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Trying to make my corner of the world a better place. Avid reader, dog lover, organic gardener, daughter, sister, mom, wife & bonus mom. I cook, garden, hike, cross-country ski, fly fish & bake for fun.
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Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day
January 15, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day
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For the intentionally obtuse: there are many many ways to enforce laws. Stop framing issues as ‘don’t enforce the law at all, or enforce it in the worst way possible.’ Your false choice is intentional.
This is deliberate. And it’s going to be our downfall if we persist.
This is deliberate. And it’s going to be our downfall if we persist.
January 15, 2026 at 4:08 PM
For the intentionally obtuse: there are many many ways to enforce laws. Stop framing issues as ‘don’t enforce the law at all, or enforce it in the worst way possible.’ Your false choice is intentional.
This is deliberate. And it’s going to be our downfall if we persist.
This is deliberate. And it’s going to be our downfall if we persist.
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You can’t train an evil organization to not behave evilly. You have to destroy the evil organization.
January 7, 2026 at 9:58 PM
You can’t train an evil organization to not behave evilly. You have to destroy the evil organization.
From a current (well-trained and smart) law enforcement officer: the ICE shooting was not justified and was avoidable.
The question if a police shooting is justifiable is just 1 question to ask. 1st: this wasn’t justifiable. But for me the real question is was it inevitable. As police, we must do everything we can to avoid deadly force. Many times the suspect makes it inevitable. Not in this case
January 8, 2026 at 2:17 AM
From a current (well-trained and smart) law enforcement officer: the ICE shooting was not justified and was avoidable.
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Just a reminder that George Conway is not fundraising right now to run against a MAGA republican.
He is fundraising to run against progressive Democrats.
He is fundraising to run against progressive Democrats.
January 7, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Just a reminder that George Conway is not fundraising right now to run against a MAGA republican.
He is fundraising to run against progressive Democrats.
He is fundraising to run against progressive Democrats.
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White supremacists successfully rewrote history after the Civil War, so much so that today people deny what the slave states had proudly proclaimed back then: it was about slavery. And now this group is rewriting history today. They are lying. They are liars. They are liars.
January 6, 2026 at 10:01 PM
White supremacists successfully rewrote history after the Civil War, so much so that today people deny what the slave states had proudly proclaimed back then: it was about slavery. And now this group is rewriting history today. They are lying. They are liars. They are liars.
As usual, Joyce White Vance’s (a former career federal prosecutor) analysis is spot on.
Trump wants you to forget about Jan 6, or better yet, let him rewrite the story. Don’t do that. Instead, read here: joycevance.substack.com/p/january-6-...
January 6 Again
Donald Trump is the President no one has ever said “no” to in a big way.
joycevance.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:42 PM
As usual, Joyce White Vance’s (a former career federal prosecutor) analysis is spot on.
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This war and extra-judicial kidnapping is patently illegal and unconstitutional. Political leaders on both sides must condemn it. It’s not about whether Maduro is a tyrant but whether the US is still governed by laws and the Constitution. As if this morning, we are clearly not.
January 3, 2026 at 12:27 PM
This war and extra-judicial kidnapping is patently illegal and unconstitutional. Political leaders on both sides must condemn it. It’s not about whether Maduro is a tyrant but whether the US is still governed by laws and the Constitution. As if this morning, we are clearly not.
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Remember this tweet when American officials start being kidnapped and brought to face charges in e.g., Iran or Russia.
Vance pushes back and says this was not illegal, arguing "Maduro has multiple indictments in the United States for narcoterrorism. You don't get to avoid justice for drug trafficking in the United States because you live in a palace in Caracas."
January 3, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Remember this tweet when American officials start being kidnapped and brought to face charges in e.g., Iran or Russia.
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Where’s Congress?
January 3, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Where’s Congress?
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Denied a Nobel Peace Prize. Renamed Defense Dept. the Dept. Of War. Something like this was always going to be his next step.
January 3, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Denied a Nobel Peace Prize. Renamed Defense Dept. the Dept. Of War. Something like this was always going to be his next step.
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Do not Pass Go, Go Directly to Impeachment.
They didn’t even bother to ask for an AUMF, impeachment
January 3, 2026 at 7:12 AM
Do not Pass Go, Go Directly to Impeachment.
good advice for resisting the Authentic Wisdom pushed by the current occupant of the White House.
what if one stopped taking the view that there is any single "The Authentic People" in the US, a concept which is in itself rooted in volkishness and fascism. what if instead we took the position that any attempt to determine "authenticity" is some fascist bullshit and everyone deserves care.
