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✨🚲 scoops 🚲✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 8h

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h jiahong pan 潘嘉宏 ☀️ @hpan3.bsky.social · 9h

Can y’all please be on the lookout for my bike? Last seen in Elliot Park. It is a black Biria bike with red pedals and stickers of local news orgs on the bottom tube. It also has a Brooks saddle and adapters for Wolf Tooth pogies on the handlebars.

Biria bike with a sign that says “300 Campground”

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✨🚲 scoops 🚲✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 11h

Did you know that corporate social control tool DISC personality assessments were invented by noted polyamorist and bondage enthusiast Dr William Moulton Marston, better known for writing Wonder Woman?

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✨🚲 scoops 🚲✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 15h

For our team building exercise, William Marston is teaching us sexy knots and paddling us with the employee handbook

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✨🚲 scoops 🚲✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 17h

My manager is pulling Tarot and projecting our five year strategic plan

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✨🚲 scoops 🚲✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 17h

I am at the corporate retreat. I am sharing my attachment style with the team project. We are discussing our love languages towards the company. We are sharing our feelings towards the quarterly financials using I statements

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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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✨🚲 scoops 🚲✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 1d

The first stop is always Tirana, I am always saying this

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Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1d

Some of those who wear collars
Make a hit dog holler

David Simmons @frdavid.org · 1d

The Rev. David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Chicago, being pepper sprayed in the face at a peaceful protest. ⚓️

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✨🚲 scoops 🚲✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 1d

😂 Do you still have class materials? Do you know who taught this course?

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✨🚲 scoops 🚲✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 1d

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✨🚲 scoops 🚲✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 1d

As god is my witness this is the only thing I have ever wanted. If they did tours, I'd have never started The St Paul Nut Roll as a gambit to gain their attention. But alas.

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✨🚲 scoops 🚲✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 1d

I am in Indy for work. A party bus of Delta Faucets reps just disembarked at this hotel bar festooned in cowboy party wear. A be-10galloned Seattlite is ordering dozens of drinks. He bought me a beer and told me "St Paul is the last old city in America. Minneapolis is the first new city"

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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✨🚲 scoops 🚲✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 1d

My relentless research into P Edward Pearson's Candy Company has led me to the following fact: the location of the original Nut Roll Factory in Minneapolis is now buried under the 394 spur, just South of Target Field

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Elliott Payne @elliottpayne.org · 1d

I want to make sure to say clearly that in Ward 1 we support our Somali community and welcome everyone regardless of where you come from.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 1d

Continues to be striking how, since Frey erected the greenway fence to Lake/Nicollet, the crowd has returned en masse to 2900 block of Blaisdell. Frey bleats “you can’t have encampments by home & businesses“ but that’s exactly where he’s pushed these folks. Meanwhile 50 housing vouchers go unfunded.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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✨🚲 scoops 🚲✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 2d

If I was the Minnesota DFL, I would simply not kick myself in the nuts repeatedly for no reason

Minneapolis DFL @mplsdfl.org · 2d

Minnesota DFL opens new investigation of Minneapolis DFL:
minneapolisdfl.org/updates/minn...

Minnesota State DFL opens new investigation of Minneapolis DFL — Minneapolis DFL

The Minnesota State DFL has opened another investigation of the Minneapolis DFL focused on mailers announcing the original slate of 2025 endorsed candidates. Following its July convention the Minneap...

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Sarah Cardin @sarahcardin.bsky.social · 4d

It's so considerate of ICE to run this public service announcement telling the resistance the best way to tie up maximum ICE resources.

An online ad for ICE recruitment showing a set of handcuffs and the headline: Number of law enforcement officers needed to arrest a criminal alien. The body of the administration shows that 8 to 10 officers are needed in 'Uncooperative Jurisdictions' versus 2 officers in 'Cooperative Jurisdictions.' The rest of the ad text is basically commentary on the main point.

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Redwall Feasts Bot @redwallfeasts.bsky.social · 2d

Eyes widened as dish after dish was brought to the table. Pear pie, jugs of burdock cordial! One enormous basin o' celery soup! Wheels of Guosim cheese, hot loaves of carrot and turnip bread! Almond an' chestnut slices with arrowroot sauce!

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 2d

oh hahaha no, I'm sorry apparently a full half of the 3000 settlement per book goes to the publisher, so I think my total share is $3750 for stealing my work in an attempt to replace me

Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 2d

Assuming there aren't other fees or splits I'm not aware of, I will be paid $7500 for my life's work being fed into The Machine, and also they won't be removing my work from The Machine

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Moe @moeinminn.bsky.social · 2d

A really luxurious gooey cinnamon roll would fix me

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✨🚲 scoops 🚲✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 2d

Me and the boys in the chat reworking the lyrics to The Internationale to be about our buddy Carl, Carl got mad and left the chat

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✨🚲 scoops 🚲✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 2d

Kinda funny that (apocryphally?) John Brown's body might have been written by bored union soldiers giving one of their boys grief

Screenshot from Wikipedia with 1890 excerpt describing 2nd Infantry Massachusetts having a Scottish soldier named John Brown, who the entire battalion was constantly taking the piss

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