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Agreed, I was actually very encouraged that some Frey voters apparently considered Becka beyond the pale

By my admittedly rushed math, it seems like Fateh needs about 71% of the Davis/Jazz vote to break his way. Seems tough, but not impossible

Clarifying question: Does needlessly keeping food from working families make us great? Or is it keeping it from seniors on fixed incomes?

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...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

I don't actually believe that any company is "humbled and proud" that I would consider applying to work for them. Please stop saying dumb junk like this in these emails and just tell me what I need to do or say to get a job.

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The huge size of the Minneapolis #NoKings march is hard to depict because it's circling 20 blocks of the central downtown core. This is the front when the back was still over at US Bank stadium and hadn't started moving yet.

i know people are eager to show MPD working with ICE but you really gotta slow down and verify info before sharing it. what are MPD supposed to do if they get called in, just not respond? but if they do, then it gets painted as ICE collaboration based on photos without info. dangerous stuff here

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

What is this place???

Came here to say this! I did almost all my reading on public transit until the pandemic (and having kids, which of course didn’t help lol). Would telling people that expanding public transit will get people to read more do anything?

This is notable because the government isn’t supposed to indefinitely hold people in immigration detention just for funsies if it doesn’t plan to remove the person any time soon. Abrego’s counsel has raised SCOTUS case law to that effect in seeking his release

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The regime's desire for authoritarianism is bottomless, but their capacity is not. Not even close.

They rely on bluster and memes to make up the difference. The threat is real, but less powerful than they say.

Freedom-loving Americans outnumber them by a lot. Communities can resist. Like this one:

There are any number of legitimate reasons to use the passive voice, including not knowing who did the action you’re describing, or the whom is more interesting/germane than the who.

Exonerating the Gestapo is not one of those legitimate reasons.

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

Does anyone have any insight into how many Frey voters are planning to rank other candidates? Are most of them 100% Frey or bust? Or is there an “anyone but Fateh” contingent who would rank Davis or Hampton second?

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

I know people are tired of hearing about how we "live in unprecedented times," but a news anchor wearing a bucket hat? Is this the new normal?

One more thing: Being a "Debate me!" guy is not the same as genuinely believing in diversity of opinion; it comes from a belief that you can crush dissent by winning every argument, often with sophistry. Kirk started a McCarthyite website that targeted professors on the left. He was no pluralist...>

The fact that everyone is expected to make a statement on social media the second anything bad happens is so stupid to begin with. It’s crazy-making and discourages actually processing anything in a real way. That some people really are apparently out there totting up everyone’s posts doesn’t help.

I agree with Patrick intellectually, but practically I think any statement - especially from the Right - that violence is un-American is good right now, however untrue it is.

Reminder - There was a call for anyone who could to go donate blood in the Twin Cities as there was a critical level of supply. With two mass casualty events in two days those levels are going to be even lower. So anyone who can please donate blood. www.mbc.org/donate-blood...

Live: Minneapolis says shooter ‘contained’ as police respond to gunfire at church Dozens of squads en route to Annunciation Church, casualties reported.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara gave details about the deadly shooting:

“During the mass, the gunman approached on the outside, on the side of the building, and began firing a rifle through the church windows towards the children sitting in the pews at the mass."

needed another pass

I know you have other issues with this guy, but this is a deranged response to a completely reasonable statement and I think you know it.

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We’re overbuilt on highways. Climate change is real. It’s time to think about and invest in transportation differently.

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Jason Segel's character from SLC PUNK for president

looks pretty shallow to me

Why wouldn't they pour all this energy into, I don't know, finding and supporting a more competent candidate? It feels like such a huge waste of everyone's time, including Becka Thompson's!