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MN. Pragmatic Progressive + contrarian views. Flippant. Agnostic Quaker Taoist. Ukraine + Media + Politics + Transit + Pro-Vax + Anti-NRA + Next Gen Energy
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Mediapolitic @mediapolitic.bsky.social · Nov 6
🇺🇸 I swear to God we should send GOP Congress so many U.S. flags that they are buried in them. Reclaim the flag while protesting their treason. 🇺🇸
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 4h
Apparently protecting US citizens from flooding is DEI.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4h
Months before catastrophic floods swept through an Alaska Native village on Sunday, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant meant to protect the community from extreme flooding. At the time, the EPA administrator said he was eliminating "wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants."
E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant to Alaska, Parts of Which Just Flooded
The remote village of Kipnuk planned to use the money to protect against flooding. On Sunday, it was inundated.
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Ryan McCrystal @ryanmccrystal.bsky.social · 6h
It took 8 paragraphs before acknowledging he has zero power over World Cup locations.

The press needs to be more direct in labelling lies and empty threats, preferably in headlines.

www.espn.com/espn/story/_...
Trump threatens to remove WC games from Boston
President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to revoke Boston's World Cup matches if local authorities don't get tougher on crime.
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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 5h
Really American

In his latest impersonation of a petty mobster, Trump threatens to take away the World Cup games from Boston, and even the Olympics from Los Angeles, to whomever doesn't bend the knee to him.

Shameful vindictiveness.
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Mediapolitic @mediapolitic.bsky.social · 3h
Yayyyy!
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Mediapolitic @mediapolitic.bsky.social · 4h
Noooooooooooooooo
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Mediapolitic @mediapolitic.bsky.social · 4h
Krist Novoselic.
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Kathleen Cole @kcolempls.bsky.social · 6h
I had a student who chose to intern with the Republican Party in Minnesota. He was distraught listening to what the other young interns were saying. They were straight up arguing for a return to monarchy and chattel slavery. Young Republicans in Minnesota.
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 6h
I’m only thinking about this article in the content of SCOTUS rehearing the Voting Rights Act case. This is what Republicans say in private. Republicans who are elected. Republicans who serve within their party apparatus. Republicans who work for the Trump administration & work in state government.
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 10h
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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Bring Me The News @bringmethenews.bsky.social · 11h
10 dead in Minnesota's worst West Nile outbreak in decades
10 dead in Minnesota's worst West Nile outbreak in decades
Hot and humid weather drove this season's outbreak.
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Mediapolitic @mediapolitic.bsky.social · 8h
The U.S. built the Trans-Alaskan Highway, from tundra to highway, at a rate of 5 miles a day. We were once a serious country.
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 9h
👀 more than seven months of messages among Young Republican leaders in New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont

”offers an unfiltered look at how a new generation of GOP activists talk when they think no one is listening.”

Hell, do they even care whether people are listening?
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 10h
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
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Mediapolitic @mediapolitic.bsky.social · 8h
I remember when Hillary Clinton was dragged for calling them deplorable.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h
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.

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Mediapolitic @mediapolitic.bsky.social · 9h
I knew this back when I went to a College Republicans/ Ann Coulter event almost 25 years ago to troll them. Instead I was so shocked about what was said there, out in the open, that I didn’t troll!
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 10h
The Supreme Court has denied an appeal by Alex Jones over a his $1.4 billion defamation judgment for his false claims that the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a hoax, which leaves in place the record-breaking sum he was ordered to pay in 2021. www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme...
Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook case
The Supreme Court turned away an appeal by Alex Jones over a $1.4 billion defamation judgment for his false claims that a 2012 school shooting was a hoax.
www.cbsnews.com
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 18h
NATO Secretary General Rutte:
…Now there is hardly any Russian naval presence in the Mediterranean left

There is a lone&broken Russian submarine limping home from patrol.What a change from the 1984 Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October.Today, it seems more like The Hunt for the Nearest Mechanic
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The War Monitor @warmonitor.net · 1d
U.S. airports are refusing to air Noem’s taxpayer-funded video blaming Democrats for the shutdown, citing the Hatch Act: “We don’t allow public assets to be weaponized for political messaging.”
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Mediapolitic @mediapolitic.bsky.social · 1d
Gaza-Israel
Israel-Iran
Houthis-Israel
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d
"we spent years gleefully angering and shitting on our core reader demographic of educated Democrats, and now we're shocked they're not giving us money anymore"

incredible work
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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1d
Can’t find much on the digital numbers, but as of June the print numbers cratered to below 100k subscribers

www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...
The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay
Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.
www.forbes.com
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Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social · 1d
At Chuck E. Cheese, explaining to my kids that when I was young, before American children’s entertainment went soft, Chuck wasn’t a friendly mouse, he was a cigar smoking rat from New Jersey.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 1d
The Trump administration removed the 5th National climate assessment, which was congressionally mandated and taxpayer funded, because they deny science. It’s now back online on a non-government website.
Fifth National Climate Assessment
The Fifth National Climate Assessment is the US Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses. It is a congressionally mandated interagency effort that provides the…
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30
No words
America’s brain drain
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 1d
ICYMI, here is the press release for my study with @drjuliawester.bsky.social - we surveyed over 800 scientists who use social media. They overwhelmingly agree that Twitter is no longer useful or pleasant, and that for all professional online scientist goals, Bluesky is superior.
🧪 #SciComm 🌍
“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant
My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…
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Mediapolitic @mediapolitic.bsky.social · 1d
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Shastina Free @evolvegracefully.bsky.social · 2d
#QatarTreason
IF Obama - or anyone else - had done this, they would’ve tried to impeach him!

#PoliticiansNoQatar

EVERY POLITICIAN,
EVERY MILITARY PERSON, EVERY PERSON
WITH COMMON SENSE
IN THE UNITED STATES
>NEEDS TO TAKE A STAND AGAINST THIS INSANITY!!!
>ASAP!⚡️🇺🇸⚡️

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d
federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d
blah blah Hunter Biden blah blah Burisma yada yada
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