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Jason Valandra
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January 24, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 22, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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Health care monopolies on patient care screw over working families and destroy your ability to access affordable care.

All so corporate CEOs, like those from CVS Health, can pad their pockets.

We must break up big medicine. We need a Glass-Steagall for Health Care.
January 22, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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JENNINGS: “Let's not get our knickers in a twist here.”

MCGOWAN: “Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying.”🔥

Good to see that more and more steamrolling Scott and the Smug Face he tries to throw up. #TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp

(H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
January 20, 2026 at 4:39 AM
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“The truth always lies somewhere in the middle” has to be one of my least favorite phrases. Sometimes, one side is actually truthful and one side is actually malicious and lying!
January 19, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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“I’m embarrassed,” one former ICE agent with more than 25 years of experience told TIME. “The majority of my colleagues feel the same way. It’s an insult to us, because we did it the right way to see what they’re doing now.”
time.com/7345954/ice-...
ICE Agents Speak About the Shooting in Minneapolis
Current and former ICE agents have expressed concerns about what happened in Minneapolis, and a broader push to recruit more agents.
time.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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Frost: For so long, the right wing has held up patriotism as a vibe, as an aesthetic. But patriotism is more than bald eagles and flags and beer. Patriotism is about loving the people who live in the damn country — every single one of them.
January 13, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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The worker who called Trump a “pedophile protector” has been suspended.

He says he has “definitely no regrets whatsoever,” adding: “I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity. And today I think I did that.” wapo.st/4sG38CD
January 14, 2026 at 2:55 AM
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January 11, 2026 at 5:40 AM
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I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.

Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
January 11, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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It would not surprise me if ICE ends up killing Episcopalian clergy, sadly. Episcopalian ministers go pretty hard in the paint for civil rights.

The story of Jonathan Daniels, an Episcopalian seminary student, pushing Ruby Sayles out of the way of a KKK shotgun blast in Alabama comes to mind.
At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
January 11, 2026 at 3:14 AM
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Ex-Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura: “We’re a 3rd world country now. I know. I’ve been to ‘em. I spent 17 months in SE Asia while the draft dodger was playing golf… that’s what happens in a dictatorship. In comes the military. That’s what’s happening here.” 🇺🇸
January 9, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Exactly right
one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it
January 7, 2026 at 3:32 AM
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Tonight, you will be visited by three spirits…
December 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
@nebraskadems.bsky.social you can't make this stuff up.
lol
🚨🚨🚨 CMS touts Nebraska being first to launch #BigUglyBill Medicaid work reporting requirements by...misspelling the name of the state.

acasignups.net/25/12/24/cms...
December 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Dear listeners,

When the days feel narrow and the noise gets loud, try a song.
Not as escape — as evidence.
Someone, somewhere, once felt this too and made something that still holds.

If hope is hiding, it often hums first.
December 23, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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No double-dipping.
December 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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AOC on a 2028 presidential race against JD Vance: “I would stomp him.”
December 18, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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[email protected] : Do you think you could beat JD Vance in a head-to-head race for president, as polling suggests?

AOC: I would stomp him.
December 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Massie: Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs that did not exist. Now it's the same playbook. Except we're told that drugs are the WMDs. If it were about drugs, we'd bomb Mexico or China or Colombia. This is about oil and regime change.
December 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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This is a great example that the US president is a lunatic. Listen carefully 🙈
December 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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"There’s a freedom people are craving because they’re feeling so constrained, surveilled and, frankly, threatened in so many other spheres."

Zines have made a resurgence as communities seek to share information on everything from ICE raids to local elections.
Gen-Zine: DIY publications find new life as form of resistance against Trump
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.
December 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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If Kohler can view the user’s toilet data, as it admits to doing in this email exchange with technologist Simon Fondrie-Teitler, then it’s not—by definition—using end-to-end encryption. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here:

www.404media.co/kohlers-smar...
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM