James
@lemurdreamer87.bsky.social
Just a guy from CT who likes animals, particularly lemurs. Formerly Chaoslordjiro on that other site, still working on the branding. He/him, leftist af.
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James
@lemurdreamer87.bsky.social
· Nov 6
If you're a Jill Stein voter or someone who chose not to vote because "both sides are bad", incidentally? Fuck off. Unfollow me, block me, whatever, but get your filthy interactions away from me.
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Literally, the stupidest people doing the stupidest stuff and systematically dismantling our democratic norms and institutions
January 15, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Literally, the stupidest people doing the stupidest stuff and systematically dismantling our democratic norms and institutions
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“If you’re mad about what the government is doing, the appropriate thing to do is something we can completely ignore”
Republican on CNN: You peacefully protest with a letter to the editor. You peacefully protest by starting a Substack or a podcast.
January 15, 2026 at 12:57 PM
“If you’re mad about what the government is doing, the appropriate thing to do is something we can completely ignore”
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For non-German speakers:
“Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”
“Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”
Liebe Medien, ich kann die Schlagzeile "Keine Einigung zwischen USA und Dänemark" nicht mehr sehen. Wenn ein Bewaffneter eine Bank stürmt, titelt ihr doch auch nicht: "Räuber und Kassiererin finden keinen Konsens über Geldübergabe." Hört auf, imperiale Aggression als normale Diplomatie zu framen.
January 15, 2026 at 11:11 AM
For non-German speakers:
“Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”
“Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”
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i am not unfamiliar with how law enforcement operates but man it is really something to see regular people digging through what very much looks like the gear of an organized crime syndicate
Another vehicle opened. Back was full of license plates, gear, various fed patches.
January 15, 2026 at 11:14 AM
i am not unfamiliar with how law enforcement operates but man it is really something to see regular people digging through what very much looks like the gear of an organized crime syndicate
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Kind of a shame that so few of the most ambitious Senate Dems want to rise in leadership (rather than become governor or president) and the few who do are under Schumer’s wing.
It's extraordinarily rare for a political event to break through to such a widespread degree as this. Dems should seize on it! This is resonating big time in exactly the info spaces that Dems struggle to reach, as I try to argue in this piece:
This is incredible: 81% of working class and 83% of young voters have seen video of Renee Good's killing, per new data I've obtained. Majority of working class disapproves of ICE enforcement. ICE brutality is breaking through big time.
Some thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
Some thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
January 15, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Kind of a shame that so few of the most ambitious Senate Dems want to rise in leadership (rather than become governor or president) and the few who do are under Schumer’s wing.
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South Minneapolis, I just woke up with my eyes burning, from all the gas on the other side of town, so we need to be paying attention to this too
I was supposed to be in bed an hour ago but sending links and videos to people so they know to avoid the green gas (zinc chloride).
Once a lab steward, always a lab steward.
Seriously, I was a chemist twenty years ago, you do NOT want heavy metal toxicity. It fucks you up in weird ways.
Once a lab steward, always a lab steward.
Seriously, I was a chemist twenty years ago, you do NOT want heavy metal toxicity. It fucks you up in weird ways.
January 15, 2026 at 10:58 AM
South Minneapolis, I just woke up with my eyes burning, from all the gas on the other side of town, so we need to be paying attention to this too
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maybe the 6 month old they tear gassed was driving right at them, maybe think about that before you pass judgement
January 15, 2026 at 12:31 PM
maybe the 6 month old they tear gassed was driving right at them, maybe think about that before you pass judgement
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typical ai use case
January 15, 2026 at 1:10 PM
typical ai use case
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You'll notice just in the screenshot used as a photo for this piece the one really weird thing we've found so far: Just how many stories does NYT need on trans athletes at SCOTUS and why was it 11 in 2 days?
In 2026, we're launching an ambitious effort to track legacy news media's coverage of the trans community, with a focus on the words news outlets choose and how those are changing as right wing pressure threatens the independence of our press.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
News Stories Shape Public Perception of Trans Lives. We’re Keeping Score. — Assigned
Our Trans News Tracking Project seeks to catalogue bias at major news organizations in the US.
www.assignedmedia.org
January 15, 2026 at 1:46 PM
You'll notice just in the screenshot used as a photo for this piece the one really weird thing we've found so far: Just how many stories does NYT need on trans athletes at SCOTUS and why was it 11 in 2 days?
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Flashbangs burn hotter then lava.
They've caused serious burns, severed hands, and even killed.
*That's* what ICE just tossed into a car full of kids.
Here's our investigation from 2015, by @juliaangwin.com:
www.propublica.org/article/flas...
They've caused serious burns, severed hands, and even killed.
*That's* what ICE just tossed into a car full of kids.
Here's our investigation from 2015, by @juliaangwin.com:
www.propublica.org/article/flas...
January 15, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Flashbangs burn hotter then lava.
They've caused serious burns, severed hands, and even killed.
*That's* what ICE just tossed into a car full of kids.
Here's our investigation from 2015, by @juliaangwin.com:
www.propublica.org/article/flas...
They've caused serious burns, severed hands, and even killed.
*That's* what ICE just tossed into a car full of kids.
Here's our investigation from 2015, by @juliaangwin.com:
www.propublica.org/article/flas...
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The resistance I see in every video from Minnesota is inspiring. Regular people are standing up to heavily armed fucks who have no regard for human life; no moral compass; no true desire beyond harming other people.
January 15, 2026 at 4:11 AM
The resistance I see in every video from Minnesota is inspiring. Regular people are standing up to heavily armed fucks who have no regard for human life; no moral compass; no true desire beyond harming other people.
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For the folks pointing out that the article about green gas is from 2020, yes it is. You should read an article from 2020 because green gas is being deployed in mpls. Thanks,
January 15, 2026 at 1:02 PM
For the folks pointing out that the article about green gas is from 2020, yes it is. You should read an article from 2020 because green gas is being deployed in mpls. Thanks,
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Not THEIR challenge coin any more.
Their challenge coin is a laughing skeleton wearing a crown, with vultures on it's shoulders.
Looks less like something you'd give "law enforcement" and more like something you'd give to the death squad of a king.
Looks less like something you'd give "law enforcement" and more like something you'd give to the death squad of a king.
January 15, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Not THEIR challenge coin any more.
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this should be getting more attention
Lawsuit: DHS wants “unlimited subpoena authority” to unmask ICE critics
DHS is weirdly using import/export rules to expand its authority to identify online critics.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy...
Lawsuit: DHS wants “unlimited subpoena authority” to unmask ICE critics
DHS is weirdly using import/export rules to expand its authority to identify online critics.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy...
Lawsuit: DHS wants “unlimited subpoena authority” to unmask ICE critics
DHS is weirdly using import/export rules to expand its authority to identify online critics.
arstechnica.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:31 AM
this should be getting more attention
Lawsuit: DHS wants “unlimited subpoena authority” to unmask ICE critics
DHS is weirdly using import/export rules to expand its authority to identify online critics.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy...
Lawsuit: DHS wants “unlimited subpoena authority” to unmask ICE critics
DHS is weirdly using import/export rules to expand its authority to identify online critics.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy...
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But yeah, there is still every chance that exactly the same crimes can be committed against British women and children, they’ll just now have no direct evidence that it’s happened.
Musk is fighting hard to keep CSAM and exploitative material on Twitter. That’s the story.
Musk is fighting hard to keep CSAM and exploitative material on Twitter. That’s the story.
January 15, 2026 at 6:48 AM
But yeah, there is still every chance that exactly the same crimes can be committed against British women and children, they’ll just now have no direct evidence that it’s happened.
Musk is fighting hard to keep CSAM and exploitative material on Twitter. That’s the story.
Musk is fighting hard to keep CSAM and exploitative material on Twitter. That’s the story.
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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
-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
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
-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
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this is Minnesotan for "I am mad enough to bite through rebar"
Props to the lady giving an interview in her pink UFFDA hat and saying, "well, gosh, I've never had tear gas and flashbangs shot at me, but I'm happy to take it so my neighbors are safe."
January 15, 2026 at 3:03 AM
this is Minnesotan for "I am mad enough to bite through rebar"
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ICE attacked a guy's six kids by throwing flash bangs at his car and he had to take them all to the hospital. He had nothing to do with the protests.
That is what was relayed
January 15, 2026 at 4:16 AM
ICE attacked a guy's six kids by throwing flash bangs at his car and he had to take them all to the hospital. He had nothing to do with the protests.
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The AP source is almost certainly a federal official and should be presumed to be lying
BREAKING: A federal officer shot a person in the leg after being attacked with a shovel during a Minneapolis arrest, an AP source says.
Federal officer shoots person in leg after being attacked during Minneapolis arrest, AP source says
A federal officer has shot a person in the leg in Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel during an arrest Wednesday.
bit.ly
January 15, 2026 at 3:20 AM
The AP source is almost certainly a federal official and should be presumed to be lying
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Oh. No. You don't get to say that bullshit about negative money.
That's a loophole. That's a TAX LOOPHOLE. You don't hold money, you hold ASSETS. You borrow against your net worth, and know that you are never cash solvent, but your assets let you borrow MASSIVE amounts. MILLIONS. Fake Poverty.
That's a loophole. That's a TAX LOOPHOLE. You don't hold money, you hold ASSETS. You borrow against your net worth, and know that you are never cash solvent, but your assets let you borrow MASSIVE amounts. MILLIONS. Fake Poverty.
You haven't experienced true poverty until you have billions in assets and can pay yourself zero salary by expensing everything through a multinational corporation
January 15, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Oh. No. You don't get to say that bullshit about negative money.
That's a loophole. That's a TAX LOOPHOLE. You don't hold money, you hold ASSETS. You borrow against your net worth, and know that you are never cash solvent, but your assets let you borrow MASSIVE amounts. MILLIONS. Fake Poverty.
That's a loophole. That's a TAX LOOPHOLE. You don't hold money, you hold ASSETS. You borrow against your net worth, and know that you are never cash solvent, but your assets let you borrow MASSIVE amounts. MILLIONS. Fake Poverty.
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🚨"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
🚨"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 ⬇️
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Hey, seriously, Newsom can get fucked
January 13, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Hey, seriously, Newsom can get fucked