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Marīa @solusandra.bsky.social · 38m

Somehow I've never seen this! Will rectify this coming week, if possible.

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Marīa @solusandra.bsky.social · 39m

Ok, let's gooooooo! #filmhottakes #myfavmovies

"Get to know my film taste. For every like, I will post one film I love."

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 11h

"An underrated strategy of surviving an authoritarian takeover is to seem like an absolute moron who can't figure out orders well enough to follow them."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

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Marīa @solusandra.bsky.social · 11h

The "strawberry" zofran sublinguals? Those are awful, but I have to have them because one of my meds can make me super nauseous & I'm more likely to get food poisoning than most, due to nearly 2 decades of immunomodifying MS meds.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 1d

child sex abuse is a problem across ideological lines HOWEVER conservativism perfectly aligns with the value system of a child abuser

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 1d

This is exactly the sort of puzzle piece that leads to no one listening to the administration if this goes on long enough but they are mad stupid

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

How big is ICE’s projected budget? This big: bit.ly/4o9oW6y

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

"With alarming regularity, the Trump administration points to imaginary extraordinary conditions as a predicate for extraordinary powers."

I wrote that in June

might be one of the most evergreen things I've ever written

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · Aug 11

since Trump is instructing federal law enforcement to besiege D.C. bc of purported crime reasons, let's review this piece I wrote in June about how he keeps trying to legally justify his fascist bullshit by pointing to nonexistent 'emergencies'

ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Trump Is Inventing Legal Emergencies to Make Himself More Powerful

The White House’s response to protests of ICE raids in Los Angeles is stretching statutory language to the breaking point.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 1d

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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Melvin Peña @melvinpena.bsky.social · 3d

omg new news from @flockofdimes.bsky.social! jenn is trying to bring her @undertowmusic.bsky.social house show tour to the UK. if i can, 2026 will be the year i return to your shores! let's go see jenn and cry together! needed: any space that can seat 35-50 folks! undertowmusic.com/undertow-sho...

me and jenn in a chapel in asheville, nc

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Melvin Peña @melvinpena.bsky.social · 3d

@undertowmusic.bsky.social shows can literally be any place - chapels, in office buildings, recording studios, literally people's homes. submit your application! have access to a cool/compelling spot? flock of dimes at tintern abbey? someone please make that happen undertowmusic.com/undertow-sho...

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Marīa @solusandra.bsky.social · 3d

This new Flock of Dimes album is stellar!

Under the Radar Magazine @undertheradar.bsky.social · 24d

Flock of Dimes (the solo project of Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner) is releasing a new album, "The Life You Save," on October 10 via Sub Pop (@subpop.bsky.social). Now she has shared its third single, “Defeat.”

www.undertheradarmag.com/news/flock_o...

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Marīa @solusandra.bsky.social · 3d

This was lovely - thanks again for arranging this and thanks to Jenn for sharing her knowledge & behind the scenes recording info!

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Skylar Patridge @skyepatridge.bsky.social · 4d

Keep pressure on Great Value Patrick Bateman. He has until the end of the week before he actually acts on this.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 4d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 4d

You can also be like my mom and order Angelica and the Bear Prince, in fact!!! It’s out now! 🐻‍❄️

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Marīa @solusandra.bsky.social · 4d

I'm so glad someone already asked this! Looking forward to it!

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Marīa @solusandra.bsky.social · 4d

I wrote in a history teacher from Southwest who lives next door to me, actually. I couldn't bring myself to vote for either of those non-choices.

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · Sep 3

/heaves the heavy sigh of someone in Ward 13 who wants someone better than Linea Palmisano representing me but this has been my hope for years and years and yet here we are. No good option here & what Naomi suggests is probably the way to go here.

Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · Sep 3

Elections 2025: Minneapolis City Council, Ward 13. I started with one of the very easy ones (alas, the only person running against Linea is perennial weirdo Bob "Again" Carney Jr.)

naomikritzer.com/2025/09/03/e...

Elections 2025: Minneapolis City Council, Ward 13

Starting with this one because there is just not a whole lot to say. Here’s who’s running: Linea Palmisano (incumbent, DFL-endorsed)Bob “Again” Carney, Jr. (“Climate R…

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 5d

never forget linea palmisano was the only councilmember to vote against being against slave wages

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · Dec 4

You're all wondering who was the only Minneapolis council member to vote against being against slave wages. Sorry to report it was my friend Linea Palmisano. Bc I have a new policy where I don't discard friends over their objectionable views, I'm going to keep the dialogue open.

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Marīa @solusandra.bsky.social · 4d

I wish I had a real alternative in Ward 13!

A close-up photo of a Minneapolis City Council Member Ward 13 ballot selection, showing "Bob again Carney Jr, Climate Revolution Elephant" party & "Linea Palmisano, Democratic-Farmer-Labor" party mostly in name only, given her voting record.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 4d

::points:: For the people insisting he gets a "pass" because his sm team are competent at dunking on a demented fascist, this is also fascism. Now go read up on his inhuman policies regarding the unhoused & disabled and stop telling CAers like me not to criticize him.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 4d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

The table of contents for Read This When Things Fall Apart is a crisis directory—“read this if…” [insert heartbreak, setback, disaster, or breaking point]. I wish I could gift a copy to every activist in Chicago. You can donate a copy to an activist in need here: www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

The cover for the book, Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. The cover art features a person wading into a body of water in the woods at night.

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Meggie the Ramm (they/them) @meggietheramm.bsky.social · 4d

It's still Banned Book Week, and did you know that hoopla has a tab of all the banned books that are available through your library? LOTS of good comics on there

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 4d

Dems better hold the line because

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