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Liz, et cetera @lizdances.bsky.social · 6d

NAOMI we are so grateful for all the work you do make our local communities better! What a public service. You're a mensch.

Go vote everybody!

Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 10d

Election 2025: Sample Ballot/Index of Posts

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Election 2025: Sample Ballot/Index of Posts

Greetings to everyone pulling up my site on their phones from a voting booth. For your convenience I’ve put links to (hopefully) all of this year’s races. If you scroll and don’t find what you’re l…

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11d

democrats of all stripes should be rallying around kat abughazaleh asap. it doesnt matter where you stand ideologically. trying to jail dissenters is fundamentally unamerican and 100% fascist. democratic leaders at all levels should be making noise about it. you dont need a poll or focus group.

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Liz, et cetera @lizdances.bsky.social · 6d

Taylor is a loyal gem! They've already done all the legwork for you! Go vote!

taylr @taylordahlin.com · 7d

here are my recommendations for mayor, city council, park board, and BET for tuesday! and this was a good excuse to share some photos from covering campaigns this year

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2025 Minneapolis Election Recommendations

Here are my recommendations for the municipal election in Minneapolis coming up on November 4, 2025, and some photos I've taken this year.

taylordahlin.com

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Nov 12

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 14d

Every one deserves to eat. It’s that simple.

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Michele @funnymichele.bsky.social · 15d

#coloraday #greensat #eastcoastkin #bloomscrolling #photography

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 14d

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

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Liz, et cetera @lizdances.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you! Holler when you have graphics for the next one plz!

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mspwhistles.bsky.social @mspwhistles.bsky.social · 14d

Save the date for the next one! Sunday Nov 2nd at 1:30pm at Powderhorn!

mspwhistles.bsky.social @mspwhistles.bsky.social · 14d

Hundreds of neighbors came out today for whistles and training at Powderhorn Park.

Minneapolis neighbors are getting organized.

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Jesse Mortenson @jk9.bsky.social · 14d

If I could ask everyone to listen to one thing before voting for mayor in a couple weeks, it would be the 6 minutes of testimony by Council President Payne from 2022 emotionally discussing the prevailing racist working environment in city hall. www.youtube.com/live/8QpmSL-...

May 24, 2022 Committee of the Whole

YouTube video by cityofminneapolis

www.youtube.com

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 14d

i’ve posted here repeatedly about privileging the lie and the importance of NOT using the frame the fash want you to (and how basically everyone fails at this completely)

this is a whole ass thread of great examples of how to do it correctly

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 14d

Frame: food stamps are used by undeserving / Black people

Negation: actually many people on food stamps are deserving / white

Kirby: THEY ARE STARVING PEOPLE ON PURPOSE. They are using racist tropes to justify it bc many people will find that persuasive. Everyone deserves to eat

Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14d

Seeing all the content focused on centering all the people who need help who aren’t “fat, ghetto asses” and we can already see how the deserving/undeserving rhetorical lines are going to fall.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 14d

Frame: food stamps are used by undeserving / Black people

Negation: actually many people on food stamps are deserving / white

Kirby: THEY ARE STARVING PEOPLE ON PURPOSE. They are using racist tropes to justify it bc many people will find that persuasive. Everyone deserves to eat

Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14d

Seeing all the content focused on centering all the people who need help who aren’t “fat, ghetto asses” and we can already see how the deserving/undeserving rhetorical lines are going to fall.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Oct 3

frame: trump's "university compact" is mostly mainstream and some more partisan ideas

negation: this is very extreme and not at all mainstream

kirby:

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · Oct 3

The question journalists need to be asking is: WHY is the government trying this?

It’s because they want to control universities in unlawful ways that courts will not allow; it’s not working; so they’re trying to get universities to sign up “voluntarily” for unlawful levels of government control.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Sep 27

Frame: this man is here illegally

Negation: actually his paperwork is in order

Kirby: this is a racist attack by fascists bc a Black man is
leading a school district, and the better he's doing the more they hate him

Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · Sep 26

Updated post with more context. DSM school district says:
-"third-party comprehensive background check was conducted" when Roberts was hired
-Roberts "completed the I-9 employment eligibility verification form and submitted the required documentation" 1/
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

ICE detains Des Moines Superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts

Iowa's largest school district had "no confirmed information" on why ICE detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent since 2023.

www.bleedingheartland.com

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Sep 24

i made a helpful reference

$top right: a fractured black rectangle where one half is labeled "autism is bad" and the other side is labeled "FACT CHECK: autistic people are productive members of society". top left: WRONG -negating their frame reinforces it -starts with what it isn't instead of what it is - your argument is shaped like their argument bottom right: large image of Kirby, a pink blob inhaling and the "autism is bad" fragment, labeled THEY'RE DOING EUGENICS bottom left: RIGHT - you eat their frame -starts with what's actually happening -contains and explains what they're doing -your argument is shaped like kirby$

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 14d

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

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Brown Shuga @lelefromcle.bsky.social · 15d

I took a client to the Cleveland food bank and they turned us away because it was too crowded. 😔 You know how hard it is to talk a person off the ledge when they thought they were bout to get groceries and they can't!?!?!?

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 16d

If you can, please support a local food bank today. The need is urgent.

Find one near you here: www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

Find Your Local Food Bank | Feeding America

Find the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitchens, and mobile pantries in your community.

www.feedingamerica.org

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16d

My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."

We Have to Move

"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Liz, et cetera @lizdances.bsky.social · 16d

Ohhhhh I love this thank you for sharing!!

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Miniature Enemy Crab @doubleandhalf.bsky.social · 16d

I read Robin Wall Kimmerer's book The Serviceberry and some of the things she says in that book really affected me. "Store your abundance in those around you." I don't mean to appropriate something that's not mine but I think about those words every day and I hope to do right by them

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 16d

this one is good too

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16d

hey so for once there's an actual happy update to something

our local ice cream guy came home and he's getting a green card

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 18d

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

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mspwhistles.bsky.social @mspwhistles.bsky.social · 17d

ROMPE-HIELOS COMUNITARIO!

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