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@wineandviolins.bsky.social
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I cook, sew, paint, knit, play violin, and drink wine. I like to give home made gifts (raspberry vodka is a popular one) but not to people who voted for trump.

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Richard, Toad the Just, Earl of Sausagetoad 🇬🇧 🇺🇸🌊 @richardlordtoad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They all knew, but sucked-up anyway...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wait, a man who drove his wife to suicide by proving how popular he is with the ladies stole money from black kids for their health to fund an entourage to prove how important he is? It's *almost* as if RFK, Jr. is a truly horrible, insecure person!
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 25/09/2026
IN MINNESOTA.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.
 ALTMAN: "WE SEE A FUTURE WHERE INTELLIGENCE IS A UTILITY, LIKE ELECTRICITY OR WATER, AND PEOPLE BUY IT FROM US ON A METER.
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But Thou Mustelid @rewhan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
*rolls this article up like a newspaper to swat them on the nose* www.transvitae.com/what-rights-...
transvitae.com
What Rights Have Been Taken From Transgender People?
Learn how to answer “What rights have you lost?” with strength and clarity. A guide for trans people, allies, and those seeking the real truth.
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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Adding to Tom Steyer discourse
Tom Stever: "I'm totally in favor of trans athletes n high school. When you understand the vulnerabilitv. the stress. the danger of being a trans kid and you understand almost half of them try to commit suicide. Then you think we're gonna punish those kids, we're gonna cut them off from team sport. It's like. no we're not*
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سست BlU
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/05/2026
Zelensky issued an official presidential decree authorizing Russia to hold its Victory Day parade in Moscow tomorrow. He included the exact coordinates of Red Square. That's it. A+ trolling.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
RFK Jr. just said HHS is "cleaning up the risk pool" (i.e., people who are unhealthy) to bring down healthcare costs.
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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
A photo of Lauren Sanchez Bezos, wife of billionaire Jeff Bezos. She wears a black sweater. A conspicuously large diamond to by on her finger.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.
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go loud @stillicides.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
"post something random or you'll have an absolutely awful April"? no. you are safe now. Forever Immunity Dog has got you covered.
photo of fluffy white dog with pink blossoming trees behind them. text below reads: You have found Forever Immunity Dog. Immunity dog protects you from all cursed posts for the rest of your life. Do not comment, like, or share those cursed posts. You are safe now. Immunity dog protects you.
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the_dude @lebowski76.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Oh oh my
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Harlow’s Musings @harlowsmusings.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The Generals are gone. The AG is gone. We started a war. Gas is up. Healthcare is up. Prescriptions are up. The rich are richer. The poor are poorer. Protesters have been killed. Service members have been killed. The law is a suggestion. The constitution is a memory. We. Are. Not. Okay.
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Rise Up for Justice @riseupforjustice.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
4 at Deception Island, Antarctica  #NoKings was officially on all seven continents! www.facebook.com/groups/50501...
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wineandviolins @wineandviolins.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I'm about there.
Large crowd in front of the Minnesota state capital building with a small pink arrow pointing to a spot in the crowd.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
WOW! Breaking News>> State Department urging all Americans to “DEPART NOW DUE TO SERIOUS SAFETY RISKS” 15 countries!! Trump/Netanyahu war is expanding into WW III: Bahrain Egypt Iran Iraq Israel The West Bank and Gaza Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia Syria United Arab Emirates Yemen
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
bodied. ethered. sent to outer space.
@ilhanMN Ilhan Omar:
i hope you aren't drunk and took your staff's advice, rashida and i don't know this man and feel confident he didn't care about us. please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. i pray in (t)his moly month you find peace and respect for your self, 

Rep Omar is quote tweeting nancy mace, who posted a photo of ayatollah khamenei and 'my heart goes out to ilhan omar and rashida tlaib tonight. sending them thoughts and prayers'.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
American workers just took home their smallest share of the nation's wealth since 1947 — even as corporate profits soar. Why? This chart has the answer.
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LiberalBatch @liberallady.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
When spitting & kicking a tail light out gets you a Death Sentence handed down by the same people that Attacked our Capitol in WA.DC. They Murdered him Execution style, while he was on a knee. They Shot him TEN TIMES! TEN BULLETS IN HIS BODY FOR AIDING ANOTHER HUMAN BEING TERRORIZED BY J6 THUGS!
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wineandviolins @wineandviolins.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
It's hard to express the rage I feel at both the ones who voted for trump and those who chose to not vote in the last presidential election. 1/
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wineandviolins @wineandviolins.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
However bad you think it is in Minnesota, it's so much worse.
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
WATCH-- Tim Walz on his call with Trump officials: "Not once did they ever say Alex or Renee's name. Not once did they ask how the people of Minnesota were doing. So look, I know who I'm dealing with, and I know the reason that he was calling me was he needed something from us."
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kerryout.bsky.social @kerryout.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera. Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
Photo of a woman with her hands behind her back, staring down the camera with a determined look. A coward in an HSI jacket has his face turned away.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
$200,000 in merch sales at a memorial service, that’s got to be a record, most memorial services I’ve been to have like zero merch sales, congrats Erika.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
In Minneapolis/St. Paul, Whipple Federal is the epicenter of the Trump Regime’s immigration enforcement campaign. I had the chance to be a part of the protests there & to learn more about what is going on inside of Whipple and what Minnesotans are doing to fight back there. youtu.be/6vMGc8Lu35w?...
youtu.be
FED-UP Protesters CLAP BACK at Trump’s ICE MN INVASION
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 28/01/2026
I have been writing researching and writing about threats to Ilhan Omar for like 8 years and so I don't mean to go all Bluesky Discourse™ on a viral moment I just see in her my friends who I worry about and I'm still shaken. That was too close. My article (well my research) from 2019
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He easily found hundreds of death threats against Rep. Ilhan Omar. He wants Twitter to stop them.
Cybersecurity expert Chad Loder said he’s been frustrated by the platform’s seeming inability to crack down on accounts that espouse racist, homophobic and violent rhetoric.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Vinay Prasad openly campaigned for the people behind this and is part of this administration. youtu.be/PBr9hkIm0mg?...
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Juvenile Vinay Prasad openly campaigns for Trump/Kennedy
YouTube video by Jonathan Howard
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Protesters in Los Angeles projected an anti-ICE video onto the Twin Towers, an ICE-linked detention facility where the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department actively collaborates with ICE for deportation screenings.
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Ben Silverstein ❌👑 @bensilverstein.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I didn't say it. The Germans did.
Der Spiegel headline: Der ICE-Kommandant im Nazi-Look
Martialisch und effektheischend, so tritt ICE-Kommandant Gregory Bovino gern auf.
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wineandviolins @wineandviolins.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Fun fact, 🧊 agents aren't issued cold weather gear in Minnesota.
Weather app showing temperatures at -18°F with a wind chill factor of -37°F.
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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
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vivaviv.bsky.social @vivaviv.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
"The seven Democrats who sided with Republicans were Reps. Henry Cuellar (Texas), Jared Golden (Maine), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), Laura Gillen (N.Y.), Don Davis (N.C.), Tom Suozzi (N.Y.) and Vicente Gonzalez (Texas)." -The Hill
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/01/2026
Wow -- Fanone coughs "go fuck yourself" to Trey Nehls as Nehls blames Capitol Police leadership for January 6
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Trump, and his supporters and apologists, are shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture. Not enough bad things can happen to them.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.”  It sounds fierce.  It feels righteous.  But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless.

The Gestapo was a secret police force.  No warrants.  No courts.  No lawyers.  And no appeals.  People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything.  The knock on the door was the sentence.

ICE isn’t that.  Not even close.

ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials.  Its agents file reports.  They seek warrants.  They lose cases.  Judges stop them.  Lawyers challenge them.  Some detainees go home.  That’s not tyranny.  That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse.

You can hate immigration policy.  You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad.  You can work to have the law changed if you wish.  That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do.  

But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil.  You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor.  And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize.

In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight.  This one hasn't yet.  It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses.

That difference matters.

Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history.  We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with.

And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Outside agitator as in outside his house agitator.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
We must continue the work to abolish ICE. But right now, Congress can stop ICE’s violent reign of terror. Tell them to do it today: (202) 224-3121
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Trump thought he could intimidate Minnesotans and that we would react with riots. Instead, we showed up with compassion, resilience, and strength. We showed the country what real resistance looks like.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 16/01/2026
What we are seeing in Minnesota is what authoritarianism looks like in real time. Racism, dehumanization, and state-sanctioned violence are tearing at the foundation of this country.
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Clever Resistance @cleverresistance.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
This story is getting worse and worse. The ICE agents knew he was just trying to leave, and targeted a car full of children anyway.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 15/01/2026
Watch my address on the ongoing federal presence in Minnesota: youtu.be/fGTsYXBWQgU
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Governor Walz Addresses Ongoing Federal Presence in Minnesota
YouTube video by Office of the Governor of Minnesota
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
BREAKING: TIM WALZ: "If you see these ICE agents in your neighborhood, take out that phone and hit record." "Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans, not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution."
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
"Clean air" This would be grotesque at any time, but especially on the day when the EPA issued new pollution rules that put corporate profit ahead of human lives
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