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Wren Hanks

@wrenhanks.bsky.social
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Poet (Lily-livered, 2021), editor (smoke and mold journal), and elasmobranch enthusiast. All views my own.

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The chant in my neighborhood is “Happy Pride, Knicks in five,” which is very good
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Great OpEd by the legendary @deepseadawn.bsky.social! I've explored the ocean's deepest part. Trump wants to destroy it. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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I've explored the ocean's deepest part. Trump wants to destroy it. | Opinion
I've been to the Mariana Trench. The choice is clear: Protect one of earth's last frontiers or destroy it before we even understand what we're losing.
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
"tapering plans" for HRT is a death sentence if you've had gender-affirming surgeries, like I have with my orchi, because your body will just wither away and die without hormones. Unspeakable evil. Demonic shit. You don't hate these motherfuckers enough.
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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Alysa Liu, daughter of a Chinese refugee and pro-democracy activist, brings glory to the USA. 🇺🇸 🥇
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🍁 Left of Woke Warrior @wokenojokewarrior.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Remember how the moral panic started by saying it was about protecting kids? Sport, bathrooms, military, passports, drivers licences, ADULT care - as they keep making clear, it wasn't about protection BUT eradication. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #AntiTransPoliciesAndExecutiveOrdersAreFuckingFascist
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Today I'm remembering the courage of Jesse Jackson across his life, including the 1984 DNC when he called for the Party to support the inclusion of queer people in their coalition at a time both parties and the public were indifferent to our suffering and opposed to our equality.
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Revy but spoopy @catgirlfingies.quest · 12/02/2026
Hey everyone please donate to my friend 💙 She's trying to save up for bottom surgery. It would mean a LOT to me to be able to help her reach her goal. www.gofundme.com/f/raise-mone...
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im Brooklyn im an indie dev from Adelaide. i have found living with bottom… Brooklyn Russell needs your support for Raise money for Brooklyn's bottom surgery
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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I feel the whole war on plastic straws is very typical of how we as a society treat people with disabilities. Abled folks have lives filled with all sorts of plastic, but disabled people who only needed plastic straws were yelled at for years.
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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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Wren Hanks @wrenhanks.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
smoke and mold, the trans literary journal I edit for, is seeking a managing editor! smokeandmold.net/join-smoke-a...
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smoke and mold is looking to add to our team of volunteer readers and editors. Read on to see what opportunities are available to help shape the next 5 years of editorial operations before we go ex…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/02/2026
Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Neither the President nor Vice President of the United States can make a public appearance in front of a non-partisan crowd either in America or abroad without being booed.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
so much clothing is marketed as "conversation starters" but as an introvert, i want "conversation enders." no more talking. let me go home.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Normal people are out there doing extraordinary things. My mom's health aide emailed me: ICE took 2 of her neighbors; when she told them they weren't welcome, she was met w/a rifle. Now she's driving a neighbor to work hidden in the back of her car & escorting the neighbor's kids to the bus stop.
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WatchYourRepsTN&SC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
In Minneapolis, people are literally singing resistance before marching to the hotels where ICE agents are staying—inviting them to defect and join us in solidarity. It’s an action rooted in compassion, courage, and collective humanity. Transforming fear into shared power.
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Yuh-Line Niou @yuhline.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I am running for State Senate. Join me: forms.gle/Q151nPYHfiYg...
Yuh-Line Niou makes an announcement to run for state senate. The announcement reads:

We need bold, aggressive, truly progressive leadership right now. Leadership strong enough to fight Trump and Bring the Democratic Party back to what it’s supposed to be: standing with Immigrants, people of color, workers, and everyone getting crushed by this economy. 

Democrats can’t keep compromising in the face of government sponsored violence and creeping totalitarianism. Not anymore. This is our time to fight.
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Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Abandoning trans people isn't just immoral, it's also terrible strategy for the Democratic party.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
MAGA Adult Male assaults Texas High School students protesting ICE
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Incrementalists take it on the chin again. This is why they hate Mamdani. He's giving up the game that people in power HAVE POWER and don't solely exist to beg you for $5 every day. He's ruining the Democratic Party by showing voters that they have the power to do stuff instead of crouching in fear
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MN Mike @fiveman.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
10/10 ICE protest sign
Protest sign from MN that says, “DEARLY BELOVED.
WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY
TODISMANTLE THIS THING CALLED ICE.” with a picture of Prince in the left hand lower corner.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 01/02/2026
The federal career civil service workers are under tremendous pressure and wake up every day and work hard to help improve other people’s lives. They represent the best of America and we as country need to rebuild, empower, and elevate the federal career civil service workforce. I believe we will.
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Sarah Lawrence kids are talking to Ezra Klein the right way.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one. It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.
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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 28/01/2026
I've said this before and I'll probably have to say it again: NONE OF THIS IS A DISTRACTION DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF THE FASCIST GOVERNMENT WANT TO DO DIFFERENT EVIL THINGS, BUT THEY REALLY DO WANT TO DO ALL OF THEM
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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Oh my. I’ve found my people.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
If Stephen Miller is still in the White House, that means the white nationalist gameplan is still all systems GO. What we're witnessing is just window dressing and distractions. Tom Homan is just as bad as Bovino, but less openly Nazi. Keep your eyes wide open.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 27/01/2026
Long way to go yet but I think it's worth pointing out that the entire rightwing media ecosystem went all in on the idea that Americans, or at least enough of us, would accept the idea that the government should be able to murder people in the street and they failed utterly
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026
Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
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Json Momoa @jotatx.eurosky.social · 25/01/2026
Bolsonaro supporters protesting and demanding that he is set free got hit by a lightning bolt, 3 persons are in hospital now.
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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.
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Heated Rivalry News @hrnews.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdami advises New Yorkers to stay home and read ‘Heated Rivalry’ during the winter storm via hearts530
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la flaneuse 😷 @laflaneuse.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
As we grieve for Alex Pretti and Renee Good in MN, please do not forget Victor Manuel Diaz, who died in ICE custody after being taken from here. And all others who have died in their custody.
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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
"I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined."
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The nurses are pissed
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Let us not forget, it was the same administration that reduced us to wearing trash bags as protective gear while we watched the hospital go up in flames around us during the pandemic that just murdered one of our own on the streets in broad daylight. As a nurse & as a person, I will never forgive. I will never forget. I will never back down. This was never about border control.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 25/01/2026
“I live on a rural island in Alaska, reachable only by plane or boat. In our little town, 50 to 100 people stand outside each week at our town's roundabout to protest and hold vigil and stand in solidarity with you. We hold signs supporting Minnesota and demanding ICE Out.” Rachel, Alaska
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Today’s shooting in Minnesota where federal agents killed a civilian shocks our conscience, as has ICE’s conduct for months. We need an independent investigation free of federal interference. I’m standing with Minneapolis.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21/01/2026
Every time a Democrat says they understand why parents are concerned about pronouns or trans girls playing sports or whatever the fuck, they are campaigning for the party that will deliver on the affirmed “good“ that is transphobia
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
No one safe from #ICE This is a nightmare! What needs to happen at this point to end this⁉️
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Stand With Minnesota: Resource Hub
Causes to Donate to in Minnesota to Help Our Communities Defend Themselves from ICE This list is now available/shareable at standwithminnesota.org *Note: I am from Minnesota, and these come from peo...
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C.M. Lewis 🦬⚔️ @thehousered.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
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Antonia Marrero @antoniamarrero.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Our very own @mayor.nyc.gov is championing tenant power. After meeting @jabaribrisport.bsky.social last night at the HOPE Town Hall Meeting, my confidence in the good faith of certain electeds is soaring. youtu.be/fKNjwrRrwI0?...
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BREAKING: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Makes Announcement About Lawsuit Against Real Estate Company
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Wren Hanks @wrenhanks.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I will NEVER vote for this transphobic asshole.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”
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It is horrific to see radical agitators bring children to their violent riots.
PLEASE STOP ENDANGERING YOUR CHILDREN.
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Two children, including a 6-month-old, were hospitalized last night after federal agents deployed tear gas during Wednesday night's protests, according to the Minneapolis Office of Community Safety....
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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
specific applications of milk include but are not limited to - queer/trans naming - muscle milk/training scenes - the online bull semen market - kink possibilities of same - lactation - binders - maurice sendak - white supremacy - the history of dairies, in relation to the above - manure - hugs
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