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There is a culture of immediate gratification that isn't satisfied by rigorous fact-gathering and editing. The internet runs fast and shallow.
December 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
There is a culture of immediate gratification that isn't satisfied by rigorous fact-gathering and editing. The internet runs fast and shallow.
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Everyone knows the biggest healthcare fraudsters in Minnesota aren’t Somali, they’re at UnitedHealth Group. I want to hear DFLers point the finger, accurately, at this entire convoluted dumb HMO system of vouchers & grants (the DFL itself helped create) that somehow makes millionaires in Minnetonka.
December 30, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Everyone knows the biggest healthcare fraudsters in Minnesota aren’t Somali, they’re at UnitedHealth Group. I want to hear DFLers point the finger, accurately, at this entire convoluted dumb HMO system of vouchers & grants (the DFL itself helped create) that somehow makes millionaires in Minnetonka.
Wow, I really liked Inside Llewyn Davis.
December 28, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Wow, I really liked Inside Llewyn Davis.
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December 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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The second LaserDisc Rip today is rarer than the first, and also is by Japanese City Pop artist Tats Yamashita.
Early 90s. New York City. Real people. A single day documented from morning to midnight. Christmas comes early this year:
Christmas in New York.
archive.org/details/chri...
Early 90s. New York City. Real people. A single day documented from morning to midnight. Christmas comes early this year:
Christmas in New York.
archive.org/details/chri...
October 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The second LaserDisc Rip today is rarer than the first, and also is by Japanese City Pop artist Tats Yamashita.
Early 90s. New York City. Real people. A single day documented from morning to midnight. Christmas comes early this year:
Christmas in New York.
archive.org/details/chri...
Early 90s. New York City. Real people. A single day documented from morning to midnight. Christmas comes early this year:
Christmas in New York.
archive.org/details/chri...
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Anyone who sends people to concentration camps to be tortured should be tried and, if found guilty, hanged like the Nazis they are.
December 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Anyone who sends people to concentration camps to be tortured should be tried and, if found guilty, hanged like the Nazis they are.
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"look we're not using AI in the final product we're just using it to speed up the conceptual stage" is what a lot of dopes affecting an enlightened middle position keep saying. I truly do not get that one. You hate imagining stuff? You don't like thinking and conceptualizing? Get a grip
December 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"look we're not using AI in the final product we're just using it to speed up the conceptual stage" is what a lot of dopes affecting an enlightened middle position keep saying. I truly do not get that one. You hate imagining stuff? You don't like thinking and conceptualizing? Get a grip
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“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
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Respectfully, Congresswoman, you voted with Republicans to strip due process from immigrants and to praise Trump's ICE. This year.
Now you're upset?
Votes have consequences. Minnesotans deserve better.
Now you're upset?
Votes have consequences. Minnesotans deserve better.
ICE agents followed a Burnsville family home from the store, failed to present a warrant and entered their home with guns drawn. They detained 4 legal citizens who presented documentation, leaving a 7 year-old without parents.
A seven-year-old. Let that sink in. Trump’s ICE is out of control.
A seven-year-old. Let that sink in. Trump’s ICE is out of control.
ICE agents detained four people from a Burnsville home, according to family members, including a 7-year-old's parents and the husband of a pregnant woman.
December 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Respectfully, Congresswoman, you voted with Republicans to strip due process from immigrants and to praise Trump's ICE. This year.
Now you're upset?
Votes have consequences. Minnesotans deserve better.
Now you're upset?
Votes have consequences. Minnesotans deserve better.
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"Traditional health insurance" pre-ACA didn't cover pre-ex, had annual/lifetime caps, didn't cover important things like having a baby, led to many declaring bankruptcy when they got sick. Even then, ~50M had no insurance at all because they still couldn't afford it. They clogged ERs to get care.
November 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"Traditional health insurance" pre-ACA didn't cover pre-ex, had annual/lifetime caps, didn't cover important things like having a baby, led to many declaring bankruptcy when they got sick. Even then, ~50M had no insurance at all because they still couldn't afford it. They clogged ERs to get care.
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
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In case you live under a rock or something www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_62...
Ewoks on the Today Show, one humps Al roker's leg
YouTube video by Tom Watson
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November 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
In case you live under a rock or something www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_62...
I get Lego, but what you really want is a jigsaw puzzle.
November 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I get Lego, but what you really want is a jigsaw puzzle.
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Givin’g ‘em the ol’ razzle dazzle.
November 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Givin’g ‘em the ol’ razzle dazzle.
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Shocking: they’re leaning in to the evocation of nerd imagery to further rally their base of reactionary antisocial gamers
October 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Shocking: they’re leaning in to the evocation of nerd imagery to further rally their base of reactionary antisocial gamers
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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.