@qannani.bsky.social
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The disingenuous whiners at the Seattle Times ed board actually suggested that Katie Wilson—mayor-elect and the founder of the Transit Riders Union (who used to do outreach at the bus stop on Third and Union)—doesn't know that the county, not the city, runs the buses. Cry harder, losers
November 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The disingenuous whiners at the Seattle Times ed board actually suggested that Katie Wilson—mayor-elect and the founder of the Transit Riders Union (who used to do outreach at the bus stop on Third and Union)—doesn't know that the county, not the city, runs the buses. Cry harder, losers
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Thank you so much for amplifying, Aiyana!
Hi everyone. I was the R&B Reporter at VIBE for 4 years prior to the merger. The past few weeks have been a whirlwind, but on behalf of my former team, we thank you for your support.
Hi everyone. I was the R&B Reporter at VIBE for 4 years prior to the merger. The past few weeks have been a whirlwind, but on behalf of my former team, we thank you for your support.
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling Stone. As a result, the majority of VIBE employees were laid off. If you have the means to give, this team could use the support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...
Donate to Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs, organized by Mya Abraham
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November 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Thank you so much for amplifying, Aiyana!
Hi everyone. I was the R&B Reporter at VIBE for 4 years prior to the merger. The past few weeks have been a whirlwind, but on behalf of my former team, we thank you for your support.
Hi everyone. I was the R&B Reporter at VIBE for 4 years prior to the merger. The past few weeks have been a whirlwind, but on behalf of my former team, we thank you for your support.
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If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.
November 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.
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Over 1700 unexamined sexual kits were discovered at MPD. Melissa Zimmerman’s kit was one of them. Listen to her traumatic journey.
HCAO Press Conference: Conviction in Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (11/12/25)
YouTube video by HennepinAttorney
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Over 1700 unexamined sexual kits were discovered at MPD. Melissa Zimmerman’s kit was one of them. Listen to her traumatic journey.
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What really fills me with dread is that every instance of this isn't met immediately by an armed crowd chasing off the secret police. For every video of ICE/CBP being confronted, there are more where bystanders just evaporate. That has to change.
ICE GOONS abducted a man while he was out birthday shopping for his daughter. You can hear the child pleading for her father as the masked goons ignore her and stuff him into the back of an unmarked car in San Diego, California.
November 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
What really fills me with dread is that every instance of this isn't met immediately by an armed crowd chasing off the secret police. For every video of ICE/CBP being confronted, there are more where bystanders just evaporate. That has to change.
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This is why ousting Schumer isn't enough. Democratic senators don't pressure each other much, they have weak leadership by design, and they want to preserve arcane Senate rules that let them hide behind process.
Without primaries or massive outside pressure, this is where they'll be.
Without primaries or massive outside pressure, this is where they'll be.
“There’s no real appetite to oust Schumer, though. Nor is there any interest from another Democrat to challenge him, according to interviews with more than a dozen Democratic senators.” @punchbowlnews.bsky.social
Oh Sen Dems are not in disarray - they are in array - in their collective cowardice.
Oh Sen Dems are not in disarray - they are in array - in their collective cowardice.
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
This is why ousting Schumer isn't enough. Democratic senators don't pressure each other much, they have weak leadership by design, and they want to preserve arcane Senate rules that let them hide behind process.
Without primaries or massive outside pressure, this is where they'll be.
Without primaries or massive outside pressure, this is where they'll be.
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A high school student and budding mariachi recounts the damage done to his family by two separate immigration raids, four months apart, detailing the lasting trauma federal enforcement is leaving on brown youth across the U.S.
The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
By Izzy Ramirez
The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
By Izzy Ramirez
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
A high school student and budding mariachi recounts the damage done to his family by two separate immigration raids, four months apart, detailing the lasting trauma federal enforcement is leaving on brown youth across the U.S.
The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
By Izzy Ramirez
The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
By Izzy Ramirez
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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Lots going on but from outside it seems that at least part of the calculus was that flight disruption for middle class and up travelers matters more than life disruption for untold numbers who’ll be deprived of health care.
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Lots going on but from outside it seems that at least part of the calculus was that flight disruption for middle class and up travelers matters more than life disruption for untold numbers who’ll be deprived of health care.
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It’s crazy that a Democratic senator who represents Illinois could see everything this administration is doing in Chicago and its suburbs and vote to reopen the government. Like these should be the Senators demanding so much more than everyone else to reopen the government.
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
It’s crazy that a Democratic senator who represents Illinois could see everything this administration is doing in Chicago and its suburbs and vote to reopen the government. Like these should be the Senators demanding so much more than everyone else to reopen the government.
