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Perspectives on nature and culture from a scientist living in the Driftless Region. Damn...it turns out "may you live in interesting times" actually IS a curse. You can't spell revolution without evolution.

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If we're brainstorming, how about it's a set up to blame Tren de Aragua...or immigrants in general...in a sad attempt to fire up flagging support among the base. Let's see where the 'evidince' goes.

05.02.2026 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Uh-oh. AI is becoming sentient.

05.02.2026 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. We'll end up with a useful list of 200,000 deplorables that are traitors to our Constitution and can be treated as such for the rest of their lives.

Put them on a no-fly list. Restrict them from owning firearms. Credit rating of zero. Etc. Be imaginative.

05.02.2026 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There's no way ICE can come close to the deportation numbers Trump campaigned on by focusing on Minnesota.

Eventually, they will HAVE to be in red states like Texas and Florida.

Maybe that's what they're preparing to do, or maybe ICE has a very different agenda and Minnesota was just training.

05.02.2026 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

People of faith in what?

05.02.2026 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And he certainly would never write a law with no enforcement mechanisms in it so that it would get passed by a large bipartisan majority...

...A LAW SO OBVIOUSLY TOOTHLESS THAT DONALD TRUMP DIDN'T HESITATE TO SIGN IT...

..to make it appear like he's spending political capital to achieve justice.

05.02.2026 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cory Hargraves
www.standwithminnesota.com

05.02.2026 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 197    πŸ” 74    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 10
The END of the SECOND Amendment
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl The END of the SECOND Amendment

The government is coming for your guns…
youtube.com/shorts/8L3Ir...

05.02.2026 00:22 β€” πŸ‘ 526    πŸ” 215    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 20
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Mary L Trump (@marytrump) Every American needs to watch this:

Two important lessons here, intertwined: The first is the story that the person is telling. The second is that a person is telling that story.

05.02.2026 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thatβ€˜s the spirit.

05.02.2026 10:46 β€” πŸ‘ 9990    πŸ” 2965    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe the Dems need to do some "distance learning"?

05.02.2026 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

05.02.2026 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 22086    πŸ” 9803    πŸ’¬ 591    πŸ“Œ 1616

<sound on>

05.02.2026 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That is, if we can figure out which goon is behind which mask is behind which crime.

That said, I bet they'd flip on each other in an instant rather than be put in the gen pop.

05.02.2026 05:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well said!

05.02.2026 05:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How strange.

05.02.2026 02:03 β€” πŸ‘ 460    πŸ” 145    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 7

Can we lend them Jack Smith?

04.02.2026 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey generals...you hear that dripping sound?

That's the last bit of whatever honor you had left, leaking out of your soul while you let this domestic enemy destroy America from within.

You. Had. One. Job.

04.02.2026 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Time to tell MAGA to go sit down and let the adults fix their mess.

04.02.2026 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Agreed πŸ’―

04.02.2026 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a close up of a man 's face with the words trendizisst on the top ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words trendizisst on the top
04.02.2026 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Washington Post undergoing significant layoffs as part of β€˜strategic reset’ Employees were told Wednesday that the paper’s sports desk would close among other cuts and restructurings

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command"
- George Orwell, "1984"

It becomes much easier for "the Party" to implement that command when they have a mechanism tailored to distribute their own narrative.

04.02.2026 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There may come a point when they WISH that all we did to them was sue them.

They will not change their behavior until they sense that point is right around the corner.

04.02.2026 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No doubt, if the Senator was giving this answer in the mid-1800s, it would go something like:

"I think the underground railroad, the whole idea of underground railroads for violent escaped criminals, is crazy."

04.02.2026 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Sen. Kevin Kramer (R-ND) interviewed on CNBC (Weds, Feb 4, 2026): "... Republicans, me included, think sanctuary cities, the whole idea of sanctuaries for violent criminals, is crazy..."

Sen. Kevin Kramer (R-ND) interviewed on CNBC (Weds, Feb 4, 2026): "... Republicans, me included, think sanctuary cities, the whole idea of sanctuaries for violent criminals, is crazy..."

Sen. Kevin Kramer (R-ND): "... Republicans, me included, think sanctuary cities, the whole idea of sanctuaries for violent criminals, is crazy..."

Imagine his surprise when he learns about a whole government department full of violent criminals...

04.02.2026 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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😬 whoops!

@tedcruz accidentally reveals the Republican agenda

04.02.2026 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1220    πŸ” 459    πŸ’¬ 102    πŸ“Œ 59

(once you notice this pattern, you see it everywhere and it becomes infuriating)

04.02.2026 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Never play a drinking game where you drink every time a politician says what "needs" to happen without suggesting "how" it might happen or what they're doing to "make" it happen.

I like Mark Kelly a lot, but he did that 3 times in 4 sentences here.

Please, Senator, for the sake of my liver...

04.02.2026 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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