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Brendel

@brendelbored.bsky.social

Everything these guys eat looks like the big sandwich Homer falls in love with

January 17, 2026 at 4:41 PM

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Jonathan Paz

@pazforthepeople.bsky.social

January 15, 2026 at 5:40 PM

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Bill Corbett

@billcorbett.bsky.social

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

Text: “A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including
citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them
ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the
president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal
government doesn't act extrajudicially.
Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …”

January 13, 2026 at 10:38 PM

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Jonathan Paz

@pazforthepeople.bsky.social

👀 What can our country do with $170 billion? 👀

January 13, 2026 at 1:23 PM

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL

@edsbs.bsky.social

his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis

Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.

www.startribune.com

January 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM

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Jonathan Paz

@pazforthepeople.bsky.social

We can’t reform a program from the George W. Bush era that was designed to attack our communities.

Read my full statement here:
www.facebook.com/100063660716...

January 7, 2026 at 9:56 PM

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@dumbmike.bsky.social

Hey man! It's Mike! Remember? I was a guest on your podcast, talking about how single men can unethically source placental waste? You banned me from a second appearance right away? Your contact at BetterHelp killed herself in the middle of my ad read? Huh. Maybe I've confused you for someone else.

January 6, 2026 at 3:04 AM

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Will Stancil

@whstancil.bsky.social

I think the most straightforward framing that captures the severity of the situation is that the government of the United States has been seized by a mad authoritarian regime not meaningfully distinct from Putin or Kim or, well, Maduro, and its members must be brought to harsh justice

January 3, 2026 at 6:35 PM

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Better Things Are Possible

@internethippo.bsky.social

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

January 3, 2026 at 3:57 PM

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king

@raxkingisdead.bsky.social

‘obviously this had to be done but i should have been consulted first’ a powerful message sir

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 16d

… Speaker Jeffries statement:

January 3, 2026 at 6:13 PM

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Cris (without an H)

@ambignostic.bsky.social

"its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do" is one of my all time favorite tweets, but as a public service I share this tumblr collection of the entire 26-tweet reply chain it was part of (courtesy of haywire4) www.tumblr.com/haywire4/173...

mikefossey: Check this shit out motherfucker [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do]

DinkMagic: Ever seen this before [I throw my hat like a frisbee 10 feet away and jump over near it]

mikefossey: [I run down a flight of stairs, stop at the second to last step, I pause, and then I jump the last two steps. I do not land it]

DinkMagic: [i throw a grape up in the air and open my mouth but i get scared that i breathed in some fluff and start choking violently]

mikefossey: [I'm doing a mime act where I pretend to pull on a rope but I somehow accidentally grab a real rope and I pull myself off stage]

DinkMagic: [im cooking an omelette and i flip the pan and snatch the omelette out of the air with my hand burning myself] tadaa

mikefossey: [I kick some dust at a guy after losing an argument but the dust flies up into my mouth and I cough so hard I barf]

DinkMagic: [my friend says im going to the store toss me your keys but i see a strange bird and instead throw my wallet in the ditch]

mikefossey: [guy passes me on the highway and flips me off, I throw a full cup of coffee at my own windshield and it spills all over the car]

DinkMagic: [i toss an apple into my elbow-pit to bounce it back out but i miss and try to bite it out of the air but bite my tongue]

mikefossey: [I try to throw a beer can into the recycle but it hits the trash can instead and it's still mostly full so it knocks it over]

DinkMagic: [2 girls are arguing i say here let me solve this and i flip a gold coin i bought on ebay so hard it breaks a fluorescent tube

mikefossey: [I ask the guy at the store to recommend me a beer and he talks to me for 23 minutes before he realizes i think beer is wine]

DinkMagic: [i ask to be excused from dinner to do homework & then phone my mom because i broke my wrist playing street fighter at 7-11]

mikefossey: [I bite a gold coin to see if it's real, but it's chocolate. I try to play it cool and eat the whole thing without unwrapping it]

DinkMagic: [a teams softball rolls near me] i got this my friends a cuban pitcher [i throw the ball into the back of my own head & faint]

mikefossey: Here, let me park for you, Im really good at parallel parking [i walk over to the driver side and slam my dick in the car door]

