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functional moron @fiveburger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the fact that so many somali people traversed to the united states and have chosen minnesota as their home is one of the single greatest things about our state and our community and this is a belief i am extremely prepared to defend in any way necessary

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist

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ms. maas, haunted edition @msmaas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Seriously. Living for the day Frey is held accountable for . . . literally anything

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Spoooooky Pants 🧛‍♂️ @farnaby.xyz · 21/09/2026

It's becoming clear to everyone, not just the left, that frey has zero control over the police or their budget. But he can't admit that openly because he is a Strong Boy™ And that they are defunding the parts on Minneapolis that do work or that are good.

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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 21/09/2026

update - the guy in question is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, he's 29. he called his wife screaming in pain after he got shot. he has done literally no crime. www.npr.org/2026/09/20/n...

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Federal immigration agent shoots and injures man in Austin, Texas

The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.

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Chris Gwinn @mngwinn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’ve never seen anyone do a wheelie on a motorcycle at 75 mph on the highway before.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the president has finally revealed his true form: a 1980s preppie villain determined to tear down the rec center

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds

A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Fascinating

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

When the story of Metro Surge is told in media, don't for a moment, through the outpouring of solidarity and community building, despite the heroism, forget that it sucked ass every single day and some days it was like the sun had been blocked from the world

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Rebecca M-O @reduplicater.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Crop art at the Minnesota State Fair! It is what it says it is - art made from various parts of crops, primarily seeds, lentils, and grains, occasionally leaves or flowers. For any non-Minnesotans viewing this, I'll start with mostly less political pieces. It's harder than you might think.

Untitled? by Jenny Lau
A red heart with radiating lines is in the upper half of the piece. In the middle are two loons, rising up out of the water to either fly or dance. The words "Forever - MN" appear in black at the bottom. The piece is edged in a wavy border. You can see from the seedlist that the inspiration was a Keith Haring drawing on a US "Forever stamp" where people instead of loons are dancing and holding up the heart.

Crops include white sorghum, red sorghum, french lentil, canola, wild rice, garlic skin, and millet. Any others have been cut off by the photographer's (my) carelessness.

Untitled? by Alice Hogan
In the center are two traditional portrayals of Vikings, with horned helmets. The left is a bearded man with a photo of Governor Tim Walz's face, and the right character is a female with long blond braids and a photo of Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan's face. She holds a scepter topped by what might be a stalk of wheatand stands next to some miniature ears of multi-colored corn. Below them are the words "WELCOME TO MINNESOTA" in blue and green. Behind the two Vikings are a lake or river with swans, a pink house I don't recognize, and a stylized version of the Minneapolis skyline with some of its landmark buildings such as the Foshay Tower and the IDS Center.

The seed list is partially hidden and partially too blurry to read due to the photographer's (my) inability to take good photos.

"Pac-MN" by Meredith Keller
This is a 3 dimensional piece in that the yellow frame of it is moved forward and shaped as if it's an arcade game. The screen has a black background. The words "MINNESOTA STATE FAIR 2026" are written in the Pac-Man font at the top left. the rest of the screen has a map of the fairgrounds making the path that Pac-Man can follow, complete with yellow trails. Some of the yellow trails have the street names spelled out on the seeds. The screen also has red and blue ghosts, but instead of the normal bonus icons we see a pickle, an ear of corn, some pronto pups, and a chocolate chip cookie - all popular foods at the MN State Fair.

The seedlist shows yellow painted mustard seed in a Pac-Man shape, and the rest of the seeds are lined up for Pac-Man to eat: red and blue painted mustard seed, black canola, white, yellow, and green millet, white navy bean, yellow soy bean, and yellow split pea.

This entry was awarded a blue ribbon for first place in its category.

"Minnesota Welcomes You" by Megan Bell
Paul Bunyan, in brown laced up boots, blue jeans, and a pink and ight blue checked shirt and cap, is neeling on the ground. He steadies an axe against the ground in his left hand, while his right hand is outstretched to the viewer. The grass is green, there are autumn colored trees in the background, and a multicolored swirly sky is above. The words "MINNESOTA WELCOMES YOU" are in the foreground.

