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Trump shaking hands with Robert’s at State of Union address.
December 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Susie Wiles doesn’t know why things happen. Speaker Johnson never knows. Even Trump doesn’t know why he pardoned people or who they are or why shipwrecked survivors are bombed or… Who does know?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Wiles also revealed that it was deputy attorney general Todd Blanche’s idea to go interview Epstein’s associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, in prison and that Trump didn’t know that she would be transferred to a less restrictive facility following Blanche’s visit. “The president was ticked,” she said. “The president was mighty unhappy. I don’t know why they moved her. Neither does the president.”
December 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Just the thing as days become longer, so perhaps hope.
www.dnr.state.mn.us/mcvmagazine/...
An illustration of many song birds among some birch trees.
December 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Another Kavanaugh stop on the road to autocracy.
Black and white graffiti mural outside a NYC subway stop showing 2 masked ICE agents arresting the Statue of Liberty.
December 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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B&w graffiti mural outside a subway entrance in NYC of 2 masked ICE agents arresting the Statue of Liberty.
December 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Worst Supreme Court ever?
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
Nonetheless, I can only echo the Heritage Foundation’s call to reread No. 70 whenever the Supreme Court cites it. Americans will be easily able to glean Hamilton’s actual intent: to explain how and why their new presidency could be held accountable to the popular will and constrained by the rule of law. No amount of “cherry-picking,” as the chief justice so aptly put it, can change that.
December 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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“A different strategy would be needed….Conservatives came to a new conclusion: If you want to change the law, change the judges.”
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Heartbreaking and accurate, at least based on some similar experiences. Trump is not helping anyone except a few billionaires, who don't need that help.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
December 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Oh Marco…
Marco Rubio gesturing as he talks to a sleeping Trump during a Cabinet meeting.
December 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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"A cult of personality with no personality, no interiority or reflection — a husk, a void, an empty vessel."
hyperallergic.com/the-algorith...
A Tudio Ghibli-styke AI-generates image of a crying woman being arrested by ICE.
November 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Goodnight sun.
Red and green northern lights from bedroom window.
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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New polls from Gallup, YouGov, and out of Virginia show voters now trust Democrats more than Republicans to handle the economy. Nationally, Dems now have a 4-point margin on the issue — an 18-point shift away from Trump since 2023. Time to update your priors www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-show...
October 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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"Trump is doing absolutely awful in the minds of the American people. We're talking about new lows. CNBC, -13 net approval on the economy. It's -19 among Quinnipiac ... He's not just beating himself with record lows -- this is the lowest for any president ever."
October 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Vought's power only ends at Trump's gilt plans. Trump doesn't know what is going on, just listening to many "good" people. There is no such thing as negotiation at this point. Distrust and verify.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
October 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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We are all archivists.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-23...
The commission will create an official public record of “[e]very instance of abuse, or law-breaking, or…violations of rights.” While “states have limited abilities against federal immunity,” Pritzker said, “we must remind everyone that…[t]here will come a time where people of good faith are empowered to uphold the law. When the time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and the records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent.”
October 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Frogs and monarchs in Lake City, Man #NoKings
Frogs and monarchs, Lake City, MN #NoKing
October 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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#NOKINGS #LAKECITYMN
No Kings rally, Lake City MN
October 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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#NOKINGS
LAKECITYMN
October 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Sadly this is not the first time Ligorano/Reese have had to call our attention to the melting of democracy, but in 2008, it's hard to imagine they knew what would be happening less than 2 decades later. northern.lights.mn/projects/the...
On Labor Day, September 1, 2008, artist collaborators ligorano/reese installed a temporary ice sculpture spelling out the word Democracy on the grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol during the RNC for The UnConvention.
October 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Worth fighting for.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
the ACA lowered the uninsurance rate from 16 to 8 percent, granting Medicaid to 20 million people and defraying costs for an additional 22 million as of this year. It also pushed expenses down overall. National health spending went from growing 6.9 percent a year before the law passed to 4.3 percent a year after. The share of the economy devoted to medical care stopped rising. The rate of inflation in the health-care sector slowed, even as Americans received more care. The Congressional Budget Office’s projections of future Medicare spending declined “dramatically.”
October 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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“What else could they do? Finstad‘s lack of response, and then his criticism of the protesters, tells me everything I need to know about his respect for our democracy.”

www.republicaneagle.com/opinion/fins...
Poster with missing Congressman headline and details and picture of Brad Finstad
September 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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“Their report is titled The Netanyahu Government Is Implementing a Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza of Palestinians. America is Complicit. The World Must Stop It.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The senators documented arbitrary restrictions that have left aid groups unable to predict what will be denied entry. Jordanian officials told them that peanut butter, honey and dates had been suddenly banned from convoys, with entire trucks turned away for carrying a single restricted item. Each truck, the report says, is subject to a new $400 customs processing fee, and when the truck is not able to make it through the screening process, the $400 has to be paid again to join a later convoy. Because of those and other restrictions by the Israeli government, humanitarian aid coming in from Jordan was currently operating under 10% of its capacity, according to the report.
September 12, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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#madkingdrunkuncle
Whatever Trump’s actual thought process, the episode offers just one example of Trump’s failure to understand a problem but a willingness to nevertheless make a decision based on a conspiracy theory he has heard about, the uninformed speculation of one of his country club members or even just a whim grounded in nothing more than supreme confidence in his own “gut instinct.”
September 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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I found myself struck by the clarity of the final paragraph in the ICJ’s opinion, which reminds lawyers that climate change is bigger even than the law. “A complete solution to this daunting, and self-inflicted, problem requires the contribution of all fields of human knowledge, whether law, science, economics or any other,” the court wrote. “Above all, a lasting and satisfactory solution requires human will and wisdom—at the individual, social and political levels—to change our habits, comforts and current way of life in order to secure a future for ourselves and those who are yet to come.
August 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Maxwell Woody, lead author of the University of Michigan study, made the opposite case. Postal vehicles, he said, have low average speeds and a high number f stops and starts that enable regenerative braking. Routes average under 30 miles and are known in advance, making planning easier. "It's the perfect application for an electric vehicle," he said, "and it's a particularly inefficient application for an internal combustion engine vehicle."
August 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM