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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I just watched the shooting video. It's a horrific beating and execution in the middle of the street. If local and state officials don't move to arrest everyone involved for murder, they need to resign. Making arrests will de-escalate the situation. Do nothing and this is going to explode.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
EMERGENCY ACTION happening now. If you’re in the area event being held by MIRAC. Another community member has been shot. Join us for a vigil and rally this afternoon. 📍 E 26th St & Nicollet Ave S
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/01/2026
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
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Laurie Hertzel @lhertzel.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
One of the stories that makes me the saddest out of this ICE invasion is one out of the Minnesota Star Tribune today about ICE agents eating at a little Mexican restaurant in the small town of Willmar, Minn, —and then, when they were done, arresting some of the workers.
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Baylee (she/her) @baysriddles.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Please keep posting positives/the resistance/hope in Minneapolis. I’m in an outer suburb and it’s… grim here. Just 35 minutes outside of the metro, people are cheering ICE on. Being a “blue dot in a red county” in a heavily targeted state is exhausting. But we’re Minnesotans so… we persist.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Worth every second
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
It will become increasingly important for people to take video and protect and save that video so that when there is finally an accounting for what’s happening, there will be evidence.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
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Baylee (she/her) @baysriddles.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
ICE took the staff of a Chinese restaurant right across the street from me. No warrants, didn’t ask for papers. Just took the ENTIRE STAFF in the middle of business hours. A business that has been here for 30+ years. Locally and family owned. With my whole chest: FUCK YOU if you voted for this.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2026
Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
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Baylee (she/her) @baysriddles.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Update: Got my dream teaching position. Was offered the job 20 minutes after my interview. Employers: TAKE NOTES 📝
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Baylee (she/her) @baysriddles.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Dear employers: Stop saying “either way we’ll be in touch!” if you do not, in fact, plan on staying in touch Signed, A girl 7 interviews deep
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Will. Move. On. To. The. Next. Group. He. Hates.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Last night, the Department of Health and Human Services sent termination letters to employees who were originally fired in April but temporarily reinstated due to a lower court ruling. The Supreme Court cleared the way last week for those firings to proceed.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
So much for that “line.”
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Baylee (she/her) @baysriddles.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
June!!📚
June wrap-up on Storygraph! 100% fiction. 6 books. 2,281 pages. Average rating of 4.54. Highest rated reads (all 5⭐️): Catching Fire, Hunger Games, and The Four Winds. 50% audio, 50% physical.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Stop travelling to America. It’s not safe & your tourist dollars shouldn’t support fascism If you’re American, stop going to Florida They built a concentration camp in 8 days They’ve opted to kidnap and detain thousands instead of housing the homeless, feeding the hungry & providing healthcare
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 05/07/2025
To the “I voted for this” crowd: You voted for the guy who gutted the National Weather Service. Now we’ve got dead families and missing kids in Texas, because storm warnings didn’t go out in time. And he gutted FEMA so they can’t properly respond to disasters. That’s what you voted for?
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 06/07/2025
I knew we were cooked as a society when everyone just sorta decided they were sick of dealing with Covid and everyone just decided to pretend like it wasn't a thing anymore.
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MikeM3 @mikeg80.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
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Baylee (she/her) @baysriddles.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
“you’re only ancient if you were born in the 1900’s” — kiddo at work today Didn’t think I’d feel geriatric at the ripe age of 26 but thanks bud
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 24/06/2025
If you need a mask to enforce the law, you don’t deserve a badge. Federal agents are snatching people off the streets—faces covered, names hidden. This isn’t safety. It’s secrecy. It’s not America. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...
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Why Are Federal Agents Wearing Masks? It’s a Threat to American Democracy
Masked Federal Agents Are Undermining Trust—and Democracy
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
AOC: Being taken is wrong, it is illegal, it is a violation of his First Amendment rights, it is an affront to every American, and we will not allow—and will continue to resist—the politicization and the continued political persecution that ICE is engaged in.
