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The drunk uncle theory.

You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

And…..what exactly is the reasonable suspicion based on?? It doesn’t have anything to do with racial profile only in the sense that it is absolutely and only racial profiling.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Great book, great author! I second the audible version of this or other Scalzi books. Will Wheaton narration makes the books even better.

I’m pretty sure we have the same sign on our house. They just show up

The reason Trump and Mike Johnson want to “take over elections” is because they know they’re deeply, DEEPLY unpopular. They are far too weak to withstand a free and fair election.

Donate Your Skymiles — Stand With Minnesota Donate your Delta Skymiles to get people home from Texas

Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

1. Astronomy
2. History of Alcohol and Drugs in America
3. History of Rock and Roll
4. Ethics in Medicine
5. Children’s Literature

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There’s so much need in Minnesota right now. Businesses are closing and rent is due soon.

If you want to help people here, there are links to rent relief & other vetted mutual aid funds on standwithminnesota.com. Please boost and donate what you can.

Thank you 🫶🏻

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst

Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Mirror-imaging. They could never imagine putting themselves on the line for another person or their community (remember JD Vance's theory of love, that it extends only to your family and no one else?) and they know any "resistance" on their end would be purely transactional - so they assume the same

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

GRAPHIC

This video shows the agent in the gray jacket walking away with the victim’s weapon BEFORE shots are fired. It’s clearly the same weapon DHS is showing to prove he was armed. This is the most damning angle we have so far.

I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.

What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios The Sheep Detectives | Official Trailer

I thought this trailer was an SNL sketch, but nope! — it’s a real movie with possibly the greatest cast of 2026, and I implore you to watch the trailer 😆
youtu.be/pyZI5oM6hWk?...

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

abolish.
ice.

The same fuckers who said they couldn’t breathe with masks in 2020 sure seem to be fine in masks now.

We actually did the math, and if you tried to follow the new DGA recommended servings of different food groups you'd very likely end up eating as much as 3x more saturated fat than the guidelines recommend. How are consumers supposed to follow guidelines that contradict themselves?

Grey cat stretched out on their back in a fleece blanket bed.

Warm, cozy and comfy. Waiting on the snow.

Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.

Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...

I’ll say it again: the Senate Democratic leadership’s approach to handle a bully stealing their lunch money every day is to simply carry more lunch money and see what happens.

Resign.

'We'll be here': Across three cities, communities step up as SNAP runs out A mother of four in Detroit, a pastor serving LGBTQ+ congregants in Dallas and a food bank manager in Chicago share their fears — and resilience — as federal funds are set to expire.

A mother of four in Detroit, a pastor serving LGBTQ+ congregants in Dallas and a food bank manager in Chicago share their fears — and resilience — as federal funds are set to expire.

a guinea pig wearing glasses and holding a pencil with the words hammy please no eating the school supplies below it Alt: GIF of a Guinnea pig with a set of plastic eyeglasses and holding a pencil it is inserting into a pencil sharpener. Overtop the image, text reads "Hammy, please, no eating the school supplies"

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Months ago, I promised to help Crayons2Calculators raise $5K for their Fill That Bus school supply drive. But then work happened 😩

I'm kicking in $5/donor, with 3 matchers!

Donate here: bullcityschools.app.neoncrm.com/tgregdoucette

Idiocracy was unrealistic only because we got dumber quicker than the movie anticipated