Rich
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Rich
@dobie19.bsky.social
If you’ll send me a DM with an email address of a local friend, I’ll buy an e-card for them to support the shop @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support.

PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities-

Venmo @powwowgrounds

www.powwowgrounds.com
Pow Wow Grounds
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January 16, 2026 at 12:50 AM
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As a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor

Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes

Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day

Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods
January 16, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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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 .
January 13, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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this is war. I don't know why this isn't the language that everyone uses. The Feds are waging war on civilians.
Honestly have lost count in the chaos but this is the third (?) gas incident today
Federal authorities have tear-gassed a crowd outside the Whipple Federal Building at Fort Snelling. Follow updates here. bit.ly/3Lakres
January 13, 2026 at 3:12 AM
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Hello Tim Cook I worked at Tumblr when you gave us 48 hours to get rid of all the consenting, adult boobs. Up all night at your whim, out of the blue. But you're still cool with Twitter and its CSAM and revenge porn and whatever the fuck this is? Why do you even HAVE guidelines?
Previously, several of these companies, like Apple, IBM, and Disney, have paused advertising on X in response to antisemitic content. But antisemitism on X never slowed, sexual abuse imagery increased, and all of these companies quietly resumed advertising anyways.
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...
Why isn't there a bigger Grok boycott?
Advertisers, politicians, and investors are still all-in on X, despite a sexual abuse crisis.
spitfirenews.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
January 8, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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The immediate demand today is neither new nor excessive. This demand, with which we must take to the streets, organize our workplaces, and orient our daily practices, is only a small but necessary part of anti-fascist struggle. Abolish ICE.
latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/01/07/i...
This Isn’t the First Killing by ICE — and It Won’t Be the Last
ICE shot a woman point-blank in Minneapolis. The agency’s raids and impunity were always going to lead to death.
theintercept.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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ICE descended upon Columbus, OH this week. In this footage from 12/21/25, ICE is detaining someone without a warrant and threatening to detain a citizen who is peacefully attempting to film the situation.
December 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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An excellent and well researched article on nearly a year of Trump’s Immigration Nightmare

How the US has moved towards fascism, how due process was set aside and how the Supreme court judges have allowed impunity

From @radleybalko.bsky.social via @newrepublic.com

Worthwhile...
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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"The horns and whistles work..."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The horns and whistles work
What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.
www.motherjones.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Columbus folks: there have been several reports of ICE hanging out on the Westside, along norton and around that area. Try to be aware for your neighbors and yourselves.
December 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.

paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."
December 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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🧊 👀😩
December 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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There are 75,977 people born in Somalia who are now citizens of the United States, including those specific people.

He is talking about US citizens. He is talking about *us*.

The truth is that none of us are garbage, and the job of the US president is to represent all of us.

We, the people.
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Home Depot looking like they in the FO stage of FAFO 🤝https://www.newsweek.com/home-depot-ice-involvement-boycott-calls-grow-11082610
November 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
What a fantastic interview
November 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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True comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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In my old town the GOP had run basically without serious challenge for decades. A bunch of us "millennials" joined the local Dem party and basically asked to help.

We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
“Rather than taking over the Democratic Party the same way the right took over the Republican Party, we should take the easier route and just start up a new party ourselves!”

I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie]

SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Here’s how you can help.

ft. @vinguptamd.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM