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Builder of stuff: large & small. Here for bikes, housing, transit and “immense amounts of pedestrianization”
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The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.

(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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January 8, 2026 at 12:13 AM
100% - Biden’s Kumbayaapproach failed miserably and hundreds of Republicans need to go to prison for breaking an uncountable number of laws in the last 13 months
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 8, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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Lebensraum
TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?

MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO

T: So force is on the table?

M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
January 6, 2026 at 3:37 AM
So the NYT could have delayed the third oil war of my lifetime, but chose not to act…. you’d think at least THEY would remember the whole Colin Powell ficking fiasco
🟡 NEW: The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops.
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
News organizations held off on reporting Venezuela raid
The American news organizations held their stories over concerns about endangering US troops.
www.semafor.com
January 4, 2026 at 5:53 AM
You gotta wonder how many countries have quietly put their nuclear ambitions into high gear this morning…
"I despise Nicolás Maduro, and he has long needed to be removed and held accountable for his atrocities. But the consequences to come from Trump’s illegal actions in the dead of night will not be worth it."
Trump Invaded a Country While You Were Sleeping
Illegally and immorally.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Wondering how long before Mexico & Latin America form a joint defense organization to deter the aggression of rogue states- as in CyLATO (pronounced - see you lato, gringo)
January 3, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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Trump just said what it is all about.
The sooner the world sheds its addiction to fossil fuels, the better. The alternatives are available, plentiful and cheaper.
January 3, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Imagine thinking that the greatest problem with a TGI Friday’s in a suburban strip mall , is the nationality of the dishwasher.
A video shows around 50 federal agents at the Ridgedale Library in Minnetonka to detain one person. This happened at around noon today.
December 31, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Quite a feat in the Ted and Mario era
JD Vance Has Nearly Completed His Quest to Become the Most Unlikable Person in Politics - Esquire
December 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Actually this is perfect example. We should also immediately stop funding every University that has graduates in the Epstein Files.
Loomer calls for Brown U to lose its federal funding for admitting a foreign student who, at some later date, allegedly committed murder.
December 19, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Trying to remember which GOP moron said we should go back to paying for healthcare with home slaughtered chickens... anyone out there old enough to remember who it was?
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
But hopefully this lawsuit will have a happy ending! This guy is a clown show of inconsistency with housing policy…
December 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
It’s astounding, we put the dumbest fuckers on the planet in charge of EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE. It cannot have a happy ending
The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials say.
South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine
Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.
nbcnews.to
December 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Wonder if my Dutch peeps out there can tell me the word for “summarily executing suspected drugs dealers, with no due process of law”

Just in case it comes up.

Maybe at The Hague.

Sooner or later .

Like tomorrow
December 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Amazon, please stop asking me if books I bought month ago met my expectations. I still have unread books I bought in 2012. Be real.
December 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Imagine being 10 years into this nightmare and still “hoping”
JAKE TAPPER: You called on Hegseth to release the full tapes of the attack. What sort of action are Democrats prepared to take to make this happen?

CHUCK SCHUMER: We hope that they will release the tapes.
December 2, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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“Between 2010 and 2022, structural fires in Berkeley injured an average of 2 people per year, while between just 2017 and 2022, traffic accidents injured or killed an average of 694 people annually.”
November 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
A reminder that the DC event doesn‘t even qualify as a mass shooting.

If we’re going to change some policies, maybe we should focus on the 374 mass shootings that occurred this year in America First… #AmericanRacism
November 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Bipartisan jackasses in DC are making sure they don’t inconvenience themselves & their rich donors in January. Shutdowns are meant to hurt the working class… not the jetsetters
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bipartisan bill aims to pay air traffic controllers during future shutdowns
The flight disruptions during the record government shutdown have inspired a rare act of bipartisanship
www.independent.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 AM
This is a dark, embarrassing moment to be an American. But it gives me a lot of hope that in 1988, I sat in a classroom with 31 German high school students, and NOT A SINGLE ONE of them believed that the two Germanys would be reunited in their own lifetime... #RegimeChangeStartsAtHome
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
greatest the GOP playing the greatest hits: “ invading an oil rich country, in the name of freedom and democracy” www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-v...
Top officials present Trump with military options for Venezuela in the coming days
The potential operations for Venezuela presented to Trump included options for strikes on land, multiple sources said.
www.cbsnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Don’t forget: cheap diet pills to go with measles for everyone
$2 gas and 50 years mortgages for everyone.
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Democratic machine is firing on four cylinders for the first time in two years, so naturally Schumer wants to slash the tires immediately
November 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM