iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by kristine gift

Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

182114982743

Reposted by kristine gift

Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 01/03/2026

Gen Z complaining to Millennials about America starting an immoral, manufactured war in the Middle East while the country teeters on the edge of an economic meltdown because of overheated financial engineering

James Franco / Ballad of Buster Scruggs "First time?" meme

111007185

Reposted by kristine gift

Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 31/01/2026

Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30. 📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad

4633011103

Reposted by kristine gift

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know. This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.

498257487245

Reposted by kristine gift

John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

DreamHaven Books owner Greg Ketter emerging from a cloud of tear gas that ICE agents fired into the streets of Minneapolis.

319159385161

Reposted by kristine gift

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

If you want proof that Trump is going to try to rig the elections, here it is: In a letter to Gov. Tim Walz Saturday, Bondi claimed that Walz could “restore the rule of law” by complying with a list of demands, including giving the Department of Justice (DOJ) the state’s voter registration records.

democracydocket.com

AG Bondi demands access to Minnesota voter rolls after fatal Border Patrol shooting

Her demand came as Minneapolis was reeling from a second fatal shooting by a federal agent this month.

52784604159

Reposted by kristine gift

Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.

It is the misfortune of Minnesota’s ICE contingent to have invaded the state with the second-highest levels of social trust, trailing only Utah. Many activist networks were formed in 2020; we are seeing, Petrus says, Minnesotans call upon the “muscle memory” of the George Floyd protests. In mid-January, a neighborhood organization for a part of town called Whittier put out a call for a meeting to organize a “Neighborhood ICE response”; more than 800 people showed up at the local elementary school and formed a tidy line extending well beyond the door. (“Why a line?” I ask someone later. “Because we are in Minnesota,” he says.) In the cafeteria, in their big coats, adults struggled to get their legs through benches attached to long lunch tables. Because there were too many Minnesotans to fit in a single room, officials and parents and teachers went room to room giving the same speeches about how to help neighbors in hiding. They then gridded out the rooms, dividing the neighborhood into smaller subdivisions. Close neighbors met one another (“Oh, you live on the other side of the museum”) and formed hyperlocal Signal groups. At the first sighting of an agent, someone could ping the group and draw them outside. Their favored tactic was noise. They would make it impossible for ICE to conduct raids in secret.

5659111769

Reposted by kristine gift

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come

584130402242

Reposted by kristine gift

Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

ICE detained a 5-year-old child in Minnesota to use as “bait.” An innocent child. America, let this sink in. This is what the government is doing right in front of our eyes.

MPR News: ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as ‘bait’

Liam Conejo Ramos, a student at Valley View Elementary, whom school officials and a lawyer for the Ramos family say was detained with his parent by federal agents on Tuesday.

47487204

Reposted by kristine gift

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

This judge should haul Bovino in every time one of his goons violates the order.

Judge rules federal agents can't arrest or use pepper spray on peaceful protesters in Minneapolis

13942331190

Reposted by kristine gift

Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

So the House is going to vote TOMORROW on the DHS funding bill that includes funding for ICE. There's a real chance we can get Dems to vote NO on any bill with ICE funding to sink it. Once it goes to the Senate we likely lose this chance. 24 hours. Go. www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-f...

fightforthefuture.org

No Funding for ICE Surveillance Tech!

9230381752

Reposted by kristine gift

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/01/2026

Any Democratic votes to fund DHS later this month as Minneapolis is being terrorized by DHS is going to be a major slap in the face to Americans living here. Demand major reforms or shut the government down.

583231236730

Reposted by kristine gift

Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Tim Walz: “We've been warning for weeks that the Trump administration's dangerous, sensationalized operations are a threat to our public safety, that someone was going to get hurt — and today that recklessness cost someone their life”

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks during a press conference at the state Capitol in St. Paul

512304554

Reposted by kristine gift

Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/01/2026

NEW: MAYOR FREY: “They are already trying to spin this as an act of self defense. I’ve seen the video myself and I want to tell everybody directly; that is bullshit.”

403139924476

Reposted by kristine gift

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2026

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

12293830811457

Reposted by kristine gift

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Twitter is owned by a fascist, Facebook and the Washington Post have gone MAGA, and now CBS News is about to be turned into far-right state TV. Here’s why America has a liberal media bias problem.

191998388

Reposted by kristine gift

Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

Table showing the five richest men in the U.S from Bloombergs billionaire list
., all in technology. Elon Musk tops the list with a net worth of $461B and a year-to-date gain of $28.2B. Larry Ellison is second at $300B with a $107B YTD gain. Jeff Bezos has $268B (+$29.5B YTD), Larry Page $250B (+$81.9B YTD), and Sergey Brin $234B (+$75.5B YTD). Each row also lists last-day change, country (all United States), and industry (all Technology).

13144212133

Reposted by kristine gift

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”

11183672290

Reposted by kristine gift

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Jeffrey Epstein in leaked emails: “that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.” “[Trump] spent hours at my house.” “of course he knew about the girls.” "i know how dirty donald is."

1293330997

Reposted by kristine gift

whet moser @whetmoser.com · 24/10/2025

this is the website for elder millenials with humanities degrees. everyone has done the reading on why people invest meaning in public buildings. you can’t fool me

371696197

Reposted by kristine gift

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 23/10/2025

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

334205356230

Reposted by kristine gift

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2025

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

9923573012721

Reposted by kristine gift

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

521188616832

Reposted by kristine gift

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

18005697219249

Reposted by kristine gift

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2025

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

22478333120820

Reposted by kristine gift

Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The Senators that voted 'yes' on this disastrous bill represent more than 30 million FEWER Americans than the Senators that voted 'no.'

5333631212

Reposted by kristine gift

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

In 80 seconds, AOC has completely dismantled the #BigUglyBill. Dems should turn this into a prime time campaign ad NOW. “This Bill is a deal with the devil”💥 @aoc.bsky.social

25191213149

Reposted by kristine gift

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie. One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears. They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.

25803454710836

Reposted by kristine gift

Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 01/07/2025

Senate Republicans just voted to kick 20 million Americans off their health care. JD Vance thinks that is "minutiae." Ernst doesn't care because "we're all gonna die." McConnell says people will "get over it." Don't EVER let Republicans live this down.

782608933

Reposted by kristine gift

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 30/06/2025

It takes a serious level of cruelty to not only kick millions off their health insurance, but simultaneously tell you where you can and can’t go to get a Pap smear or breast cancer screening — if you’re deemed worthy enough to keep your health insurance in the first place.

13619187

Reposted by kristine gift

5 Calls @5calls.org · 28/06/2025

Let's be clear. Any YES vote on HR 1 right now is an uninformed partisan vote on a bill *no one* actually likes, with unknown terms and effects, for the simple purpose of giving an authoritarian leader a symbolic bill signing on July 4th.

13323126

Reposted by kristine gift

John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I miss having a human president.

846290675791

Reposted by kristine gift

Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

probably a good time to bring this back

meme format where a man from an anime is looking at a butterfly and asks if it's a pigeon, but instead the man is Americans, the butterfly is labeled "basic human rights” and the quote is "is this communism?"

16204285037

Reposted by kristine gift

Indivisible Twin Cities @indivistwincities.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible

299219015274

Reposted by kristine gift

Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

8795587816977

Reposted by kristine gift

Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

367278125826

Reposted by kristine gift

Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the false narrative that we should be more concerned about a poor person misusing the welfare system or an immigrant being here illegally than we are about the ultra wealthy abusing the system and cruel people having unchecked power over all of us.

16971502532

Reposted by kristine gift

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/06/2025

DeLauro uses her opening statement to tear Russ Vought a new one

537154334338

Reposted by kristine gift

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

it’s pretty remarkable how the Democratic Party is self-flagellating more in 2025 after swapping out their candidate and losing the popular vote by 1.5% than republicans did in 2021 after losing the popular vote by 4.5% and inciting an insurrection

832265422

Reposted by kristine gift

Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I’ll never get over how, in an era when women’s rights and status are being attacked and eroded in law and culture alike, we were incessantly told that it was boys and men whose suffering we needed to attend to.

7650481025

Reposted by kristine gift

Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

This is insane and everyone involved needs to be sued into oblivion and then go directly to jail

“[DOGE staffers] went into the system and they killed off people,” Glasgow told The Daily Beast. “About 4 million people, they marked them as dead. But they’re not sure if those people were supposed to be marked as dead, so they’re sending us an email saying, ‘If these people come into the office with their identification, you can reinstate them.’”

18388343025

Reposted by kristine gift

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The only appropriate response to this is impeachment and removal from office. Every moment the political press spends spinning out theories about 2026 and immigration polling is a minute they are not spending asking Republicans in Congress about their plans to enforce the rule of law

A screenshot of a tweet by the official White House account.

Text: “Fixed it for you, @NYTimes.
Oh, and by the way, @ChrisVanHollen - he's NOT coming back.”

There is also a screenshot of the front page of the NyT with a large headline and photo about Van Hollen meeting with Abrego Garcia. They have edited the headline with red ink handwriting to say “ Senator meets with deported ms-13 illegal alien in El Salvador who’s never coming back.”

250106383345

Reposted by kristine gift

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

npr.org

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data

A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

356111825392

Reposted by kristine gift

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

12585407713731

Reposted by kristine gift

ACLU @aclu.org · 10/04/2025

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed the SAVE Act, a bill that would make it much harder for millions of people to register to vote. We're calling on the Senate to reject this legislation.

394127864652

Reposted by kristine gift

Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/04/2025

A play in two acts.

42398253726