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CvaldaIsNotBig

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Pulitzer Prize winner, MacArthur genius, Fields Medal awardee, Pritzker Prize honoree, three-time Nobel laureate, Guggenheim fellow, double-EGOT

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Thebazilly

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The mood I would like from anyone running for office is "angel with a flaming sword."

February 11, 2026 at 12:32 AM

CvaldaIsNotBig

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Chop’t salad

February 10, 2026 at 11:58 PM

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Arizona Right Watch

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Totally forgot to add this but someone mentioned how eerie it is that a train track is running near the area and it actually runs directly behind the proposed concentration camp. This video is from the parking lot:

February 4, 2026 at 3:13 PM

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Sam Halpert

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This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):

"I'd like to share a story from a local paper in Coldwater, Michigan dated to the 9th of April, 1945. It tells how the US Army, under General Patton--the US 3rd Army--came onto what you might call a detention center just outside the village of Ohrdruf, Germany.

The US Army brought the leading citizens of Ohrdruf to tour the facility, which turned out to be part of the Buchenwald network of concentration camps. A US Army colonel told the German civilians who viewed the scenes, without muttering a word, that they were to blame.

One of the Germans replied that what happened in the camp was (quote) 'done by a few people, and you cannot blame us all.' And the American, who could have been any one of our grandfathers, said, 'this was done by those that the German people chose to lead them, and all are responsible.'

The morning after the tour, the Mayor of Ohrdruf killed himself. And maybe he did not know the full extent of the outrages that were committed in his community, but he knew enough. And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough.

I ask you to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf might have thought before he died. Maybe he felt like a victim. He might have thought, 'how is this my fault? I have no jurisdiction over this.' Maybe he would have said, 'this site was not subject to local zoning, what could I do?'

But I think, when he reflected on the suffering that occurred at this camp, just outside of town, that those words would have sounded hollow even to him. Because in his heart he knew--as we do--that we are all responsible for what happens in our community.

I urge the council to take action to stop, or stall, or at the barest minimum to think creatively about how to exercise oversight over this proposed ICE facility. Thank you."

February 4, 2026 at 2:20 PM

CvaldaIsNotBig

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How’s the training of Americans with tsmc moving some production to US? Also how are they reading Venezuela? Lastly a video of the freedom song performed at Broadview’s ICE facility. www.instagram.com/p/DS7ntnODL4...