Dylan NDR Edwards
@dylanndr.bsky.social
Maker of queer & trans comics (Transposes, Valley of the Silk Sky) and monsters (Feeping Creatures). he/him
http://www.studiondr.com/
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Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...
February 1, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...
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The precinct-level data from last night’s special election in Texas suggest a national win for the Democrats of around D+7 to D+10 come November www.gelliottmorris.com/p/blue-wave-...
Blue wave watch: Democrat flips Trump +17 Texas Senate seat in 32-point swing
A nerdy look at precinct-level data from the TX SD-9 special election
www.gelliottmorris.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:48 PM
The precinct-level data from last night’s special election in Texas suggest a national win for the Democrats of around D+7 to D+10 come November www.gelliottmorris.com/p/blue-wave-...
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The most important part of the Rehmet campaign (in my humble opinion as a local political scientist whose opinion nobody asked for) is that Rehmet ran as a union man.
Rehmet is a union president, and this was an unapologetically pro labor campaign.
Rehmet is a union president, and this was an unapologetically pro labor campaign.
February 1, 2026 at 1:13 PM
The most important part of the Rehmet campaign (in my humble opinion as a local political scientist whose opinion nobody asked for) is that Rehmet ran as a union man.
Rehmet is a union president, and this was an unapologetically pro labor campaign.
Rehmet is a union president, and this was an unapologetically pro labor campaign.
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I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but transphobia is and always has been a tool of fascism
You cannot earnestly fight fascism whole holding transphobic values
If you perpetuate transphobic ideas, you are enabling fascism
A transphobic liberal is just a fash bootlicker too afraid to admit it
You cannot earnestly fight fascism whole holding transphobic values
If you perpetuate transphobic ideas, you are enabling fascism
A transphobic liberal is just a fash bootlicker too afraid to admit it
O cool The hypothesis that the elite were trying to segrigate trans people from society purely to keep us as sex slaves was real, but only for trans women since they see trans men as undesirable for sex and want them eliminated which is EXACTLY THE POLICIES AND RHETORIC WE'RE SEEING HAPPEN RIGHT NOW
February 1, 2026 at 3:11 PM
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but transphobia is and always has been a tool of fascism
You cannot earnestly fight fascism whole holding transphobic values
If you perpetuate transphobic ideas, you are enabling fascism
A transphobic liberal is just a fash bootlicker too afraid to admit it
You cannot earnestly fight fascism whole holding transphobic values
If you perpetuate transphobic ideas, you are enabling fascism
A transphobic liberal is just a fash bootlicker too afraid to admit it
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Once again here to tap the mic and say Texas is a gerrymandered, voter repressed state, not a "red" state. And every one of you celebrating the (significant) win in Tarrant County better not be the same people in my mentions saying to throw the whole South away. There are good people fighting.
February 1, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Once again here to tap the mic and say Texas is a gerrymandered, voter repressed state, not a "red" state. And every one of you celebrating the (significant) win in Tarrant County better not be the same people in my mentions saying to throw the whole South away. There are good people fighting.
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This is particularly true if you had a hand in helping to make that thing happen.
we need to take a moment to celebrate when a good thing happens. it is fuel for the work.
feel the joy. take a big breath in. let yourself cry.
we will win because we've got us.
feel the joy. take a big breath in. let yourself cry.
we will win because we've got us.
February 1, 2026 at 5:37 PM
This is particularly true if you had a hand in helping to make that thing happen.
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January 31, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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Strongly recommend reading this excellent thread
The Trumpists will continue to escalate. But in Minneapolis, we can see the limits of MAGA’s assault.
Trump’s authoritarian desires are limitless. But his ability to impose them on America is not.
My new piece for @zeit.de - and some thoughts, since it is in German (gift link):
Trump’s authoritarian desires are limitless. But his ability to impose them on America is not.
My new piece for @zeit.de - and some thoughts, since it is in German (gift link):
US-Regierung: Wie der Widerstand gegen Maga eine Chance hat
Der Minneapolis-Moment offenbart die Schwächen der Trumpisten. Und er zeigt, wo der Widerstand gegen den US-Präsidenten in Zukunft erfolgreich ansetzen kann.
www.zeit.de
January 31, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Strongly recommend reading this excellent thread
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Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
January 30, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
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"where are the protests" is a reflection of how many people's sense of reality is intermediated by billionaire owned social media and billionaire owned news media, both of which have strategically suppressed cover of the scale and frequency of 2025 protests
The “Where are the protests?” lament after Trump’s inauguration was always based on a (willful) misperception. Over the past year, protests have been far more numerous, more geographically widespread, and more sustained than what we saw in 2017, for instance.
