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DM for Back Alley Vasectomies @teandoranges.bsky.social · 4h

"only $600" also firmly outs her as out-of-touch with the majority of renters in Ward 7. Hell - $20 is kind of a huge deal for me and a lot of ppl I know.

taylr @taylordahlin.com · 5h

apparently when questioned about accepting landlord money from 110 grant resident, elizabeth shaffer says “it’s only $600.” if that’s the case, why not return it? it’s only $600. make a show of it, rejecting money from this slumlord who gave half a million to trump. tell him you reject his values

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 5h

apparently when questioned about accepting landlord money from 110 grant resident, elizabeth shaffer says “it’s only $600.” if that’s the case, why not return it? it’s only $600. make a show of it, rejecting money from this slumlord who gave half a million to trump. tell him you reject his values

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

real Fox News chyron

GALVESTON, TX REMOVING RAINBOW CROSSWALKS

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 12h

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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DM for Back Alley Vasectomies @teandoranges.bsky.social · 11h

To me skyway has largely represented "drove-in-from-suburbs" crowd to me. I don't vibe with that bunch... So sure - let them have it. It feels too much like a partially abandoned suburban mall for me. And tbh - i have always hated malls. Not my crowd. Even when I worked dt i avoided it.

DM for Back Alley Vasectomies @teandoranges.bsky.social · 11h

I'll be honest... I think the skyway does as much to hurt dt Minneapolis as help. I avoid it at all costs - perhaps bc it doesn't make sense for me as a transit user, pedestrian and biker to leave the street level. This map helps untangle it a bit but i still am firmly Team Street Level.

Katie Cashman @katiecashman.bsky.social · 12h

The skyway system is an incredible asset in MPLS and we have to work together to find creative ways to keep the skyways open later! I’m excited about this new digital map and am working on incentivizes for skyway access, events, signage, and targeted approaches to bottlenecks.

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Katie Cashman @katiecashman.bsky.social · 12h

Check out this new digital tool (I don’t know the creator!!) and let me know what ideas you have for our skyways. skyway.run

Minneapolis Skyway

Navigate the Minneapolis Skyway System, find lunch spots and get directions.

skyway.run

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 12h

......why does *checks notes* Qatar need an air force base in *checks notes again* the middle of Idaho?

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Katie Cashman @katiecashman.bsky.social · 12h

I wanted to share this message from my friend and colleague @katiejonesmpls.bsky.social. I’m proud to be the only candidate in this race endorsed by the state legislators that represent us. They know I’m a collaborative problem solver that delivers for Ward 7.

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t disagree with my neighbors who saw MPD and ICE blocking the street and assumed MPD was helping ICE. I firmly believe MPD has earned that reputation, so if everyone wants to be mad that I skeeted that O’Hara is ICE’s lapdog, stay mad. Fuck ICE and fuck MPD.

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 11h

Everyone is pissed off I connected MPD to helping ICE so I’m adding this post to the thread to add the context that a neighbor called 911 when masked men with guns were wandering around their yards. No one has made it clear to me why MPD was happily hanging out and appeared to be having fun, but

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 13h

I’m shaken, my neighbors are terrified. We live off central and Lowry which is both heavily immigrant and heavily FAMILIES. This is a family neighborhood. There are multiple bus stops in our hood where multiple bus routes take kids to multiple schools.

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 13h

One neighbor said she saw an agent with a laminated sheet that she assumed was a list. When she looked closer, it looked like a map with highlighted areas. This all leads me to believe ICE will be back.

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 13h

ICE had a large white drone they were trying to put in the air but neighborhood pressure grew and they started to pack up and leave. One neighbor was shouting that ICE is a bunch of losers and an agent said to her “you’re going to lose. We will win.”

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 13h

ICE was wearing their standard attire, vests and face masks that looked like they came from Amazon. None of them had identifying badges. When asked why they were there they would say they were looking for someone with long hair and wearing jeans, not even if it was male or female.

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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 11h

Who loves hay? Savannah-banana!
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15h

This is the furthest back from the detention center we've seen police force people to demonstrate (note: this is local cops, not DHS/ICE).

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DM for Back Alley Vasectomies @teandoranges.bsky.social · 12h

🥹 was literally reminiscing about early 2000s flash mobs this morning and thinking about what has changed in past 20+ years.

Bobbi Styles @bobbistyles.bsky.social · 13h

Flash mobs prepared folks for this moment.

Need to use what was learned.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 13h

Remember how people lost their minds when I said go to a protest but don't rsvp to one

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 13h

They’re now publicly threatening a military crackdown of the No Kings protest.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 13h

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 13h

Excuse me, what?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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extechman.bsky.social @extechman.bsky.social · 22h

Whilst sitting on vast fortunes on the Vatican Bank….🤔

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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The Tapeworm that Starved to Death in RFK's Brain @imperativelizard.bsky.social · 17h

scrooge mcduck says hoarding wealth is bad, and, while gesturing to the mountains of bullion he squats upon, insists that he doesn't "even like this stuff" and "it's different" for "reasons" - like, god told him his club should have all the things. ask god abt it, not him.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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