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But I'm not allowed to trust things online today...🥺

Hey! I'm headed to the game vs. Montreal on the 29th, would be happy to grab one from you if it's available

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

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Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.

It’s about oil and regime change.

And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

T. Magnificat, Van Nunc de Mittens, and Stevie Lucifer all say hello!

Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor? I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.

Holy. Shit.

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FWIW I love it lol, anyone who's watched the clip will fill in the blanks. But it's yours to sculpt how you like it!

Hey, if you're not willing to take feedback, you never improve!

And then sometimes it's how BlueSky decided to present it. "Wasn't your best tonight." 😬🤷‍♂️

Dude shout-out to the Flyers DJ playing "Hocus Pocus" by Focus in 2025 #carolinaculture

Highly recommend, and their warranty coverage is great

When the D gets a tug, everyone gets kudos! Before, during, and maybe even after.

Close second

And yet the risk of making an old family recipe that calls for it and bringing it to Thanksgiving for people to be like "Not quite like grandma's" is real.

The crowd has gone silent at Cuomo's party.

roses are red
big laughs are hearty

*Mitch Hedburg voice* "He still is, but he had as well"

And we all know he took longer than that to look like his old self. Brutal for Barkov.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.

Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.

People have power. Ask Target

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Can't remember if we were mutuals and I'm diametrically opposed to checking because lazy and also fascism, but hello either way!

Isla Verde is the touristy part of Carolina and is a pretty decent area with good beaches. Easy Uber to Condado for more restaurant/bar options as well if you want them. My company's based in San Juan, though I've only been down once before. Lots of PR coworkers to ask questions though.

Really enjoyed the collabs with other streamers on party games, hopefully some of that is viable for you

Seth Jarvis erasure

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Yay! Definitely missed your posting since leaving the other place

She's cracked??? She's a gamer?!?

On brand from the known "Honkin' on Bobo" enjoyer

I think we have plenty of capacity for that up and down the lineup, but it's clearly not in the team's playbook. I'm hoping the reflection after last game gets them to put the high road aside for now when it comes to the extracurriculars that aren't inspired by the Canes having control of the game.