Elly
@blaka-smoko.bsky.social
34 | friendly neighborhood autist | comics & horror loving weeb | genderqueer androdyke | biromantic aego | proud fujin/himejin 腐💘🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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I think the moment I fully lost it with American elite culture was when there was a no-shit bipartisan panic attack over Colorado throwing Trump off the 2024 ballot because of this stipulation
every time I read this, I get apocalyptically apoplectic about how clear it is. it is instant. it does not require explicit congressional action to invoke, it instead only requires that to remove.
donald trump is not the current president right now, according to the constitution.
donald trump is not the current president right now, according to the constitution.
January 20, 2026 at 7:10 PM
I think the moment I fully lost it with American elite culture was when there was a no-shit bipartisan panic attack over Colorado throwing Trump off the 2024 ballot because of this stipulation
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Good rundown of how Trump can't cancel the midterms, and how the GOP's relentless voter suppression and gerrymandering is not only not working, but making their defeat more inevitable.
wrote about Trump's promises to cancel elections, how that's impossible, and how his efforts to cheat aren't going well either. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-canc...
Trump's talk of canceling elections is a sign of desperation
He wouldn't be talking this way if his numbers weren't terrible.
www.publicnotice.co
January 20, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Good rundown of how Trump can't cancel the midterms, and how the GOP's relentless voter suppression and gerrymandering is not only not working, but making their defeat more inevitable.
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Well, it’s the 9th anniversary of this today. No special reason for mentioning it now, obviously
January 20, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Well, it’s the 9th anniversary of this today. No special reason for mentioning it now, obviously
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After accidentally mistaking Don Lemon for RW media & yelling fuck you 😅, Minnesota Man apologizes & explains that he's out in sub-0° bc white supremacy is a white person problem.
"This is the logical conclusion of allowing white people to have bigotry & racism for years. We fucked up so bad."
"This is the logical conclusion of allowing white people to have bigotry & racism for years. We fucked up so bad."
January 19, 2026 at 4:02 PM
After accidentally mistaking Don Lemon for RW media & yelling fuck you 😅, Minnesota Man apologizes & explains that he's out in sub-0° bc white supremacy is a white person problem.
"This is the logical conclusion of allowing white people to have bigotry & racism for years. We fucked up so bad."
"This is the logical conclusion of allowing white people to have bigotry & racism for years. We fucked up so bad."
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one of the best things about this whole nightmare has been watching a whole bunch of folks who have clearly never been seriously political in their lives standing up and going, no, absolutely the fuck not, we’re not letting this happen
ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
January 18, 2026 at 2:47 AM
one of the best things about this whole nightmare has been watching a whole bunch of folks who have clearly never been seriously political in their lives standing up and going, no, absolutely the fuck not, we’re not letting this happen
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This is a really important story, and one that explains the place of the Hmong community in the Twin Cities and why this entire occupation is really just ethnic cleansing (my words). Also, props to Marisa for doing the work to get this story right when so many out-of-town journalists have failed.
New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.
My story:
My story:
Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home
DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 20, 2026 at 1:14 AM
This is a really important story, and one that explains the place of the Hmong community in the Twin Cities and why this entire occupation is really just ethnic cleansing (my words). Also, props to Marisa for doing the work to get this story right when so many out-of-town journalists have failed.
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specific shout out to everyone whose started HRT since 2020
i started HRT in 2017 when the world was definitely bad but not like bad Bad BAd BAD like it is today
im very inspired by all the folx who are not letting hell time in nightmare world dissuade them from seeking themselves and living free
i started HRT in 2017 when the world was definitely bad but not like bad Bad BAd BAD like it is today
im very inspired by all the folx who are not letting hell time in nightmare world dissuade them from seeking themselves and living free
January 19, 2026 at 3:24 PM
specific shout out to everyone whose started HRT since 2020
i started HRT in 2017 when the world was definitely bad but not like bad Bad BAd BAD like it is today
im very inspired by all the folx who are not letting hell time in nightmare world dissuade them from seeking themselves and living free
i started HRT in 2017 when the world was definitely bad but not like bad Bad BAd BAD like it is today
im very inspired by all the folx who are not letting hell time in nightmare world dissuade them from seeking themselves and living free
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i need to remind all my trans frands of A Certain Age this; that aging in our community is an honour and a privilege and we should treat it as such
let the cis bemoan aging and curse their laugh lines, we know that every year we age we let our younger trans fam know, a full life is possible 💜💜💜
let the cis bemoan aging and curse their laugh lines, we know that every year we age we let our younger trans fam know, a full life is possible 💜💜💜
just realized in all my love joy i outted myself as being 43 😅😅😅 stupid love joy getting me to tell on myself!
(she joked jokingly, its fine that i'm insanely old. aging in our community is an honor and a privilege)
(she joked jokingly, its fine that i'm insanely old. aging in our community is an honor and a privilege)
January 20, 2026 at 2:47 PM
i need to remind all my trans frands of A Certain Age this; that aging in our community is an honour and a privilege and we should treat it as such
let the cis bemoan aging and curse their laugh lines, we know that every year we age we let our younger trans fam know, a full life is possible 💜💜💜
let the cis bemoan aging and curse their laugh lines, we know that every year we age we let our younger trans fam know, a full life is possible 💜💜💜
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I wish all fascist stormtroopers a hearty gangrenous frostbite
minnesotans are prepping for a massive statewide protest on friday, a day where it will be -10.
that’s how much we hate ICE.
that’s how much we hate ICE.
