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The first US Cabinet happened in 1789.
Underrated cat mood: when they’re like “where we goin?” And follow you from room to room
Refugee missing since release to Border Patrol on Thursday found dead by Buffalo police buffalonews.com/news/local/a...
Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.
I wish Americans were smarter.
Gallego: "They're going and racially profiling people and rounding up Americans until they can prove their citizenship. That money came from kicking millions and millions of Americans off Medicaid. It was the same bill. They cut Medicaid to expand ICE."
Trump's brain flits wildly from Mamdani to shoveling snow to having a conversation with a woman in the audience who has bad eyes. He claims he "gave her a lot of money to get her eyes fixed." This event is totally off the rails.
Fresh edition of my newsletter. Read why I hate crying & I really hate that it is my biggest menopause symptom.
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Racism, Ableism, and the Burden That Kills
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Blizzard to bring major power outages, long restorations to CT ctmirror.org/2026/02/22/c...
People can buy a piece of Bloodroot history after the Bridgeport restaurant closed www.ctpost.com/news/article...
Truckloads of out-of-state cans are coming to CT for the 10-cent redemption. Can it be stopped? www.ctpost.com/connecticut/...
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The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about
CT libraries face possible 20% cut to cross-town borrowing program ctmirror.org/2026/02/17/c...
It's simple, ladies. All you have to do is present your driver's license, and present your birth certificate, and sign an affidavit, and submit the affidavit for review, and there's a pretty good chance your vote will be counted. Now stop getting all hysterical.
For NYT’s David Brooks, a Long-Overdue Goodbye via @truthdig.bsky.social
AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
The Hilarious Decline of MAGA’s Brief Cultural Relevance newrepublic.com/article/2062... via @newrepublic.com
I break down Bad Bunny’s halftime performance, and the real reason MAGA hates him — well, besides the racism www.youtube.com/live/hKIUneQ...
Why Affordability and the Vibecession Are Real Economic Problems
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Really good stuff from @mtkonczal.bsky.social on empirically quantifying the “vibecession” … a combination of price volatility/more income going to essentials despite rising wages substack.com/app-link/pos...
NEW COLUMN: Trump Has Raised His Army
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