Will and the Loons
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Wanderer who planted roots late in life in beautiful Minnesota, trying to stay curious & kind Day by Day. ⚽️ fan. Book and music lover. Embracing my inner child and my outer old man. #YNWA
Wanderer who planted roots late in life in beautiful Minnesota, trying to stay curious & kind Day by Day. ⚽️ fan. Book and music lover. Embracing my inner child and my outer old man. #YNWA
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She was fired for teaching what she was hired to teach. She was fired for doing what she did not do. She was fired for breaking a law that does not exist.
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
She was fired for teaching what she was hired to teach. She was fired for doing what she did not do. She was fired for breaking a law that does not exist.
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The Epstein timeline.
Note that the original sleazy deal that gave Epstein a slap on the wrist occurred during George W. Bush's presidency with a U.S. Attorney appointed by Bush.
www.npr.org/2025/07/25/n...
Note that the original sleazy deal that gave Epstein a slap on the wrist occurred during George W. Bush's presidency with a U.S. Attorney appointed by Bush.
www.npr.org/2025/07/25/n...
Jeffrey Epstein files: Tracing the legal cases that led to sex-trafficking charges
Questions persist about how Jeffrey Epstein, who once moved among the world's elite, was able to avoid federal prosecution for so long. A timeline suggests some answers.
www.npr.org
December 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The Epstein timeline.
Note that the original sleazy deal that gave Epstein a slap on the wrist occurred during George W. Bush's presidency with a U.S. Attorney appointed by Bush.
www.npr.org/2025/07/25/n...
Note that the original sleazy deal that gave Epstein a slap on the wrist occurred during George W. Bush's presidency with a U.S. Attorney appointed by Bush.
www.npr.org/2025/07/25/n...
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Reading some FDR quotes:
"In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice...the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man."
"Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races."
"In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice...the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man."
"Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races."
December 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Reading some FDR quotes:
"In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice...the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man."
"Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races."
"In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice...the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man."
"Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races."
Merry Christmas from our government of fragmenta loco unius (not that “e pluribus” crap that nobody believes any more 🤦🏼).
“Roxana couldn’t bring herself to put up a Christmas tree, so her 15-year-old son did.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Her partner was detained. Now she and their baby face Christmas without him: ‘My family is broken’
Many US immigrants are facing endless separations. In San Francisco, community groups offer solace – and purpose
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Merry Christmas from our government of fragmenta loco unius (not that “e pluribus” crap that nobody believes any more 🤦🏼).
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Important
Hi folks. Just to be clear, a date has not yet been announced for the next No Kings. If a PAC you’ve never heard of asks for donations to “organize” it, please block and report them
December 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Important
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Sept 22 1933: Dr. Joseph Goebbels creates a new umbrella organization to regulate all film, music, theater, press, literary, and fine arts institutions. The Reich Chamber of Culture soon exerts control over all cultural life as Hitler declares a "merciless war" on works that "insult German feeling"
December 23, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Sept 22 1933: Dr. Joseph Goebbels creates a new umbrella organization to regulate all film, music, theater, press, literary, and fine arts institutions. The Reich Chamber of Culture soon exerts control over all cultural life as Hitler declares a "merciless war" on works that "insult German feeling"
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Of historic proportions:
December 23, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Of historic proportions:
It’s in El Salvador, but this is the US concentration camp that Bari Weiss and the White House didn’t want us to see.
December 23, 2025 at 3:19 AM
It’s in El Salvador, but this is the US concentration camp that Bari Weiss and the White House didn’t want us to see.
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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This year has just been an amazing carnival of ineptitude, beginning with a clueless, ketamine-addled billionaire taking a chainsaw to any part of the government he was too dumb to understand and ending with a suckup LARPing as a journalism exec destroying the most storied name in television news.
it really is something that no one affiliated or allied with trump seems to have any sense of how to use power with subtlety and finesse.
December 22, 2025 at 10:35 AM
This year has just been an amazing carnival of ineptitude, beginning with a clueless, ketamine-addled billionaire taking a chainsaw to any part of the government he was too dumb to understand and ending with a suckup LARPing as a journalism exec destroying the most storied name in television news.
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like, this isn’t a person who you can tell “ummmm as the proprietor of a right wing opinion substack i think i know when a TV news story months in the making about foreign prisons is ready”
December 22, 2025 at 7:32 AM
like, this isn’t a person who you can tell “ummmm as the proprietor of a right wing opinion substack i think i know when a TV news story months in the making about foreign prisons is ready”
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I can't get over the fact that we have a governing political movement that is openly contemptuous of huge swathes of the country (including my home) and millions of its people.
To have a President and Vice President who don't even pretend to represent the whole country is truly shocking.
To have a President and Vice President who don't even pretend to represent the whole country is truly shocking.
