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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

NEW: Until recently, two Minneapolis women have heading out each day on a simple mission: to find and mock Border Patrol field leader Greg Bovino. I talked to one of them and wrote about the strengths and limits of mocking these dripless malevolent losers: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The power of mocking Trump’s pathetic monsters

It's impossible to ignore the administration's blend of violent repression and overwhelming cringe.

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John Knefel @johnknefel.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The rhetoric MAGA media is using to describe Minnesota protesters is increasingly unhinged and militaristic -- "insurgents" and "terrorists" waging "guerilla warfare,” looking to provoke a "Fort Sumter moment" and start a civil war. New from me and @slawton.bsky.social at @mmfa.bsky.social

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Right-wing media are describing pro-immigrant Minnesota activists using the language of war

Right-wing media figures and outlets are using the language of war to characterize protests against the presence of violent Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minnesota.The fatal shooting o...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors

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MJ Knefel @mjknefel.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

This is extremely Minneapolis behavior

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Sam Welter @knightofnothing.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Never escaping the adage "men are afraid that women are laughing at them; women are afraid that men will kill them"

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

For right-wingers who want to preserve any sort of public career in a post-Trump reality without being constantly haunted by their past disgrace, "Renee Good's murder is a bridge too far for me" is one of the easiest off-ramps in the world. I think we should take note of who declines to use it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/01/2026

i just watched this video and the fact that they believe this to be exculpatory is genuinely insane

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

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MN mom pressed into democracy defense @joleneljohnson.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Minneapolis is completely unsafe right now. ICE has been in 6 different Targets in the last 24 hours. They are setting up checkpoints on highways pulling all the brown people over. I scared away unmarked ICE from the market by our house after dropping kids off. #AbolishICE #Minneapolis

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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Can’t stop laughing at this

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Rent stabilized apartments in New York don’t come with income caps. Andrew Cuomo doesn’t know this because he doesn’t live here

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

"voters are why I lost" is the funniest possible thing for a politician to say.

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Miss g @grainne.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

For your convenience I have checked the voter rolls and have circled everyone’s name who is not registered to vote in nyc.

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MJ Knefel @mjknefel.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I taught in this neighborhood for 11 years and always felt the same!

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MJ Knefel @mjknefel.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

He’s all over the Blinds!

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MJ Knefel @mjknefel.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

It’s not my fault that’s what it’s called!

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MJ Knefel @mjknefel.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Hahaha ok I will try again 😂

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MJ Knefel @mjknefel.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

THANK YOU, I know you love your Taylor Stan Lizard Man and we do too. Thank you for sticking with us!

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MJ Knefel @mjknefel.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Those are both more analysts, not breaking news. Citations Needed is media criticism, The Dig is like history and politics. Both are awesome. Why Is This Happening with Chris Hayes is also very good

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MJ Knefel @mjknefel.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Our recording schedule has increased so we haven’t been able to find a SIMS time yet- not gone but paused for now!

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MJ Knefel @mjknefel.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Citations Needed and The Dig!

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:

Following my previously signed Executive Orders, ICE proudly apprehended and detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student on the campus of Columbia University. This is the first arrest of many to come. We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it. Many are not students, they are paid agitators. We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again. If you support terrorism, including the slaughtering of innocent men, women, and children, your presence is contrary to our national and foreign policy interests, and you are not welcome here. We expect every one of America’s Colleges and Universities to comply. Thank you!

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MJ Knefel @mjknefel.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I accept this blame. It is the hardest show I have ever watched!

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MJ Knefel @mjknefel.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

My kid just asked for “good blackberries” okay Ina Garten

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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

If I’m ever asked why I subscribe to @hellgatenyc.com, I’ll just point to this paragraph in a recent newsletter

Black text on a white background that says:
“I am of America" Bezos reportedly announced to Washington Post staffers with the eloquence we have come to equate with the nation's hyperwealthy genius class, adding that he is also "for America, and proud to be so.”

Bezos of America has been thinking some deep thoughts. "A big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else," he informed Post staffers. "Freedom is ethical," he mused, sounding like a towering political philosopher and not at all like a sociopathic vampire who feeds off warehouse-sized batteries of human labor. "It minimizes coercion."

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MJ Knefel @mjknefel.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Thank you for the kind words! We’ll miss him like crazy but we’ll be bringing him back all the time so we won’t miss him too much. We love him so much and all 3 of us are excited for what’s to come!

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MJ Knefel @mjknefel.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

My children keep screaming at me to pause the show (Super Bowl)

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MJ Knefel @mjknefel.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Hello rugged, perhaps very tired Jon Hamm

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 09/02/2025

The Times ed board argument here, seemingly “against” Trump’s attacks on trans people, is mostly concerned with rhetorical defenses of trans people in the military as patriots (and so deserving of rights), with mentions of bans on medical transition framed as “debate”

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 04/02/2025

Hospitals that are cutting off care to trans people under nineteen are the very definition of "complying in advance"—some, as I report in this story, even claiming, incorrectly, that Trump has "prohibited" gender-affirming care. He has not. They are caving. More here: newrepublic.com/article/1910...

But the order is only that—a promise, not a law. “President Trump’s Executive Order has not made it illegal to prescribe puberty-blockers or hormones to transgender people under the age of nineteen,” Chase Strangio, co-director of the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project, said via email Monday. “What the executive order is attempting to do is coerce institutions and providers to stop providing the treatment they believe is medically necessary for their patients by threatening all federal funding to an institution that treats transgender patients under nineteen with gender affirming medical care.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2025

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

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MJ Knefel @mjknefel.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Some of the best parenting advice I’ve found is: you don’t need to always know what to do, you need a guiding framework. Democrats have no guiding framework. They are making up every script as they go and they are absolutely terrified of appearing to have values.

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Kat Stafford @katstafford.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

LONDON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The Trump administration has moved to stop the supply of lifesaving drugs for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis, as well as medical supplies for newborn babies, in countries supported by USAID around the globe, a memo reviewed by Reuters showed. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

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Trump order set to halt supply of HIV, malaria drugs to poor countries, sources say

The Trump administration has moved to stop the supply of lifesaving drugs for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis, as well as medical supplies for newborn babies, in countries supported by USAID around the globe, a memo reviewed by Reuters showed.

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