Carol
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I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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The Pikes Peak Bulletin received more than a half-dozen letters to the editor in favor of the original Ray Nixon Power Plant closure date.
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Letters to the Editor: Close Nixon coal plant on schedule -
The Pikes Peak Bulletin received more than a half-dozen letters to the editor in favor of the original Ray Nixon Power Plant closure date.
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February 10, 2026 at 7:09 PM
The Pikes Peak Bulletin received more than a half-dozen letters to the editor in favor of the original Ray Nixon Power Plant closure date.
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This isn't about "training issues." The murderer who executed Renee Good has been with ICE for 10 years, and according to DHS, the murderer who executed Alex Pretti has been there for 8 years.
These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.
These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.
January 26, 2026 at 11:04 PM
This isn't about "training issues." The murderer who executed Renee Good has been with ICE for 10 years, and according to DHS, the murderer who executed Alex Pretti has been there for 8 years.
These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.
These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week
January 24, 2026 at 4:14 PM
If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week
Boycott US. We've lost the plot and must be shunned until rational humans are elected.
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it’s time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
bit.ly
January 24, 2026 at 4:23 AM
Boycott US. We've lost the plot and must be shunned until rational humans are elected.
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Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
January 23, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
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Seriously, @people.com has been meeting the moment better than 90% of publications with direct reporting and crystal clear headlines.
This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
What America will read this weekend while in line at the grocery checkout:
@peoplemag.bsky.social #ICE
people.com/ice-detains-...
@peoplemag.bsky.social #ICE
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January 22, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Seriously, @people.com has been meeting the moment better than 90% of publications with direct reporting and crystal clear headlines.
This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
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How scared are Republican of talking about the Epstein files?
So scared they’d rather talk to Jack Smith, who secured multiple felony indictments against Donald Trump, than about Trump’s associations with Epstein & why the DOJ refuses to release 99% of the Epstein files.
So scared they’d rather talk to Jack Smith, who secured multiple felony indictments against Donald Trump, than about Trump’s associations with Epstein & why the DOJ refuses to release 99% of the Epstein files.
January 22, 2026 at 7:39 PM
How scared are Republican of talking about the Epstein files?
So scared they’d rather talk to Jack Smith, who secured multiple felony indictments against Donald Trump, than about Trump’s associations with Epstein & why the DOJ refuses to release 99% of the Epstein files.
So scared they’d rather talk to Jack Smith, who secured multiple felony indictments against Donald Trump, than about Trump’s associations with Epstein & why the DOJ refuses to release 99% of the Epstein files.
"ICE is a terror agency operating under the fig leaf of immigration."
terrific conversation with @whstancil.bsky.social about what's going on in his home minneapolis right now. at the end he puts it very bluntly: ICE is not an immigration agency that just needs some technocratic reforms. ICE is a terror agency operating under the fig leaf of immigration.
Neon Liberalism #60: Samantha and guest Will Stancil talk the murder of Renée Good and the Trump administration's larger assault on Minneapolis. Will is working with his neighborhood rapid reaction group in Minneapolis, and he recounts witnessing ICE abductions and confronting ICE agents.
January 16, 2026 at 2:19 PM
"ICE is a terror agency operating under the fig leaf of immigration."
Missouri is sending idiots to the senate, making the state a mark for the Trump conman.
Too bad you are stuck with him until 2031.
Good luck.
Too bad you are stuck with him until 2031.
Good luck.
CAIN: Trump came at you hard the other day, saying you "should never be elected to office again." You changed your vote on war powers after that. Why?
JOSH HAWLEY: I talked to the president and secretary of state and he said we're not gonna occupy Venezuela, and that's good enough for me
JOSH HAWLEY: I talked to the president and secretary of state and he said we're not gonna occupy Venezuela, and that's good enough for me
January 15, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Missouri is sending idiots to the senate, making the state a mark for the Trump conman.
Too bad you are stuck with him until 2031.
Good luck.
Too bad you are stuck with him until 2031.
Good luck.
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Instead of ending the constitution and murdering people, we could have high speed trains and universal health care.
January 14, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Instead of ending the constitution and murdering people, we could have high speed trains and universal health care.
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He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures …
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us …
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States.
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us …
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States.
The thing that really makes Minneapolis different, other than the fact that they straight up murdered someone, is that they've dropped all pretense that this is just about immigration. The state has declared war on its own people, or at least those people who live in cities.
January 14, 2026 at 3:32 PM
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures …
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us …
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States.
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us …
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States.
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Frost: People should know that them cutting your healthcare, them cutting nutritional assistance, SNAP benefits, all this stuff—they're cutting that from working people so they can give ICE money to go terrorize our communities.
January 13, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Frost: People should know that them cutting your healthcare, them cutting nutritional assistance, SNAP benefits, all this stuff—they're cutting that from working people so they can give ICE money to go terrorize our communities.
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"We're in late stage Donald Trump. He's losing it."
@djrothkopf.bsky.social on @thedailybeast.bsky.social
Cartoon: @billbramhall.bsky.social
@djrothkopf.bsky.social on @thedailybeast.bsky.social
Cartoon: @billbramhall.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 11:09 AM
"We're in late stage Donald Trump. He's losing it."
