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bthechangeodaat.bsky.social @bthechangeodaat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

@erictopol.bsky.social I was going to get my Covid vax this Friday, but didn’t make it. Our teen tested positive this evening, symptoms began Fri. Do I wait until nobody in the house has covid to get vac? Get vax anyway in case my exposure is to a 2nd household person who may get sick later?

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Timely reminder: Authoritarians lie to be repeated - to force us to have their conversation instead of our own. If you're debunking the claims, you're giving them airtime.

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bthechangeodaat.bsky.social @bthechangeodaat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Another victim of ICE. He should be alive and with his family. Instead, the family is grieving and fighting the cover up.

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bthechangeodaat.bsky.social @bthechangeodaat.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Future Pulitzer photo. Wrenching. Enraging. Terrifying. Oh so poignant.

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April Verrett @seiupres.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Being a trillionaire means you can spend $1.1 million dollars every hour from the day you are born to the day you die at 100, btw.

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Isaac G. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social in Montgomery: “We’re here united to take on this new confederacy, 60 years after the Selma March… because we know their intent is to dismantle everything gained during the civil rights movement.”

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

She sounded so extraordinary. Atmospheric sciences major with minors in music and philosophy. Gifted singer. Kind. It wouldn’t have been any less tragic had she been utterly ordinary but my god, what a light that man took from the world. I’m so sorry, Juniper.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

THIS.

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I got a little carried away watching on YouTube, some of the last minutes of the anti-Orbán concert in Budapest. Quite inspiring, and Hungary's most famous voice, opera star Botond Ódor brought the curtain down. Earlier photos in my thread from: @444hu

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Portland Maine

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

@govjayinslee.bsky.social off the top rope with the right policy advocacy. Add this to your calls to Congress!

Tweet from former Washington state and congressman Jay Inslee that Congress should prohibit ICE from being near polling places.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Long-time activist Jane Fonda tells Stephen Colbert how we can fight back.

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Tanya 🧚‍♀️👑 @faeryqueene73.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

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bthechangeodaat.bsky.social @bthechangeodaat.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

They are the fire that opens the seeds for growth.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

This is what I hear from everyone I've had honor of speaking to in MN: wake up full of cortisol, check local socials & text chains to see latest horror, get marching orders for where to stand guard/send food/pitch in, go out in winter gear, try & sleep. Repeat. www.instagram.com/reels/DTocxx...

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Marilee Bridget Thomas on Instagram: "• This is heartbreaking, but also incredibly motivating. Yes, each and everyone can do “something” to oppose the regime. Or even three things! @beingliberal ht...

5,934 likes, 594 comments - just_a_girl_in_the_universe on January 17, 2026: "• This is heartbreaking, but also incredibly motivating. Yes, each and everyone can do “something” to oppose the regime. ...

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 10/01/2026

I love this so much. I love this place. I love us. And they will never break us. Never.

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On The Resolve of Minnesota

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Friends of the Boundary Waters @bwca.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Congress is moving to strip protections from 225,000 acres near the BWCA. MN Rep. Stauber introduced H.J. Res. 140, a giveaway to Chilean mining company Antofagasta that puts toxic mining next to our cleanest water. We have 60 days. Contact Congress & vote NO: www.friends-bwca.org/get-involved...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

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Marly Marie @marlymarieport.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Share this. Now. I have emailed everyone I can think of. Please help me. It is happening here and now and will happen where you are get do not unify now.

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 16/01/2026

After my accountability hearing in MN, we visited Renee Good’s memorial. It was so powerful to bear witness to the strength and resilience of the community in the Twin Cities — even through incredible grief. We will continue to fight for justice in her memory.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 15/01/2026

Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day

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If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, that's it for me.
I've spent the last week checking on my neighbors, engaging with my city, my local police, everyone. I've supported my friends and family, made sure they knew they weren't alone in their feelings of hopelessness, powerlessness. I've called and emailed my representatives, demanding answers, demanding action. I've just been overcome with this overwhelming, almost primal need to care for and support my community.

If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, and soldiers take to our streets, then that tears it for me. My son just turned 1yr. I've done my best to be a helper, so that I can still be around to support him and spend time with him.

But if I have to STAND OUTSIDE in the FREEZING COLD and get the SHIT KICKED OUT OF ME by the people who are supposed to be protecting me, if I have to do that to fight for goodness, and righteousness, and justice, then that's what I'm gonna fucking do. I'm going to do it because this is not the future I want for my son.

If you've been out on the streets, and you're tired, and you're hurting, don't worry. Rest when you need to. Because I know my home and I know my neighbors. When you need to rest, two more will replace you. I will be one of them.

This is my home. Minneapolis is not going to quit. Minnesota is not going to quit. And FUCK EVERYONE who tries to come in here and take from us the PRIDE, LOVE, and COMMUNITY we've built.

As long as I can stand, I'm going to plant my two feet between the oppressors and the home I love.

I love you all. L'etoile du Nord.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Had a telehealth appointment with my psychiatrist this morning. Psych: So how are you doing? Me, after a 5 min update of what I’ve been doing: But oddly I am really at ease about everything. I think I’ve made my peace with maybe getting killed by my own government outside of my children’s schools.

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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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

MINNEAPOLIS — Hmong homeowners know their rights… randomly looking for Hmong & Asian families… a racial terror campaign, nothing less…

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Clever Resistance @cleverresistance.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

1 minute to feed your soul.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

This moved me more than I was expecting. Give it a watch, link in the comments.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Renee Nicole Good was not the first person to be murdered by ICE under Trump. Keith Porter was a Black man killed by ICE on New Years Eve. Silverio Gonzalez was an undocumented immigrant killed in Franklin Park. Marimar Martinez was shot 5 times in Chicago & survived. No one is safe.

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other
people, living or dead, like him?

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Rhett Ayers Butler @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Gramma, a giant who transcended eras, has died, aged about 141 Gramma’s life reminds us that the creatures we nearly lost can become the center of our efforts to make amends.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

If you think this is good for anyone, you're a fucking idiot and you should have more people in your life who love you enough to tell you you're a fucking idiot. This is bad for everyone. All of us. Only more suffering will come from this.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Others of us are releasing our own stories of American history for the 250th. My team's videos are on my YouTube channel and Instagram, and honor "unity and progress" and "American values" just like Trump wants. Here, for example, is Mary McLeod Bethune defending the Constitution....

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Mary Mcleod Bethune | Episode 7, The Declaration in Action

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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bthechangeodaat.bsky.social @bthechangeodaat.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

This is a very helpful explainer on what happens if Obergefell falls. The sky doesn't fall for same sex marriage, but it gets more complicated and less accessible. Big thanks to Senator Tammy Baldwin for leading the way on the legislative protections!

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

6 days after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, a Prague paper published these “10 Commandments”: ‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU: 1. Don’t know 2. Don’t care 3. Don’t tell 4. Don’t have 5. Don’t know how to 6. Don’t give 7. Can’t do 8. Don’t sell 9. Don’t show 10. Do nothing’

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Motherfucking wind farms…

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Grateful to @propublica.org for this work, delving into the lives and stories of the men who were disappeared to the torture prison in El Salvador. We need light and information and accountability. And, maybe someday, justice will be done.

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bthechangeodaat.bsky.social @bthechangeodaat.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Unbelievable that this sign is not something we can all agree on, that all children of all races are welcome in a school. Even if it's only lip service (as I know it often is), that this is political is so fucked up.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

WATCH: “This is f*cking kidnapping! That’s not your badge… I do have a little bit of education… get the f*ck out of here, racial profiling is illegal…” A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...

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