chbarts
@chbarts.bsky.social
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This is one of my favorites. I have sung the second part on this--I'd love to sing the first part one day.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSXq...
This is one of my favorites. I have sung the second part on this--I'd love to sing the first part one day.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSXq...
Nymphes des bois / Requiem a 5
YouTube video by Cut Circle - Topic
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January 19, 2026 at 4:20 AM
@runeberg.bsky.social @beijingpalmer.bsky.social
This is one of my favorites. I have sung the second part on this--I'd love to sing the first part one day.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSXq...
This is one of my favorites. I have sung the second part on this--I'd love to sing the first part one day.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSXq...
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But what’s nuts is how far away from that dream they are pushing themselves
Weirdly-people who voted for them don’t like to be terrorized and invaded; no one does
I think they don’t get that real world connections are still a thing for people who don’t hang out alone in the basement all day
Weirdly-people who voted for them don’t like to be terrorized and invaded; no one does
I think they don’t get that real world connections are still a thing for people who don’t hang out alone in the basement all day
January 19, 2026 at 3:28 AM
But what’s nuts is how far away from that dream they are pushing themselves
Weirdly-people who voted for them don’t like to be terrorized and invaded; no one does
I think they don’t get that real world connections are still a thing for people who don’t hang out alone in the basement all day
Weirdly-people who voted for them don’t like to be terrorized and invaded; no one does
I think they don’t get that real world connections are still a thing for people who don’t hang out alone in the basement all day
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And yes, a lot of MAGAs (like Stephen Miller) genuinely and truly believe in the insane theory that all the protesters are paid by George Soros (or some other wealthy Jewish entity).
They are clinging to this insane, wildly bigoted theory in the face of a mountain of evidence to the contrary.
They are clinging to this insane, wildly bigoted theory in the face of a mountain of evidence to the contrary.
January 19, 2026 at 2:30 AM
And yes, a lot of MAGAs (like Stephen Miller) genuinely and truly believe in the insane theory that all the protesters are paid by George Soros (or some other wealthy Jewish entity).
They are clinging to this insane, wildly bigoted theory in the face of a mountain of evidence to the contrary.
They are clinging to this insane, wildly bigoted theory in the face of a mountain of evidence to the contrary.
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Yes, the MAGAs are targeting blue cities to create Viral Content that Shows Urban Democrats Are Actually Hypocrite Cowards who Are Just as Racist As They Are: it is making them very mad that their shit-ass theory keeps being proven wildly wrong.
This too is a very good thing.
This too is a very good thing.
January 19, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Yes, the MAGAs are targeting blue cities to create Viral Content that Shows Urban Democrats Are Actually Hypocrite Cowards who Are Just as Racist As They Are: it is making them very mad that their shit-ass theory keeps being proven wildly wrong.
This too is a very good thing.
This too is a very good thing.
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Yes, MAGAs have been picking blue cities to target because they BELIEVE us urban Democrats actually are mostly virtue-signaling hypocrites who are secretly as racist as they are, and they’ll thus only face a bit of easily-destroyed resistance from weird blue-haired kids - we keep proving them wrong.
January 19, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Yes, MAGAs have been picking blue cities to target because they BELIEVE us urban Democrats actually are mostly virtue-signaling hypocrites who are secretly as racist as they are, and they’ll thus only face a bit of easily-destroyed resistance from weird blue-haired kids - we keep proving them wrong.
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these idiots absolutely do assume there will be a small and easily manageable number of weird blue haired college kid queer POC and hippie activists who will go against them: they don’t really know what to do with huge numbers of enraged respectable “normal” looking white people fighting them
January 19, 2026 at 2:22 AM
these idiots absolutely do assume there will be a small and easily manageable number of weird blue haired college kid queer POC and hippie activists who will go against them: they don’t really know what to do with huge numbers of enraged respectable “normal” looking white people fighting them
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To those saying “nuh-uh, ICE picked Minneapolis because they WANTED the city to rise up as one against them” -
no, pretty sure they expected a scattering of blue-haired protesters they could easily crush for content + tacit support from other whites, not the organized total resistance they got.
no, pretty sure they expected a scattering of blue-haired protesters they could easily crush for content + tacit support from other whites, not the organized total resistance they got.
ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
January 19, 2026 at 2:20 AM
To those saying “nuh-uh, ICE picked Minneapolis because they WANTED the city to rise up as one against them” -
no, pretty sure they expected a scattering of blue-haired protesters they could easily crush for content + tacit support from other whites, not the organized total resistance they got.
no, pretty sure they expected a scattering of blue-haired protesters they could easily crush for content + tacit support from other whites, not the organized total resistance they got.
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"Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy." - Umberto Eco, "Ur-Fascism"
To those saying “nuh-uh, ICE picked Minneapolis because they WANTED the city to rise up as one against them” -
no, pretty sure they expected a scattering of blue-haired protesters they could easily crush for content + tacit support from other whites, not the organized total resistance they got.
no, pretty sure they expected a scattering of blue-haired protesters they could easily crush for content + tacit support from other whites, not the organized total resistance they got.
ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
January 19, 2026 at 3:03 AM
"Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy." - Umberto Eco, "Ur-Fascism"
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hi from Minneapolis. these folks are catastrophically overthinking it; the immediate need when agents hit a block is for people that speak *any* language to know it's not safe to go out. that need is far more pressing than whatever this infantilizing "actually it's racist to make noise" shit is.
January 18, 2026 at 1:05 PM
hi from Minneapolis. these folks are catastrophically overthinking it; the immediate need when agents hit a block is for people that speak *any* language to know it's not safe to go out. that need is far more pressing than whatever this infantilizing "actually it's racist to make noise" shit is.
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I wouldn't claim to be an expert on the subject in any capacity but I can't help but think that "local community-based deliberation is the only moral path" is a good way to get, y'know, lynch mobs.
January 19, 2026 at 12:53 AM
I wouldn't claim to be an expert on the subject in any capacity but I can't help but think that "local community-based deliberation is the only moral path" is a good way to get, y'know, lynch mobs.
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I'm losing my mind over how they insist that anybody who disagrees with them are just white people trying to center ourselves, because they can't even imagine any of us would be calling bullshit because we have friends and family we don't want disappeared. It's accidentally telling on themselves.
January 19, 2026 at 3:59 AM
I'm losing my mind over how they insist that anybody who disagrees with them are just white people trying to center ourselves, because they can't even imagine any of us would be calling bullshit because we have friends and family we don't want disappeared. It's accidentally telling on themselves.
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there is a distinct, and completely worthless, subculture of academic-inflected left-liberalism which holds that the best solution to things/the only moral solution is what “local communities”have deliberated on and decided to accept, and it’s indistinguishable from replacing your conscience w/a HOA
hi from Minneapolis. these folks are catastrophically overthinking it; the immediate need when agents hit a block is for people that speak *any* language to know it's not safe to go out. that need is far more pressing than whatever this infantilizing "actually it's racist to make noise" shit is.
January 19, 2026 at 12:47 AM
there is a distinct, and completely worthless, subculture of academic-inflected left-liberalism which holds that the best solution to things/the only moral solution is what “local communities”have deliberated on and decided to accept, and it’s indistinguishable from replacing your conscience w/a HOA
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*sigh* this is actually a really good fight to have
A metric shit ton of small business owners in SW Washington (myself included) have wasted precious time and bile figuring out if a scary letter is from a legit government agency or a weasel dick scammer with letterhead.
January 19, 2026 at 3:34 AM
*sigh* this is actually a really good fight to have
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A metric shit ton of small business owners in SW Washington (myself included) have wasted precious time and bile figuring out if a scary letter is from a legit government agency or a weasel dick scammer with letterhead.
January 16, 2026 at 6:50 PM
A metric shit ton of small business owners in SW Washington (myself included) have wasted precious time and bile figuring out if a scary letter is from a legit government agency or a weasel dick scammer with letterhead.
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also an aside, a partisan political attack on our democracy was never going to have a non-partisan legalist solution, its a fundamentally a political problem
the theory behind the "investigation" of donald trump was that an event which had never before happened and which the entire conservative legal movement existed to prevent (the prosecution of a republican president for a crime) would occur mechanically by operation of law, without biden's approval.
Yep. Showing vigor and resolve, and also demonstrating that he was as bad as Biden and co said. Because if you're dumb, you might work backwards from what happened to "oh they were bullshitting, if he was really that bad he'd be in jail"
January 19, 2026 at 3:42 AM
also an aside, a partisan political attack on our democracy was never going to have a non-partisan legalist solution, its a fundamentally a political problem
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Toeless socks can help you meet your toenail growing goals.
January 16, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Toeless socks can help you meet your toenail growing goals.
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If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help.
The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later:
thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/
The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later:
thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/
January 18, 2026 at 11:46 PM
If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help.
The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later:
thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/
The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later:
thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/
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Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.
This is so smart. I’m so impressed with all the different ways you’re helping your neighbors.
January 19, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.
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This is probably the most accurate description.
Someone in their mid-50s today told me that this is the first time he had thought about or been affected by politics. And that guy is actively guarding buildings and his coworkers from ICE.
Someone in their mid-50s today told me that this is the first time he had thought about or been affected by politics. And that guy is actively guarding buildings and his coworkers from ICE.
Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.
This is so smart. I’m so impressed with all the different ways you’re helping your neighbors.
January 19, 2026 at 2:44 AM
This is probably the most accurate description.
Someone in their mid-50s today told me that this is the first time he had thought about or been affected by politics. And that guy is actively guarding buildings and his coworkers from ICE.
Someone in their mid-50s today told me that this is the first time he had thought about or been affected by politics. And that guy is actively guarding buildings and his coworkers from ICE.
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Somewhere there is documentation of the fact that these ice thugs are promised presidential blanket pardons no matter what they do. Hope that doc's being retained somehow. Top page getting Cousin Greg'd into an unlabeled manila folder.
January 19, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Somewhere there is documentation of the fact that these ice thugs are promised presidential blanket pardons no matter what they do. Hope that doc's being retained somehow. Top page getting Cousin Greg'd into an unlabeled manila folder.
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"charlie had knowledge of celestial beings because he asked if it hurt when i fell from heaven"
"charlie was a chemist and believed i'm made from copper and tellurium because i look Cu-Te"
"charlie was a magician because he said when he looked at me, everything disappeared"
"charlie was a chemist and believed i'm made from copper and tellurium because i look Cu-Te"
"charlie was a magician because he said when he looked at me, everything disappeared"
January 19, 2026 at 3:23 AM
"charlie had knowledge of celestial beings because he asked if it hurt when i fell from heaven"
"charlie was a chemist and believed i'm made from copper and tellurium because i look Cu-Te"
"charlie was a magician because he said when he looked at me, everything disappeared"
"charlie was a chemist and believed i'm made from copper and tellurium because i look Cu-Te"
"charlie was a magician because he said when he looked at me, everything disappeared"
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had not occurred to me that the source of candace owens's conspiracy theories are men flirting with her and her taking everything literally
January 19, 2026 at 3:18 AM
had not occurred to me that the source of candace owens's conspiracy theories are men flirting with her and her taking everything literally
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🦌 Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences.
Edinburgh [etc.]: Published for the proprietor [etc.], 1835-1840.
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Edinburgh [etc.]: Published for the proprietor [etc.], 1835-1840.
[Source]
January 19, 2026 at 3:23 AM
🦌 Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences.
Edinburgh [etc.]: Published for the proprietor [etc.], 1835-1840.
[Source]
Edinburgh [etc.]: Published for the proprietor [etc.], 1835-1840.
[Source]
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i still have the capacity for fear and outrage but i just find myself greeting most of it with a quiet resignation. “well, that happened. it’s awful, terrible, but it happened anyway. oh well”
January 19, 2026 at 3:15 AM
i still have the capacity for fear and outrage but i just find myself greeting most of it with a quiet resignation. “well, that happened. it’s awful, terrible, but it happened anyway. oh well”
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trump will lose but sadly one way he has already won is just how acclimated i have gotten over the last ten years to things i previously would have thought insane, and how low my expectations are for people to be normal
January 19, 2026 at 3:12 AM
trump will lose but sadly one way he has already won is just how acclimated i have gotten over the last ten years to things i previously would have thought insane, and how low my expectations are for people to be normal