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James Comer spent years and millions of taxpayer dollars trying and failing to prove that there was a policy connection between Hunter’s appointment to the Burisma board in 2014 and his VP dad. But Comer won’t spend a day or a dollar investigating this.

If you want a sober place to find community, finding a church that shares your social values isn't a bad option.

If the god thing is truly a deal breaker, look for a Unitarian church, they won't care.

Remember when we thought Sarah Palin was the dumbest person in politics

Good times.

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

The people who want their own halftime show are the same people who wanted their own bathroom and water fountain.

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

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Susan Collins voted to advance the bill that funds ICE, and for weeks she’s been leading the push to pass even more ICE funding with no reforms and no accountability. This is a desperate attempt to cover up a record she knows Mainers reject.

„Putin has promised Trump many things. But the people of Ukraine see no benefit from them. On the contrary, they are forced to freeze in darkness because the consequences of the Russian attacks are devastating. Journalism should focus on facts, not announcements.“
Vassili Golod

As someone who was in the Army in 2010 I am always kind of puzzled by "the Dems accomplished nothing while they were in the majority in congress" rhetoric because overturning Don't Ask, Don't Tell was actually a very big fucking deal to a lot of people that I served with.

Imo, Miller is acting as potus right now. I am convinced Trump has checked out and only concerns himself with building his ballroom, renovating bathrooms and being a puppet.

The strongest qualification Kristi Noem had to build the kind of terror squad Trump wanted, was that she shot her own dog rather than take the time to train it.

I say again, this does not even approach a scintilla of the accountability that is required. These are PR moves.

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Well, it’s the 9th anniversary of this today. No special reason for mentioning it now, obviously

If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status.

Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

I try and avoid political posts because… well… *gestures*, but I am *still* seeing posts from Americans talking about stuff that the “next president” will have to clean up after “the next election” and it blows my mind that even despite… well… *gestures*, they still think there’ll be one.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.

I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Is it a good idea to host a major event like the FIFA World Cup in a country whose secret state police hunt down innocent people, lock them in cages, or execute them in the street?

Again I say into the void: stop saying the ICE officer had no time to think. Time doesn’t start when the drama starts. They drove up. They walked up. They engaged. Stop saying there is only reflex, no thought. If so, stop arming ambulatory startle reflexes & calling them cops

When Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you."

That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.

My forecast of the situation in Venezuela as a former combat medic that served in Iraq.

As a medic, the immediate, almost reflexive thought is:

“This is going to be a lot of casualties, fast.”

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Endless Column, by Constantin Brâncuși, 1938, 📸 by @stephenmally

The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply.

I want to make sure this is very clear.

The demonization of Somalis is no different than the demonization of Haitians before the election. It's a political attack and has to be actively fought—not through half-measures or expressions of tepid concern but by demanding decency from society and respect for all of humanity.

Imagine believing, and getting mad about, Somali daycare centers having contributed $35 million to the Democrats - a nonsensical, demonstrable, obvious lie.

And yet some *billionaires* believed it and then spread the lie over on Twitter.

Some of the richest people are some of the dumbest.

We went to some of the day cares Nick Shirley did. Here’s what we found. Some of the 10 day cares the YouTube content creator blasted for having “no children” invited reporters in to see for themselves.

I went to all 10 of the daycares Nick Shirley featured in his viral video. I got inside 4 and found children. Lots of children: www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...

I'm tired of hearing Marjorie Taylor Green complain about people being mean to her.

This is the same woman that kicked our then-18yo staffer. She told me to go back to my country. She sent an army of trolls to threaten me when I called her out.

We need to stop acting like she's sane, or a victim.

Having to watch a bootlegged copy of a video from another country because my country censored it is making me feel as if I'm living in 1980s Eastern Germany.

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

The prices fans are thinking of paying for US World Cup tickets. Take a long hard look at yourselves. There are people having a really difficult time. Watch it on telly and donate the rest, minus your Sky subscription and beer, to charity.