M. Rosenbloom
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Clinical Instructor, Cyberlaw Clinic at BKC / Harvard Law. Mix of politics, tech law, and cute art RTs / hobby stuff! Opinions are mine only.
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2025 Media Thread! Here we goooooo!!!!
Will include stuff that I've substantially completed or have done a significant amount of rewatching for.
Will include stuff that I've substantially completed or have done a significant amount of rewatching for.
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yes! a good number of MAHA-approved products are just repurposed waste from beef production
i'm not saying this as anyone who knows anything about health; i'm saying it as someone who is an alleged expert in interest group politics: the American beef industry is all over MAHA, wellness, and podcast spaces.
remember "bacon mania?" totally a marketing strategy by the pork industry.
remember "bacon mania?" totally a marketing strategy by the pork industry.
New federal dietary guidelines give federal approval to beef tallow, a fat that both cardiologists and the U.S. government told Americans to avoid for nearly half a century.
January 10, 2026 at 4:57 PM
yes! a good number of MAHA-approved products are just repurposed waste from beef production
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okay but they literally issued a statement saying the exact opposite of that, @governorwalz.mn.gov
any word on that?
any word on that?
January 10, 2026 at 4:30 PM
okay but they literally issued a statement saying the exact opposite of that, @governorwalz.mn.gov
any word on that?
any word on that?
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I don’t think they’re misreading them so much as they are terrified of the implications because it means the status quo has to break. there’s no incrementalism for this. mass radicalization of this scale scares Democrats more than anything Republicans could do and I mean that literally.
Kind of feel like a lot of politicians, even in Minnesota, are misreading the implications of this moment. I feel like the past three days have been tremendously radicalizing for so many people. I have witnessed it even in my own small communities, it goes beyond just incandescent rage.
January 10, 2026 at 4:13 PM
I don’t think they’re misreading them so much as they are terrified of the implications because it means the status quo has to break. there’s no incrementalism for this. mass radicalization of this scale scares Democrats more than anything Republicans could do and I mean that literally.
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We all know and love the airport as the place we go to cough on each other. But if you purchase a ticket you can also use it to get to other cities
January 10, 2026 at 3:41 PM
We all know and love the airport as the place we go to cough on each other. But if you purchase a ticket you can also use it to get to other cities
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if only there had been a movement and momentum several years ago to downsize police budgets, clear out the white supremacists and de-militarize local law enforcement
The elephant in the room is that mayors and governors across the country have very good reason to question the loyalty and allegiances of the state and local police forces and that’s one of the impediments to doing anything about the current occupations
January 10, 2026 at 1:40 PM
if only there had been a movement and momentum several years ago to downsize police budgets, clear out the white supremacists and de-militarize local law enforcement
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Against Fate ✨⚔️💀
January 10, 2026 at 6:22 AM
Against Fate ✨⚔️💀
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it is impossible for mayors or cops to learn positive lessons about protest response because they all have two immovable beliefs:
1. it is evil and childish to hold police officers accountable for violent acts
2. cops must be present at all times during protests
1. it is evil and childish to hold police officers accountable for violent acts
2. cops must be present at all times during protests
The lesson Frey and Walz were supposed to learn in 2020 was that sending riot police to a peaceful protest creates a confrontation that results in some dipshit cops shooting people in the eye with a gas canister which then we have to goddamn pay for in settlements while also our city burns.
January 10, 2026 at 6:02 AM
it is impossible for mayors or cops to learn positive lessons about protest response because they all have two immovable beliefs:
1. it is evil and childish to hold police officers accountable for violent acts
2. cops must be present at all times during protests
1. it is evil and childish to hold police officers accountable for violent acts
2. cops must be present at all times during protests
A Dem mayor calls riot cops to defend ICE after they kill.
This is why it's police ABOLITION & why leftists often paint with a broad brush in calling elected leaders fascist. Because in times like these those electeds will sic the police on the people opposing fascism, to protect the fascists.
This is why it's police ABOLITION & why leftists often paint with a broad brush in calling elected leaders fascist. Because in times like these those electeds will sic the police on the people opposing fascism, to protect the fascists.
January 10, 2026 at 6:11 AM
A Dem mayor calls riot cops to defend ICE after they kill.
This is why it's police ABOLITION & why leftists often paint with a broad brush in calling elected leaders fascist. Because in times like these those electeds will sic the police on the people opposing fascism, to protect the fascists.
This is why it's police ABOLITION & why leftists often paint with a broad brush in calling elected leaders fascist. Because in times like these those electeds will sic the police on the people opposing fascism, to protect the fascists.
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Jacob Frey is the mayor of Minneapolis and is in charge of the police
Remember this response next time our piss baby mayor pretends like he’s “against ICE in Minneapolis”
who does he actually want to “get the fuck out”?
who does he actually want to “get the fuck out”?
Several lines of law enforcement officers have closed in around the anti-ICE protest centered around a downtown Minneapolis hotel. Follow updates here. bit.ly/3YxgqDW
January 10, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Jacob Frey is the mayor of Minneapolis and is in charge of the police
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that’s why they say “all cops” and not “some cops”
The Minneapolis Police Department has declared tonight’s protest outside a downtown hotel an unlawful assembly, calling it a public nuisance, and ordered the crowd to disperse. bit.ly/3Yu1KW3
January 10, 2026 at 5:25 AM
that’s why they say “all cops” and not “some cops”
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Lol. When you put a Brit in charge of your newspaper and all the Americans who might tell him he's revealing who wrote the piece hate him enough not to reveal what he's done...
Checking in on the Washington Post editorial board’s take on the new RFK-approved food pyramid, and I really cannot believe how lazy these people are www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
January 10, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Lol. When you put a Brit in charge of your newspaper and all the Americans who might tell him he's revealing who wrote the piece hate him enough not to reveal what he's done...
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Steve Rogers at the 1 Hour 50 minute mark, after Dr. Doom has been defeated:
January 10, 2026 at 3:28 AM
Steve Rogers at the 1 Hour 50 minute mark, after Dr. Doom has been defeated:
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"more training will solve this" is easily debunked by the fact that the killer was a trainer at ICE. It's a barrel of bad apples that exists to produce bad apples and the solution is you woodchip the barrel and compost the apples and try something else.
www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, per Testimony
Jonathan Ross told a federal court in December about his professional background, including “hundreds” of encounters with drivers during enforcement actions, according to testimony obtained by WIRED.
www.wired.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:29 AM
"more training will solve this" is easily debunked by the fact that the killer was a trainer at ICE. It's a barrel of bad apples that exists to produce bad apples and the solution is you woodchip the barrel and compost the apples and try something else.
www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
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They always close ranks. Cops do not protect you.
Thank you for telling us you neither serve nor protect. Thank you for saying the quiet part out loud. That was state murder in broad daylight, captured from multiple angles by multiple witnesses, and the people of Minneapolis have eyes.
You support murder.
You support murder.
January 10, 2026 at 2:33 AM
They always close ranks. Cops do not protect you.
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it might be the chinese century but this shit has definitively been the minneapolis decade
January 10, 2026 at 3:43 AM
it might be the chinese century but this shit has definitively been the minneapolis decade
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I have been as impressed by the normal people of this country as I have been disgusted by elite institutions and every bit of optimism I have that we are going to make it comes from that
It's incredibly demoralizing to constantly see the highest institutions of government and academia and the most important and widely seen news outlets knuckle under one after another, but then to see the gulf between that and the bravery of communities and neighbors and teachers - that's something
January 10, 2026 at 12:56 AM
I have been as impressed by the normal people of this country as I have been disgusted by elite institutions and every bit of optimism I have that we are going to make it comes from that
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HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you 🧡✨
#art #украрт #digitalart #draw #drawing #illustration #arttrain
#art #украрт #digitalart #draw #drawing #illustration #arttrain
January 7, 2026 at 5:38 PM
HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you 🧡✨
#art #украрт #digitalart #draw #drawing #illustration #arttrain
#art #украрт #digitalart #draw #drawing #illustration #arttrain
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Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.
January 10, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.
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The federal government seceding from the union is a new one
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 10, 2026 at 1:49 AM
The federal government seceding from the union is a new one
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I am a "this is who we've always been as a country" guy, and I still believe that is indeed true, but it feels different this year. Not sure if it is technically worse or not compared to a thousand other atrocities, or whether or not splitting that hair matters, but it is different.
January 9, 2026 at 10:33 PM
I am a "this is who we've always been as a country" guy, and I still believe that is indeed true, but it feels different this year. Not sure if it is technically worse or not compared to a thousand other atrocities, or whether or not splitting that hair matters, but it is different.
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any political project that does not have as its goal the destruction of the system that produced that video is not worth a moment of your time
January 9, 2026 at 7:10 PM
any political project that does not have as its goal the destruction of the system that produced that video is not worth a moment of your time
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I'm in my mid-50s. I started organizing against the violence of policing when I was a teenager. I've heard ALL of the so-called "reform" proposals. They are the SAME ONES that liberals are offering in 2026. Cops have never killed more people in my lifetime.
Gotta do something different.
Gotta do something different.
January 9, 2026 at 6:42 PM
I'm in my mid-50s. I started organizing against the violence of policing when I was a teenager. I've heard ALL of the so-called "reform" proposals. They are the SAME ONES that liberals are offering in 2026. Cops have never killed more people in my lifetime.
Gotta do something different.
Gotta do something different.