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Phil @philip-bidwell.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Ronnie Pumpernickel
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Phil @philip-bidwell.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Meme from Indiana Jones with “top men” replaced with “core objectives”
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Ash Dylan @ashdylan.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
GENTLEWOMAN: Lady Macbeth, why is blood on your hands? LADY MACBETH (completely gone): The Dow Jones is above 50,000. The S&P is high. All hail Trump!
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Remember Garfield Minus Garfield? I feel like this version of Christianity is Bible Minus Jesus
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spookily scarily pitt girl 👻🎃👻 @opg.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS: THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI
the polish figure skating team in the kiss and cry holding a plush pierogi
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Phil @philip-bidwell.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Erm.. we went from being able to have children walk to school before ICE, to needing to patrol school dismissal times to protect from ICE
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/01/2026
Gov. Landry: "I like to ask Democrats if they like their communities to be dangerous or safe. Do they want their children to be able to walk to school or do they want to worry if they send them on the sidewalks, that unfortunate violent things are going to happen to them?"
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I keep seeing posts going "when ICE comes to MY city, we'll be out in the streets even harder" and man, I get that sentiment but I need everyone to understand that the work in Minneapolis is partly confrontational but MORE IMPORTANTLY aaallll the stuff organized in the background to help neighbors
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Phil @philip-bidwell.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
If this chodes think they are in “theater” why do they expect to casually eat out at local restaurants. Eat some damn MREs in your hotel room then
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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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screenshot of text from Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive - because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force."
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...
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BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Although guns have been a part of US culture from the beginning, modern right-wing gun culture is downstream of the industry's need for profit, and they do that by selling a fantasy of right-wing violence against left wingers, Pretti doesn't fit that fantasy bsky.app/profile/hcom...
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Lot of conservative dudes out there telling on themselves by being astounded by a level of ”logistics” that the average mom has to manage every fucking day
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement. "I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish. Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature. Minneapolis, MN
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Thorpe Langton @mspdawg.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Yesterday, I drove refugees that had been shipped off to Texas all the way back home to St. Paul Seeing them reunite with their families reminded me this is their home. So keep sending them to Texas. I’ll keep driving ‘em back and introducing them to Bucc-ee’s and KC barbecue along the way.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
ICE goons abducted a Minneapolis family at gunpoint today in a lawless, early-morning raid.
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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 16/01/2026
US ICE agents have been using tear gas on protestors in Minneapolis. There's been plenty of tear gas misinformation flying around on social media; here's a summary of the chemistry and the best way to get rid of it (TLDR: water): www.compoundchem.com/2020/06/09/t... #ChemSky 🧪
An infographic titled "Tear Gas: Chemistry, Dispersal Methods & Effects". It details the active agent in tear gas, 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile, showing its chemical structure. It explains dispersal via burning canisters (using charcoal and potassium nitrate) or sprays. Health effects include eye, nose, and respiratory irritation lasting 15–30 minutes. Treatment steps advise moving to fresh air, removing clothing, and flushing with water or saline.
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Awkward Egg @sleepwalkingdog.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Leonardo DiCaprio has stopped using Wikipedia.
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Also: you CANNOT fucking pull a gun on someone while filming on your fucking cell phone. If as a LEO your judgment is the situation has reached the point where deadly force may be warranted & you need your gun out, not having your full attention on it is at BEST depraved indifference to human life
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“Nail a game of screaming Simon Says with a gun pointed at you or you die” is not a free country
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Make it viral.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 07/01/2026
Actions have consequences.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I say it all the time, but imma say it again: a lot of very book smart people lack the emotional education and communication skills that would allow them to generate the courage they want to embody in their work. They are incurious about their own emotional lives, and consequently, those of others.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/09/2025
Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be theonion.com/area-man-passionate-de…
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Phil @philip-bidwell.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
So the implication he’s making is “don’t do something perfectly legal because we might indiscriminately kill you because we aren’t good at our job and are fine with that”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Colbert will be all right, maybe even better off. The world's his oyster and I'm sure MSNBC and Netflix will come calling. He could stand up the biggest late night YouTube channel in days. But they are just torching the Late Show, an institution, solely to appease a dictator. And that fucking sucks.
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Tribune @passchendaele.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Happy Bastille Day!
(Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet sit side by side on a log). "What day is today?" asked Pooh.
"It's the day we burn this motherfucker to the ground," squeaked Piglet.
"My favorite say," said Pooh.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use 2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use 3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Opinion | America is a nation of stupid assholes and our laws and institutions should reflect that.
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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/06/2025
The act of writing is the act of thinking. You could, of course, interpose an AI generated thing at any point in the process, but it wouldn’t actually save you time. If you know what needs to be on the page, you will write it better than an AI. If you don’t, the only way to find out is the writing.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
FEMA head David RichardsonCarpathian head Vigo
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I had been calling this the argument against so-called AI from "craft", but it seems to be broader than that. More accurately, AI people are against "process", as if process itself wasn't a critical part of the creative method.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
On an individual level, people hear criticisms of Trump and they think "well i'm a Republican and I wouldn't do that" or "I'm a Republican and I don't believe that," and then bc they identify with him, they assume he's the same way and therefore his critics must be lying. bsky.app/profile/norm...
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
If you're scooping up students off the street for writing op-eds, you're secret police, and should be treated accordingly.
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White Cow in a Blizzard @mtdave.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Ted Stryker levels of concern for security: youtu.be/6O1KTMOOFcA?...
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Airplane! _ It's Classified
YouTube video by Michael
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Phil @philip-bidwell.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara in the movie Best in Show holding terrier and sitting in lawn chairs
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17/03/2025
Nobody white in the US is ever supposed to be grateful, though. No, they're just entitled to everything they have, and probably should have more.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I don't think so, because there's strong evidence most MAGA faithful don't actually believe much of what they say. Instead, they believe they're in on the con. It's less "I believe Trump's lies" and more "we must collectively lie, because that is our weapon in the war against liberals."
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
it's only doomscrolling if it's from the mount doom area of mordor, otherwise it's just sparkling panic
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
There are genuine questions about who is carrying out all these sweeping illegal actions within the federal government. It's not Trump (golfing continuously) or Musk (posting continuously). So it's a bunch of 20-something cybercriminals?
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
We are doomed to relive every stupid thing about the 80s. Only this it’s not just the mistakes of the 1980s corporate greed. It’s also the 1880s post reconstruction environment, and the 1780s love of slavery. :(
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/02/2025
i am 100% of the belief that simply forcing take-writers to answer the question "who specifically said this and why are they significant" would result in substantially fewer bad takes circulating in the world
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Phil @philip-bidwell.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
In other words, effectively 12 year olds LARPing as manly men
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/02/2025
I am personally not interested in fighting over whose fascism wins.
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Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Sam Jackson dressed as Uncle Sam was 🤌🏾✨
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