AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸
@annefrommtka.bsky.social
From Twitter, same handle. Historian. Photo archivist. BA. MS. JD. Loves DC history, architecture. Pets ❤️🐾 🌈 Minnesota, USA #MN03 🇺🇸 politics 🐈 occasional cat photos 📚 📝 vintage ephemera
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AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸
@annefrommtka.bsky.social
· Nov 15
…so I’m migrating from Twitter b/c…
I still enjoy so many people. But there’s been a very dark turn. Started of course w/Musk buying it & immed torching it. But this election was…bad ⬛️ Fueled by revenge. Now he’s a mbr of govt. I blv Xitter will become a tool of the far right. Am making a getaway.
I still enjoy so many people. But there’s been a very dark turn. Started of course w/Musk buying it & immed torching it. But this election was…bad ⬛️ Fueled by revenge. Now he’s a mbr of govt. I blv Xitter will become a tool of the far right. Am making a getaway.
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If you’re reading this and thinking about how much you miss having a cat, or if you know someone who’s looking for a pair of Very Good Cats, or are simply in need of ideal #Caturday subjects whose antics you can share with us on BlueSky, please send me a DM and I’ll connect you with my friend! /end
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
If you’re reading this and thinking about how much you miss having a cat, or if you know someone who’s looking for a pair of Very Good Cats, or are simply in need of ideal #Caturday subjects whose antics you can share with us on BlueSky, please send me a DM and I’ll connect you with my friend! /end
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Next, Basil’s buddy Bones, a gorgeous 4 yo tuxedo: “Bones is a tough guy who lets his soft side show with the humans he bonds with. Once he bonds with someone, he’ll approach you and let you know when he wants love, often by meowing at your feet and jumping up into your arms to be held!” 3/
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Next, Basil’s buddy Bones, a gorgeous 4 yo tuxedo: “Bones is a tough guy who lets his soft side show with the humans he bonds with. Once he bonds with someone, he’ll approach you and let you know when he wants love, often by meowing at your feet and jumping up into your arms to be held!” 3/
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First, Basil, who is 3 years old.
“Basil is a sweet cuddle bug who loves lots of attention and being vocal! He is extremely affectionate and needs plenty of love and lap time. He loves to meow and chat, so he is best for a home that will love his expressiveness!” 2/
“Basil is a sweet cuddle bug who loves lots of attention and being vocal! He is extremely affectionate and needs plenty of love and lap time. He loves to meow and chat, so he is best for a home that will love his expressiveness!” 2/
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
First, Basil, who is 3 years old.
“Basil is a sweet cuddle bug who loves lots of attention and being vocal! He is extremely affectionate and needs plenty of love and lap time. He loves to meow and chat, so he is best for a home that will love his expressiveness!” 2/
“Basil is a sweet cuddle bug who loves lots of attention and being vocal! He is extremely affectionate and needs plenty of love and lap time. He loves to meow and chat, so he is best for a home that will love his expressiveness!” 2/
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Urgent MSP #Caturday 🧵: these two handsome boys need a loving home as circumstances sadly force their person to part with them.
Bones & Basil are a bonded pair and need to stay together. Both are vaxxed, neutered, and very sociable. 1/
Bones & Basil are a bonded pair and need to stay together. Both are vaxxed, neutered, and very sociable. 1/
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Urgent MSP #Caturday 🧵: these two handsome boys need a loving home as circumstances sadly force their person to part with them.
Bones & Basil are a bonded pair and need to stay together. Both are vaxxed, neutered, and very sociable. 1/
Bones & Basil are a bonded pair and need to stay together. Both are vaxxed, neutered, and very sociable. 1/
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We are seeing this admin over and over again decide to target people who have become technically deportable through no fault of their own other than government delay.
Why? One reason is because they’re the compliant ones who are easy targets for an admin who wants quick boosts in arrest numbers.
Why? One reason is because they’re the compliant ones who are easy targets for an admin who wants quick boosts in arrest numbers.
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
We are seeing this admin over and over again decide to target people who have become technically deportable through no fault of their own other than government delay.
Why? One reason is because they’re the compliant ones who are easy targets for an admin who wants quick boosts in arrest numbers.
Why? One reason is because they’re the compliant ones who are easy targets for an admin who wants quick boosts in arrest numbers.
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These are people who entered legally and applied for asylum after entry while still in status. But the process is so backlogged that their visa inevitably expired while going through it. In every previously admin, so long as they didn’t commit a crime, they wouldn’t be detained. No longer.
November 23, 2025 at 4:21 AM
These are people who entered legally and applied for asylum after entry while still in status. But the process is so backlogged that their visa inevitably expired while going through it. In every previously admin, so long as they didn’t commit a crime, they wouldn’t be detained. No longer.
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Congress wrote into the law that someone who overstays a visa while applying for asylum is not considered to be accruing “unlawful presence,” but it didn’t explicitly say those people couldn’t be arrested and detained — because it was presumed that they wouldn’t be. Well, Trump is doing it.
We came to LA as refugees from the USSR in 1991. Life wasn’t easy, but we persevered and, I dare say, came to contribute something of worth to this nation.
Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Congress wrote into the law that someone who overstays a visa while applying for asylum is not considered to be accruing “unlawful presence,” but it didn’t explicitly say those people couldn’t be arrested and detained — because it was presumed that they wouldn’t be. Well, Trump is doing it.
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Despite knowing Clint Massie was abusing girls for years, church leaders never reported him to police.
It felt like “a group of people who are not just trying to protect someone — but something,” the DA said. “They have enabled something awful here.”
With @startribune.com
It felt like “a group of people who are not just trying to protect someone — but something,” the DA said. “They have enabled something awful here.”
With @startribune.com
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
www.propublica.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Despite knowing Clint Massie was abusing girls for years, church leaders never reported him to police.
It felt like “a group of people who are not just trying to protect someone — but something,” the DA said. “They have enabled something awful here.”
With @startribune.com
It felt like “a group of people who are not just trying to protect someone — but something,” the DA said. “They have enabled something awful here.”
With @startribune.com
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Well the filing date for running for Congress is in early December in TX. Unless SCOTUS rules before that date - which Alito will likely block - the stay will de facto bless the new map for 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Well the filing date for running for Congress is in early December in TX. Unless SCOTUS rules before that date - which Alito will likely block - the stay will de facto bless the new map for 2026.
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Marjorie sail-on-outa-here Greene
Sorry
Sorry
November 22, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Marjorie sail-on-outa-here Greene
Sorry
Sorry
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Marjorie Pack-My-Trailer Greene
November 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Marjorie Pack-My-Trailer Greene
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MARJORIE HIGHTAILER GREENE
Marjorie Taylor Greene RESIGNS from Congress effective January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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More like Marjorie Bailer Greene!
More like Marjorie Taylor Greener Pastures!
More like Marjorie Taylor Greener Pastures!
November 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
More like Marjorie Bailer Greene!
More like Marjorie Taylor Greener Pastures!
More like Marjorie Taylor Greener Pastures!
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ICYMI for the weekend:
I wrote about the intersection of purity culture and rape culture and how we impose male sexual deviance on young girls while still infantilizing them as helpless babes.
I wrote about the intersection of purity culture and rape culture and how we impose male sexual deviance on young girls while still infantilizing them as helpless babes.
Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds.
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
The Barely Legal Type: Purity Culture, Rape Culture, and America’s Lose-Lose Proposition for Girls
The very parts of American culture that claim to promote teen abstinence and sexual purity operate on a parallel logic to the rape culture that enables the darkest misogynistic violence against women.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
ICYMI for the weekend:
I wrote about the intersection of purity culture and rape culture and how we impose male sexual deviance on young girls while still infantilizing them as helpless babes.
I wrote about the intersection of purity culture and rape culture and how we impose male sexual deviance on young girls while still infantilizing them as helpless babes.
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It's so important we realize how much religion is part of this entire clusterfuck! I'm not only speaking of the epidemic of men raping children. The powertrip that is the actual motive behind rape is the same as that of the uber-rich (mostly) white men who are burning this planet to the ground.
Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds.
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
The Barely Legal Type: Purity Culture, Rape Culture, and America’s Lose-Lose Proposition for Girls
The very parts of American culture that claim to promote teen abstinence and sexual purity operate on a parallel logic to the rape culture that enables the darkest misogynistic violence against women.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
It's so important we realize how much religion is part of this entire clusterfuck! I'm not only speaking of the epidemic of men raping children. The powertrip that is the actual motive behind rape is the same as that of the uber-rich (mostly) white men who are burning this planet to the ground.
🚨 This article is excellent - and shocking - in its clarity describing the convergence of purity and lust in the male gaze of teenage girls, with the burden of controlling/hiding/navigating these standards falling on girls _only_ to try to accommodate what the male expects 😡
Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds.
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
The Barely Legal Type: Purity Culture, Rape Culture, and America’s Lose-Lose Proposition for Girls
The very parts of American culture that claim to promote teen abstinence and sexual purity operate on a parallel logic to the rape culture that enables the darkest misogynistic violence against women.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
🚨 This article is excellent - and shocking - in its clarity describing the convergence of purity and lust in the male gaze of teenage girls, with the burden of controlling/hiding/navigating these standards falling on girls _only_ to try to accommodate what the male expects 😡
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In this piece, @aselrod.bsky.social reminds us that Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson are trafficking in the vilest forms of male supremacy and are flourishing as huge stars on the right, so there's clearly a huge following for that sort of depravity:
Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds.
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
The Barely Legal Type: Purity Culture, Rape Culture, and America’s Lose-Lose Proposition for Girls
The very parts of American culture that claim to promote teen abstinence and sexual purity operate on a parallel logic to the rape culture that enables the darkest misogynistic violence against women.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
In this piece, @aselrod.bsky.social reminds us that Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson are trafficking in the vilest forms of male supremacy and are flourishing as huge stars on the right, so there's clearly a huge following for that sort of depravity:
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#OnThisDay Nov 22, 1938: Christmas decorations go up along Nicollet Avenue in downtown Minneapolis. At the time it was the busiest shopping street between Chicago and LA. The Great Northern Railway station can be seen in the far distance.
November 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
#OnThisDay Nov 22, 1938: Christmas decorations go up along Nicollet Avenue in downtown Minneapolis. At the time it was the busiest shopping street between Chicago and LA. The Great Northern Railway station can be seen in the far distance.
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🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert
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This kid is brilliant. Voice of a generation.
November 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This kid is brilliant. Voice of a generation.
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The right doesn't distinguish US-born people of Somali American heritage, naturalized US citizens, Somali nationals with refugee status, this small TPS contingent, Somali Americans of other citizenship (Kenya, for example) ... they're imagining deporting them all. How muscular Trump looks to them!
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The right doesn't distinguish US-born people of Somali American heritage, naturalized US citizens, Somali nationals with refugee status, this small TPS contingent, Somali Americans of other citizenship (Kenya, for example) ... they're imagining deporting them all. How muscular Trump looks to them!
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For a state-specific estimate, the Star Tribune cites a 2023 figure from the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota of 430. Whether 430 or 705, (1) to the extent actually affected, human rights are for individual humans, each of whom matters, (2) this has right wingers salivating all out of proportion.
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
For a state-specific estimate, the Star Tribune cites a 2023 figure from the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota of 430. Whether 430 or 705, (1) to the extent actually affected, human rights are for individual humans, each of whom matters, (2) this has right wingers salivating all out of proportion.
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Trump has no more power to cut off Somali TPS (whether in one state or nationwide) before its March 17, 2026, expiration date than he has to spell our governor's name correctly. But we should also understand that only 705 Somalis are approved for TPS nationwide, presumably fewer in Minnesota.
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Trump has no more power to cut off Somali TPS (whether in one state or nationwide) before its March 17, 2026, expiration date than he has to spell our governor's name correctly. But we should also understand that only 705 Somalis are approved for TPS nationwide, presumably fewer in Minnesota.
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It’s that time of year again. I’ll have a handful of slots open for needle felt creatures. Most people give them as gifts or hang them on tree. Message me if you are interested.
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
It’s that time of year again. I’ll have a handful of slots open for needle felt creatures. Most people give them as gifts or hang them on tree. Message me if you are interested.
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!