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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20/04/2026

Again: young people might not realize that this kind of repugnant racism was unacceptable to express publicly, *not that long ago*.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/04/2026

Kind of a major problem that the leaders of the opposition party are basically in favor of the war with Iran and find it very convenient that they don't have to do any of the bag holding

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10/04/2026

I remember when teens having children out of wedlock was the whole problem with the Black community.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The media arm of the party that is running cover for a pedophilia sex trafficking ring that implicates their president thinks the *real* problem is that not enough teenagers are getting pregnant these days.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 26/02/2026

Just got a message from South High saying “We currently have requests totaling $33,965 for rent and we have $7500 available tomorrow. Please try to share the gofundme widely! Thanks” Well, that simply will not do. I'll match the first $900. Please help my fellow South High families if you can! 🖤🧡🖤

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Halloween Rex @katyrex.meatjacker.social · 27/02/2026

I am SO MAD because what do you mean someone picked up tents during my shift from @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social and TEN MINUTES after distribution, at like 7pm, the city was already doing another eviction. THERE IS NOWHERE FOR PEOPLE TO GO.

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Sarah Barsness @sarahbarsness.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Dispatches from MN: it's getting really hard, guys. The media has left, the donations are drying up, and ICE is still here kidnapping people. It's hard not to be resentful that other people have the option of setting this aside for.other things.

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meshm @meshm.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Biked by the Whipple building today. Cars with masked feds were still coming and going every few minutes. On a Sunday. What was this drawdown Homan was talking about?

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Ash Chudgar @chudgar.com · 15/02/2026

Non-Minnesotans, be clear on this: the *one and only* thing they do is racial profiling. The *only* thing. Ask anyone here! If you look nonwhite, Latino particularly, ICE will target you. It’s really as simple as that

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/02/2026

I have appreciated Amanda’s efforts here so I’m disappointed she’s wrapping things up by spreading misinformation. I can assure you as someone whose neighborhood has been crawling with ICE in recent days that we are not in the “aftermath” of anything.

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Amy Courts @amycourts.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

This is… terrifying. The commercial itself and the imagery it shows us right off the heat, more even than the commentary (which is entirely plausible). Anyway RING CAMS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN COPS, BREAK THEM!!

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 09/02/2026

We’re onto you, Ring

Screenshot of posts from four different people talking about a ring commercial that I completely missed. (God bless the “popular with friends” feed)
Brandon Friedman • @brandonfried... • 31m
The nice commercial about helping kids find their lost pets was the scariest thing I've
seen in my life

Adam Gurri © @adamgurri.liberalcur... • 33m
So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance
network they can leverage all at once huh

Tressie McMillan Cottom • @tressi... • 34m
I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people's empathy in service to a corporately controlled
surveillance state.
Tell them it will find your dog.

Joshua Erlich •@joshuaerlich.bsky.... • 34m
fuck this Ring commercial hiding fascism
behind dogs

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 09/02/2026

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

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The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico

The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.

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Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Researchers estimate that the life expectancy for people forced to work in cane fields was mid 20s. They were slaughterhouses. Being sent to one was functionally a death sentence.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Mortality rates were so high on sugar plantations during slavery that slaveholders used to coerce enslaved people working other crops like cotton with threats to sell them or their loved ones to sugar plantations. That’s where the term “sold down the river” came from.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/02/2026

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 06/02/2026

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Jeff Bezos makes enough money to fully fund this literally every two minutes.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

If there's ever been a time to NOT be incrementalist, this is it. The most political capital you're gonna have is right now. And we got Gestapo death squads in MSP and TB spreading through concentration camps in Texas. If you can't find a win there, get out of politics. The Epstein Class, baby

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Amy Courts @amycourts.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

One of the worst parts about it all is I’m pretty sure most of my family — like, extended and all — who raised me on Corrie Ten Boone would turn me in if they found out if/how I was protecting my neighbors in the year of our lord 2026.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them. The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

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Fenix Minerva @fenixminerva.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Oh FUCK THEM for using this image as if he were the perpetrator. Disgusting racism.

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Beth Hawkins @bethhawkins.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

ICE surge news: Minneapolis Public Schools has extended *optional* distance learning until April 6.

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Seen floating around the Internet:

Nick Offerman: "Abolish ICE."

"Wait, wait, I worry that what you heard was 'increase oversight of ICE and rein in their excesses.'

"What I said was, 'Abolish ICE.' Do you understand?"

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Jason Chavez @handle.invalid · 01/02/2026

This morning, federal agents staged at the Powderhorn Park Recreation Center lot and began to throw chemical irritants at observers. They also kidnapped an observer. Our parks are meant for our children, youth, and neighbors. They should never be militarized zones meant to separate families. 1/

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

So they’re just chasing people around the park with guns drawn via @apnews.com

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

“I’m a Minnesota Catholic mom. Here’s what my neighbors are saying about ICE.” “It is worse than the national media is showing … I’m terrified for our future as a country and terrified for all of our friends and neighbors and colleagues that aren’t white.”

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I'm a Minnesota Catholic mom. Here's what my neighbors are saying about ICE.

The best way to understand what life is like in Minnesota right now is to listen to stories from ordinary residents.

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 01/02/2026

re: that reskeet of the Tarrant County, TX election results…I'm *from* Tarrant County, pre-Portland. I was involved in activism & government in Fort Worth. I can personally attest that a 31-point swing toward a Democrat in Tarrant County TX state senate is absolutely bonkers banana pants.

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ProfMasseyGO @profmasseygo.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I witnessed ICE using tear gas on children. They shattered a window of low-income housing where a disabled vet lives. He got gassed in his own home.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 01/02/2026

Thousands of protestors marched across Portland and enveloped the blocks around the ICE building Saturday. Protestors were met with large clouds of tear gas, pepper balls and flash bangs.

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Anti-ICE protest attracts massive crowd at South Portland facility, feds deploy tear gas

Thousands of demonstrators marched on the ICE building, leading federal officers to launch pepper balls and tear gas at them.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 31/01/2026

my mental health has really improved since we just decided to start paying people’s rent over here my friends are in awe of the generosity of people on bluesky

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Amy Courts @amycourts.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I don’t think most ppl know how essential Georgia Fort’s reporting has been to Minneapolis or how beloved she is by the people, and has been for a long time now. She belongs to the city like few others do. She’s not an outsider but the storyteller from and for the inside. Her arrest is jarring.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Here's an opportunity to support the other journalist arrested today; Georgia Fort, who will have far fewer resources available to her than Don Lemon.

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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Georgia Fort's is chilling, and it's being overshadowed by the equally chilling arrest of Don Lemon. A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website: www.georgiafort.com/support

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Support Independent Journalism | GF

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

“It would cover essentially anyone they want to arrest without a warrant, making the general premise of ever getting a warrant pointless,” she added.

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

It makes you sound crazy to say this out loud, but it's becoming increasingly clear that the United States government has been effectively toppled by a group of overt pedophiles

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A very significant vote. The $75 billion can be taken away; this marks a clear vote by the Democratic caucus to do so.

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Amy Courts @amycourts.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Today my kid and I joined 100s of students at McDaniel HS in Portland for a student-led walk-out spanning many blocks, occupying full lanes of traffic in their march, and sreaming for justice on our streets in solidarity with Minneapolis. It did my MN heart so good + proud!

Hundreds of students carrying anti-ICE signs during a walk-out.

Students on tall playground apparatus where they hung their banners and are holding up their signs during anti-ICE walk out and protest.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

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