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Anil Dash
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the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
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What I learned from Prince and Muhammad Ali was that it’s possible to love yourself so much that everybody else does, too.
If you enjoyed this Zohran snow appearance, you may also enjoy him dropping Clipse references with @thekidmero.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DT4ernV...
January 25, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
January 25, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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The key to the far right’s recent ascendence is the realization that if they simply go on traditional or social media and describe things that are completely false but they’d prefer to be true, many people will treat this fictitious reality as, at least, a competing theory that must be dignified.
It is fucking crazy that he’s talking about an incident on video like this. None of this is real!
January 25, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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These people have absolutely zero ability to say "I was wrong, y'all were right."🤷🏿‍♂️

The closest they get is "I was right then when I said you were panicking for no reason and deranged, and I'm also right now, when I'm saying what you were saying, but way too late. I alone decide when it's right."🤡
January 25, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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Extremely funny that the champion of the revolutionary left/socialist boogeyman of Republicans everywhere is basically Leslie Knope.
One of the hardest things to do is bring campaign-level communications to the work of governance, and snowstorms are notoriously one of the biggest litmus tests that less-engaged voters use to judge mayoral administrations. This is an excellent way to communicate.
January 25, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Everybody on Bluesky loves getting plowed. plownyc.cityofnewyork.us
January 25, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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AND BIKEWAYS! <3
January 25, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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Worth noting that the @wsj.com has joined with the @nytimes.com and Bellingcat to say that ICE is lying in its description of the shooting of Alex Pretti. The video evidence more and more supports the view that this was a gratuitous execution. www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting by Federal Agents
See how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation on Saturday.
www.wsj.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
January 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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i love watching the snow plow going past my apartment. yaaaaay watch my taxes go to work wheeeee
January 25, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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As dangerously cold temperatures move through New York, we have opened 10 warming centers across all five boroughs to provide safe, heated indoor spaces for New Yorkers in need.

Centers will be open through at least Monday evening at the following locations —>
January 25, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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Understand that 370 days ago even bringing a motion like this would probably have been treated as sanctionably frivolous

Today it was granted ex parte
A federal judge issues a restraining order against the feds, barring them from "destroying or altering evidence"

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 25, 2026 at 5:28 AM
One of the hardest things to do is bring campaign-level communications to the work of governance, and snowstorms are notoriously one of the biggest litmus tests that less-engaged voters use to judge mayoral administrations. This is an excellent way to communicate.
January 25, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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Yup here’s the gift link for everyone www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting by Federal Agents
See how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation on Saturday.
www.wsj.com
January 25, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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for example
January 25, 2026 at 5:13 AM
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I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
January 25, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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NEWS: @nationalnurses.bsky.social “demands Congress abolish ICE entirely. We will be doing everything in our power to vote out any elected official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety, and civil rights of our people.”
National Nurses United (@nationalnurses.bsky.social)
The largest RN union in U.S. history, with more than 225,000 nurses nationwide.
nationalnurses.bsky.social
January 25, 2026 at 5:33 AM
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Journalists need to ask, “What made Pettri a ‘suspect’?” He was ‘seized’ under the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, which requires *probable cause that he was committing a crime*

MAKE THEM ARTICULATE THE BASIS FOR THE SEIZURE
BASH: Where did he assault an officer? It looked to us that he was approached by them when he was helping another individual who was pushed down

BOVINO: We don't need a suspect's help in a law enforcement scene

BASH: So when somebody is pushed down, you stand back?

BOVINO: Follow directions
January 25, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.
Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win
How's your non-violent working Mr Gandhi stancil? They will kill each and everyone of you right if they had the chance and you will still be writing Kumbaya.
January 24, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.
January 25, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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Years from now, it'll be difficult to explain the things people in media were wailing about before all this. Sophomores writing underconsidered op-eds about cultural appropriation. Protests against demagogues on campus. YA drama. "Mobs" on Twitter. These were the threats to free society.
January 25, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry
January 25, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c

1. continuing, not 1 off.
2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it
3. literally at hand of federal government, which is
4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.
January 24, 2026 at 10:07 PM