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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 18h

I had a debate with a friend about this after the election but before the Inauguration and I took the position that Congressional Republicans were not rational and that their self-interest was not "maintaining their own power" but "making libs cry" and empowering Trump as a dictator does that.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

It's incredible the extent to which Congress just utterly refuses to defend itself. You'd think for entirely self-interested reasons you would stridently oppose having the power of the purse arbitrarily ripped from you, ya know?

Why would you allow yourself to become the Roman Senate circa 27 BC.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 18h

Vought is at war with large swaths of the population, with the very idea of a society defined by democratic pluralism. If you have correctly identified that this guy is now in a really powerful position, that people like him are in control of the government, how is that not the main story?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 1d

meanwhile the story in the council races has been "this ward is so unsafe and dangerous now."

is he doing his job or is he not? because he's the one in charge of the police, not the city council.

Melody Hoffmann @phmelody.bsky.social · 1d

Safer Hennepin PAC mailer in my mailbox tonight. Looked it up and found funders up to end of year 2024. Significant/newsworthy to see a broadcast company on the list. www.transparencyusa.org

Mailer from Safer Hennepin that reads "The choice is clear. Mayor Jacob Fry is keeping Minneapolis safe. Vote early." QR code goes to the City of Minneapolis voter info webpage.

A list of 2024 contributors to Safer Hennepin

A list of 2024 contributors to Safer Hennepin. Any repeated names/donations here are repetitions from other screenshot, not a duplicate donation.

As of end of 2024, Safer Hennepin had $11,933 on hand, $145,500 in total contributions, and $125,370 in total expenditures

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

Telling the federal court that IL police can handle Broadview was part of the state's legal strategy against national guard being deployed here.

But it's hard to square that as for the good of protestors or Illinoisans as a whole, when IL police are perfectly willing to drag and beat them anyway.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

state police continue to push protesters down 25th street. at one point, cops swarmed a group of people and pushed them to the ground.

multiple people arrested.

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 1d

Mega thread on Bon Mould and a particular block of South Minneapolis (scroll up and down)!

Minneapolis Music History @mplsmusichistory.bsky.social · 1d

Sites on the 2500-block of Nicollet Avenue.
9/10

Aerial photo showing locations of Icehouse, Garage D’or Records, Hüsker Dü’s office, and Nicollet Studios.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

I mean this as loudly as I can say it: every tamale vendor is 10,000 times more important, as a person but also for society and safety and security, than every ICE agent.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-my-au...

Donate to Help My Aunt Rebuild Her Life After Being Taken by ICE, organized by marilyn perez

We just found out through social media that my aunt — who sells t… marilyn perez needs your support for Help My Aunt Rebuild Her Life After Being Taken by ICE

www.gofundme.com

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 1d

every now and then I end up in a non-freak majority crowd and its like "oh shit right most people don't actually have fun most of the time"

Evangeline “I’m Scared” Gallagher @egallagher.bsky.social · 1d

just in general bending my life towards spending as much of my time as possible around freaks and queers and weirdos has been the best thing ever

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Kelly is ranking Fateh, Davis, and Hampton @kellyrogers.bsky.social · 1d

"A representative for Sabri said "Minneapolis has suffered for the last 7 years with this poseur who utterly lacks vision, integrity or a moral core. This city cannot be led by a chameleon."

Gag

Heather Silsbee @hsilsbee.bsky.social · 1d

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(Those three great leaders are @omarfatehmn.com, @dewayneforminneapolis.com, and @jazzformayor.bsky.social)

Asked for comment on the new billboard against Frey, a representative for Sabri said, "Minneapolis has suffered for the last 7 years with this poseur who utterly lacks vision, integrity or a moral core. This city cannot be led by a chameleon. We have three great leaders running to serve and collaborate with all of us. Men of color who are led by conviction, passion and frankly love for this city. We can recover but we will not if we don’t choose hope and leave this nonsensical liar behind."

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Brandon Schorsch @bschorshy.bsky.social · 1d

Can't forget that Henrico County is right next door to 'Goochland' County

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

As I said a couple hours ago about a different fake video, you don't need to feel stupid if you fell for it.

The entire internet is drowning in this AI shit. And there's no easy solution. We're just fucking cooked as a society.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t feel stupid if you fell for fake video. It can be really hard to tell these days. But we do have to try and be careful with what we share because there’s so much AI video out there.

It’s just the world we live in now.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

The Supreme Court of the United States is not a legitimate body.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 2d

another issue with john wall is caucusing and being on credentials committee that ousted robin wonsley delegates in ward 2 despite a primary residence in the suburbs, which i have exclusively reported here after sitting through the entire 5 hour hearing

taylordahlin.com/f/john-walls...

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DM for Back Alley Vasectomies @teandoranges.bsky.social · 2d

"only $600" also firmly outs her as out-of-touch with the majority of renters in Ward 7. Hell - $20 is kind of a huge deal for me and a lot of ppl I know.

taylr @taylordahlin.com · 2d

apparently when questioned about accepting landlord money from 110 grant resident, elizabeth shaffer says “it’s only $600.” if that’s the case, why not return it? it’s only $600. make a show of it, rejecting money from this slumlord who gave half a million to trump. tell him you reject his values

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 2d

shaffer probably meant in the context of her overall fundraising $600 is not much but yeah, oof. and also, it leaves out that that's the maximum limit, and considering this guy gave half a million to trump, i'm sure he'd give her more if he could!

DM for Back Alley Vasectomies @teandoranges.bsky.social · 2d

"only $600" also firmly outs her as out-of-touch with the majority of renters in Ward 7. Hell - $20 is kind of a huge deal for me and a lot of ppl I know.

taylr @taylordahlin.com · 2d

apparently when questioned about accepting landlord money from 110 grant resident, elizabeth shaffer says “it’s only $600.” if that’s the case, why not return it? it’s only $600. make a show of it, rejecting money from this slumlord who gave half a million to trump. tell him you reject his values

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 2d

"the homeless industrial complex"

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 2d

The stupidest motherfuckers alive jfc

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d

The historical parallels are glaring.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 2d

This site offers students an incredible window into the coverage & causes of Red Summer. Highly recommend as a classroom resource or a basis for all kinds of student projects.

Archive - Visualizing the Red Summer

visualizingtheredsummer.com

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 2d

I’m teaching abt Red Summer today, when white vigilantes & National Guardsmen across the country harassed, detained, assaulted, & murdered Black Americans as part of a backlash against Black military service in WWI.

Red Summer of 1919

eji.org

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Flying Nun Pigeon 🇺🇦 @nunpigeon.bsky.social · 2d

Remembering, for no reason at all, how Madison Cawthorn said the DC GOP scene is one giant drug-fueled orgy right before they blacklisted and exiled him for all eternity

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