JD Vance: "They are not sending their best. Omar Fateh was Ilehan [sic] Omar's candidate for mayor of Mogadishu-- I mean Minneapolis. Little Freudian slip there."
December 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I can't get over the fact that we have a governing political movement that is openly contemptuous of huge swathes of the country (including my home) and millions of its people.
To have a President and Vice President who don't even pretend to represent the whole country is truly shocking.
To have a President and Vice President who don't even pretend to represent the whole country is truly shocking.
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Frozen Hands on Lake Street Hold Signs Saying No More Ice.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
December 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Frozen Hands on Lake Street Hold Signs Saying No More Ice.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Pretty wild levels of economic bell curve on display in Amsterdam in one photo.
December 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Pretty wild levels of economic bell curve on display in Amsterdam in one photo.
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Neither is herpes, but I’ll keep doing my work without either.
AI is not going to go away
December 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Neither is herpes, but I’ll keep doing my work without either.
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That we need the files of a dead man to corroborate the reported trauma of over a thousand women - and that even those files need to be cartoonishly redacted - pretty much says everything about whose experience is considered real.
December 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
That we need the files of a dead man to corroborate the reported trauma of over a thousand women - and that even those files need to be cartoonishly redacted - pretty much says everything about whose experience is considered real.
HAPPY SOLAR NEW YEAR EVERYONE.
December 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
HAPPY SOLAR NEW YEAR EVERYONE.
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December 20, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Today, with the windchill struggling to reach 0°F at times, thousands marched down Lake Street in South Minneapolis protesting the actions of ICE.
“ICE Out of Minnesota!”
"MINNESOTANS KNOW ICE IS SLIPPERY AND DANGEROUS - IT'S TIME TO DE-ICE!"
"Immigrants are not the problem"
“ICE Out of Minnesota!”
"MINNESOTANS KNOW ICE IS SLIPPERY AND DANGEROUS - IT'S TIME TO DE-ICE!"
"Immigrants are not the problem"
December 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Today, with the windchill struggling to reach 0°F at times, thousands marched down Lake Street in South Minneapolis protesting the actions of ICE.
“ICE Out of Minnesota!”
"MINNESOTANS KNOW ICE IS SLIPPERY AND DANGEROUS - IT'S TIME TO DE-ICE!"
"Immigrants are not the problem"
“ICE Out of Minnesota!”
"MINNESOTANS KNOW ICE IS SLIPPERY AND DANGEROUS - IT'S TIME TO DE-ICE!"
"Immigrants are not the problem"
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Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.
December 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.
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I've been waiting to find out exactly how Trump was going to personally profit from the AI greed frenzy he has unleashed because there was no way he was *not* going to get a piece.
Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
Trump Media to merge with nuclear fusion company to power AI
The all-stock deal comes amid growing energy needs for the tech sector.
www.aljazeera.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I've been waiting to find out exactly how Trump was going to personally profit from the AI greed frenzy he has unleashed because there was no way he was *not* going to get a piece.
Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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As someone who won’t wave the white flag, @jasmineforus.bsky.social wants to take the fight to the US Senate.
She joins me to talk about her campaign, the GOP’s failure to pass healthcare tax subsidies, & why Jack Smith was the perfect prosecutor for Donald Trump.
youtu.be/r7wZhr9XrcE?...
She joins me to talk about her campaign, the GOP’s failure to pass healthcare tax subsidies, & why Jack Smith was the perfect prosecutor for Donald Trump.
youtu.be/r7wZhr9XrcE?...
FURIOUS Dem UNLEASHES On Trump After FATAL MISTAKE
YouTube video by Katie Phang
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
As someone who won’t wave the white flag, @jasmineforus.bsky.social wants to take the fight to the US Senate.
She joins me to talk about her campaign, the GOP’s failure to pass healthcare tax subsidies, & why Jack Smith was the perfect prosecutor for Donald Trump.
youtu.be/r7wZhr9XrcE?...
She joins me to talk about her campaign, the GOP’s failure to pass healthcare tax subsidies, & why Jack Smith was the perfect prosecutor for Donald Trump.
youtu.be/r7wZhr9XrcE?...
First there was the Continuous Improvement movement. Dems continue to develop continuous fail.
BREAKING: The Democratic National Committee will NOT release its long-awaited autopsy on Trump's 2024 win. The report is completed but Dem leaders decided it could distract from their winning streak, so it will remain secret. Not good.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
Dem Leaders Decide to Bury Damning Report on Why Trump Won in 2024
The Democratic National Committee has completed its long-awaited analysis on what went wrong in the 2024 campaign. But in a move that will attract intense criticism, it’s keeping the findings secret.
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
First there was the Continuous Improvement movement. Dems continue to develop continuous fail.