January 31, 2026 at 2:40 PM
"where are the protests" is a reflection of how many people's sense of reality is intermediated by billionaire owned social media and billionaire owned news media, both of which have strategically suppressed cover of the scale and frequency of 2025 protests
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There are certain people on this site (and in the halls of congress) who think everything is a distraction instead of understanding the federal government is very big and powerful and can do lots of (evil) things at once. There are no distractions just omnibattle
Seeing some replies about how the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are distractions, but targeting journalists is straight out of the fascism playbook. It's not to distract from other issues -- the regime wants to chill critical coverage because they know they're unpopular.
January 30, 2026 at 3:54 PM
There are certain people on this site (and in the halls of congress) who think everything is a distraction instead of understanding the federal government is very big and powerful and can do lots of (evil) things at once. There are no distractions just omnibattle
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Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it
The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.
January 30, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it
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Working in government I learned that 99.99% of compliance is people thinking it’s the right thing to do or being afraid to break the law. Here, the government is threatening to prosecute masses of people for 100% lawful acts, but can only harass a teeny tiny fraction. So do it and don’t be scared!
Let me reiterate: THEY DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO PERSECUTE LARGE NUMBERS OF DISSENTERS. What they are doing, instead, is using fear and paranoia as a force multiplier: they don’t have to persecute us if we keep ourselves home because someone told us we can’t walk in public without being terrified.
January 30, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Working in government I learned that 99.99% of compliance is people thinking it’s the right thing to do or being afraid to break the law. Here, the government is threatening to prosecute masses of people for 100% lawful acts, but can only harass a teeny tiny fraction. So do it and don’t be scared!
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previously:
-DOJ sought Lemon's arrest along with a group of others
-Magistrate judge rejected the charges against Lemon on the grounds that there was no probable cause
-DOJ tried to appeal the magistrate judge's ruling to the district judge (extremely unusual)
...
-DOJ sought Lemon's arrest along with a group of others
-Magistrate judge rejected the charges against Lemon on the grounds that there was no probable cause
-DOJ tried to appeal the magistrate judge's ruling to the district judge (extremely unusual)
...
here is the abbreviated backstory on lemon www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 30, 2026 at 1:53 PM
previously:
-DOJ sought Lemon's arrest along with a group of others
-Magistrate judge rejected the charges against Lemon on the grounds that there was no probable cause
-DOJ tried to appeal the magistrate judge's ruling to the district judge (extremely unusual)
...
-DOJ sought Lemon's arrest along with a group of others
-Magistrate judge rejected the charges against Lemon on the grounds that there was no probable cause
-DOJ tried to appeal the magistrate judge's ruling to the district judge (extremely unusual)
...
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The populace to the government every time there’s yet another new study saying that UBI works
January 30, 2026 at 5:52 AM
The populace to the government every time there’s yet another new study saying that UBI works
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he is unpopular, people hate what he's doing, and even some of his own base is tiring of the endless stream of horrors
Pew has Trump's approval at 37%. And:
"Only about a quarter of Americans today (27%) say they support all or most of Trump’s policies and plans, down from 35% when he returned to office last year. That change has come entirely among Republicans."
www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
"Only about a quarter of Americans today (27%) say they support all or most of Trump’s policies and plans, down from 35% when he returned to office last year. That change has come entirely among Republicans."
www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
Confidence in Trump Dips, and Fewer Now Say They Support His Policies and Plans
Only 27% of Americans say they support all or most of Trump's policies – down since last year, with the change coming entirely among Republicans.
www.pewresearch.org
January 29, 2026 at 9:17 PM
he is unpopular, people hate what he's doing, and even some of his own base is tiring of the endless stream of horrors
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It's almost as if money is hoarded by the already wealthy and the lower middle to lower class uses it to.... BUY things.
2022: Massachusetts enacts a 4% tax on millionaires. Critics predict catastrophe.
2026: MA sees 39%⬆️ in number of millionaires, $5B⬆️ in new revenue, & MA is bottom 10 in poverty.
Taxing the wealthy creates more wealth. Taxing working people creates more poverty: www.qasimrashid.com/p/fixing-the...
2026: MA sees 39%⬆️ in number of millionaires, $5B⬆️ in new revenue, & MA is bottom 10 in poverty.
Taxing the wealthy creates more wealth. Taxing working people creates more poverty: www.qasimrashid.com/p/fixing-the...
Fixing the $12 Billion Lie
How Mayor Mamdani Plans to Fix NYC's Existential Budget Crisis—And Why It Affects Every Single American Nationwide
www.qasimrashid.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:30 PM
It's almost as if money is hoarded by the already wealthy and the lower middle to lower class uses it to.... BUY things.
