Hillary
Hillary
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My inner Minnesotan heart had to spread the love. As a child of St. Paul, I await it's nomination with baited breath. Also if the herring juggler does not make an appearance, opportunities were missed.
Minnesota cities as Muppets:

Stillwater:
December 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I want to hear the end of this story, and as such a sharing.
That’s when the real drama started. For another $2 in the Kickstarter or 10 more shares, I will tell you what happened in the kitchen while I was washing the dishes.
The Book of Karen - A Saddle Stitch Zine
When a ten year friendship collapsed into a hate-filled rant, I collaged her text messages and the art I made along way.
www.kickstarter.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Henry Ford was a terrible human being, but at least he understood that the economy would be unworkable and unsustainable unless the workers who made Model T's were paid enough to buy Model T's.
If you want people to spend more, pay them more.
December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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NEW: The New York Times got a State Dept. cable telling diplomats to destroy visas that had been approved and printed to give to Afghans. And diplomats are told to do scheduled interviews but not grant visas. US shuts all legal entry routes for Afghans. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...
Trump Pauses All Asylum Applications and Halts Visas for Afghans
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Hitler was bad.

An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
Perry: The pro-Hitler problem with the American right
"We need to get back to the basics: Hitler was bad. The people who suggest otherwise are also bad," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Northwestern and Columbia being famous for journalism and bending over for Trump seems a little too on the nose these days
This is the second largest payout from a private university to the Trump admin yet, second only to Columbia’s $200m
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
-Nightwish
-Lindsay Sterling
-Backstreet Boys
-Aretha Franklin
-Jonathan Coulton
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
-Bon Jovi
-Garth Brooks
-Merle Haggard
-Ellie Goulding/Passion Pit
-The War on Drugs
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
-Bon Jovi and the Goo Goo Dolls
-Ozzy Osbourne
-Rush
-Van Halen
-The Who
November 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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The crisis isn’t refugees. It’s not that one person committed one tragic crime and killed one other person. The crisis isn’t that America’s 250-year old history of hosting immigrants turned out to be a mistake.

The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
November 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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We are in peak French heist season.
November 28, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Relatable.
Mulligan has been drinking out of the people water all afternoon and we just found out
November 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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16-year-old American Mohammed Ibrahim has been released after over 9 months in an Israeli prison without trial.

I was relieved to hear from his family today and to know that he’s safe and where he belongs — with his family.
November 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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The kid says: “his voice is really annoying.” #AlicesRestaurant
November 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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We rely on migration for the economy and several industries, decrease that and the economy is worse. A worsening economy means worse conditions. Unhappy public looks for someone to blame. Politicians tell them it's migrants. And so we end up in a never ending loop while everything gets worse.
November 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”

“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
About time.
Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."

They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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I keep all those things in this.
November 23, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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If you are making a list of Jews, stop.
November 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Heartbreaking stuff. And more good journalism from @charlotteobserver.com which has been a part of an incredible effort from local media to cover this past week’s attack on our city.
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Palate cleanser
movie posters featuring the muppets: thread
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Most days lately have been in the genre of horror.

Today was magical realism.
November 22, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.

Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Good job ADL you really picked’em right …
November 20, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I posed this as a hypothesis that maybe we will just be left with good local cops to my husband a month ago. Excited about the possibilities.
Underrated thing that's been flying under the radar: ICE's hiring spree, by necessity since there are so few others willing and able, has been hiring away local cops, which infuriates the departments by causing manpower problems and is, ironically, removing the worst of the worst from their ranks.
The more local police see ICE assholes as criminals, the better it will be for us.
November 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Ladies and gentlemen...The War on Christmas.
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM