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Dr Sweet Machine
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Supernova with human skin. Author of We the Destroyers & Borrowing Your Body (Riot in Your Throat) & All Sex and No Story (Rabbit Catastrophe). she/her. http://linktr.ee/laurapassin
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mjsdc.bsky.social
The terror that ICE and CBP have inflicted on the children of the Twin Cities is, by itself, a crime of scandalous proportions that will forever stain this country's moral fabric, and all those responsible should never know another day of peace. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Bauer, who is 49, struggled to maintain her composure as she described the day early this month when ICE showed up in force outside her school. Agents had been circling the school since December, seemingly learning its routines, and they arrested some parents just before the winter break. But this time, agents leapt out in riot gear and began entering the apartments just across from the school, where many students live. “We had to lock down and keep the kids inside, and parents linked arms to block the school entrance,” Bauer said. “We had a student who was looking out the window and saw them break into his apartment and just sobbed, ‘That’s my house. That’s my home.’ And we shut the blinds, but it was too late.”
January 26, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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mags.colvett.online
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tired ants
rtodkelly.bsky.social Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2d
Now I want to know which CNN reporter or producer doesn't know the word "sycophant."
January 26, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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thejackofkingfield.bsky.social
Mood in minneapolis right now
January 24, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis
naomikritzer.bsky.social Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 3d
I mostly just stay off Twitter altogether but after double checking that the Walter Hudson post was still up I ran across this and just had to share so the Romancelandians who bought hand warmers could hear about the PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS.
@GuntherEagleman on Twitter says, "BREAKING: The "No-Go-Zone" in Minneapolis is getting fully stocked like a pop-up leftist supply depot, free hand warmers, winter gear, coffee, food, milk, you name it. This is PROFESSIONAL-grade logistics. Someone is BANKROLLING this autonomous zone.
January 26, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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unenthusiast.com
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STATEMENT FROM MATT MOBERG, CHAPLAIN OF THE MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES IF YOU'RE A CHURCH POSTING PRAYERS FOR PEACE AND UNITY TODAY WHILE MY CITY BLEEDS IN THE STREET. MISS ME WITH THAT SOFTNESS YOU ONLY WEAR WHEN IT COSTS YOU NOTHING. DON'T DRESS AVOIDANCE UP AS HOLINESS. DON'T CALL SILENCE "PEACEMAKING." DON'T LIGHT A CANDLE AND THINK IT SUBSTITUTES FOR SHOWING UP. TONIGHT AN ICE AGENT TOOK A PHOTO OF ME NEXT TO MY CAR, LOOKED ME IN THE EYE AND TOLD ME, "WE'LL BE SEEING YOU SOON." NOT METAPHOR. NOT HYPERBOLE. A THREAT DRESSED UP IN A BADGE AND A PAYCHECK. PEACE ISN'T WHAT YOU ASK FOR WHEN THE BOOT IS ALREADY ON SOMEONE'S NECK. PEACE IS WHAT THE POWERFUL ASK FOR WHEN THEY DON'T WANT TO BE INTERRUPTED. UNITY ISN'T NEUTRAL. UNITY THAT REFUSES TO NAME VIOLENCE IS JUST LOYALTY TO THE ONES HOLDING THE WEAPONS. STOP USING SCRIPTURE LIKE CHLOROFORM. STOP CALLING YOUR FEAR "WISDOM." STOP PRETENDING JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED BECAUSE HE PREACHED GOOD VIBES AND PERSONAL GROWTH. YOU DON'T GET TO QUOTE SCRIPTURE LIKE A LULLABY, WHILE INJUSTICE STAYS WIDE AWAKE. YOU DON'T GET TO ASK GOD TO "HEAL THE LAND" IF YOU WON'T EVEN LOOK AT THE WOUND. THERE IS A KIND OF PEACE THAT ONLY EXISTS BECAUSE IT REFUSES TO TELL THE TRUTH. THAT PEACE IS A LIE. AND LIES DON'T GROW ANYTHING WORTH SAVING. THE SCRIPTURES YOU LOVE WEREN'T WRITTEN TO KEEP THINGS CALM. THEY WERE WRITTEN TO SET THINGS RIGHT. AND SOMETIMES THE MOST FAITHFUL THING YOU CAN DO IS STOP PRAYING AROUND THE PAIN AND START STANDING INSIDE IT. IF THAT MAKES YOU UNCOMFORTABLE-GOOD. GROWTH ALWAYS IS.
January 25, 2026 at 10:52 PM
sweetmachine.bsky.social
Whitman. Resist much, obey little.
Walt Whitman's poem: TO THE STATES. TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after- ward resumes its liberty.
January 25, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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suzfrischkorn.bsky.social
refuse silence when you can still sing

