GingerNorth
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We are stealth | We are fury | I am the very model of a modern major motormouth | Do not split | Team Scurvy for ICE, DHS
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mRNA vaccine technology remains one of the greatest innovations in science that has happened in our live times. Nothing can change this fact and certainly not the FDA refusing to review a mRNA flu vaccine.
www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/h...
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FDA refuses to review Moderna’s application for mRNA flu vaccine, company says | CNN
The US Food and Drug Administration has refused to accept an application from Moderna to review its first mRNA seasonal flu vaccine, the company said Tuesday, in another setback for the technology tha...
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February 10, 2026 at 11:58 PM
mRNA vaccine technology remains one of the greatest innovations in science that has happened in our live times. Nothing can change this fact and certainly not the FDA refusing to review a mRNA flu vaccine.
www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/h...
www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/h...
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FYI Americans: if you had Canadian grandparents/parents: you may be Canadian
February 10, 2026 at 2:12 AM
FYI Americans: if you had Canadian grandparents/parents: you may be Canadian
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Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold
February 10, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold
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NEW: Federal judges are increasingly furious at what they see as a pattern / playbook of defiance by the Trump administration to court orders in immigration cases — in Minnesota and around the country.
Here’s a look at what they’re seeing: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Here’s a look at what they’re seeing: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
How the Trump administration skirts — and defies — court rulings on ICE detentions
A POLITICO review of hundreds of cases brought by ICE detainees shows a pattern of noncompliance that has frustrated judges across the country.
www.politico.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:15 AM
NEW: Federal judges are increasingly furious at what they see as a pattern / playbook of defiance by the Trump administration to court orders in immigration cases — in Minnesota and around the country.
Here’s a look at what they’re seeing: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Here’s a look at what they’re seeing: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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New York Night, No. 2 — George Ault, 1921
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
January 29, 2026 at 2:47 PM
New York Night, No. 2 — George Ault, 1921
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
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Congress is scrambling to pass a DHS funding bill by Friday, and we need to make it loud and clear that our senators and representatives must oppose any bill that hands ICE and Border Patrol more funding or fails to include strict safeguards to protect our communities.
Tell Your Members of Congress to rein in ICE NOW
On January 24, federal forces with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. This was just over two weeks after the killing of Renee Good. These killings are a direc...
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February 10, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Congress is scrambling to pass a DHS funding bill by Friday, and we need to make it loud and clear that our senators and representatives must oppose any bill that hands ICE and Border Patrol more funding or fails to include strict safeguards to protect our communities.
Once again, Republicans are happy to burn everything down.
Democrats (with exceedingly few exceptions) are fine with it as long as it's a polite, controlled burn.
Democrats (with exceedingly few exceptions) are fine with it as long as it's a polite, controlled burn.
Our DHS reform demands are exceedingly reasonable.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
February 10, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Once again, Republicans are happy to burn everything down.
Democrats (with exceedingly few exceptions) are fine with it as long as it's a polite, controlled burn.
Democrats (with exceedingly few exceptions) are fine with it as long as it's a polite, controlled burn.
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Flora on rocks Sun https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/red-and-white-domes-1914
January 27, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Flora on rocks Sun https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/red-and-white-domes-1914
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I will be honest: we are not talking nearly enough about the downstream effects of these ICE and CBP deployments.
For example: landlords and debt collectors file more aggressive collection and eviction suits with dubious (or no) factual bases, knowing that the defendants won't go to the courthouse.
For example: landlords and debt collectors file more aggressive collection and eviction suits with dubious (or no) factual bases, knowing that the defendants won't go to the courthouse.
February 10, 2026 at 2:33 AM
I will be honest: we are not talking nearly enough about the downstream effects of these ICE and CBP deployments.
For example: landlords and debt collectors file more aggressive collection and eviction suits with dubious (or no) factual bases, knowing that the defendants won't go to the courthouse.
For example: landlords and debt collectors file more aggressive collection and eviction suits with dubious (or no) factual bases, knowing that the defendants won't go to the courthouse.
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Knowingly violating our separation ordinance, and endangering the people that work in and around it, violates our shared values and the trust that residents imbue us with as elected officials.
