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Marie Biersdorf
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Daughter, wife, mom, dog grandma, MSU Spartan. Supporter of NPR, LSJ, PBS, Atlantic, ProPublica, Democracy Docket. Big Ten midwestern city dweller. Go green! 💚
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tumblr post: lesbuchanan Summer Olympics: Who can run the fastest? :) Who can swim the fastest? :) Who can do the best somersault? :) Winter Olympics: WHO CAN MAKE IT TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS ICE SLIDE OF DEATH AND SURVIVE?? WHO CAN GET AROUND THE RINK WITHOUT GETTING THEIR HANDS SLICED OFF BY EVERYONE ELSE'S FEET BLADES?? CAN THIS GUY DO A 1080 DEGREE FLIP WITHOUT DYING?? reblog by legionoftuna Summer Triathlon: Don't run too fast, you have to save your energy for a swim and a bike ride! :) Winter Biathlon: I see you've been skiing for five miles now here's your gun
February 7, 2026 at 10:45 AM
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ETHS students walk out of school to protest ICE - Evanston RoundTable
A few hundred Evanston Township High School students walked out of school on Friday morning for an anti-ICE march and protest.  ETHS students
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January 31, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Join us Sunday at 2:30 to mourn the 32 people killed by ICE in the past year and to demand accountability!
ICE Out For Good
January 9, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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Emergency protest in Evanston tonight at 7:30! ICE killed a rapid responder in Minneapolis 😭
Marchers with protest signs
January 7, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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No. 3/3 Hockey Defeats Michigan Tech, Earns Second-Straight GLI Championship - Michigan State University Athletics
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – For the second-straight season, No. 3/3-ranked Michigan State is bringing the Great Lakes Invitational Championship home to East Lansin...
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January 2, 2026 at 3:38 AM
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No. 24/19 MSU Opens New Year with Dominating Win over Indiana, 80-60 - Michigan State University Athletics
With four players in double figures, the No. 24/19 Spartan women's basketball opened up 2026 in style with an 80-60 win over Indiana at Simon Skjodt Assembly...
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January 2, 2026 at 3:35 AM
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Ryan Eckley Named Big Ten Punter of the Year - Michigan State University Athletics
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Three Michigan State football players earned recognition from the Big Ten Conference for the 2025 season, led by redshirt junior punter...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Karolina Staniszewska Named Second Team All-Big Ten - Michigan State University Athletics
Michigan State volleyball outside hitter Karolina Staniszewska earned a spot on the 2025 All-Big Ten Volleyball Second Team, as announced by the conference T...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Four Spartans Earn All-Region Honors - Michigan State University Athletics
East Lansing, Mich . -- Four Michigan State soccer players have earned United Soccer Coaches All-Region honors, as announced by the coaches association on Tu...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Alante Brown, Alessio Milivojevic Earn Big Ten Weekly Honors - Michigan State University Athletics
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Sixth-year graduate senior Alante Brown and redshirt freshman quarterback Alessio Milivojevic earned weekly honors from the Big Ten Con...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Check out this video from Lansing State Journal:

MSU basketball video analysis on the Spartans’ 83-66 win over Kentucky

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Talkin’ Spartans: Analyzing Michigan State basketball’s 83-66 win over Kentucky in the Champions Classic
Lansing State Journal columnist Graham Couch and Detroit Free Press beat writer Chris Solari discuss MSU’s win over Kentucky in the Champions Classic.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Check out this video from Lansing State Journal:

MSU football video analysis on the coaching and quarterback situation

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Talkin’ Spartans: Analyzing MSU football’s coaching and quarterback situation heading into the final two games of the season
Lansing State Journal columnist Graham Couch and Detroit Free Press beat writer Chris Solari discuss MSU’s coaching and QB situation late in the year.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Evanston resident demands answers from police after immigration confrontation - Evanston RoundTable
Jennifer Moriarty, the Evanston resident who was taken into custody by federal agents on Asbury Avenue near Oakton Street on Oct. 31, criticized the
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November 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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The GOP claim that Democrats are responsible for the shutdown keeps being undermined by Trump, who is demanding they unilaterally end it by abolishing the filibuster. Trump says Republicans are being killed and he’s not wrong. They control the federal government.
November 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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“A promise of a vote on healthcare” is nothing
An end to the shutdown is in sight. A senior Dem Senator tells me there will be more than enough Democrats to vote in favor of re-opening the government tonight. They’ll get a promise of a vote on health care — but nothing more. Most of the Democratic leadership will likely vote against it.
November 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.

"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"

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Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’
Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Glencoe, IL: On Monday, November 10th, I will be speaking at the Illinois Holocaust Museum's Kristallnacht Commemoration.
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Ellen V. & Philip L. Glass Holocaust Commemorative Series | Memory and Warning: A Kristallnacht Commemoration - Illinois Holocaust Museum
On the night of November 9–10, 1938, a wave of coordinated, state-sponsored violence swept across Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland. Known as Kristallnacht, or the “Night of Broken Glass,” this po...
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November 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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What this DOES mean is that we need to continue helping our neighbors. Visit NoKings.org/Alliance and answer the call for #MassMutualAid 🤝
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November 8, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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It’s important to note this was a procedural action, not a ruling on the merits of the underlying case. Justice Jackson wasn’t siding with the Trump administration; she was making sure the legal process unfolded correctly and fairly.

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Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments
The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Federal judge cracks down on Bovino & his thugs, while surfacing the lies coming from him, DHS & DOJ.

From the Chicago Tribune. Gift link.

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‘The use of force shocks the conscience’: Judge issues sweeping injunction on Chicago tactics of immigration agents
The incoming preliminary injunction replaces a temporary restraining order issued by U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis in early October that was set to expire at 11:30 a.m.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Immigration enforcement officers are sometimes forgoing license plates or otherwise masking their cars while apprehending migrants across the U.S.
Camouflaging cars and swapping license plates: How agents make immigration arrests
Immigration enforcement officers are sometimes forgoing license plates or otherwise masking their cars while apprehending migrants across the U.S.
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November 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Here's a good recent example of what I mean, where a Democrat pushes back instead of accepting a Trump-friendly distortion as the premise.

Thanks @hankhoffmanct.bsky.social for alerting me to it, @corybooker.com for sharing/praising it, and especially @neguse.house.gov for doing it.

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corybooker.com Cory Booker @corybooker.com · Oct 31
Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.
November 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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🚨BREAKING: 2 fed courts have issued orders blocking Trump’s attempt to defund SNAP. Congrats to @democracyforward.org, its co counsel and clients, and Dem State AGs.
October 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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D65, ETHS close campuses amid ICE reports

Mayor Daniel Biss says federal agents were "all over Evanston" Friday.
D65, ETHS close campuses amid ICE reports
Mayor Daniel Biss says federal agents were "all over Evanston" Friday.
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October 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM