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Erik The Grebo
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I live a dual-life. By day I'm a web programmer, making tools or something. By night I'm making fart sounds with synthesizers. They/them.
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“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”

Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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The little pod of volunteers and staff that run Monarca trainings is overwhelmed.

We cannot do more after 12/15. That means you must become amoeba.

Attended a training & kept the booklet? You’re a trainer now. Go door to door getting likeminded neighbors in a signal chat. Whistle Patrol
December 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Honestly it’s real useful to understand that centrists are eager to meet fascists in the middle but not anybody else lol
December 7, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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People need to boycott this show and not just half ass. Shame everyone who plans on watching it. This isn't about Eurovision, it's about Israel getting away with committing genocide because THERE ARE NEVER ANY CONSEQUENCES. They should be untouchable by now. Everybody needs to walk the fucking walk.
Eurovision has allowed Israel to compete in 2026.

Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands have pulled out of the competition following the decision.
December 5, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Don't just repost this and think "I did a politics." Put the number in your phone as a contact. The Goon Squad got their budget multiplied by 10x next year and not if - when you see them you're not gonna remember the tweet or the number so put it in your phone now.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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What Americans Die from?

And what the media reports on...

Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
October 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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I'm starting a campaign to tell Tarantino this is his tenth film
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 AM
@tomlommel.com Facebook wanted to remind me of the time I volunteered on “Fear of Girls 2” and I thought ya might appreciate this vintage photo from the Dungeons and Dragons basement.
November 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Ward 7 anthem
November 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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More fuckery is afoot and I feel like an insane person with conspiracy string but I gotta lay this out for people. Roll with me.

On September 10th, I filed my code of conduct complaint against the leadership of the feminist caucus for the transphobia I and another trans person were subjected to.
a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a bulletin board with a lot of papers on it .
Alt: charlie day and his pepe silva conspiracy wall
media.tenor.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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I wrote about how an Iraq-war era military contractor ended up as a mall cop cracking down on a protest encampment in Minneapolis the summer after the George Floyd protests. This is the story of Nathan Seabrook and long arc of the war on terror. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How a mercenary became a Minneapolis mall cop
After the George Floyd protests, a former military contractor named Nathan Seabrook brought the war home.
www.motherjones.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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For no reason at all, I'm just thinking about how the four incumbent Council Members that the losers behind A Precarious State attacked for their DSA ties got a cumulative 64% of the vote in their wards, beating their next-closest opponents by 32%.
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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If you want to do this in Minnesota specifically for your LGBTQ+ siblings, might I recommend ABetterDFL.org in this trying time?
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.

lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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no kidding. the progressive bloc held onto power, all winning by 17+ pts. two new conservatives (warren and shaffer) won narrowly and will be by far the most vulnerable incumbents come 2029. BET stayed progressive. parks had a progressive pro-union wave.
And also, if they wanted moderation, why did they put Wonsley and Chavez back in? Why Soren? They had moderate options and in most cases picked someone else at the council level.
this analysis is strange in that it doesnt answer the fundamental question about Minneapolis voters - if Frey's multiple lies and polarizing ways were truly against their values and they were tired of it, why did they not choose Davis? www.startribune.com/jacob-frey-r...
November 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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🧵🧵have a lot of thoughts about the Fateh loss, and most of them are that he lost because of racism and xenophobia.

We invited all 3 rank for change campaigns to Micah’s lemonade stand fundraiser for the Supply Depot. Omar and Dewayne came. I was happy to let the campaigns use photo/video 1/
November 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Hey folks! I've got two players in the queue, and need at least one more before we can kick this thing off. Because times are ridiculously tough for everyone right now, I've lowered the price to $5 and made the next session free for the first few iterations of this. Hope you'll consider joining us!
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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My gut reaction, looking at this map, is the people who encounter the homelessness epidemic everyday voted to remove Jacob from office.

Those who don’t encounter this problem day to day had other concerns not addressed by the other campaigns.
November 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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*cough* minneapolis *cough*
I think people ignore how many Mamdani style candidates that have ran across the country and were very popular, but the establishment Democrats organized themselves to crush them. I could be wrong, but I think most progressive initiatives and politicians get blocked by Democrats nationwide.
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM