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😒 You can never appease a tyrant. 🔥
DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE.
💙 🌻 🟧 🐝

Don’t do genocide.
***El que calla, otorga***

💙 #heretostay #BLM #stillwithher #khive #climate #slavaUkraini #ofa
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…this will be a long hard slog!
Stay ready ❤️💙
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As a democracy movement scholar, the Minneapolis ICE resistance is one of the most inspiring things I've witnessed in US politics.

These people are the very best of us, and the vision of American community that they embody is far more powerful and enduring than anything the nativists could offer.
‘Enough Is Enough’: Hundreds of Minnesota Businesses Take Stand Against ICE
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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Jens-Frederik Nielsen, Prime Minister of Greenland: Sovereignty is a red line. Our integrity, our borders, and international law are definitely, definitely a red line that we don’t want anyone to cross.
January 23, 2026 at 4:46 AM
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Stop ICE NOW.
Stay away from corporate retailers.
Stay away from school.
Stay away from work.
Today, Jan. 23, 2026.
#Minnesota
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
January 23, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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#OnThisDay, 23 Jan 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell graduates with a medical degree. She is the first woman to receive one in the USA. She was also the first woman on the UK medical register.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #AmericanHistory 🗃️
January 23, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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I reamed a gop state senator on broad daylight in front of 20 ppl. I told her how dare she deem herself qualified to rip my kids rights away? To make them die? It felt so cathartic.
January 23, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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Since Rubio spends most of his time tongue-bathing Trump, he's rarely in his office at State. This means the place is being run by Mike Needham and Christopher Landau.

"Both were former longtime employees of the Heritage Foundation."
January 21, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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We've already lost a bunch of soft-power tools and places to apply it, and surprise, surprise, surprise, China has moved right in.
January 21, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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January 21, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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January 21, 2026 at 12:08 AM
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January 21, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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“The one constant in Marco Rubio’s career is that he has betrayed every mentor and every principle he’s ever had in order to claim power for himself,” a political figure in Miami told me.
January 20, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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One of my favorites, Dexter Filkins, has a new article up about one of my least favorites, Marco Rubio.

Even if you think you know him, you will be amazed at what a slime he is, and has always been.

It's a #longread, so be sure to bookmark until you have some time.
How Marco Rubio Went from “Little Marco” to Trump’s Foreign-Policy Enabler
As Secretary of State, the President’s onetime foe now offers him lavish displays of public praise—and will execute his agenda in Venezuela and around the globe.
www.newyorker.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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Claim is made that Rubio sees taking down Venezuela as leading to taking down Cuba, which would make him a hero in Florida, which is part of his strategy for his next run for president.
January 21, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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I just thought everyone should see this
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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The Danish prime minister will travel to Greenland for talks on the island’s future.
Denmark’s Leader Flies to Greenland to Discuss Latest From Trump
The Danish prime minister is traveling to Greenland on Friday for talks on the island’s future after President Donald Trump seemingly deescalated his threats to take over the Arctic territory.
bloom.bg
January 23, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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JD Vance is such a narcissist. Five-year-old Liam is not a sex offender.
Vance in MN: "It's really cold outside. We in the Trump administration want to deport criminal aliens who are sex offenders. It takes a certain level of committed to sex offender criminal aliens to stand outside in -40 temperatures and attack the vice president, but they're committed to the bit."
January 23, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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AOC: This is quite a bit of market concentration. Agreed?

CVS HEALTH CHAIR DAVID JOYNER: No. I'd suggest it's a model that works well for the consumer

AOC: It works well for CVS. Health insurance gets a cut, pharmacy benefit manager gets one, drug manufacturer gets one, & the patient gets screwed
January 22, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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They love a white Europe, he means.
January 23, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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It's -20 in Minneapolis and organizers are in the streets before dawn getting ready for actions related to the general strike. They've had locals training out-of-town volunteers on how to prepare for and endure the cold. AND IT IS WORKING. THE STRIKE IS HAPPENING. THE CITY IS DOING THE DAMN THING...
January 23, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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HI's AG: "The sycophants who are following this president are willing to sell their souls...what they’re saying, what they’re doing, is so unconscionable on a daily basis, so immoral, that all of us need to be able to understand, there’s no way that they’re ever going to let up. We have to fight.”
January 22, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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New from me on states' rights in the zeitgeist (gift link): www.theverge.com/policy/86588...
The state AGs are as mad as you are
“We have to fight.”
www.theverge.com
January 22, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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I wasn't sure what to expect from a group of Democratic state AGs, but I definitely was not expecting a long monologue about Ruby Ridge and the Boston Massacre www.theverge.com/policy/86588...
January 22, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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"The Royal Navy was 'critically involved in expanding the slave trade, in protecting slaving vessels … loaning out Royal Navy vessels to slave trading companies and stocking them with men and supplies'....from the reign of Elizabeth I until the 18th century, with profits flowing back to the crown."
Counterpoint Guardian review of The Crown’s Silence. “The British crown & the navy expanded & protected the trade in enslaved African people for hundreds of years, unprecedented research into the monarchy’s historical ties to slavery has found.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
British crown was world’s largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals
Exclusive: Author of The Crown’s Silence tells how navy and monarchy protected slave trade for hundreds of years
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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Using TikTok in the Disunited States of Trumpism is now an existential risk. It will be exploited by forces of repression there, which is, of course, why Trump wanted it largely in US hands.

And the rest of the world should dump it too.
🚨This is the new TikTok Privacy Policy I found on Reddit. Read it & pass this on. Looks like they can pull from USER CONTENT race, religious beliefs, mental/physical health diagnosis, sex life, status as transgender, citizenship/immigration status & more personal info.
January 23, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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Funny how the right is outraged at Fanone flipping off a congressman just days after celebrating a president flipping off a working American .
January 22, 2026 at 10:05 PM