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Matt Lombardo @mattlombardo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit treating Deshaun Watson like any other QB, and nary a mention of two dozen sexual assault allegations as part of an already disgusting “redemption” arc they’ve spent all night trying to weave is really gross.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Straight up: As a woman in football, this sucks to listen to. This week in particular.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Triumphantly returning from Medbed Hypersleep to cast a vote on the Rural Hospital Abolition Act. That's beautiful.

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Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Researchers in Chicago tracked neighborhood-level tree canopy over two decades and discovered something startling: “Each year-to-year percent increase in canopy was associated with around a 10 percent reduction in mortality." Keeping mature trees alive can help keep people alive -and cooler, too.

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Climate: Saving Old Trees Might Save Lives

We know that trees are good for cities. A new study finds that mature trees are especially good.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

it’s pretty insane to think about how the dumbest most violent pieces of shit in the country have been given the message that they can kill with impunity if they join this one government agency

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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 bear

witness, 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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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

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Conrad 🙂 @shitpost.expert · 13/01/2026

gen x is the only pro-ice age demographic. sorry about the second image i don't think its related i'm trying to remove it

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I can’t get over how Barbie succeeded because it offered tangible ways for women and girls to celebrate each other (and dress up and go to the movies together) but studios thought it worked because it’s about toys so now they’re making like Bananagrams the movie

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 21/11/2025

House votes on dumbass resolution condemning socialism, meanwhile the DSA's Lisan al-Gaib rolls the truculent child brain president like a pair of socks

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Trump is being nicer to Mamdani than Democratic leadership was lol

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Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night. He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/11/2025

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

AOC: I have to tell you, in my traveling across the country, I am hearing and have been seeing consistent things from everyday people. And it is that they are terrified, they are frustrated, they are angry, and they are shocked by a president violating the values that we hold dear

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

the first muslim woman being elected to statewide office (in any state!) the day dick cheney died is beautiful

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

There are more of us than there are of them.

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steve🩸 @stevefelix.com · 10/09/2025

Let’s work on this lede

Google extract:
NBC News
https://www.nbcnews.com
Live updates: Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah
24 minutes ago — Kirk, the right-wing activist and founder of Turning Point USA, was giving a presentation at Utah Valley University. Something went wrong!

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onion person @junlper.beer · 01/09/2025

donald trump is serving prince philip

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onion person @junlper.beer · 01/09/2025

it’s so cool that we had 2 incredibly unwell, close to death presidents in a row

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

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onion person @junlper.beer · 25/06/2025

andrew cuomo is emblematic of everything people despise about the democratic party and zohran is everything people want in politics, he represents hope for a better world

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

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Frankenbert Graveyardko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

happy for Khalil of course but i must say, "lawful permanent resident not charged with any crimes, imprisoned by president's stormtroopers for having forbidden opinions about US-abetted genocide, briefly allowed to touch his child" is a hell of a thing to find oneself feeling joy and relief about

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Emma Roller @emmaroller.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

At the risk of sounding corny, hope really is a practice. I’m as much of a cynical depresso as the next person. The reason why I find doomerism so toxic is that it forecloses the possibility of a better future. The devils want us to fall into despair.

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marissa @iamnzane.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

travis hunter literally skipping down the hallway in his bright pink jacket is giving me all the joy I need tonight

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is

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Hayden Clarkin @thetransitguy.com · 21/04/2025

The NYC council voting for this downgrade was just such an own goal.

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Senator Martin Heinrich @heinrich.senate.gov · 21/04/2025

Bad for school kids, bad for farmers, and sure as hell won’t “make America healthy again.”

AP Headline: USDA ends program that helped schools serve food from local farmers

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them

Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Not to put too fine of a point on this, but if I spent the last few months putting innocent people in concentration camps and the pope died basically three seconds after I met him, I would not continue life apace, I would not immediately clock back in at the fascism factory.

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 20/04/2025

this is the only kind of guy they let be on the radio now

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

There's no way around it: if we care about law and order we have to let the government commit crimes

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marissa @iamnzane.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

multiple times a week I come to this app and search “Steelers” to see if there’s any progress in our qb debacle and I’m really getting tired of it

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The hard truth is that there are some products you just can't make in America. These must be imported from elsewhere. Like chocolates, for example. American workers will always become overwhelmed by the speed of the conveyor belt. They'll end up shoving the sweets into their mouths and blouses

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

i am announcing a 90 day pause in my peanut butter cup consumption, during which i will be increasing my consumption beyond levels ive ever experienced in my life. thank you for your attention to this matter

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I am absolutely not a fan of this man, that said, he’s completely correct and the messaging here is 💯

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

BREAKING — DOGE will descend upon Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) buildings tomorrow, an agency source tells me. FDIC is responsible for insuring all commercial/personal US bank accounts for up to $250k and regulating banks. Scary in light of Trump’s manipulation of markets this week.

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