I had one of those players in my car back in the day.

Nice use of the em-dash

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.

But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

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Deadline 2/17/26

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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

New footage from Bring Me the News also shows the aftermath of the fatal ICE shooing in Minneapolis

NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.

🚨BREAKING

It looks like ICE just shot and killed someone else in Minneapolis.

“Hear anything?”
“WHAT?”

Bilbo Baggins has an internal debate about giving up the Ring of Power that is slowly destroying him, or perhaps social media.

The rents were steep

Wow, now that’s a blast from the past!

Feldercarb. Now that’s a word I’ve not heard in a long time…a long time.

The chia from Ikea

“Conlaw” seems to have a different connotation these days.

Immortalized in the film “Taverna Below The Poseidon Temple Adventure”

Nice, but it doesn’t have a soul like a Vincent ‘52

So glad you’re both ok

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