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Andrew Helgeson
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Ravens, Orioles, ISU, and Bulls
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The constitutional remedy for a president who uses collective punishment against people for the crimes of a few is impeachment, removal, and disqualification, followed by a criminal trial.
BREAKING

The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community.

Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.
December 30, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Remember:

When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.

When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.

ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
December 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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The Lions have now lost five of seven since Amon-Ra St. Brown’s stupid Donald Trump dance.

Everything Trump Touches Dies.
December 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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I would rather walk in on my parents watching porno than catch them reading this
December 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
August 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Exclusive: The WSJ is working on a story examining Trump’s Epstein ties. Trump is said to have personally called WSJ editor Emma Tucker to voice his objections. More in @status.news www.status.news/p/wall-stree...
Trump's WSJ Epstein Fury
The Wall Street Journal is said to be working on a story highlighting Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, prompting protest from the White House.
www.status.news
July 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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June 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Illinois has enshrined protections to meet this very moment.

In a time of increasing overreach and hateful rhetoric, it's more important than ever to reaffirm our commitment to the rights and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community.

You have a home here always.
June 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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We're capturing children off the street at gunpoint to get one last ride of garish nostalgia for an America that never was. A future dramatically better is available at the end of this, and the choice will be stark for anyone with a brain, but we've gotta be loud and uncompromising in the meantime.
I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played.

CINEMATIC
June 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.

Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
June 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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all these retcons pretend that school closures were just something we did as a little experiment and not to prevent students and teachers from dying
Prominent left/liberal folks retconning the COVID school closure thing as some sort of gigantic mistake is one of the nuttiest examples of consent manufacturing I've ever seen.
May 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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There is no hell deep enough to contain the people involved with this
Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.
Noem Plots Reality Show Where Migrants Fight for Citizenship
A Homeland Security official told the Daily Beast that the show is in the early stages of vetting, though approval has not been given—or denied.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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the kid looks fucking terrified, knows the university will probably punitively hold the diploma they've worked three or four years to get, and also knows people have been disappeared recently by fascists for doing way, way less. still says it! just an incredibly fucking brave person
Here is a clip of the student's speech.
May 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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In Charlie Morton & Kyle Gibson starts the Orioles are 0-9

In all other starts they're 15-15
May 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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AOC: Tom Homan said he was going to refer me to DOJ because I’m using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections… to that I say: Come for me… Do I look like I care?

There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.
May 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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The lethal high-powered rifles I carried during my military service were designed for war.
 
Not our streets.
Not our neighborhoods.
Certainly not our schools.
 
Senate Democrats introduced legislation to revive the nationwide assault weapons ban.
 
It’s long overdue.
May 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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If you take anything away from my post, I hope it's this:
April 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is
April 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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No one should be above the law, most especially the President.

Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return isn't just cruel; it's unconstitutional.

They're saying the quiet part aloud — if they get away with it now, they'll do it to anyone.
Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."
April 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Democracy isn’t dying in darkness it’s being dismantled at the hands of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. @allisonjriggs.bsky.social won this election fair and square back in November. Her opponent is a petulant Confederate cosplayer who can’t handle losing. Concede Jefferson Griffin.
April 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.
April 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM