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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Ah, the old trap: If gay people point out that equating oral sex with degradation is homophobic, we're scolds and language police, and that distracts from the real issue, which is that Newsom lacks any internal compass and says whatever he thinks will win him applause or agreement in the moment. >
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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Better streets are an antidote to loneliness and help create communities.
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Boston Emergency Management @alert.boston.gov · 22/01/2026
During extreme cold temperatures know the signs of frostbite and hypothermia! For more cold weather safety tips visit Boston.gov/cold! #ReadyBoston
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/01/2026
On this week's episode, @radleybalko.bsky.social discusses the connections between Trump’s immigration crackdown, the militarization of police, and America’s long-running drug war.
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How ICE became Trump’s very own paramilitary force
Investigative journalist Radley Balko examines the connections among Trump’s immigration crackdown, the militarization of police, and America’s long-running drug war.
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 22/01/2026
Our Haitian neighbors are critical to our communities and essential to our economy. But now, 350,000 of them could be at risk of deportation if Trump terminates TPS for Haiti on Feb 3. Hear directly from advocates on how this will impact our communities:
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Pressley, Advocates to Sound Alarm on Termination of TPS for Haiti, Impact on Seniors, Care Economy
YouTube video by Rep. Ayanna Pressley
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/01/2026
state-sponsored child trafficking
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.
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alecbikes (he/him) 🇵🇸🇵🇸 @alecbikes.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Abolish ICE. It didn't exist 25 years ago.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I got in late last night. First thing this morning, I saw cars following an ice vehicle down the street, honking at it. Later, we didn't drive more than three blocks before we found people defending a childcare facility. (The idea that people have to defend a childcare facility... let that sink in)
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/01/2026
“nobody is insider trading off his death so it almost certainly didn’t happen” really sums up the state of the world in 2026 huh
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Steph 🖖🏽 (they/she) @snreyes.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Tennessee Rep Justin Jones.
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Habeas Jocus @toowoke2joke.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Lotta of folks learning the gun was aimed at their own heads the whole time: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...
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To Their Shock, Cubans in Florida Are Being Deported in Record Numbers
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Fascinated how basically in every country now rightwingers complain about "woke," using the english word or similar (e.g. "le wokisme"). When you think about it as a specifically anti-African American reactionary movement, you could say facebook's big accomplishment is globalizing the confederacy
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Great feedback, team. Keep it up.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Once again everything tricia mclaughlin said (that he lived with sex offenders, that he refused to show ID) was a complete lie, and when called out on it, DHS just goes dark. Ridiculous to print anything she says without an enormous disclaimer up front
DHS did not respond to an earlier request from The Associated Press asking why the agency believed they were present in Thao’s home.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Still baffled that mclaughlin's outrageous conduct is not even A Story. It's been months and months of this shit, how does no one in journalism care
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 21/01/2026
Vaguely recall Republicans absolutely losing their shit over the (misleading to false) claim that the IRS in the Obama era targeted conservative non-profits for audits based on their ideology. I'm sure every one of those people is speaking out in support of Mischief Toy Store or...?
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
He does this every time, it’s just how nature works
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
part of democratic backsliding is it becomes tacitly accepted some people never face consequences
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu. Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 19/01/2026
I think it's worth pointing out that part of why the twin cities has a large Hmong population is because of refugee resettlement after the Vietnam war. They sided with the US.
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-a...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/01/2026
this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities
We are open: please wait for us to unlock the door. Thank you for your understanding
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 19/01/2026
People really really downplay dental health. Cavities are not the worse case scenario here. Poor oral health can kill you
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Calgary removed fluoride from its water supply. A decade later, it's adding it back
Calgary took fluoride out of its water supply in 2011, but it's reversing course. City council member Gian-Carlo Carra explains why he voted to remove fluoride and why he would vote differently today.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Horrible violence against a protester in California: www.latimes.com/california/s...
A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana protest last week, according to family of the victim.

