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  • Tired of high costs, some Americans are importing homes straight from China

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  • Ha ha, "According to Harvard alumna Nancy Berliner (白铃安), during the construction, one incident involved a raccoon that entered the storage room. The Chinese craftsmen killed it with a shovel, skinned it, and cooked it for food."

    I want to read a story about how this guy does something like that. That would be newsworthy.

  • Tired of high costs, some Americans are importing homes straight from China

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  • *eccentric

    But yeah, I thought this was going to be about having a house built in China and then loaded on a boat and shipped. A manufactured house or maybe a doublewide. But no, the guy just bought fancy house materials for cheap by skipping the middleman.

    Clickbait.

  • House Passes Bills That Would Worsen Energy Affordability & Reliability

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  • My vintage appliances just became much more valuable.

  • Kristi Noem Repeatedly Claimed ICE Deported a Cannibal. It Was “Completely Made Up.”

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  • takes off her face and puts it in a jar of adrenochrome every night

    With some help from her government-issued boyfriend. That "face" is really stuck on.

  • ICE is quietly buying warehouses for detention centers and leaving local officials out of the loop

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  • Concentration camps.

  • Trump’s EPA to roll back rule limiting hazardous mercury from coal plants

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  • Coal-burning power plants are among the largest sources of hazardous air pollution, including mercury, lead, arsenic and acid gases, as well as major sources of benzene, formaldehyde, dioxins and other organic hazardous air pollutants.

  • Wendy's closing hundreds of U.S. restaurants as sales plunge

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  • "you'll continue to see hamburger innovation as we move throughout the year," Cook said.

    Everyone eating real food elsewhere due to a lack of "hamburger innovation" at Wendy's, raise your hand. Thought so.

  • Trump’s EPA repeals landmark climate finding in gift to ‘billionaire polluters’

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  • Imagine popping out a kid today. The kid's going to live until what, 50 or 60 maybe, if they're lucky, because of all the pollution plus anthropogenic global warming?

  • Average American has just $955 saved for retirement, study finds

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  • Even SS is indexed by how much you earned as a wage-slave over your lifetime. If you've done something other than slaving for the Boss, or if your slaving has been for low pay, you get commensurately less in SS payments and the state will be happy to see you starve and freeze in old age.

  • Washington Post Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics Now

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  • You mean you're not having your photos automatically, immediately encrypted and backed up on remote servers? ente.io will do that for you and their free plan comes with 10G of storage which is quite a few pics.

  • The church at the center of Don Lemon’s arrest had ties to Christian nationalism

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  • Nekiva Levy Armstrong, a Twin Cities civil rights attorney and ordained reverend since 2016, and Monique Cullers, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter Minnesota, were among a group of community activities Tuesday to call for the resignation of David Easterwood as pastor of Cities Church in St. Paul.

    They say Easterwood is also the acting field director for ICE in Minnesota. They say it’s a direct conflict of interest for someone in a faith leadership role to also be a leader in immigration enforcement operations.

    https://www.fox9.com/news/activists-call-cities-church-pastor-resign-over-ice-leadership-conflict

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    Apple Workers Are Livid That Tim Cook Saw “Melania” Movie Hours After CBP Killed Pretti

    theintercept.com /2026/01/27/apple-tim-cook-trump-alex-pretti/
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    I grew up with Alex Pretti

    www.theverge.com /policy/868567/alex-pretti-minneapolis-childhood-friend

  • Right-wing influencers want women to love ICE

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  • The "Straight White American Jesus" podcast touched on this sin-of-empathy stuff recently. Listen here:

    https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/weekly-roundup-the-sin-of-empathy-and-the-theology-of-terror-from-minnesota-to-davos?hsLang=en

    "Brad Onishi and Dan Miller connect the dots between City's Church, ICE, Doug Wilson's theological orbit, and the ideology behind The Sin of Empathy, showing how a strain of Christian nationalism produces pastors who see no contradiction between pulpit ministry and state violence. "

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    Vikings announcer Paul Allen pushed 'paid protesters' conspiracy in Minneapolis

    awfulannouncing.com /nfl/vikings-announcer-paul-allen-paid-protestors-conspiracy-minneapolis.html

  • US warns they will send fighter jets into Canadian airspace if F-35 deal doesn’t go through | The Independent

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  • Guns are LOUD. Much louder than you expect.

    Especially handguns. As a kid I'd shot lots of rifles including some beautiful .22s and the latter weren't very loud. As an adult I picked up a .22 pistol and figured I'd go out in the woods and plink a little w/it. First shot .... holy hell, WTF was that?? Yeah I got my hearing back but I've never pulled a trigger again w/o ear protection.

  • Judge orders immediate release of Minnesota man hospitalized with ‘life-threatening’ head injuries after ICE arrest

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  • “he got his s*** rocked,” - just the kind of speech you want to want to hear from a federal agency. Classy bunch, really dignified.

    This poor victim, if he somehow survives and is released (no doubt after some more beatings in retribution for getting a judge on his side) will have traumatic brain injury and be disabled for the rest of his life. All because ICE, empowered and funded by Trump and Republicans, hires violent sociopaths and encourages them to do such things.

