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I added my own reasons to this subthread, about when the mayor crashed our NNO and tried picking an unasked for fight with people in my neighborhood. He's a bad mayor and an asshole.

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Zuck: The average American has three friends

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Urgent questions from my boss popping up on my watch as the nurse puts on the cuff to take my blood pressure. If this was shown in a movie it would be called heavy-handled.

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Reason number fifty-leven why any and all superlatives about Minnesota must include the superlative racial disparity or the asterisk phrase “for white people.”

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Formerly “Just Fine” @amyklobuchar.com has become Willing Collaborator Amy Klobuchar more and more with every passing week.

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A film that takes place where you're from.

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THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.

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it is VERY important that anyone who lives in wisconsin votes for crawford for wisconsin supreme court on april 1st. wisconsin is only just starting to recover from the damage of the scott walker era and this would help solidify a new era in the state

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When the GOP fights against early voting, voting by mail, and other accessible options for participating in democracy, it's (justifiably) called out as classist, disenfranchisement, and voter suppression.

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Justin Eichorn, GOP dude who sponsored the Trump Derangement Bill, just got busted for being a pdf file and soliciting a minor. How... predictable?

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The PAC "We Love Minneapolis" doesn't love Minneapolis enough to realize they're using photos of St Paul on their website.

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Our next show is on 4/20, and we refuse to ignore fate; we're doing a show celebrating, venerating, and vilifying good ol' marijuana. Smoke 'em if you got 'em and we'll see you there!

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It’s our responsibility to make sure this book tour never happens

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Let's get Bonus Army Pt 2 going. Every fired federal worker and vet that's been stripped of their benefits should be camping out and making DC a hostile place for politicians. They could easily be crowdfunded if everyone cancelled one streaming sub and used that money to support them.

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If you could commission one fictional character to fix the current US political problems, who would it be?

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Do you know what would really impress Jodie Foster right now?

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Having just voted to give an actual Nazi more funding, Chuck Schumer is now going off on tour to talk about his book on antisemitism in America. Okay then. www.reddit.com/r/protest/co...

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Share the media. The news is compromised. We're starting to boil over.

submitted 54 days ago • 16 comments

You know things are fucked up when the blue wave emoji accounts and the communist Garfield accounts are exactly as pissed off about the exact same thing for the exact same reason

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We Love Minneapolis is a Republican front, a conclusion that should surprise absolutely no one.

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Every few years we go to an AMC theater to remind ourselves why Alamo Drafthouse is worth the drive.

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Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has kindly provided this handy form letter that any US citizen can send to DOGE to request any records DOGE may have accessed about that citizen under the Freedom Of Information Act. jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...

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It's a cliché, but isn't it funny how "making tough decisions" in government always involves hurting people who are in no state to fight back, rather than those who would feel no pain through being taxed?

submitted 57 days ago • 14 comments

keeping a tab open watching tesla stock and it might be the best mood enhancer i've ever experienced

submitted 58 days ago • 684 comments

This should be read as a regime commitment to systematic First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, and Fifth Amendment violations.

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