Jeri Rees said her 21-year-old nephew, Kaden Rummler, underwent six hours of surgery and that doctors found shards of plastic, glass and metal embedded in his eyes and around his face, including a metal piece lodged 7 millimeters from a carotid artery.
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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I won a NOW essay contest writing about Perkins when I was 12. This subject was not in my essay.
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Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 14/01/2026
this is the good stuff. environmental review for urban apartments should be abolished, just like it was in california.
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a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .
ALT: a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 12/01/2026
since I'm going full hog on takes the US is older than Italy. and if you want to know why Italian-Americans talk like that Here you go
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How Capicola Became Gabagool: The Italian New Jersey Accent, Explained
A linguistic exploration.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 12/01/2026
And until after WWII that is where it was contained - Naples region and the US. And then American tourism flooded italy post-wwii. We descended upon Rome. We descended upon Venice And we demanded pizza. And that is how pizza spread throughout italy, and then the world.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 12/01/2026
Continuing with my chaotic food posts: Pizza in NYS, NJ, and CT is older than pizza everywhere in Italy outside of Naples. Modern pizza was invented in Naples (courtesy of tomatoes from the New World) and that's where it stayed, until immigrants from the region moved to the US in the late 1800s
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
“We can’t be a country with a paramilitary secret police because then we would be a nation with a paramilitary secret police” is something my brain genuinely says to me. I need my brain to change as fast as my world and that’s not easy.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/01/2026
Fourth Palestinian baby freezes to death in Gaza since November aje.news/1ryphy
Fourth Palestinian baby freezes to death in Gaza since November
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
One of the many, many ways people are fighting ICE in Minneapolis is helping neighbors safely shelter at home during a time when abductions are genuinely rampant. People in Minneapolis are doing *so much* great work
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/01/2026
The Justice Department ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
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Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
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CourtWatchMA @courtwatchma.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
This story ran in the @bostonglobe.com on the front page on New Year's Eve. How have @mayorwu.boston.gov @wutrain.bsky.social @massgovernor.bsky.social and @massago.bsky.social still not publicly acknowledged a presumed innocent man killed in Boston by COs charged with his care? #mapoli #bospoli
The Boston Globe
Print edition
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Left column, front page

Witnesses say inmate was beaten before death
Corrections officers accused of overreacting

By Danny McDonald....
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Patrick Perini @pcperini.com · 10/01/2026
Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Andrew O'Neill ❌👑 @andrew-oneill.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Thank you to everyone who contributed to support Renee's wife and family. The organizer of the GoFundMe has announced it is closed, and the funds will go in a trust for the family. If you need a little hit of humanity, I encourage you to scroll through the many, many comments.
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John Voss @jovo.design · 10/01/2026
“Why I’m moving out of SF … The tax on income above $600,000 is too high.” BYE BITCH.
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🎃trash🎃 (haunted) @dollarpbr.gay · 08/01/2026
part of the reason the george floyd protests fizzled out was the shift from summer into fall/winter all the ICE protests from the past year fizzled out because summer shifted into fall/winter this is January in Minneapolis. it’s only gonna get warmer
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 06/01/2026
CDC eliminated 6 more childhood vaccines recs today, which will result in preventable deaths. For the 6.6% of us who are immunocompromised, this is an attack on herd immunity (the community protection we depend on to survive). MAHA is a eugenics project. I break down what this means ⤵️
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CDC Cuts 6 More Childhood Vaccines, Advancing MAHA Eugenics | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
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Hank Layfield @hlayfield.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Good for Hilton, I'll be sure to consider them favorably when booking hotel accommodations. And yes, we settled the quartering of government agents question in 1789.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Actual footage from North American cities with poor winter maintenance of the bike lanes.
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Rudbeckia @rudbeckia.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
uh holy SHIT?
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 03/01/2026
My statement on President Trump’s actions in Venezuela.
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