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kate horowitz (she/???) @delightmonster.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
one of the million things i love about haiku is its vast language of symbols—most famously the cherry blossom, a reminder of impermanence and the inevitability of death anyway i made a sticker
Pearly, iridescent round sticker featuring a wreath of cherry blossoms and bare branches and the handwritten words "maybe it will happen today"
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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I'm thrilled to be doing this workshop in about a week and a half with @poetshouse.bsky.social. Come hang out, read, & write. Let's figure out together how not to let capitalism ruin poetry 💎✨️🍕 poetshouse.org/event/worksh...
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Elinor @elinor.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Also screaming in historian. Have anti-vaxxers ever looked at death rates from before vaccines??? They would not be against them if so. Same with antibiotics. A pure, utopian past where we lived at one with nature and used dew drops and raw milk to cure our ailments and didn't get sick never existed
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Megan Smolenyak @megansmolenyak.com · 17/02/2026
Screams in genealogist: YES!!!
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daviss @daviss.org · 16/02/2026
NOW: Demanding justice for all those shot and killed by federal agents over the last 2 months, protesters marched from Stewart Park to the memorial of Alex Pretti. Pretti was shot and killed by border patrol agents on January 24, 2026. Minneapolis February 16, 2026
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Samuel Menashe
The hill I see
Every day
Is holy
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Elinor @elinor.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
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eastyjet @eastyjet.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I know it's not particularly original to say that becoming a father has made me feel more strongly about kids in the news, but every story I see about this poor boy makes me want blood
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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Easy way to care about our larger community!
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
“Every single woman had been in the facility about three weeks and had been living in the same articles of clothing for three weeks…Their clothes had not been washed. They had not been offered fresh underwear or fresh clothing. Some of them were literally still in their snow boots from Minnesota."
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Medgar Evers was assassinated in his own driveway while his wife and kids were inside the house. Klan member Byron De La Beckwith shot him in the back and it took 31 years to get a conviction!
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Elinor @elinor.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I found this very interesting-- a brief review of resistance to the Gestapo in Germany
bbc.co.uk
Opposition and resistance - Nazi control and dictatorship 1933-1939 - Edexcel - GCSE History Revision - Edexcel - BBC Bitesize
Learn about and revise Nazi control and dictatorship between 1933 and 1939 with this BBC Bitesize History (Edexcel) study guide.
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
How “Fuck you” becomes a love song Aracelis Girmay
You are who I love, throwing your hands up in agony or disbelief, shaking your head, arguing back, out loud or inside of yourself, holding close your incredulity which, yes, too, l love     I love

your working heart, how each of its gestures, tiny or big, stand beside my own agony, building a forest there

How “Fuck you” becomes a love song

You are who I love, carrying the signs, packing the lunches, with the rain on your face

