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Independent journalist, photojournalist, former newspaper editor, piano tuner-tech. Love sociology, poli-sci, in-depth analysis of important cultural issues, good friends, honest debate, and learning how to be a better person in a challenging world.
. . . This administration gives no time for people to adjust to change, on purpose probably, no matter how brutal or different -- like an electric shock attack, or perpetual shock-and-awe campaign.
February 4, 2026 at 4:41 PM
. . . This administration gives no time for people to adjust to change, on purpose probably, no matter how brutal or different -- like an electric shock attack, or perpetual shock-and-awe campaign.
What kind of a human thinks shooting a young mother like Renee Goode in the face, whose last words were conciliatory, is good LE? What kind of a belief system justifies shooting a man like Alex Pretti, all 147 pounds of him, multiple times in the back while laying motionless on the ground?
February 4, 2026 at 4:41 PM
What kind of a human thinks shooting a young mother like Renee Goode in the face, whose last words were conciliatory, is good LE? What kind of a belief system justifies shooting a man like Alex Pretti, all 147 pounds of him, multiple times in the back while laying motionless on the ground?
You can take in all the news from the last week and become justifiably angry at the degradation and death, or you can avoid reality and pretend average Americans are 'terrorists,' thinking it's okay to treat people and protestors like animals. As for law enforcement, they work for us . . .
February 4, 2026 at 4:39 PM
You can take in all the news from the last week and become justifiably angry at the degradation and death, or you can avoid reality and pretend average Americans are 'terrorists,' thinking it's okay to treat people and protestors like animals. As for law enforcement, they work for us . . .
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Read this. Reread it. Reread it until it sinks in.
January 28, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Read this. Reread it. Reread it until it sinks in.
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We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
January 28, 2026 at 9:25 PM
We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
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I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.
I don’t let bullies win.
Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
I don’t let bullies win.
Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
January 28, 2026 at 2:26 AM
I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.
I don’t let bullies win.
Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
I don’t let bullies win.
Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
I grew up when Evangelicals and conservative Christians were holding revival services, alter services, appealing to people to come to Christ and be saved on a personal and friendly level. Now Christian Nationalists and conservative Christians just want to threaten you, or put a gun to your head.
January 28, 2026 at 3:46 AM
I grew up when Evangelicals and conservative Christians were holding revival services, alter services, appealing to people to come to Christ and be saved on a personal and friendly level. Now Christian Nationalists and conservative Christians just want to threaten you, or put a gun to your head.
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It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.
January 27, 2026 at 1:58 PM
It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.
Inhumane, murderous, unconscionable acts and crimes against humanity. The perpetrators who killed good, decent, legal Americans this past week will be held accountable, I don't care how far they run or hide, or how many years go by, justice will be done.
January 27, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Inhumane, murderous, unconscionable acts and crimes against humanity. The perpetrators who killed good, decent, legal Americans this past week will be held accountable, I don't care how far they run or hide, or how many years go by, justice will be done.
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You can’t just say “Abolish ICE”. You also have to say “Abolish ICE and throw every person working in the agency into federal prison for crimes against humanity”.
January 27, 2026 at 8:26 PM
You can’t just say “Abolish ICE”. You also have to say “Abolish ICE and throw every person working in the agency into federal prison for crimes against humanity”.
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I spoke to the President earlier. We had a productive conversation and I explained to him that his staff doesn’t have their facts straight about Minnesota. My thoughts in the Wall Street Journal:
www.wsj.com/opinion/tim-...
www.wsj.com/opinion/tim-...
Opinion | Tim Walz: The Un-American Assault on Minnesota
Federal officials are lying. My state’s Corrections Department honors all immigration detainers.
www.wsj.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:24 PM
I spoke to the President earlier. We had a productive conversation and I explained to him that his staff doesn’t have their facts straight about Minnesota. My thoughts in the Wall Street Journal:
www.wsj.com/opinion/tim-...
www.wsj.com/opinion/tim-...
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TikTok misusing our personal data was bad.
TikTok now being partly controlled by a Trump-aligned billionaire family and one of his biggest political donors who also owns other major media outlets is even worse.
TikTok now being partly controlled by a Trump-aligned billionaire family and one of his biggest political donors who also owns other major media outlets is even worse.
January 26, 2026 at 11:31 PM
TikTok misusing our personal data was bad.
TikTok now being partly controlled by a Trump-aligned billionaire family and one of his biggest political donors who also owns other major media outlets is even worse.
TikTok now being partly controlled by a Trump-aligned billionaire family and one of his biggest political donors who also owns other major media outlets is even worse.
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“LET US OUT!”
women & children scream for help inside a detention camp in TEXAS, where private prisons like core civic make billions of taxpayer dollars holding them while abusing, neglecting them, refusing them health care, feeding them dirty food & water, etc.
