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Republican politicians who think that Minneapolis is a political problem are missing the point. It is a moral problem. But they are in so deep that they cannot see just how morally bankrupt they have become. They do not understand that we are as revulsed by their complicity as by Trump's cruelty.
January 26, 2026 at 1:25 AM
Republican politicians who think that Minneapolis is a political problem are missing the point. It is a moral problem. But they are in so deep that they cannot see just how morally bankrupt they have become. They do not understand that we are as revulsed by their complicity as by Trump's cruelty.
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Student journalism is filling local news gaps. A new map tracks 1,100+ college newspapers across the U.S., and 766 are in or near news deserts. Student media is more than just training for future reporters. It’s essential community coverage.
Learn more: www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/how-...
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How student newsrooms are filling America’s local news gaps - Editor and Publisher
As local news outlets disappear across the country, an unexpected network is helping fill the gaps: college newsrooms. In this article, Tandy Lau explores a new national database mapping more than 1,1...
www.editorandpublisher.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Student journalism is filling local news gaps. A new map tracks 1,100+ college newspapers across the U.S., and 766 are in or near news deserts. Student media is more than just training for future reporters. It’s essential community coverage.
Learn more: www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/how-...
Learn more: www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/how-...
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Special Counsel Jack Smith’s testified before the House Judiciary Committee two weeks ago. His request to testify publicly was denied by Chair Jim Jordan, who then released the transcript on New Year’s Eve. READ the thread below.Share it. Also, the link: d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2025/...
January 5, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Special Counsel Jack Smith’s testified before the House Judiciary Committee two weeks ago. His request to testify publicly was denied by Chair Jim Jordan, who then released the transcript on New Year’s Eve. READ the thread below.Share it. Also, the link: d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2025/...
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The US is sanctioning judges among whose assignments is the legal reckoning with genocide.
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
www.irishtimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:51 AM
The US is sanctioning judges among whose assignments is the legal reckoning with genocide.
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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This is something else. Lots of respect for @60minutes.bsky.social reporter Sharyn Alfonso for defending the integrity of her work.
What a disgrace for 60
Minutes. The Trump effect destroys every institution it touches.
GIFT LINK:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
What a disgrace for 60
Minutes. The Trump effect destroys every institution it touches.
GIFT LINK:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This is something else. Lots of respect for @60minutes.bsky.social reporter Sharyn Alfonso for defending the integrity of her work.
What a disgrace for 60
Minutes. The Trump effect destroys every institution it touches.
GIFT LINK:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
What a disgrace for 60
Minutes. The Trump effect destroys every institution it touches.
GIFT LINK:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
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More than 300,000 voices in Missouri are being told their signatures against a gerrymandered map don't count because of a calendar date. At the same time, the DOJ is suing states to demand unredacted private voter data. We see the strategy-Run out the clock-Suppress voting-We say no. bit.ly/4g5RcEq
December 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
More than 300,000 voices in Missouri are being told their signatures against a gerrymandered map don't count because of a calendar date. At the same time, the DOJ is suing states to demand unredacted private voter data. We see the strategy-Run out the clock-Suppress voting-We say no. bit.ly/4g5RcEq
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Everything being discussed by this new vaccine committee has been discussed and well considered for years.
Their revisiting of indications for the Measles Mumps Rubella Varicella combo vaccine and Hepatitis B isn’t radical transparency. It’s just flooding the zone with confusion and helps no one.
Their revisiting of indications for the Measles Mumps Rubella Varicella combo vaccine and Hepatitis B isn’t radical transparency. It’s just flooding the zone with confusion and helps no one.
September 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Everything being discussed by this new vaccine committee has been discussed and well considered for years.
Their revisiting of indications for the Measles Mumps Rubella Varicella combo vaccine and Hepatitis B isn’t radical transparency. It’s just flooding the zone with confusion and helps no one.
Their revisiting of indications for the Measles Mumps Rubella Varicella combo vaccine and Hepatitis B isn’t radical transparency. It’s just flooding the zone with confusion and helps no one.
