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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

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Saraidh @saraidh.bsky.social · 7h

Seems related to how we like to think we're rational but mostly we react emotionally and map logic onto that, so it makes sense to me. Humans are pretty clearly not primarily creatures of economic rationality.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 9h

We've lived for so long with this mythology that sure, the wealthy can be cruel. But at least the cruelty has a point. Profit! I'd like us to open our hearts to other possibilities. Power doesn't just corrupt! It can also breed truly reality-distorting levels of incompetence.

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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · 8h

You only have to change one word in this Star Tribune op-ed headline for it to make a lot more sense.

Headline: Stopping fraud is still just a talking point for Democrats. Democrats is crossed out and Republicans is written in.

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Saraidh @saraidh.bsky.social · 10h

I was already not enthused about Newsom as a presidential candidate, and this pretty much turns that impression to a hard no.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!

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Saraidh @saraidh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We're in Iowa this weekend, mostly in a college town, but also driving around a whole lot of back roads (so many gravel roads) and there are a LOT of Rob Sand signs. No wonder Republicans are sweating.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10/10/2026

The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A real welfare state and universal health care require broad taxation, including the middle class. But high end wealth taxation is the kind of tax that protects democracy and the rule of law, and prevents aristocratic dynasties. It keeps us human.

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Saraidh @saraidh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Can you imagine if Minneapolis had gotten it? The whining would have gone on for weeks.

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Saraidh @saraidh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Normalizing people's abusive and cruel behavior is dangerous regardless of the target, so completely aside from the consciousness arguments I think the ban is good.

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Saraidh @saraidh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yeah, same. My team was having this exact conversation this afternoon. I appreciated that the dev lead was open to the tools but wanted to balance it with giving junior devs hands-on experience and not trying to hand all the code generation to AI.

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Ed Overbeek @edoverbeek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I would point out that there’s only one of them on that stage who helped overturn Roe v Wade, and that’s her

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026

rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived

Margaret Hamilton standing next to a printout of code she and her team wrote for the Apollo program, which is as tall as she is

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We've probably learned more about American politics from the ANES than any other single data source. The same is true for the GSS and sociology. Both of these are gone if Congress acquiesces to these NSF cuts.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ICE’s new tactic, witnessed repeatedly at the federal building in MN: when a detained immigrant makes a successful habeas petition, release the immigrant for a few steps outside the building… then tackle and re-arrest them, and claim the habeas petition has been honored and nullified

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Saraidh @saraidh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm old enough to remember my grandparents getting an AOL floppy in the mail and saying "Maybe [my uncle] will know what this square thing is".

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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This wonderful quote reminded me I need to donate to Brad Tabke: “I don’t necessarily believe in the center as a term or as a place or anything like that,” Tabke said. “I think that’s kind of where politicians go to hide and not actually do things.” www.startribune.com/tabke-paul-s...

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Minnesota House control runs through a fiercely contested suburban rematch

DFL Rep. Brad Tabke of Shakopee is again facing Republican Aaron Paul in a bellwether matchup. Immigration, affordability, fraud and taxes are all in the mix.

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Saraidh @saraidh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So about the same geography as Vikings/Dolphins. *shakes head*

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Saraidh @saraidh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Republicans must *really* be panicking if we're getting Ken Paxton protects kids ads in Minnesota.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"A liberalism that forcefully confronts authoritarianism, oligarchy, climate change, and the numerous other enormous challenges that we face will almost certainly be one that is less attuned to the views of America's most influential paper." newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too

The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 04/10/2026

Confirmed ICE seen skulking around South Minneapolis. Eyes out, whistles up

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Saraidh @saraidh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The intro reminds me of one of my favorite versions. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

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June Tabor & Oysterband : Love Will Tear Us Apart

YouTube video by TopicRecords

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Saraidh @saraidh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I watched a bit of the regatta and managed not to let the wind fling my phone into the river. Gorgeous day today. Plus, I finally got decent monarch photos.

Mississippi River gorge starting to show fall colors with multiple teams rowing upstream towards the railway bridge.

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Saraidh @saraidh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I got that one too. Who could resist?

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Mara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For those demoralized by the MPS plan to close schools, we can push back and win.

Organizing can change the choices on the table. In 2024, Seattle Public Schools faced a gap of nearly $100
million and proposed closing up to 21 schools. After months of pushback from families, the district dropped the plan and turned to the state for help.
The following spring, Washington's Legislature voted to remove its cap on special-education funding, adding $750 million over four years statewide.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 02/10/2026

“We can do as many crimes as we want so long as we say it was software and pay for a few PACs” is an absolutely insane way to run a society.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of the foremost scholars of polarization in the world is telling us that polarization is the wrong concept to apply to the contemporary United States...so maybe don't do that

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Uriah @uriahforfun.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

GOP has a lot of nerve to talk about fighting corruption when this crap is happening: A quiet rule change could signal “the end of independent financial regulators” just as the SEC prepares to deregulate crypto, mega-IPOs, and corporate governance. www.levernews.com/sec-quorum-r...

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Trump SEC Quorum Rule Lets One Commissioner Act Alone

A quiet rule change could signal “the end of independent financial regulators” just as the SEC prepares to deregulate crypto, mega-IPOs, and corporate governance.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026

I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Saraidh @saraidh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It was a pretty sunset over the Mississippi tonight.

Rowers in the Mississippi river gorgeous, the trees are just starting to turn and the water is still enough that you can see the ripples

Same river gorge, looking at a city in the distance.

Same view with pink clouds as the sun sets.

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Saraidh @saraidh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I remember quite a while ago somebody observing that Silicon Valley tech was really good at solving rich 20-something white guy problems and didn't show a lot of interest in much of substance. Still seems true and likely related.

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Saraidh @saraidh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Amazon continues to come up with new reasons for me to continue to boycott them.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Saraidh @saraidh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We had a minor family scandal when somebody discovered via genetic testing that one branch we thought was 100% Norwegian included a surprise Finnish grandfather.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 29/09/2026

Her son carefully lifted his ochre-stained hand from the cave wall and studied the outline. "That's me. My hand." He looked at the other hands. "Do you know all?" "Some are older than me." "That old?" "Hush you," she laughed. "We don't make these to be seen tomorrow, but because today, we live."

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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Indivisible Twin Cities @indivistwincities.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This November, your ballot will ask if Minnesota should modernize the State Constitution to get more funding to public schools – at zero cost to taxpayers. Vote YES. (Not voting is a "NO" vote, so do NOT skip this question!!!) Find out how much your district will receive here: voteyesmnstudents.org

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Vote Yes: Boost Funding for Minnesota Public Schools

Vote Yes for a constitutional amendment to boost Minnesota public school funding without raising taxes, benefiting every student statewide.

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Saraidh @saraidh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A while ago, getting new tires somehow led to something in my car being set to ding every time I went over 55 mph. Turns out you dip just under 55 a lot in even light traffic. I should rewatch that movie with that in mind...

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not enough is said about how Trump views United States dollars as HIS own money

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