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SunAndShower
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Still searching for my Twitter replacement.

Staunch Independent caucusing with Dems since 2015. Health, data and communications nerd. Desperately seeking SportsSky.

Cheering on my Chicago and Illini teams from Colorado. 🔸🔹
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It’s odd that the religious right is so upset about a halftime show that celebrated marriage, love, community, small business, hard work, and family. 🤔
February 9, 2026 at 4:50 AM
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February 9, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Every time they do one of these interviews, they should air it with Pop-Up Video style fact checks.

How has mainstream media not done this yet? It's like the OG tiktok! No wonder they're falling behind in the attention economy.

Look 👇 Fact check! It can be done!
February 6, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Everyone needs to hear this and reflect on their own role in what’s happening in the world right now and what they’re going to do about it.
👀Now that ICE/DHS are planning to buy ‘mega’ warehouse detention centers across the US to house human beings you might want to listen to this gentleman’s history lesson that he delivered at a city council meeting in AZ. Congress needs to have hearings on this like yesterday.
February 5, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Data >>> Vibes (or whatever the anti-immigration people use as their basis)

And Cato leans conservative, btw
Heads are going to explode 💥

Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.

All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
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February 4, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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It's amazing how so many billionaires, with WAY more money than they could EVER need in 50 lifetimes, REALLY and TRULY want to avoid paying relatively small tax money to gov't, to benefit common good like social safety for less fortunate countrymen residing in the society that made them billionaires
February 4, 2026 at 6:45 PM
WITAF is wrong with people? Who's doing this???
Local police have cleared bomb threats this morning at multiple schools in the Minneapolis-area district where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos goes to school.

Because this community hasn't been through enough already. JFC.

Kids safe to go back tomorrow.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
February 2, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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Sometimes you have to say it out loud to appreciate how dire t all is:

The president just openly declared his plans to steal the midterm elections — in an interview with the former number two person at the FBI.
Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"
February 2, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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This make you uncomfortable? Good! Because this isn’t history, it’s reality and what ICE has normalized.
January 30, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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We did not properly punish the confederates. We did not properly punish the insurrectionists on January 6th. We have to punish ICE.

They can’t be allowed to slink back into their communities quietly. Expose them. Arrest them. Convict them. Imprison them.
January 29, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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"In theater" is a nice touch for describing Minneapolis. Worth noting the people involved, from Trump to Miller to Noem to Homan to Bovino to the majority of ICE and CBP goons, have never served in the military. They're playing out a war fantasy, dressing up in army costumes, like incredible losers.
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?

HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 29, 2026 at 3:51 PM
American tennis is the best it's been in decades and ESPN is putting the best matches on their stupid Unlimited streaming service.

USTA should be furious and working with them to put our players on ESPN+ so more Americans can watch. Put Alcaraz and Sinner on Unlimited. Let's build 🇺🇸 tennis fandom!
January 26, 2026 at 5:12 PM
I am so impressed with the Hennepin County DA, Mary Moriarty, every time I see her on TV.

She's such a good communicator. Fact-based and not afraid to call out the admin in a clear and straight-forward way. A lot of Dems could learn from her.
January 26, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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The Atlantic finally catching up with what some of us have been saying for *years*
January 26, 2026 at 5:23 AM
Credit to Dana Bash. This interview with Bovino is some of the best pushback I’ve seen by a journalist.

And I appreciate her setting the record straight at the end so it doesn’t end on a Bovino lie. Solid effort.

#SOTU
January 25, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Bears tied at half??? Yes please!!! 😂

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January 19, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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With the money that's being spent to hire fascist fucks to terrorize us we could revitalize education, get children fed and in daycare, house some of our struggling neighbors, extend and expand our lives.

It does not have to be like this and when we believe that it won't be like this.
January 16, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Hypocrites. All of them. Every last one.
This guy should eat real food so that we can make America healthy again
January 13, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Every accusation is a confession. What he really means is...

"We're scammers. We're scammers. We always will be. And you'll be voting us out. And you're not paying us anymore money for any of that crap. It's a big scam. It's a giant scam run by an incompetent, crooked POTUS."
Trump: "They're scammers. They're scammers. They always will be. And we'll be getting them out. And we're not paying Minnesota anymore money for any of that crap. It's a big scam. It's a giant scam run by an incompetent, crooked governor."
January 13, 2026 at 10:55 PM
I love this thread. Imagine if we were humble enough to learn from others and use data to drive policy. We could improve so many lives and actually live up to our American ideals.

If we could just get out of our own way...
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
January 13, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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Unintentionally the funniest thing he's ever said
Trump talks about Denmark and Greenland just now: "The fact that they landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land."
January 11, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Life of a Bears fan
January 11, 2026 at 5:27 AM
Such a beautiful sight! 🧡💙

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January 11, 2026 at 5:03 AM