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@ghaztaj.bsky.social
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“i don’t stay up to date on politics”
just say you’re stupid and lack empathy
January 28, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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I paid my therapist a zillion dollars to tell me this, so I’m passing it on to anyone else in MN who needs to hear it:

Think of taking time away to recharge not as not doing the work, but as doing quality control for the work. You’re not going to be able to show up to do it well if you’re depleted
January 27, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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my guy was back out there doin Good Work with a broken rib from his previous encounter.
name a fucking high school after him.
CNN reporting that a week before Alex Pretti was killed, 5 agents tackled him and he suffered a broken rib. CNN says he stopped his car after he saw ICE agents interacting with a family on foot and began to blow his whistle. Source tells CNN Pretti believed “That day he thought he was going to die”
January 27, 2026 at 5:29 PM
THIS!!!!!
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 26, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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the hours since i was last at my computer have seen a lot more congressperson-direct-to-camera social media videos re: ICE, and most of them unsurprisingly are not nearly as good
January 25, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Chilling….and true.
Seen in Los Angeles

(Credit: Zurita Carpio)
January 26, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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The yesterday’s words by Ukraine’s president Zelenskyy in regards to Iran were one of the highlights of his speech.
January 24, 2026 at 3:12 AM
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Two weeks without internet in Iran.

What we already know is bad enough — just imagine what we’re going to find out in the coming weeks and months.

The Islamic Republic is a criminal regime.
January 22, 2026 at 6:23 AM
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Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 22, 2026 at 6:18 AM
This is our reality folks. We must step up.
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 6:16 AM
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I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.

And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”

Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
January 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.

You could be next.
January 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?"

A list of ideas!
January 11, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.

We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.

We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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SNAP has existed for 60 years. Benefits have gone out every single month over those six decades, including during government shutdowns. Until now.

Make no mistake: The money is available to fund SNAP during this shutdown. Trump is making a choice to withhold it.

Don’t forget this.
November 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Let’s hear it for NY, NY, NY!!! 🗽
a woman stands in front of a stop sign and a bet logo
Alt: Alicia Keys in NYC with tall buildings behind her, raising her arm as she sings.
media.tenor.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:33 AM
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.
October 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Why do all dictators target comedians? Because comedians can take a serious issue & distill it into a couple of simple sentences with a funny punchline. Comedians can puncture the dictator’s armour with satire. Humour is subversive. I support Colbert & Kimmel.
a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a city skyline with the words made with mematic at the bottom
ALT: a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a city skyline with the words made with mematic at the bottom
media.tenor.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.
September 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
September 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Brilliant! 😂 Thanks for making me laugh in these awful times, @theonion.com. Now back to….still Tuesday morning in CA 😮‍💨
September 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM