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D.A. Bullock @bullycreative.bsky.social · 1h

Liberal America stinks of cowardice

D.A. Bullock @bullycreative.bsky.social · 1h

Nothing says you’ve gone too far and too woke than fighting against the klan. 🙄 How do we retroactively change the Nazis in Raiders of The Lost Ark to a non ideological foe?

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 2h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 2h

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

COWARDS!!!!!!!!!!!

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 2h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Eli Sherman @elitalksmpls.bsky.social · 5h

Ahhh to be someone who’s every failing is someone else’s fault. Must be nice for him!

Also to the “it’s all projection” point for them. It truly is. Because this is just how they feel about (and how they will treat) progressives/leftists.

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D.A. Bullock @bullycreative.bsky.social · 6h

he Downtown Council, which has been a Frey political arm since he was elected, is probably not going to give you good unbiased political or voting advice. Frankly, you are not invited to The Downtown Council, but they will tell you they know what is best for you and your family

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D.A. Bullock @bullycreative.bsky.social · 6h

the list Frey failures goes on and on, created on his own petty transactional way, not wished on by any critic, only noticed. - It would be absurd for us to cheer on Frey failures when we are the ones who suffer when they happen.

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D.A. Bullock @bullycreative.bsky.social · 6h

…if his critics tricked him into supporting a polarizer like Rev McAfee for purely political reasons, failing to fight for important accountability in the police federation contract that he promised, raising your property tax levy to cover police abuse settlments…

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D.A. Bullock @bullycreative.bsky.social · 6h

This could only be true if Frey's critics somehow tricked him into lying about banning no-knock warrants, issuing more vetoes of council majority votes than any mayor, appointing political patronage failures in important city staff positions, alienating civil servants,

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 6h

ladies love looking into PACs and campaign finance

i talked to kelly rogers for her piece too! please read this!

@kellyrogers.bsky.social

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Meet the Big-Money Donors Trying to Buy Your Vote in Minneapolis - Racket

PACs will flood this November’s election in Minneapolis with almost $2 million, most of that going to boost the chances of Mayor Jacob Frey and centrist City Council candidates. Who’s bankrolling this...

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Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re a Wells Fargo customer, maybe you shouldn’t be.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 2d

also skipped: answering sahan journal on whether or not the city should contract with jerry mcafee for violence prevention work

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Dave Zaffrann @dzaffrann.bsky.social · 2d

Pro-slave-labor op-ed in the @startribune.com -- great work Steve Grove.

🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 3d

The answer to a question in the headline is always ‘no,’ but Tolkkinen finds it hard to argue against cheap labor.

Headline from the "rural issues" columnist:

Tolkkinen: Minnesota’s Constitution allows $1-an-hour labor for inmates. Should it?
In two rural counties, that labor is being used to build affordable housing.
By Karen Tolkkinen
The Minnesota Star Tribune

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 2d

Megyn Kelly has now made multiple denigrating posts about me across X, YouTube, her podcast so I’m sharing this. Unlike her, I don't perform dislike and disdain in public,then become my real self when the cameras are off. That's the definition of the grift she accuses me of;I find it profoundly sad.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 2d

Gift link: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

As with every other major shift in American life this decade, 2020 marked a major turning point here. The supposed excesses of brief calls for racial justice were deemed so intolerable-due largely, I would argue, to the political and media classes spending three years shrieking about crime and explicitly tying it to said calls for racial justice-that they boomeranged into people essentially apologizing for saying George Floyd's murder was bad, and promising a newfound commitment to being more racist.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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D.A. Bullock @bullycreative.bsky.social · 4d

elected Democrats will talk cash shit like they are leading the resistance when it comes to Trump fascism, but wont make a sound to tell their own police to stand the fuck down and stop doing fascism. "Cant believe the things you say, cuz I'm around and I see what you do"

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D.A. Bullock @bullycreative.bsky.social · 5d

And is still sitting pretty

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D.A. Bullock @bullycreative.bsky.social · 5d

4 communist city council members have seized Stuart Akerberg’s entire wealth and assets! Oh..no.. nevermind Ackerberg is more wealthy than he was when they came into office.

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gretchen brown, real snoopy enjoyer @gretchenbrown.bsky.social · 5d

this is turning out to be lots of interviews of commercial real estate developers

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 5d

People win elections, govern in coalitions. The ooga-booga about “outsized” is the kind of anti-democracy crap authoritarians traffic in. And of course Carol will lend her conspiratorial mindset to any passing circus.

Precarious State @precariousstate.bsky.social · 6d

Tonight, #APrecariousState reveals Minnesota’s turning point—and how a small bloc of DSA-endorsed members gained outsized influence on #Minneapolis City Council.

7 p.m. CT on ABC MN + precariousstate.com
Live Q&A follows on the website.

#APrecariousState #Minnesota #TwinCities #Documentary

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D.A. Bullock @bullycreative.bsky.social · 5d

I wish his daughter would have made a film about Minneapolis from 2020 until now

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Michael Wilson @michaelforparks.bsky.social · 5d

Another beautiful evening with @efornorth.bsky.social in ward 5!

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 6d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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D.A. Bullock @bullycreative.bsky.social · 6d

I wish yall truly knew how deeply trifiling Jacob Frey and the Frey administration are. I try to share as much as I can, but there is SO much more. Stuff you have to hold back to protect innocent people who work for the city. They build it that way to weigh everybody down in it.

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