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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 14m

Yupper

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 40m

If you're not a local politics watcher, you have to remember to read headlines involving the city attorney's office as: "Mayor does X. People who work for mayor say, actually everything is fine."

Political group accuses Frey of improperly deleting texts. Some advocates and media lawyers agree.
The Minneapolis city attorney’s office says Mayor Jacob Frey is in compliance with the state transparency laws.

In executive order, Mayor Frey directs Minneapolis to implement police reforms canceled by Trump DOJ
City Council members are pursuing a separate plan to fold the federal agreement into a state settlement; the city attorney says they don’t have the power.

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 18m

100% agreed

LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 3h

My hot horror take for today is that HP Lovecraft’s influence on cosmic horror, the genre as a whole and just other writers taking on the Cthulhu mythos is far more interesting than his actual work.

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 25m

Ooooh, nice

JessicaMCurrall @jessicamcurrall.bsky.social · 1d

@lollardfish.bsky.social Are you familiar with How to Eat a Poem by Eve Miriam?

Eve Miriam’s poem, How to Eat a Poem, reads:

Don’t be polite.
Bite in.
Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin.
It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are.

You do not need a knife or fork or spoon or plate or napkin or tablecloth.

For there is no core
or stem
or rind
or pit
or seed
or skin
to throw away.

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 15h

If your heart aches to help a child who miraculously survived annihilation and desperately needs to continue his treatment, please Hamoud is in urgent need! His mother is struggling every day, doing everything she can just to give her son a chance at health and a normal life.

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 15h

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Rana. Rana was studying to work in a medical laboratory before the war and her husband owned a small gift shop. Their home and shop were destroyed. They have two children Hamoud, 3 and Tota, 7. Hamoud’s eyes were injured and needs treatment.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 3h

i do firmly believe in the end, we will win, but the dread and the loss of watching this nightmare unfold is really something. These assholes are undermining everything we've taken for granted as a democratic and open society (however imperfect) with such vile hubris

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 4h

SCOTUS killing VRA would really be the culmination of a Second Redemption

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Sanctuary Supply Depot @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social · 3h

It's very cold, especially overnight! If you find yourself with any extra fall or winter clothes or blankets, please consider bringing them to any of our drop-off locations! ❤️

Marīa @solusandra.bsky.social · 9d

And this temp drop won't stop: the low tomorrow night is supposed to be 37°... the low was 71° just last week.

If you are in the Twin Cities & have extra blankets and cold weather clothing, consider donating to @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social - our unhoused neighbors could probably use warm things!

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 1h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you.

- Get Out
- One Cut Of The Dead
- Mercy Christmas
- The Pit And The Pendulum

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you.

- You're Next
- A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
- Tigers Are Not Afraid
- La Llorona

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 3h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

I'll go first:
-Silence of the Lambs
-I Saw the Devil
-Coherence
-Jaws

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 2h

Heh-heh

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 3h

Minnesota nice

bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...

'No Kings' protests to be held in 69 Minnesota cities this weekend

An estimated 2,500 rallies will take place nationwide on Saturday.

bringmethenews.com

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 2h

And those Republicans can go get fucked 🖕🏻

#ProtectTransKids

Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 4h

A coalition of mostly Republican-run states has filed a joint brief in support of an effort to immediately block transgender athletes in Minnesota from competing in girls sports.

Republican attorneys general unite to support blocking Minnesota’s transgender athlete policy

The coalition includes 19 states run almost exclusively by GOP governors.

bit.ly

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10h

for starters: the response to Charlie Kirk, complete with a full court propaganda press from the White House, is very much the present war! more importantly: what I'm after in the @bostonreview.bsky.social piece is less "shame will save us" and more "Klein's opposition to it is incoherent"

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Julia Lurie @julialurie.bsky.social · 5h

When Genesis found out she was pregnant, she asked her managers at Amazon for a chair to sit on and extra breaks. She wound up with cut hours and no paid maternity leave—and homeless. Now, she and other pregnant Amazon warehouse workers are speaking up. My latest:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A pregnant Amazon employee asked for a chair to sit on—and wound up homeless

"You're just a number to them."

www.motherjones.com

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Your friend CJ @xturtle.bsky.social · 5h

It's extremely telling that Johnson would call a rally named No Kings a "hate America" rally. Did you ever attend a history class, Mike?

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5h

Mike Johnson on the No Kings Protests: “The Hate America rally that'll happen Saturday…I bet you see pro-Hamas supporters. I bet you you see Antifa types. I bet you see the Marxist in full display, the people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic.”

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 6h

Ahh, the perfect necklace

www.uncommongoods.com/product/my-f...

Uncommon Goods | My Favorite Pasta Shape Necklace | Necklace

A craveworthy pasta that’s 100% carb-free. Show off your favorite shape in sterling silver or gold vermeil. Each sale helps to fight hunger in the US and Mexico.

www.uncommongoods.com

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 7h

Do it!! 👍🏻😁👍🏻

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 12h

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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Ms. Ivette 🕯☽ ⛤ 🔮🖤 @bunnylove403.bsky.social · 10h

I apologize to anyone who decides to skip this, but please if you can, just #help and/or #reskeet this post. I have 26 days left in shelter. This might be my only hope.

HELP Ivette Mir raise funds for a studio apartment. Scan QR code, click the link and/or reskeet.

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 21h

Omg cute 😍

Mrs. N @btwnthesepages.bsky.social · 1d

Gingerbread Hedgehog 🦔
#CookieParty

A batch of gingerbread hedgehog with chocolate sprinkles as their spikes and mini chocolate chip noses.

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 21h

Reason number one-million-and-two:

#DontRankFrey
#RankFatehRankDavisRankHampton (in your preferred order)

David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 1d

If I’m reading Kyle right, Frey admits failing to issue 100 housing vouchers *that are funded this year because he wants to kill the program next year.* (This is not Stable Schools, but for single folks.) This is unallotment Trump-style, especially since county/MPHA are in.

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 21h

Holy shit y'all

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 21h

🤮

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 23h

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 21h

I hate him so fucking much

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 22h

The same universe that crafted koalas and quasars and crocus petals authored the mind reading these words.
Don't let intimate knowledge of your own life rob you of the dignity and wonder you are owed.

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