This piece was made with amaranth, hulled barley, black beans, canola, flax seed, millet, rye berries, and wheatberry. Most of these were painted.

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 29/08/2026

"Minneapolis Public Schools lost out on $4.1 million in state and federal special education aid during the 2025-26 school year due to a district accounting mistake, raising questions about the district’s beleaguered finance office..." minnesotareformer.com/2026/08/26/n...

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New records reveal another Minneapolis Public Schools’ accounting error — $4.1 million • Minnesota Reformer

The lost funding is roughly enough to pay 35 teachers for a school year.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

one reason old school Dems are so poor at modern comms is that they really seem to think their audience is the most selfish self centred people alive. The only moral is an appeal to self interest. Anti immigration is bad because who will pick veggies. fighting allies is bad because tourism revenue

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

modern fascists aren't posturing, or saying stuff for some other purpose—they mean it my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...

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Fascists Really Believe It

Millions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory.

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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

To me it comes down to a really basic observation:

Let’s start with this basic fact: more people voted for Peggy Flanagan in the Democratic Primary (411,856 votes) than voted in the Republican Primary for Senate (406,824 votes). People like to point out how Purple Minnesota is (electorally, not Prince-ly) and I just scratch my head at what world they live in. In 2024, we had a similar situation. Amy Klobuchar received 305,055 votes in a primary as an incumbent and only 194,326 Republicans voted to elect a challenger. What happened? Klobuchar absolutely trounced the incompetent weirdo Royce White by 16 points.

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

People think that the raw emotion and organizing went away just because we aren’t getting brutalized by ICE in the streets every day. We remember every stop, every confrontation, every single scared neighbor, and we will for a long time. And we are organizing around that.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

What’s happening is that America’s liberal majority is fed up with being told they need to hold the center while the political right moves more and more to the extreme. The status quo is everything getting worse, and they’re over it.

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Chris Gwinn @mngwinn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Leveraged buyouts should be illegal, part the infinity

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 28/07/2026

The built the Torment Nexus from Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End

he was at the bottom of the library’s central stairwell. He looked up and up, into the foreshortened spiral of steps. Tiny flecks of white floated and swirled in the column of light. Snowflakes? But one landed on his hand: a fleck of paper. And now the ripping buzz of the saw was still louder, and there was also the sound of a giant vacuum cleaner. But it was the irregular ripping buzz that echoed down the stairwell and beat him about the head. There was something familiar about that, but it wasn’t an indoors kind of sound. He started up the stairs, pausing at each landing. The dust and the noise were worst at the fourth floor, labeled “Catalog Section PZ.” The door opened smoothly. Beyond would be the library stacks. All the books you could ever want, miles of them. The beauty of ideas waiting in ambush. But this was like no stacks he had ever seen. The floor was draped in white tarpaulin. The air was hazy with drifting debris. He took a breath, smelled pine pitch and burnt wood—and for a moment he couldn’t stop coughing. Brap, painfully loud now, coming from four aisles to his right. There were empty shelves here, a littering of paper scraps and deep dust. Brrap. Against logic, sometimes recognition comes hard. But finally, Robert remembered the exact sound which that abrupt roar must be. He had heard it occasionally throughout his life, but always the machine had been outdoors. Brrrap! A tree shredder!

Ahead of him, everything was empty bookcases, skeletons. Robert went to the end of the aisle and walked toward the noise. The air was a fog of floating paper dust. In the fourth aisle, the space between the bookcases was filled with a pulsing fabric tube. The monster worm was brightly lit from within. At the other end, almost twenty feet away, was the worm’s maw—the source of the noise. Indistinct in the swirling haze, Robert could see two white-suited figures, their jackets labeled “Huertas Data Rescue.” The two wore filter masks and head protectors. They might have been construction workers. In fact, this business was the ultimate in deconstruction: first one and then the other would pull books off the racks and toss them into the shredder’s maw. The maintenance labels made calm phrases of the horror: The raging maw was a “NaviCloud custom debinder.” The fabric tunnel that stretched out behind it was a “camera tunnel.” Robert flinched from the sight—and Epiphany randomly rewarded his gesture with imagery from within the monster: The shredded fragments of books and magazines flew down the tunnel like leaves in tornado, twisting and tumbling. The inside of the fabric was stitched with thousands of tiny cameras. The shreds were being photographed again and again, from every angle and orientation, till finally the torn leaves dropped into a bin just in front of Robert. Rescued data. BRRRRRAP! The monster advanced another foot into the stacks, leaving another foot of empty shelves

behind it. Almost empty. Robert stepped into the aisle and his hand caught on something lying on a shelf. It wasn’t dust. It was half a page, a remnant of all the thousands of books that had already been sucked into the “data rescue” equipment. He waved it at the white-suited workers and screamed words that were lost in the noise of their shredder and the worm tunnel fans. But the two looked up and shouted something back. If the body of the glowing worm hadn’t been between him and them, Robert might have rushed the pair. As it was, they just waved impotently at each other. Then a third guy appeared, behind Robert. This one was an overweight thirty-something wearing Bermuda shorts and a huge black T-shirt. The young man was shouting at him in—what, Mandarin? He waved pleadingly for Robert to follow him back toward the stairwell, away from the nightmare.

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I LOVED this essay in the NYT about the "triumph" of girls in Scouting America (gift link). The girls' troops that began in 2019 are doing amazing things. I've found most people in Scouting are supportive of the belated inclusivity, and this piece refutes the hostility of naysayers so elegantly.

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Opinion | The Boy Scouts Let in Girls Almost a Decade Ago. It’s Been a Triumph. (Gift Article)

What I know from six years of leading Troop 163 is that these girls invigorate scouting rather than weaken it.

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horse shoe crab programmer @myrrlyn.net · 17/07/2026

you stupid mother fucker (markwayne not eugene) we tricked the entire world into sending their smartest hardest working people here and then tricked those same people into staying permanently instead of going back to their home country you are BLOWING UP OUR SPOT

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Chris Gwinn @mngwinn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I finally got to play fiasco again. Man, do I love that game.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Asking how people can partake in joyful acts during a period of immense suffering leads me to believe this is your first time at the suffering rodeo.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

people got mad at me yesterday when i said the dems were not ready to take court reform seriously. 5-4 for non-racial citizenship is not a win, it's a reprieve bsky.app/profile/schu...

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 27/06/2026

Here is the People’s Pride event map and guide for people who are actually anti-corporate

People’s Pride event map, little dots surrounding Powderhorn Lake noting where things like bathrooms and medics are

MPP
GUIDE
2026

MPLS
PEOPLES PRIDE
WHAT TO BRING AND BASICS OF THE EVENT :)

FREE BBQ
We provide free food, vegan options available!
The lines may be long, so you can pack your own as well.

MASKS PROVIDED
We provide masks for attendees but do not enforce them.

SUN
We provide water (bottles & tap fountain), some sunscreen, and there are shaded areas. But please prepare!

DO NOT BRING
Dangerous or flammable materials

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Grimly amusing Dem machines think they deserve some sort of entitlement hierarchy. My entire life, everything has been moving backwards, politically, democratically, bureaucratically, judicially. You are all failures. You are presumptively part of the rot that must be removed down to the root.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The fact that a full shutdown of this length was even *considered,* let alone approved, is indicative of the way that Minneapolis-Saint Paul has never once been serious in this century about creating a real and functional transit system for its residents.

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‘Very disruptive’: Blue Line trains to shut down for seven weeks during major maintenance

Buses will replace trains from June 29 to Aug. 19. Green Line trains won’t run in downtown Minneapolis between July 1-26 and Aug. 16-19.

