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@snowsandals

Poverty attorney, Unfortunate soothsayer, CA and NY, She/Her/Ya’ll/Duuuuude

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Into the garbage bin they go, right next to Target.

We don’t need your shitty brands! You’re expendable but trans people are not.

11.03.2026 21:56 👍 6228 🔁 2082 💬 56 📌 50

Don't believe the lying-ass paid promotions disguised as "news articles" that claim the organizers of the Target boycott have called it off.

11.03.2026 18:20 👍 149 🔁 48 💬 0 📌 3
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Hasbro’s CEO on J.K. Rowling. We just published our new Decoder interview with Chris Cocks, the head of Hasbro. I asked him directly about how he thinks about author J.K. Rowling’s politics and what it’s done to the Harry Potter f...

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch

www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

09.03.2026 19:22 👍 9023 🔁 2508 💬 130 📌 176
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ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

05.03.2026 23:41 👍 12430 🔁 7483 💬 296 📌 340

I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it

05.03.2026 14:58 👍 14391 🔁 2115 💬 520 📌 203

Ao3 going down is how the revolution starts.

01.03.2026 22:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not that Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams need more pressure in their lives, but they have to know they are literally the only good thing in the world right now? Like, normally I’d be doomsday prepping but instead I’m being charmed by 2 boys living their dreams on the edge of the apocalypse.

01.03.2026 20:48 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Again, it is interesting that a single generation was entrusted with the richest, most advanced empire the world had ever known and was just uninterested in keeping it going

01.03.2026 04:46 👍 2756 🔁 476 💬 8 📌 21

True but we can get a long way on this if we throw the private prison CEOs in the slammer and fine them into poverty.

We can offer the workers jobs in a WPA-like program too.

26.02.2026 03:40 👍 40 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0

To any Democrat who ever said about any issue, "Maybe if we agree with Republicans just this far, they'll stop there," remember that you were wrong, it was obvious at the time, and you really should never believe that again about any issue, ever.

26.02.2026 03:15 👍 5052 🔁 1696 💬 68 📌 37

I wish I could explain the high I get from the moral superiority I feel when I take the bus to court in LA. #notraffic #no20dollarparking #theonlywayIcanrelaxinavehicle #passengerprincessbutonlyonthebus

18.02.2026 16:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This one is in Longfellow

11.02.2026 03:03 👍 876 🔁 300 💬 9 📌 9

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

10.02.2026 22:54 👍 27122 🔁 9601 💬 56 📌 358

Doña Gagá

09.02.2026 01:25 👍 167 🔁 13 💬 4 📌 0

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

08.02.2026 15:59 👍 11284 🔁 3856 💬 1 📌 39

I think when Death Cab for Cutie becomes your cardio music it’s probably time to increase your Lexapro dose.

03.02.2026 01:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content

30.01.2026 13:54 👍 6806 🔁 1832 💬 86 📌 94
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4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

30.01.2026 18:45 👍 15183 🔁 8325 💬 205 📌 332

GETTING HARD TO CLING TO ANY SEMBLANCE OF A MORAL UNIVERSE WHEN COOL PPL KEEP DYING AND THE EVIL ARE THRIVING.

30.01.2026 18:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning

I was sent this video of agents at her door:

30.01.2026 14:58 👍 13480 🔁 7199 💬 653 📌 861

As others have aptly pointed out, police forces have been murdering people for a long time, especially POC. This terrorism from ICE is only a continuation and newest version of what we have been seeing for a long time.

28.01.2026 22:11 👍 5555 🔁 1296 💬 256 📌 73

You should be able to get jaw BOTOX at the dentist.

30.01.2026 04:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.

27.01.2026 00:55 👍 23836 🔁 5865 💬 266 📌 324
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CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights.

There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us.

This is my favorite guide.

24.01.2026 19:54 👍 15437 🔁 6226 💬 368 📌 224
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Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

24.01.2026 17:37 👍 31051 🔁 14494 💬 1761 📌 1450

My brand of depression is listening to Radiohead while doing Tabata sprints until Im on the edge of crying or puking.

24.01.2026 22:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Patagonia sues drag queen ‘Pattie Gonia’ claiming ‘irreparable harm’ “The harm Pattie Gonia has caused and will cause to the Patagonia brand is irreparable,” according to the lawsuit.

What the hell @patagonia.com? There's no way their drag name would cause confusion under the Lanham act. This is purely vindictive.

I'll keep shopping at The North Face instead and I suggest others find a different brand.

nypost.com/2026/01/22/u...

23.01.2026 20:22 👍 910 🔁 175 💬 66 📌 26
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Minnesota is the best of us.

23.01.2026 22:52 👍 42545 🔁 9692 💬 656 📌 718
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What if we just stopped paying taxes? Where there's a will there (might) be a way.

New in PN: What if we just stopped paying taxes?

"Like many other blue states, Minnesota pays more to the federal government than it takes in. But why should the state continue to subsidize a government bent on destroying it? What if it just … didn’t?"

23.01.2026 13:05 👍 7964 🔁 2418 💬 558 📌 249