In our name🇺🇸
women & children scream for help inside a detention camp in TEXAS, where private prisons like core civic make billions of taxpayer dollars holding them while abusing, neglecting them, refusing them health care, feeding them dirty food & water, etc.
In our name🇺🇸
January 26, 2026 at 4:45 PM
“LET US OUT!”
women & children scream for help inside a detention camp in TEXAS, where private prisons like core civic make billions of taxpayer dollars holding them while abusing, neglecting them, refusing them health care, feeding them dirty food & water, etc.
In our name🇺🇸
women & children scream for help inside a detention camp in TEXAS, where private prisons like core civic make billions of taxpayer dollars holding them while abusing, neglecting them, refusing them health care, feeding them dirty food & water, etc.
In our name🇺🇸
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This can’t be repeated enough. Not only won’t they investigate, they may never even tell us who did this.
Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.
Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.
January 26, 2026 at 5:22 AM
This can’t be repeated enough. Not only won’t they investigate, they may never even tell us who did this.
Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.
Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.
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Incredible turnout in Chi-town today protesting the murder of Alex Pretti. God love them! ❤️
#Chicago #AlexPretti
#Fascism #ICE #Gestapo
#Chicago #AlexPretti
#Fascism #ICE #Gestapo
January 25, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Incredible turnout in Chi-town today protesting the murder of Alex Pretti. God love them! ❤️
#Chicago #AlexPretti
#Fascism #ICE #Gestapo
#Chicago #AlexPretti
#Fascism #ICE #Gestapo
Meanwhile in Iran, the brutality rages on. "The government has responded with a savage and ruthless crackdown, resulting in nearly 100,000 injuries and thousands of fatalities, reports the Daily Star." www.the-express.com/news/world-n...
Iran protests death toll hits more than 31,000 as 'all-out war' message sent
The death toll in Iran has risen to 31,000 as the regime continues to crack down on the country's uprising - a source described the numbers as a 'genocide'.
www.the-express.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Meanwhile in Iran, the brutality rages on. "The government has responded with a savage and ruthless crackdown, resulting in nearly 100,000 injuries and thousands of fatalities, reports the Daily Star." www.the-express.com/news/world-n...
Bovino is just a ruthless mobster, by another name, as are his bosses. Do as I say, or we'll blow you away. Can't think of a more pathetic anti-human, anti-American bunch of threatening pigs who are attacking us right now, and demonizing harmless immigrant families. The worst of the worst, my ass.
January 25, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Bovino is just a ruthless mobster, by another name, as are his bosses. Do as I say, or we'll blow you away. Can't think of a more pathetic anti-human, anti-American bunch of threatening pigs who are attacking us right now, and demonizing harmless immigrant families. The worst of the worst, my ass.
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Trump pulled the US out of the World Health Organisation yesterday.
In response California has become the first state to join the WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network.
If this is the start of a pattern Americans will only be safe in Blue states.
In response California has become the first state to join the WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network.
If this is the start of a pattern Americans will only be safe in Blue states.
January 23, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Trump pulled the US out of the World Health Organisation yesterday.
In response California has become the first state to join the WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network.
If this is the start of a pattern Americans will only be safe in Blue states.
In response California has become the first state to join the WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network.
If this is the start of a pattern Americans will only be safe in Blue states.
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They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
January 23, 2026 at 8:56 PM
They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
The things that come out of his mouth are so horrid, so unAmerican, so inhumane and disrespectful and ignorant of people's basic humanity and rights -- to be okay with that for any reason is just repulsive as all hell to me. What evil won't they justify, if they justify this?
January 23, 2026 at 10:03 PM
The things that come out of his mouth are so horrid, so unAmerican, so inhumane and disrespectful and ignorant of people's basic humanity and rights -- to be okay with that for any reason is just repulsive as all hell to me. What evil won't they justify, if they justify this?
People don't elect a president because they are "the smartest person around," so the one we have needs to stop trying to act like he is, along with those around him. Name-calling and assertions without merit or evidence, that's all they have.
January 23, 2026 at 9:34 PM
People don't elect a president because they are "the smartest person around," so the one we have needs to stop trying to act like he is, along with those around him. Name-calling and assertions without merit or evidence, that's all they have.
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Here’s the report www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
DHS ICE memo 1-21-26
www.documentcloud.org
January 22, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Here’s the report www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Today marks the 16th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision — unleashing a flood of corporate money in politics. State trigger laws can prepare the ground for real reform when the Court changes course. bit.ly/3Xsczat
State Legislatures Can Push Back Against Citizens United
State lawmakers can fight the influence of big money in politics by passing trigger laws that would go into effect if the Supreme Court’s misguided ruling is reversed.
bit.ly
January 21, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Today marks the 16th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision — unleashing a flood of corporate money in politics. State trigger laws can prepare the ground for real reform when the Court changes course. bit.ly/3Xsczat
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“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
January 20, 2026 at 5:45 PM
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)