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calamity jim
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fan of writers, medium-sized dogs, small children, bread, islands, stars, popcorn, candy corn, and sleep.

hitchhiked over here from balloon juice.

not a fan of willful ignorance, malice, or black licorice.
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This has over 3 millions views across social media.

Watch and see why 💙
thedangerousones.com The Dangerous Ones @thedangerousones.com · 1d
Donald Trump can keep Michelle’s name out of his filthy, pedo mouth.
February 8, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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happywarriorbee.bsky.social
On top of all the awfulness, it’s costing us a fortune
February 8, 2026 at 4:31 AM
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gxldsociety.bsky.social
They hid him from textbooks. I’m putting Jan Matzeliger back in story.

They stole his shoe-lasting machine and built industry without his name.

ERASED isn’t a book—it’s a weapon.
Read it before they rewrite him. Share it before they erase him.

Get your copy: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
February 7, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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seachanger.bsky.social
message from MN
From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here. From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here.
February 7, 2026 at 6:19 AM
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davidakaye.bsky.social
in case you’d like an example of the extensive reporting of this basic fact of trump/miller crimes
The Cruel Conditions of ICE’s Mojave Desert Detention Center
How immigration authorities have weaponized medical neglect to encourage self-deportations.
www.newyorker.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:25 AM
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northjules.bsky.social
The U.S. ranks 40th in healthcare—dead last on this list—yet Congress keeps shoveling billions into ICE. We fund raids, cages, and weapons while people die waiting for care. This isn’t incompetence. It’s priorities. And they’re lethal. #FundHealthcareOverICE
February 3, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
NBC is editing out JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. CBS and ABC paid millions in bogus settlements to fund Trump. CNN made Scott Jennings a rightwing star. The Washington Post just laid off 300 journalists.

Support independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
February 7, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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lalahaenzy.com
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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saablofton2025.bsky.social
www.amazon.com/Breaking-Eve...
February 7, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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philmandelbaum.bsky.social
Substack is making money from newsletters promoting “virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism”

One, NatSocToday has 2,800 subscribers, charges $80, and describes Hitler as “one of the greatest men of all time”.

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
Pictured is a blurred, pixelated image featuring a man with an open mouth, overlaid with a "Subscribe" prompt. Headline discusses Substack profiting from Nazi newsletters, suggesting controversy and concern.
February 7, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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sioflynn.bsky.social
One man tracking people being deported & deportation flights at the Minneapolis airport.
One person creating a record for future inquiries & potential prosecutions.

Trevor Paglen's deep surveillance documentation now being done by everyday people.

www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n...
Minneapolis now has daily deportation flights. One man has been documenting them
A professional airplane enthusiast has been tracking the federally chartered deportation flights out of the Minneapolis airport as DHS sends immigration detainees to other states and, eventually, othe...
www.npr.org
February 7, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
It doesn’t get any more disgusting than this.
February 7, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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neimanmarxist.bsky.social
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
February 6, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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phillipusa.bsky.social
How low we have sunk.
February 7, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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nateduty.bsky.social
February 7, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.
February 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
The "young intern" at the White House who has been retweeting juvenile, racist, and otherwise embarrassing material from Donald Trump's account for at least 11 years was born on June 14, 1946 at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, New York, NY. He sometimes goes by the name John Barron.
February 7, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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tomlevenson.bsky.social
And here it is.

Money's part of it to be sure...

But there's more to anti-vaxxing than mere lucre.
February 7, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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jewishdems.bsky.social
This is the ad that Fox News does NOT want you to see.

Fox News rejected our newest ad, which demonstrates that Trump has “gone too far” with ICE.

But we will not remain silent in the face of these attacks.

Share our ad and follow @usjewishdems.bsky.social to join us in the fight.
February 6, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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samyoungman.bsky.social
This Ossoff speech is holy fire
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h
SEN. OSSOFF: “.. why are roving gangs of masked men — who look like they couldn’t pass the Army physical exam — dressed up like pretend Delta Force operators, on our streets, demanding papers, dragging people from their cars, and shooting people to death?”

@acyn.bsky.social
February 7, 2026 at 7:40 PM
calamityjim.bsky.social
if there is another new virus during the next few years, we are just in a world of hurt.

this is Soviet-style bullshit, in which the authorities refuse to live in a factual world and the public suffers.

unbelievable.
suzette.bsky.social suzette sommer @suzette.bsky.social · 21h
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
amptsuper.bsky.social AMPTsuper @amptsuper.bsky.social · 21h
"The White House has also launched a revisionist history account of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and has replaced the government's coronavirus resource sites with a page titled "Lab Leak: The True Origins of Covid-19."

www.npr.org/2026/02/07/n... Stephen Fowler and Shannon Bond
February 7, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
In which Jeffrey Epstein, who laundered money for the Russians, explains how Donald Trump was doing exactly the same thing, and how this accounts for most of his wealth.
February 7, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
😕
February 7, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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nateduty.bsky.social
1. A federal court ordered the release of ALL the files WITHOUT redactions except to protect the victims.

2. The Trump DOJ redacted the files, protected the men, and exposed the Epstein survivor victims, including nude pictures and names and addresses OF THE GIRLS.

www.youtube.com/shorts/XlQnb...
'We did not redact any images of men,' Deputy Attorney General Blanche on new Epstein files release
YouTube video by The National Desk
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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wedeserveit.bsky.social
February 7, 2026 at 6:08 PM