DinkMagic: [i testify under oath that i thought a mortgage was a special kind of measuring tape]

mikefossey: [I'm cracking my knuckles and limbering up to fight but then a guy who's on his way to another fight accidentally knocks me over]

DinkMagic: [i ask the butcher for two pounds of boneless chicken Brent]

mikefossey: [at a dinner party I lean on the grand piano while telling a story, but the lid is open and I fall into it, hitting every string]

DinkMagic: [i get anxious at a fancy bar and order a martini and then say "could you imagine if this was soup" to no one really loud]

mikefossey: I try to open a beer with a lighter but I shatter the bottle and cut my hand, and also light my shirt on fire with the lighter]

DinkMagic: [i ride up on my new dirtbike revving it, and set the kickstand down on my own foot and start crying]

mikefossey: [I get water up my nose while I'm doing the dishes and knock my glasses into the garbage disposal when I go to rub my nose]

DinkMagic: [i get angry that I got confused & told an Italian that pizza came from Russia I drive to little Caesars & throw a stone at it

December 26, 2024 at 9:16 PM

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Jonathan Paz

@pazforthepeople.bsky.social

I’m running for Congress to put power back in your hands. Working families deserve to thrive, not be squeezed out of the communities they love. I will fight for the working class, not the donor class. Watch why this moment is ours ✌🏽
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTsV...

Jonathan Paz for Congress MA 5th District

YouTube video by Jonathan Paz

www.youtube.com

December 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM

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Frances Ryan

@francesryan.bsky.social

There can’t be a more horrific insight into the sickness of the US’s gun crime epidemic than the fact two survivors of Brown University had already survived school shootings. One was shot in the abdomen in 2016, while her best friend died. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings

Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018

www.theguardian.com

December 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM

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BesmirchedFinancier

@colourmode.bsky.social

server keeps coming over to ask how the food is, bruh how long you been workin here? they aint give you a taste yet? 😂😂

December 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM

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tacocrepe 🍀

@tacocrepe.bsky.social

Calling all office nerds 😎 the Office Mimics are now available (for free) in my Kofi! These are a set of .ico files to customize your folder/program icons with!

ko-fi.com/s/3683ca94cb

These were super fun to make, hope you have fun customizing your desktop using these!
#pixelart #mimic

December 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM

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Jason Koebler

@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:

www.404media.co/404-media-is...

404 Media Is Making a Zine

We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.

www.404media.co

December 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM

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Dan Clyne

@danclyne.bsky.social

Got rid of Spotify this year. Glad as I am to not support them, I was bummed I wouldn’t get my 2025 Wrapped.

All that’s changed. I just received this AMAZING letter from my personal music curator Tunes Michaels. He’s been incredible at making CD playlists that cater to my tastes. Highly recommend

December 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM

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Ryan Broderick

@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social

I'm sorry I fucking hate the fact I have to deal with short-form video platforms. TikTok blocked my video about the Nazi content spreading across their own platform. Fine to make as many Charlie Kirk Sonnenrad brainrot videos as you want but it's apparently a problem to talk about it!!

December 2, 2025 at 1:30 AM

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@dumbmike.bsky.social

TRUMP: I am going to kill you.

DEMOCRATS: 𝘘𝘶𝘪𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺!!

Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · Nov 20

Donald Trump should keep his reckless mouth shut.

November 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM

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Michael Hobbes

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

Weird how conservatives didn't mention all those years that they think it's fine to fire people for their beliefs! What an unfortunate misunderstanding we've had around this. Oh well!

Turning Point USA, the youth movement Kirk founded in 2012, said in a statement that it supported the right to free speech, “including that of private employers to determine when a bright line has been crossed and an employee deserves to be terminated.”

November 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king

@raxkingisdead.bsky.social

we’re getting farther and farther away from the world of actual stuff. every day a new barrier between me and a thing i can touch with my hands and drink with my mouth. the cappa frappa assholes didn’t know how dumb things could get and for that matter neither do i

November 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM