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kat

@katdog.bsky.social

discovering that my apartment walls are very thin. we literally have heated rivalry at home 😔

January 18, 2026 at 11:57 PM

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Prisonculture

@prisonculture.bsky.social

Good morning. I read this dispatch from a comrade in Minneapolis this morning and thought that some of you might appreciate it too.

TEXT: Out on patrol with two friends this morning and I kept seeing the beautiful web being woven in Minnesota right now. Not with new materials but woven with wisdom into what was already here. I could feel this net with my hands, this connection as we passed that group of three on the corner of Cedar and Lake, this connection as we listened to someone doing dispatch while their kid yelled in the room behind them. I thought of this today stopping by a locally beloved Mexican restaurant to grab some food for the family and having the owner step up with tears in his eyes and reflect on how much they feel cared for and then the security guard stepped over and asserted that this is what we do, we care for our own. He said, tell people we have them, we've got them and we will keep them safe. All of the worst stories you read are true and there are more of them than what shows up on social media, but there is also this, everything I am writing here in the same morning, driving over to northeast and a junior high has just done a walk out, they are lining a major road in their "are those pants they look like pajamas" clothes and all are holding signs and I am on the phone with someone and I burst into tears when I pass them. This is a net and I remember this very old fishing net someone showed me years ago, guiding my fingers to feel where the net had been repaired over and over again, like scars in the fibers that strengthen rather than break. ICE is sharp, knives that cut with small knicks and sometimes great full arm thrusts that shove and tear through this connected set of scars and fresh material and there are wounds and this is violence and some of you beloveds are being stopped on the road because of how you are read and I am not being stopped and none of this is ever ok and still, I feel the pull and tug of the net that is larger than anything I have experienced

TEXT: before. Is there anyone in these cities not showing up in some way? I can't remember the last time I saw or heard anyone have words other than how can I show up? There is a net and it has always been here, it is always here, it's just that sometimes it's hard to see and all that is happening in Minneapolis is that some of the confusion is fading and what is visible is the link and weave and stumble and steady between us. May we keep repairing it as it frays, from those outside and from the rising tension we hold within and may this net grow with wisdom and may bodies tired of holding themselves up alone someday feel like they can relax into the steady certainty of something much bigger than the size of their skin.

January 17, 2026 at 12:29 PM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump adm...

theonion.com

January 15, 2026 at 6:22 AM

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Status Coup News

@statuscoupnews.bsky.social

🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️

January 15, 2026 at 3:59 AM

kat

@katdog.bsky.social

sacramento PLEASE

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d

Aldi said it will open more than 180 stores in the U.S. this year, as it continues an aggressive expansion

Discount grocer Aldi plans to open more than 180 stores in U.S. this year as customers across incomes seek value

Aldi's growth reflects the fiercer competition with traditional players as discounters lure away shoppers and win more of their weekly grocery runs.

www.cnbc.com

January 12, 2026 at 11:26 PM

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Kashana

@kashana.blacksky.app

Laughing at all the people saying shit like we should get rid of the few bad apples in the ethnic cleansing operation

January 9, 2026 at 4:09 PM

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Joey Scott

@joeyneverjoe.bsky.social

They get to “fear for their lives” and defend themselves. The public cannot. Police have a monopoly on violence that’s upheld by the legal system and cultural conditioning that convinces us the police are righteous defenders of the public.

January 7, 2026 at 6:28 PM

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Christopher Wiggins

@cwnewser.bsky.social

NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do."

“We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs.

www.advocate.com/news/minneso...

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting

“They killed my wife,” the distraught woman says, adding, “They shot her in the head.”

www.advocate.com

January 7, 2026 at 8:55 PM

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Kat Tenbarge

@kattenbarge.bsky.social

Renee Nicole Good was 37. She was murdered by an ICE agent in the street in broad daylight. What really happened to her will not be forgotten, minimized, or ignored.

January 7, 2026 at 10:15 PM

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News Eye

@newseye.bsky.social

This was an execution by ICE in Minneapolis this afternoon.

An agent lunges at the female driver’s door and another shoots her at point blank range when she tries to drive away.

Call this what it is. Murder.

(🎥 Max Nesterak)

January 7, 2026 at 7:49 PM

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Yashar Ali 🐘

@yasharali.bsky.social

BREAKING

Zohran Mamdani has been sworn-in as the 112th Mayor of New York City.

January 1, 2026 at 5:13 AM

kat

@katdog.bsky.social

chappell’s email newsletter has me sobbing. i’m so thankful for the artistry she shares with us

December 31, 2025 at 8:10 PM

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Pop Base

@popbase.tv

Flossie, the world’s oldest living cat, has celebrated her 30th birthday.

December 30, 2025 at 3:50 AM

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Kat Tenbarge

@kattenbarge.bsky.social

A lot of people expect more from Chappell Roan than they do from their own elected officials

December 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM

kat

@katdog.bsky.social

there’s so many fake profiles on fb marketplace now 🫩 nothing is sacred anymore

December 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM

kat

@katdog.bsky.social

got approved for an apartment 🤩🤩🤩 it’s the first time i will ever be living alone. bit nervous but mostly excited!!!!

December 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM

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Bex Glendining 🍃

@lgions.bsky.social

i don't want to have to second guess if every image is ai!! i don't want to edit with ai!! i don't wait to generate anything!!!! i don't want to talk to an ai chatbot!!! go away omg

November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM

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Miami DSA

@miamidsa.org

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM

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Phil Lewis

@phillewis.bsky.social

Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’: ‘You’re going to look like Maleficent’

The puffy, artificial look is rising in popularity - thanks to Maga elite such as Kristi Noem and Matt Gaetz

www.theguardian.com

November 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM

kat

@katdog.bsky.social

man i love sewing. SEWING IS SO COOL

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Nov 12

These hoodies are sewn using a double needle coverstitch for durability, but the underarm and side seams are sewn using a flatlock seam. This produces a smoother, flatter seam, removing the bump that can rub against the body.

Paul at IG toofbush explains the flatlock seam below.