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BW @brianlynn.com · 23/05/2025

Every day I come just a little bit closer to destroying every social media account I have and regaining a bit of my sanity. Maybe I should just skip ahead to the finish line.

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BW @brianlynn.com · 23/05/2025

JFC this would likely destabilize the entire region.

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DEF-G @scriban.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This piece, while arguably too long and too muddled for someone (me) who's deeply versed in the details of these issues, lands some devastating blows, summed up in this passage.

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Replace Duolingo with anything else.

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BW @brianlynn.com · 21/04/2025

James Comer is a stupid, bootlicking, fascist. I'll be glad when he gets what all fascists deserve.

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Goldensheepdog @goldensheepdog.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

This may have been true before January 20, 2025. Now it seems, ICE detains whoever “looks like someone they don’t want in the country” or someone with tattoos.

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

A co-worker of mine (who is a judge), traveled by train from Montana to North Dakota for work this week. The train made a stop in Havre, MT, where ICE agents—armed and dressed in full military-style tactical gear—boarded the train.

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The New America: Federal (ICE) Agents Boarding Trains?

By Judith Roberts * As an attorney I’m deeply alarmed by an incident that occurred just this week and feel compelled to share it—to raise aw...

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

"Colton spent 18 days in the hospital, with 14 of them on dialysis. He also received five blood transfusions. "We know (the source) was romaine lettuce, but they won't say who supplied the romaine lettuce," Chris said." www.wthr.com/article/mone...

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Avon boy became deathly ill as part of E. coli outbreak; FDA not naming company responsible

The 10-year-old developed kidney failure after eating contaminated lettuce. The source of the outbreak that made 89 people sick remains a mystery.

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 16/04/2025

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him

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Alex 🏴Ⓐ🔆 (The Anarchist Turtle) @theanarchistturtle.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Identity of the officer on the left has been found

Albert Chakhalyan

Badge #13278, White Male
Police Officer at Transit Bureau District 33 since June 2019
Service started January 2018, made $227,000 last year, Tax #964980

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

An unappreciated part of this story: the person doing the arrest wasn't an ICE agent, it was an ATF agent. According to Reuters, 4 out of every 5 ATF agents has been reassigned to do immigration enforcement. So it's a great time to be a gun runner in the United States.

A picture of a surveillance video taken as a federal agent enters the NH courthouse. He's showing his ATF ID to the security guard and is wearing an ATF shirt.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

It is important to understand what a complete and unqualified failure Elon Musk and DOGE has been. (📸 Wall Street Journal)

A chart which is headlined “See How Government Spending is Up even as Musk Touts Savings”. The chart shows cumulative spending since the inauguration over the first 80 days.
In summary, $154 billion more has been spent at this time in 2025 compared to 2024.

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BW @brianlynn.com · 11/04/2025

Each day I'm just a little bit closer to deleting every goddamn social media app from my phone, wiping it, and deep sixing it in the nearest large body of water.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

why is *every* newspaper/programme running with the headline "tariffs are paused" when they haven't been. What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’

Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

stop calling things deportation just because they call it deportation. -You cannot legally deport people without due process. -You cannot legally deport citizens. -They are defining down deportation to break the law.

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

From my visit last week to the Topaz Internment Camp, where Fred Korematsu was interned. This quote still sticks with me.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Let me step back and explain this a bit. I'm a habeas expert. A habeas petition can only be filed in the federal district where the petitioner is at the moment of filing. So if you live in Philly, get abducted in Philly, then get whisked immediately to Louisiana before you can file your petition ...

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A ten year old girl with a brain tumor who is a US citizen is in hiding with her family in Mexico, deported after having been detained while her family was rushing her to a hospital. This, they say, is for our safety.

Texas, a family with mixed immigration statuses ran into trouble at a Border Patrol checkpoint, where they were detained while rushing their 10-year-old daughter — a U.S. citizen — to the hospital.

The girl had been diagnosed with a brain tumor so rare that her physicians are “planning to write a study about it for a journal,” said Danny Woodward, policy attorney at the Texas Civil Rights Project. Though she survived emergency surgery, swelling remained in her brain, and she still needed regular doctor visits and medication to prevent seizures. (Woodward spoke on the condition that the family’s names not be published because they fear for their safety.)

When the girl woke up with a headache and dizziness on Feb. 3, her undocumented parents — who were in the process of applying for T visas, which are granted to victims of human trafficking — packed her and her four siblings into the car. They brought birth certificates for their five U.S.-born children, medical records, and letters from doctors and lawyers.

The family had made this drive before, and those documents had always been enough, Woodward said. But this time, they were held at the Border Patrol checkpoint for six hours and then transported to a detention center.

One of the first things [Customs and Border Protection] did was call the hospital, and a social worker confirmed everything and made it pretty clear that they needed to be let through because of the nature of her condition,” Woodward said. “But rather than do anything to make sure that this U.S. citizen child got treatment she needed, they detained the whole family and took away the girl’s medication.”

Now, the family lives in hiding in Mexico. The children haven’t gone to school or seen a doctor since being deported. The mother is struggling to get medication from the U.S. Her oldest son, still in Texas, is working to make rent and finish high school alone.

“The administration talks a lot about targeting criminals, but they’re just not,” Woodward said. “This is what happens when you scale up immigration enforcement with no guardrails

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.

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Elissa Taub @ejtaub.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This is happening to students at colleges & universities nationwide. Their status is bring terminated & visa revoked. Often, the student has no obvious history to justify the govt's actions. Affected students should seek knowledgeable immigration counsel immediately.

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WIRED @wired.com · 05/04/2025

SCOOP: Elon Musk’s DOGE has plans to stage a “hackathon” next week in Washington, DC. The goal is to create a single “mega API”—a bridge that lets software systems talk to one another—for accessing IRS data, sources tell WIRED.

wired.com

DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data

DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.

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WIRED @wired.com · 05/04/2025

DOGE ops have repeatedly referred to the company Palantir as a possible partner in the project, sources tell WIRED. "It's basically an open door controlled by Musk for all American's most sensitive information with none of the rules that normally secure that data," an IRS worker alleges to WIRED.

wired.com

DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data

DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.

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WIRED @wired.com · 05/04/2025

“It’s hard to imagine more sensitive data than the financial information the IRS holds,” Evan Greer, director of Fight for the Future, a digital civil rights organization, tells WIRED. The IRS, Palantir, Sam Corcos, and Gavin Kliger did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Full scoop:

wired.com

DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data

DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.

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✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Minneapolis—in the spirit of this, join me @ 🩵✨💩 Give A Shit Day 💩✨🩵 "Like a Scholastic Book Fair for getting involved!" 📚📓👥🧑‍🧒‍🧒❣️ Sunday, April 6 3-7p Bumbling Fools Mead 2010 E Hennepin Ave • meet neighbors • make rad art • learn together • uplift mutual aid • find your people • fight w/ tools

Give a Shit
2025
THE SHIT HAS HIT THE FAN

meet neighbors
make rad art
learn together
uplift mutual aid
find your people
fight with tools

Sunday April 6,
3-7PM
Bumbling Fools Mead
2010 E Hennepin Ave, MPLS

It's like we have been here before - but now it's even worse? Eight years ago, in the midst of federal government chaos, fear, and despair, millions of people around the country rallied around a constellation of actions to help their neighbors.
Rallies, mutual aid, protests - even throwing milkshakes!

Right now things are terrifying. We've repeatedly witnessed cruel deportations of our neighbors, war is being planned in private chats and celebrated on the news. Social infrastructures, from universities to Social Security, are all on the chopping block as oligarchs run roughshod over every aspect of the social contract.

But did you know there are more protests happening now than this time 8 years ago?

As the great Mr. Fred Rogers said: "'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping."

Give a Shit 2025

THE SHIT HAS HIT THE FAN
meet neighbors
learn together
find your people
make rad art
uplift mutual aid
fight with tools

Sunday April 6,
3-7PM
Bumbling Fools Mead
2010 E Hennepin Ave,
Minneapolis, MN 55413

Like a scholastic book fair for getting involved

Eight years ago a bunch of regular people in Minneapolis threw together an event called Give a Shit. Hundreds of people came together, learned from one another, and went on to do incredible things in our state. Some are elected officials, some run mutual aid sites, some unionized their workplaces, and some got local polluters shut down.

Instagram caption from user: sgt.limbs_akimbo

In the year of our lord, 2017, a bunch of us buds came together and decided that local politics simply wasn't exciting enough for young folks and we needed to add some joy to the mix to get people involved. From that impeccable vibe, Give a Shit: Mpls was born.

We taught people how to walking subcaucus with types of beer, brought candidates together in chill spaces where they could chat with people like normal humans, and threw an absolute rager of a Halloween party where people dressed as the most niche, local political jokes you could imagine. Things got hard after 2018 and give a shit faded but...

We're so back baby

The tools for making things better are all around us- there are millions of people out there doing good stuff - and there are so many right here in Minnesota.

Looking for a mutual aid group to volunteer with? Hoping to be inspired by a local candidate that needs your support? Wanting to turn some of that 2025 anxiety into action but don't know where to start?

We got you!

Find the local cause that will make you feel more hopeful while you get connected with the fight for justice in the Twin Cities.

BRING
A SENSE OF OUTRAGE,
A SENSE OF HUMOR,
A SENSE THAT THINGS CAN GET BETTER

Food and N/A beverages will be provided, family and well-behaved dogs welcome!

Give a Shit 2025
THE SHIT HAS HIT THE FAN
meet neighbors
learn together
find your people
uplift mutual aid
fight with tools

Sunday April 6,
3-7PM
Bumbling Fools Mead
2010 E Hennepin Ave,
Minneapolis, MN 55415

Like a scholastic book fair for getting involved
• Bumbling Fools Mead

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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 03/04/2025

Steve Jackson Games posted this to their blog and the post is getting so many hits their site is effectively crashed but the point is worth repeating

" On April 5th, a 54% tariff goes into effect on a wide range of goods imported from China. For those of us who create boardgames, this is not just a policy change. It's a seismic shift.
At Steve Jackson Games, we are actively assessing what this means for our products, our pricing, and our future plans. We do know that we can't absorb this kind of cost increase without raising prices. We've done our best over the past few years to shield players and retailers from the full brunt of rising freight costs and other increases, but this new tax changes the equation entirely.
Here are the numbers: A product we might have manufactured in China for $3.00 last year could now cost $4.62 before we even ship it across the ocean. Add freight, warehousing, fulfillment, and distribution margins, and that once-$25 game quickly becomes a $40 product. That's not a luxury upcharge; it's survival math.
Some people ask, "Why not manufacture in the U.S.?" I wish we could. But the infrastructure to support full-scale boardgame production – specialty dice making, die-cutting, custom plastic and wood components – doesn't meaningfully exist here yet. I've gotten quotes. I've talked to factories. Even when the willingness is there, the equipment, labor, and timelines simply aren't."

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🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃 @zackdavisson.com · 03/04/2025

This is it, right here. In order to "produce in the USA," first you have to build the factories. The initial hundreds of millions of dollars required to build those factories would make any product they produce prohibitively expensive. No one would buy it. That's not politics. That's math.

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Sander @sanderregter.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

3 dead so far at Krome ICE detention center in Florida. Max capacity was 500, they have over 4,000 and not enough water and food. Reports say they get 1 cup of water per day. These are already death camps. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n... english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-...

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Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention

No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/04/2025

WE ARE PUTTING TARIFFS ON OUR OWN MILITARY BASE AND UNINHABITED ROCKS WITH PENGUINS ON THEM

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This was….five months ago

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 01/04/2025

This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.

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DEF-G @scriban.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Oh, good. I was hoping that the three most dangerous countries in the world would all be led by megalomaniacs at the same time.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I've created a shareable document with a list of the HHS offices gutted today that I'll be updating as often as possible. Have something to add? Message marisakabas.04 on Signal or email MKwrites4000@proton.me docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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HHS RIF running list

National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) • Division of Reproductive Health • Division of pop health • Behavioral and clinical surveillance branch • Epidemiology ...

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Hearing from all corners of HHS this morning about a total bloodletting — firings of scientists, analysts and many more as delayed RIFs take effect. Many folks didn’t see early AM email and showed up, only to be turned away when badges didn’t work. Was sent this photo of long lines at one HHS site.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is being decimated right now. Mass layoffs happening across agencies (NIH, FDA, CDC etc). Some employees found out by security badge being denied. Others got email. Line outside Health Resources and Services Administration this AM shared with me:

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Rob Hart @robwhart.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

We're headed into the final few hours of this fundraiser for the Transgender Law Center! Whatever gets raised for my item, I will match. There's plenty of great stuff across the board here and it's all for a good cause, so get in there before it's too late.

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Consultation & Advice (Rob Hart)

Auction item 'Consultation & Advice (Rob Hart)' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

My senator @booker.senate.gov is rising to meet this moment, refusing to let the Senate pretend things are normal. How about yours? If they're a Democrat, call them and ask them to join Booker in this stand. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

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Inside Cory Booker’s Plan To Disrupt ‘Business As Usual’ On The Senate Floor

A member of the U.S. Senate took the floor at 7:00 p.m....

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Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus) @atariarchive.org · 31/03/2025

I don't think I can express how badly you need to have fucked things up for those three particular countries to set aside their historical and on-going beefs with one another to join forces against you

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