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Jessica Shortall

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Twin Cities MN

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It’s gonna be “real far”

11.03.2026 03:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Our own fucking government did this to us.
With guys paid with our taxes.
Actual tyranny.
I am certain I will never get over this.

11.03.2026 03:53 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Restaurant in my parents’ neighborhood is closing.

11.03.2026 03:49 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Do not forget that this occupation traumatized countless families and children, but it also deeply fucked with our local small businesses. Our own government did this to us.

11.03.2026 03:48 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

You ARE great at memes!

11.03.2026 02:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have stared at this for a while and I don’t know what it says

11.03.2026 01:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Ok I’ve had two and they are not mild

10.03.2026 23:52 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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GRWM (to try these 2022 cukes I grew and pickled with the Carolina Reapers my son dared me to grow)

10.03.2026 23:51 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

Magellan?
Dover?

10.03.2026 23:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Read this. Let it break you.

10.03.2026 19:06 👍 77 🔁 34 💬 2 📌 1

It rarely gets talked about but the people in the far exurban Twin Cities & rural Minnesota who have been hit by the occupation have it really hard. Mutual aid much more scarce. Friendly neighbors might not have much means to help.
I’m helping 2 such families. @jessica-shortall on Venmo; see llama

10.03.2026 20:38 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

mine too - but then there are all of these other specialists (esp if your kid plays sports)

10.03.2026 18:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

do your own researchTM

10.03.2026 18:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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OK I've done a 2017 to 2026 comparison (unedited) and tried to get as close of a forehead position as possible, and I feel comfortable saying that Something is...Happening

10.03.2026 18:19 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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confusing, because the notification I got was for an ortho/sports medicine doc, which obviously doesn't fall under any of the listed categories here, but upon a closer read, I guess it applies more generally

10.03.2026 17:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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10.03.2026 17:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I understand the thinking, but "your child is now 12 so you can't see secure messages in our portal about their health" is an enormous hassle. Am I supposed to have my 12-year-old set up and maintain health accounts at all of their providers? Who do they think would actually maintain those? (It me)

10.03.2026 17:36 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

just kidding, I have zero questions

10.03.2026 16:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
The People’s Hearing on Immigration Enforcement: Minnesota - Hispanic Federation The People’s Hearing on Immigration Enforcement is a public forum rooted in the long civil rights tradition of community fact‑finding and record‑building.

I'm going to try to watch this as much as I can today.
www.hispanicfederation.org/event/the-pe...

10.03.2026 16:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I was on the Tucker Carlson show merch shop (for Reasons) and I have a lot of questions

10.03.2026 15:42 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 6 📌 0

Voters are essentially selfish! I don't mean that as judgment or exculpation. It's just reality.
I'm glad folks are thinking about what (accurate) message will resonate w/their audience. Good persuasion tends to meet people where they already are, instead of asking them to suddenly be in a new place

10.03.2026 15:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I will never get over the fact that "sex pest" is the most regularly used term in the UK for sexual abusers, including, apparently, in official discourse.

10.03.2026 14:31 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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FYI your tax dollars (this is an HHS website) are being used to send people to Grok, the AI chatbot that called itself “MechaHitler,” makes CSAM and nonconsensual fake sexual images, and spews racist and antisemitic shit.

10.03.2026 13:24 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

This!

10.03.2026 13:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Right! I realized that (for me) it cheapened the idea of faith if I was going to let the actions of a bunch of humans destroy it.

10.03.2026 13:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I want to hear this but for what sparked your reconstruction into your faith.

Mine was working in LGBTQ+ civil rights. When I saw people who held fast to their faith who had been treated violently by the church, I started to think about who my faith belonged to, and who gets to take it away.

10.03.2026 13:09 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

10.03.2026 03:09 👍 16276 🔁 3972 💬 281 📌 238

Thanks buddy

10.03.2026 12:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sorry, alt text on the screenshot: “te agradezca mucho y que ya no te preocupes por ellos por que no quieren abusar de tu generosidad🥹 y me dijo que te dijera que con lo que le mandaste ellos compraron comida también para una amiga de ella que tiene mucha necesidad.”

10.03.2026 12:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I passed along what yall have given so far. One family, who are in a very difficult situation, used some of what I sent them to buy food for someone else who is in great need. These are such good people.
$4100 to go.

10.03.2026 12:05 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0