Isabel
@isitis.bsky.social
she/her. minneapolis. I do cool things with orchestral strings (instruments) for money, lots of other stuff for fun. see my gay orchestra at o'shag may 24 www.mnphil.org/mc-events/reverberations
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what a special fuckin day
![Screenshot of the caption of Julia Alvarez's instagram post, which reads: "[Yuliana Ortiz Ruano's] novel, Carnaval Fever, reads like a musical score! Ortiz-Ruano's instrument is language, and Madeleine Arenivar's brilliant translation from the original Spanish to English doesn't lose a beat! It's a carnaval to read this short, dazzling novel--the music, smells, rhythms, textures--the novel captures them all. But to stop there is to miss the profound, disruptive, joyous carnival going on in the protagonist Ainhoa's body on the brink of leaving her childhood behind. Ainhoa's unforgettable, fresh voice sounds like no other. Ortiz Ruano has created a naif to rival Scott Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird or Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye. One of my favorite reads of the year."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ayxefwgrmt5qux63ezwcacv7/bafkreidjmmtfj5xfz2q7nsbhlj7hpqiplrlmp3tw3e3fz5yyatvd7zoqs4@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
what a special fuckin day
what a special fuckin day
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
what a special fuckin day
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i don’t play pundit and try to guess how stuff will play to voters whose politics generally make no sense to me, but if ending the shutdown was about the important business of getting SNAP benefits and air travel back online, it also rewards hostage taking in a way that seems pretty ominous to me
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
i don’t play pundit and try to guess how stuff will play to voters whose politics generally make no sense to me, but if ending the shutdown was about the important business of getting SNAP benefits and air travel back online, it also rewards hostage taking in a way that seems pretty ominous to me
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NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!! 🥳
As your politicians caved in Washington, comrades across Texas came together to support trans healthcare by building out 800 HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits.
Fund a kit here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
See their post here: www.instagram.com/p/DQ220LxgP4v/
As your politicians caved in Washington, comrades across Texas came together to support trans healthcare by building out 800 HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits.
Fund a kit here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
See their post here: www.instagram.com/p/DQ220LxgP4v/
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!! 🥳
As your politicians caved in Washington, comrades across Texas came together to support trans healthcare by building out 800 HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits.
Fund a kit here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
See their post here: www.instagram.com/p/DQ220LxgP4v/
As your politicians caved in Washington, comrades across Texas came together to support trans healthcare by building out 800 HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits.
Fund a kit here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
See their post here: www.instagram.com/p/DQ220LxgP4v/
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I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
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well bully for canada. lucky ol canada
Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down?
Federal workers aren’t furloughed.
Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.
Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.
It puts the politicians jobs on the line.
They get the budget passed.
Federal workers aren’t furloughed.
Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.
Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.
It puts the politicians jobs on the line.
They get the budget passed.
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 AM
well bully for canada. lucky ol canada
still thinking about how the last two shows I've gone to were both capped off by an absolutely inspired cover, objectively well done but made even better because the fun being had by everyone on stage was palpable
November 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
still thinking about how the last two shows I've gone to were both capped off by an absolutely inspired cover, objectively well done but made even better because the fun being had by everyone on stage was palpable
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the second one tho 😳
November 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
the second one tho 😳
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This is the thing here - it’s pretty obvious the Dems don’t want to abolish ICE (right now), but the genie is out of the bottle. Normies are screaming for ICE agents’ heads. You can’t slap a rainbow sticker on this one bsky.app/profile/atta...
If the political opposition doesn’t put these ICE & CBP institutional criminals in prison, annihilate their budgets, purge the datasets and repeal their authorities, this will keep happening. And that opposition will reveal itself as a false, controlled opposition that is no less predatory on people
November 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This is the thing here - it’s pretty obvious the Dems don’t want to abolish ICE (right now), but the genie is out of the bottle. Normies are screaming for ICE agents’ heads. You can’t slap a rainbow sticker on this one bsky.app/profile/atta...
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@ericroper.bsky.social brushing over the role media played in propping up Frey. Where was the media condemnation of the deeply racist snake oil attack ads on Robin or the AOM flyers that darkened Fateh's skin? Why did no one care about Frey deleting his texts and voicemails when ICE was in town?
Some thoughts on Eric Roper’s finger-wag in the mayor’s race: www.startribune.com/jacob-frey-r...
1. Asking “what chance did [Davis & Hampton] have ignores Frey’s agency is creating the race‘s dynamics. Frey sued the most moderate hope (Emily Koski) to cut off her money & intimated others. 1/
1. Asking “what chance did [Davis & Hampton] have ignores Frey’s agency is creating the race‘s dynamics. Frey sued the most moderate hope (Emily Koski) to cut off her money & intimated others. 1/
Roper: Jacob Frey can thank the far left for handing him another term
Frey was a vulnerable incumbent. But progressives banked on the wrong guy to beat him.
www.startribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
@ericroper.bsky.social brushing over the role media played in propping up Frey. Where was the media condemnation of the deeply racist snake oil attack ads on Robin or the AOM flyers that darkened Fateh's skin? Why did no one care about Frey deleting his texts and voicemails when ICE was in town?
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I think I would move to a remote part of Alaska rather than give a quote to the New York Times about how great it was to get a hug from a robot.
November 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I think I would move to a remote part of Alaska rather than give a quote to the New York Times about how great it was to get a hug from a robot.
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Yeah I looked upon Cthulhu's dread visage and I was fine. Big octopus on a man's body. Not exactly "difficult to comprehend." Maybe you guys should go outside more idk
November 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Yeah I looked upon Cthulhu's dread visage and I was fine. Big octopus on a man's body. Not exactly "difficult to comprehend." Maybe you guys should go outside more idk
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It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
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Okay here is a question, like why aren't the fines that accompany violations like this just "equal to the revenue you received from the violation plus 10%"? Like is there a rule that it has to be a specific number instead of just "all the money you made from doing crimes"?
Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Okay here is a question, like why aren't the fines that accompany violations like this just "equal to the revenue you received from the violation plus 10%"? Like is there a rule that it has to be a specific number instead of just "all the money you made from doing crimes"?
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the right isn’t really that afraid of zohran mamdani, the thing they’re most afraid of is that his agenda and being unashamed of being an open democratic socialist will work too well
November 6, 2025 at 4:25 AM
the right isn’t really that afraid of zohran mamdani, the thing they’re most afraid of is that his agenda and being unashamed of being an open democratic socialist will work too well
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Jesus I see what you've done for others
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Jesus I see what you've done for others
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When Republicans win elections: The people have spoken, we must let them implement their agenda.
When Democrats win elections: This totalitarian FREAK must be prevented from implementing the policies he ran on
nypost.com/2025/11/05/o...
When Democrats win elections: This totalitarian FREAK must be prevented from implementing the policies he ran on
nypost.com/2025/11/05/o...
November 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
When Republicans win elections: The people have spoken, we must let them implement their agenda.
When Democrats win elections: This totalitarian FREAK must be prevented from implementing the policies he ran on
nypost.com/2025/11/05/o...
When Democrats win elections: This totalitarian FREAK must be prevented from implementing the policies he ran on
nypost.com/2025/11/05/o...
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Starting with "You can have your opinions on trans issues & who can/cannot participate in women's sports leagues based on gender standards" is positioning this as a debate. Trans people's ability to fully participate in public life is NOT an "opinion" to "disagree" on! We have lost the plot!
Instagram post from former player Nicole Baxter following the appearance of her former teammate on a conservative news network this morning.
It reflects what others probably feel: have the conversation internally, not in a way that explicitly opens up players to abuse - that’s inexcusable.
It reflects what others probably feel: have the conversation internally, not in a way that explicitly opens up players to abuse - that’s inexcusable.
November 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Starting with "You can have your opinions on trans issues & who can/cannot participate in women's sports leagues based on gender standards" is positioning this as a debate. Trans people's ability to fully participate in public life is NOT an "opinion" to "disagree" on! We have lost the plot!
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"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die."
--Dick Cheney probably
--Dick Cheney probably
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die."
--Dick Cheney probably
--Dick Cheney probably
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Regardless of what happens with the final count in the Minneapolis mayoral race, I love ranked choice voting. I get to be an even bigger hater. I get to vote for three people and leave one person, specifically, off my ballot? Hell yeah
November 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Regardless of what happens with the final count in the Minneapolis mayoral race, I love ranked choice voting. I get to be an even bigger hater. I get to vote for three people and leave one person, specifically, off my ballot? Hell yeah
please lord I see what you've done for my friends in new york...
November 5, 2025 at 4:33 AM
please lord I see what you've done for my friends in new york...
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we don’t even have to tolerate him right this second
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
we don’t even have to tolerate him right this second
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