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Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
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JK Rowling has not tweeted since openly denying that her team invited the world's most notorious child rapist to a kid's play despite evidence directly disproving her claims
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Rhys Kimmitt "the tickets are on their way to Peggy's office. Please deal with Lila to arrange pickup"
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February 3, 2026 at 10:34 PM
JK Rowling has not tweeted since openly denying that her team invited the world's most notorious child rapist to a kid's play despite evidence directly disproving her claims
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Liam was taken from Columbia Heights, the town just south of my high school in Fridley and just north of the Arts district in NE Minneapolis. I spent a lot of time with friends there after extracurriculars. News of his abduction completely broke my heart. I’m glad he’s home. #Comics4Liam
February 1, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Liam was taken from Columbia Heights, the town just south of my high school in Fridley and just north of the Arts district in NE Minneapolis. I spent a lot of time with friends there after extracurriculars. News of his abduction completely broke my heart. I’m glad he’s home. #Comics4Liam
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Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN.
"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."
"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."
January 28, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN.
"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."
"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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For me, nothing captures the gritty 1970s NYC spirit of early Sesame Street better than the song "The Subway," which gets stuck in my head regularly. If you haven't heard it, it's a must.
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September 25, 2023 at 9:09 PM
For me, nothing captures the gritty 1970s NYC spirit of early Sesame Street better than the song "The Subway," which gets stuck in my head regularly. If you haven't heard it, it's a must.
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Oh and along the same lines, Wicked also correctly identifies that you can’t beat a lie with a truth, you can only beat it with a better lie. The truth is intolerable to most people. You can’t have a Wicked Witch tell you the truth (the truth is what makes her Wicked!).
January 26, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Oh and along the same lines, Wicked also correctly identifies that you can’t beat a lie with a truth, you can only beat it with a better lie. The truth is intolerable to most people. You can’t have a Wicked Witch tell you the truth (the truth is what makes her Wicked!).
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I do still kinda think the Wizard from Wicked, despite being crafted in the Bush era, is the most effective and accurate satire of Donald Trump yet conceived.
January 26, 2026 at 8:23 PM
I do still kinda think the Wizard from Wicked, despite being crafted in the Bush era, is the most effective and accurate satire of Donald Trump yet conceived.
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signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association
January 25, 2026 at 11:49 PM
signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association
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I keep thinking about this quote from Amos Lawrence about the 1854 Boston Slave Riot - “We went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
January 25, 2026 at 5:26 PM
I keep thinking about this quote from Amos Lawrence about the 1854 Boston Slave Riot - “We went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
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the boys are DISPLEASED but very brave nonetheless
January 25, 2026 at 5:28 PM
the boys are DISPLEASED but very brave nonetheless
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Bachelor stallion buddies in Salt Wells Creek; it seems to me that almost every wild horse community has that one stallion who is covered in scrapes and scars. He looked a little bit stiff and sore but was cheerfully tagging along with three younger bachelors. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
January 25, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Bachelor stallion buddies in Salt Wells Creek; it seems to me that almost every wild horse community has that one stallion who is covered in scrapes and scars. He looked a little bit stiff and sore but was cheerfully tagging along with three younger bachelors. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
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Same way we reeducated the South. Generations of sustained propaganda campaigns, national holidays, national monuments. Art that shows bigots being wrong and having the world move past them, sometimes leavened by laughter, sometimes not. It’s all after the fact now.
Does anyone have any idea how we break the echo chambers? No Trump voter in my family will ever know what actually happened to Alex Pretti or Renee Good. They will believe the officers were justified. They will watch Fox News and that will be the end of it.
January 25, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Same way we reeducated the South. Generations of sustained propaganda campaigns, national holidays, national monuments. Art that shows bigots being wrong and having the world move past them, sometimes leavened by laughter, sometimes not. It’s all after the fact now.
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the city was lit up tonight by a constellation of vigils.
it lit up the sky.
it lit up the sky.
Vigils were held across the state to remember Alex Pretti after he was fatally shot by a federal agent Saturday in Minneapolis. Many also gathered to protest increased federal immigration enforcement happening in Minnesota.
For our latest coverage visit www.mprnews.org/live-updates.
For our latest coverage visit www.mprnews.org/live-updates.
January 25, 2026 at 2:59 AM
the city was lit up tonight by a constellation of vigils.
it lit up the sky.
it lit up the sky.
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walked around my neighborhood this evening in the subzero cold and there were so many lit candles in the snow for alex
January 25, 2026 at 6:12 AM
walked around my neighborhood this evening in the subzero cold and there were so many lit candles in the snow for alex
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i love him. he is so aware of the genre he is in.
July 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
i love him. he is so aware of the genre he is in.
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Our mixed use trails are extensive and wonderful.
January 25, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Our mixed use trails are extensive and wonderful.
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“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
January 24, 2026 at 9:24 PM
“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
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The rest of the world should absolutely boycott the World Cup and boycott the Olympics. At minimum.
January 24, 2026 at 8:16 PM
The rest of the world should absolutely boycott the World Cup and boycott the Olympics. At minimum.
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
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I’m so sick of people throwing their hands up and saying abolishing ICE isn’t possible right now. Abolishing ICE is extremely popular and calls to do so will only continue to grow, meanwhile conservatives manage to do incredibly unpopular things all the time because nobody stops them
January 24, 2026 at 5:11 PM
I’m so sick of people throwing their hands up and saying abolishing ICE isn’t possible right now. Abolishing ICE is extremely popular and calls to do so will only continue to grow, meanwhile conservatives manage to do incredibly unpopular things all the time because nobody stops them