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Gina Spadafori

@ginaspadafori.bsky.social
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Recovering journalist, writer of books, loyal servant to dogs and goats. Decrepit Boomer. Frances Perkins fan.

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Gina Spadafori @ginaspadafori.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Gina Spadafori @ginaspadafori.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
So much enjoyed this 🧵
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I promise I am almost done Platnerposting but I want to point out that the establishment hates this man like he killed their whole families. They smear him as often as they can, label him an antisemite, drag him for being Muslim, etc Total rape allegations: 0
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Mamdani’s preening arrogance will ultimately prove his downfall
The democratic socialist balloon deflated this week.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Hey, fellas, before you write that white hot take about how rape is such a tricky thing and, I mean, who can really say what happened and, you know, maybe we should not be too judgmental, I'd like to remind you that instead you can simply shut the fuck up.
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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
me, walking into the British museum
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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Bonhoeffer tried to assassinate... Hitler. It's so telling that when a GOP stooge is looking for the name of a bad political assassin... he doesn't name Wilkes-Booth or Oswald or Sirhan Sirhan. He names a hero who tried to snuff out Hitler. He knows, in his fucking BONES, who Trump is.
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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Thanks to the NYTimes for giving a forum to a male abortion opponent to tell women what to do and Democrats how to think. I would expect satire like this in @nytpitchbot.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/o...
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Opinion | The Missing Middle in the Abortion Debate
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Gina Spadafori @ginaspadafori.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
How to say you don’t know anything at all about civil servants and the dedicated work they do. 🙄
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Gina Spadafori @ginaspadafori.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Apparently @usatoday.com can’t afford a competent model of earth-killing, job-crushing plagiarism machine.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
After studying conspiracy theories and capitalism for years, what sticks out is that the Right always takes distrust of capitalism and redirects the rightful anger from the people who deserve it to vulnerable populations in order to create faux-populism to further their own agendas.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I’m trying to imagine any Republican governor in America doing the equivalent of what Jared Polis just did. This is why Democrats lose.
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Gina Spadafori @ginaspadafori.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
$2/hour making pizzas at the harness racing track at the California state fairgrounds a/k/a CalExpo.
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Idk man, I think the journalists who have been traumatized the most were not sitting in that room tonight. The feds gassed the shit out of us, knocked us over, sent in the local PD to harass, detain, and hurt us, shot a teenaged photographer in the face and he lost an eye, and that's just in LA
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/04/2026
the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?
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Gina Spadafori @ginaspadafori.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Time to correct this corruption. Checks and balances.
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The White House Correspondents' Dinner later this month – with Trump as guest of honor – is shaping up as an embarrassing surrender to a criminal president who is trying to destroy the free press. Cancel the damn dinner. My Stop the Presses newsletter.
stopthepresses.news
Cancel the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Trump will be guest of honor at the “nerd prom,” with journalists serving as suck-ups
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I know he is demented and degenerate and mostly pretty dumb too. But Pope Leo is weak on crime is one of the funniest things a politician has ever said.
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Gina Spadafori @ginaspadafori.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
::: taps profile :::
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Mission Control: We're going to attempt to call you on the sat phone. Artemis Crew off coms: OH MY GOD, WHY CANT THEY JUST TEXT US!
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Kellowe'en @kellykomics.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? #MoonJoy
Screengrab of skeet (poster's name deliberately cut off): "I'm the only one not enthusiastic about this moment. There is hell on earth throughout our planet; man hasn't did enough to improve the lives of human beings. Starvation, homelessness, corruption, hate, denial of basic needs only to destroy the universe to be the first. It shouldn't be this way!"
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Some folks just make a killing in Polymarket betting on a cease fire. polymarket.com/event/us-x-i...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
HORRIBLE. ICE is averaging more than one death a week this year. It's like clockwork. The last death reported was exactly seven days ago.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/04/2026
the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Story this am fr NYT Vivian Yee about women who support biblical patriarchy --and household voting. And a study from UNLV about views of men who support tradwife phenom linked to higher rates of sexism. All of a piece, & why I write about 18thc family history 1/ 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...
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The Women Who Believe Women Should Lose the Right to Vote
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Chuck Schumer likes to imagine how his politics play with an imaginary middle-class middle-aged couple on Long Island, but I don't think he realizes that couple is currently constructing a guillotine in their suburban backyard and stockpiling Molotov cocktails.
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Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Who would have guessed that the legal system in America was so fragile that a single crazy president could ignore the whole thing, from the Constitution right down to state laws? Why does the Supreme Court and Congress let this demented moron act like the dictator of a banana republic?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/03/2026
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors. My report:
thehandbasket.co
Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid
Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 06/03/2026
damn, if the Childcrusher 5000 GTX pickup truck owners can’t afford gas, how are they going to be able to tote their massive loads of a single loaf of bread and a canned Starbucks latte
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Gina Spadafori @ginaspadafori.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Ka-POW. I hope she takes Ted’s Senate seat. Brilliant and strong! ❤️
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
DC journalists have a golden opportunity. Just say something like "since they will be honoring an avowed enemy of free speech and a free press, I will not be attending the Correspondents' Association dinner this year." It's telling how many will not, even when handed to them on a silver platter.
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Gina Spadafori @ginaspadafori.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
AP’s former CEO destroyed McClatchy newspapers when CEO there, overpaying for K-R. @apnews.com’s current CEO: Hold my beer. I will destroy it all. Shame on you, AP.
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Gina Spadafori @ginaspadafori.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
My dog Walter. #dogsofbluesky Per DNA: 1/2 Lab, 1/2 Australian Shepherd/Standard Poodle. Proud alum of @calaverashumane.bsky.social Posting … Just because. ❤️
Fuzzy-faced gray and black dog, panting on a warm, sunny day.
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Gina Spadafori @ginaspadafori.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
If still practicing, they should be struck off and shunned.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 25/02/2026
This has nothing to do with fraud. The agents Trump allegedly sent to investigate fraud are shooting protesters and arresting children. His DOJ is gutting the U.S. Attorney’s Office and crippling their ability to prosecute fraud. And every week Trump pardons another fraudster.
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Gina Spadafori @ginaspadafori.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Cruelty (and control) is the point, at all levels.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/02/2026
If my followers have been inspired by the fierce resistance the Twin Cities has put up to ICE, you should make it a point to take a trip here (April through October 😬), enjoy the wonderful things MN has to offer and support our small businesses. It continues to be a really tough time for them.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
She really just said why are you talking about the mass coverup of child rape when you should be talking about money
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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I can’t emphasize enough that the press (and likely our national elected officials) believe people in Minneapolis are doing all this to try to get their attention. But actually, we’re resisting this way because we lost faith that anyone would come to save us but each other.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Walz: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace and kidnap its citizens off the streets or on the side of a nurse at the V.A. who died bearing witness to such government
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The Republican position now appears to be that you have a constitutional right to openly carry a gun in public, unless you do so while expressing a view that the government dislikes, in which case the secret police can shoot you to death on the spot.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 24/01/2026
It’s no comfort, but the official DHS line being “he can be killed by masked agents of the state because he had a legal gun” is such an interesting new frontier in how Trump has made the conservative movement very publicly and embarrassingly abandon every principal it once claimed.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/01/2026
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
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