Another good practice for the New Year would be for all the non-fascists in America who want to opine about politics to really begin believing that urban America is Real America & that its denizens are The Authentic People. Get some self-respect & drop the volkish nationalist view that they're not
January 1, 2026 at 4:36 PM
good advice for resisting the Authentic Wisdom pushed by the current occupant of the White House.
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2026 is about affordable homeownership. No more "policy" this year. Feed the local fauna, befriend them, and then use them to overpower homeowners so you can occupy their dwellings.
January 1, 2026 at 7:05 AM
2026 is about affordable homeownership. No more "policy" this year. Feed the local fauna, befriend them, and then use them to overpower homeowners so you can occupy their dwellings.
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The new year should start around the spring equinox and not during the most bleak months of the year and I don’t care how irrational it is to want to change it all at this point.
December 30, 2025 at 1:46 AM
The new year should start around the spring equinox and not during the most bleak months of the year and I don’t care how irrational it is to want to change it all at this point.
Excellent advice.
Unless you need advice on how to use your dad’s diamond mine money to help overstay your visa and then work in the US, and buy the work of others but claim it’s your own genius, and be shockingly racist & incurious & cruel, never listen to a word Elon Musk says about anything
December 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Excellent advice.
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While I was in prison, I was the food procurement clerk. It was my job to work with the first cook to design the daily food menu and then make sure the men were fed on a budget of $2.60 per person per day.
How I helped make the best Christmas prison meal, a thread.
How I helped make the best Christmas prison meal, a thread.
December 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
While I was in prison, I was the food procurement clerk. It was my job to work with the first cook to design the daily food menu and then make sure the men were fed on a budget of $2.60 per person per day.
How I helped make the best Christmas prison meal, a thread.
How I helped make the best Christmas prison meal, a thread.
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Of course Trump chose him - he seems to be a bully using the legal system to harass. A waste of judicial resources, money and time.
Of course Trump chose him - he seems to be a bully using the legal system to harass. A waste of judicial resources, money and time.
Inside the 17-year lawsuit between a Trump official and his interior designers
A lawsuit between former Trump official Pete Marocco and a Florida design firm has gone on for over a decade, involving complex legal maneuvers and accusations.
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December 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Of course Trump chose him - he seems to be a bully using the legal system to harass. A waste of judicial resources, money and time.
Of course Trump chose him - he seems to be a bully using the legal system to harass. A waste of judicial resources, money and time.
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Donald Trump can name as many national buildings after himself as he wants to, but it won’t make him a great president.
December 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Donald Trump can name as many national buildings after himself as he wants to, but it won’t make him a great president.
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Reposting this as it seems to be the kind of damning, documented narrative of Trump’s close relationship with Epstein that so many have clamored for, and I’m not sure why it’s not getting attention. Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Reposting this as it seems to be the kind of damning, documented narrative of Trump’s close relationship with Epstein that so many have clamored for, and I’m not sure why it’s not getting attention. Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
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Let people be their true selves, as they know and understand them. Let children explore their identities. Celebrate difference and variety and the incredible spectrum of humanity. The only alternative denies an opportunity to celebrate the joy of human flourishing and is ultimately unspeakably cruel
December 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Let people be their true selves, as they know and understand them. Let children explore their identities. Celebrate difference and variety and the incredible spectrum of humanity. The only alternative denies an opportunity to celebrate the joy of human flourishing and is ultimately unspeakably cruel
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You should market National Sigh of Relief Day.
Celebrated in the quiet style by popping the corks of two bottles of something bubbly in company with a friend or loved one, and then sitting together drinking straight from the bottle while incanting the antiphon "Yeah" "Hell yeah" "Fuck yeah even"
Celebrated in the quiet style by popping the corks of two bottles of something bubbly in company with a friend or loved one, and then sitting together drinking straight from the bottle while incanting the antiphon "Yeah" "Hell yeah" "Fuck yeah even"
December 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
You should market National Sigh of Relief Day.
Celebrated in the quiet style by popping the corks of two bottles of something bubbly in company with a friend or loved one, and then sitting together drinking straight from the bottle while incanting the antiphon "Yeah" "Hell yeah" "Fuck yeah even"
Celebrated in the quiet style by popping the corks of two bottles of something bubbly in company with a friend or loved one, and then sitting together drinking straight from the bottle while incanting the antiphon "Yeah" "Hell yeah" "Fuck yeah even"
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The Heritage Foundation is an authoritarian Christian Nationalist organization.
Treat their people accordingly.
Treat their people accordingly.
In case you ever needed proof that the Heritage Foundation is not a conservative organization, here we have them cheering on the Federal Government threatening to strip all funding from a state that does not make political decisions the President likes. Any true conservative would be howling.
The US government is now a mafia organization.
December 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The Heritage Foundation is an authoritarian Christian Nationalist organization.
Treat their people accordingly.
Treat their people accordingly.