Steph K
@gnomeledy2.bsky.social
Politics. I voted blue.
#MN. G'Ma to 8!
I've survived a benign brain tumor surgery.. Hard recovery. Thyroid cancer - the surgery I was told was so easy, almost took me out. Living in peace with #MS.
SpEd, PreK para.
#MN. G'Ma to 8!
I've survived a benign brain tumor surgery.. Hard recovery. Thyroid cancer - the surgery I was told was so easy, almost took me out. Living in peace with #MS.
SpEd, PreK para.
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Steph K
@gnomeledy2.bsky.social
· Apr 7
What the fuck happened to our country, that we could be governed by this level of insanity?
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January 31, 2026 at 3:26 AM
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Bruce Springsteen performs his new protest song "Streets of Minneapolis" at the First Avenue club in Minneapolis.
January 30, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Bruce Springsteen performs his new protest song "Streets of Minneapolis" at the First Avenue club in Minneapolis.
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"Shit, I'm lost. Hey, Elite, can you tell me what fucking neighborhood I'm in?"
This is their database. Elite is building a profile on your habits and movements over time to predict where you’ll be.
#FuckICE #ProudBlue #Pinks #Elite
#FuckICE #ProudBlue #Pinks #Elite
January 30, 2026 at 11:45 PM
"Shit, I'm lost. Hey, Elite, can you tell me what fucking neighborhood I'm in?"
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Remember: “They’re eating your pets.” ~ Donald Trump
Now, Springfield, Ohio is bracing for an ICE surge targeting an estimated 12K - to 15K Haitian immigrants.
Don’t expect much pushback from Governor DeWine.
Now, Springfield, Ohio is bracing for an ICE surge targeting an estimated 12K - to 15K Haitian immigrants.
Don’t expect much pushback from Governor DeWine.
January 31, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Remember: “They’re eating your pets.” ~ Donald Trump
Now, Springfield, Ohio is bracing for an ICE surge targeting an estimated 12K - to 15K Haitian immigrants.
Don’t expect much pushback from Governor DeWine.
Now, Springfield, Ohio is bracing for an ICE surge targeting an estimated 12K - to 15K Haitian immigrants.
Don’t expect much pushback from Governor DeWine.
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This is bad!
Wholesale prices just spiked way above expectations. PPI up 0.5% in one month, core PPI up 0.7% when experts expected 0.3%.
Translation: costs that hit companies are climbing fast, and they do not magically disappear. They get passed straight to you and me.
Wholesale prices just spiked way above expectations. PPI up 0.5% in one month, core PPI up 0.7% when experts expected 0.3%.
Translation: costs that hit companies are climbing fast, and they do not magically disappear. They get passed straight to you and me.
January 31, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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Church St., Burlington, VT
1/30/26
1/30/26
January 30, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Church St., Burlington, VT
1/30/26
1/30/26
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CNN in Minneapolis: We are seeing thousands and thousands of people, we've been standing on the corner here for the past ten minutes. This this crowd has not let up. It's just continuous.
January 30, 2026 at 9:19 PM
CNN in Minneapolis: We are seeing thousands and thousands of people, we've been standing on the corner here for the past ten minutes. This this crowd has not let up. It's just continuous.
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It hasn’t gone unnoticed that all four people arrested today, including two journalists, were Black.
And now we find out the charge is “conspiracy to violate civil rights,” a statute rooted in the Ku Klux Klan Act.
Sit with that.
And now we find out the charge is “conspiracy to violate civil rights,” a statute rooted in the Ku Klux Klan Act.
Sit with that.
January 30, 2026 at 10:02 PM
It hasn’t gone unnoticed that all four people arrested today, including two journalists, were Black.
And now we find out the charge is “conspiracy to violate civil rights,” a statute rooted in the Ku Klux Klan Act.
Sit with that.
And now we find out the charge is “conspiracy to violate civil rights,” a statute rooted in the Ku Klux Klan Act.
Sit with that.
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Q: Why are you suing the IRS?
TRUMP: Who are you with?
Q: ABC News
TRUMP: You are a loud person. Let somebody else have a chance
Q: Can you answer the question?
TRUMP: ABC fake news. I didn't call on you
TRUMP: Who are you with?
Q: ABC News
TRUMP: You are a loud person. Let somebody else have a chance
Q: Can you answer the question?
TRUMP: ABC fake news. I didn't call on you
January 30, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Q: Why are you suing the IRS?
TRUMP: Who are you with?
Q: ABC News
TRUMP: You are a loud person. Let somebody else have a chance
Q: Can you answer the question?
