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‘importing a foreign labor class’ is the slimiest euphemism for the transatlantic slave trade i ever heard in my life
Translated "it's fine if they're slaves or indentured servants"
January 31, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy
This is from Georgia Fort’s video.

DEA?!? Gotta be a “task force.”
January 30, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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you mean to tell me that Lil’ Göring here might be a bit of an antisemite??
New:Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol field leader, made disparaging remarks in reference to the U.S. attorney in Minnesota, an Orthodox Jew, people with knowledge of the phone call said.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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ICE actively preying on more small children to abduct and send to concentration camps.

Every single person responsible for this should be sentenced to spend the rest of their lives in one of their own camps, with the same crowding, rancid food, etc. You built it, enjoy it forever.
NEW: School hallways are silent. Grandparents patrol outside in shifts. Two more kids taken from Liam Ramos' school.

Trump isn't deescalating ICE at all at MN schools.

“I stopped wearing my high heels to work. I wear my boots to work because I have had to run." www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...
ICE Is Circling Minnesota Schools, Looking For Children to Take
Liam Ramos, 5, isn’t the only child in detention. Teachers and parents describe kids being hunted by federal agents.
www.huffpost.com
January 31, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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It's been fun seeing The Consultants lose their mind about how they don't get this ad, which is the coolest shit she's done yet.

(Also, yes, that's Matt Mercer, who I've come to learn since this ad dropped is more famous than Michael Jordan.)
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January 31, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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Mockler: Do you agree with Kristi Noem’s characterization that she made, like an hour after Alex Pretti was murdered?

Seat: Can you just wait until the investigation is done?

Mockler: That's such a good point. Can you say that to Kristi Noem?
January 31, 2026 at 3:46 AM
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Don Lemon speaks outside of the courtroom after release: "I have spent my entire life covering the news. I will not stop now ... I will not be silenced."
January 30, 2026 at 11:46 PM
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Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible
January 30, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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CNN in Minneapolis: We are seeing thousands and thousands of people, we've been standing on the corner here for the past ten minutes. This this crowd has not let up. It's just continuous.
January 30, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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xbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government
January 30, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time
January 30, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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Took a look at the new Epstein release and first thing I opened was a routine news roundup buried in redactions. What a joke
January 30, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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just choked on my beverage
January 29, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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Gaming stocks are dropping today after Google's rollout of Project Genie, an AI tool that lets users create and explore virtual worlds for 60 seconds. This is the result of a market that does not understand how video games are made. Allow me to suggest that the Street read Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
January 30, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it
The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.
January 30, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
January 30, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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This is terrible. It is also an opportunity for certain journalists to finally speak up with a *fraction* of the courage the people of Minneapolis have shown. It is also instructive that Lemon is Black. Woe/pox etc upon white journalists who don’t freak out about this.
Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.
January 30, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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I went to bed to Trump suing the IRS for $10b for no reason and woke up to Trump arresting journalists for covering protests against him, all against the backdrop of multiple dead civilians and flagrantly unconstitutional acts and Congress still can't be bothered to act in any capacity.
January 30, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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The charges against Don Lemon are ridiculous. He’s a target because he’s black, because he’s media, and because he’s a Trump critic, and because Trump and his minions cannot accept any dissent. It’s deeply pathetic, unamerican, and lawless.
January 30, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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On This Day... 1776 is just such a bizarre project. Even its name is awkward and unwieldy. It's also A Choice to do a nationalist miniseries when AI as a tech is so deeply entwined with fascism. It also just looks and sounds like dogshit.

I really don't know how it got past conceptualization.
January 29, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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January 29, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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An ICE officer murdered Renée Good. Two other federal agents shot Alex Pretti 10 times. Qualified immunity shields these officers from accountability.

The Good and Pretti families deserve justice. Congress must abolish this flawed doctrine and pass my bill with @pressley.house.gov.
January 29, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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we want to make sure every child, rich and poor alike, can access high quality tutoring ❤️ that’s why we’ve devised a tool that teaches them how to kill themselves ❤️❤️
We want to make sure tutoring isn't the preserve of a lucky few, but accessible to every child who needs it.

AI can help us do that.

Safe, personalised, one-to-one learning support to help every child achieve and thrive.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
Poorest pupils to be given AI tutors
Bridget Phillipson says tuition would no longer be the preserve of ‘the lucky few’
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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Something I have seen a few times that instantly lets me know a person does not understand the game community: They see a speedrun of their game with many glitches and immediately say they have to fix their game.

No! There's a big difference between a Reddit post of a broken game, and a speedrun.
January 29, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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In theater. So they think they’re at war.
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?

HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 29, 2026 at 2:06 PM