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I just drove past an abandoned car, with the doors open. (wrong side of highway, others had already stopped.)
This is Minnesota. No one for any reason intentionally leaves their car on the side of the road w/the doors open in January
Please understand: nothing has changed here. Please tell people

31.01.2026 19:18 — 👍 2122    🔁 1033    💬 25    📌 9
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Thousands of new ICE watchers hit the streets after two killings Minnesotans outraged by the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti have signed up in large numbers to monitor and protest ICE with other activists.

More than 34,000 Minnesotans signed up to be trained as ICED observers with various activist groups in recent weeks, many of them since Jan. 7, when a federal agent shot and killed Renée Good.

31.01.2026 19:30 — 👍 1772    🔁 519    💬 48    📌 138
PayPal balance -$5.97

PayPal balance -$5.97

Hi friends, we’re a little behind this month and could use some help for groceries and gas, I’m in between renewals for health bills assistance from the hospital so anything helps

Thank you so very much 🙏🏽

PayPal @typologianista
CashApp $KellyNuttall
Venmo @kellyynuttall
(Please note two y’s)

31.01.2026 07:23 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
31.01.2026 17:37 — 👍 65    🔁 53    💬 1    📌 1
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Oregon tried giving homeless youth $1,000 a month with no strings attached. Here’s what happened The program helped 94% of participants secure housing while building financial literacy skills that could break the cycle of homelessness.

want to know something cool?

www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

31.01.2026 16:11 — 👍 46    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 2

We need to shut down the word "performative" until we can figure out what the hell is going on. Of course adopting symbols of protest and resistance is performative! Performance is a core strategy for mass movements!! That's why the call them demonstrations!!!

31.01.2026 15:54 — 👍 2254    🔁 477    💬 16    📌 32

incidentally "sidereal" /saɪˈdiriəl/ is one of my favorite english words

31.01.2026 15:43 — 👍 18    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Children and police officers among at least 30 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza Deadly attacks launched day before border crossing due to open as part of ceasefire deal

Israel bombed tents in Gaza today, killed at least 30 people including children, and the death toll is likely to rise

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

31.01.2026 15:03 — 👍 682    🔁 449    💬 3    📌 55

Incipit liber Bresith quem nos Genesim dicimus...

31.01.2026 14:39 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Official concedes 8-year-old who died in U.S. custody could have been saved as devastated family recalls final days The parents of 8-year-old Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez told CBS News that their daughter died in Border Patrol custody because of negligence and discrimination.

In 2023, CBP killed a young Black girl that they imprisoned by incarcerating her and failing to provide the needed medical care for her sickle cell anemia

You cannot reform this apparatus which kills people no matter which party is in charge

Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, who was 8 years old

31.01.2026 14:15 — 👍 2051    🔁 957    💬 9    📌 42

My ideal retirement is not to wither away on some beach, but rather to live in a college town and audit classes until they cart me out of the lecture hall feet first

31.01.2026 12:58 — 👍 42    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 1
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BREAKING: At least 25 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/yd606g

31.01.2026 10:42 — 👍 329    🔁 273    💬 9    📌 35

thank you for saying this

31.01.2026 10:59 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”

So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it

(H/T longtimehistory)

30.01.2026 02:43 — 👍 24571    🔁 13470    💬 1810    📌 1126
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Federal agents arrest man in front of 2-year-old son in Shoreline The two-year-old son sat alone in the back seat for about 40 minutes, eyewitnesses said.

“Guzman was driving his son to day care before work when 4 unmarked vehicles surrounded his car, blocking 2 lanes of Aurora Ave. near N. 163rd Street. Masked and armed federal agents emerged and arrested Guzman. They left his 2-year-old son sitting alone in the back seat for about 40 minutes.”

31.01.2026 01:22 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Here's an opportunity to support the other journalist arrested today; Georgia Fort, who will have far fewer resources available to her than Don Lemon.

30.01.2026 17:31 — 👍 2122    🔁 1342    💬 11    📌 11

this is the way

31.01.2026 01:24 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Reading Epstein files makes me angry for the ordinary American people who pay 10k for most basic healthcare services, meanwhile those perverts with billions in their accounts are abusing children. Tax the hell out of them.

31.01.2026 00:43 — 👍 21    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot of an X.com post by Brittany Belle (@BrittanyinTexas) quoting an agent saying, “I can hear you don’t have the same accent as me,” and joking that if profiling is based on accents then Melania and Elon are in trouble. Below is a CNN “OutFront” video thumbnail showing an officer speaking to someone off-camera; on-screen captions include “If you were from this country, you would know I’m an immigration officer,” plus a “BREAKING NEWS” banner.

Screenshot of an X.com post by Brittany Belle (@BrittanyinTexas) quoting an agent saying, “I can hear you don’t have the same accent as me,” and joking that if profiling is based on accents then Melania and Elon are in trouble. Below is a CNN “OutFront” video thumbnail showing an officer speaking to someone off-camera; on-screen captions include “If you were from this country, you would know I’m an immigration officer,” plus a “BREAKING NEWS” banner.

Funny how the “right” accent means you get to stay.

30.01.2026 22:30 — 👍 2201    🔁 429    💬 77    📌 19

lfg

30.01.2026 22:37 — 👍 2016    🔁 323    💬 11    📌 5

People will quote a lot of Catherine O'Hara in the next few days and with good reason because she has a lot of quotable lines but I think the main thing she did was permanently change how people say "David"

30.01.2026 20:26 — 👍 374    🔁 65    💬 6    📌 6
This plant looks Sick! from a plant photo ID app

This plant looks Sick! from a plant photo ID app

me (touring a really cool factory):

30.01.2026 20:16 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Cool postdoc job opportunity! A chance to work with some great English & comp sci scholars at Carnegie Mellon. Appreciate this ad stresses: chance to do interesting technical work; work on an interesting humanities problem; chance to publish both in humanities & comp sci venues. Looks great, apply!

30.01.2026 18:01 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

that's what they get for having a mathematician sub

30.01.2026 18:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

is this Greek pre upsilon fronting maybe?

30.01.2026 18:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

30.01.2026 16:44 — 👍 24601    🔁 7947    💬 448    📌 301

great replacement theory but make it about the scandos

30.01.2026 17:57 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Exclusive: Early warning of 'Apocalyptic Wasteland' in Gaza blocked by US envoys to Israel U.S. Agency for International Development staffers in early 2024 drafted a warning to senior officials in Joe Biden’s administration: Northern Gaza had turned into an “Apocalyptic Wasteland” with dire...

"The staff reported seeing a human femur and other bones on the roads, dead bodies abandoned in cars and 'catastrophic human needs, particularly for food and safe drinking water.'"

www.reuters.com/world/early-...

30.01.2026 11:09 — 👍 47    🔁 26    💬 0    📌 4

Thanks to those LinkedIn followers who volunteered! (None from here 😕)

While we are in Semitic territory, we also need volunteers for reviewing a paper about transcribing from a Semitic language text to phonetic symbols (IPA). Pls contact me if you can review it! Thx!

#linguistics #phonetic #NLP

30.01.2026 02:33 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Looking urgently for a #reviewer for a corpus-based analysis of N most frequent words

- in #NLP / #NLProc / #linguistics applications

- Even better if you care about Semitic languages but not a requirement

Please Emil / DM me if you can review!
Please boost otherwise 🙂

Thanks!

29.01.2026 21:18 — 👍 3    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

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