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It was my grandfather's. Mom told me i need to listen to it. Guess i will now.
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Blog on Illinois, Chicago, national, and now Minnesota politics. Early local blogger and I chose the name long before the Gateway jackass.
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"Pastors in Name Only" "Wicked Witch of Woke" “I've never seen anyone commit so much blasphemy against the word of God." As pastors become Democratic nominees — at least 5 so far, and likely one more tonight — their Republican opponents are attacking their faith. religionnews.com/2026/08/04/p...
'They're not real pastors': As clergy run as Democrats, Republicans question their faith(RNS) — 'It's a sign that they are really scared they're gonna lose this seat,' the Rev. Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran pastor running for Congress in Iowa, said. She is part of a wave of religious ...religionnews.com
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Remember when the Trib said Illinois should follow Missouri’s lead on repealing the state income tax? www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/17/m...
Editorial: Our neighbors are rethinking income taxes. How about it, Illinois?Missouri, Iowa, Indiana and Wsiconsin all are thinking creatively about taxes.www.chicagotribune.comThe DownballotTwo more GOP amendments go down to crushing defeats, both in MO. #4 would have made future ballot initiatives impossible to pass by requiring winning a majority statewide *and* in each congressional district. #5 would have eliminated the state income tax.
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SARS-CoV-2 did not come from a lab. There is no evidence pointing to laboratory origins. There’s been a massive disinformation campaign to convince the public otherwise. It’s scary how effective that campaign has been.
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Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One NoticedThe next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.www.bloomberg.com
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i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
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Judge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime and it has nothing to do with AI, crypto, metaverse, robots or any of the other massively hyped "tech" the media always talks about instead
Sarah TaberAbsolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
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MPD has defunded the city of Minneapolis.
Minnesota Star TribuneMore than 100 city employees could be laid off in Minneapolis in the first major layoffs in 16 years as the city faces a $33 million budget gap.
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Reminder that CoreCivic is an evil company getting rich off human trafficking. Their business interest is in keeping as many people detained as possible. And the CEO's last name is quite literally SWINDLE.
MinnPostPrison industry giant CoreCivic announced Monday that it has finalized a five-year federal contract to reopen a long-shuttered prison in Appleton that will now hold immigrant detainees.
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John Cornyn is a cowardly Trump-enabling asshole but he one hundred percent wants Talarico to win this race even if he’ll never say it out loud
Eric Michael GarciaCornyn about polling where Talarico is beating Paxton goes “🤷♂️ I could tell you I told you so, but I’m not going to.”
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CBS confirms that Jeanine Pirro's big white box has all the evidence that the reflecting pool was Trump's contractor's fault. Which will be of interest for @normeisen.bsky.social, just so he can make sure he gets it all. 🤣 www.cbsnews.com/news/pirro-b...
Pirro brought box of evidence to show Trump what caused Reflecting Pool damageU.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro was seen with a large box as she left the White House Monday after her meeting with President Trump.www.cbsnews.com
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Stop torturing mentally ill prisoners
Stop torturing mentally ill prisoners* More background is here if you need it. Shannon Heffernan… Illinois lawmakers are calling for changes at the Joliet Treatment Center, after a Marshall Project, Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ investigation exposed an epidemic of fires that resulted in two deaths at the prison. In the last three years, there have been more than 70 [...]dlvr.it
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The media and MAGA like to write off Trump’s outrageous comments as “joking” when he’s actually telling us the ways he intends to ruin our country. My Stop the Presses newsletter.
Stop saying Trump is joking when he’s notWill he rig the midterms? Seek an illegal third term? We need to take him seriouslywww.stopthepresses.news
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I’m glad the exit from hegemony is going so well @dhnexon.net
Jesse Johnson🚨Japan's annual defense white paper is out🚨 => Japan defense report says China challenge must be met with ‘overall national strength’ www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08...
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Minnesota is currently the only state that specifically authorizes low-dose THC retail products, like drinks and gummies, that you can buy just about anywhere. There are a few other states where that’s true through legal loopholes but it could be closed at any time.
Minnesota ReformerKlobuchar gives low-dose THC industry some hope for a reprieve from coming prohibition minnesotareformer.com/briefs/klobu...
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Different job; same story. First responders look out for us; our government does not look out for them. (Months ago I read a piece about a young firefighter who completed suicide due to his work-related illness that mirrors this new story, but I can't find it.) 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
Rescue Boat Crews Show Signs of Brain Injuries, but Coast Guard Isn’t Looking (Gift Article)Untreated and undiagnosed, the crews that save lives in the roughest seas face the relentless pounding of waves.www.nytimes.comJ. Offir, PhDAt 24, this firefighter got cancer. Here's why: "Many countries now routinely offer wildfire crews half-face respirator masks. But in the [US], the Forest Service tells its workers not to wear masks on the fire line. The agency says firefighters could... 1/3 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...