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Mr. Fahrenheit
@mrfahrenheit.bsky.social
Currently in the process of moving to Sacramento, CA

she/her

mostly nice, fervently anti-GOP

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. Mencken
Rabbit hole in a rabbit hole 🕳
Was planning to sleep but have pivoted to existential anxiety about sociopath billionaires wrecking billions of lives, democracy, civilization, science, culture, the planet Earth, and our perception of reality itself for funsies.
February 7, 2026 at 6:17 AM
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I love this. Bar these Nazis from public service employment forever.

thelalocal.org/immigration/...
"GTFO!" California lawmakers introduce bill to bar ICE agents from public service jobs | LA Local
State Assemblymember Mark Gonzalez and Sen. Maria Elena Durazo announced legislation to bar ICE agents from holding public service jobs in California.
thelalocal.org
February 7, 2026 at 5:17 AM
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53 years ago today

Raw Power is the third studio album by American rock band the Stooges, released and credited as Iggy and the Stooges on this day in 1973

#punk #punkrock #protopunk #thestooges #iggy #iggypop #history #punkrockhistory #otd
February 7, 2026 at 5:39 AM
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47 years ago today - February 7, 1979
The Clash launched their first American tour at the Berkeley Community Theatre. Bo Diddley served as the opening act and The Clash began their set with I'm So Bored with the USA

📸 Roger Ressmeyer

#punk #punks #punkrock #theclash #history #punkrockhistory #otd
February 7, 2026 at 5:48 AM
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Dig the duffle coats on the US Team. The rope toggles harken back to the original military design when the Allies fought fascists. Manufacturers such as Gloverall switched to leather after the war to make the civilian versions feel more "upscale."
February 7, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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Tonight’s #FridayLimericks look past the memes to the far right’s assaults on voting. (Thread)

While the president aims to distract,
Watch destruction he wants to enact.
This democracy foe
Is now having a go
At the power that’s left to extract.
February 7, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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BREAKING: A 5th Circuit panel has backed ICE's mass detention policy, a decision that clears the way for the administration to lock up people who are in immigration proceedings

It's a 2-1 ruling
Majority: Jones (Reagan), Duncan (Trump)
Minority: Douglas (Obama)

s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
February 7, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level
February 7, 2026 at 3:36 AM
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TL;DR: For a high profile case about a Minneapolitan, with much to do about allegedly aggressive online comments on federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, it's striking the case was moved to Michigan on charges that also seem tied to just a handful of posts allegedly involving a Michigander.
I've been looking into the case of Kyle Wagner, the man arrested earlier this week in Minneapolis on cyberstalking with interstate communications charges, and a couple things in the case, especially in the filed complaint and accompanying affidavit, stand out.

🧵1/10
That's twice today I've seen the "transnational criminal organization" label in court actions the Trump admin & its allies are pursuing.

The first: a DOJ presser announcing charges against alleged anti-ICE activist Kyle Wagner in MN.

The DOJ says that case is part of "Operation Take Back America."
February 7, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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This has been without question the funniest part of watching progressive liberals discover mutual aid organizing
someone asks me to name an anarchist, I'm going to point at them and then prove to them that they already hold anarchist beliefs.
I mean. Yes I *could* but also if I did that they would kick me out of the Signal chat
February 7, 2026 at 3:38 AM
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By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet
February 7, 2026 at 3:38 AM
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Democrats begged these democracy hating insurrectionists to pass anti-gerrymandering legislation. EVERY. REPUBLICAN. INCLUDING. CRUZ. OPPOSED.
February 7, 2026 at 3:17 AM
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To be clear, super bummed how much Siemens has dropped the ball on locomotive reliability and passenger comfort. I'm so baffled and dismayed that not even the Germans can deliver us genuinely nice things.
February 7, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Make No Mistake About Trump's Minnesota 'De-Escalation'

With 'immigration czar' Tom Homan taking the reins it's likely to be pivot in style only
Make No Mistake About Trump's Minnesota 'De-Escalation'
Reading the corporate media over the past few days, you might come away with the impression that national (and international) outrage over state-sanctioned terror and killings of civilians in the stre...
religiondispatches.org
February 7, 2026 at 3:17 AM
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my notes from Chip Berlet & Matthew N. Lyons’s “Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort,” about why we need to analyze what they call right-wing populism (RWP in my notes) the same way that we look at other social and political movements
February 7, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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While people who would probably qualify as liberals risk their lives in the frozen streets of Minneapolis (and do similar brilliantly organized solidarity work in New Orleans and Chicago and many other cities), not sure what this is supposed to mean.
"Every single day for four years I have thought about Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt gloating that you can dismantle a democracy right in front of a liberal's face piece by piece and all they'll do is convene committee meetings till the boots are in the halls."
― Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa.bsky.social)
February 7, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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Needed this today...
You didn't need a video of animals eating popcorn, but here you go 🍿😎💙
January 26, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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We will have to pay for these crimes for a long time.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 12h
A professional airplane enthusiast has been tracking the federally chartered deportation flights out of the Minneapolis airport as DHS sends immigration detainees to other states and, eventually, other countries. n.pr/4qlvIaa
Minneapolis now has daily deportation flights. One man has been documenting them
A professional airplane enthusiast has been tracking the federally chartered deportation flights out of the Minneapolis airport as DHS sends immigration detainees to other states and, eventually, other countries.
n.pr
February 6, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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Creep.
February 7, 2026 at 2:45 AM
"Terrorist”: How ICE Weaponized 9/11’s Scarlet Letter

Spencer Ackerman on how the politics of counterterrorism led to ICE and CBP completing their transformation into a death squad — and why the agencies are unreformable.
“Terrorist”: How ICE Weaponized 9/11’s Scarlet Letter
“Terrorist”: How ICE Weaponized 9/11’s Scarlet Letter
Spencer Ackerman on how the politics of counterterrorism led to ICE and CBP completing their transformation into a death squad — and why the agencies are unreformable.
share.google
February 7, 2026 at 2:43 AM
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The personal is political on the right as well.
February 7, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Minnesota’s red-hat resistance isn’t Pussy Hats 2.0

The Norwegian-inspired craftivism of Melt the ICE hats raises familiar questions about whose activism matters
Minnesota’s red-hat resistance isn’t Pussy Hats 2.0
The Norwegian-inspired craftivism of Melt the ICE hats raises familiar questions about whose activism matters.
www.salon.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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For me, the greatest comedic role in 21st century US television
Party Down was clearly written and performed by people with extensive catering experience.

It nails the strange make up of catering teams, the absurd demands of ill-mannered clients and the amazingly simple screw-ups that can snowball during events.
February 7, 2026 at 2:14 AM