TRUMP: ABC fake news. I didn't call on you
TRUMP: Who are you with?
Q: ABC News
TRUMP: You are a loud person. Let somebody else have a chance
Q: Can you answer the question?
TRUMP: ABC fake news. I didn't call on you
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Q: Gov. Walz recently likened the conflict on the ground to Ft. Sumter, implying that this is the beginning of civil war. Do you feel there's a civil war brewing in Minneapolis?
TRUMP: Does he know what Ft. Sumter was or do you think somebody wrote it out for him? I was elected on law and order
TRUMP: Does he know what Ft. Sumter was or do you think somebody wrote it out for him? I was elected on law and order
January 30, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Q: Gov. Walz recently likened the conflict on the ground to Ft. Sumter, implying that this is the beginning of civil war. Do you feel there's a civil war brewing in Minneapolis?
TRUMP: Does he know what Ft. Sumter was or do you think somebody wrote it out for him? I was elected on law and order
TRUMP: Does he know what Ft. Sumter was or do you think somebody wrote it out for him? I was elected on law and order
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NEW: Lindsey Graham will back off on blocking severing DHS from the funding package if he’s promised an amendment on him being able to sue the government for $500K. Can’t make this up. www.politico.com/live-updates...
Lindsey Graham signals path to defuse funding threat
The South Carolina Republican said he will drop his blockade in exchange for amendment votes.
www.politico.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:58 PM
NEW: Lindsey Graham will back off on blocking severing DHS from the funding package if he’s promised an amendment on him being able to sue the government for $500K. Can’t make this up. www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Okay, time to put the phone down, now, and go cry.
January 30, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Okay, time to put the phone down, now, and go cry.
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Planned Trip to Epstein’s Island
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
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Springsteen documents Trump era’s darkest moment since Jan 6. “Our blood and bones and whistles and phones against Miller and Noem's dirty lies” Being namechecked in a protest song by a beloved household name guarantees being enshrined on the wrong side of history.
www.thetimes.com/article/4125...
www.thetimes.com/article/4125...
Springsteen’s protest song Streets of Minneapolis is an act of bravery
Not since Neil Young’s Ohio in 1970 has a song by a major name been written, recorded and released in protest at government-sanctioned violence so quickly
www.thetimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Springsteen documents Trump era’s darkest moment since Jan 6. “Our blood and bones and whistles and phones against Miller and Noem's dirty lies” Being namechecked in a protest song by a beloved household name guarantees being enshrined on the wrong side of history.
www.thetimes.com/article/4125...
www.thetimes.com/article/4125...
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From The Economist:
"Would-be strongmen [...] often build forces that are lavishly funded, outside the normal police or military hierarchy, highly partisan and tacitly allowed to break the law. That seems to describe the new ICE."
www.economist.com/briefing/202...
"Would-be strongmen [...] often build forces that are lavishly funded, outside the normal police or military hierarchy, highly partisan and tacitly allowed to break the law. That seems to describe the new ICE."
www.economist.com/briefing/202...
Immigration agents have become Donald Trump’s personal posse
That is a liability for America and, increasingly, for him
www.economist.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:24 AM
From The Economist:
"Would-be strongmen [...] often build forces that are lavishly funded, outside the normal police or military hierarchy, highly partisan and tacitly allowed to break the law. That seems to describe the new ICE."
www.economist.com/briefing/202...
"Would-be strongmen [...] often build forces that are lavishly funded, outside the normal police or military hierarchy, highly partisan and tacitly allowed to break the law. That seems to describe the new ICE."
www.economist.com/briefing/202...
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#Anthropic is willing to risk a $200 million Pentagon contract over #surveillance and “killer AI" (LAWS), @wsj.com reports.
“…terms and conditions dictate that Claude can’t be used for
any actions related to domestic surveillance…”
Contrast this with #Palantir.
🎁 link
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
“…terms and conditions dictate that Claude can’t be used for
any actions related to domestic surveillance…”
Contrast this with #Palantir.
🎁 link
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
Anthropic-Pentagon Clash Over Limits on AI Puts $200 Million Contract at Risk
The AI startup and defense officials disagreed over whether the technology would be used for autonomous “lethal” operations and surveillance.
www.wsj.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:59 AM
#Anthropic is willing to risk a $200 million Pentagon contract over #surveillance and “killer AI" (LAWS), @wsj.com reports.
“…terms and conditions dictate that Claude can’t be used for
any actions related to domestic surveillance…”
Contrast this with #Palantir.
