This is totally non-standard for any publication. Every pub everywhere pretty much cleans up uhms, uhm, and vocal tics like that, which EVERYONE DOES.

This is extremely intentional.

If I was writing this I’d probably do the quote “this is of course a very longstanding policy of the United States”

4 frame comic. it reads, on top of each frame : Give trans kids a chance to be kids without having to fight for the right to exist. first frame shows a kid playing soccer, second shows two kids drawing dinosaurs at a table, third shows a group of friends sitting by a fountain drinking bubble tea and eating chips, fourth shows a kid with long curly hair holding a trans flag.

Give trans kids a chance to be kids.

“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.”
-NYT ethical guidelines

There has been a real reluctance for people to say too much about ICE’s continued occupation in Minnesota because the headline was that ICE was leaving.

But ICE has consistently made statements themselves that they are only changing tactics—not withdrawing altogether.

FBI formally refuses to share evidence in Alex Pretti killing, Minnesota investigators say Minnesota's top investigative agency said Monday the federal government has formally refused to hand over evidence and information in the killing of Alex Pretti.

Minnesota's top investigative agency says federal government has formally refused to hand over evidence and information in the killing of Alex Pretti

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Remember when Nancy was whipping votes from her hospital bed in Austria to stop AOC from getting that seat on Oversight?

She's part of the Epstein Class Dem Wing whether you like it or not and Gavin is the perfect encapsulation of everything they stand for.

Y'all, this was *not* the ICE we're supposed to be abolishing.

But for real, some assholes always gotta ruin things.

Right-wing racists are convinced that everyone is as feckless, cowardly, racist, and evil as they are, and they are simply wrong.

Yeah, this is pretty much exactly what I thought about when I saw Musk's stupid racist tweet: Minnesotans have spent the last month and a half saying we will die to defend our multicultural community.

Meet Kaili Schmidt. A staff member at Gene Dillon Elementary school in Minnesota. She reposted this video celebrating a student who PUNCHED a pro-ICE student in the face. Would you feel comfortable with this person teaching your children? The principal can be reached here: ami_aalgaard@isd31.net

Chaya Raichik is trying to get an elementary-school teacher fired for reposting a single viral video with zero additional commentary

My Trans Bill of Rights protects the freedom for all trans people to live as their full, authentic selves. It’s time to get this passed!

I will not let the world forget what the Trump administration did to Minnesota.

If I’m elected, I will be the first woman with a science PhD ever elected to Congress. It’s time to listen to the science again.

This is why I am against traffic cams.

I saw the Quinoz ad as a grown adult and it scarred me for life.

Hmmm, what happened 5 or 6 years ago that could possibly explain this? </sarcasm>

Judge bars ICE from just busting into local Lutheran, Baptist churches without a warrant - or setting up checkpoints just outside to scan people
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#Boston #Baptists #Lutherans #lawsuits

I am begging liberals to understand that authoritarians throughout time have used the same dumb playbook and are mostly ruthless, narcissistic, and persistent rather than smart.

👏👏👏 Ask yourself this: are the victims any closer to getting justice because you spend hours and hours looking through the files and listening to conspiracy theory vids by grifty creators?

How could you instead use that time to organize to stop the GOP PDF File protectors and help enact justice?

How to turn an acquaintance into a friend — and make the friendship stick Friendship expert Kat Vellos shares tips on how to make a new friendship stick, including what to do together, how often to hang out — and what to do if the vibes just aren't there.

Friendship expert Kat Vellos shares tips on how to make a new friendship stick, including what to do together, how often to hang out — and what to do if the vibes just aren't there.

Homan is part of a regime of well-known liars.

Exactly this. "I'll vote for whichever candidate has a D next to their name no matter what their actual policy positions are!" sends a message to the politicians that they don't need to care about what you want at all. It's wild that people keep volunteering their unconditional support.

COMMENTING GUIDE: Opposing Two Trump Regime Rules Banning Gender-Affirming Care, Deadline 2/17/26 Creator profile picture Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland January 26 Edit I. Bottom Line Up Front The Trump Regime's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published two companion proposed rules designed to eliminate access to gender-affirming care for minors nationwide. Together, these rules would: Ban hospitals from providing this care (CMS-3481-P) — regardless of how the care is paid for Prohibit Medicaid and CHIP from covering this care (CMS-2451-P) — cutting off funding for lower-income families You have the opportunity to help defend trans kids by submitting comments against these vile proposed rules. Because even if a state wanted to continue covering gender-affirming care through Medicaid, the hospital rule would prevent hospitals from providing it. The two rules use different regulatory mechanisms to accomplish the same policy goal: eliminating access to gender-affirming care for anyone under 18 (or under 19 for CHIP). You should submit your comment to both dockets. The deadline is 5PM ET on February 17, 2026.

Public comment on Dr Oz's proposed rules to ban gender-affirming care for youth closes 2/17

One rule bans hospital-based care, the other eliminates Medicaid/CHIP coverage

Together they'd make care virtually unavailable nationwide, including in shield law states

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This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.

Anthropic didn’t want us to know that they were destroying millions of books to feed their software. Companies making machine learning and generative software aren’t just metaphorically ripping off books. In at least one case, they’re rather literally shredding millions of physical books to …

“AI giant Anthropic ran a massive program called Project Panama where they spent tens of millions of dollars to hoover up used books, which they then sliced, scanned, and pulped.”

Progressive Candidate Has Dropped Out Of ME Senate Race Not Platner. Daira Smith-Rodriguez

Platner's dismissive comments about sexual assault in the military were so disgusting that a candidate who had experienced assault in the service dropped out to endorse Mills rather than risk Platner getting into the senate. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/progressiv...

We cannot ignore the effects of voter roll purges, voter ID laws that put up extra hurdles, closures of polling places, restrictions of mail-in and early voting, etc.

There are also a lot of people who don't vote because the GOP ran a decades-long campaign of jerrymandering, voter suppression/disenfranchisement, and dis/misinformation that turned out to be highly successful.

Exactly! Even from a purely cold, calculating perspective, dead people don't buy any more producs.

Last month, an 18-month-old at Dilley was taken to a regional children's hospital with dangerously low blood-oxygen levels after her parents had begged for weeks for someone at the facility to address her illness, the parents said in an emergency petition for her release. A 35-year-old woman released last week said medical staff initially refused to see her after she began hemorrhaging profusely, soaking through six sanitary pads in an hour; she was ultimately taken to a hospital. And last summer, a 32-year-old man died at the Florence center after being detained at the facility for roughly three weeks. The man had been detained even though he was seriously ill with diabetes and had recently been hospitalized with dangerously high blood sugar.

Whenever you read a horrifying list like this about people who are critically ill or died in ICE concentration camps it’s important to remember that these are just the stories that got out because they were lucky enough to have lawyers who could tell their stories.