@djrothkopf.bsky.social on @thedailybeast.bsky.social
Cartoon: @billbramhall.bsky.social
@djrothkopf.bsky.social on @thedailybeast.bsky.social
Cartoon: @billbramhall.bsky.social
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The right wing got tired of trying to convince us that the federal government was a violent monster stealing our freedom, so they decided to take it over and prove their case.
January 13, 2026 at 1:41 PM
The right wing got tired of trying to convince us that the federal government was a violent monster stealing our freedom, so they decided to take it over and prove their case.
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Just using tax dollars to make the product of a campaign donor profitable, normal non corrupt stuff. bsky.app/profile/defe...
Hegseth announced that Grok will soon go live in DOD and that “all appropriate data” from military IT systems would be available for "AI exploitation."
Pentagon is embracing Musk’s Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry
Hegseth announced that Grok will soon go live in DOD and that “all appropriate data” from military IT systems would be available for "AI exploitation."
www.defensenews.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Just using tax dollars to make the product of a campaign donor profitable, normal non corrupt stuff. bsky.app/profile/defe...
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Amazing how Black women and women in general figure this shit out and understand the stakes of every election and boys don't.
Immense skill issue to not have found this immediately obvious in 2016
January 12, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Amazing how Black women and women in general figure this shit out and understand the stakes of every election and boys don't.
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In my world, there's a certain reluctance to being merely, or in a knee-jerk way, a resist lib. That's understandable, even commendable. On the other hand, let's be clear: It's a hell of lot better, morally and intellectually and politically, to be a resist lib than a Vichy conservative.
January 11, 2026 at 2:59 PM
In my world, there's a certain reluctance to being merely, or in a knee-jerk way, a resist lib. That's understandable, even commendable. On the other hand, let's be clear: It's a hell of lot better, morally and intellectually and politically, to be a resist lib than a Vichy conservative.
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Kneel or die.
Homan: "There will be more bloodshed unless we decrease the hateful rhetoric"
January 11, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Kneel or die.
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Trump is doing to politics what biz schools taught future CEOs to do: break the social contract (e.g., the one btw mgmt & labor that once ensured steady jobs) & extract all the value stored inside.
This will have the same effect on politics as it did on the labor mkt: instability & immiseration.
This will have the same effect on politics as it did on the labor mkt: instability & immiseration.
If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.
January 11, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Trump is doing to politics what biz schools taught future CEOs to do: break the social contract (e.g., the one btw mgmt & labor that once ensured steady jobs) & extract all the value stored inside.
This will have the same effect on politics as it did on the labor mkt: instability & immiseration.
This will have the same effect on politics as it did on the labor mkt: instability & immiseration.
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The transformation of ICE into a type of national police force, backed, in some cases, by soldiers from the National Guard, has been covered as immigration story—but these forces are reshaping democracy for all of us.
Listen to 'Autocracy in America' here:
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
Listen to 'Autocracy in America' here:
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
Federal Agents Are Violating the Rights of Americans
ICE and the National Guard are acting with impunity.
www.theatlantic.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:10 AM
The transformation of ICE into a type of national police force, backed, in some cases, by soldiers from the National Guard, has been covered as immigration story—but these forces are reshaping democracy for all of us.
Listen to 'Autocracy in America' here:
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
Listen to 'Autocracy in America' here:
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
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at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us
January 9, 2026 at 11:22 PM
at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us
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Critics want subtlety. Traumatized kids need clarity. Stranger Things doesn't win because it's subtle. It wins because it's not afraid to say the truth out loud to the people who need to hear it most. www.kameronhurley.com/we-are-the-s...
We Are the Stranger Things - Kameron Hurley
CONTENT CAUTION: Contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 5 and discusses childhood emotional and physical abuse. When I was a child, I lived with a monster. He slept in the big room at t...
www.kameronhurley.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Critics want subtlety. Traumatized kids need clarity. Stranger Things doesn't win because it's subtle. It wins because it's not afraid to say the truth out loud to the people who need to hear it most. www.kameronhurley.com/we-are-the-s...
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The surprise invasion of Venezuela isn't imperial expansion driven by the dictates of capitalism; it is somehow even sicker. The Trump administration is behaving like gambling addicts chasing clout in an attention economy. Venezuela is a fucking meme stock. www.theverge.com/policy/85807...
Snatching Maduro was all about the spectacle
Kidnapping a world leader for online clout
www.theverge.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:40 PM
The surprise invasion of Venezuela isn't imperial expansion driven by the dictates of capitalism; it is somehow even sicker. The Trump administration is behaving like gambling addicts chasing clout in an attention economy. Venezuela is a fucking meme stock. www.theverge.com/policy/85807...
As a westerner who lived in Prescott, I must recommend other stories. Father and son.
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#HATM
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#HATM
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January 5, 2026 at 1:58 AM
As a westerner who lived in Prescott, I must recommend other stories. Father and son.
search.worldcat.org/en/title/599...
search.worldcat.org/en/title/408...
#HATM
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#HATM
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The Republican Congress has chosen to give away its authority and power and now we are being told Trump plans to occupy Venezuela. We don't cry for Maduro. We demand the following of our laws and Constitution. He is already threatening Mexico and Cuba will be next. Ann Wagner is silent.
January 3, 2026 at 9:37 PM
The Republican Congress has chosen to give away its authority and power and now we are being told Trump plans to occupy Venezuela. We don't cry for Maduro. We demand the following of our laws and Constitution. He is already threatening Mexico and Cuba will be next. Ann Wagner is silent.