🎁 link
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
“…terms and conditions dictate that Claude can’t be used for
any actions related to domestic surveillance…”
Contrast this with #Palantir.
🎁 link
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
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Safe to assume that all those energy efficiency pledges for data centres that big tech made such a PR fuss over for years are bullshit.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/t...
Microsoft Pledged to Save Water. In the A.I. Era, It Expects Water Use to Soar.
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Safe to assume that all those energy efficiency pledges for data centres that big tech made such a PR fuss over for years are bullshit.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/t...
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The article. No pay wall.
"American public figures have a duty to think better of their country than to believe it capable of putting a fascist in the White House."
Read Federalist Papers 68, 10, 51. Our founders assumed that evil men versed in "the little arts of popularity" WILL be elected.
"American public figures have a duty to think better of their country than to believe it capable of putting a fascist in the White House."
Read Federalist Papers 68, 10, 51. Our founders assumed that evil men versed in "the little arts of popularity" WILL be elected.
Opinion | America Doesn’t Do Fascism
Trump is far more interesting than the dictator living in the liberal imagination.
www.wsj.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:30 AM
The article. No pay wall.
"American public figures have a duty to think better of their country than to believe it capable of putting a fascist in the White House."
Read Federalist Papers 68, 10, 51. Our founders assumed that evil men versed in "the little arts of popularity" WILL be elected.
"American public figures have a duty to think better of their country than to believe it capable of putting a fascist in the White House."
Read Federalist Papers 68, 10, 51. Our founders assumed that evil men versed in "the little arts of popularity" WILL be elected.
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They’re not walking by, they’re tracking ICE to help the people they kidnap, to get their names before they disappear so their families will know.
January 30, 2026 at 3:30 AM
They’re not walking by, they’re tracking ICE to help the people they kidnap, to get their names before they disappear so their families will know.
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MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
January 30, 2026 at 2:43 AM
MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
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Raise your hand if you know in your bones 100% that trump is having his goons plant fake data in the election files he just confiscated in Georgia🤚
January 30, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Raise your hand if you know in your bones 100% that trump is having his goons plant fake data in the election files he just confiscated in Georgia🤚
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If America hasn't woken up by now, it's because it EMBRACES Trump's evil, just as most Germans embraced Hitler's.
His history of criminality and vindictiveness is well-known, and STILL Fascists and morons voted for him three times.
Trump IS America. America IS Trump.
His history of criminality and vindictiveness is well-known, and STILL Fascists and morons voted for him three times.
Trump IS America. America IS Trump.
Gavin Newsom: “ You will not have a country if he rigs this election — you will have a president who will be running for a third term
He is wrecking this country, wrecking the economy. He's a lawless president. Wake up, America — wake up to what's going on”
He is wrecking this country, wrecking the economy. He's a lawless president. Wake up, America — wake up to what's going on”
January 30, 2026 at 8:47 AM
If America hasn't woken up by now, it's because it EMBRACES Trump's evil, just as most Germans embraced Hitler's.
His history of criminality and vindictiveness is well-known, and STILL Fascists and morons voted for him three times.
Trump IS America. America IS Trump.
His history of criminality and vindictiveness is well-known, and STILL Fascists and morons voted for him three times.
Trump IS America. America IS Trump.
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When a French government account publicly sparred with the White House over Greenland on X, it wasn’t a mistake.
It was part of a deliberate new strategy to fight online disinformation from Russia, China and, increasingly, MAGA-aligned voices in the U.S.
It was part of a deliberate new strategy to fight online disinformation from Russia, China and, increasingly, MAGA-aligned voices in the U.S.
French diplomats are taking on MAGA — one meme at a time
Paris is rolling out a confrontational online strategy to counter disinformation from the United States and beyond.
www.politico.eu
January 30, 2026 at 8:48 AM
When a French government account publicly sparred with the White House over Greenland on X, it wasn’t a mistake.
It was part of a deliberate new strategy to fight online disinformation from Russia, China and, increasingly, MAGA-aligned voices in the U.S.
It was part of a deliberate new strategy to fight online disinformation from Russia, China and, increasingly, MAGA-aligned voices in the U.S.
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NEW: All Aurora Public Schools will be closed tomorrow due to staff shortages (anti-ICE strike). Denver Public Schools will deal with staff shortages on a school-by-school basis.
January 30, 2026 at 3:00 AM
NEW: All Aurora Public Schools will be closed tomorrow due to staff shortages (anti-ICE strike). Denver Public Schools will deal with staff shortages on a school-by-school basis.