journalism.

Vanity Fair | Lili Anolik

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​How veganism got cooked​

It's reportedly tough times for vegan restaurants, in part because the mainstreaming of vegan and vegetarian offerings has obviated the need for businesses that specialize in animal-free fare.

Grub Street | Rachel Sugar

​Wolves with a taste for nectar​

And in Ethiopia, an endangered predator is finding sustenance from flowers.

The Conversation | Sandra Lai

​How the tiger became an Indian national symbol​

Now shot by visitors with cameras instead of guns, India's tigers are a conservation success story.

New Lines | Ryan Biller

​A gunshot in the snow and the birth of the down jacket​

If a quilted down jacket is keeping you warm this winter—or if you've ever struck a badminton shuttlecock—you can thank Pacific Northwesterner Eddie Bauer for his innovations.

Carryology | Mike Knispel

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​This Brooklyn bagel shop is saving money with plug-in batteries​

An energy startup helps businesses save money by installing onsite batteries, drawing power at off-peak demand to be used later.

Canary Media | Maria Gallucci and Jeff St. John

​Well, there goes the metaverse!​

Facebook bet big and rebranded as Meta, but now the metaverse is officially bust.

TechCrunch | Sarah Perez

​Kōloa Rum Company’s constitutional challenge to Jones Act​

Making rum in Hawaiʻi entails paying more to ship bottles in and more again to ship them out—but that's not, says a federal judge, sufficient reason to challenge the protectionist law forbidding international ships from providing service to the state.

Kauaʻi Now

​‘Hidden Figure’ Gladys West, GPS pioneer and Navy civilian, dies at 95​

Obituary for one of the developers of GPS, whose contributions were long overlooked.

Military Times | Claire Barrett

​"Should I be afraid?"​

Lucinda Williams on her new album World's Gone Wrong, speaking to the state of America, and finally meeting Bob Dylan.

Rolling Stone | Jonathan Bernstein

​Kristen Stewart’s Chronology of Water captures the books emotional force​

In Oregon news: author Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir is adapted for the big screen with Jim Belushi cast as Ken Kesey.

Portland Monthly | Chase Hutchinson

​Nature's super feather​

Finally, in seabird news: scientists begin to understand filoplumes, tiny bird feathers that aid sensation and may inspire innovations in drones and aircraft.

New York Times | Jim Robbins

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