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Mike Klein

@drmcklein.bsky.social
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Educator and artist developing personal and collective agency for structural and cultural change

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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
#WaterIsLife
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Mike Klein #IndigenousPeoplesDay Truth-telling about the past Relationship-building now Justice-doing as we walk forward together
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
When we went sailing on that emerald bay
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
#WaterIsLife
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
If there’s one think in my life that’s missing… #sailinglife
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
moon abeam a silver trail from waxing crescent to moonlit sail
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
#bluesky in a waning summer idyll
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 06/09/2025
“The Capitol Mall area gets visited by people from all around the world, and it's a good way to remind them of the land they're standing on and the people who have been here for a thousand years,” said Bruce Savage, chairman of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.
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Tribal nations’ flags raised in historic moment at Minnesota State Capitol
Flags of the 11 federally recognized tribes in the state were raised for the first time Friday morning at the new Tribal Flag Plaza. Some tribal leaders say the plaza will serve as a reminder that tri...
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Hate when they mess with original #StarWars films like putting this USA hat on Emperor Palpatine #Darkside
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
water is life
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
moment of peace
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
More appropriate in our current politics than the US flag…
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
#HandsOff protest in St Paul Mayor Melvin Carter We the People
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Third term talk + speculative fiction = Christian nationalists (Vance) and techno-fascists (Musk) team up to sustain tRump on Ai-based life support beyond Constitutional limitations and natural life expectancy (singularity). I hope it is and will be fiction
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
US ethical standards in 2025: Can we get away with it?
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Checked my Signal account just to see if I was invited into any high security war planning group chats www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
A picture from nature to interrupt your doomscrolling and my own justifiably alarmist political posts about our retrograde democracy and rising authoritarian corporate fascism… damn. Did it again
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11/03/2025
UPDATE on Mahmoud Khalil from his lawyers and his wife: "Today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament." (Legal team now includes ACLU, CCR.)
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Amy E. Greer, attorney for Mahmoud Khalil provided the following update this evening:

                First, importantly, today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament.  He also greatly appreciates, and, typically for him, is moved by the extraordinarily broad and steadfast support he has received from a variety of communities that understand what is at stake.  He is in ICE custody in Louisiana, and arrangements have been made for local attorneys to visit him today and tomorrow.

                The remarks by government officials, including the President, on social media only confirm the purpose – and illegality – of Mahmoud's detention.  He was chosen as an example to stifle entirely lawful dissent in violation of the First Amendment.  While tomorrow or thereafter the government may cite the law or process, that toothpaste is out of the tube and irreversibly so.  The government’s objective is as transparent as it is unlawful, and our role as Mahmoud’s lawyers is to ensure it does not prevail.        

