clara
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People should support Juliana Stratton (IL), Abdul El-Sayed (MI), Penny Flanagan (MN), and Karishma Manzur (NH). All can win against their centrist opponents, and the Senate will look much different if they do. Donating/phone banking/canvassing is a good place to direct anxious political energy.
February 12, 2026 at 4:18 PM
People should support Juliana Stratton (IL), Abdul El-Sayed (MI), Penny Flanagan (MN), and Karishma Manzur (NH). All can win against their centrist opponents, and the Senate will look much different if they do. Donating/phone banking/canvassing is a good place to direct anxious political energy.
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Starting to think it is required to play Disco Elysium to understand Bluesky
![Disco Elysium
RHETORIC (Heroic: Failure] - Alright, here we go. We're devoting all your available brain cells to coming up with a question about communism. Scratch that, to coming up with *the* question about communism, the alpha and omega of communism
questions, and that question is:
1. - (Whisper.) "Are women bourgeois?" 2. - Oh god, that's bad. Surely I can think of
something better.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f4d76fjna5nxqsy2fu6cgmp3/bafkreibxx5lrb7n5zfgwcfjsz35fcqahztcujaydwlbqb4aiys4fxwesqi@jpeg)
February 13, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Starting to think it is required to play Disco Elysium to understand Bluesky
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🗳️ We proudly endorse Robert Peters for Congress in IL-02. As a community organizer & state senator, he's championed legislation for justice, fought ICE, taken on predatory health insurers & worked for everyday people trying to make ends meet. Let's send @robertpeters.bsky.social to the U.S. House!
February 12, 2026 at 6:39 PM
🗳️ We proudly endorse Robert Peters for Congress in IL-02. As a community organizer & state senator, he's championed legislation for justice, fought ICE, taken on predatory health insurers & worked for everyday people trying to make ends meet. Let's send @robertpeters.bsky.social to the U.S. House!
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every two hours of 2026 equals ten days confirmed
U.S. FAA : THE TEMPORARY CLOSURE OF AIRSPACE OVER EL PASO HAS BEEN LIFTED.
February 11, 2026 at 2:03 PM
every two hours of 2026 equals ten days confirmed
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Every poll that's come out recently has shown Kelly in a distant third. Time to rally round Stratton.
PPP poll | 2/2-2/3 LV
Illinois Senate Democratic primary 2026
🟦Raja Krishamoorthi 34%
🟦Juliana Stratton 23%
🟦Robin Kelly 8%
Illinois Senate Democratic primary 2026
🟦Raja Krishamoorthi 34%
🟦Juliana Stratton 23%
🟦Robin Kelly 8%
February 9, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Every poll that's come out recently has shown Kelly in a distant third. Time to rally round Stratton.
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Look, all I'm saying is that if you just spent the last six years being frustrated with Durbin and you think there's a chance he's about to be replaced with a guy who thanks ICE for their service and takes AIPAC and crypto money, you should treat it like a very serious emergency
PPP poll | 2/2-2/3 LV
Illinois Senate Democratic primary 2026
🟦Raja Krishamoorthi 34%
🟦Juliana Stratton 23%
🟦Robin Kelly 8%
Illinois Senate Democratic primary 2026
🟦Raja Krishamoorthi 34%
🟦Juliana Stratton 23%
🟦Robin Kelly 8%
February 9, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Look, all I'm saying is that if you just spent the last six years being frustrated with Durbin and you think there's a chance he's about to be replaced with a guy who thanks ICE for their service and takes AIPAC and crypto money, you should treat it like a very serious emergency
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Juliana Stratton is the obvious pick. I hate even having to weigh in here. It's plain as day, and the frontrunner is so bad. Folks, this needs to get turned around. Like desperately. Phone bank for Stratton, talk to your friends, anything, just please, Illinois, NO.
PPP poll | 2/2-2/3 LV
Illinois Senate Democratic primary 2026
🟦Raja Krishamoorthi 34%
🟦Juliana Stratton 23%
🟦Robin Kelly 8%
Illinois Senate Democratic primary 2026
🟦Raja Krishamoorthi 34%
🟦Juliana Stratton 23%
🟦Robin Kelly 8%
February 6, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Juliana Stratton is the obvious pick. I hate even having to weigh in here. It's plain as day, and the frontrunner is so bad. Folks, this needs to get turned around. Like desperately. Phone bank for Stratton, talk to your friends, anything, just please, Illinois, NO.
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More like this one by Phil Thompson
February 1, 2026 at 5:28 AM
More like this one by Phil Thompson
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us housing policy
February 8, 2026 at 11:42 PM
us housing policy
embrace fusions and exchanges between cultures or you WILL get eaten by a four-dicked alien
Just saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me
February 7, 2026 at 4:44 PM
embrace fusions and exchanges between cultures or you WILL get eaten by a four-dicked alien
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The problem is car dependency, car-centric urban design, and the motonormativity fostered by those. Self-driving cars will not solve this and will actually entrench us in Car World and make it even harder to get to the solutions: better public transit and safe streets infrastructure.