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Ret @ret.furry.engineer.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

Me in 1768: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive. Me in 2026: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/06/2026

Difficult to think of a better example of Silicon Valley billionaire group chat brainrot than someone thinking the best way to combat the billionaire wealth tax would be to... buy up the company collecting signatures for the ballot measure. via @sfstandard.com sfstandard.com/2026/06/13/b...

In an encrypted group chat on Signal, a who’s who of tech titans met to commiserate and toss out solutions: Should they appeal to the governor? Run counter-initiatives? Put up candidates for office?

The members of the chat, some of whom are reported here for the first time, read like a Forbes list of Silicon Valley elite: Google cofounder Sergey Brin, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, former Zynga CEO Mark Pincus, former Sequoia Capital head and chairman of The Standard Michael Moritz, Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan, PayPal cofounder Max Levchin, Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, Ripple cofounder Chris Larsen, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, venture capitalist Ron Conway, Greenoaks Capital founder Neil Mehta, investor and “All-In” podcast cohost David Friedberg, Future Ventures founder Steve Jurvetson and his wife, Genevieve — dozens of tycoons, some of whom were hyper-active in the chat and others who engaged not at all.

“It’s kind of like, ‘Who wasn’t in it?’ to be honest,” said one of two people who saw the chat and described its contents to The Standard. “And it just kept getting added to.”

At some point, a chat participant proposed an action more audacious than lobbying Gov. Gavin Newsom or funding an anti-tax measure: What if the group simply bought the signature-collecting company the union was using, then prohibited it from collecting more signatures?

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

It's an objective fact that Elon Musk is a mass murderer. He intentionally caused the deaths of millions of people. There's no caveats to this, no alternative explanations, no defenses, no missing context; that was the sole reason for doing what he did.

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Chris Gwinn @mngwinn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

It is finally nice and sunny in Minneapolis and it’s amazing how much of a difference it makes in my mood

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A decent rule or thumb is that when you happen upon really egregious misconduct, it’s unlikely that you just fortunately stumbled upon the first unique instance. More often it escalated to be that bad via a lot of lesser infractions for which there were no consequences.

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The author sent me a copy, and it's really something to behold in person.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I feel like we’re in for many years of “haha, they were spending taxpayer money on bug condoms—DOGE to the rescue!” turning out to be something important Elon’s Tween Team didn’t understand.

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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This morning, a neighbor was kidnapped by ICE in the Corcoran neighborhood. The individual had his window broken into, and he was snatched from his car. It would be great to get more observers out today and, moving forward, it would help to be more engaged in your local areas from 6AM-8AM. 1/

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Nate Pentz @natepentz.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It should be noted that both Chief O'Hara and public safety commissioner Todd Barnette were both unable to answer why MPD is going over budget, Barnette wasn't even aware till 3rd quarter 2025. And despite that, both were nominated for another term by Mayor Frey. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

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Minneapolis police overtime is dragging down the entire city budget

The city’s rainy day fund is drying up as it spends more and collects less money.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 28/05/2026

Strib finally publishes the story on MPD wildly overspending to do nothing during the ICE siege: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-... You can compare this version to the one that was pulled: www.msn.com/en-us/news/u... (ht @roblevine82.bsky.social)

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Minneapolis police rarely responded to ICE calls but still spent millions on overtime

The MPD prioritized preventing large-scale civil unrest over responding to calls from residents concerned about unlawful force by ICE, and racked up huge OT costs doing it.

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Hi, yes, 20-75 follow up questions here. To start: how many gold bars are there at the CIA generally

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 22/05/2026

🚨The Wedge LIVE Cat Tour is fast approaching: June 24. Wedge residents, please register your cats. Even if you've participated in prior years, we ask you to register again so we know you remain interested in having a mob scene stream past your home. wedgelive.com/cat-tour/

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2026 Wedge LIVE Cat Tour! » The Wedge Times-Picayune

DATE: Wednesday, June 24, 2026. Register for your free ticket. SHOW US YOUR CATS: If you want to have your cat featured on the tour, and you live in or near the Wedge neighborhood, register your cat.…

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

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