                Today Mahmoud's legal team, which includes Kyle Barron, CLEAR, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Amy Greer filed a motion to compel in federal court in the Southern District of New York, as part of the habeas corpus petition filed on his behalf over the weekend, seeking an order requiring the government to return to New York for any immigration proceedings.
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Sometimes I draw my own little world to escape this brutal plane for a moment, and I remember that we must envision the world we want even as we resist the degradations of this time. What creative practice do you cultivate to fight the darkness?
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
A few days ago, I posted about how authoritarian leaders fear student activism. I wrote a new article dives much deeper into this pattern – and why Trump's recent threats are so revealing. It's a global, historical phenomenon. (Short 🧵⬇️)
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The Power of Student Protests in the Fight for Democracy: Why Trump and Authoritarians Worldwide Fear Campus Activism
Trump's Threat to Universities and the Global History of Student-Led Democratic Change
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
From the Declaration of Independence: "Governments are instituted among Men [sic], deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed" DO YOU CONSENT? #Resist
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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 04/03/2025
Third in my series of mini-zines responding to questions I come across in my work/life: This one highlights about a dozen resources each sharing specific, concrete actions people can take, especially if they're new to activism and still looking for their political home: guante.info/actionzine
a photo of a zine (small paper booklet) featuring a hand releasing butterflies into the air, plus text: "I didn't believe in the fight- the fight made me a believer: for people who want to take action: guante.info/actionzine"
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
How will you spend Boycott Day, 2/28? Go to the library? Visit a State Park? Share a meal with neighbors? Protest oligarchs and billionaires? Take a walk to a public park? Provide mutual aid in your community? Spend at a local small businesses? Call your elected representatives? Plan(t) a garden?
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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Resist List @resistlist.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
They want us to think we’re alone. We are not. The Resistance is Everywhere. Welcome to Resist List. Your online hub of the ongoing resistance to the growth of authoritarianism in the United States.
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Lots of folks are asking what they can do to be helpful in this moment. I like the short list of action items that @choosedemocracy.bsky.social lists on their site. Democratic civil society is about being stronger together. Any effective strategy flows from that. choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/
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What can I do to fight this coup?
If you look, there are people resisting at every level. Blockades of freeways. American Bar Association urging an end to...
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Voting happens every day with your dollar. Plan ahead to buy essentials. Redirect support to small, local businesses. Use cash to avoid small business credit card fees. Align purchasing power with your values. Send a message on 2/28: The power of acting together is greater than the people in power.
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Analysis of 3 competing factions and their less-than-strategic actions: MAGA, Project 2025, and the “broligarchy”
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Strategery: Did the Trump Team Think This Through?
Trump’s blitzkrieg assault on our federal government has revealed big vulnerabilities
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Join this online conversation between me and my colleagues @stevelevitsky.bsky.social, @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social, and Marshall Ganz about organizing and mobilization during democratic backsliding. Next Thurs, Feb 20, 4-5pm ET. ash.harvard.edu/events/organ...
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Organizing and Mobilization during Democratic Backsliding – Ash Center
In this webinar, panelists will draw upon lessons from around the world about how civil society groups can protect and promote democracy and the rule of law during episodes of democratic backsliding.
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Mark Engler @markengler.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Paul & I just sent out a dispatch about how the right is using its own version of mass training to build breadth + depth for the MAGA movement. We need to do it better to fight back. Read more & sign up for a free subscription to the newsletter at: whirlwinddispatches.substack.com/p/more-thoug...
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More Thoughts On Mass Training During the Trump Emergency
The right is building breadth and depth for the MAGA movement. We need to do it better to fight back.
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
"As always, art isn’t the only thing we need. As always, we do need art. Writing can help frame issues, shift narratives, and just bring people together. It won’t just happen inevitably, though; let these prompts be invitations for us all to be proactive and intentional." guante.info/2025/02/10/p...
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Let Every Word Be A Wrench In Their Machine: Writing Prompts
A resource sharing some of my favorite writing prompts: for poets of course, but also for songwriters, emcees, and writers of all kinds.
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Here’s your 2025 scorecard, courtesy of Umberto Eco, philosopher/novelist who lived through Italian fascism
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
To replaced by the Department of Indoctrination, Ignorance and Obedience?
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Hi 💙 Friends — Help boost these new blue peeps under 5k! 🤘🏼 #NoDemUnder5k 🦋 #StrongerTogether ♻️ @onefish.bsky.social @sloopydeb.bsky.social @shepersistedera.bsky.social @machtnichts.bsky.social @jackie445.bsky.social @mnjamesj.bsky.social @deegirl.bsky.social @chipapa0.bsky.social
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
small white dog emerges from a warm plaid blanket to bravely face the cruel reality of a meteorological and political winter
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
“Bdote Forest Eye” witness to the sacred, the settler-colonial, the call to repair. A step on my journey, coming to terms with an ancestor’s participation in the genocide of Dakota people and the responsibility of redress in relationship and solidarity #art
Black and white photograph of a downed hollow cottonwood tree that appears as an eye, located at Bdote - confluence of Mnisota and Wakpa Tanka on the land of the Wahpekute and Mdewakanton Dakota
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
"Witness" 2022, carved long gun stocks #art #sculpture #gunviolence
Five partial long gun stocks made of wood in shades of brown, attached side-by-side, hanging vertically on the wall, with faces carved into the downward facing grip
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Mike Klein @drmcklein.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
If I were a sculptor, But then again…yes “Grounded on Submerged History” 2022
Boat-like form with wave texture carved in wood and a dark stone at center
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