imagine if clinton, obama, biden and their congresses gave us 1/3 of our wish list the way trump and bush delivered for their base?

incredibly weird behavior for this website to allow one member of their team to singularly decide that any/all criticism of them is harassment to the level of a bannable TOS violation it cultivates an environment where no one is able to criticize bluesky and that makes everyone less safe

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

Voting rights

Roe V. Wade

So the Feds did more to investigate VA workers who went to Alex Pretti memorial than those who killed him.

AI is like if every website now emitted a smell when you clicked on it. Why? “It’s the future! So we installed it everywhere!”

I may have moved to the burbs but Minneapolis will always have my heart. This is a great overview of the May Day festivities. (Thanks @naomikritzer.bsky.social!!)

53% accomplished as of today. www.project2025.observer/en

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

I want to reassure everyone that abortion providers have been ready to switch to misoprostol-only abortion for a long time now, and clinics can still provide mifepristone in person. You can still access abortion and there are people who will help.

I just saw an Angie Craig ad about how she fought against ice and no she didn't.

There aren’t even any external factors or things out of your control to blame like Biden could do even if he still got blamed, this is happening because of actions of One Guy, abetted by one party, and the guy who did it keeps telling u to be grateful for his doing it

If a governor cancels elections within 24 hours of being given permission to draw new districts to eliminate Black voting power, is that enough for a headline to call it "racist" or is it still "racially charged" and "racially tinged" and "what some suggest is racially motivated"

I keep thinking about the ease with which they cancelled elections over the last 24 hours

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

The masked ICE thug who killed Renee Good got 3 days of administrative leave. The guy who posted an anti-Trump photo of seashells faces 10 years in prison.

Note to RFKjr: If you have a different way to calculate percentages, one which gives a different answer than the regular way, you're wrong. Not just wrong about percentages, but wrong about the way math works.

The only politician in the US to actually die from political violence in the last year was a Democrat.

They shot Alex Pretti ten times while he was face down in the street.

<stares in January 6th>

Believe me, this synopsis undersells the full clip

Since the ICE surge, Frey has: •Vetoed an eviction moratorium •Tried to get a cop city in Minneapolis •Vetoed a decriminalization of drug paraphernalia (which would have merely brought Minneapolis in line with state law) •Attended the WHCD, to honor the fascist who terrorized his own city

Those of us in the pro-democracy movement can and should hold both of these positions. 1. We unequivocally reject violence. 2. We will unequivocally oppose efforts by this administration to use last night as an excuse to try to suppress criticism and criminalize dissent.

Good morning. Happy weekend. What fresh hells, in the face of unprecedented authoritarianism & corruption, await us today on the Sunday sh- 🧐🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Idk man, I think the journalists who have been traumatized the most were not sitting in that room tonight. The feds gassed the shit out of us, knocked us over, sent in the local PD to harass, detain, and hurt us, shot a teenaged photographer in the face and he lost an eye, and that's just in LA

SCHRODINGER'S ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

I’m at the combination Comedy Central Roast of Adolf Hitler / Reichstag Fire

You cannot claim to be the watchdogs of democracy while sharing champagne and hors d'oeuvres with the very people trying to dismantle it.

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Brianna Wu just went to a new level of horrible.

I am just imagining a thousand math teachers flipping their tables in slow motion like Alan Rickman.

Also, no, "accountability" for voters is not important. Why? That's not something Democrats should be spending literally any time on. They should be figuring out how to win those voters back, not how to properly punish them. Jesus.

“the a.i. did it” is gonna be the new “the intern did it” in about ten seconds

to get my endorsement, please first see this third party contractor that will inspect you for any nazi tattoos

In World War I more U.S. soldiers died of influenza than from combat. In America's first 145 years of war more soldiers and sailors died from infectious diseases than from enemy action. In every single war in human history more combatants have died of illness and disease than bullets and the blade.

Minneapolis residents are now able to apply for rental assistance funded by the City of Minneapolis. On February 5 and March 26, the Minneapolis City Council approved funding to support renter households after the devastating and continued impact of Operation Metro Surge. 1/

When Bruce Springsteen covered Purple Rain in Minneapolis a few weeks ago, I thought about how Prince would have shown up these past few months. More recently, I’ve been stuck on his lyric “You can be the President; I’d rather be the Pope.”

Prince died 10 years ago today. Here's a couple photos from that evening as people gathered to sing outside of First Avenue in Downtown Minneapolis. A photo from after George Floyd was murdered and a mural in Uptown seen in 2025.

If you attend the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, you should be legally barred from using the term "journalist" to describe yourself from that point on.

Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding

Headphone jack.

Sitting here crying while after getting WhatsApped the photo on the right, so let me tell you a little story about how we got here from the photo on the left and why repatriation research matters!

Carrying the country on his back? The man can barely carry a coherent thought through a full sentence without stopping for a side quest about windmills.

A quick math question for all you “not all men” MFs: Which number is greater? “a couple” or “62 million”

low key obsessed with the fact the two middle English poems with the most surviving manuscripts are the Canterbury Tales (raucous, bawdy, full of ass licking and fart jokes) and Prick of Conscience (hellfire, damnation, you all need to repent! what is wrong with you!) humans always humaning 🥺

All I'm saying is we should be able to find people who aren't rapists or sex pests or don't have Nazi tattoos to represent us in Congress I do not think I'm asking for the world here

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

Can you imagine how different the US would be if men were as passionate about holding other men accountable for sexual assault as they are about keeping trans women out of the women’s bathroom?