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Mark Hogle
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The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought. -Rudy Dornbusch

How many fingers, Winston?
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More profiles in cowardice:
Target, Best Buy, General Mills, Cargill and roughly four dozen other large MN companies issued a public letter calling for an “immediate de-escalation of tensions” in the state. Stops short of condemning the killings or who is responsible for them.
Minnesota’s Biggest Companies Call for ‘De-escalation’ of Tensions
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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… Furthermore, according to two other sources with knowledge of the situation, top officials in the Trump White House reminded their federal colleagues in and outside the West Wing that Pretti should be referred to as a “terrorist” in written statements and public messaging, no matter his background
January 25, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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Here is a good opinion:
January 25, 2026 at 5:24 AM
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The frat house where this happened was a quarter of a mile from my school. You could even see the signs of what they did. For several years, I was terrified to walk past it.

Even at nine years old I was perfectly able to intuit that someone who can do this to a cat would do it to a child as well.
January 25, 2026 at 6:28 AM