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Zebadiah Johnson
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Native to the South Dakota prairie
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You could write this. Or you could write: “That notion, which has been the rule in nearly every country in the Western Hemisphere for over a century, is grounded in the language of the 14th Amendment.”

All how you choose to frame it.
December 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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People should be allowed to have a THC seltzer if they want to
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."

Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.

Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.

We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.
September 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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The idea that “the civil rights act was a mistake” is a mainstream conservative position we can only tolerate but “defund the police” is a great cancer that must be excised from America for Democrats to win is the actual reason Democrats lose. Sorry.
September 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Also, hate that Canelo is giving his interview and @netflix.com captions just says “speaking Spanish”
September 14, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.
September 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Terence Crawford is my GOAT - moving up two classes to fight Canelo was incredible. What a beautiful display #sweetscience
September 14, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Crawford obviously in the GOAT conversation
September 14, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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I'm really having trouble processing the relative silence from Barack Obama about a colleague who he'd hosted at the White House, the Minnesota State House Speaker, being assassinated, but rushing to get out a weepy statement about Charlie fucking Kirk.
September 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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incredible call from @minakimes.bsky.social

“Oh boy………
alright??? ……..
(the same noises my dog made yesterday when she saw a chipmunk on the porch)”

Get her a primetime announcing job ASAP
Stetson Bennett and Brennan Presley deliver on 4th down
August 17, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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As big as the Mamdani win is, Landers ascent is in some ways even more significant for the national Democratic Party.

Most Dem electeds know that they don't have what Zohran has. But most can at least imagine themselves as a Lander.
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander: "I don't think the line for the [Democratic] party right now is between progressives and moderates; I think it's between fighters and folders."
June 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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can't remember whether I should use affect or effect, ctrl-f replace all instances of either with 'impact', work smarter not harder
March 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Some Republicans, many of them aligned with anti-abortion groups, are tired of South Dakotans petitioning their ideas onto the ballot. They're pursuing a multifaceted crackdown on the process this legislative session.
Republican SD lawmakers pursue a multifaceted crackdown on citizen-backed ballot measures • South Dakota Searchlight
Some Republicans, many of them aligned with anti-aboriton groups, are tired of South Dakotans petitioning and putting their ideas on the ballot.
buff.ly
February 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Sometimes books need to age before they’re ready to be read - it’s the truth
Buying books and reading books are 2 separate hobbies
December 16, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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Tbh, I think the most compelling argument against billionaires isn’t redistributive in that it’s not really lack of resources that causes poverty. The argument that I find compelling is that a billion dollars is simply too powerful a political weapon to risk anyone having.
Not all billionaires are necessarily bad *people* (and if you don't think that's true, remember that it's now possible for people to *inherit* billionaire status). But the existence of billionaires is, plausibly, a policy failure. Nobody needs that much money and society probably doesn't need to be
December 7, 2024 at 2:01 PM
A statewide broadcasting service costs money - regardless of how many people are served.

Noem’s proposal strips South Dakotans of educational broadcasting and will make our state poorer for it.
December 6, 2024 at 4:23 PM