February 6, 2026 at 6:21 PM
The problem is car dependency, car-centric urban design, and the motonormativity fostered by those. Self-driving cars will not solve this and will actually entrench us in Car World and make it even harder to get to the solutions: better public transit and safe streets infrastructure.
this is a good example of the ICE/DHS tactic I'm talking about, and how the system is operated with an eye to keeping a person in detention long enough that the detainee requests their own removal. both a labor saving tactic and ideologically aligned with ICE's anti-migrant culture.
There's been lots of attention on 1 particular inexperienced & untrained govt lawyer
But I want to give a shout-out to Kira Kelley,
climatedefenseproject.org/profile/kira...,
who focused on ICE's horrific treatment of an immigrant prisoner -- all occurring *after* the court had ordered him released
But I want to give a shout-out to Kira Kelley,
climatedefenseproject.org/profile/kira...,
who focused on ICE's horrific treatment of an immigrant prisoner -- all occurring *after* the court had ordered him released
February 5, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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Ha nice. There’s a long, glorious and often corny tradition of “SOTU political stunt guests” but this is a good one and they richly deserve it. Imagine rolling into the US CONGRESS like “I lived, bitch.”
JUST IN: Chicago's Marimar Martinez is expected to attend President Donald Trump's State of the Union address:
February 5, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Ha nice. There’s a long, glorious and often corny tradition of “SOTU political stunt guests” but this is a good one and they richly deserve it. Imagine rolling into the US CONGRESS like “I lived, bitch.”
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Yeah you can draw nakedly partisan maps, turn up the heat boys, it's time to maximize Illinois
February 4, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Yeah you can draw nakedly partisan maps, turn up the heat boys, it's time to maximize Illinois
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“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”
From Powerlessness to Power
We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 2, 2026 at 11:04 AM
“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”
looks like someone finally got around to that WalMart thing www.thewoodstockindependent.com/2026/01/walm...
Walmart partially reopens six days after fire shuts store - The Woodstock Independent
by Susan W. Murray Six days after damage from an intentionally set fire closed the Woodstock Walmart at 1275 Lake Ave., the store partially reopened on Tuesday, Jan. 6. “Customers […]
www.thewoodstockindependent.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:54 PM
looks like someone finally got around to that WalMart thing www.thewoodstockindependent.com/2026/01/walm...
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One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice is expressing the highest respect for law. -MLK
even if it isn't a bluff, "getting arrested on a bullshit pretext by a brutal government" was in fact one of the recurring tactics of the civil rights movement!
January 31, 2026 at 12:24 AM
One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice is expressing the highest respect for law. -MLK
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I asked my PCP a few years ago to test my titers. She said “I could do that - or I could just give you a Measles vaccine now to save time. It can only help and there is no downside”
Just ask for one
Just ask for one
so, anyways, if you’re not vaccinated against measles, it’s a great idea to change that; if it’s been a few decades, check your titers & see if a booster would make sense
It appears there is now a measles outbreak at the Dilley family detention facility. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
February 2, 2026 at 2:00 AM
I asked my PCP a few years ago to test my titers. She said “I could do that - or I could just give you a Measles vaccine now to save time. It can only help and there is no downside”
Just ask for one
Just ask for one
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The last time Democrats had a filibuster-proof trifecta they enacted the largest expansion of public welfare in half a century through Obamacare. The last time Democrats had a trifecta they spent trillions of dollars on infrastructure to fight climate change and tax credits for families.
The thing is, the Dems don't want to use the power of the state when they win it. They wan to normalize and institutionalize the worst excesses of those who came before them. So even winning back state power in the way I've understood it my whole life is weak balm for this.
February 1, 2026 at 4:23 PM
The last time Democrats had a filibuster-proof trifecta they enacted the largest expansion of public welfare in half a century through Obamacare. The last time Democrats had a trifecta they spent trillions of dollars on infrastructure to fight climate change and tax credits for families.
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“We went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, compromise Union Whigs & waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
Antebellum northerners never *liked* southern slavery, but they didn’t get angry enough to destroy it until it sent armies and spies into their cities to serve as kidnappers
February 1, 2026 at 5:09 AM
“We went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, compromise Union Whigs & waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
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Can confirm. Nothing has changed on the ground. ICE still attacking people, kidnapping, all that stuff—and the city is still out protecting and helping neighbors
Absolutely surreal to continue to hear about drawdowns and lowered temperatures and things calming down in Minneapolis when, as far as I can tell, literally nothing has changed on the ground
January 31, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Can confirm. Nothing has changed on the ground. ICE still attacking people, kidnapping, all that stuff—and the city is still out protecting and helping neighbors
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YOU - RIGHT HERE ON THE SEA ICE?!
January 31, 2026 at 4:00 AM
YOU - RIGHT HERE ON THE SEA ICE?!
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Bluesky discourse pictured
January 31, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Bluesky discourse pictured
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Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
January 30, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky