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@allengraetz
Allen Graetz
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@GovRonDeSantis years ago I moved to Florida for work. Never thought of it as much of anything other than overcrowded beaches and old farts. Then I discovered and fell in love with #TheRealFlorida . As conservatives it is our obligation to preserve it for future generations.
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@properal @design2live @properal negotiation occurs before a purchase, not after. #FFS #facepalm
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@moderent @Sargon_of_Akkad " known animal viruses " So they're not unkown but known, eh? Note the article uses _unknown_.
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@wanyeburkett Correct me if I'm wrong - At the point where he's kicking the guy on the ground, a 3rd party could legally shoot the attacker as it's an immediate threat to the victims life.
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@lizcollin It's the University of Minnesota. Has @GovTimWalz offered the help of the Minnesota National Guard?
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@CaitJGibson What's the point? Are they saying they don't care if people read their stuff? Cuz those $$$$$$$$ losses are just a proxy for huge losses in subscribership.
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@DeRushaJ @thauserkstp @MaryMoriarty @DeRushaJ Moriarty ( MM ) charged a man with a crime that she knew she didn't have the evidence for. There's no kudos for that. That's exactly the sort of abuse of prosecutorial power we progressive's have been calling to be reigned in for decades.
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@lizcollin I take it former DFL state Rep. John Thompson is okay with junior getting the death penalty, via guillotine, eh?
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@MarketUrbanism My cousin had tinted windows. Riding with him one night, I came to realize he couldn't' see out of them. At night he had to roll his side window down to be sure there wasn't any traffic coming.
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@USMNTOtaku @TheAthleticFC Most teams are neither in danger of relegation nor have the squad + results to compete for a place in Europe. For most teams, most games don't mean much at all.
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@GovTimWalz Reminder, @GovTimWalz doesn't hate the police. He just hangs out with people who do.
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@lizcollin @MNPoliceAssn @HennepinAtty For decades we progressives spoke out that prosecutors have too much power. We called for reforms. Why are we not pointing out the need to reign in prosecutors powers? Are we really so shallow that we don't speak out if the victim wears blue polyester?
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@_Murphy_Dan Almost all the uptick is at night. We know what it is ---> Fentanyl
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Public mass transit doesn't help you avoid congestion so much as you're trading one type of congestion for another.
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@seanjurs And sorry, it was right in front of me on that floor plan. Ran right past it for some reason. Cheers.
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@GarryMBoldwater @wanyeburkett Thank you. Caught this the other day that - IIRC - 80% of auto loans are done by people at the dealership. That is, they didn't shop around, get a less expensive, preapproved loan, and then shopped for a car. A lot of money wasted..
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@Boenau How is this not manslaughter due to her recklessness, including documented history? " He also said Turmelle had a history of traffic accidents and violations, which included running a red light about three months before the fatal crash. "
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Before cities were built for cars, they were built for horses
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@seanjurs No elevator? If they've lived in the home for 25 years, they're probably not spring chickens.
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@ChrisMartzWX Climate Alarmists: The ocean is boiling and rising fast. Also Climate Alarmists: Let's build power plants, wind mills, and put them in the ocean.
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The cyclists have discovered if you put a motor on it, you can go farther.
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A big change in Amsterdam's real estate game: I've noticed many more electric bikes cruising the streets in the last 2-3 years; they have become mainstream. What created something surprising: a dozen people around me started to buy/rent houses in the purple circle. Something
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@GovTimWalz California has the highest rate of children living in poverty. @GovTimWalz just foisted Cali's laws + policies that caused this onto Minnesota. 1 + 1 = ?
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@raagagrawal That's how the state wrote the law. Historic zones are exempt and cities get to make the historic declaration. The statute contained no limitations to the process nor what can be declared historic. It's not a bug, it's a feature.
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@StarTribune Ilhan Omar's parents and grandfather chose to work for a dictator. She's not one to be throwing stones.
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@AnechoicMedia_ People act on feelings and backfill with reasons. Th feeling is the new housing, let's say a 12 plex, will bring in riff raff. They don't want to publicly say that so they use the diplomatic "it'll drag down housing values"
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@DeanBlackFL @DeanBlackFL Our public places represent who we are and are values today. Museums are where history is preserved. @fla_pol @GovRonDeSantis @MayorDeegan @angieNixon
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@ChristinaPushaw @AGHamilton29 @assliken Setting aside the important libel issue, I feel bad for Lindell. The guy wrecked his life with drugs, turned it around and did great with My Pillow. Now he's wrecked his life again. There's a healthy way to pursue voting concerns. Lindell is an example of how not to do it.
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@winxthexwar @Mike_Pivol @LineRespecter @michaelmalice A decent man never demands that others do what he never does.
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@kot_dub @moderent @Sargon_of_Akkad @kot_dub They're known viruses. That they haven't made the leap doesn't mean they're "unknown to the human immune system."
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@mollypeonies @ArchwayDefense @moyypeionies , you're so drunk on your ideology that anything anyone says "make your point". You can't see anything else than your own.
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@NortonMpls In 2023, police do not use tear gas on protesters. It's used for riots.