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 19/06/2025
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God @thegodshow.com · 19/06/2025
Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene have both now said that Fox News is propaganda. The right wing is tearing itself apart and I’m loving every minute of it.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 15/06/2025
Lol
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/06/2025
just watched this netflix documentary on the oklahoma city bombing and once again i'm struck by how so many of the popular media takes on this event just avoid entirely the connection to organized white supremacism
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14/06/2025
Massive #NoKings march in New York City!
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The revolution is full of 60-year-old women who love their trans kids.
Protest sign

NO KINGS
HANDS OFF
My tans child
My $, civil liberty, healthcare
The Rule of Law
Environmental Protection
National Parks
The Arts
Our Truthful History
And too much chaos to list on one poster
#Trump’s America Global Embarrassment
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Antigone Barbieri @thetragedymachine.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
You can’t see me bc I’m holding a flag but guys I live in a 2k person extremely rural town in one of the reddest counties of WI. So many people showed up there was a line all the way to the highway. I often feel a bit afraid due to my identity in this area but #nokings brought out so many
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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Let's all be the rain on this motherfucker's parade. #NoKings #NoKingsDay
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Baylee (she/her) @baysriddles.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Have been rebuilding myself and admittedly haven’t touched this app. Here’s my latest wrap-ups since I apparently haven’t posted one since January 💀
May wrap up. 3 books. ACOTAR, Freedom is a Constant Struggle, and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.April wrap up. 5 books total. Photo shows Loud by Drew Aufualo, In Gad We Trust, and Mika in Real Life.March wrap up. 4 books total. Photo shows How to Be An Antiracist, Really Good Actually, and Single on Purpose.February wrap up. 6 books total. Books in photo are The Body is Not an Apology, A Love Song For Ricki Wilde, and The Girl with the Louding Voice.
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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Some springtime birds I saw while visiting Japan! 🌸🪶
An illustration featuring 6 different species of birds native to Japan, all perched on plum blossom branches with light pink flowers. From top to bottom left to right, the birds featured are: brown-eared bulbul, Japanese tit, common kingfisher, warbling white-eye, rufous turtle dove, varied tit. They are illustrated on a light blue-purple background, with flower petals and feather motifs around them.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Proud of you, Canada 🇨🇦 and Australia 🇦🇺 with love from your American allies.
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
A lot of people seem to think following the U.S. Constitution is optional—like picking which shoes to wear in the morning. It’s not. If you’re within the boundaries of the United States, the Constitution applies to you.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
If your response to yesterday’s millions of people marching is that they were all paid operatives…you’re desperate, deluded, and scared. And lying.
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Barnes & Noble @barnesandnoble.com · 06/04/2025
Hi. Books are incredibly important. Please let them be.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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Baylee (she/her) @baysriddles.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Officially saying goodbye to my bookstagram. SO hard but ultimately the right decision for me in the end. I’ll miss it a lot, don’t get me wrong! Excited for a new chapter tho 😌 (still reading & posting everywhere else dw) RIP baylee.reads. Five years that I will forever cherish 💖
Screenshot of grid from 2020. My first year on booksta. Some posts are a giveaway, The Book Thief Review, & a selfie with a stack of books on my shoulder.Screenshot of grid from 2022. Posts include my bookish tattoo, Becoming review, and my best friend at HPB.Screenshot of grid from 2023. Posts include me on the beach reading Happy Place, a LFL in Minneapolis, and a purple stack in a field of lupine wildflowers.Screenshot of grid from 2025. Posts include a library haul, the where my lore started trend with my baby photo, and my five year anniversary post.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Anyone who thinks Pete Hegseth will resign doesn't understand TrumpWorld. They have no shame. They have no introspection. They have no respect for consequences.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/03/2025
When the history of this time is written down, the cowardice will be remembered as much as the fascism
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