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This is going to be so crucial as other cites are targeted—not least because people need to understand that there are *so many ways to help,* and if you don’t feel equipped to do one thing you can find something else that fits your abilities better. Not everyone has to be in the streets
I keep seeing posts going "when ICE comes to MY city, we'll be out in the streets even harder" and man, I get that sentiment but I need everyone to understand that the work in Minneapolis is partly confrontational but MORE IMPORTANTLY aaallll the stuff organized in the background to help neighbors
January 29, 2026 at 4:36 PM
This is going to be so crucial as other cites are targeted—not least because people need to understand that there are *so many ways to help,* and if you don’t feel equipped to do one thing you can find something else that fits your abilities better. Not everyone has to be in the streets
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HOLD THE LINE. NO FUNDING FOR THE GESTAPO.
The massive government funding package just failed badly in the Senate, 45-55.
Needed 60.
Zero Democrats voted for it.
SEVEN Republicans opposed it:
Budd
Johnson
Lee
Paul
Moody
Rick Scott
Tuberville
(John Thune switched his vote to no for procedural reasons.)
Needed 60.
Zero Democrats voted for it.
SEVEN Republicans opposed it:
Budd
Johnson
Lee
Paul
Moody
Rick Scott
Tuberville
(John Thune switched his vote to no for procedural reasons.)
January 29, 2026 at 5:53 PM
HOLD THE LINE. NO FUNDING FOR THE GESTAPO.
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My calls to reps are not only to abolish ice, but to also shut down the detention centers, seize the money being made off them, & redistribute that money as reparations to the people being imprisoned, tortured, & starved in them. The children must be released immediately, receive med, psych, $ care
January 29, 2026 at 6:38 PM
My calls to reps are not only to abolish ice, but to also shut down the detention centers, seize the money being made off them, & redistribute that money as reparations to the people being imprisoned, tortured, & starved in them. The children must be released immediately, receive med, psych, $ care
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This is hilarious!! 🤣 🤣
January 29, 2026 at 1:35 PM
This is hilarious!! 🤣 🤣
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If you're a journalist listening to Homan BLOVIATE about law and order right now and your immediate question isn't *what gives YOU the authority to speak about crimes and "law and order" when you accepted a $50,000 bribe and keep avoiding any accountability?* then you are ridiculous.
January 29, 2026 at 2:23 PM
If you're a journalist listening to Homan BLOVIATE about law and order right now and your immediate question isn't *what gives YOU the authority to speak about crimes and "law and order" when you accepted a $50,000 bribe and keep avoiding any accountability?* then you are ridiculous.
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Signal will never message you like this.
If you get a message like this, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HACK YOUR SIGNAL.
DO NOT GIVE THEM THAT CODE.
If you get a message like this, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HACK YOUR SIGNAL.
DO NOT GIVE THEM THAT CODE.
January 26, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Signal will never message you like this.
If you get a message like this, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HACK YOUR SIGNAL.
DO NOT GIVE THEM THAT CODE.
If you get a message like this, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HACK YOUR SIGNAL.
DO NOT GIVE THEM THAT CODE.
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And people were already suspecting that before Alex Pretti's murder. At both my local protest immediately after Renee Good's murder, and the one I was at Saturday morning, people had signs that read, "They Will Kill Again" and "They Would Kill You Too."
ICE immediately proved them right.
ICE immediately proved them right.
Suddenly the public is not reacting to a 'single tragedy' (in their view), but rather the horrifying question of 'is ICE going to execute a citizen in public on video every two weeks for the next year? three years?'
With the repeat - and such a *quick* repeat - the event becomes a pattern.
With the repeat - and such a *quick* repeat - the event becomes a pattern.
January 28, 2026 at 5:49 AM
And people were already suspecting that before Alex Pretti's murder. At both my local protest immediately after Renee Good's murder, and the one I was at Saturday morning, people had signs that read, "They Will Kill Again" and "They Would Kill You Too."
ICE immediately proved them right.
ICE immediately proved them right.
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I paid my therapist a zillion dollars to tell me this, so I’m passing it on to anyone else in MN who needs to hear it:
Think of taking time away to recharge not as not doing the work, but as doing quality control for the work. You’re not going to be able to show up to do it well if you’re depleted
Think of taking time away to recharge not as not doing the work, but as doing quality control for the work. You’re not going to be able to show up to do it well if you’re depleted
January 27, 2026 at 11:17 PM
I paid my therapist a zillion dollars to tell me this, so I’m passing it on to anyone else in MN who needs to hear it:
Think of taking time away to recharge not as not doing the work, but as doing quality control for the work. You’re not going to be able to show up to do it well if you’re depleted
Think of taking time away to recharge not as not doing the work, but as doing quality control for the work. You’re not going to be able to show up to do it well if you’re depleted