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Playing videogames mostly.
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i think this gets at something important which is that normal people are rightly pissed off that they’re having normal time stolen from them by this ravaging horde of jumped up mall cops. everybody has to work in the morning! why is it THEIR job to hold their community together in such a basic way!
🔥 From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social : “This is nuts. What the fuck is going on? I’ve never protested in my life… they tell you it’s immigrants — it’s fucking anybody. They’re just trying to scare people. I’m not paid to be here. I have to work in the morning. This is wrong.”
January 15, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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every time i log on something horrible is happening but also people are trying really hard to help
January 15, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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These neighborhood signal chats are absolutely crazy right now. You’ve got young activists in there with the most normie folks alive who all just absolutely fucking hate ICE so much. And they are all willing to put their bodies on the line for their communities.
January 15, 2026 at 3:16 AM
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The complicated reality is there are 3 things happening simultaneously:
-Trump preternaturally understands the ebb and flow of the media and does perform for it
-His inner circle is in a mad dash to turn the US into a fascist ethnostate
-Like all authoritarian regimes, they're grossly incompetent
Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.
January 15, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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Thanks to some incredible Twin Cities and Chicago folks, we have a whistle party on Saturday!

Come out if you live in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. We’ll be folding zines and putting them together with whistles that have been donated for free speech and community safety.

Take some to distribute!
January 14, 2026 at 4:55 AM
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Abolish and Prosecute.

Every last one of them.
January 15, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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Happening Now: Students have walked out of school and are protesting against ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota
January 14, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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10 years ago there was not the amount of communists to even have discourse in any meaningful way between American communist factions. Left communists and ultras getting into fights with MLs and Trotskyists getting into fights with anarcho syndicalists and all these groups having real life orgs is 👍
January 14, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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People can say what they want but the real US left is developing rapidly. People are falling into different communist strains of thought. Orgs are exploding. Lenin lives
January 14, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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This. I am done returning to the status quo of what got us here. I want universal healthcare. I want a maximum wage tied to the minimum wage. I want omnipresent, cheap public transit and walkable neighborhoods. I want Supreme Court and police reform, and I want the rich to pay their fair share.
We need to pick up this Overton Window and throw it as far as we can. Stop waiting for shit to “be popular” and start advocating for what is transparently right.
January 14, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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The gofundme for that factory worker who called Trump a pedophile protector is at like $300k. Funniest possible outcome of this is everyone rushing to do the same thing in the hopes of getting paid
January 14, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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Unfortunately, this is the part where I remind people that Black 10th graders get beat up by cops every day.

This is the part where I remind people about modern civil asset forfeiture, where US police steal more value from people (mostly Black) than every form of theft other than wage theft.
It is in no way “law enforcement” to beat up an American 10th grader and steal and sell his possessions.
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.

A citizen.

Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.

"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.

Agents took and sold his phone

And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
January 14, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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The reports coming out of Minnesota of the brutality of ICE terror are harrowing. What's clear to me, however, is that the people are rising up to resist this violence head on. Resistance is everywhere. We may be on our own, but we are not alone.

"Every time a whistle blows, they don’t win."
Blessed are the whistle blowers
Resistance to the ongoing brutality is everywhere. One need only step outside to find it.
www.wordsaboutwork.news
January 13, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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i think it’s pretty fair to consider CBS straight fascist government media, trumps administration is clearly drip feeding them narratives and “scoops” and obviously CBS will run them with zero regard for fact
January 14, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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Thing to remember about Stephen Miller is that people knew he was a Nazi back when he was a twenty something congressional staffer. This did not hamper his rise to prominence within the Republican Party. There are zero analogous examples of down low communists working on policy with the Democrats
January 14, 2026 at 8:07 PM
I've been playing through Serious Sam 2 for the first time.

I remember when I was a kid we'd installed the demo on our family PC, but it was never good enough to run the game.

Being an adult without children is now just fulfilling all the things I wanted to do as a child but couldn't.
January 14, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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it's a brand new day let's get to it people!
January 14, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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Old people in China have too much free time
January 13, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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January 13, 2026 at 12:58 AM
I softmodded my original xbox towards the end of last year. The softmodding community has come a long way over the years and the process is now so straightforward I was kinda surprised how quickly it took 😅

Only issue is that you still need to source 512mb or below usb drives and a usb adapter.
January 12, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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January 12, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Rest in peace Anthem, I wish you had been given a proper chance to shine.

Servers get shut down tomorrow.
January 12, 2026 at 4:51 AM
I found someone's wallet on the sidewalk the other day on my walk to work. My coworker and I were able to find the person on Instagram and managed to get their wallet back to them only a couple of hours later.

Felt good to be helpful.
January 11, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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To all the new folks arriving from Twitter I have two words of advice...

Indie games
January 11, 2026 at 12:11 PM