gregrmurphy.bsky.social
Let's put our heads together and start a new country up - Minneapolis MN
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LA County has almost 10 million people and almost half of them are Hispanic. A migrant invasion? The whole state used to be part of Mexico!
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Freaking out about people speaking Spanish in a city with a Spanish name... 🙄
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Surprised they haven't tried to change the city's name to The Angels
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It's no coincidence that the last major racial unrest in this country was during Trump's last term
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You seem to be mistaking anger for panic and confusion. When every acronym of federal agencies show up in combat gear and masks and treat residents with hostility, people get angry.
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Two For the Money
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Sending like 50 guys in various shades of masks and camo to a Mexican restaurant and making no arrests is going to, um, provoke a few questions
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Supposedly it isn't an immigration case, so it seems they were looking for citizens
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"Officers wearing the uniforms of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Minneapolis Police Department, Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, the FBI, and the criminal investigation arm of the IRS..."
Sheesh
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Homeland Security and FBI and ATF? Does Minneapolis have a massive crime syndicate none of us have ever heard of?
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Hoping Ms. Kofman got some hazard pay
-One morning this winter, I woke up to twenty-eight texts from Yarvin expressing concerns about my reporting technique. “The problem is that your process is slack and I can feel it generating low-quality content—because it’s not adversarial enough,” he wrote.
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The longer I read, the more I moved from "this guy is an obnoxious USENET blowhard" to "maybe he has actual serious mental problems"
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Even the highest of the perennially high wouldn't come up with "Yeah, we could have a button that would disarm all government weapons, pretty sure no one would ever try to mess with that..."
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Another Minnesota congressional rep, Betty McCollum, is also outspoken on Palestinian rights, and never gets the same blowback for some weird reason
mccollum.house.gov/DefendingPal...
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Lumon's "Identity Affirmation Sundae Bars" are legendary
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as a "not really paying attention much yet" voter I can say that a 3rd term for anyone, Frey included, seems like a tough sell these days
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"But the most important ingredient is Love"
Oh shoot
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Find me one person in the country whose life is even a tiny bit better by her being deported
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Runnin things, it ain't all gravy
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He's all launches and no landings
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Get Ben Foster and Mads Mikkelsen on the horn
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He knows how to launch but has trouble with landings
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The FX miniseries about this is going to kick ass
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Exploding on re-entry
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Not trying to kink shame but the role playing with these three has gotten out of hand
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I mean, we all knew she'd eventually leave him for an immigrant
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Yeah, snobbery cuts both ways - the "Real America" people are just as condescending as the worst upper-crust caricature
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Your story about how snooty Ivy League students are shouldn't start with "When I was at Yale"
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They want to deport undocumented immigrants and also make it hard-to-impossible to come here legally, while smaller cities dry up and blow away.
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I so wish they would start to think about "what could an extreme far left administration also do with these powers?"
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College should just be football games and toga parties, when did it all get so complicated
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And if a liberal President ever tries anything similar, watch Congress suddenly come roaring back to life
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Mad (at) Libs
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One for my fellow AARP homies
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Tanks? If we're building things here, how about more affordable housing, better schools, modern transportation systems?
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Senate candidates should focus on jobs, housing, and cost of living
Congressional reps from deep blue districts can take the lead on the culture war topics
We can walk*and* chew gum
www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
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This is why I only listen to Eddie and the Cruisers
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“If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.”
- President Reagan
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And I thought "nepo baby" was just an expression
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Undertones *and* subtext - ooh la la!
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GOP: let's do "cancel culture" but actually cancel culture
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"in 2023, nearly two-thirds of adults ages 19-64 covered by Medicaid were working and nearly three in ten were not working because of caregiving responsibilities, illness or disability, or due to school attendance"
www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...
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Working on my new column "Hey, It Is What It Is"
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You could show him the dumbest AI nonsense about one of his stupid pet ideas and he would lick the plate clean
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Yeah this one came at a very good time (for me) - watching the BS piling up about this has been crazy-making
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Thank you, this is really needed