Phira
@phira603.bsky.social
Formerly @phira from Twitter. She/her, USA. World's ending and stuff, but somehow I still have to shower and make dinner for the kids.
I think that Pope Leo could do his country proud right now if he excommunicated the Vice President of the United States :)
January 11, 2026 at 1:47 AM
I think that Pope Leo could do his country proud right now if he excommunicated the Vice President of the United States :)
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Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help:
Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org.
Please donate what you can.
www.2harvest.org
Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org.
Please donate what you can.
www.2harvest.org
Second Harvest Heartland | Local Minnesota, Wisconsin food bank | 2harvest.org
There is more than enough food for everyone. As one of the nation’s largest hunger relief agencies, it’s our job to make sure healthy, nutritious food gets to the households who need it. Every day, we...
www.2harvest.org
January 10, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help:
Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org.
Please donate what you can.
www.2harvest.org
Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org.
Please donate what you can.
www.2harvest.org
Discord alternatives? I assume the survey is a formality before they roll out AI shit anyway.
January 10, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Discord alternatives? I assume the survey is a formality before they roll out AI shit anyway.
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Taunting is not a justification for arbitrary executions. Collective guilt is contrary to the rule of the law. Resisting the state— even if unlawful and prosecutable—doesn’t justify a death sentence. Our colonial ancestors rejected that agents of the state are absolutely immune for their wrongdoing.
January 10, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Taunting is not a justification for arbitrary executions. Collective guilt is contrary to the rule of the law. Resisting the state— even if unlawful and prosecutable—doesn’t justify a death sentence. Our colonial ancestors rejected that agents of the state are absolutely immune for their wrongdoing.
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The thing about the Boston Massacre— the fruits of arbitrary power— was not that the colonists were universally in the right. Things were thrown at the soldiers. But, the presence of a standing army escalated conditions. The use of force that night was not proportional. Citizens died needlessly.
January 10, 2026 at 3:42 PM
The thing about the Boston Massacre— the fruits of arbitrary power— was not that the colonists were universally in the right. Things were thrown at the soldiers. But, the presence of a standing army escalated conditions. The use of force that night was not proportional. Citizens died needlessly.
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The whole lot of them spent Jan. 6th lying about what happened 5 years ago. Why should anyone expect them to start telling the truth on January 7th?
January 9, 2026 at 1:34 AM
The whole lot of them spent Jan. 6th lying about what happened 5 years ago. Why should anyone expect them to start telling the truth on January 7th?
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Noem saying Ross acted "according to his training" is a blinking red light. Any investigative effort from those with subpoena power needs to press on ICE permitting early resort to lethal force. @lilahassan.bsky.social's reporting is crucial & acknowledges it may be out of date:
January 8, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Noem saying Ross acted "according to his training" is a blinking red light. Any investigative effort from those with subpoena power needs to press on ICE permitting early resort to lethal force. @lilahassan.bsky.social's reporting is crucial & acknowledges it may be out of date:
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I teach bystander intervention for a living and have taught de-escalation to law enforcement.
Trust me when I say that bottle girls, gas station clerks, strippers, front desk employees at hotels and airports, baristas, etc. have better de-escalation skills than any cop I've ever seen.
Trust me when I say that bottle girls, gas station clerks, strippers, front desk employees at hotels and airports, baristas, etc. have better de-escalation skills than any cop I've ever seen.
January 8, 2026 at 8:44 PM
I teach bystander intervention for a living and have taught de-escalation to law enforcement.
Trust me when I say that bottle girls, gas station clerks, strippers, front desk employees at hotels and airports, baristas, etc. have better de-escalation skills than any cop I've ever seen.
Trust me when I say that bottle girls, gas station clerks, strippers, front desk employees at hotels and airports, baristas, etc. have better de-escalation skills than any cop I've ever seen.
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Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power
- file impeachment articles every day in the House
- withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee
- be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable
- file impeachment articles every day in the House
- withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee
- be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable
January 8, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power
- file impeachment articles every day in the House
- withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee
- be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable
- file impeachment articles every day in the House
- withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee
- be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable
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This right here is why marriage equality matters. She had a wife. They have a child. Why should this child also lose their other parent who was raising them?
I would uh
Hesitate to repost this one as we have a video of her wife at the scene after it happened. A grandfather saying "he has no one, I'll come get him" with that context reads like they don't acknowledge her queer partner
Hesitate to repost this one as we have a video of her wife at the scene after it happened. A grandfather saying "he has no one, I'll come get him" with that context reads like they don't acknowledge her queer partner
Renee Nicole Good, the woman shot & killed by an ICE agent, had a young son whose father died in 2023, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune
“There’s nobody else in his life,” the boy’s grandfather told the paper. “I’ll drive. I’ll fly. To come get my grandchild.” www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
“There’s nobody else in his life,” the boy’s grandfather told the paper. “I’ll drive. I’ll fly. To come get my grandchild.” www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
January 8, 2026 at 2:43 AM
This right here is why marriage equality matters. She had a wife. They have a child. Why should this child also lose their other parent who was raising them?
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Remember like two days ago when that Hilton branch in Minnesota canceled ICE's reservation and the Hilton company punished them for it?
Boy I think maybe Hilton should be informed about what happened today.
888/446-6677
Boy I think maybe Hilton should be informed about what happened today.
888/446-6677
How to Complain to Hilton: Official Phone Numbers and More
File your complaint with the global hotel giant or one of its many brands using these customer service phone numbers or online options.
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January 8, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Remember like two days ago when that Hilton branch in Minnesota canceled ICE's reservation and the Hilton company punished them for it?
Boy I think maybe Hilton should be informed about what happened today.
888/446-6677
Boy I think maybe Hilton should be informed about what happened today.
888/446-6677
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After the assassination of Melissa Hortman it’s not hard to understand why a woman in Minnesota would be afraid of a man in a mask who says he’s a cop.
January 8, 2026 at 1:36 AM
After the assassination of Melissa Hortman it’s not hard to understand why a woman in Minnesota would be afraid of a man in a mask who says he’s a cop.
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Yes exactly. If protesters stand in front of cars, it’s fine to kill them, if someone is *inside* a car, then it’s fine for law enforcement standing in front of them to shoot them in the face.
This glib statement is all the more risible when you recall how many law enforcement officers used their vehicles as weapons against protesters in 2020... and how many Republican-dominated states *sought to legalize killing protesters with vehicles* as a reaction to the demonstrations
Noem: "People need to stop using their vehicles as weapons ... it's clear that it's being coordinated. People are being trained"
January 8, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Yes exactly. If protesters stand in front of cars, it’s fine to kill them, if someone is *inside* a car, then it’s fine for law enforcement standing in front of them to shoot them in the face.
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this was also consensus opinion for center-right types after george floyd’s murder five years ago. the state media apparatus will be working overtime the next few weeks to reprogram them
Really worth watching this interview with a bystander who witnessed the ICE shooting in Minneapolis: "I'm pretty right-leaning. But seeing this, this is not how we're supposed to be doing things in America.”
January 8, 2026 at 12:17 AM
this was also consensus opinion for center-right types after george floyd’s murder five years ago. the state media apparatus will be working overtime the next few weeks to reprogram them
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Black folks been saying that 5 years ago, 15 years ago, 50 years ago, 250 years ago
Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
January 8, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Black folks been saying that 5 years ago, 15 years ago, 50 years ago, 250 years ago
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Law enforcement baronial class
Cops lie, and even if the truth is revealed that they lied, they will always get away with it because cops are a protected class. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.
January 7, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Law enforcement baronial class
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One of the things that has been lost in the history of the Boston Massacre is that the citizens had assembled in protest of the murder of an 11 year old child who threw a brick through the window of a post house in protest of the Stamp Act and was killed by a British officer in retaliation
Paul Revere's 1770 engraving of the Boston Massacre is historically inaccurate, but helped inflame sentiments against the British. Revere omits Crispus Attucks, a formerly enslaved man of African & Native American descent— the first casualty.
Bob Tomolillo's Boston Massacre Reboot Project added him
Bob Tomolillo's Boston Massacre Reboot Project added him
January 7, 2026 at 9:36 PM
One of the things that has been lost in the history of the Boston Massacre is that the citizens had assembled in protest of the murder of an 11 year old child who threw a brick through the window of a post house in protest of the Stamp Act and was killed by a British officer in retaliation
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I think we are seeing that the government does believe it has the right to murder US citizens as it sees fit.
If they didn’t, it’d be pretty simple to sacrifice this one agent and go back to kidnapping.
If they didn’t, it’d be pretty simple to sacrifice this one agent and go back to kidnapping.
January 7, 2026 at 9:07 PM
I think we are seeing that the government does believe it has the right to murder US citizens as it sees fit.
If they didn’t, it’d be pretty simple to sacrifice this one agent and go back to kidnapping.
If they didn’t, it’d be pretty simple to sacrifice this one agent and go back to kidnapping.
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When a cop murdered my big brother at a road block 21 years ago, their post-facto justification was that he tried to run over a cop.
His foot released the brake after the officer shot him in the chest, and the car bumped an officer.
His foot released the brake after the officer shot him in the chest, and the car bumped an officer.
January 7, 2026 at 6:43 PM
When a cop murdered my big brother at a road block 21 years ago, their post-facto justification was that he tried to run over a cop.
His foot released the brake after the officer shot him in the chest, and the car bumped an officer.
His foot released the brake after the officer shot him in the chest, and the car bumped an officer.
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Sorry, am I on a jury or a journalist reporting on this? Because I do get to opt out on watching a video that people from reputable outlets have watched and described. Me watching a woman die changes NOTHING about my position here. It just traumatizes me.
the administration is lying about every detail of today’s killing and we know that partly because of the video evidence. if the footage feels traumatizing to see, sorry, but that’s reality, and you don’t get to opt out because it makes you feel bad
January 7, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Sorry, am I on a jury or a journalist reporting on this? Because I do get to opt out on watching a video that people from reputable outlets have watched and described. Me watching a woman die changes NOTHING about my position here. It just traumatizes me.
Anyway, I missed my 2024 reading goal by 1 book, which was a bit disappointing but also pretty damn good considering I made the goal before I started working full time and stopped having time to read. But I've already read 2 books this year, so yay!
January 7, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Anyway, I missed my 2024 reading goal by 1 book, which was a bit disappointing but also pretty damn good considering I made the goal before I started working full time and stopped having time to read. But I've already read 2 books this year, so yay!
Oh hi everyone! My computer broke on December 24th, and I don't use bsky on my phone, so happy new year!
January 6, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Oh hi everyone! My computer broke on December 24th, and I don't use bsky on my phone, so happy new year!