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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 4h

Council funding things that the mayor chooses not to implement is a theme of the strong mayor era.

David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 6h

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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Waging Nonviolence @wagingnonviolence.org · 9h

Lifelong peace activist Kathy Kelly discusses the urgent need to move beyond militarism and the false promises of security through violence.

A world beyond war

Lifelong peace activist Kathy Kelly discusses the urgent need to move beyond militarism and the false promises of security through violence.

wagingnonviolence.org

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Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · 10h

Do you need a new book to read specifically on May 12, 2026?

Yes? Oh cool, then you should pre-order the book @deandettloff.bsky.social and I wrote.

Here’s the link: tinyurl.com/MagnificastP...

Enough is enough: degrowth, capitalism, and liberation theology by matt bernico and dean Dettloff

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12h

I think that how people talk about colonialism I think is one of the better tells for what their politics actually are. ymmv

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 13h

American Christians: Thank you, Trump, the greatest Christian President of all!

Trump, unprompted, repeatedly: They're saying it's hard for a rich man to get into Heaven, folks. Like a camel through a needle's eye. And camels are the biggest—you've never seen something so big. It's not happening.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Longreads @longreads.com · 1d

"The border is best understood as an elastic regime that extends and thickens across space and time."

@harshawalia.bsky.social for @social.architectural-review.com: www.architectural-review.com/essays/keyno...

The multiplying border - The Architectural Review

The border is an elastic regime, rather than a fixed line, that can exist anywhere and everywhere, writes Harsha Walia

www.architectural-review.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 1d

“As the prophet Jeremiah proclaimed, there are those who boast in their wisdom, those who boast in their wealth, & those who boast in their might. But the real ones boast in Something Else that is soaked in steadfast love, justice and righteous deeds.”
soulaccompaniment.substack.com/p/68-ceasefi...

[68] Ceasefire Now.

“For from the least to the greatest of them, everyone is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely. They have treated the wound of my people carelessly, saying, ‘Peace...

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1d

If the regions of focus for ICE and CBP are going to shift, you're going to have to be prepared for what that means. Deep structures of trust to meet people's basic needs. An understanding that you cannot and will not know the full scope of action on a given day. Bracing for loss after loss.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 1d

“It’s a form of resistance that requires us to put aside ego, and the need for personal gratification, to become a node in a living network of care, support, and defense.”
organizingmythoughts.org/they-came-fo...

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 2d

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 1d

Still wild to see Pentecostals I long ago trusted talk about how they prayed for this hostage release for two years, knowing they also haven’t met a war they couldn’t baptize since at least 2001 and don’t care at all about Palestinians.

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in Power, Miss Major.💔

On solidarity: “We can’t go it alone… I mean, you can try, and get knocked down and get up and try again, and get knocked down and get up and try again. But that’s how it’ll be, until somebody helps you up and says, let me stand with you.”
truthout.org/articles/a-m...

A Mother’s Day Chat With Revolutionary Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Janet Mock has called Miss Major, who has nurtured generations of queer and trans youth, “the mother we all deserve.”…

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. As some Democrats have run from transgender rights, Zohran Mamdani is showing what so many others have lacked: courage to lead with his values over pandering to focus groups.

The ad is one of the best things I've seen from a politician on transgender people.

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As Some Dems Run From Trans People, Zohran Mamdani's Latest Ad Shows Real Support

The 2 minute ad features Sylvia Rivera's story, Mamdani's commitment to transgender people, and even music from the legendary late trans artist SOPHIE.

www.erininthemorning.com

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dr. eerie katherine @actualkatherine.bsky.social · 1d

Bonus: if you've been wondering, "why has dr. e been rooting for the Seattle Mariners? aren't they a Baltimore sports fan?" Well, all will be revealed in this article ⬇️ (and you might learn something too)

dr. eerie katherine @actualkatherine.bsky.social · 1d

contingentmagazine.org/2024/11/30/t...

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

“No one is covering it” is a hook for influencers and folks who want to become the mouth pieces ( and I blame BTC)

A better question is to tell us how you found out and why finding out that way upsets you

stacy-marie ishmael @smi.bsky.social · 1d

NPR/Alaska Public Media: alaskapublic.org/news/public-...

AP: apnews.com/article/alas...

CNN: www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/w...

Fox Weather: www.foxweather.com/weather-news...

ABC: abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

CBS: www.cbsnews.com/news/alaska-...

The Weather Channel: weather.com/news/weather...

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

The other reason I hate “no one is covering”

Is

The story “no one is covering” is often being pushed by someone who is already marginalized for covering the thing

They need acknowledgement to keep doing so

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone should experience the humbling effect of sending out a small request to an organizing listserve [of people who have self-selected to be on said list] and getting zero responses. It will help you to understand how hard it is to organize anything.

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 1d

Wrote about the temptation to put Gaza on the back burner now that the ceasefire is solidifying—and why we can't let that happen. Gaza still needs you, and me, and everyone to fight until real Palestinian liberation is won. www.discourseblog.com/p/gaza-still...

Gaza Still Needs You

This fight is not over.

www.discourseblog.com

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National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition @nnabshc.bsky.social · 1d

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2025, The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition honors and celebrates Indigenous Peoples, all of whom are still here despite policies like Indian boarding schools that were designed to erase us.

Learn more about NABS: www.boardingschoolhealing.org

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 1d

Minneapolis deserves a champion for working people.

This is our opportunity to build a city where every single resident can thrive. I can’t wait to cast my ballot for my friend and colleague, Omar Fateh, as my first choice for mayor by November 4th, and I hope you will join me.

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Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · 1d

I’m so excited to have my Congresswoman and friend, @ilhanmn.bsky.social, on board with my candidacy for Mayor! She fights hard for the working people of Minneapolis. As Mayor, I’ll partner with leaders like her to build an affordable city that's accountable to us. secure.actblue.com/donate/fateh...

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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 1d

This morning, I joined the Metropolitan Urban Indian Directors and community at the Sunrise Ceremony for Indigenous Peoples’ Day. 1/

Ivonne, Jason, Kay and Erika taking a photo at the sunrise ceremony

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 2d

to the predatory exploitation & state sponsored violence against the poor, the immigrant, the unjustly prosecuted, those denied housing, health insurance & medical treatment; against the persecution of trans folk & the intentional starvation of the children of Gaza & not letting them go unremarked…”

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 2d

“Still the prophet’s ‘Woe!’ echoes across time, but joined by far too few voices. Amos is not a miracle working prophet. To follow in his steps and stand in his tradition doesn’t require super powers. It requires opening your mouth and saying ‘Woe!’” www.wilgafney.com/2025/10/11/c...

Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself

Sunday Eucharist, installation weekend of the Very Rev. Winnie Varghese, Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC Proper 21 RCL Amos 8:4-7; Psalm 113; 1 Timothy 2:1-7; Luke 16:1-13 …

www.wilgafney.com

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