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The only Dem senators voting to cave on the shutdown fight are either retiring or not up for reelection this cycle.
Might be Dems' most beautifully synchronized cave yet
Might be Dems' most beautifully synchronized cave yet
EIGHT Senate Democrats have voted to advance the funding measure so far after the deal was reached:
Cortez Masto
Durbin
Fetterman
Hassan
Kaine
King
Rosen
Shaheen
If the existing 52 Republicans hold, that's 60 — enough to advance this agreement. Final vote still to come.
Cortez Masto
Durbin
Fetterman
Hassan
Kaine
King
Rosen
Shaheen
If the existing 52 Republicans hold, that's 60 — enough to advance this agreement. Final vote still to come.
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The only Dem senators voting to cave on the shutdown fight are either retiring or not up for reelection this cycle.
Might be Dems' most beautifully synchronized cave yet
Might be Dems' most beautifully synchronized cave yet
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Hi Minnesotan Bluesky:
The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party.
Join me: abetterdfl.org.
The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party.
Join me: abetterdfl.org.
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Hi Minnesotan Bluesky:
The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party.
Join me: abetterdfl.org.
The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party.
Join me: abetterdfl.org.
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These kinds of analyses are always missing 2 facts:
1. They don't even speculate on who the "right" guy should have been
2. They ignore the fact that Fateh did better than any challenger so far
1. They don't even speculate on who the "right" guy should have been
2. They ignore the fact that Fateh did better than any challenger so far
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...
Roper: Jacob Frey can thank the far left for handing him another term
Frey was a vulnerable incumbent. But progressives banked on the wrong guy to beat him.
www.startribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
These kinds of analyses are always missing 2 facts:
1. They don't even speculate on who the "right" guy should have been
2. They ignore the fact that Fateh did better than any challenger so far
1. They don't even speculate on who the "right" guy should have been
2. They ignore the fact that Fateh did better than any challenger so far
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I think Minneapolitans gravitate to this kind of analysis because it inoculates them from their cognitive dissonance, easy to blame the far left, but having Fateh as an option did not force anyone back in the arms of Frey.
November 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I think Minneapolitans gravitate to this kind of analysis because it inoculates them from their cognitive dissonance, easy to blame the far left, but having Fateh as an option did not force anyone back in the arms of Frey.
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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...
Roper: Jacob Frey can thank the far left for handing him another term
Frey was a vulnerable incumbent. But progressives banked on the wrong guy to beat him.
www.startribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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...
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Roper should name some of these “far left” policies instead of just using the term to prompt handwringing.
Police accountability. Rent stabilization. City owned grocery stores. Improved public transit. More affordable housing. Housing first approach to homelessness.
Doesn’t sound “radical” to me!
Police accountability. Rent stabilization. City owned grocery stores. Improved public transit. More affordable housing. Housing first approach to homelessness.
Doesn’t sound “radical” to me!
November 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Roper should name some of these “far left” policies instead of just using the term to prompt handwringing.
Police accountability. Rent stabilization. City owned grocery stores. Improved public transit. More affordable housing. Housing first approach to homelessness.
Doesn’t sound “radical” to me!
Police accountability. Rent stabilization. City owned grocery stores. Improved public transit. More affordable housing. Housing first approach to homelessness.
Doesn’t sound “radical” to me!
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@ericroper.bsky.social brushing over the role media played in propping up Frey. Where was the media condemnation of the deeply racist snake oil attack ads on Robin or the AOM flyers that darkened Fateh's skin? Why did no one care about Frey deleting his texts and voicemails when ICE was in town?
Some thoughts on Eric Roper’s finger-wag in the mayor’s race: www.startribune.com/jacob-frey-r...
1. Asking “what chance did [Davis & Hampton] have ignores Frey’s agency is creating the race‘s dynamics. Frey sued the most moderate hope (Emily Koski) to cut off her money & intimated others. 1/
1. Asking “what chance did [Davis & Hampton] have ignores Frey’s agency is creating the race‘s dynamics. Frey sued the most moderate hope (Emily Koski) to cut off her money & intimated others. 1/
Roper: Jacob Frey can thank the far left for handing him another term
Frey was a vulnerable incumbent. But progressives banked on the wrong guy to beat him.
www.startribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
@ericroper.bsky.social brushing over the role media played in propping up Frey. Where was the media condemnation of the deeply racist snake oil attack ads on Robin or the AOM flyers that darkened Fateh's skin? Why did no one care about Frey deleting his texts and voicemails when ICE was in town?
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Israel turns the violence up and down at will, maintaining full dominion over Gaza and the West Bank, then calls each pause a generous ‘ceasefire’
Where is the Gaza ‘peace process’ really going? | Ahmad Ibsais
Israel turns the violence up and down at will, maintaining full dominion over Gaza and the West Bank, then calls each pause a generous ‘ceasefire’
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Israel turns the violence up and down at will, maintaining full dominion over Gaza and the West Bank, then calls each pause a generous ‘ceasefire’
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“Sudan's Death Toll Could Exceed Gaza’s. Here’s Everything You Need to Know”
Important convo on the genocide there from me/Zeteo, with 2 Sudan experts who offer actual solutions to stop the fighting & put pressure on outside actors like the UAE & Saudi:
Important convo on the genocide there from me/Zeteo, with 2 Sudan experts who offer actual solutions to stop the fighting & put pressure on outside actors like the UAE & Saudi:
Sudan's Death Toll Could Exceed Gaza’s. Here’s Everything You Need to Know
Two experts on Sudan explain how the killing in El Fasher is worse than anyone knows.
zeteo.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 AM
“Sudan's Death Toll Could Exceed Gaza’s. Here’s Everything You Need to Know”
Important convo on the genocide there from me/Zeteo, with 2 Sudan experts who offer actual solutions to stop the fighting & put pressure on outside actors like the UAE & Saudi:
Important convo on the genocide there from me/Zeteo, with 2 Sudan experts who offer actual solutions to stop the fighting & put pressure on outside actors like the UAE & Saudi:
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Wow, sounds like Jeff Bezos is mad
(from A Washington Post editorial entitled "Zohran Mamdani’s victory is bad for New York and the Democratic Party")
(from A Washington Post editorial entitled "Zohran Mamdani’s victory is bad for New York and the Democratic Party")
June 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Wow, sounds like Jeff Bezos is mad
(from A Washington Post editorial entitled "Zohran Mamdani’s victory is bad for New York and the Democratic Party")
(from A Washington Post editorial entitled "Zohran Mamdani’s victory is bad for New York and the Democratic Party")
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I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.
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Elections are one tool in the democratic toolkit - yesterday it was voting, and tomorrow we will keep organizing. I am proud to have run this race with the support of @twincitiesdsa.org, and to continue building with my political home (Join DSA act.dsausa.org/s/3311.R6gRaz).
November 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Elections are one tool in the democratic toolkit - yesterday it was voting, and tomorrow we will keep organizing. I am proud to have run this race with the support of @twincitiesdsa.org, and to continue building with my political home (Join DSA act.dsausa.org/s/3311.R6gRaz).
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No fewer than 28 billionaires donated at least 100k to beat Zohran Mamdani. Their overt attempt to buy the election provided Mamdani with perfect talking points. From @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/LEnjMCa
America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani - The American Prospect
It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politically inspired by a good candidate with a good message.
trib.al
November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
No fewer than 28 billionaires donated at least 100k to beat Zohran Mamdani. Their overt attempt to buy the election provided Mamdani with perfect talking points. From @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/LEnjMCa
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Thank you to @dewayneforminneapolis.com @omarfatehmn.com @jazzformayor.bsky.social and every other candidate who saw through his gaslighting, lies, fences, and all of his bullshit to try to make a real difference here.
Thank you for doing the work and trying to make a better city for us all. 💙💙💙
Thank you for doing the work and trying to make a better city for us all. 💙💙💙
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Thank you to @dewayneforminneapolis.com @omarfatehmn.com @jazzformayor.bsky.social and every other candidate who saw through his gaslighting, lies, fences, and all of his bullshit to try to make a real difference here.
Thank you for doing the work and trying to make a better city for us all. 💙💙💙
Thank you for doing the work and trying to make a better city for us all. 💙💙💙
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I never would have predicted that the most wild ride in Minneapolis politics would be Park Board District 4. And yet it was. After candidates dropping and joining left and right, a wild DFL convention, and Jason's own appendix trying to stop them, Garcia wins. (1/2)
jason garcia has been elected to park board in district 4, beating jeanette colby to take elizabeth shaffer's old seat. shaffer and michael rainville had both endorsed colby and jason has been unable to campaign much these last 2 months but still pulled it off thanks to support to MRLF especially
November 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I never would have predicted that the most wild ride in Minneapolis politics would be Park Board District 4. And yet it was. After candidates dropping and joining left and right, a wild DFL convention, and Jason's own appendix trying to stop them, Garcia wins. (1/2)