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Ben and Alex
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Just two parents who love the world. Here if you need us. We are also the unofficial #FROM historians.
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❤️
January 30, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Tickets in the bag.
January 29, 2026 at 9:42 PM
@jackiekashian.bsky.social see you at Comedy Works in February!
January 29, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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I enjoyed talking with @jojofromjerz.bsky.social about what life is like in Minneapolis during Trump's Operation Metro surge, which is still brutalizing Minnesotans this week despite what Trump would have you believe
What Minneapolis Is Like Under Siege: With Aaron Rupar
Jo sits down with Aaron Rupar to discuss his first-hand experience in Minneapolis.
www.thesirennetwork.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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This is Minneapolis.

Collective trauma, and neighbors helping neighbors.

This is our 24/7 every day lives right now, not just a 10 second news clip.
January 28, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY
January 28, 2026 at 5:19 PM
THOT SQUAD AND QUEEN HERBY IN DENVER?!

LET'S. FUCKING. GO.
January 27, 2026 at 11:40 PM
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I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
January 27, 2026 at 5:36 AM
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CNN reports that Bovino is leaving Minnesota
January 26, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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My wife has been begging me to create Book It for Grown Ups for years, so here we go! Pizza Hut Retro Style, we doin' Black History Month Book It!
Announcement!
Black Hart & Black Garnet Books are teaming up for Black History Month! All month long, if you come in and show a receipt from Black Garnet for a book you’ve purchased, you get 50% off a Heggies Pizza!
January 26, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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Our Democratic elected officials are not rising to this moment so most of them must go.

Any elected official who isn’t willing to organize a Project 2029 around punishing everyone in the Trump administration in order to save democracy must go.
January 24, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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January 24, 2026 at 11:19 PM
I stand by the fact that future generations miss out on the horror genre of "creature tries to kill you through exact object you're viewing creature on" a la POLTERGEIST and THE RING
“POLTERGEIST” (1982) dir. Tobe Hooper

JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight, Richard Lawson, Zelda Rubinstein, Heather O'Rourke

🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
January 25, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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BASH: It feels as though you're blaming the victim here

BOVINO: The victims are the Border Patrol agents. I'm not blaming the Border Patrol agents. The victims are the Border Patrol agents.
January 25, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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Mood in minneapolis right now
January 24, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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A conservative dark money group got a pro-ICE ballot measure on Colorado’s 2026 ballot yesterday. Hopes of using it to squeeze swing district Dems and juice GOP midterm turnout may backfire, given current events.
January 24, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.
January 25, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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I will canvass for whichever candidate runs on putting this man in prison in 2028.
Bovino shamelessly lies: "This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement"
January 24, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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Hurry @schumer.senate.gov, you dessicated scrotum. Write an email. Word it strongly.
January 24, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Do something or resign you geriatric fuck.
ICE out of Minnesota NOW.
Breaking News: Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a person in Minneapolis on Saturday morning, state and local officials said. Follow live updates.
January 24, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM