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Marcus
@pralitemonk.bsky.social
Currently: Web Developer, student.

Previously: Writer, copy editor, CDL driver.
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Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.
Renee Good memorial site in south Minneapolis doused in gasoline
Damage was minimal but police are investigating.
bit.ly
February 18, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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I’m losing it at this post about this raver just constantly puking all over the place because people keep shitting on the dance floor.
February 17, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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Guys I found the best Epstein Files email. The one that illuminates an elite class that's cocooned themselves into an unaccountable shell of wealth and privilege, fighting to protect their secrets and offenses.
I could write a novel about this email.
prospect.org/2026/02/17/e...
The Quintessential Epstein Files Email - The American Prospect
Jeffrey Epstein and his friends standing up for Mary Jo White against Elizabeth Warren tells you everything about the class war at the heart of the files.
prospect.org
February 17, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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Coverage of Andy Barr, a sitting Congressman and candidate for U.S. Senate, running an ad declaring, "It's not a sin to be white" -- a variation of a notorious white nationalist slogan

AP: Zero
NYT: Zero
WashPost: Zero
Reuters: Zero
Politico: Zero
Axios: Zero
Major corporations bankroll political ad featuring white supremacist slogan
Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY), who is running to replace Mitch McConnell in the United States Senate, released his first television ad earlier this month.
popular.info
February 17, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own.

I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history.

1 square = 1 year.
February 16, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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you don’t even need to offer me hard proof for “kevin durant was in nba group chats on a burner talking like a reddit 13 year old” that’s immediately one of the more plausible things i’ve heard recently
February 16, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.
February 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
At what point did Rs support anyone other than straight, while, male, affluent voters
I used to take great pride in not being a straight party voter. I would carefully look at every candidate and then vote for who I thought would best serve the people. I still do that last part, but it's been a straight D vote the last few years. The GOP has forgotten THEY are supposed to serve US!
February 16, 2026 at 4:34 AM
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“She’s not from here.”
February 15, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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The John Wick series is so effective because it fully embodies the three major tenets of dumb guy fantasy: 1. being able to kick anyone’s ass, 2. living by a code of honor, and 3. paying for things with gold coins
February 15, 2026 at 1:32 PM
This feels brutally illegal.
February 15, 2026 at 5:37 AM
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Don Grasso, who wrote the campaign finance checks at the center of the controversy, identified the 10 lawmakers he intended to support. Speaker of the House Chip Neiman and Rep. John Bear, a top Wyoming Freedom Caucus member, were among them. wyofile.com/donor-two-ch...
Donor: Two checks given to Bextel were intended for pair of Wyoming Legislature’s most powerful lawmakers - WyoFile
Don Grasso, the donor who wrote checks that activist Rebecca Bextel distributed, identified 10 people he intended to support. Speaker of the House Chip Neiman, R-Hulett, and Wyoming Freedom Caucus lea...
wyofile.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:45 AM
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February 14, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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Someone took their time to recreate Epstein documents in a data visualization app built in Replit. The complete documents are in an interactive graphic where you can click on and explore all the connections and “conspiracy networks.

epstein-file-explorer.com
Epstein Files Explorer
A comprehensive tool for exploring publicly released Epstein case documents and records.
epstein-file-explorer.com
February 14, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.
Meet Minnesota Bathrobe Lady Sam Stroozas of MPR News | Minnesota Public Radio
Earlier this week, an unexpected and fast-moving incident unfolded in St. Paul, Minnesota involving both federal and local law enforcement. As crowds gathered and questions mounted, one of our MPR New...
www.mpr.org
February 14, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Bubble poppin ... !?!
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 15, 2026 at 4:06 AM
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February 15, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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yeha i love grubhub (overturning a rock and finding a bunch of grubs)
February 15, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not
February 14, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause

What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling
February 15, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Got to learn about the Colorado Potato Administrative Committee.
#potato #colorado
February 15, 2026 at 3:25 AM
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This NYT column by @polgreen.bsky.social is the truest thing I've ever seen about the REAL reason public trust in the media collapsed
February 14, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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What a great photo of Brazilian alpine skier Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, the first South American to ever win a medal at the Winter Olympic Games.
February 14, 2026 at 9:06 PM