Christopher Ruhlen
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Strings/shouts. Moon shots. Jams econo. Also a lawyer.
https://blackrailsband.bandcamp.com
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Ron Filipkowski
5 days ago
Great speech, dude.
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Katelyn Burns
6 days ago
It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.
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I’m not sure what’s wrong with her outfit… 🤔
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William Gibson
13 days ago
Thanks! The person who first explained that to me was the late Professor John Doheny of the UBC Department of English, around 1975 or so.
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Dude said he wants to fight Elvis.
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Brenda Wintrode
26 days ago
A federal judge ordered a 14-day halt to construction at a Washington County warehouse that ICE plans to convert into an immigration detention center. The judge said the broader legal challenge filed by Maryland's AG Brown could succeed on the merits.
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Judge orders 14-day halt to work at Washington County ICE facility
DHS purchased the warehouse in January and recently awarded a $113 million contract to turn the commercial space into a detention center.
https://www.thebanner.com/politics-power/state-government/maryland-ice-detention-center-williamsport-GT4T22T2DRAFRKFZ6PMBFAJQKE/
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Eventually, the moral failings of military leadership are going to damage public support for the troops. This will be Hegseth’s legacy.
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Aaron Rupar
28 days ago
If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.
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Amanda Litman
27 days ago
I dunno man. It’s also morally wrong, but if I were the GOP right now, I would not be eager to make it even harder to vote. Dems will crawl over broken glass to cast a ballot against Trump; meh Republicans or low propensity voters will just stay home.
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Alternative Tentacles Records
28 days ago
On Saturday, March 7th Jello Biafra suffered a hemorrhagic stroke caused by high blood pressure. 

As per Jello:
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When you read the post as the photo caption…
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The firing (or whatever) of Noem is a good start, but no one should take their eye off the ball. Keep pressing for accountability, it runs all the way to the top.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen
about 1 month ago
Today, Congress was finally briefed on Trump's war of choice in Iran. Even behind closed doors, they couldn't get their story straight. But one thing is clear: they don't have a clue what the end game is, and it sure as hell isn't making America safer.
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Black Rails
about 1 month ago
Tonight in Silver Spring… Quarry House Tavern w/ Ligatures, Mazemaker Saturday, February 28 Doors 9:30 PM, $15, all ages 8401 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD Tickets available at
www.rediscoverfirebooking.com
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#ligaturesdc
#mazemaker
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Baltimore Banner
about 1 month ago
BREAKING: Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown is suing DHS to stop the transformation of a Williamsport warehouse into an immigration detention facility, citing environmental and public health concerns.
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Black Rails
about 2 months ago
Hyattsville, Saturday night… SoHy Corner Shops w/ New Passengers Saturday, February 21 Doors 7:30 PM, $12, all ages 5132 Baltimore Avenue, Hyattsville, Maryland
#blackrailsband
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There is a non-zero possibility that bathtub is filled with hazardous stream water from Rock Creek…
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about 2 months ago
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Mueller, She Wrote
about 2 months ago
Democrats should propose amendments to the SAVE act that require the government to furnish free IDs to all eligible voters before requiring them, automatically register all people to vote, expand mail-in voting, and create a national voting holiday. Then watch republicans block them.
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@nin.com
at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., February 11, 2026.
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Will Stancil
about 2 months ago
Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.
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Anna Merlan
about 2 months ago
It is Wednesday, February 11. The Super Bowl was three days ago. The sun will die in approximately five billion years. Death comes inexorably for us all. And large portions of MAGA and the Trump administration are still talking about Bad Bunny's halftime show:
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MAGA absolutely cannot let Bad Bunny go
Denying his Super Bowl success is a way to try to assert Trump's cultural control.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/bad-bunny-super-bowl-maga-freakout/
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This Super Bowl is reminding me of the United States I thought I lived in.
about 2 months ago
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Chris Murphy
about 2 months ago
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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It’s Dotard International Airport, then.
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The Guardian
2 months ago
We can reverse America’s decline | Bernie Sanders
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We can reverse America’s decline | Bernie Sanders
It is not good enough just to criticize Trump. We must offer a positive vision that will improve the lives of Americans
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/05/we-can-reverse-americas-decline-heres-how?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1770309812
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Common Cause
2 months ago
Now they've arrested Don Lemon. It's not a crime to report the news or question the President of the United States. It's our constitutional right as Americans.
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It’s wild to think that Trump still intends to follow up on all of these recent events with a UFC match on the White House lawn.
2 months ago
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Adam Serwer
2 months ago
It's a war and the American people are the enemy. Can't do the fake "no they're just after the bad guys" after you shot two people for no good reason.
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Bruce Springsteen
2 months ago
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
https://youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?si=7ciYwNLv34RrdD1p
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jamelle
2 months ago
if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
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Randall Stephens
2 months ago
This March 1965 Herblock cartoon about police violence against civil rights activists has added relevance today.
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2 months ago
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Indivisible ❌👑
2 months ago
TONIGHT: Organizers in Minnesota are asking you to shine a light for their state.
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Abolish the U.S Department of Summary Execution, now.
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Grudgie the Whale
2 months ago
“I’ve been dressing like a Nazi for a long time” isn’t that great a defense
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MinnMax
2 months ago
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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ryan cooper
3 months ago
"The oligarchs aligned behind Trump are likely the softest and ripest target for an EU self-defense effort."
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How the Free World Can Fight Mad King Trump - The American Prospect
The worst president in American history wants to conquer Greenland.
https://prospect.org/2026/01/21/trump-greenland-canada-venezuela-nato-democracy/
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Public Citizen
3 months ago
In 2010, the Supreme Court upended campaign finance law and allowed corporations to dominate our elections. 16 years later, the impact of Citizens United has been devastating to our democracy. We need to overturn Citizens United & end this flood of corporate money into our political system.
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Alejandra Caraballo
3 months ago
Trump shares some interesting company as the last person to be gifted a Nobel Prize medal they did not earn was Joseph Goebbels.
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Ok 2026, please settle the f*** down.
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jamelle
3 months ago
we should want to make it undeniable that there is no choice but to end ICE, prosecute its officers for lawbreaking, and fundamentally rethink immigration enforcement.
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Bill Kristol
3 months ago
Terrorizing American citizens. Threatening American allies. Covering up for American sex criminals. Welcome to the Trump administration, 2026!
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Aaron Rupar
3 months ago
at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us
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The New York Times
3 months ago
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“Jan. 6 was shocking. That Trump left the scene of the crime to return to power is a little less so,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.
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Opinion | There Is a Sickness Eating Away at American Democracy
Jan. 6 is a symptom. Elite impunity is the cause.
https://nyti.ms/3LnFr1h
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Mother Jones
3 months ago
Like the Party in Orwell’s dystopia, Trump and the Republicans have sought to rewrite history and erase the stain of Trump’s profound betrayal of America.
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The erasure of January 6
Five years later, MAGA World is still engaging in its Orwellian rewriting of history.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/january-6-5th-anniversary-capitol-mob-trump-orwell/
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Philip Bump
3 months ago
fuck outta here
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Philadelphia Inquirer
3 months ago
Trump's illegal war on Venezuela cemented his claim to dictatorship and marked the U.S. as a global pariah.
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America launches its 250th birthday year by becoming a rogue state | Will Bunch
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ElieNYC
3 months ago
We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions
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Greg Sargent
3 months ago
Whatever happens now, we absolutely cannot allow Trump's refusal to seek Congressional authorization for what appears to be a large scale military attack on another country vanish from the media discussion, which already appears to be happening.
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