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Art, birds birds birds, books, DEMOCRACY, listening to people that are smarter than me.
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Do not miss this.
February 17, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.
Meet Minnesota Bathrobe Lady Sam Stroozas of MPR News | Minnesota Public Radio
Earlier this week, an unexpected and fast-moving incident unfolded in St. Paul, Minnesota involving both federal and local law enforcement. As crowds gathered and questions mounted, one of our MPR New...
www.mpr.org
February 14, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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Elon Musk genuinely has to be regarded as one of history’s pre-eminent mass murderers
HORRIFYING -
Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025

🧸Most were children
⌛️ Many died within the first year

😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from:
- HIV, TB, malaria
- Maternal & fetal deaths
- Malnutrition

news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...
Expert insight: U.S. withdrawal from WHO could affect global health - Western News
History professor Mitchell L. Hammond explains how the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization could affect global health and disease threats.
news.westernu.ca
February 13, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.

Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
February 11, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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Reupping this because a colonoscopy is no big deal and anyone over 40 should be talking to their doctor about getting one.

Take care of yourselves, people.
The prep isn't nearly as bad as it used to be, the surgery is the best nap you'll ever have, and the first meal after is a religious experience.
Just got a colonoscopy this week! Unlike poor Saavik here, prep was basically painless for me. Drink the goop, poop a lot, done. Really the whole thing was smooth & easy & not worth the dread lots of folks bring to it.

If you're nearing or above 50, do it!
February 8, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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In honor of Black History Month, here's a thread with one book recommendation a day.
February 1, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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Good morning! 🪶
February 6, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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Everything you’re hearing from the Trump administration is a lie. Today was one of the most active days in Northeast since the entire Operation Metro Surge began.

Nothing is changing on the ground in Minneapolis, no matter what headlines Trump and Homan try to create.
February 5, 2026 at 11:22 PM
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I mean!!!!
February 5, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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Heads are going to explode 💥

Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.

All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
1/3
February 4, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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Great news!
February 3, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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On this day in 1964, a Black man named Louis Allen was ambushed and killed in Liberty, Mississippi. Mr. Allen had suffered violence, intimidation, and threats since providing evidence against a white man for killing a local Black activist.
Jan. 31, 1964 | Louis Allen Ambushed and Murdered for Speaking Out in Liberty, Mississippi
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
calendar.eji.org
January 31, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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"Do we have a constitution? That is the pressing question that should be at the front of everyones' minds" - Georgia Fort
Journalist Georgia Fort has been released from custody (video @fox9mn.bsky.social)
January 31, 2026 at 2:50 AM
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Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.
January 27, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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the moment the second person comes into the frame to stand with his neighbor is so incredibly beautiful
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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the hours since i was last at my computer have seen a lot more congressperson-direct-to-camera social media videos re: ICE, and most of them unsurprisingly are not nearly as good
January 25, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.
January 25, 2026 at 1:11 AM
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Friend and comrade, I hate to tell you my own family history, let alone that of millions... for my people, it was 99 long years from the Emancipation Proclamation to the Civil Rights Act.

Entire generations lived and died.

(I pray that the fire this time is kinder. I do pray.)
i do not know how this goes on for three more years
January 24, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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Minnesota is the best of us.
January 23, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement.

"I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish.

Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature.

Minneapolis, MN
January 23, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
January 23, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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look at this little cutie I met at the park today 🥰 🪶
January 21, 2026 at 3:20 AM
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People here are outside patrolling their neighborhoods in this, trying to keep their neighbors safe from lawless armed masked goons. Armed with whistles and vests, they are essentially fighting a war against their own government and its ethnic cleansing campaign.
January 19, 2026 at 12:43 PM