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Anthony Rizzo

@arizzo.bsky.social

I've watched LeBron, Kobe, Shaq, Jordan, Bird, Magic, Kareem.... I've never seen anyone play basketball as well as Nikola Jokic does.

January 31, 2026 at 4:20 AM

Anthony Rizzo

@arizzo.bsky.social

Honestly, I'm not sure how to exist in a world where millions of people will either excuse or defend the conduct in the Epstein Files. I don't think this is a tenable reality.

January 30, 2026 at 8:06 PM

Anthony Rizzo

@arizzo.bsky.social

Somehow the Epstein Files are worse than I ever could have imagined. Much worse. Much worse.

January 30, 2026 at 7:54 PM

Anthony Rizzo

@arizzo.bsky.social

I don't know what we should do about AG. Dude just can't stay on the court.

January 29, 2026 at 10:25 PM

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Havoc

@havoc147.bsky.social

This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.

January 28, 2026 at 3:12 AM

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Adam Cayton-Holland

@caytonholland.bsky.social

Now more than ever it's important to try to understand the other side.

For example, I understand that if you back the MAGA agenda it's because you hate brown people more than you hate pedophiles.

In turn I hope you understand how I will never forgive you

January 25, 2026 at 10:37 PM

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Rick Steves

@ricksteves.bsky.social

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day — and with masked troops in our streets, law-abiding neighbors being disappeared, a president othering and dehumanizing entire communities in our country, and big mysterious prisons awaiting his scapegoats, history is speaking to all of us.

Hitler, Jews, and the Holocaust

Hitler blamed Jews for Germany’s problems. Over the years, the Nazis targeted Jews with increasingly evil treatment, leading to the "Final Solution" — mass extermination. We visit the Auschwitz-Birken...

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January 28, 2026 at 2:32 AM

Anthony Rizzo

@arizzo.bsky.social

#FuckIce

#Love #Iceland

The rainbow road to the church in #Seydisfjordur.

Rainbow paint on the street leading towards a small blue church. Hill behind, blue sky with thin cloud cover.

January 28, 2026 at 1:49 AM

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)

@portlandken.bsky.social

Today's front page on @lemonde.fr

January 27, 2026 at 6:38 AM

Anthony Rizzo

@arizzo.bsky.social

#FuckIce

#Love #Iceland!

A #troll on the streets of #Akureyri in northern Iceland.

A troll figure in full color and 3 dimensions on the sidewalk next to a street in downtown Akureyri.

January 28, 2026 at 12:35 AM

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George Takei

@georgetakei.bsky.social

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM

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Adam Serwer

@adamserwer.bsky.social

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

January 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM

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Jason Odell

@luminescentphoto.com

January 26, 2026 at 3:51 AM

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Nugget Von Avalanche

@bronckielanche.bsky.social

Candlelight vigil in Arvada, CO for Alex Pretti and Minneapolis

January 26, 2026 at 3:42 AM

Anthony Rizzo

@arizzo.bsky.social

This is a great explanation for your conservative friends who don't understand that Trump is not conservative.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5d

Wolfers: This is the most interventionist government of my lifetime. It’s the least conservative government of my lifetime. When you are the richest country in the world, maybe you are not the ones who should be tearing down your existing institutions. But that’s exactly what this president is doing

January 26, 2026 at 2:42 AM

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Greg Olear

@gregolear.bsky.social

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM

Anthony Rizzo

@arizzo.bsky.social

It was a better season then I expected. But still a disappointment.

January 25, 2026 at 11:53 PM

Anthony Rizzo

@arizzo.bsky.social

Stupid play calling. Stupid stupid stupid.

January 25, 2026 at 10:37 PM

Anthony Rizzo

@arizzo.bsky.social

I think this game is already over.

January 25, 2026 at 10:29 PM

Anthony Rizzo

@arizzo.bsky.social

Queen Latifah is wearing Broncos gear on the sideline of today's AFC Championship game.

January 25, 2026 at 7:48 PM

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Rev. Prof. Matthew J. M. Coomber

@mjmcoomber.bsky.social

My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti

Absolutely heartbreaking

Photos of Alex Pretti with Sara’s caption:

On August 16th at approximately 10:00 pm
I received a call from the ICU at the VA saying my Dad had sepsis and needed to be intubated to stay alive so Josh and I headed in. We were greeted by the kindest, most calming and warm soul who helped us understand what was happening and showed deep care for us and my Dad. He continued to show utmost patience and kindness over the next few days as my Dad remained in the ICU and we were there continually. It was Alex Pretti, the man shot today by ICE. If you see this video and don't think it's murder, I don't understand your thinking and ask you to question your heart. He was out there trying to help and protect and from the little we knew of him, it doesn't surprise me he was not afraid to be on the front lines of this horrible scene in our Minneapolis. Weeping for his family and all those at the VA who no longer get to work with him or receive his care.

January 25, 2026 at 4:19 PM

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Chris Uggen

@chrisuggen.bsky.social

We're mourning yet again in Minnesota — and struggling to square the gut-churning video of Alex Pretti's final moments with official accounts.

I'm teaching techniques of neutralization this term, so I made this quick slide on the DHS statement. Share if it's useful. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...