  • Doctor who attended to shot protester says agents were counting bullet holes

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  • Considering they were all pig-piled on top of him and beating him right before the execution, for no reason other than "it's fun!", I'm not the least surprised at this. ICE are violent sociopaths, overjoyed at being allowed to employ lethal violence whenever they choose (and no doubt being encouraged to do so), and they were celebrating the "kill" they'd just made.

    It's obvious from the fact that they unloaded on his body even after the victim was dead that they all wanted nothing more than to beat and shoot someone, and well, shit, even if the guy is dead already, you'd can at least riddle his body with bullets and get 90% of the feeling of having murdered someone. Even if you didn't actually file the lethal shot it's still a rush, and better luck next time when you might be the one, the first guy to pull the trigger, can't wait!

    I wouldn't be surprised to see them breaking out the beers and partying after a kill. That is, after relieving the victim's corpse of their wallet, phone and other valuables of naturally.

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    Border patrol detains 10-year-old Spokane girl and her dad, sends them to Texas detention center

    www.spokesman.com /stories/2026/jan/22/border-patrol-detains-10-year-old-spokane-girl-and/

  • Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration

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  • Spokane city is purple. There's no industry here with products to sell to the Department of Domestic Terrorism though. I'm surprised central or eastern WA doesn't (yet, AFAIK) have any concentration camps & related logistics companies. It's interesting how much business MT got out of all this. They must be well-connected MAGA-wise.

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    Carney reaches ‘landmark’ tariff-quota deal with China on EVs, canola

    www.thestar.com /news/canada/carney-reaches-landmark-tariff-quota-deal-with-china-on-evs-canola/article_4c831c3f-e8f4-535c-96d7-d2bc8c526396.html

  • Federal judge says deporting Babson College freshman was a ‘tragic case of bureaucracy gone wrong’

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  • shot a US citizen to death

    The correct word, the one they're avoiding here, is "murdered".

  • 'Horror movie come to life': Cops find more than 100 skeletal remains in man's home

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  • You drive a hard bargain. OK if the 'Bans aren't exactly new? Flexible on tiddie dimensions?

  • The End Goal of Trump’s Cringey, Nonsensical Videos

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  • As much as I hate to allude to Rddt, r/QAnonCasualties is a great support forum for dealing with these kinds of people and with cutting them off when necessary.

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    More potentially radioactive shrimp recalled in 17 states.

    www.usatoday.com /story/grocery/stores/2025/12/23/frozen-shrimp-recall-radioactive/87894427007/
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    'It's a shock': Wallace residents, employees recall downtown shooting that led to 'shaking' windows, 'cops everywhere' and general confusion

    www.spokesman.com /stories/2025/dec/27/its-a-shock-wallace-residents-employees-recall-dow/
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    Replaced the sink garbage disposal baffle today

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    GOP Accused of Trying to Slip Backdoor Abortion Ban Into Government Funding Bill

    www.commondreams.org /news/republicans-backdoor-abortion-ban
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    ‘Tidal wave of problems’: With harvest here, Trump’s trade war pushes some US farmers to the brink

    www.cnn.com /2025/09/20/politics/us-farmers-trump-tariffs-dire-consequences
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    Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension

    creators.yahoo.com /lifestyle/story/disney-cancellation-page-crashes-as-customers-rush-to-quit-after-kimmel-suspension-033512277.html
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    Weekly Review, by Harper’s Magazine

    harpers.org /2025/09/russian-drone-strike-navy-seal-sting-gone-wrong-thousands-of-bees-swarm-department-of-war-immortal-leaders-astronaut-scam-drunk-raccoon-thirsty-for-blood-psychedelic-mushroom-trip-flight/
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    Wildfire veterans furious at DHS claim that raided crews were not firefighters

    stateline.org /2025/09/04/wildfire-veterans-furious-at-dhs-claim-that-raided-crews-were-not-firefighters/
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    Immigration raid at Washington blaze stokes fear in wildfire crews nationwide

    stateline.org /2025/08/28/immigration-raid-at-washington-blaze-stokes-fear-in-wildfire-crews-nationwide/
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    Gospel and kazoos face off at Christian concert, protest in Seattle

    www.seattletimes.com /seattle-news/politics/gospel-and-kazoos-face-off-at-christian-concert-protest-in-seattle/
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    Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire

    www.seattletimes.com /seattle-news/climate-lab/federal-agents-arrest-firefighters-working-on-wa-wildfire/
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    ICE Arrests US Army Veteran, Husband of Former Congressional Candidate During Citizenship Interview

    www.thestranger.com /news/2025/08/21/80206479/ice-arrests-us-army-veteran-husband-of-former-congressional-candidate
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    ICE Arrests US Army Veteran, Husband of Former Congressional Candidate During Citizenship Interview

    www.thestranger.com /news/2025/08/21/80206479/ice-arrests-us-army-veteran-husband-of-former-congressional-candidate
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    Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious”

    www.aclu.org /news/national-security/surveillance-company-flock-now-using-ai-to-report-us-to-police-if-it-thinks-our-movement-patterns-are-suspicious