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@davemn80.bsky.social
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Minneapolitan anti-fascist working in local government to solve problems, waiting for the great leap forwards. Occasional posts about baseball and soccer (YNWA). I bike and I know things.

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 10h
The Roosevelt High School teacher who was tackled, choked and charged with felony by feds on school grounds just hours after Renee Good's killing has taken a preliminary step in filing a lawsuit against the federal government. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Roosevelt High teacher files federal claim over violent detention by agents
Roosevelt High School teacher Quentin Williams has filed a claim against the federal government alleging agents violently detained him, falsely accused him of assault and violated his civil rights.
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This is what they do.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
"When one side rejects pluralism, electoral legitimacy, or epistemic accountability, then 'reconciliation' and even 'civility' function less as neutral civic virtues than as asymmetric constraints, and they risk unilaterally disarming pro-democracy forces." 🎯
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
"Normative appeals to civility and harmony, when applied indiscriminately, can obscure the moral distinction between domination and resistance—condemning confrontational opposition even in contexts where democratic survival or basic human dignity is at stake." 🎯
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
I love this paper so much. If I had my way every single journalist, pundit, analyst, and politician in the US would read it & then read it again. I want to quote all of it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
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Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism
"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...
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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight
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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
She sounds like she's talking about a cult “It was like a dagger in my heart,” Hope said. “It was like a light switch went on and a veil lifted, and I saw him for who he was, and I have not been able to unsee it since.”
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Trump rally superfan says she now supports impeaching him
President Donald Trump's most ardent supporters are now abandoning him, according to Politico's "Playbook." The "Front Row Joes" are so named because they fight to make sure they're in the front row o...
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 27/09/2026
What an odd moment in United States history. A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government. Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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A Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by the Government (Gift Article)
The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel the warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
we could solve the western water crisis overnight by simply charging alfalfa farmers market rates for water
Across the basin, alfalfa hay uses more than 5 million acre-feet of Colorado River water — that's 26% of all the water consumed in the basin. One acre-foot roughly equals the annual water use of two or three households.
In the Upper Basin, irrigated agriculture consumes 2.8 million acre-feet, or nearly half the water used by Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, the environment, reservoirs and water exports out of the basin. Cattle-feed crops, like alfalfa, consume 90% of all water used by Upper Basin agriculture.
That means alfalfa uses more water than cities, commercial users and industries across the entire basin:
Collectively, these users consume about 3.5 million acre-feet, or 18%, of the river's water. The Colorado River
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
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Andy Lettuce @andy.hopepunk.club · 26/09/2026
MN voters: amending the state constitution requires a majority of voters to vote yes - abstaining from the school funding question on your ballot this year is effectively a no-vote. Please take a sec to get informed before you submit your ballot! www.lwvmn.org/2026-constit...
A portion of the MN official ballot that reads

Constitutional Amendments
Failure to vote on a constitutional amendment will have the same effect as voting no on the amendment.
To vote for a proposed constitutional amendment, fill in the box next to the word "Yes" on that question. To vote against a proposed constitutional amendment, fill in the box next to the word "No" on that question.
Increasing funding to school districts
Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to increase the funding going to all school districts from the permanent school fund, which is a fund that supports school districts without raising individual income or property taxes, effective July 1, 2027?

(This is a photo of my ballot where I have selected yes)
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson posed as a problem gambler for months on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made Jake a VIP — and he lost $10K. Here's how it all went down . . .
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026
This is an entirely new phenomenon because before the vaccine, most women who survived measles were immune because they had it when they were young. But now, idiots who refuse to get vaccinated are giving birth to babies with measles. Two babies have died. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A scathing court ruling decrying the overcrowded and "inhumane" conditions at NYC's notorious ICE detention facility included diagrams that are eerily reminiscent of slave ships. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/federal...
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026
"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought
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Doron Clark @doronclark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Vote yes! Passing the MN constitutional amendment on this year’s ballot will increase funding to all public schools including about $1,000,000 per year to Minneapolis Public Schools. Don’t skip it - leaving this question blank is the same as voting no. (PS - Edison scored!)
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404 Media @404media.co · 24/09/2026
Cops followed EJ Carrion home and arrested him in his drive way one week after he said 'bullshit' at a county meeting in Texas. Here is that body cam footage. @mjgault.bsky.social reports: www.404media.co/watch-body-c...
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Eric Fritz is CEO of Anovaeon, a for-profit 'humanitarian' firm contracted by ICE to run the new ICE facility for kids in Alexandria, Louisiana, at decommissioned Air Force barracks. Fritz defended the ICE for kids project in a public hearing this week, KALB reported. bsky.app/profile/reic...
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Tony Damiano @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good question! State appropriations have dropped from 39% of the University budget since 1990 down to 16% in 2025 and I have also not heard a peep about this from state leaders. www.house.mn.gov/comm/docs/ZF...
Chart showing state share of U revenue dropping from 39% in 1990 to 16% in 2025
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved
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EHB on BET @ehbforbet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I greatly appreciate KSTP digging into the pressure that MPD overspending is placing on our budget and property taxes. The Mayor's budget contains an enormous increase in police spending and it's only reasonable to ensure they will stick to these limits and be held accountable.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 24/09/2026
An investigation has found that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies have wasted tens of millions of dollars pursuing uninformed plans to increase detention capacity, and the total will likely rise due to ongoing mismanagement.
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ICE is wasting tens of millions of dollars on 'uninformed' detention projects, report finds
An investigation has found that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies have wasted tens of millions of dollars pursuing uninformed plans to increase detention capacity, and the total will likely rise due to ongoing mismanagement.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of my most galaxy-brained takes is that politicians and political groups should talk more about workers’ share of national income. It's one of the clearest, simplest ways to describe how billionaires and corporate elites captured so much of the economy--and something policy can change.
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U.S. workers' share of national income falls to a new low
Labor's bargaining position has worsened markedly in the last half-decade.
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We will never have nice things as long as Democrats continue riding the broligarch gravy train. Palantir is one of the most nefarious companies in the world. Their founder literally said "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." www.huffpost.com/entry/palant...
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Palantir Named A ‘Top Supporter’ At CBC Foundation's Annual Conference
The controversial data and AI firm, which has millions of dollars of contracts with ICE, has been trying to curry favor with Democratic-aligned groups.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear.
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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026
Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.
A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Can't say we weren't warned. Frank Herbert was writing about the civilizational threat these guys posed in the 1960s.
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

"'Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind,'" Paul quoted.

Frank Herbert, Dune
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NJB/North Minneapolis They/Them @knittingdyke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Skipping this ballot question is equivalent to a NO vote. PLEASE vote YES! It will cost taxpayers NOTHING to increase school funding, and do nothing to the state budget. Please read! voteyesmnstudents.org
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Vote Yes: Boost Funding for Minnesota Public Schools
Vote Yes for a constitutional amendment to boost Minnesota public school funding without raising taxes, benefiting every student statewide.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Excellent analysis. There is no sugarcoating what is happening here in Germany. Most of the political centre is enabling if not actively supporting the rise of fascism. The Left‘s remarkable performance in the Berlin elections is not being heralded as an earthquake but treated as a threat.
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 24/09/2026
I understand/respect @elliottpayne.org’s position (that the city’s requested levy should be approved & mayor/council hash out MPD overspending, & anything less could frag other services) but Council’s tools, sincerely wielded, have failed to sway mayor. I hope Eric’s vote can add heft to solution.
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 24/09/2026
Was talking to a democracy defense group last night about how state constitutional officers are elected independently & are responsible to their offices, not the governor. Same with BET: they are independent & get to act that way. I appreciate what Eric is doing with the tool he has.
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Kay Carvajal Moran @kayforparks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My colleague, MPRB Board President Tom Olsen published an op-ed continuing the conversation about why our Minneapolis Parks should be fully funded.
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mollypeonies @mollypeonies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It doesn't matter what MPD says for how or why after the fact. The question is why/how did MPD spend $1.2 million in four days, and why/how was a 101-MPD-personnel operation for a "barricade removal" approved as part of that spending allocation. That's it! That's the easiest story right there.
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mollypeonies @mollypeonies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nearly every major news outlet reported on the operation that day, using MPD talking points directly. Yet no one asked: How many MPD officers are assigned here? Why SWAT? What are the drones doing? Why are officers running plates and people? What will happen to those records? What is this costing?
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mollypeonies @mollypeonies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Is local media not picking up on this story--with the MPD documents right there in it--because it would poke holes in their own coverage of the Jan. 9th "clearing" operation? Or is it bc of their institutional relationships with MPD? Something else? I have some thoughts on this this below:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Republican Minnesota state auditor candidate (and quack doctor) Scott Jensen: "We almost have to go back to, what did medicine look like to the pioneer days in America?"
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026
EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.
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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One of the things I learned in writing this piece is that in 1873, a former confederate official asked SCOTUS to weaponize the 14th Amendment against biracial government. The court refused at the time. But in 2026, that's exactly what the Supreme Court did.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026
Haven't seen a better AI explainer than this one (even if it somewhat overstates the AI safety stuff) www.instagram.com/reel/Ddlt1kR...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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CNN @cnn.com · 23/09/2026
British Columbia sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, in California over a mass shooting at one of its schools. According to the lawsuit, the February massacre could have been prevented if the company had warned local law enforcement that the shooter had used ChatGPT to discuss gun violence.
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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Andrew Cuomo, through tears : this is marxism
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Mamdani Delivers $131 Million Settlement For DoorDash Drivers
The Mamdani administration said the settlement is the largest labor enforcement action in the city’s history.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026
kalshi and polymarket should be banned altogether, not allowed to encourage users to start margin trading
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It is fucking appalling how much theft is going on at the WH
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My thoughts about Waymo... which we really need to regulate... (but not like that) www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...
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What should Minneapolis do about Waymo?
A human in the driver’s seat of a driverless taxi won’t solve some of the bigger headaches brought on by Waymo’s arrival.
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MikeNobel @embraceyourmusic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hmmmmmmmm …. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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FBI Anti-Corruption Investigators Targeted Susan Collins in Bribery Probe — But Then Trump Happened: Report
The FBI was reportedly looking at Maine Senator Susan Collins in a potential bribery probe before President Donald Trump returned to office and revamped the bureau, according to an eye-opening report ...
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 22/09/2026
Bill Burr on ICE: "I was talking about that ICE stuff onstage, talking about my people, white people. We’re not nearly as upset as we need to be because we don’t see ourselves going into the van. I go, 'Who do you think’s going in the van next?'" Read: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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