rich
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Co-founder of the Ryan Klesko Fan Club. PhD in Clubhouse Chemistry. Bat Flipper. Innings Eater. Glue Guy. Defense Counsel for Manny Machado.
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rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know
January 25, 2026 at 7:57 PM
rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know
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Irrevocably and permanently damaging the civil rights of dozens of ICE guys by playing the Butthole Surfers' 1988 album "Hairway To Steven" from a boombox outside the Hilton Garden Inn in suburban Minneapolis where they're all staying. JD Vance does a tweet about it that starts "Wow. Really?"
January 26, 2026 at 6:32 AM
Irrevocably and permanently damaging the civil rights of dozens of ICE guys by playing the Butthole Surfers' 1988 album "Hairway To Steven" from a boombox outside the Hilton Garden Inn in suburban Minneapolis where they're all staying. JD Vance does a tweet about it that starts "Wow. Really?"
Does anyone think the federal government would step in to retaliate if a blue state happened to get attacked tomorrow by a foreign actor? Anyone honestly see that happening? I have a hard time seeing it. Feels pretty bad.
January 24, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Does anyone think the federal government would step in to retaliate if a blue state happened to get attacked tomorrow by a foreign actor? Anyone honestly see that happening? I have a hard time seeing it. Feels pretty bad.
Was Kristi Noem’s dog carrying a pistol too?
January 24, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Was Kristi Noem’s dog carrying a pistol too?
Think it’s probably worth noting that the guy murdered today was doing exactly as Tim Walz instructed in his address last week - peacefully filming and recording ICE’s behavior - and was executed for it in broad daylight.
Walz: "They killed a man, created chaos, pushed down protesters, threw gas indiscriminately and then left the scene and then we're left to clean up. I understand the anger."
January 24, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Think it’s probably worth noting that the guy murdered today was doing exactly as Tim Walz instructed in his address last week - peacefully filming and recording ICE’s behavior - and was executed for it in broad daylight.
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Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.
January 24, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.
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Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.
January 24, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.
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“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
January 24, 2026 at 5:48 PM
“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
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I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity
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They loudest ones joined ICE
Interesting how all the gun rights absolutism melts away in defense of federal death squads -- who are allegedly the reason for gun rights absolutism.
Early DHS spin (via Fox News) is that the person shot repeatedly by Border Patrol officers in Minneapolis was armed -- note that open carrying firearms is legal with a permit and notably, they are not (yet at least) claiming that the person fired or even brandished a gun, just had one.
January 24, 2026 at 5:09 PM
They loudest ones joined ICE
Horrifying video. A public execution. What the FUCK.
There’s video floating around. You don’t want to watch it.
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Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say
More than a hundred protesters and observers have gathered near E. 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue.
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January 24, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Horrifying video. A public execution. What the FUCK.
Speedrunning the downfall of modern medicine and, by association, society
January 23, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Speedrunning the downfall of modern medicine and, by association, society
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Blumenthal: "I'm a no vote on that spending bill unless there are conditions that require ICE to go to a judge, to get a warrant, as well as other kinds of constraints -- the use of masks, the non-identification, the unmarked cars. These secret police, totalitarian tactics need to be stopped."
January 23, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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A hideous, unbelievable insult to our allies, who suffered a full third of the war dead in Afghanistan. And this from a soulless swine who knows everything about using his bone spurs to stay all the way back, entirely off the front lines.
Every day, he shames the United States as a nation.
Every day, he shames the United States as a nation.
Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."
January 23, 2026 at 1:26 AM
A hideous, unbelievable insult to our allies, who suffered a full third of the war dead in Afghanistan. And this from a soulless swine who knows everything about using his bone spurs to stay all the way back, entirely off the front lines.
Every day, he shames the United States as a nation.
Every day, he shames the United States as a nation.
Fucking idiot poisons themselves is deeply *deeply* on brand for a guy in a Padres hat
submitted to me: a photo of a border patrol agent retching and spitting after they gassed themselves by mueller park in minneapolis yesterday
January 23, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Fucking idiot poisons themselves is deeply *deeply* on brand for a guy in a Padres hat
Why would anyone travel here for the World Cup?
