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Cop: "How many beers have you had, Ben?"
Me: "Just the one, officer"
Meredith, from the other room: "Are you talking to a make-believe police officer in there? Are you drunk?"
Me: "Yes...and yes"
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An instant classic in the Minnesota Boys Hockey State Tournament 🏒
Warroad defeats Hibbing-Chisholm for the Class A title in overtime 🔥
📺 @KSTP
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If you didn’t know that he’s an insane racist, you’d think that Stephen Miller was proudly describing the best thing about America
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A question I would like answered is whether Larry Summers blew a billion-dollar hole in Harvard's endowment with an interest rate swap trade in 2006 because he thought it was a good idea, or because his very good friend Jeffrey Epstein, who was dabbling in rates at the time, did
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A wild plot twist I was not aware of until today: JE's redemption from Bear Stearns High-Grade Structure Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage fund (real heads know this one) due to his impending arrest might have, uh, actually been the proximal cause of the GFC?
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I am ending my campaign for Minnesota Governor. I describe why in the below video. Please watch until the end. (It is 10 minutes, 52 seconds.)
Thank you,
Chris
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BREAKING: Witnesses say a man was shot by a federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning. startribune.com/ice-raids-mi…
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The Best Invention in Sports in a long time.
One point. One million dollars. Pros and amateurs in the same bracket. Tha Bracket !
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We are aware of reports of a shooting involving federal law enforcement in North Minneapolis. We are working to confirm additional details.
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Most disturbing part of the Renee Good murder was the rhetorical shift from any pretense of her being a danger to the ICE agent to just accumulating evidence of her being on the left as justification for her death.
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NOW - Trump mouths "fuck you" and gives Ford plant worker middle-finger after he shouts to Trump: "Pedophile protector!"
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The excessive force, incompetence, unnecessary violence, and genuinely authoritarian-looking actions of these masked ICE is not a blip. They are a pattern. Just in the last 10 minutes with a quick search of "ICE" on X it is stunning all the video evidence out there (thread):
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I’m old enough to remember him saying he was democratizing this app when he bought it; now he’s creating a hierarchy where you literally pay for the right to harass and abuse people. Wretched stuff.
Elon Musk's X has moved image editing features in its Grok AI chatbot behind a paywall following widespread condemnation over the tool’s use in creating non-consensual sexual deepfakes.
The British government has called on regulators to consider banning the platform entirely. variety.com/2026/digital/new…
Boy let me tell you it is JARRING to watch national coverage of a state sanctioned murder and recognize the streets in the video as your streets
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Banks are always like “We are the future of banking! Anyway what was your mother’s name… when she was a MAIDEN?”
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CNBC did an excellent report on Medicaid and Medicare fraud in a similar manner but with better sourcing than Nick Shirley 2 years ago, and it never went viral because it didn't have an anti-immigrant angle to it and the fraud was in a red state youtube.com/watch?v=OqK_6Nor…
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it's messed up that there a million songs about love but zero about hopping on a quick call with key stakeholders
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⚠️BLIZZARD AND WINTER STORM WARNINGS FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN MN, WESTERN WI⚠️
Latest hourly forecast for your location: weather.gov/forecastpoints
A rapidly developing winter storm will arrive late tonight into tomorrow morning, bringing hazardous conditions for those traveling.
ALT Winter Storm to bring several inches of accumulating snow, strong winds, much colder temperatures Sunday. Hazardous travel conditions are likely Sunday into Monday. What’s Changed? A Blizzard Warning has been issued for portions of central and southern MN. A Winter Storm Warning has been issued for eastern MN and all of western WI. A Winter Storm Watch remains in effect for a portion of western MN due to the high uncertainty of blizzard conditions.
ALT Snowfall forecast map. 1-3" expected across far western and southwestern Minnesota. 5-8" for much of central and eastern Minnesota, including the Twin Cities metro. 6-8" with locally higher amounts possible over western Wisconsin.
ALT Hourly weather forecast for various cities across Minnesota and Wisconsin. A brief period of rain/wintry mix is expected for areas from Mankato south and eastward before changing over to snow. Snow ends early Monday morning.
ALT Forecast wind gusts for various cities across Minnesota and Wisconsin. Gusts of 35-45 MPH are expected for many.
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A wild “Home Alone” fact. The Christmas film came out in 1991 and was such a hit in Europe that “Kevin” became the most popular baby name in France, Germany and Netherlands for a few years.
But the name became coded as lower-class . In Germany, they created a derisive term (“Kevinismus”) for parents who give kids trendy or popular names (often, influenced by American pop culture) instead of traditional German ones.
