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Anne Libera @alibera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Is there any hope that after all of it crashes post Trump, that we’ll get universal healthcare? Just asking.

Anne Libera @alibera.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The joy of a Terry Pratchett reread is coming across the phrase “gently dried out on the stove of education” and having it stay with you throughout a day.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵

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Anne Libera @alibera.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Real life version of an I Think You Should Leave sketch.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

"I reject the Constitution's explicit rules barring the president from profiting financially from his office."

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itsmab.bsky.social @itsmab.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem

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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/03/2026

also, if your take is “these protests aren’t doing real work and people need to be organizing mutual aid/community resistance/etc”: you will not find a more fertile recruiting ground a lot of people who go to these things are absolutely thrilled at the idea they can do more talk to them

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Anne Libera @alibera.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

1. A glimpse of water framed by trees. 2. Only being halfway through an excellent novel with time and a cup of tea by your side. 3. When a joke lands exactly the way you thought it would in front of a sold out house.

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Shimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 24/02/2026

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes. $9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

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Anne Libera @alibera.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Life lesson: a roasted chicken takes as long as a roasted chicken takes

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Anne Libera @alibera.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I met a traveler from an ancient land…

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families. Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota. The cruelty is endless.

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‘ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond

ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and send

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Anne Libera @alibera.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Sheldon Patinkin used to tell a story about someone telling Andrea Martin how much they liked her on SCTV and adding that they loved the other three women on the show with her. All of those three women were Catherine O'Hara. Brilliant, funny, able to be over the top and simultaneously vulnerable.

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram

User @backintimeag:
The text “Kirsten will be happy when ICE gets the fuck out of Minnesota” over a picture of 1850s immigrant and Minnesota-dwelling doll character Kirsten Larson in the snow.

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/01/2026

Former special counsel Jack Smith offered a robust defense of his derailed efforts to prosecute Donald Trump, telling lawmakers in his first public testimony that the president “willfully broke the very laws that he took an oath to uphold.” wapo.st/4qFjsSX

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes. What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

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Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War

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Anne Libera @alibera.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

In improv, there’s an adage “play the scene you’re in” I think we’d all like to be in a world where the left could argue over minor points of policy. But this moment demands that we all work together to bring our country back from the move to fascism.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

whats missing from all the coverage is that the president is using the military to harass, brutalize and punish areas of the country that didnt vote for him

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Excellent, damning analysis of the video of the killing of Ms Good, from the NYT, including a quick debunking of the “evidence” the President showed other Times reporters last night. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

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Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

As you listen to DHS and ICE offer their excuses and justifications for murdering an American mother in cold blood, a quickly-forgotten reminder from Chicago: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Important context for claims that the Nicole Renee Good was obstructing/assaulting officers before she was shot & killed: The last time immigration agents shot a woman (Marimar Martinez, Chicago) they made similar claims. Prosecutors have already dropped the charges www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

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Deadly Minneapolis ICE shooting echoes Franklin Park, Marimar Martinez shootings during Operation Midway Blitz

The deadly Minneapolis shooting by an ICE agent that killed a woman Wednesday morning recalls shootings by federal immigration agents in Chicago during the height of Operation Midway Blitz in the fall...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Like there is also a huge media-based pipeline of content designed to get men to gamble on sports but no one is postulating that this was a demand-driven phenomenon of men with "having excess money" problems.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

(From Pratchett's "I Shall Wear Midnight") I hope, oh, do I hope, that I do not have to wait until 2026, or 2030, or until I die, for the rough music to begin to play for Trump et al.

"No one controls the music, Mr. Pretty - you know that. It just turns up when people have had enough. No one knows where it starts. People look around, and catch one another's eye, and give each other a little nod, and other people see that. Other people catch their eye and so, very slowly, the music starts and somebody picks up a spoon and bangs it on a plate, and then somebody else bangs a jug on the table and boots starts to stamp on the floor, louder and louder. It is the sound of anger, it is the sound of people who have had enough. Do you want to face the music?"

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I genuinely don't know if this is a "Minnesotan" thing or an "old guy of a certain age" thing but in case it's Minnesotan and people need an anger translator: this guy is so angry he could just about set something on fire with his mind.

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Anne Libera @alibera.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Pretty sure that one of my students pitched this exact thing for five ish years ago for an Onion headline assignment

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

How about we worry less, as a society, about whether individuals might be cheating to get a disability accommodation or some help buying food, and more about whether extremely wealthy people and corporations are paying their fair share of taxes?

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Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 22/11/2025

“You may not believe me, but I just had a bald eagle drop a cat through my windshield,” the incredulous driver said on the recorded 911 call. “It absolutely shattered my windshield.” The dispatcher calmly responded, “OK. I do believe you, honestly,” then laughed.

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Motorist in North Carolina tells 911: 'I just had a bald eagle drop a cat through my windshield'

A motorist in western North Carolina escaped injury when a cat carcass crashed into her windshield. The incident happened along a highway near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 21/11/2025

If you start by saying how many people you are going to arrest, the entire operation should be enjoined. That’s not how anything should work.

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Anne Libera @alibera.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I’ve been thinking about this a lot as well. I keep landing on the level genuine disgust and contempt in the way he used the term. I can’t think of another time a president has spoken to a citizen of any kind in this way.

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A Republic If You Can Keep It @arepublicif.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

In the past month, a serial child rapist has murdered 100 people in the Caribbean, destroyed the East Wing of the White House, neutralized our Congress, & stolen food from 20% of American children. We pay him, house him, drive him, fly him, and pay for his bodyguards. Call your reps 202-224-3121

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Let's scrap Lean In. The career advice book I want to write for the women: You, Not Them. Working your ass off? Do it for you, not them. Standing up for yourself? GOOD. Do it for your dignity, not their approval. You can't guarantee you'll impress anyone else. Impress yourself.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment. The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult. It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history. Until then, they're all to blame.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/10/2025

or, in the words of the Nac Mac Feegle: “Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!”

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Anne Libera @alibera.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Ummm… spilled beer, the ghosts of cigarettes from the 90s, basically the Second City MainStage around 11:30pm

Cover of Funnier: A New Theory for the Practice of Comedy by Anne Libera

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Ayun Halliday @east-village-inky.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

New Book Recommendations (or Werner & Ayun & Anne) #bookish #newbook #author #comedy @alibera.bsky.social

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

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Kelly Leonard @kleonard.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

FREE LIVE PODCAST TAPING AT SECOND CITY TO CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF @alibera.bsky.social new book "FUNNIER." Book signing follows the taping: www.paperlesspost.com/go/VKK4GJxtk...

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Joanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

"We will not vote to finance a war against Americans." "We will not be complicit in the abductions of neighbors, the stealing of healthcare from elders, and the snatching of food from kids."

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Anne Libera @alibera.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

My trans students (and former students) are funny and nerdy and brilliant and boring and hardworking and anxious and occasionally lazy. In other words, they are exactly like all of my other students. Human and lovable and worthy of that love. I love you all.

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