February 10, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Knowingly violating our separation ordinance, and endangering the people that work in and around it, violates our shared values and the trust that residents imbue us with as elected officials.
Per the reskeet just below, today learned about additional state agency complicity to protect ICE not citizens. It is getting worse, and Walz is going to have to answer for decisions he’s made.
February 10, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Per the reskeet just below, today learned about additional state agency complicity to protect ICE not citizens. It is getting worse, and Walz is going to have to answer for decisions he’s made.
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some things are actually getting worse here.
In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”
“Uptick In Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers
In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.
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February 9, 2026 at 8:13 PM
some things are actually getting worse here.
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I suppose I also take this personally bc attacks on craftivism land poorly with me as a Native person. Beading together, making regalia, sewing in groups — this is at the heart of how the women on my reservation gather to do healing work, political ed, and mutual aid. This has long been true.
February 9, 2026 at 3:08 PM
I suppose I also take this personally bc attacks on craftivism land poorly with me as a Native person. Beading together, making regalia, sewing in groups — this is at the heart of how the women on my reservation gather to do healing work, political ed, and mutual aid. This has long been true.
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starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import
Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj
February 9, 2026 at 5:12 PM
starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import
Fred de Sam Lazaro's segment on tonight's PBS NewsHour is great. Appreciate his reporting year over year, particularly his dedicate to immigrant and migrant life in and around the state of Minnesota.
February 9, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Fred de Sam Lazaro's segment on tonight's PBS NewsHour is great. Appreciate his reporting year over year, particularly his dedicate to immigrant and migrant life in and around the state of Minnesota.
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![Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihcxd5wcrrf5nxz3g4riglsrccbucmdns6kxrtmtj6gjgwqibp3fi@jpeg)
February 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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Happy seventh annual Laura Dern Day, please be reminded that you are LEGALLY OBLIGATED to watch this masterpiece *at least* once today!
February 9, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Happy seventh annual Laura Dern Day, please be reminded that you are LEGALLY OBLIGATED to watch this masterpiece *at least* once today!
Always the plan, absofuckinglutely not
The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
They're Coming for Our Daughters
The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures
jessica.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Always the plan, absofuckinglutely not
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"No, no, you don't get it. I am HUGELY aware there are already lots of books about badgers, but this isn't a book about just any old badgers; it's far more specific."
February 9, 2026 at 6:53 PM
"No, no, you don't get it. I am HUGELY aware there are already lots of books about badgers, but this isn't a book about just any old badgers; it's far more specific."
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That explains a lot.
February 9, 2026 at 6:23 PM
That explains a lot.
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this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
February 9, 2026 at 6:06 PM
this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
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Minnesota SOS Steve Simon tells @ms.now states now have to plan for “federal interference with our elections” like fed agents showing up at polls
“This now belongs in the same category as a power outage, a bomb threat”
New reporting w/ @davidrohde.bsky.social
www.ms.now/news/trump-e...
“This now belongs in the same category as a power outage, a bomb threat”
New reporting w/ @davidrohde.bsky.social
www.ms.now/news/trump-e...
‘Trump is showing us the playbook’: Officials scramble to protect against election interference
Election officials across the U.S. are taking Trump’s latest threats seriously, bolstering their defenses against federal efforts to block their constitutionally mandated role running elections.
www.ms.now
February 9, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Minnesota SOS Steve Simon tells @ms.now states now have to plan for “federal interference with our elections” like fed agents showing up at polls
“This now belongs in the same category as a power outage, a bomb threat”
New reporting w/ @davidrohde.bsky.social
www.ms.now/news/trump-e...
“This now belongs in the same category as a power outage, a bomb threat”
New reporting w/ @davidrohde.bsky.social
www.ms.now/news/trump-e...
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Kid Rock actually did the same thing Bad Bunny did where he named all the different places that make up America but he only listed Texas, the part of Detroit where white people live, Funspot in New Hampshire and the defunct Times Square Señor Frog’s.
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Kid Rock actually did the same thing Bad Bunny did where he named all the different places that make up America but he only listed Texas, the part of Detroit where white people live, Funspot in New Hampshire and the defunct Times Square Señor Frog’s.
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