It’s about time
September 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
It’s about time
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I call on media to REFUSE the framing pushed by right wing chaos agents like Cernovitch & Rufo on this act of what appears to be political violence. The Democratic former Speaker of the Minnesota House was assasinated along with/her husband. The killers was hunting Dems. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Minnesota shooting suspect had a list of dozens of potential Democratic targets, prosecutors say
All of the politicians named in his writing were Democrats, including more than 45 state and federal officials in Minnesota, U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said.
www.pbs.org
September 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I call on media to REFUSE the framing pushed by right wing chaos agents like Cernovitch & Rufo on this act of what appears to be political violence. The Democratic former Speaker of the Minnesota House was assasinated along with/her husband. The killers was hunting Dems. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
I too have been enjoying the classics.
September 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I too have been enjoying the classics.
@velshi.com @maddow.msnbc.com @nicollewallace.bsky.social @stephruhle.bsky.social not sure how long I can keep up with MSNBC. Firing people for making a statement the President does not like is not freedom of the press or the first amendement. Will the new name be different?
September 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
@velshi.com @maddow.msnbc.com @nicollewallace.bsky.social @stephruhle.bsky.social not sure how long I can keep up with MSNBC. Firing people for making a statement the President does not like is not freedom of the press or the first amendement. Will the new name be different?
They don’t care
July 30, 2025 at 6:32 AM
They don’t care
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Some thoughts on the depraved bill and what it means.
July 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Some thoughts on the depraved bill and what it means.
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Where is he? If we stop asking, stop demanding his return, we are complicit in his disappearance.
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 109 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
No one has heard from you in 109 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
July 2, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Where is he? If we stop asking, stop demanding his return, we are complicit in his disappearance.
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My statement on today’s decision in Trump v Casa:
June 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
My statement on today’s decision in Trump v Casa:
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And you thought the left was censorious. How about actual censoring?
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
May 3, 2025 at 4:04 AM
And you thought the left was censorious. How about actual censoring?
@schiff this is not the time for this bill. There are way more pressing items that need to be addressed.
May 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
@schiff this is not the time for this bill. There are way more pressing items that need to be addressed.
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🧵TOMORROW, April 30-8:00 AM, the Senate Committee on Seniors, Families, & Health will hear HJR 73, the latest attempt to dismantle Amendment 3 & abortion access. This is the last opportunity for Missourians to provide public testimony on this resolution.
Join us for our LAST CHANCE to defeat HJR 73
Join us for our LAST CHANCE to defeat HJR 73
April 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
🧵TOMORROW, April 30-8:00 AM, the Senate Committee on Seniors, Families, & Health will hear HJR 73, the latest attempt to dismantle Amendment 3 & abortion access. This is the last opportunity for Missourians to provide public testimony on this resolution.
Join us for our LAST CHANCE to defeat HJR 73
Join us for our LAST CHANCE to defeat HJR 73
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Trump’s playbook is simple: punish anyone who stands in his way.
This ain’t law and order—it’s a rise of authoritarianism in real time.
This ain’t law and order—it’s a rise of authoritarianism in real time.
FBI arrests Wisconsin judge for obstruction of ICE agents, Kash Patel says
In a post he quickly deleted, Patel said that Dugan obstructed "an immigration arrest operation last week."
www.axios.com
April 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Trump’s playbook is simple: punish anyone who stands in his way.
This ain’t law and order—it’s a rise of authoritarianism in real time.
This ain’t law and order—it’s a rise of authoritarianism in real time.
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This is what you call two different readouts of the same meeting.
Go Denmark, Go Greenland!
Go Denmark, Go Greenland!
April 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This is what you call two different readouts of the same meeting.
Go Denmark, Go Greenland!
Go Denmark, Go Greenland!
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in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.
Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story.
Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.
This is what "merit" means to them.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.
This is what "merit" means to them.
apnews.com/article/trum...
February 22, 2025 at 4:55 AM
in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.
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Know Your Rights Virtual Town Hall
YouTube video by Rep. Jasmine Crockett
www.youtube.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Now this, I can co-sign.
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." As the foundation of #democracy in America crumbles and the vulnerable are under attack from a rogue administration, we, the people, are asking our former presidents to "Say something!”
February 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Now this, I can co-sign.
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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
February 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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