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Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.
January 14, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
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I don't like the death squads
January 8, 2026 at 6:40 PM
I don't like the death squads
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slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums
December 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums
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every Jewish Studies colleague I know who had an NEH grant saw their funding cut earlier this year. now we know where the money went: to the far-right, "western-civilization"-worshipping Tikvah Institute to promote their vision of "Jewish Civilization" as a foundation stone of "the West"
NEH Announces Largest Grant in Agency’s History—$10.4 Million—for Humanities-Focused Effort to Combat the Normalization of Anti-Semitism in American Society by Focusing on the Study of Jewish Civiliza...
www.neh.gov
September 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
every Jewish Studies colleague I know who had an NEH grant saw their funding cut earlier this year. now we know where the money went: to the far-right, "western-civilization"-worshipping Tikvah Institute to promote their vision of "Jewish Civilization" as a foundation stone of "the West"
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All the Russiagate stuff was real, Trump just successfully covered it up
The stuff that, 15 years ago, would have been a screaming 72-point all-caps headline — and now appears in the sixth paragraph, almost as an aside
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
August 12, 2025 at 3:42 AM
All the Russiagate stuff was real, Trump just successfully covered it up
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Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
June 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
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ever wondered about what ranking officers in the us civil war were like? good news. there's not that many types of them. here you go
May 24, 2025 at 5:05 AM
ever wondered about what ranking officers in the us civil war were like? good news. there's not that many types of them. here you go
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This happens often by the way. It's not an isolated incident.
Another day another major oil spill and destruction of nature
Keystone oil pipeline shut after spill in North Dakota
estimated 3,500 barrels of oil was released due to the rupture
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Keystone oil pipeline shut after spill in North Dakota
estimated 3,500 barrels of oil was released due to the rupture
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
April 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This happens often by the way. It's not an isolated incident.
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The loss of access to old Looney Tunes cartoons is a tragedy for culture. How else are kids going to find out about Peter Lorre
March 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The loss of access to old Looney Tunes cartoons is a tragedy for culture. How else are kids going to find out about Peter Lorre
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Okay what is going on here. Are the accounts at a private banking entity? Does the federal government have direct debit permission set up? So many questions as to how Treasury instructed this payment. (Via NY Post’s Craig McCarthy)
February 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Okay what is going on here. Are the accounts at a private banking entity? Does the federal government have direct debit permission set up? So many questions as to how Treasury instructed this payment. (Via NY Post’s Craig McCarthy)
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in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.
February 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
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The state-backed exploitation of New York’s “social equity” cannabis retailers in the name of justice is shocking and a stain on state leadership — starting with Gov. Hochul, but the legislature needs to take responsibility too to help fix the mess it helped create. www.thecity.nyc/2024/11/27/c...
www.thecity.nyc
November 27, 2024 at 12:51 PM
The state-backed exploitation of New York’s “social equity” cannabis retailers in the name of justice is shocking and a stain on state leadership — starting with Gov. Hochul, but the legislature needs to take responsibility too to help fix the mess it helped create. www.thecity.nyc/2024/11/27/c...
ווי זאָגט מען "postvernacular" אויף יידיש?
November 21, 2024 at 10:38 PM
ווי זאָגט מען "postvernacular" אויף יידיש?
what's all this then
November 20, 2024 at 10:17 PM
what's all this then
I want to say something to prove I'm not a bot but I had to call my husband over to solve the CAPTCHA to make my account
November 15, 2024 at 9:43 PM
I want to say something to prove I'm not a bot but I had to call my husband over to solve the CAPTCHA to make my account