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Julie P
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Spouse, mom, Nana, #Decentarian. Clean the air! Union Proud! We are the ones who are coming to save us. "There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo.. and it's worth fighting for". - Samwise Gamgee
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Established facts are unfair to the Trump regime.
WELKER: Coffee prices are up 19%, beef is up almost 15%, and bacon up almost 6% just to name a few. So when are all grocery prices going to come down as President Trump promised?

BESSENT: Kristen, it's unfortunate. As much as I like you, you like to cherrypick.
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This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
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Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.
Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide?
"It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
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This is true—Bessent owns $25 million of farmland in North Dakota—and a reminder of why farm bailouts are nothing more than a giveaway to feudal lords who demand the government grossly distort agricultural economics to make their tax haven "farms" even more valuable to them.
Bessent on American farmers being hurt by tariffs: "Martha, in case you don't know it, I'm actually a soybean farmer, so I have felt this pain too."
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I’m seeing this being reposted so I assumed it was an official government account. It’s not. Musk destroyed the verification system, but it’s so hard to forget that a checkmark used to mean an official account.
deleted what I thought was a post from an official account which was in fact not. Here it is, for the record.
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This is the thing that the President and Vice-President routinely joke about
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GOOD NEWS! A new cancer vaccine has shown progress in triggering POWERFUL and LASTING immune responses in patients with pancreatic AND colorectal cancer. The vaccine, known as ELI-002 2P, targets mutant KRAS proteins AND had a huge impact on PREVENTING or DELAYING cancer recurrence in patients.
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Twin Cities! Our local ICE reporting hotline (24/7 and bilingual) is Monarca - operators can activate a text based rapid response network.

They also offer Upstander trainings.
Monarca
monarcamn.org
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South Minneapolis! Come get a whistle and get some practice in!
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uh, that’s not “reimagining” the novel. that’s…the novel.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 1d
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains. n.pr/3L5exuu
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
n.pr
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In a nearly illiterate editorial, WaPo defends Trump's ballroom project, without revealing the fact that the paper's owner, Jeff Bezos, is a principal funder of the project. Shameful conduct all around. bsky.app/profile/bgru...
Here’s a free link to a house editorial that illustrates the collapse of the new Washpost Opinion page.

It’s important to read it, because it is so poorly written and reasoned, and it shows how quickly an editorial institution can fall completely apart under spineless leadership.

wapo.st/3J2IdIh
Opinion | In defense of the White House ballroom
Donald Trump vs. the NIMBYs
wapo.st
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I personally think it's GREAT that VIPs have to use porta-potties.

HUMBLE THE VIPS IN EVERY WAY.

MAKE THEM TAKE THE BUS. HAVE A CASH BAR. ACTUALLY TAX THEM.
I mean, who specifically is saying this? How many State Dinners even happen in a year? A couple? (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of.... Maybe you can add on some other events, how many are we talking? We tore down a third of the White House to build a hotel ballroom for a handful of events per year?
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I've been thinking about Matt Furie a lot during this period of political frog realignment, so I made this comic dedicated to him.
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If you donated to Platner via ActBlue, you can get a refund!

Contact them NOW and ask for your money back!
I donated to his campaign. I was pissed off when it was revealed he worked as a merc, and debating what to do when the tattoo & queerphobic posts came out.

I contacted ActBlue, asked for it to be returned, got an acknowledgement of the return a few hours later; 2 days later it was in my account.
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Genuinely hope hundreds of people are asking for refunds.
If you donated to Platner via ActBlue, you can get a refund!

Contact them NOW and ask for your money back!
I donated to his campaign. I was pissed off when it was revealed he worked as a merc, and debating what to do when the tattoo & queerphobic posts came out.

I contacted ActBlue, asked for it to be returned, got an acknowledgement of the return a few hours later; 2 days later it was in my account.
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ah yes, how inelegant (2022 Macron) and Jill Biden had just done a massive and expensive overhaul of the inadequate restroom facilities two years ago to address that issue (Republicans made a big deal about how expensive and unnecessary it was!)
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ACLU reporting that “several of the 6 women detained at South Louisiana ICE Center in Basile, LA, & Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, GA were pregnant & have miscarried while in custody.”

0 outrage from MAGAs about these fetuses. They were never about life. They are only about control of women.
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This is a super interesting video about the ICE raid that happened in Lakeview yesterday.

The point of the home “being one of the most constitutionally protected zones that we have” & ICE blatantly trying to abduct people on private property. The owner also says the workers have permission to work
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It’s still hard to grasp that there aren’t 4 GOP Reps (who will otherwise be forgotten forever after retiring & likely defeated next year anyway) aren’t interested in going down in history as all-time 🇺🇸 heroes by caucusing with the Dems & giving them the majority to impeach Trump & save the Republic
Democrats should hold a press conference and announce that if Mike Johnson has no interest in running the House they'd be happy to do it for him
Mike Johnson has dissolved Congress. Why?
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A friend of mine in Chicago just shared a video on IG of an ICE operation near her house. The operation happened just minutes before the neighborhood Halloween parade. ICE used tear gas and multiple parents had to wash their kids' (including toddlers) eyes out.
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The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?
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Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper?

Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.
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