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My granny grew up in this area. The original sign was definitely there not too long ago but in bad shape. This looks so nice 😊 Same script.

06.03.2026 22:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

06.03.2026 19:09 👍 13697 🔁 2980 💬 325 📌 186

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

01.03.2026 12:27 👍 3452 🔁 1024 💬 33 📌 31

Bowie, 100%. 😞

26.02.2026 04:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rather than telling ourselves that we have to “catch up” to some imagined goal of normalized AI use in higher education, Columbia should take advantage of its prominence as a university to propose something better, like classrooms free of screens, oral examinations, and an end to slippery, relativistic standards on AI use from university administrators. Our response to AI is an opportunity to distinguish Columbia as a reservation where minds are developed without the crutch of a chatbot. As incoming University President Mnookin begins to navigate Columbia’s many financial and political threats, she should reassert the true value of a liberal arts education: learning for learning’s sake

Rather than telling ourselves that we have to “catch up” to some imagined goal of normalized AI use in higher education, Columbia should take advantage of its prominence as a university to propose something better, like classrooms free of screens, oral examinations, and an end to slippery, relativistic standards on AI use from university administrators. Our response to AI is an opportunity to distinguish Columbia as a reservation where minds are developed without the crutch of a chatbot. As incoming University President Mnookin begins to navigate Columbia’s many financial and political threats, she should reassert the true value of a liberal arts education: learning for learning’s sake

The administrators might have been conned by the AI hucksters, but the students, my friends, are all right.

(The author is a history and economics major, I'll note.)

www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026...

22.02.2026 16:52 👍 766 🔁 156 💬 14 📌 8
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JFC, cut that shit in half and you’ve eradicated hunger, provided healthcare for all and made education free for all Americans. What the fuck are we doing?

15.02.2026 12:52 👍 9085 🔁 3321 💬 854 📌 342

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

04.02.2026 19:41 👍 26870 🔁 6372 💬 385 📌 224

I suggested someone use Asst and Assoc. She sighed and was like ‘nah, I think of it as Ass Prof, Ass Head anyway.’

02.02.2026 17:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Been working from home in my pajamas the past two days. Just now ventured out, blinking, with the trash and to check the mail. Silently apologized to my neighbors as I sailed hither and yon in pjs and ratty bun. I know you were watching, Cindy.

27.01.2026 22:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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here's a video from this afternoon in Eden Prairie MN of ICE agents camping out as a bus stop.

Again, this is terrorism.

27.01.2026 21:40 👍 10409 🔁 3987 💬 340 📌 194
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Pritzker: "An American president should be standing up, calling for calm. That's not what this president ever does. In fact, he wants the temperature to go up. Why? Because what he's looking for is an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act, to bring actual troops into American cities."

24.01.2026 18:30 👍 5965 🔁 2114 💬 269 📌 117

The reason the “paid protestor” accusation is so popular is that these are people who cannot imagine doing something because it’s right, to stand up for a principle, talking to other people like that.

19.01.2026 15:18 👍 3678 🔁 695 💬 179 📌 33
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❤️ you, Minnesota

📹: IG melodyinminneapolis

18.01.2026 02:28 👍 1648 🔁 577 💬 15 📌 31

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic.

The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

16.01.2026 23:46 👍 24664 🔁 7907 💬 1074 📌 373

Meanwhile the editors at most of our national media are still mandating watered down both sides weasel words instead of describing what is going on plainly.

17.01.2026 14:09 👍 142 🔁 31 💬 1 📌 0

Hard to imagine a better illustration of "weaponizing the justice system" than the AG hearing local politicians be like "what ICE is doing sucks, also please don't riot" and immediately declaring it a crime against the regime

16.01.2026 23:27 👍 69 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

‘If a tortoise in Madagascar walks 1720 steps, how many hats can it wear to equal purple?’

11.01.2026 22:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

at least part of everything this government does is to impress a handful of psychos on twitter

03.01.2026 19:38 👍 5430 🔁 924 💬 111 📌 17

I am watching Sen. Alex Padilla talk on the Senate floor about being assaulted last week, as I watch New York City controller Brad Lander get assaulted at immigration court. In between reports on the two MN Democrats shot, one murdered, last weekend. But both sides, people, both sides.

17.06.2025 17:08 👍 2686 🔁 824 💬 44 📌 16
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Brad Lander, NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate, is arrested outside immigration court New York City comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander has been arrested at a federal building in Manhattan as he was trying to accompany a person out of an immigration courtroom.

what is it called when people who aren't cops and don't have a warrant drag you away, because I don't think "arrest" is the word

17.06.2025 16:58 👍 8298 🔁 2361 💬 59 📌 181

I feel like Wolf Blitzer is somehow responsible for this.

09.04.2025 21:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@StephenM

You have been watching the greatest economic master strategy from an American President in history.

3:29 PM • 4/9/25 • 487K Views

@StephenM You have been watching the greatest economic master strategy from an American President in history. 3:29 PM • 4/9/25 • 487K Views

(man douses himself with lighter fluid)

(man shoots off a Roman candle to “fuck up the neighbors” but sets himself on fire)

(man tries to pay out flames, spreads fire to his own garage)

(man accidentally falls into swimming pool)

09.04.2025 21:34 👍 3710 🔁 567 💬 185 📌 34

I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

19.02.2025 13:42 👍 17827 🔁 4706 💬 491 📌 199

Sure didn’t have ‘Trump imitates Jello salad next to President Musk in the Oval Office’ on the bingo card

20.02.2025 14:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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i just think if you're going to found a website called "the federalist" you should have to have at least a tiny understanding of what the federalist papers (like, say, 78) have to say about things

10.02.2025 19:32 👍 6044 🔁 856 💬 356 📌 157
sreenshot from the new york times reporting that Stanford University’s provost is talking about how the loss of funding from national institutes of health funding will cost the university $160 million. that’s not the way to get this changed — the people think “stanford is rich; no big deal.” leaders need to talk about what this will cost the public

sreenshot from the new york times reporting that Stanford University’s provost is talking about how the loss of funding from national institutes of health funding will cost the university $160 million. that’s not the way to get this changed — the people think “stanford is rich; no big deal.” leaders need to talk about what this will cost the public

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!

EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

09.02.2025 22:00 👍 10534 🔁 2782 💬 136 📌 123
Matt Gaetz: The halftime show you just watched is clearly the regime’s response to Trump’s historic gains with black men.

Matt Gaetz: The halftime show you just watched is clearly the regime’s response to Trump’s historic gains with black men.

Eternal victimization mentality.

Who is "the regime"? GOP has trifecta control of the federal government and a big supreme Court majority. Tech and finance are on your side.

There's no pleasing these people because their demand is to dominate and to be revered for it.

10.02.2025 02:12 👍 1507 🔁 221 💬 51 📌 33