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NYC flâneuse. Fan of independent film, tech for public good, bodega cats, and democracy. She/her. Слава Україні!

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A whistleblower just disclosed that FBI experts were delayed by AT LEAST A DAY in deploying to investigate Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Why?

There was an FBI plane and pilot shortage… because Kash Patel was using them for personal flights.

24.02.2026 19:50 👍 5256 🔁 1836 💬 133 📌 238

But we probably shouldn’t do is tell anyone how to feel about being harmed or offer selective concern to indicate who is the “real” oppressed minority here. Or ask for grace from anyone who has to live with the harm that’s been done.

23.02.2026 15:44 👍 649 🔁 60 💬 1 📌 2

1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

06.02.2026 17:42 👍 27701 🔁 8154 💬 432 📌 300
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800 Google employees demand an end to any cloud contracts with ICE and CBP The petition also called for executives to protect vulnerable Google employees, "from cafeteria workers to data center employees."

According to an organizer, “all signatories are full-time employees, and nearly 30% are Google Cloud workers.”

06.02.2026 17:28 👍 747 🔁 207 💬 5 📌 12
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

06.02.2026 09:09 👍 47155 🔁 19331 💬 1352 📌 795

nevermind spanish, some of you have three days to learn how to dance

05.02.2026 21:12 👍 3456 🔁 331 💬 71 📌 30
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Marimar Martinez, shot by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Good, Pretti deaths: 'I am their voice' In a wide-ranging interview with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Martinez discusses her shooting, the federal government’s failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fi...

Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths

'I am their voice'

NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

03.02.2026 13:22 👍 8956 🔁 3053 💬 79 📌 128

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes."

After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

03.02.2026 03:58 👍 26526 🔁 6081 💬 34 📌 44
BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES YouTube video by Billy Bragg

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

26.01.2026 22:42 👍 5871 🔁 2411 💬 204 📌 399

If “sharing information about suspicious cars that drove by on the Internet” is illegal, than Kash Patel better be cracking down hard on Nextdoor before he bothers with Signal.

27.01.2026 03:09 👍 302 🔁 53 💬 12 📌 0
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

27.01.2026 00:22 👍 23469 🔁 7822 💬 332 📌 882
the name Keith Porter Jr has been written on a wall

the name Keith Porter Jr has been written on a wall

Logan Square, Chicago, IL

25.01.2026 21:25 👍 313 🔁 83 💬 2 📌 1
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❄️ VIDEO: Mayor Mamdani seen with a shovel assisting a car stuck in the snow in the Hasidic-populated neighborhood of Williamsburg.

25.01.2026 20:25 👍 934 🔁 193 💬 25 📌 63
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STATEMENT FROM THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION (NBPA) AND ITS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON THE FATAL SHOOTING IN MINNEAPOLIS BY ICE

25.01.2026 20:52 👍 4193 🔁 1098 💬 79 📌 99
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ICE attacked an observer after they tailed a group of clergy on a spiritual pilgrimage.

Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.

24.01.2026 04:22 👍 4837 🔁 2725 💬 159 📌 240

nine years old

23.01.2026 15:41 👍 7599 🔁 3159 💬 104 📌 258
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Danish pension fund AkademikerPension to exit US Treasuries By Investing.com Danish pension fund AkademikerPension to exit US Treasuries

Danish pension fund to dump US treasuries
"The US is basically not a good credit and long-term the US government finances are not sustainable," says chief investment officer

www.investing.com/news/stock-m...

20.01.2026 14:45 👍 6138 🔁 2404 💬 366 📌 375

“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.” -- Martin Luther King Jr.

19.01.2026 15:18 👍 7964 🔁 3022 💬 123 📌 97
DHS notice of inspection

DHS notice of inspection

DHS employees entered our store this afternoon and served us a Notice of Inspection, demanding copies of I9 forms for each employee.

In 27 years as shopkeepers, we have never been subjected to this type of investigation.

17.01.2026 00:22 👍 5599 🔁 1910 💬 180 📌 189

so much to cover right now, but a thread i just want to throw out there from my reporting is that the car rental market in minneapolis is reportedly totally screwed up right now because ICE has cleared the inventory. rental companies should have to answer for supplying vehicles used in terror.

14.01.2026 20:59 👍 6241 🔁 1542 💬 91 📌 45
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‘I was flooded with fear’: Minnesotans describe their encounters with ICE, being detained From an Uber driver to a school drop off, MPR News spoke with Minnesotans who were stopped or detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

She says ICE agents mocked her: “The ICE agent who had pepper sprayed into the vents of my car said ‘you guys gotta stop obstructing us, that’s why that lesbian b—— is dead,’ verbatim, speaking of Renee Good. Which filled me with absolute rage and shock..."
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

14.01.2026 15:42 👍 6832 🔁 3399 💬 183 📌 224
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Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donates $45 million to LGBTQ+ youth hotline organization, The Trevor Project | Fortune “I literally could not believe it and it took some time. I actually gasped,” said Jaymes Black, CEO of The Trevor Project.

The Trevor Project, known for its hotline for LGBTQ+ youth, received $45 million from billionaire and author MacKenzie Scott at the end of 2025. https://bit.ly/4sEbdYv

13.01.2026 01:20 👍 951 🔁 180 💬 23 📌 54

We must stress: The only violence is coming from CBP/ICE. They are rioting in the face of sustained nonviolent protests by thousands of Americans across the country.

They are today’s Alabama State Troopers at the Selma bridge. They are Bull Connor’s police with firehoses in Birmingham.

13.01.2026 14:27 👍 3205 🔁 1284 💬 43 📌 49

There should be a much, MUCH larger discourse and reporting on how whoever is running DHS' social media is an overt white supremacist who is literally posting Nazi memes on a daily basis. Doesn't matter that it's almost certainly some edgelord 4chan intern; it's still happening and it's obscene.

12.01.2026 13:49 👍 770 🔁 218 💬 11 📌 9

protect and reinforce our supply lines

12.01.2026 03:11 👍 1490 🔁 199 💬 7 📌 6

It's worth your time to call Hilton to cancel your account with them. 1-800-446-6677. Here's why:

They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.

The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.

11.01.2026 23:42 👍 8169 🔁 3101 💬 139 📌 165