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“…with liberty and justice for all.”
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George Takei
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I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
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ProPublica
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Missouri officials directed county election administrators to make voters temporarily unable to vote if they were flagged as potential noncitizens by a federal tool. But in hundreds of cases, the tool's determinations were wrong. With
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“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes.
The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.
https://www.propublica.org/article/save-voter-citizenship-tool-mistakes-confusion?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1771293610&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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THAT Amber
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A fun thing to do is look at Amazon’s price history tool. Prices remain steady on most things over the last 30 days. Toggle it to 90 and almost everything spiked 30%
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Anti-Fascist Translator Monkey
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John Abernathy
2 days ago
February 14 is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives (MMIR) Remembrance Day. Community members gathered in Minneapolis to honor these relatives and bring attention to the ongoing crisis of violence and unresolved cases affecting Indigenous communities. 2.15.2026 📍 Minneapolis
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Diedrich Bader
2 days ago
Yes, that’s why my family left Germany because they really wanted to go to Great Britain and sort of missed it by thaaat much
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Phil Lewis
2 days ago
A judge ruled that groups representing residents of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley can proceed with their landmark lawsuit seeking a pause on toxic industrial plants in two majority‑Black districts
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Black Residents Win Key Ruling in ‘Cancer Alley’ Environmental Racism Case
The lawsuit could force a jury to decide if turning Black communities into sacrifice zones is a legacy of slavery.
https://capitalbnews.org/cancer-alley-residents-pollution-lawsuit/
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Mueller, She Wrote
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Does he only hire English-Scots-Irish and/or descendants? He’s hired an awful lot of people to make him money, and I’m guessing he’s not really so picky.
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Hister333
2 days ago
Our Founding Fathers took special care to make sure that Presidential Elections weren't assclowns putting assclowns in power. Something went horribly wrong along the way.
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A Long Walk Home
3 days ago
The LA Olympic committee must dump him.
www.espn.com/olympics/sto...
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Wasserman to sell agency, stay with LA28 Games amid Epstein ties
Casey Wasserman, chairman of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee, is selling his talent agency in the wake of the release of emails tying him to the Jeffrey Epstein controversy.
https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/47928858/la-28-olympics-boss-wasserman-sell-agency-amid-epstein-links
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Roxane Gay
2 days ago
What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.
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Christopher Webb
2 days ago
This is wild. 41 DUI arrests by a Tennessee trooper. All dismissed. 22 drivers were completely sober. He “resigned”. No explanation. No accountability. No apology. His personnel file doesn’t even mention the cases. Police departments shouldn’t be in the business of shielding corrupt officers. 1/2
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Hey, Big Law: get in this fight and help. Stand the f up.
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This is a good read. “…domination, not cooperation,” nails the conservative world view in the US. And they know that their base for that is shrinking.
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This sounds like an amazing opportunity if your interests lie in public health and storytelling as education.
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Chad Loder
3 days ago
ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
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jamelle
3 days ago
interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”
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Kevin M. Kruse
3 days ago
The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it. Seems kinda bad?
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At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files
The degree to which each individual was connected to Epstein varies significantly, from a single email to years of communications.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/least-half-dozen-top-trump-administration-officials-appear-jeffrey-eps-rcna258749
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Raider
3 days ago
Identical plates at Homewood Suites in New Brighton
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁
3 days ago
Republicans are finding out if they pass the Save Act it will disproportionately reduce voters in Red States as they have the lowest ownership of Passports and ID’s 😏🤣 This is a circus 🎪 🤭
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Christopher Mathias
3 days ago
when MAGA white supremacists like Carl whinge abt passing of 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act they are complaining that it overturned 1924 Johnson-Reed Act, a law limiting immigration to people from Northern Europe, which was drafted by eugenicist Rep. Albert Johnson, with BIG support from the Klan
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Plus, we already know!
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Anna O. Law
3 days ago
Happy Birthday to Frederick Douglass who didn’t know his birthday because he was born into slavery so he chose February 14 as his birthday.
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sam stroozas
4 days ago
hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.
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Meet Minnesota Bathrobe Lady Sam Stroozas of MPR News | Minnesota Public Radio
Earlier this week, an unexpected and fast-moving incident unfolded in St. Paul, Minnesota involving both federal and local law enforcement. As crowds gathered and questions mounted, one of our MPR New...
https://www.mpr.org/stories/2026/02/13/meet-bathrobe-lady-sam-stroozas-mpr-news
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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗
4 days ago
It's when he shouted "DEUCES" at them as he ran past them. 😂
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Parker Molloy
4 days ago
*rubs temples* As I've spent the better part of the day explaining why I don't think Newsom should be the Democratic nominee for president, it pains me to "defend" this, but... The governor of California is legally obligated to proclaim each Feb 6 Reagan Day per a 2010 state law.