January 20, 2026 at 4:35 PM
I wish all fascist stormtroopers a hearty gangrenous frostbite
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Beast mode
*Another* new YouGov / Economist poll shows continuing mounting support for abolishing ICE:
45% support abolishing ICE
45% oppose abolishing ICE
Black voters in favor 60-20
Moderates in favor 45-41
Independents in favor 44-34
12% of Trump voters support abolishing ICE as well
45% support abolishing ICE
45% oppose abolishing ICE
Black voters in favor 60-20
Moderates in favor 45-41
Independents in favor 44-34
12% of Trump voters support abolishing ICE as well
January 20, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Beast mode
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this is it. this is the way forward.
January 20, 2026 at 7:37 AM
this is it. this is the way forward.
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Mind you, the pastor was not just a conservative or Trump supporter or what have you. The pastor is the LOCAL DIRECTOR OF ICE. It is the equivalent of a German pastor being an SS officer
If my pastor were evil I would want you to invade my church and heckle him too, full solidarity to the MN church protestors
January 20, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Mind you, the pastor was not just a conservative or Trump supporter or what have you. The pastor is the LOCAL DIRECTOR OF ICE. It is the equivalent of a German pastor being an SS officer
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I think there is some information in there that isn't familiar to a lot of people. Including that the US is currently holding three times as many people in immigration detention as were detained in the entire Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich.
January 20, 2026 at 3:43 AM
I think there is some information in there that isn't familiar to a lot of people. Including that the US is currently holding three times as many people in immigration detention as were detained in the entire Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich.
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I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
Into the abyss
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:37 AM
I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
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A truth: I do not want to suffer negative consequences as collateral damage of the horrible things Trump is doing, because I despise and reject his regime.
A truer truth: if inconvenience and mild hardship for me means safety and freedom for the world, bring it on.
A truer truth: if inconvenience and mild hardship for me means safety and freedom for the world, bring it on.
To those who are claiming that it'd be too cruel and extreme for the EU to cut off American tourist visas now (or to otherwise sanction or inconvenience us Americans in any way)....
You're REALLY not gonna like what happens if the madman Trump is permitted to set off a hot war with Europe.
You're REALLY not gonna like what happens if the madman Trump is permitted to set off a hot war with Europe.
January 19, 2026 at 8:30 PM
A truth: I do not want to suffer negative consequences as collateral damage of the horrible things Trump is doing, because I despise and reject his regime.
A truer truth: if inconvenience and mild hardship for me means safety and freedom for the world, bring it on.
A truer truth: if inconvenience and mild hardship for me means safety and freedom for the world, bring it on.
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a very unfortunate dynamic this administration has is that the more unpopular and weak they become the more damage they will do, because it is the only move they have
they are flailing but they’re going to do astounding amounts of damage on the way out even if we somehow avoid the worst case
they are flailing but they’re going to do astounding amounts of damage on the way out even if we somehow avoid the worst case
January 20, 2026 at 1:41 AM
a very unfortunate dynamic this administration has is that the more unpopular and weak they become the more damage they will do, because it is the only move they have
they are flailing but they’re going to do astounding amounts of damage on the way out even if we somehow avoid the worst case
they are flailing but they’re going to do astounding amounts of damage on the way out even if we somehow avoid the worst case
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jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
![YOUR RING CAMERA IS AN ICE AGENT
[a drawing of a ring camera with an ice agent dragging a person away in its field of vision]
"In October of 2025, Amazon's Ring announced its partnership with FLOCK, an A.I. surveillance group that freely shares its footage with ICE, the secret service, and the navy. Flock customers can use A.I. tools to sift through footage to assist in all manner of operations (like raids and deportations) without a warrant. Unplug Ring! Melt ICE! Protect your neighbors!
See: https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-expands-community-requests-to-additional-community-safety-partners/
https://www.404media.co/ice-secret-service-navy-all-had-access-to-flocks-nationwide-network-of-cameras/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ
https://www.aclum.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out-resource-guide/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p2aefnvhb3zmkrazk67dppxw/bafkreic7teyeocg7k5qcqxnc666k7clyiislh2zfi6iopcz6fs3e3lt6xy@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 8:15 PM
jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
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enough is enough. we have to let women onto jupiter. no more gatekeeping stupider
January 19, 2026 at 7:13 AM
enough is enough. we have to let women onto jupiter. no more gatekeeping stupider
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The millennial's curse: Very online 30/40 somethings cannot write, talk, or make art without constantly trying to defy or (worse in some ways) outflank the scorn of an audience they will never know or see. If that curse has extended to how you interact with your kids, you're well and truly cooked
January 20, 2026 at 12:14 AM
The millennial's curse: Very online 30/40 somethings cannot write, talk, or make art without constantly trying to defy or (worse in some ways) outflank the scorn of an audience they will never know or see. If that curse has extended to how you interact with your kids, you're well and truly cooked
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We have no moral high ground to fall from. We aren't descending into hell, we've already been there for decades. In perfect form all the perverts, the constitutional violators, the usurers, rapists, and pedophiles who have been in positions of power are just no longer worried about wearing a mask.
January 20, 2026 at 2:25 AM
We have no moral high ground to fall from. We aren't descending into hell, we've already been there for decades. In perfect form all the perverts, the constitutional violators, the usurers, rapists, and pedophiles who have been in positions of power are just no longer worried about wearing a mask.
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...We cannot talk about it without kill lists, murdering people with robots based on phone metadata association. Spying on everyone to include Americans. Holding and torturing people for years and years and years in both known and unknown places.
January 20, 2026 at 2:22 AM
...We cannot talk about it without kill lists, murdering people with robots based on phone metadata association. Spying on everyone to include Americans. Holding and torturing people for years and years and years in both known and unknown places.