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"What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears."

-- Alice Walker, born #OTD 1944
February 9, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Not sure that we’ll ever get to a “Network” moment, but it’s really hard to imagine how so many television journalists can report on so many atrocious things without their humanity breaking through.
Reporting on Trump’s behavior without emotion is actually biased in his favor.
The CBS Saturday Morning anchors just talked very emotionally about POTUS' racist post of the Obamas, with Adriana Diaz in tears. Considering CBS' recent news moves, I thought they'd gloss over it, but Diaz was especially critical.
February 7, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
futurism.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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Klobuchar was the only Dem to speak at Trump's second inauguration. She spoke of the peaceful transfer of power, even after Trump attempted a self-coup to stop exactly that.

She pivots to talking about grocery prices during Trump's ongoing attempts at turning this country fascist. She's not good.
February 3, 2026 at 3:31 AM
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It really bums me out that Klobuchar, who was instrumental in normalizing Trump as just another political adversary, is almost certainly going to be the next governor of Minnesota, a state currently paying a severe price for that normalization of fascism.
Here's all the Klobuchar v. Republican matchups from that SurveyUSA poll

Best Klobuchar lead is +20, worst is +14
February 3, 2026 at 3:16 AM
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I've been a critic of NYT for two decades--sometimes as a job--but I don't have monolithic view. There are great reporters working there. Headline writers, not so much. This is actively misleading. By framing it as a question it takes a side, asserting that he wants to w/out plausible evidence.
February 2, 2026 at 1:55 AM
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"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident
The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to the first time local police in...
www.mprnews.org
January 31, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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January 30, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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One thing we have two weeks to do: Debunk Stephen Miller's lies that the invasions have ever been primarily about deporting the worst of the worst.

Another thing: Show that w/GOP consent, Trump has SHIFTED govt spending from nice things like VA care (&cancer cures) to pay goons who shoot VA nurses.
January 30, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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On her livestream tonight, #IL09 candidate Kat Abughazaleh teased what appears to be a new 60-second-long campaign ad
January 30, 2026 at 3:11 AM
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I certainly would not have been able to write my story about all the bravery I witnessed in Minneapolis without the access I was given! bsky.app/profile/whst...
I would really appreciate if journalists who have done ridealongs would speak up about how important they are to helping Minneapolis. As I’ve said many times, opsec fears are the greatest threat to the networks we’ve built. But the reason we’re out here is to show the world what’s happening.
Ridiculous. @chrislhayes.bsky.social did a ride-along that was played on @ms.now last night - the piece threatened nothing and was good 'publicity' for the cause. Hopefully they'll come around for you, Will. Thanks for what you're doing for our city & state.
January 29, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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Congressional Dems need to face the hard truth that people are dying in Minneapolis to oppose ICE precisely because some Dem Reps in Congress aren't. They are dying because the Reps somehow can't see the moment. Would doing so have saved the MP'ers? Maybe not - but they stood because you wouldn't.
January 24, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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🎯🎯
January 26, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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I'm at a loss for words. I'm glad someone else has them.
January 25, 2026 at 8:51 AM
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My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti

Absolutely heartbreaking
January 25, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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About 20 or so hours too late, by @nytimes.com has finally taken our “appears to” out of this headline. For finding their spine, even if late, they should be commended because the bar is so so low.
January 25, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Pretti died after asking a woman he was with if she was OK.

Good died after telling the man who killed her that she wasn’t mad at him.
January 25, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
January 24, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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a crime against human decency to lie about this
They’re just gonna try to lie their way through it
January 25, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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There has been an increasing sense in Minneapolis that we are on our own, that our elected representatives are unwilling and/or unable to take action to get these murderous Nazi thugs out of our community. I really hope that changes today. The time for pleading TV hits ended weeks ago.
January 24, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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Holy shit.

He was filming. He went over to help a lady that ICE shoved down. Agents engaged him.

His hands were on the pavement when he was shot.

He never had his hand on a weapon.

Cold blooded murder.
NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.
January 24, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.
January 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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If only the Democratic Party existed
January 24, 2026 at 4:25 PM