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WOFAVA
4 days ago
🚨 GROUNDBREAKING NEWS! 🚨 The Virginia Supreme Court has decided our Redistricting Vote can move forward. Please mark your calendars ➡️ Early Voting will begin on Friday, March 6, and Election Day will be Tuesday, April 21. VOTE YES!
#virginia
#VoteYES
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Mike Hixenbaugh
4 days ago
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
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Tim Onion
4 days ago
This has been the coolest part of the last few months, all of these people stopping Kat on the street to just shoot the shit about what’s working and what’s not because they know her from Instagram or the TV. It happens… a lot. They’re usually people who say they don’t vote but now they will.
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4 days ago
Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.
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Kayla B
5 days ago
I would much rather have a dozen noncitizens vote than millions of citizens not be able to.
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Rachel Maddow
5 days ago
"In Hutchins Texas, ICE reportedly bought a former Amazon property for $80 million. The broker’s contact on the listing was Majestic Realty, a Los Angeles–based firm owned by Ed Roski Jr, a Trump campaign contributor who is a partial owner of the L.A. Lakers..."
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Real Estate Brokers Are Profiting From Warehouse Sales to ICE
Lucrative deals selling empty warehouses to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the Trump administration’s mass deportation machine are being quietly facilitated by a handful of powerful real esta...
https://jacobin.com/2026/02/warehouse-sales-ice-brokers-detention
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Klaire Lockheart
6 days ago
I would like to argue that my artwork depicting the end of Aeschylus’s life is just as historically accurate as the average “Death of Cleopatra” painting. Klaire Lockheart, Death of Aeschylus. 2025. Oil on Canvas. 60x54”.
#brodalisque
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Marc Elias
5 days ago
🚨BREAKING: Todd Lyons, the acting chief of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has admitted to senators that federal immigration officers would have “no reason” to be at voting locations this November.
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ICE chief admits there’s no reason for immigration agents to be at voting sites
The chief's comments follow threatening statements by Trump and his close allies about the upcoming 2026 midterm elections.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/ice-chief-federal-immmigration-agents-polling-places-2026-midterms/
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Marc Elias
5 days ago
🚨BREAKING: An election-denying former Donald Trump campaign staffer who was subpoenaed by the FBI over his role in the attempt to steal the 2020 election is now taking credit for writing the sweeping voter suppression bill passed by the House Wednesday that could disenfranchise millions.
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Election denier involved in fake electors plot wrote much of SAVE America Act, Trump-aligned think tank claims
“I’m here to do everything I can to make this work,” Thomas Lane wrote in a December 2020 email to other organizers of the Trump campaign’s fake electoral plot in Arizona.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/election-denier-involved-in-fake-electors-plot-wrote-much-of-save-america-act-trump-aligned-think-tank-claims/
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Gillian Brockell
6 days ago
BREAKING: An ICE flight just refueled in Ireland again. A local activist pressed police to investigate for human trafficking; the plane took off 30 minutes ago. Plus, that MAGA billionaire's jet did another ICE flight, this time to Sierra Leone.
#speirghorm
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ICE flight refuels in Ireland again; Irish activist pressed police to investigate
MAGA billionaire’s jet also did another ICE flight, to Sierra Leone.
https://gillianbrockell.ghost.io/ice-flight-refuels-in-ireland-again-irish-activist-pressed-police-to-investigate/
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Jon Cooper
5 days ago
Cartoon by
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jamelle
6 days ago
oh so just dumb luck these idiots didn’t shoot down a passenger aircraft
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This is important! Even local school board races serve as stepping stones, so pay attention and vote every time you get the chance.
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Just Jack
5 days ago
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Elliott Payne
5 days ago
Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here. Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.
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Kayla B
6 days ago
I need to spend $700 for new tires on Friday. My 401(k) doing well does not help me with the bills that need to be paid now.
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Global Abortion Rights News
6 days ago
A new study has shown that miscarriage or induced abortion is NOT a potential risk factor for breast cancer, contrary to continued anti-choice propaganda. Even several abortions or miscarriages does not increase risk. The study used high-quality Finnish registry data.
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Prior abortion or miscarriage not linked to increased risk of pre- or postmenopausal breast cancer
A prior abortion or miscarriage was not linked with an increased risk of developing pre- or postmenopausal breast cancer in a study published in Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20260211/Prior-abortion-or-miscarriage-not-linked-to-increased-risk-of-pre-or-postmenopausal-breast-cancer.aspx
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Just Jack
6 days ago
Nothing describes the soul of the Republican Party more than Pam Bondi citing the stock markets as her excuse for not going after pedophile billionaires.
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Pam Bondi will never rise above being DT’s personal defense lawyer.
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Marisa Kabas
6 days ago
it's good to see bondi losing her shit. that's how you should behave when you know most of the country hates you for being an evil asshole.
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She refuses to answer any questions, but what a tap dancer for trump. Disgusting, snarky, insulting smiles among her screaming.
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She’s lost her mind. Screamin’ Bondi.
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