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Carol D

@carol-sompls.bsky.social
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Yeah, no. Can I just scooch past you here?

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Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 7h
As hospitals across the country cave to the Trump administration’s threats to cut federal funding and abandon trans youth, actor Elliot Page speaks out. In New York City, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian abruptly ended care for trans kids in response to these threats.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 4h
Wanting lower property insurance and healthcare for everyday families isn't un-American; it’s what working people deserve. They can take their tech-bro cash and their weird, intrusive agenda somewhere else, because I'm not going any damn place. /3
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 7h
I don't know how I missed this, but Renee was murdered in front of her partner, who was only a few feet away when she was shot. "Opera of horror" is a very apt description of what's described here.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 20h
“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
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Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million
"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
She makes me crazy much of the time, but when she's on, she's really on.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this is all wild but “which I knew, knowing my midwestern sports” is such a brutal takedown of a senator from missouri
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It looks as if the fearsome rabbit hunter with the growing body count might be afraid of the sound of crickets.
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bumped in favor of another tradwife story.
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"The spatula has a limited history as a weapon."
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
100%
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If folks in the Democratic party cannot find it within themselves to be absolute staunch supporters of trans people's rights because trans people are people who have inherent worth, then they should at least do it because if we give up on trans people, then we're literally giving up on democracy.
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Anyone checked on St Paul today? Been a little too quiet.
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Funny how this was never mentioned until after the state AGs dropped their lawsuit.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These people on the right are idiotic ghouls. We could beat them to a pulp if we just fucking tried. The Democrats don’t and tons of people die.
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Complaint paints an extremely ugly picture of harassment, inappropriate physical contact, and humiliation not only against Henry, but toward other SPPD officers and Her's driver, who she asked to be a man, to "center" her, and to work 16 hour days 7 days a week.
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Some thoughts for after the midterms. 👇
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I second this, and I had more conversations with neighbors in one night than maybe all of the past ten years. You know what? They are lovely people! Don't wait for something to happen. Have a potluck, invite everyone on your block and roll with it.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Turns out "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" is actually slightly less scary than "I'm a rich pervert who wants everyone to die".
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Read this, please. We can't let this happen.
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Minnesota DFL Party @dfl.org · 22/09/2026
⚠️ Keith Ellison blasts Ron Schutz in must watch ad ⚠️ "My opponent? He'll take orders from the biggest fraudster in American history, Donald Trump."
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dance off! If you see this post a dance.
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The Oa: The 5 Movements Dance Performance
ALT: The Oa: The 5 Movements Dance Performance
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And he's yelling, like if he does it loud enough his gaseous soundwaves will filter through the tv machine.
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I don't know what to say except that polio is one lesson we definitely don't want to have to learn all over again.
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I've spent a good amount of time in some of the bigger cities: New York, Chicago, Seattle.... none of them beats this.
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Mara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This statement from Greta Callahan at the School Board meeting the other night is worth your time, MPS fam.
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Now that's a satisfying read.
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Becca Dryden for School Board @beccaforschools.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
MPS proposed three different options for a "Transformation Plan" last night. A plan centered around closures as the main strategy is a non-starter. Our MPS kids deserve a plan that treats them as more than numbers on a spreadsheet. Read it here: www.startribune.com/mps-16-schoo...
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is how you know MPS knows it's bullshit. They won't actually name what they are doing as closing schools... it's buried in corporate-speak of "student experience" and "footprint optimization." That's what corporations call mass layoffs.
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Shannon for School Board @shannon-for-d3.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“As Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) leadership rolls out their proposal to close around 16 schools throughout the district next year, the face of this campaign to squeeze ordinary citizens and families of our basic dignities takes a new, far more genteel face.”
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Opinion | Minneapolis Public Schools closure plan is absurd and reckless
Minneapolis school board candidates write: Exactly how and why are we supposed to the next incredibly disruptive district redesign when MPS blundered the last one so spectacularly?
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This MPS school closure massacre is buried in a *118 page* powerpoint presentation. All 3 options close the same 14 schools, which is not actually having 3 options.
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Strong mayor does not mean unaccountable. This is outrageous. We should have an explanation for MPD's 30 million dollar overrun, much of which was racked up during Metro Surge when police were under a separation agreement.
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 15/09/2026
This has to be the first time anyone has targeted a postcard writing campaign at the board of estimate and taxation.
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is what Democrats have to say, and they need to pound this home because it's true.
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is how you bury bad news: call closing schools "optimizing the footprint" and bury people in 100+ pages of charts, graphs and maps that are too small to read.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 15/09/2026
minnesota: we’re the first in the nation to early vote, let’s show the rest of the country that this is another way we show up and stop the onslaught of violence against our neighbors. let’s get these fascists out of power. join people this friday, 10AM at the hennepin county government center.
THEY TAKE OUR NEIGHBORS, WE TAKE THEIR POWER.
Rally+Vote 10AM
Friday the 18th
Hennepin County
Government Center
I
Voted
Minnesota is the first state to early vote. Let's show up in record numbers make the fascists afraid.
We protect our neighbors.
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Worse. I paid for someone to do it.
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So, at one point about 6-7 years ago, they actually had a cutout of coyote and the road runner on either side of the door. (And I think they got a stop order from the asshole corporation).
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Geez, Ossoff even looks mad, unlike Jeffries, whose patronizing smile lets us know every time that we just don't understand how things work.
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"The thrill of victory... and the agony of defeat"
youtu.be
Wide World of Sports Intro 1978
YouTube video by The8thMotive
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This means taxpayers are chipping in the rest of a livable wage for Amazon workers so one of the richest men in the world can do a 10 minute space jaunt for his fiance followed by 50 million dollar wedding.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026
this guy is one of the architects of a war that might rank as one of the worst strategic missteps in american military history and here is on CBS getting a softball interview about his feelings
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In learning science, this is called scaffolding. They're learning from what Americans are willing to put up with so they can keep going.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
First excerpt from End Times Fascism! So happy The Guardian went for the part of the book about the wonder of THIS world, and the people doing everything to commit to it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear
An unholy alliance is working toward an apocalyptic future from which only a chosen few will emerge unscathed. It’s becoming clear how we stop them
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If you live in Standish-Ericsson, our local Oromo church is hosting a neighborhood appreciation event (40th and 28th across from Roosevelt High):
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Scalfi @scalfi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We keep us safe
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Make a band edible: Famous Dave's Matthews Band
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 11/09/2026
Anyway, here’s a section that will cut you to your core. Odds are 1-2% of the local Latino population has been deported & one community member thinks 25% have left.
“We lost a lot of our community,” said Rudy Trujillo, owner of accounting firm Trujillo Service at 420 E. Lake St., whose clients are mostly Latino immigrants.
He estimates that one in four Latinos left the Twin Cities, either by self-deportation or moving to another state.
No hard data is yet available. About 235,000 Hispanic people lived in the seven-county metro area in 2024, according to census data. The 5,000th detainee (most detainees were of Latin-American descent) was flown out of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in August, Minnesota Reformer reports.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Dear Democrats, You will never be able to triangulate your way through racism/sexism/transphobia, because pushing a lighter, politer form of bigotry is always a lose-lose proposition. The bigots want the uncut stuff, while normal people aren't drawn to cowards who sell out. Stand your ground.
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What's that smell?
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Carol D @carol-sompls.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Average American credit card debt is in the 6k+ range. Some states the average is almost 10K. They're not even offering to get you out of debt, much less put money in your pocket.
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