Category: Politics
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Minneapolis’ obsessions with cars makes it impossible to drive them
Keep complaining, but they’re never going to plow your road if you insist on using it as your personal car storage lot.
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These Things Made Me Happy Today
The good guys are having a ball while the bad guys’ ineptitude is on full display.
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In the United States, we pay extra to kill ourselves
Though most of the country appears to have written off the 1 million+ deaths from COVID-19 as inevitable, this new study demonstrates that many of these people died due to the choices of the ruling class in the United States.
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A More Expansive and Accurate Definition of White Supremacy
Ta-Nehisi Coates follows up his blockbuster article from The Atlantic with an equally stellar conversation with Chris Hayes on MSNBC. The point should be made again and again: white supremacy is not a club which requires a card for membership. White supremacy is a pervasive mode of operation that has poisoned American politics and society from the start,…
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Two Stories of Life After Prison in Minnesota
Coincidentally, today Minnesota’s twin daily newspapers ran stories on life after prison. One had a happy (or at least hopeful) ending; the other, not so much. In the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Andy Mannix covers the “Second Chances 5K”—a race for current and former inmates aimed at emphasizing that many people “still have something to offer society”…
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Like Father, Like Son
Donald Trump Jr., whose Twitter account is arguably more deplorable than his dear dad’s, Tweeted this sweet meme today: This image says it all. Let’s end the politically correct agenda that doesn’t put America first. #trump2016 pic.twitter.com/9fHwog7ssN — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) September 19, 2016 The tweet is characteristically childish, but it’s also more than…
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Slow Motion Bias
Beth Mole covers a new study that shows that “slow motion might actually muddle” our perception of premeditation: To see if artificially lengthened footage can alter perceptions, the researchers showed 489 volunteers a similar five-second video clip of an armed robbery that ended with a robber shooting a sales clerk. Participants watched the clip at…
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Anti-Islamic Pastor Condemns Islamophobia He Helped Create
Pastor Greg Locke wants you to know that, despite his history of promoting religious hatred against Muslims, he’s “not going to be a jerk for Jesus.” In a recent video on Locke’s Facebook page titled “WHAT A MUSLIM MAN JUST TOLD ME HAS ME FURIOUS,” Locke tells his followers a story about a Muslim family…
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Minnesota Muslim Harasser Finds Hero in Donald Trump
We often hear that Donald Trump expresses what many conservatives have felt for some time — that he is a voice for the “silent majority.” He is also the political embodiment of the vile hatred that some conservatives have unleashed out loud for years, and his rhetoric is only going to make things worse. For…
Timothy Pate 