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Donald Trump set another record. There’s NEVER been an election (since polling began in the United States) where voters said “corruption” was their top worry. Until now.

Minnesota, here's what Michelle Tafoya really thinks of you. Let's send her packing in November.

If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250

They privatized ICE for profit. 70%-75% of the ICE prisoners committed no crime but Geo Group still gets paid per body, per day. Geo group has been proven to have a lot of employees who sexually assault ICE prisoners. Geo Group is no.different than human traffickers and drug cartels.

Going abroad as an American in today's world? Get ready to explain the electoral college, travel guru Rick Steves says.

MAGA holds a protest with a few thousand people in DC and they attack the capital and brutally assault police officers. Millions upon millions of Democrats hold 3100+ protests nationwide without incident. That tells you all you need to know.

His whole life, Trump has always had someone else around to bail him out of the messes he creates: his father, Allen Weisselberg, the "adults in the room" in his first term. Now all those protectors are gone and he is openly begging for someone to save him from his own folly.

These 52 people could have stopped a national and a world catastrophe any time they chose to. They confirmed Noem, Bondi, Hegseth, et al, okayed DOGE and tariffs, and green lighted Trump’s military attacks. The country and the world reels. Fifty-two people.

Man, are they scared.

JUDGE JOHNSTON: “Today, immigrants are being detained without due process. Tomorrow, under the Government’s interpretation of the law, American citizens could be subject to the same .. This Court will not allow such an unraveling of the Constitution.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

OBAMA: “People make excuses for him. They say he’s not serious. Everything a president says is serious!”🔥

i don’t know if it’s the jaunty bow tie or what but i cannot stop laughing at this

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... Deserves a listen!

Kristol means Kristallnacht: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristal...

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

This guy is in Minneapolis standing before an American citizen in an SUV. The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence. This is not protection. This is occupation.

Tomorrow we are supposed to have our Solar Panels installed. Today, we are getting a Minnesota blizzard. There go my Federal Solar Tax credits which expire on Wednesday. We started the process in September. System is backed up with everyone trying to finish on time. FDT's "war" on renewable energy

The man who ran on a platform of "America First" and promised no involvement in foreign wars is now launching wars of choice in Nigeria, Venezuela, Syria, and Lebanon. Meanwhile, he is verbally attacking our oldest and closest allies.

'Tis the season for static cling...check the back of your clothes in the mirror before heading out! Dry Minnesota winters can cause a pair of your "undergarments" to stick to the back of your shirt unnoticed. Happily for everyone, I caught it while folding laundry! IYKYK

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

Things that aren’t random. Many are laid out in project 2025. Get active locally, run for office, speak up, and READ. Articles: thetechpencil.com/when-enforce... apnews.com/article/spyw...

This night's Aurora was worth standing out in the Minnesota cold! Awe and wonder are a nice change of pace...

🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."

In protesting peacefully we reclaim our cities and communities from state brutality. These are our spaces, our homes.

It’s going to take ages to pay all these people

It’s a bad look.

"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."

Don't agonize — organize! Here are five steps you can take between now and the midterms to resist Trump's tyranny. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W-l...

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

We are America!

If you're making a list of things that seem "off" these days, add my amaryllis to the list. It's blooming in July... July!

Andrea Gibson was Colorado's poet laureate & a national icon for the LGBTQ community. Today, they slipped out of their cancer stricken body to become a more luminous being. They had written a poem for the occasion which I share with you now: LOVE LETTER FROM THE AFTERLIFE

According to the Economist's latest poll-Trump's disapproval rating is 55%. According to Fox News poll, 59% oppose the Big Bad Bill, including 73% of Independents. Call your Senators! And it can't hurt to call the usual fence sitters: Collins (202-224-2523) Murkowski (202-224-6665)

We are posting this placard at all of our offices and asking our union contract farms to post as well. We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.

This spot just outside of Grand Teton National Park would be potentially sold off under the Republican's budget bill. This is on Shadow Mountain, which is a popular place for camping and viewing the Tetons.

The real America vs MAGA

As it turns out, it wasn’t about the fentanyl. It never was. It’s all about the racism, xenophobia, isolationism, and nationalism. That’s what fuels MAGA.

"We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down." – Eleanor Roosevelt #AltGov #AltFam #AltCitizen

NASHVILLE — council Immigrant caucus: “Accountability must never come at the expense of due process, human dignity, or community trust… the DHS announcement dangerously stigmatizes entire immigrant communities and misrepresents what transpired.”

It's hard to adequately describe how scary it is to watch mainstream political journalists barely push back against a sitting U.S. president accepting a $400M plane from a foreign government that would literally be designated as an emergency command-and-control center during a nuclear war.

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

It's hard to feel empathy for these fools, but I've run out of fucks to give. We warned them.

www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...

A concentration camp is defined by Encyclopedia Brittanica as an internment center for political prisoners & members of national or minority groups who are confined for reasons of state security, exploitation, or punishment, usually by executive decree. Auschwitz wasn't in Germany.