A Conservative Liberal
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Pro-democracy | Regular citizen in support of basic human dignity and rights | Minnesotan | Subscriber to the philosophy of "mind your own damn business" | Physician | Independent
Just watched this with all my adult kids, it's an annual tradition. Michael Caine was brilliant.
Michael Caine made this movie a classic. He acts in every scene as if he's working along side Olivier and Dame Anderson, not Kermit and Fozzy. It's brilliant and I love him for approaching this movie with such seriousness and joy.
it is almost Christmas which means it’s Muppet Christmas Carol season and that, in turn, means it is time to revisit this delightful interview with Michael Caine, who loves everything about that movie even more than you do
December 21, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Just watched this with all my adult kids, it's an annual tradition. Michael Caine was brilliant.
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Minneapolis police chief delivers a #TruthBomb in #TrumpsAmerica!
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BREAKING: In an extraordinarily powerful moment, Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara just delivered an incredible speech slamming ICE’s immoral attacks on communities during the holidays. This is so...
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December 18, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Minneapolis police chief delivers a #TruthBomb in #TrumpsAmerica!
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What is wrong with us?
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
December 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
What is wrong with us?
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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Know your rights, Minnesota.
Stay peaceful and don’t give the Trump Administration a reason to escalate their theatrics. We’re with you.
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Stay peaceful and don’t give the Trump Administration a reason to escalate their theatrics. We’re with you.
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The following information is to assist immigrants and refugees. This is not legal advice. Please consult an attorney for specific legal questions. Last updated February 4, 2025. General Know Your Ri...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Know your rights, Minnesota.
Stay peaceful and don’t give the Trump Administration a reason to escalate their theatrics. We’re with you.
www.ilcm.org/immigration-...
Stay peaceful and don’t give the Trump Administration a reason to escalate their theatrics. We’re with you.
www.ilcm.org/immigration-...
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This is so gross. Anyone who has lived in Minnesota (Minneapolis/St. Paul specifically) will tell you that the Somali population there is among the kindest and hardest-working people you'll ever meet.
Trump on Minnesota's Somali community: "They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country, I'll be honest with you."
December 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This is so gross. Anyone who has lived in Minnesota (Minneapolis/St. Paul specifically) will tell you that the Somali population there is among the kindest and hardest-working people you'll ever meet.
No person is garbage. I live in Minnesota and I'm glad our Somali neighbors are here.
December 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
No person is garbage. I live in Minnesota and I'm glad our Somali neighbors are here.
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We welcome support in investigating and prosecuting crime. But pulling a PR stunt and indiscriminately targeting immigrants is not a real solution to a problem.
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New ICE Operation Is Said to Target Somali Migrants in Twin Cities
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December 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
We welcome support in investigating and prosecuting crime. But pulling a PR stunt and indiscriminately targeting immigrants is not a real solution to a problem.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
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Marie-Philip Poulin had a goal and an assist to become the first PWHL player to reach 50 career points, Abby Roque scored and added two assists against her former team, and the Montreal Victoire shut out the New York Sirens 4-0 on Tuesday night.
Poulin, Roque and Desbiens lead Victoire to 4-0 win over Sirens in home opener
Marie-Philip Poulin had a goal and an assist to become the first PWHL player to reach 50 career points, Abby Roque scored and added two assists against her former team, and the Montreal Victoire shut out the New York Sirens 4-0 on Tuesday night.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Marie-Philip Poulin had a goal and an assist to become the first PWHL player to reach 50 career points, Abby Roque scored and added two assists against her former team, and the Montreal Victoire shut out the New York Sirens 4-0 on Tuesday night.
I guess the Trump folks never saw A Few Good Men.
November 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I guess the Trump folks never saw A Few Good Men.
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Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.
I have a busy job and several kids, but I feel like I know more about current events than Mike Johnson.
October 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I have a busy job and several kids, but I feel like I know more about current events than Mike Johnson.
100% this
Walz: "We have a federal system that we're all in it together, we help other states when they need it, but we have a situation where they're trying to divide us & provide specific aid to states that they like at the moment, which is absolutely unconscionable... either that or give us our money back"
October 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
100% this
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One in eight Americans will struggle to put food on the table if the Trump shutdown extends through next week.
Yet Republicans in Congress are nowhere to be found.
Tell them it's time to clock back in—because they work for us:
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Yet Republicans in Congress are nowhere to be found.
Tell them it's time to clock back in—because they work for us:
indivisible.org/campaign/sto...
October 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
One in eight Americans will struggle to put food on the table if the Trump shutdown extends through next week.
Yet Republicans in Congress are nowhere to be found.
Tell them it's time to clock back in—because they work for us:
indivisible.org/campaign/sto...
Yet Republicans in Congress are nowhere to be found.
Tell them it's time to clock back in—because they work for us:
indivisible.org/campaign/sto...
There are so many heartbreaking and infuriating things going on, but the thought of starving SNAP recipients makes me physically ill. As normal, HCR is right -what are we doing here??
October 27, 2025 at 4:42 AM
There are so many heartbreaking and infuriating things going on, but the thought of starving SNAP recipients makes me physically ill. As normal, HCR is right -what are we doing here??
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October 25, 2025
October 25, 2025
Yesterday the Trump administration said it would not use any of the approximately $6 billion the U.S.
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October 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
October 25, 2025
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"Muslim Americans have a long and proud history of service to this country, and when we allow people like Mr. Cuomo to endorse such a racist ideology, we dishonor not only Muslims Americans but the central idea of what we want America to be."
This Shit Has Got to Stop
Now.
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October 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
"Muslim Americans have a long and proud history of service to this country, and when we allow people like Mr. Cuomo to endorse such a racist ideology, we dishonor not only Muslims Americans but the central idea of what we want America to be."
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Context matters
October 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Context matters
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MAGA's arrogance, thinking that there was no reason for anything that they want to destroy, no wisdom that ever predated them to make things how they were.
Rules of engagement is what protects our forces, and American civilians, as well
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
September 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
MAGA's arrogance, thinking that there was no reason for anything that they want to destroy, no wisdom that ever predated them to make things how they were.
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The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
September 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
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Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.
September 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.
No one deserves this treatment, no matter the country or anything they've done.
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September 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
No one deserves this treatment, no matter the country or anything they've done.
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Important.
Really important @TimothySnyder column open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Free Speech and Me Speech
A helpful distinction
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September 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Important.
So many "we are not the same" memes on both sides. Do we as individuals truly believe that the bulk of people on the opposite side of the aisle are evil? Perhaps instead we should be asking who benefits from creating that impression?
September 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
So many "we are not the same" memes on both sides. Do we as individuals truly believe that the bulk of people on the opposite side of the aisle are evil? Perhaps instead we should be asking who benefits from creating that impression?
Here's something I see a lot that really bothers me. It has two parts: 1) describing people in a particular group as though they're all the same, and then 2) operating as though the most inflammatory people who identify with that group must speak for everyone else in it.
September 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Here's something I see a lot that really bothers me. It has two parts: 1) describing people in a particular group as though they're all the same, and then 2) operating as though the most inflammatory people who identify with that group must speak for everyone else in it.