Karli
@karliwt.bsky.social
She/her. Lefty cheesehead, digital strategist, organizer at heart. Currently fighting Christian nationalism @ Faithful America (opinions here are just mine, though).
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This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol.
An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.
An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.
February 5, 2026 at 3:26 PM
This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol.
An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.
An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.
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"The world isn’t ending. A world is ending. Our job is to midwife the next one."
January 31, 2026 at 10:33 PM
"The world isn’t ending. A world is ending. Our job is to midwife the next one."
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Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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"We lived happily during the war," Ilya Kaminsky
January 25, 2026 at 4:10 PM
"We lived happily during the war," Ilya Kaminsky
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Minneapolis, MN -
A memorial has been set up where observer Alex Pretti was shot by federal agents. A heart made with branches. Several crying.
A memorial has been set up where observer Alex Pretti was shot by federal agents. A heart made with branches. Several crying.
January 24, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Minneapolis, MN -
A memorial has been set up where observer Alex Pretti was shot by federal agents. A heart made with branches. Several crying.
A memorial has been set up where observer Alex Pretti was shot by federal agents. A heart made with branches. Several crying.
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We are dealing with a Western Christian supremacist movement willing to see millions die in the name of racial purity. This is William Wolfe. A year ago he was invited with fourteen other faith leaders to the WH. Today he is praising ICE for killing peaceful observers. This is Christian fascism.
January 24, 2026 at 7:16 PM
We are dealing with a Western Christian supremacist movement willing to see millions die in the name of racial purity. This is William Wolfe. A year ago he was invited with fourteen other faith leaders to the WH. Today he is praising ICE for killing peaceful observers. This is Christian fascism.
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Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.
January 24, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.
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Minnesota shifting narrative from "rabble rousing protesters" vs "law enforcement" to "people of conscience" vs "evil regime." This is essential to defeating authoritarianism - exposing who, what & why they are by demonstrating who, what & why we are.
And MAGA knows it.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...
And MAGA knows it.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...
Trump privately frustrated that he risks losing control of immigration message amid Minnesota chaos | CNN Politics
The ongoing protests and images coming out of Minnesota have prompted concerns from some Trump administration officials over the optics of the immigration crackdown as Americans grow alarmed by the ch...
www.cnn.com
January 24, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Minnesota shifting narrative from "rabble rousing protesters" vs "law enforcement" to "people of conscience" vs "evil regime." This is essential to defeating authoritarianism - exposing who, what & why they are by demonstrating who, what & why we are.
And MAGA knows it.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...
And MAGA knows it.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...
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ICE attacked an observer after they tailed a group of clergy on a spiritual pilgrimage.
Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.
Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.
January 24, 2026 at 4:22 AM
ICE attacked an observer after they tailed a group of clergy on a spiritual pilgrimage.
Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.
Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.
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Police have arrived. Arrests seem imminent. The crowd chants “let them pray” and “Minnesota nice means prosecute ICE”
January 23, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Police have arrived. Arrests seem imminent. The crowd chants “let them pray” and “Minnesota nice means prosecute ICE”
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This is part of the tragedy of a surrender now. It invites more pain and suffering by emboldening the regime. Why should they listen to a weak opposition?
Schumer and the Dems are about to teach Trump the lesson that they’ll cave whenever he abuses power to sufficiently hurt people.
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This is part of the tragedy of a surrender now. It invites more pain and suffering by emboldening the regime. Why should they listen to a weak opposition?
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Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.
October 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.
This whole thread on the value and purpose of mass protests is fantastic and well worth your time:
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This whole thread on the value and purpose of mass protests is fantastic and well worth your time:
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Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance
However, they are weaker than they look…
However, they are weaker than they look…
October 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
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I can’t believe it’s even necessary to say that NO city in ANY country deserves or should be INVADED by its federal government.
I thought we cared about people. Isn’t that the real point? Everyone needs liberation, most of all the people who don’t know.
