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I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.

I was in downtown Portland for a concert Tuesday and it was a lovely evening! Even waiting for our Uber afterwards, had a nice conversation with strangers. And we didn’t need flak jackets. OMG the horrors 🙄🤦‍♀️

I feel like a lot of people in the current admin never got over junior high/and or being bullied.
Sad they didn’t find strength and maturity 🤷‍♀️

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As a resident of the "greater Portland metro area," I'm concerned both for our city and for what may be in store for our nation. I'm gratified that my @wyden.senate.gov is doing everything he can to help protect our state, and by extension, our country: bsky.app/profile/wyde...

I specifically had the bundle so I could watch my home state hockey- I didn’t blink to cancel

Field Note 1.R: The Coup Clux Clown Rides Again Or: Don't You be My Neighbor

This isn’t just about Jimmy Kimmel.

When Putin seized Russia’s media, he didn’t start with tanks.

He started with silencing the comedians, then the critics, then the press.

That’s how it works.

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#JimmyKimmel #Censorship #Resist

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

The good news is, in this environment, who doesn't have one of these conditions.

I had lutefisk at the MN state fair when I went back two years ago. I don’t like it but they did an Asian fusion version that was tolerable 🤯

An idea:

YouTube video by King of the Hill Chuck Mangione Compilation | King of the Hill

Going to post this all over

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Without helping anyone in the US

It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.

Narrator: Noem is saying FEMA will look like a mass casualty event.

everything is terrible so here’s the swedish chef doing rapper’s delight

Instructions for preparing for various incidents and crises and emergency conditions - Suomi.fi This Suomi.fi Guide helps you prepare for crises and incidents, such as power cuts and cyberattacks or hybrid influence activities and disinformation.

Finland has a guide that is for communities to help each other during catastrophic events

www.suomi.fi/guides/prepa...

Goodnight y'all.

Music and politics expert here. There is no music that is free from politics, because music is a human construct and whether or not we like to admit it, humans are all affected intimately by politics. Even music without words can express political ideas. You’re just noticing it for the first time.

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.

Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".

Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.

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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

YouTube video by NPR Music Living Colour: Tiny Desk Concert

Living Colour, y'all. The realest.

To see Vernon Reid shred up close was honestly one of the most joyous Tiny Desk experiences I've ever had.

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Always loved the people who are like, "But my ancestors came here the legal way!" and by that they mean they arrived via ratship to an island, a man asked them their name, they were like, "Uh, Jeff... Smith?" another guy said "sure?" and then they became permanent residents of the United States.

Wyden flashes on a bit of local cult lore to make the point that a firesale of public land may also prove attractive to extremists seeking a remote compound:

<< I said, “How many of you remember the Rajneeshees?” >>

I am taking a day to soak it in and think. I don't want to be rash, but every time I consider what the Republicans on the SCOTUS (yes Republicans) did today I keep coming back to they just laid the foundation for our very own Holocaust.

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength" - 1984