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@juniper61.bsky.social
BOD Illinois Stewardship Alliance, ILSD 25 Environmental Justice Advisory Comm. Co-Chair, Forager, Swimmer, Progressive Dem.
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The agents handcuffed the man, took him across 4th Street and pushed him onto his knees in the snow. One put him in a choke hold.

“I have my ID!” he shouted repeatedly, as heard on video. The agents do not respond.
ICE agents tackle, arrest American citizen in Minneapolis
Federal immigration agents tackled and arrested a Somali American man in Minneapolis on Tuesday and detained him for about two hours for no apparent reason other than his ethnicity.
www.mprnews.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“The main thing is that we remain different from them, that we never allow ourselves to be made into them, or start thinking as they do. Even if they conquer the whole world, we must refuse to become Nazis.”
Over 24 days in 1946, the German novelist Hans Fallada produced a rare, and now timely, literary touchstone. The novel—based on a Gestapo file—is an exploration of the sometimes corrosive, sometimes energizing nature of fear, Hillary Kelly writes.
How Terror Works
A 1947 German novel explores the sometimes corrosive, sometimes energizing nature of fear.
bit.ly
November 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Spotify is running ads to recruit for the regime’s secret police. Stop paying for or using Spotify until the ICE ads stop: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
November 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Pine needles are scientist's latest tool to better understand how PFAS move through the environment. While PFAS in water, soil and fish have been studied, these familiar and natural tools help to learn how much is in the air.
‘Sticky’ pine needles could provide clues about forever chemicals in Minnesota’s air
Scientists want to better understand how PFAS move through the environment. It turns out that coniferous needles make surprisingly good natural air monitors.
www.mprnews.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Apple is anti-union.

Tesla is anti-union.

Amazon is anti-union.

McDonald's is anti-union.

Starbucks is anti-union.

Google is anti-union.

Walmart is anti-union.

These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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This plaque is posted at West Point. Alcoholic TV talk show chatterbox Pete Hegseth wants to court-martial Arizona Senator Mark Kelly for repeating what is written on it.
November 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Deportation flights occur 2-4 times a week at MSP. Please keep watch for our official response.
November 19, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re saying “We Ain’t Buying It” and asking Americans to hit pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=ind_wabi
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
...the rich and powerful are increasingly operating in cryptocurrencies and avoiding accountability, but where a majority of people would prefer to live in a world where a child does not have to sell her body to older men in order to save enough money to get braces on her teeth.
November 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This message is for you Congressman Bill Foster of Illinois @repbillfoster.bsky.social from a constituent.
Powerful.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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This is me at 15. I’m a child.
I’m a CHILD.
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Powerful men in popular culture: strategic, brilliant, insightful, commanding

Powerful men up close in real life: Utter idiots, truly the dimmest people with so little curiosity, would fall for the nose disappearing trick
November 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Jeffries: "It's unbelievable that for 7 plus weeks Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has been denied the ability to serve more than 800,000 people in Arizona because Republicans are running a pedophile protection program."
November 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Tucked within the Republican appropriation is a measure that allows the eight Republican senators whose phone logs were seized during former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, to sue the government for up to $500,000 apiece.
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Hello @durbin.senate.gov and @duckworth.senate.gov Please do not cave in to Republican demands. They cannot be trusted. Sincerely, a resident of the great state of Illinois.
November 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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“‘Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us…We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return.’”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
When my mother-in-law began showing sign of dementia, her family would put up post-it-notes to remind her of where things were in the house she had lived in for 50 years. This is just a fancier version of that strategy.
this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM