Laura Wilson
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PhD candidate at AHOS (historical theology, women in Byzantium), finish line June, 2026.
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Will Stancil
4 days ago
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
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Adam Keiper
5 days ago
Lest you believe that DHS has eased up on Minnesota today.
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Representative Seth Magaziner
6 days ago
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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Aaron Rupar
6 days ago
Chris Madel: "The president posted something on Truth Social saying it was a time of reckoning and retribution on the citizens of my state, and I've seen that happen and I cannot be a part of it, and I can't be a part of a party that's a part of that"
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Dan Hinkel
8 days ago
Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
8 days ago
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn
8 days ago
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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Tim Onion
8 days ago
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
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Pete Buttigieg
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Jonathan Ladd
11 days ago
It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy. Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.
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Philip Bump
24 days ago
By default, you should assume that McLaughlin in particular is not being honest.
www.ms.now/opinion/kris...
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Seth Cotlar
24 days ago
Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.
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Aaron Rupar
2 months ago
MacCALLUM: You're implying that Trump might do something they wouldn't want to uphold. What are you talking about? CROW: The protests at Lafayette Square where he said, 'Can't you just shoot them in the legs' MacCALLUM: That's not an order. That's a comment CROW: That's coming from the president
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Erin Maye Quade
2 months ago
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD
2 months ago
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:
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Preeti Chhibber
3 months ago
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
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Jessica Tarlov
3 months ago
From Virginia to New Jersey to Georgia, Democrats dominated across the country last night. Republicans keep pretending everything’s fine and that they can just call us socialists. The real story voters rejecting extremism, demanding action on cost of living, and flipping seats everywhere.
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Tax the rich.
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Wait. Does he think American freedom is just capitalism?
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Phil Dorroll
3 months ago
...we have to ask ourselves about those we encounter is, therefore, *not* "who are they/where did they come from" but "what do I owe them as human beings? How does God want me to help them, be decent to them?" I could not be more certain that when the time comes, God will not ask me...
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America's Voice
3 months ago
“How did you receive the foreigner? And did you receive him and welcome him or not?” Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
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John Pfaff
3 months ago
Every race. It’s basically been every race. Governors. Mayors. Long-held GOP dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three GOP Uber drivers. Just everything.
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Since the Tesla blew up, this whole year has been one metaphor after another.
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3 months ago
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"Questions as to symbolism and the relative meanings thereof are the purview of the Department of Metaphor. I refer you to the Undersecretary for Whimsy and Caprice for further comment."
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I read this literally looking for "touch mass." 🤣 Not wrong though!
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Tim Amor
3 months ago
Happy Halloween! 🎃 🦄 Everyone thinks I’m a unicorn, but really I’m a KJV literalist with Isaiah 34:7 as my life verse.
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3 months ago
This is on the KFF website this afternoon:
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Senator Patty Murray
3 months ago
Preventing health care costs from exploding? Reopening the government? Lowering the cost of groceries? Nope. Building himself a new $300 million ballroom.
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Alt National Park Service
4 months ago
This conspiracy theory isn’t just false, it’s a calculated attempt to erode trust in democracy itself, and to shift blame for one of the darkest days in modern American history onto those who tried to defend it.
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Alt National Park Service
4 months ago
The moment he convinces people that they can’t trust anyone but him, is the moment his power goes completely unchallenged.
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Kevin M. Kruse
4 months ago
The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood. I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now
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Governor JB Pritzker
4 months ago
I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
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Memnon of Rhodes
4 months ago
“All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory” - George Orwell, 1984
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Michael P. Breen
4 months ago
Irony just took its shoes off and slowly started walking into the ocean until it was never seen or heard from again…
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Will Stancil
4 months ago
The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it. Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.
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Josiah Hawthorne
4 months ago
Arise, Lord! Lift up your hand, O God. Do not forget the helpless. Why does the wicked man revile God? Why does he say to himself, “He won’t call me to account”? But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted; you consider their grief and take it in hand.
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Aaron Rupar
4 months ago
Tim Walz: "We're in a massive misinformation campaign. The president himself tweeting out AI videos of fake news reports on healthcare. This is really dangerous. I cannot express to you the concern and absolutely bafflement and fear of our European allies asking me, 'Is this stuff really going on?'"
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Ryan Marino, MD
4 months ago
ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants
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Governor JB Pritzker
4 months ago
In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
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G. Willow Wilson
4 months ago
Why are people saying "this is not normal" over and over again, instead of "this is illegal" or "this is unconstitutional" or "this is treason?" Not normal sounds subjective, wishy-washy and neurotic. It communicates nothing of substance.
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Andrew Weinstein
4 months ago
Donald Trump cut funding for pediatric cancer research.
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Tim Onion
4 months ago
Okay so let's talk through this: 1. He's 80 years old. He doesn't know how to embed a video. So this was likely a staffer. 2. Why would a staffer post this? It's likely just chum for his base, since traditional media has given up on even covering him. 3. That's arguably worse than him posting it.
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Tim Onion
4 months ago
So the alarming part about this isn't publicizing medbeds, which I doubt Trump personally even knows about. The bad part is he doesn't want — or even need — to adhere to reality anymore. He needs his base ready to go to war for him, maybe literally. He is in the endtimes prophecy business now.
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Rafi
4 months ago
I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation
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digby
4 months ago
Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
4 months ago
Can we get some focus on the perfidy of Speaker Mike Johnson? So much of Trump’s excesses are made possible because Johnson has disabled the House as a check on the President. He has handed Trump his gavel symbolically and in reality. We need to focus on Trump’s enablers.
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Aaron Rupar
4 months ago
Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.
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FactPost
4 months ago
Rep. Himes: Republicans have abandoned every single one of their policy beliefs in the service of Donald Trump. And now they have abandoned the oath that they take to the Constitution. They're no longer serving the Constitution, they are serving Donald J. Trump.
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Acyn
4 months ago
Van Hollen: I will just say that anybody who thinks we're on the way to authoritarianism is wrong. We are there
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Can we all agree we're overusing "full stop" and "let me be clear"?
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