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Helly R’s Innie

@hellyrsinnie.bsky.social
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I’m a Gen X, blue dot in a red state, a mother, wife, and concerned citizen. I love to read (esp banned books), love flowers, hiking, nature, and I love being around intelligent, witty people. And people who believe in science are my jam!! 🚫DMs

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The planetary life support systems relied upon by humans have deteriorated to their worst levels ever recorded amid ongoing pollution and habitat destruction, according to a key yet grim annual update by scientists. (Guardian)
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‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A hilarious summary
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Helly R’s Innie @hellyrsinnie.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“What is at stake is more than just buildings. It is the whitewashing and bulldozing of our history and culture, created over centuries by the many people who have built the United States, in service to the small vision of Trump and his enablers.”
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 24/07/2026
Fox News insists racism doesn't exist, unless a Black actor plays a white character
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Helly R’s Innie @hellyrsinnie.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Happy 🌎 Day
Sun shining through pines on a hiking trail.A view of pines in front of a lake and mountains after a rain in Colorado View of Grand Canyon
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randomly generated oni @ceritusorbis.com · 20/04/2026
Rick Moranis coming out of retirement to make Spaceballs 2 should be bigger news than it is imo
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Spaceballs: The New One
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩‍🚀🚀💕 *All four astronauts went to public schools!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/04/2026
Joe Kernen comes close to having a coronary on air as Pete Buttigieg dogwalks him all over the Squawk Box studio about Trump's economic mismanagement and inflation
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Helly R’s Innie @hellyrsinnie.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Seriously, thank you to the cast and writers, directors, and producers of Shrinking. It is so brilliant and funny and poignant-just something I truly need and enjoy rn in these f’d up times🌅💟
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
🔥 @rokhanna.bsky.social to Democratic leadership: “Get out. Let a new generation lead. You’ve been ineffective. The base doesn’t like you. The base wants fighters.”
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Just wanted to remind folks, especially the GOP and the FDD, that Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal didn’t give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz or allow it to keep 60% enriched uranium. It sent $1.7 billion to Iran versus the tens of billions Iran will now make from tolls. 🤷🏽‍♂️
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Helly R’s Innie @hellyrsinnie.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Ready for tomorrow
Sign for No Kings that has a cartoon of Trump saying No Kings With Little Things and the cartoon says “little brain, little integrity, little honor, little hands, little vocab.” Power Belongs to the People
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Aaron Rupar’s Public Notice newsletter interviewed me about my push for the news media to report loudly on Trump’s dangerous mental unfitness. “They don’t want to make themselves part of the story by calling him out," I said. "They’re afraid he will direct his deranged behavior toward them."
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Mark Jacob on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story
"The president of the United States is clearly mentally unfit for office."
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Pendle Mills @pendlemills.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
There is no greater observer and narrator of all things Donald Trump...than Lawrence O'Donnell. He hits the bullseye every time. youtu.be/HLlWxGA1cPU?...
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Lawrence: Trump retreats on Iran and proves he’s worse than Nixon
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This is f—king real. What a pathetic scumbag of a president.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Jeff Bezos is worth $220 billion. After building that fortune from overworking and exploiting his own workers, Bezos is now developing a fund to acquire manufacturing companies and automate them. Why do we always hear about immigrants taking jobs when the oligarchs are actually to blame?
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Helly R’s Innie @hellyrsinnie.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Highly recommend watching this. We have a lot of work to do and a lot of pressure to put on companies. I’m anxious to see how Dr Swan’s formal controlled study turns out. Hope she can secure funding
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 11/03/2026
Pete Hegseth spent $2 million on Alaskan king crab, $7 million on lobster tail, and $15.1 million on ribeye steak in just one month. — But please, tell me again how the elderly who’ve worked their entire lives to get $800 a month on Social Security are bleeding this country dry.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
America and Israel are in essence waging chemical war in Iran, filling the air above its metropolis with toxic smoke after lighting its oil storage depots on fire. How is anyone supposed to "rise up" when they can't breathe? open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
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A dark and killing cloud over Tehran
And over a shamed America
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Helly R’s Innie @hellyrsinnie.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Okay, obviously I, Helly R’s Innie, am a big Severance fan & I’ve gotten a lot of people hooked on the show. I also freaking adore Shrinking. BUT-I would love to know if anyone else is enjoying Drops of God as much as I am? 🍷 And now I just want to travel & drink wine & learn multiple languages
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
NBC’s Richard Engel: “The White House meme campaign is outraging many former US military commanders… they say only someone who has never really seen combat would think it’s a joke and put out material like this.”
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Some judicial opinions have to be read in full, like the one I parse for you to night, from Judge Tunheim in Minneapolis. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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No More Benefit Of The Doubt
Last Sunday, we discussed a number of cases pending in front of federal district judges in Minneapolis.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Breaking: The Olympic gold-winning U.S. women's hockey team DECLINES Trump's invitation to his State of the Union address after he was caught on video mocking them.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
🏈🏈🏈🏈
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet
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Helly R’s Innie @hellyrsinnie.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
A balm to the soul now is to read Theo of Golden. It’s not a book that I just couldn’t put down or HAD to read - but I always looked forward to spending time with the characters. It made me smile, cry, and reflect.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/02/2026
Crockett: "Now my colleagues want to be the protectors of girls & women. I didn't hear them screaming this when Renee Good was killed in the middle of the street by the same people the vast majority of you just voted to give more money to. It was a lot of crickets, including about the Esptein files"
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
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Helly R’s Innie @hellyrsinnie.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
“This wine is AW-FUL -pour me another glass!” -Moira Rose. RIP and cheers to you, Catherine O’Hara. Thanks for all the laughs
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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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 bearwitness, 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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Helly R’s Innie @hellyrsinnie.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I feel this guy’s pain and agony and frustration deep in my soul. NO MORE!! GTFO, ICE!!!
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Helly R’s Innie @hellyrsinnie.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Happy birthday 🎉 Love the Daily Beans. Appreciate all you and Dana do! Hope you had some time to relax and maybe read some of your Nancy Drew and Bobbsey Twins books while snuggling with the cats
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 16/01/2026
What we are seeing in Minnesota is what authoritarianism looks like in real time. Racism, dehumanization, and state-sanctioned violence are tearing at the foundation of this country.
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Wil McMillen @wilmcmillen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Oh my god this lady rules. I love this. Just make fun of these poseurs.
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Helly R’s Innie @hellyrsinnie.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Attended a peaceful protest yesterday. Got flipped off quite a bit and coal rolled (red state) but more supportive honks than all that — and we’re not going away as long as this shit keeps happening.
Protest poster stating Stop Othering and Thuggering with a drawing of a masked ICE agent and blood spatters over statement of ICE Get Out
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
December 6, 2025
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December 6, 2025
On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the USS West Virginia, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was collecting laundry when the first of...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 12/11/2025
Billie Eilish asked the right question: If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?
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Billie Eilish asked the right question.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/11/2025
These posters started popping up ahead of next week’s We Ain’t Buying It boycott. From Nov 27 - Dec 1, folks are stepping back from corporate chains like Target, Home Depot, and Amazon. People are done being squeezed, so they are using the leverage of their wallets 💥
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KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This is amazing. And it’s truly the stuff of nightmares.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
“Severance" actor Tramell Tillman has won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. He is the first Black man ever to win the award #Emmys
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Americans have short memories—keep reminding them. PLEASE SHARE!
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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
We can be morally outraged by an assassination and at the same time acknowledge that Charlie Kirk’s racism and misogyny were immoral. Whitewashing his behavior and beliefs betrays the collective by masking how we got to this place in America.
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Let’s Not Forget Who Charlie Kirk Really Was
The right-wing influencer did not deserve to die, and we shouldn’t forget the many despicable things he said and did.
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enrich12 @enrich12.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
It has nothing to do with crime.
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