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Centrist, but not a moderate. Husker by birth, Beaver believer by practice. Based in the PacNW. Occasionally plays in Peoria. NASCAR fan. TTRPG nerd. Lawyer, fixer, part-time adventurer.

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Evening from the booth.

Zalindi’s lights are still on, but the city’s slowed a notch.

We’re spinning a few wax for drivers, dishwashers, thinkers—
the ones who think a little longer than the day crowd.

Funny thing about Ink Radio.

We never know who’s out there…
but somehow the right song reaches

10.03.2026 19:25 👍 398 🔁 33 💬 16 📌 0
Aseul - Loveless
Aseul - Loveless YouTube video by 아슬 Aseul

Hold it right there.

The room just changed temperature — lights a little lower, city noise backing off, that electric hush you only get after midnight. This is the kind of record that doesn’t announce itself. It just slips into your veins and suddenly everything’s moving slower.

10.03.2026 06:40 👍 44 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 1
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Chicago law firm leading push to appoint special prosecutor to target ICE, Border Patrol agents The firm, Loevy and Loevy, said 200 individuals and organizations are supporting a petition to appoint an outsider to the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke, who has spent wee...

A high-powered Chicago law firm announced a plan Monday to push for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate and potentially charge the agents who carried out Operation Midway Blitz.

@sophiesherry.bsky.social reports: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...

10.03.2026 02:01 👍 6250 🔁 1485 💬 53 📌 91
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#StreetArt near #Paris in #VitrySurSeine by #IcyAndSot 2023

09.03.2026 21:46 👍 303 🔁 50 💬 2 📌 1
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#StreetArt by #CONSE in
#Brooklyn

09.03.2026 09:21 👍 224 🔁 35 💬 3 📌 0
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Coons: "Right now, the clearest winner from this war in Iran is Russia. It's stunning that President Trump is on the phone with Vladimir Putin and spending more time consulting with him than he is with Congress and the American people."

10.03.2026 14:20 👍 4446 🔁 1530 💬 266 📌 123
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A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

10.03.2026 14:19 👍 6068 🔁 2635 💬 748 📌 1123
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Are we still looking for waste, fraud, and abuse? I think I found some.

10.03.2026 10:48 👍 5509 🔁 2363 💬 335 📌 156
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How stupid he said.

09.03.2026 23:47 👍 5604 🔁 1942 💬 253 📌 122
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Federal agents lied about why they shot a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis. Their story quickly fell apart. The attack marked the only time that federal authorities admitted wrongdoing during Operation Metro Surge.

Then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem doubled down, denouncing the incident as an act of “attempted murder” on law enforcement. Her agency published mugshots of all three men arrested in connection with the alleged assault, casting them as “violent criminals.”

None of it was true.

09.03.2026 13:52 👍 4408 🔁 2237 💬 108 📌 72
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09.03.2026 10:19 👍 5306 🔁 2115 💬 274 📌 101

OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters."

www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

09.03.2026 03:29 👍 2203 🔁 915 💬 34 📌 52

Tarrio is, quite literally, a pardoned terrorist.

08.03.2026 17:39 👍 10072 🔁 3507 💬 432 📌 118
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Had to doublecheck the date on this

07.03.2026 16:00 👍 11693 🔁 3313 💬 363 📌 230
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There are a lot of posts out there with the close-up visual of Markwayne Mullin on January 6, but this is a better perspective.

He’s not protecting others; he’s protecting himself and hiding. You can see plenty of people at the entry door, ready to take on the insurrectionists, but not Markwayne.

07.03.2026 16:18 👍 14867 🔁 6343 💬 1137 📌 468
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Mural by Privet Zdarova
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia

07.03.2026 05:00 👍 915 🔁 106 💬 6 📌 1
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Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces. Not surprising. What IS surprising? Our response: easing oil sanctions on Russia.

Full breakdown on this and more from my Weekend Update on my Substack page: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/weekend-vi...

07.03.2026 19:46 👍 6826 🔁 2734 💬 449 📌 125

As a Christian I take solace that some day in some way Trump will face accountability.

07.03.2026 03:13 👍 479 🔁 32 💬 146 📌 12
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07.03.2026 14:18 👍 30558 🔁 7445 💬 492 📌 330

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:

Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down

Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace

Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs

Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

07.03.2026 19:01 👍 21103 🔁 7012 💬 559 📌 253

The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.

05.03.2026 23:15 👍 22667 🔁 5564 💬 607 📌 171
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06.03.2026 07:52 👍 14461 🔁 4649 💬 655 📌 250
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WAPO: “.. Since the war began Saturday, Russia has passed Iran the locations of U.S. military assets, including warships and aircraft, said the three officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.”

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

06.03.2026 11:14 👍 2286 🔁 1201 💬 243 📌 185
The Head and The Heart - "Rivers & Roads" (The Doe Bay Sessions)
The Head and The Heart - "Rivers & Roads" (The Doe Bay Sessions) YouTube video by soundonthesound

Funny thing about nights like this.

You start thinking about those who used to be part of the room. Not gone exactly… just someplace else now. Different streets. Different lives. But every once in a while something comes on the radio and suddenly they’re with you again.

Mm-hmm.

Let it ride.

06.03.2026 10:52 👍 841 🔁 98 💬 49 📌 11

Hegseth: Media focus on troop deaths is to make Trump “look bad”.

No dude, Americans dying in a war we didn’t want is bad.

Really bad.

05.03.2026 12:18 👍 3236 🔁 776 💬 126 📌 27
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Calling in the Clinton’s in for a closed-door testimony while ignoring other widely implicated individuals is no mistake. This is an active, and massive, cover-up.

05.03.2026 15:18 👍 8259 🔁 2417 💬 241 📌 75

If Trump wants Zelenskyy’s help against drones, I think JD Vance to have to fly to Kiev, and sit in the Ukrainian equivalent of the Oval Office and say, “Thank you.”

05.03.2026 14:08 👍 3859 🔁 833 💬 219 📌 50
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‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

Weird how this keeps happening! www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

05.03.2026 12:59 👍 2710 🔁 642 💬 49 📌 63
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There may be something wrong with me. I find myself agreeing with Marjorie🤪

04.03.2026 20:31 👍 2866 🔁 557 💬 350 📌 37
Moody's Mood For Love (I'm In The Mood For Love)
Moody's Mood For Love (I'm In The Mood For Love) YouTube video by Quincy Jones - Topic

Alright… I’m stepping out.

A few songs tonight started louder than they needed to. Didn’t say sorry for it either. Funny, after a while the room caught up.

Sometimes that’s how it goes. One bold note, and the rest of the band follows.

I’ll leave the last one spinning a few minutes longer.

05.03.2026 10:05 👍 58 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0