—Diana Di Prima
January 25, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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danielharper.bsky.social
The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.
jeffsharlet.bsky.social Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 4d
James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.
January 25, 2026 at 11:06 AM
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jbf1755.bsky.social
Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Attorney General Pam Bondi: "Our country was founded on law enforcement"
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Bondi: "It's extremely organized. The signs they have are all matching, they're well written. And look at what's happening today. How did these people go out & get gas masks? These protesters. Would you know how to walk out on the street and buy a gas mask? Think about that. We're not gonna have it"
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
January 25, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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astrokatie.com
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting. 2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value. 3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE. 4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on. 5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle." 6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground. 7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack. 8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video. 9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk. 10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun. 11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him. 12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes. 13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times. 14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him. 15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1. 16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground. 17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building. 18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values. I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct. Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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spavel.bsky.social
If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.
Wikipedia sections of an article. 1: early life and career as a pirate. 2: archbishop of York.
January 18, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

—The Declaration of Independence
January 18, 2026 at 9:01 PM
sweetmachine.bsky.social
Happy 5th birthday to Riot in Your Throat press, which I am so grateful to be a part of! To celebrate 5 successful years, all books are on sale for $10 for the month of January--including mine!

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Promo graphic that says "Happy Birthday! Riot in Your Throat is 5 years old!!! We're celebrating with a sale on all our books!! Snag them now for only $10 each!" There is a line drawing of a birthday cake and three hearts, and there is a polaroid-like graphic of the press logo, which is a woman with long hair and a tattoo that says Riot in Your Throat.
January 18, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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tomsnarsky.bsky.social
RIP to David Lynch, gone one year today — here’s an old poem from when I first rewatched The Return, astonished by the way it redefined time, space, and memory, collapsing + problematizing them with humor and warmth even in the presence of seemingly ineradicable American violence
LOVE POEM COMPOSED UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF CARRIE PAGE’S SCREAM TOM SNARSKY America cannot survive a woman with no history—Dale’s badge fails, the guns go in the fryer, and the night opens like not-Laura’s mouth when Sarah Palmer’s spectral call sparks across identity to the fuse blown in every woman who lives to adulthood, a perfect miracle, like do we not remember Laura is an angel at the end of Fire Walk With Me, and the fact that she only sees the angel just proves my point, aren’t we simply the things that disappear from our childhood bedrooms, one by one, only to surface again when we’re dead or in a dream
January 16, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Cartoon by Adam Zyglis
January 15, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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bandytstamp.bsky.social
Let me tell you: some of our countries aren’t where we left them.

Jane Zwart, from her luminous collection ODDEST & OLDEST & SADDEST & BEST
#smallpoemsunday
Go Back to Your Own Country Let me tell you about countries: nobody has their own and where we come from moves. Our mothers' wombs aren't where we left them. Continents calve. Jerusalem holds a tray full of glasses that a scrum of men take and put back, take and put back, unworried for the weight she must shift. Let me tell you: some of our countries aren't where we left them. Someone pulls a string and six tumble from Yugoslavia's pocket. Someone halves Sudan like a branch over their knee. Someone crumbles a bailey between Berlins and Germany is one place again. Only Adam had his own country, and he could not go back. A country is land that's learned to disown.
January 11, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social
Tired I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two - And see what worms are eating At the rind. Langston Hughes
January 8, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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uncannymagazine.bsky.social
New poem! "No Kings / No Soldiers" by A.M. Tuomala! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/no-k...
A.M. Tuomala
January 6, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
The most unsubtle, heavy-handed claims made by pomo academic types have turned out to all be true. Gender is a relation of domination that requires constant, affirming witness. Capitalism will require extractive colonial relations. There’s no subtlety. Every day is like a 101 seminar at Oberlin.
January 6, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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chrishudsonjr.bsky.social
Time is a flat circle.
Fox News on Venezuela Venezuelans worldwide rally after Maduro's capture sparks celebrations Fox News on Iraq Iraqi-Americans Rejoice at Saddam Defeat
January 4, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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tvsadam.bsky.social
the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
January 3, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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toddedillard.bsky.social
some Linda Pastan for #smallpoemsunday
After Minor Surgery this is the dress rehearsal when the body like a constant lover flirts for the first time with faithlessness when the body like a passenger on a long journey hear the conductor call out the name of the first stop when the body in all its fear and cunning makes promises to me it knows it cannot keep
January 4, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?
January 3, 2026 at 5:40 PM