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Has any reporter done a deep dive into two of the most powerful people in Washington DC who seem determined not to use that power or even comment on current events?
Mike Johnson and John Thune could stop virtually all of the current chaos simply by putting their hands back on the wheel.
Mike Johnson and John Thune could stop virtually all of the current chaos simply by putting their hands back on the wheel.
January 14, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Has any reporter done a deep dive into two of the most powerful people in Washington DC who seem determined not to use that power or even comment on current events?
Mike Johnson and John Thune could stop virtually all of the current chaos simply by putting their hands back on the wheel.
Mike Johnson and John Thune could stop virtually all of the current chaos simply by putting their hands back on the wheel.
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Tablet found in Hittite region, new Indo-European language.
January 13, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Tablet found in Hittite region, new Indo-European language.
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I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
January 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
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Together, we’re going to do what’s never been done here in Maine. We’re going to send a working class person to the Blaine House, and we're going to turn it into a union hall.
January 12, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Together, we’re going to do what’s never been done here in Maine. We’re going to send a working class person to the Blaine House, and we're going to turn it into a union hall.
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It’s been a dark few days, but we’ll take any win we can get—and this one is BIG.
The House just passed @housedemocrats.bsky.social's bill to reinstate ACA tax credits for 3 years!
This alone won't fix our broken health care system. But it will provide much-needed relief for millions of Americans.
The House just passed @housedemocrats.bsky.social's bill to reinstate ACA tax credits for 3 years!
This alone won't fix our broken health care system. But it will provide much-needed relief for millions of Americans.
January 8, 2026 at 10:24 PM
It’s been a dark few days, but we’ll take any win we can get—and this one is BIG.
The House just passed @housedemocrats.bsky.social's bill to reinstate ACA tax credits for 3 years!
This alone won't fix our broken health care system. But it will provide much-needed relief for millions of Americans.
The House just passed @housedemocrats.bsky.social's bill to reinstate ACA tax credits for 3 years!
This alone won't fix our broken health care system. But it will provide much-needed relief for millions of Americans.
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ICE killed a member of our community today. ICE showed up at my kid’s daycare today. ICE is bragging about the number of families they’ve torn apart in a matter of days, and promising that their campaign of terror isn’t done.
January 7, 2026 at 10:51 PM
ICE killed a member of our community today. ICE showed up at my kid’s daycare today. ICE is bragging about the number of families they’ve torn apart in a matter of days, and promising that their campaign of terror isn’t done.
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School has been cancelled tomorrow and Friday across the city of Minneapolis, because our federal government has made it unsafe for children here.
January 8, 2026 at 3:07 AM
School has been cancelled tomorrow and Friday across the city of Minneapolis, because our federal government has made it unsafe for children here.
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It is worth asking how far a dispute over Greenland that could collapse the alliance between America and Europe flared up again because of an uncoordinated shitpost from Katie Miller whose only strategic purpose was to bolster her husband's position in Trump's royal court
January 7, 2026 at 2:32 PM
It is worth asking how far a dispute over Greenland that could collapse the alliance between America and Europe flared up again because of an uncoordinated shitpost from Katie Miller whose only strategic purpose was to bolster her husband's position in Trump's royal court
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While fraud should always be investigated and addressed, cutting off child care funding to every state based on allegations tied to a single state—sparked by an unverified and deceptively edited online video—is a reckless move that creates chaos and uncertainty for families and providers alike.
Maine child care providers brace as feds announce freeze on $12.3B in aid amid Minnesota fraud allegations
Maine child care providers say the move could shut them down; Rep. Chellie Pingree calls the freeze 'arbitrary and cruel.'
www.sunjournal.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:00 AM
While fraud should always be investigated and addressed, cutting off child care funding to every state based on allegations tied to a single state—sparked by an unverified and deceptively edited online video—is a reckless move that creates chaos and uncertainty for families and providers alike.
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50 ICE agents swarming a public library to arrest one person.
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
December 30, 2025 at 4:19 AM
50 ICE agents swarming a public library to arrest one person.
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
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Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/
December 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/
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The guy who put a 19 year old named Big Balls in charge of gutting key government services: “experience matters when lives are at stake”
December 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The guy who put a 19 year old named Big Balls in charge of gutting key government services: “experience matters when lives are at stake”
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Agrivoltaics boost crop yields even when the solar panels aren’t generating power. New research from Canada shows that shading crops with elevated solar panels creates a cooler, wetter microclimate that can lift yields and improve performance across dozens of crops. buff.ly/6eqClf1
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
The gift that keeps on giving: How solar panels on farms can help increase crop yields
A new study finds farmers can enjoy increased crop yeilds under partial shade of solar panels long after they stop working decades from now.
buff.ly
December 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Agrivoltaics boost crop yields even when the solar panels aren’t generating power. New research from Canada shows that shading crops with elevated solar panels creates a cooler, wetter microclimate that can lift yields and improve performance across dozens of crops. buff.ly/6eqClf1
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Incredibly grateful to the firefighters and emergency responders who spent hours in brutal cold knocking down this fire and keeping our neighbors safe.
Truly a remarkable effort, and fortunately there were no major injuries.
Truly a remarkable effort, and fortunately there were no major injuries.
Portland waterfront fire ravages 4 businesses
'We're not going to do anything but rebuild what was here,' wharf co-owner John Jabar said.
www.pressherald.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Incredibly grateful to the firefighters and emergency responders who spent hours in brutal cold knocking down this fire and keeping our neighbors safe.
Truly a remarkable effort, and fortunately there were no major injuries.
Truly a remarkable effort, and fortunately there were no major injuries.
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This message hits hard.
December 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This message hits hard.
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The man who ran on a platform of "America First" and promised no involvement in foreign wars is now launching wars of choice in Nigeria, Venezuela, Syria, and Lebanon.
Meanwhile, he is verbally attacking our oldest and closest allies.
Meanwhile, he is verbally attacking our oldest and closest allies.
December 26, 2025 at 5:26 AM
The man who ran on a platform of "America First" and promised no involvement in foreign wars is now launching wars of choice in Nigeria, Venezuela, Syria, and Lebanon.
Meanwhile, he is verbally attacking our oldest and closest allies.
Meanwhile, he is verbally attacking our oldest and closest allies.
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This Day in Labor History: December 24, 1913. Striking Italian copper workers in Calumet, Michigan held a Christmas party in the town’s Italian Hall. Someone shouted “fire.” Could have been company thugs, but we will never know. People rushed the exit and 73 died, including 59 children!!!
December 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This Day in Labor History: December 24, 1913. Striking Italian copper workers in Calumet, Michigan held a Christmas party in the town’s Italian Hall. Someone shouted “fire.” Could have been company thugs, but we will never know. People rushed the exit and 73 died, including 59 children!!!
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When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.
These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
30 minutes. Some deportees described sexual assault. Detainee describes the guard sexually assaulting most detainees. Lights left on all day. Prisoners not given clean water.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
December 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.
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I love when people share stuff from their niche areas of interest and expertise. I always learn something and, often, am corrected. If I only learned about the core subjects of my interests I’d be a useless encyclopedia with no context for anything.
December 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I love when people share stuff from their niche areas of interest and expertise. I always learn something and, often, am corrected. If I only learned about the core subjects of my interests I’d be a useless encyclopedia with no context for anything.
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Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
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Really, everyone left of center--from DNC types to the far left--lies to themselves all the time about what THE PEOPLE believe.
If you think "the people" secretly believe what you do, if only they could be mobilized, my recommendation is to actually talk to people. Because they don't.
If you think "the people" secretly believe what you do, if only they could be mobilized, my recommendation is to actually talk to people. Because they don't.
Saying Texas isn't a Republican state it's a nonvoting state is cope www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
The Biggest Lie in Texas Politics
Ahead of the midterm elections, the state Democratic party is leaning on an old message.
www.texasmonthly.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Really, everyone left of center--from DNC types to the far left--lies to themselves all the time about what THE PEOPLE believe.
If you think "the people" secretly believe what you do, if only they could be mobilized, my recommendation is to actually talk to people. Because they don't.
If you think "the people" secretly believe what you do, if only they could be mobilized, my recommendation is to actually talk to people. Because they don't.
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An immigrant doesn’t stand between you and a good job.
A billionaire does.
A billionaire does.
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
An immigrant doesn’t stand between you and a good job.
A billionaire does.
A billionaire does.
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This is true. But don't begrudge people the opportunity to point out this was both nuts and frightening--and that Trump set an indoor world record for lying.
the occasional reminder that if you are watching and live-posting about a presidential address, the way you engage with politics is notably atypical from that of, say, the average persuadable or low-propensity voter
December 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
This is true. But don't begrudge people the opportunity to point out this was both nuts and frightening--and that Trump set an indoor world record for lying.
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Lmao, surprising no one but the cowards who folded on the shutdown
BREAKING: Mike Johnson just said he won't call a vote this year to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.
December 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Lmao, surprising no one but the cowards who folded on the shutdown
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One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
December 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.