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Anders @derzquist.net · 10m

Keith congrats on successfully asking the monkey's paw for "a story that will really put Racket on the map!"

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Tony Demoniano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 28m

Minneapolis is a Portland, St. Paul is a Chicago

Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 1h

How many different cities does the US have? By which I mean, for example: I think it's pretty easy to establish that Pittsburgh is a Chicago, and that SF, Seattle, and Portland are all just different reified aspects of a single city

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Anders @derzquist.net · 18m

Correct

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 55m

BREAKING: The Trump administration is doubling its Argentina bailout to $40 billion.

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Anders @derzquist.net · 1h

Nah I give it away for free

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Anders @derzquist.net · 1h

That's why I don't predict; I prophesize

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 17h

Be the Rick Steves you want to see in the world.

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 3h

As promised, here's how I spent my gorgeous fall Saturday afternoon.

What I Saw at This Weekend’s Minnesota MAHA Fest Scared the Hell out of Me - Racket

Over 1,000 Christian opponents of modern medicine descended on Alexandria, MN, to testify that drugs, doctors, and Satan were making us all sick at the 7th annual Freedom Summit.

racketmn.com

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 3h

Cool thread. My alternate framing to this dynamic, unsurprisingly, is going to center consumerism as politics. We’ve had “sacrificial, participatory, and enduring relationships” to institutions, and now we have “transactional and self-centered relationships to institutions”. Amenable to RW and LW!

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 4h

I'm gonna try to articulate something I've been thinking about for a while, regarding *why* disillusionment, distrust, & dissatisfaction with democracy are rising.

Almost everything I read takes this phenomenon as an exogenous shock, assuming no one chose to make it so. I suspect that's incomplete.

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Anders @derzquist.net · 16h

Didn't worry, we opened up the panel and turned it off. There's no way anytime could also open up the panel and turn it back on.

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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 16h

Brother the movie was fuckin wild.

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 2d

My book is officially on sale tomorrow. I am so grateful for the support of amazing union leaders like @flyingwithsara.bsky.social.

Plus, if you buy one and see me, you can an illegible autograph just like she got!

Sara Nelson @flyingwithsara.bsky.social · 2d

An optimistic book in a grueling time. @dskamper.bsky.social gives us hope with stories of strategic fights led with the awakening of worker power. Solidarity is essential and so is reading this book. I was honored to write the foreword of Who✊s Got the Power?

Cover of Dave Kamper’s book, “Who’s Got the Power? The Resurgence of American Unions”

Title page with a very kind note from Dave to Sara. Kind note covered by humbled Sara, but Solidarity with Dave’s signature is plain to see.

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Anders @derzquist.net · 16h

I received urgent messages from @tombasgen.bsky.social that he had just gotten out of 'One Battle After Another' and we ended up talking about it for 25 min on the phone.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 19h

His kid’s phone alerts were blowing up.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 19h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Anders @derzquist.net · 20h

Sauna time 🧖
180°/83° 🌡️
30% ☁️
Ex: 49°/9° ☔
St. Paul, MN 🧭

Anders @derzquist.net · 3d

Sauna time 🧖
180°/83° 🌡️
30% ☁️
Ex: 62°/17° 🌄
St. Paul, MN 🧭

Anders @derzquist.net · 3d

Sauna time 🧖
180°/83° 🌡️
30% ☁️
Ex: 65°/18° ☀️
St. Paul, MN 🧭

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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✨👻 scoooops 👻✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 1d

Osterberg, John et al. "Tactical Disinvestment - Madison Equities and the Revitalization of Saint Paul". Journal of Tactical Urbanism. 2047.

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Anders @derzquist.net · 22h

I've only seen chapters pushing turnout

Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 2d

Planning on going to the No Kings protest this Saturday? Join the TCDSA bloc! 🟥 Look for the red DSA banner and flags to find our table and join the contingent!
📍 Saturday Oct 18th • 1 - 4 pm • The Commons, 425 Portland Ave S, Minneapolis
buff.ly/yLOQtUn
🌹Socialism beats Fascism!

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 2d

Planning on going to the No Kings protest this Saturday? Join the TCDSA bloc! 🟥 Look for the red DSA banner and flags to find our table and join the contingent!
📍 Saturday Oct 18th • 1 - 4 pm • The Commons, 425 Portland Ave S, Minneapolis
buff.ly/yLOQtUn
🌹Socialism beats Fascism!

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING: Major clashes in southeast Chicago this pm.

DHS agents who crashed a car had eggs thrown at them. According to ABC7, they then fired pepper balls at local residents. It’s now a scene of flying rocks & tear gas.

Chicago was never a war zone. But Trump’s militia is turning it into one.

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Anders @derzquist.net · 23h

We really needed this rain

Anders @derzquist.net · 1d

We really needed this rain

Anders @derzquist.net · 2d

We really needed this rain

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Anders @derzquist.net · 1d

Yep it happens sometime. Usually clears up within a day

Anders @derzquist.net · 1d

I think all fiction was better off when there was a clear, and fairly wide, demarcation between Children's Literature vs Adult Literature.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Anders @derzquist.net · 1d

Great speech. I love that he starts it with an updated version of "And I welcome their hatred!":

"Billionaires ... have poured millions of dollars into this race because they say that we pose an existential threat.

And I am here to admit something. They are right."

Zohran Mamdani: “Our Time Is Now”

Last night at a campaign rally, Zohran Mamdani addressed his supporters: “For too long, we have tried not to lose. Now, it is time that we win.”

jacobin.com

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Anders @derzquist.net · 1d

The contrast is r/composting where everyone is cheering each other on and happily sharing productive tips. The only time I've seen someone scolded there was when a poster bought a bunch of perfectly good limes to add to the heap and everyone was upset because the food could have been consumed first

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