You at the edges and shores, in the rooms of quiet, in the rooms of shouting, in the airport terminal, at the bus depot saying “No!” and each of us looking out from the gorgeous unlikelihood of our lives at all, finding ourselves here, witnesses to each other's tenderness, which, this moment, is fury, is rage, which, this moment, is another way of saying: You are who I love   You are who I love   You and you and you are who
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The big lie of our age (that they somehow managed to sell to us) is that government / legislation is “evil”. Government / legislation was designed to protect you from the real evil: the selfish shit that rich people will inevitably do while bribing governments and lawmakers to look the other way.
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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Don't shop tomorrow. If you're able, funnel some funds toward community solidarity efforts. But especially stay the fuck off amazon. We vote with our dollars; Bezos made the Melania movie with 75 million of his
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Elinor @elinor.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I don't know how much reach this post will have but I'm looking to have a lowkey chat with someone who has visited the book burning memorial in Munich? It's for a column I write about book materiality for Zona Motel. Just looking for your impressions, nothing formal
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
second sitting black congressperson to be assaulted in the past week. all the violence seems to be coming from one side, and it ain’t ours
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Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.com · 28/01/2026
Sign up for their email list as well. They send out offers and new drops regularly. Got my 3 ebooks yesterday.
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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The resistance will be beautiful
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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
If you're feeling powerless because you don't know how to meaningfully contribute to resistance in Minneapolis or other places, remember that money is quite often the best way. Local orgs know exactly what is needed where. Even sharing posts from locals who are recommending community orgs helps.
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Elinor @elinor.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I found this video very comprehensive and made things easy to see if anyone wants or needs a reputable analysis video to share with people
bbc.co.uk
Unpicking the second Minneapolis shooting frame by frame
BBC Verify has analysed footage of the shooting from multiple angles, piecing together a detailed picture of what happened.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 25/01/2026
BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.
Woman on the right was using her walker to advance into the tear gas
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ditchpony @ditchpony.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Minnesota is the front line and we will hold it. We are heartbroken, we are afraid, we are exhausted but we will not fall. Please support us. linktr.ee/mplsmutualai...
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@mplsmutualaid | Linktree
Clearinghouse of mutual aid for our neighbors
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Elinor @elinor.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Alex Pretti 💔
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.
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kate horowitz (she/???) @delightmonster.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
A reintroduction: I'm a disabled and autistic artist/writer in America. I sell stickers, stationery, and other supportive darkness for the best—and, more importantly right now—the worst parts of life. The Midwinter Heartache collection is out now: bigchallenges.bigcartel.com/category/mid...
bigchallenges.bigcartel.com
Midwinter Heartache
Browse all products in the Midwinter Heartache category from Big Challenges.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The weakest, most inept administration in history, unable to work out how best to deal with a dementia ridden President, and deciding to just let him destroy everything and hope he just dies of old age soon.
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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I feel like America plotting to annex Greenland while masked state goons terrorise their own communities at will should encourage British press and politicians to reflect on what happens when you act like "far right" is an unfair slur rather than a necessary descriptor of a real political position.
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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help. The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later: thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Hard to find the words. Something must be done.
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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 17/01/2026
Show me.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This makes me feel more patriotic than the national anthem ever could
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Elinor @elinor.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I have also donated to CAIR Minnesota (cairmn.org/donate), an org protecting civil rights for Muslim immigrants in Minnesota. Please give where you can
cairmn.org
Donate - CAIR Minnesota
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Progressives HAVE been weighing in. -universal health care -streamlining immigration processes -universal basic income -more funding for childcare But no one wanted to listen.
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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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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.
bizjournals.com
ICE agents to begin checking documents at MSP airport, patrol jet bridges - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will begin checking documents of travelers and workers at MSP airport, with patrols inside jet bridges.
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Elinor @elinor.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I just donated to the Calvary Food Shelf in Minnesota. Been in operation for 30 years, trying to get food to people scared to leave their homes and people whose SNAP benefits have been frozen by Trump
givemn.org
Support Calvary Food Shelf: Emergency Response Fundraiser on GiveMN
Help us respond to an urgent community crisis
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Elinor @elinor.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
sadandfamous.substack.com/p/support-mi...
sadandfamous.substack.com
Support Minnesota
I don't have any pithy cultural commentary in me this month
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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 15/01/2026
Hey folks Calvary Food Shelf has been helping out people in Minneapolis for 30 years, and now they’re ramping up to meet the crisis, including doing home deliveries so people don’t have to risk going out. They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?
givemn.org
Support Calvary Food Shelf: Emergency Response Fundraiser on GiveMN
Help us respond to urgent community needs
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”" "“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
We are so far beyond "show us your papers." They don't want to see the papers. We are now into the "give us the names" stage of the occupation.
O’Keefe was put into another vehicle with three agents. She says they started taunting and mocking her, and called her ugly.

“The ICE agent who had pepper sprayed into the vents of my car said ‘you guys gotta stop obstructing us, that’s why that lesbian b—— is dead,’ verbatim, speaking of Renee Good. Which filled me with absolute rage and shock that you could say that to one of her neighbors,” she said.

They were brought to the Whipple Building and released after eight hours. They weren’t charged for a crime. Sigüenza said he was brought to a room with agents from the Department of Homeland Security and asked to provide the names of people he knows that are undocumented or the names of protest organizers in exchange for money or legal protection.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The people of MN give me far more hope than the largely feckless “opposition” leaders of our country or the deeply compromised and ineffectual media both-sidesing white nationalist totalitarianism.
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depressioncore @princesscore.meangirls.online · 14/01/2026
clearly she was onto something seeing as how they fucking killed her
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Elinor @elinor.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
RT this with your home river. The beautiful Kelvin River in Glasgow 💕 Kingfishers, otters, lush, green and an excellent riverwalk!
an ornate green wrought iron bridge with brick and stone pillars next to a red sandstone church with a tall spire. a river runs under the bridge, reflecting it, there are green trees on its bank. the dark blue sky above holds a smattering of grey and white clouds
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