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@fallahhi @MaxNordau @fallahhi you can't name the disease that has afflicted that child all their life but you know it's Israel's fault, eh?
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@n6mac41717 @ianmSC Chuck Han @n6mac41717 , if they worked, there would NOT be _uncertainty_.
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@GreenCarpetFan @wanyeburkett @demibabs_ @GreenCarpetFan I grew up in the Twin Cities. Progressives constantly whinge about Rondo, the black neighborhood that had a feeeway built through it. 95+% white when I-35E, I-35W and I-94 build through central cities. They cling to the 1 black nbhd. Rest white nbhds.
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Would this be a bad time to talk about how Ilhan's father and mother were ministers for a dictator, Barre? How @ilhan 's father got to be a colonel by teaching Barre's ideology to others? How about genocide Barre carried out in part thanks to their support?
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Bombing a hospital is among the gravest of war crimes. The IDF reportedly blowing up one of the few places the injured and wounded can seek medical treatment and shelter during a war is horrific. @POTUS needs to push for an immediate ceasefire to end this slaughter.
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@brad_polumbo @stillgray Oh no, they'll need parental consent. Just like if they went to a R rated movie, eh? Wait until you find out kids can't buy alcohol even if their parents are okay with it.
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@saraklind People that can afford to live downtown can afford to own cars. Shocker.
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@brad_polumbo @RonDeSantis If they're not Americans, it's not protected speech. Under current law they have have their visas revoked for endorsing terrorism. Whether this arises to that is another matter.
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@billglahn How bad does it have to be in Minnesota to actually be accused of financial mismanagement. The state wouldn't even go after folks ripping them off over day care. " She took up a new role in Minneapolis, but left a year later, accused of financial mismanagement "
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@IndependentSage @trishgreenhalgh There is nothing more dangerous than this lady claiming that a respirator filters out 95% of particles and __ASSUMING__ that includes viral particles. N95, P100s, et al. were not designed to filter out virus particles. They have _NEVER_ been shown to stop viral infections.
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@PENamerica @MikeCurato No one has a right to have a book in schools that graphically shows a _kid_ masturbating.
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@bellachu10 Let's address the core issue ---> It is _immoral_ to physically impose your will on others. These people should be dragged off the road and straight into jail.
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@kenmartin73 @mngop @PamAltendorf @GOP Reminder @kenmartin73 doesn't want to defund the police. He just surrounds himself with people who do.
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1 year
Beware of anyone who claims they have a silver bullet that addresses societies ills and shortcomings.
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With abundant housing, we'd have more connection. We'd have more diversity in our communities. We'd have a more equitable society. Dense, multifamily housing is a good thing! Special thanks to @brendanregs for creating this AMAZING illustration 🤩
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@RealJMPeterman @MinnesotaDFL Do these radical progressives realize those 0% loans are going to lead to a lot more uber drivers driving 2024 Jeep Grand Cherokees rather the what the economics would normally encourage, a 2013 Honda Civic?
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@the_transit_guy There are a couple handfuls of flights between Dallas and OKC very day. The planes travel at speeds several times faster than any train. We already have better.
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@LtGovFlanagan Would this be a bad time to point out kids in Mississippi have better test scores than Minnesota?
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@RyanMaue Or because their weather station at LAS is poorly located in the middle of a urban heat island. In 1989 it was the edge of town.
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@Theo_TJ_Jordan " If you want breasts at a later point in life, you can go and get them. " She's been reading far too much SciFi.
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@jb_montgomery @surferbiker4321 @ChrisMartzWX @jb_montgomery in science the onus of evidence is on the one claiming their getting hotter, not the one taking issue with the claim. Let's be scientific.
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@hydromerchant @FlorioGina So what? That's not what is happening in that video. It's not. Can you acknowledge anything that doesn't fit with your black and white war view?
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Someone want to tell @clmarohn that his @strongtowns is making an argument for building more roads? Or shall we discuss how ridiculous it is to believe a couple hundred homes in the middle of nowhere causes "traffic jams"?
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@nedalalamari If ya don't know which Georgia was invaded by Russia, what else are you getting wrong?
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@Josh60426037 @GaPeachCDawn @BrendanCarrFCC @VP There are several programs out there. The one you linked to is ACP. Not the same one.
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To best understand an issue, pay close attention to what is _NOT_ being argued. @strongtowns never talks about the sales? Why? Because that single Walmart does more sales in a few weeks then all the businesses pictured do in a few years.
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@JSadikKhan 3/4th of pedestrian deaths do not occur in a crosswalk. 3/4th of pedestrian deaths occur at night.
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@milesintransit1 My two-bits on the speed thing --> if you want to persuade normies to take trains, stop throwing a fit when @GoBrightline calls them high speed trains.
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1 year
For the urbanistas: Less than a mile last night for happy hour. Got some storms. Drove to pickup a co worker so they didn't have to walk in the storm. Apparently by some small miracle I was able to be at a bar for 3+ hours and drink 3 beers all less than 5% ABV. Drove home.
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For many people, their ideology is their religion.