I thought we cared about people. Isn’t that the real point? Everyone needs liberation, most of all the people who don’t know.
September 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I can’t believe it’s even necessary to say that NO city in ANY country deserves or should be INVADED by its federal government.
I thought we cared about people. Isn’t that the real point? Everyone needs liberation, most of all the people who don’t know.
I thought we cared about people. Isn’t that the real point? Everyone needs liberation, most of all the people who don’t know.
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When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.
September 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.
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The COVID-19 pandemic undermined the right in several key ways:
1) It showed us which workers are essential and empowered them.
2) It showed that the markets can’t solve everything.
2) It threatened GOP political prospects in a critical election.
4) Government relief proved popular and effective
1) It showed us which workers are essential and empowered them.
2) It showed that the markets can’t solve everything.
2) It threatened GOP political prospects in a critical election.
4) Government relief proved popular and effective
August 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The COVID-19 pandemic undermined the right in several key ways:
1) It showed us which workers are essential and empowered them.
2) It showed that the markets can’t solve everything.
2) It threatened GOP political prospects in a critical election.
4) Government relief proved popular and effective
1) It showed us which workers are essential and empowered them.
2) It showed that the markets can’t solve everything.
2) It threatened GOP political prospects in a critical election.
4) Government relief proved popular and effective
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He is understated about it but Murphy says some extraordinary things here. It's worth watching all of this. Remember when they won big games nobody would drink until Uecker was there. It was a matter of honor.
“Somehow, it seems like he’s watching over us. I said he’s not going to miss a game. He definitely was here tonight. Yeli proved it.”
Pat Murphy on Bob Uecker is worth your time.
Pat Murphy on Bob Uecker is worth your time.
August 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
He is understated about it but Murphy says some extraordinary things here. It's worth watching all of this. Remember when they won big games nobody would drink until Uecker was there. It was a matter of honor.
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Inspired by Pope Leo and moved to defy the Trump immigration crackdown, Detroit’s Archbishop Edward Weisenburger led a procession of 250 clergy and lay faithful to the ICE regional field office.
“The vast majority of undocumented immigrants are forced into their situation," Weisenburger said.
“The vast majority of undocumented immigrants are forced into their situation," Weisenburger said.
Inspired by Pope Leo, Detroit Archbishop Leads Pro-Immigrant Rally Outside of ICE
“Immigrants and migrants are a suffering people. Our goal today is to give a voice to those who have no voice,” Weisenburger told reporters.
lettersfromleo.substack.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Inspired by Pope Leo and moved to defy the Trump immigration crackdown, Detroit’s Archbishop Edward Weisenburger led a procession of 250 clergy and lay faithful to the ICE regional field office.
“The vast majority of undocumented immigrants are forced into their situation," Weisenburger said.
“The vast majority of undocumented immigrants are forced into their situation," Weisenburger said.
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If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.
July 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.
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one is a genius, the other’s insane
July 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
one is a genius, the other’s insane
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Our task isn't to be cruel, or to make people suffer. Our task is to fucking build a movement that can take power so that suffering may be reduced.
And being cruel behind a keyboard doesn't help to build that movement.
And being cruel behind a keyboard doesn't help to build that movement.
July 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Our task isn't to be cruel, or to make people suffer. Our task is to fucking build a movement that can take power so that suffering may be reduced.
And being cruel behind a keyboard doesn't help to build that movement.
And being cruel behind a keyboard doesn't help to build that movement.
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The thing about taking pleasure (or grim satisfaction) or whatever in bad people and their kids drowning in a flood is that it's bad for your soul.
It makes the world uglier without making the world better.
It makes the world uglier without making the world better.
July 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The thing about taking pleasure (or grim satisfaction) or whatever in bad people and their kids drowning in a flood is that it's bad for your soul.
It makes the world uglier without making the world better.
It makes the world uglier without making the world better.