BREAKING: San Francisco Giants star Jung Hoo Lee has been detained by CBP at LAX. Pelosi's office says she is working to secure his release. www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant...
Giants outfielder Jung Hoo Lee detained at Los Angeles International Airport
San Francisco Giants outfielder Jung Hoo Lee was detained Wednesday evening at Los Angeles International Airport, his agent Scott Boras told the Chronicle.
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January 22, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Why would anyone travel here for the World Cup?
The thing that makes her suck so bad isn’t just the obviously disprovable lies - it’s that she always turns it into a personal attack in her response. Clarify or lie, whatever, but nobody’s asking you to be a bitch about it.
Trump repeatedly said "Iceland" when he meant Greenland in his Davos rant. But his press secretary is just blatantly lying about it.
January 21, 2026 at 6:13 PM
The thing that makes her suck so bad isn’t just the obviously disprovable lies - it’s that she always turns it into a personal attack in her response. Clarify or lie, whatever, but nobody’s asking you to be a bitch about it.
She keeps using the term simulations instead of actually going to a grocery store. Don’t think this will resonate!
Brooke Rollins is still at it!
"We had run almost 1,000 simulations, and between $3 and $4 is a fair number if you can have access to that food. I just saw new numbers that were run: a full day, meaning 3 full square meals and a snack, is about $15.64."
"We had run almost 1,000 simulations, and between $3 and $4 is a fair number if you can have access to that food. I just saw new numbers that were run: a full day, meaning 3 full square meals and a snack, is about $15.64."
January 20, 2026 at 5:17 PM
She keeps using the term simulations instead of actually going to a grocery store. Don’t think this will resonate!
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"What's your favourite Beatles album, then?"
"Tough one! I think I'd have to say... The Best of The Beatles"
"Tough one! I think I'd have to say... The Best of The Beatles"
January 20, 2026 at 9:58 AM
"What's your favourite Beatles album, then?"
"Tough one! I think I'd have to say... The Best of The Beatles"
"Tough one! I think I'd have to say... The Best of The Beatles"
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I can't recall a time in my life when the Senate's Democratic leader was so embarrassing and pathetic.
January 19, 2026 at 11:02 PM
I can't recall a time in my life when the Senate's Democratic leader was so embarrassing and pathetic.
From the Times article on Trump vetoing a bill that would bring clean water infrastructure to rural Colorado, which is currently being poisoned. I just don’t know how you reprogram these people.
January 19, 2026 at 11:28 PM
From the Times article on Trump vetoing a bill that would bring clean water infrastructure to rural Colorado, which is currently being poisoned. I just don’t know how you reprogram these people.
Saw the full video of this detainment of a *United States citizen* with these fucking goons knocking his door down and going in weapons drawn, and it’s abundantly clear that this is now a fascist state. We no longer have a meaningful constitution.
Hmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota.
(Photo via Reuters)
(Photo via Reuters)
January 19, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Saw the full video of this detainment of a *United States citizen* with these fucking goons knocking his door down and going in weapons drawn, and it’s abundantly clear that this is now a fascist state. We no longer have a meaningful constitution.
Think it’s probably fair to assume the attack on Venezuela was at least partially driven by this too considering the actual winner gave him the photo op and shit.
Not the sort of letter committed to paper by a well man. "Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
January 19, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Think it’s probably fair to assume the attack on Venezuela was at least partially driven by this too considering the actual winner gave him the photo op and shit.
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one of the best things about this whole nightmare has been watching a whole bunch of folks who have clearly never been seriously political in their lives standing up and going, no, absolutely the fuck not, we’re not letting this happen
ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
January 18, 2026 at 2:47 AM
one of the best things about this whole nightmare has been watching a whole bunch of folks who have clearly never been seriously political in their lives standing up and going, no, absolutely the fuck not, we’re not letting this happen