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Galena's Illinois population before WWII plummeted by half. It's continued to decline for generations now around 3,300. It's economy was driven by mining and railroads. Now they scrape by on tourism. This is clear _Generational Decline_ , not resilience. @strongtowns
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@javimorillo @javimorillo if this issue mattered to you, you'd volunteer to be in those schools protecting the kids. or are you too on strike?
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The induced demand is so overwhelming. #sarcasm
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If a parking lot being largely unused can be an argument for ending parking minimums, buses that are mostly unused can be an argument for ending public transit.
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@kudurtucuwesley @AlexiLalas As a rule of thumb, people invoking "the wrong side of history" do so because they don't know history.
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@Alive09390487 @anticarsls He doesn't make a good case. He shows video of these bike roads ( they're not mere lanes ) being used in the Netherlands. Why do they need them if everyone bikes? Cuz you have 10 million people squeezed into a thimble that built may of these roads centuries before the car.
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@DavidJHarrisJr @GovRonDeSantis Anyone who thinks anyone in that video looks Somalis is dumber than dumb and blinder than blind.
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@DrunkRepub When I was younger, I thought travelling around the world would be great ( it is in some ways ). I thought working and using my 3 weeks of vacation to visit family and have some lil trip to the Smokies was boring. Quite the opposite.
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@crippledscholar THey're not marginalized
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@RedSheSaidOG My fave that someone share
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@GovTimWalz And yet people are leaving the state
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@megankimble It's a one mile walk. Learn to read a map.
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@WalterHudson When your son beats women, resists arrests, and recklessly endangers the lives of two other people, you are the victim. At least in Mary's bizzarro world.
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@mattyglesias With all due respect, @mattyglesias this far more likely than one wants to believe. We're talking about an admin that forces people to get a shot that we know to be leaky and quickly go limp. These are people who attribute magical powers to a mere piece of cloth. Et al.
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@JunkScience It's a warning to the world about the damage central planning causes
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@ImproveMass @KetuAlbrecht @ImproveMass , my vehicle enables me getting out to this. It's good for the soul and human life.
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@criticalurban Funny how they never use one of these to lower their emissions.
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@anticarsls Let me guess, they regurgitate the specious argument that it's firefighters fault that roads are bigger and bigger roads get more people killed. Apparently roads have been getting smaller since the 1970s. Or maybe, just maybe, it's not about bigger roads.
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@StevenZap @AndrewJBates46 @POTUS Or he has the same issue the elderly are well documented to have, the inability to pick up on simple social queues. Like sitting down when everyone else is standing.
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@GarethDennis " Heavy private vehicles should be banned. " No they should not be.
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@FrederickMelo Pre covid, IIRC, this route was well served by buses with a pawltry 7,500 / trips on weekdays. No need for installing light rail on it. Zero.
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Suburbs have been around for at least 130 years. Anything over a century ain't an "experiment".
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Daniel Herriges
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This is the Suburban Experiment's sales pitch: cities are no longer living co-creations of their citizens, but a consumer product that will be built and sold to you on an industrial scale. We'll be a nation of satisfied homeowner-consumers in homes that only ever grow in value.
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@Inkagogogirl @HennepinAtty As we recently saw at a train station in Minneapolis, you can literally kill someone on video and Mary M. won't charge you with a crime.
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@WalterHudson "arguably in ethnic terms the most homogeneous country in sub-Saharan Africa" ~ The Economist Somali's compose 98% of Somalia's population. 98%. Does @IlhanMN mean to say that 2% non-Somali is 2% too much? Really??!???
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@AdamSchaffer15 Back with bikeshare was the hot new fad, some folks celebrated that even Fargo North Dakota had one that, as some would put it was "thriving". Turns out, without a big chuck of NDSU student fees in a flat payment being handed over to it, it couldn't survive.
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@ChrisMartzWX And there's the rub. The climate always changes. The question is how much if any contribution, any difference, is mankind making? You can rinse n repeat this whole thing with Florida. 20,000 years ago it was three times maybe four times bigger and land mass. No cars back then.
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@wpb003 @MetroTransitMN 's light rail system is the most violent in the country.
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@CrimeWatchMpls @MplsWard6 @JamalOsmanMN Roof over their head is available. The conversation should revolve around why they refuse one.
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@WalterHudson Those 5 women would be alive today if Derek Thompson served his previous 8 year sentence ( 2018 ). Maybe a good time to talk about parents who enable their children's dangerous behaviors?
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They eliminated parking minimums. What did you think the corporations would do, eh?
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If anyone's looking for a religion that out crazies scientology, it's the anti-car movement.
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@wheeltrapperpro @shanermurph Does that thing just magically fly around and mount itself?
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@hydromerchant @FlorioGina If you're not seeing the black girl at the beginning of the video trying to defend the white girl, you may be a racist.
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Illegal suburban housing sitting out in plain sight
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@Boenau " according to estimates by the California Redevelopment Association " This was not an _academic_, peer reviewed study but _estimates_ from _activists. That said, it's a project worth doing if financial returns are zero. It looks great.
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