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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

The people running this country have zero respect for the Constitution, laws, rules of ethics and professional responsibility, traditions or norms. They are lawless gangsters drunk on power and nobody in their party outside the admin has the courage or integrity to stop them.

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mst3kharris.bsky.social @mst3kharris.bsky.social · 19h

Tiocfaidh ár lá!

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 23h

This is a blatant attempt to silence and isolate us. He’s stopping the trains, closing the freeways and firing live rounds into California. We will not be intimidated. We will not be silenced. #NoKings

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 2d

Historian here No Kings is the most American thing you could say and the people opposing it simply don’t believe in our republic or constitutional democracy.

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Jeremy Zoss @jzossmpls.bsky.social · 21h

The most Minnesotan protest sign. #NoKings

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tweety fish of innsmouth @sifu.tweety.fish · 22h

Protest sign saying “frog and toad protest” with a drawing of frog and toad holding protest signs

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Racket @racketmn.com · 20h

Trump is using the shutdown cuts to hurt political enemies (that's us):

Trump's Shutdown Cuts Target MN Dem Districts - Racket

Plus Black women struggle with unemployment, wear your seatbelt, and Soberfish to close in today's Flyover news roundup.

racketmn.com

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 22h

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Virginia Sapiro @vsapiro.bsky.social · 22h

A dinosaur talking with an NPR producer.

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Burma-Gram @burmagram.bsky.social · 21h

TRUMP'S LIKE MIDAS
IN REVERSE
ALL HE TOUCHES
JUST TURNS WORSE
~ BURMA-GRAM

#NOKINGS #NOKINGSDAY

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 21h

When you bomb non-combatants without due cause in an act that blatantly violates international law, you don't get to label the act of picking up the minority of people who somehow survived your act of unjustified aggression a "rescue."

"BREAKING — U.S. military rescued survivors by helicopter after Thursday strike in the Caribbean and is now holding them on a navy ship, four sources familiar w/the matter tell"

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 1d

For people not from Minnesota, Mankato was the site of one of the worst mass murderings of Native people by the US government and local whites.

The Trials & Hanging | The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862

"The trials of the Dakota were conducted unfairly in a variety of ways. The evidence was sparse, the tribunal was biased, the defendants were unrepresented in unfamiliar proceedings conducted in a for...

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇

Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.

Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book

Rolling Stone excerpt about Montana’s ballot initiative to combat Citizens United

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Jen Antila @jenantila.bsky.social · 21h

#NoKings #Mpls #Commons 1:20pm photo cred: @nichelle02.bsky.social

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jimmycraig42.bsky.social @jimmycraig42.bsky.social · 1d

A Canadian gave the world insulin for free

The price should not be any more than what it costs to produce it

Pharmaceutical companies that price gouge should be burnt to the ground

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 20h

March on, my fellows!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 1d

"The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

When America Said, 'No Kings'

A reminder of the grievances. And the values that made America.

open.substack.com

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 21h

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 22h

CNN talking about the possibility of violence as a guy in a giraffe costume waddles by

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 22h

Saaaaaaaame

good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 23h

Photograph of a cardboard sign that reads

I'M SO
TIRED OF
KNOWING ABOUT
THESE WEIRD
DORKS

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mst3kharris.bsky.social @mst3kharris.bsky.social · 1d

Blocked but I’m oddly depressed about it

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 1d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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

Hi. There is an influx of government sites and I’m gonna use what little clout I have

To say

Don’t bait them.

pay them DUST.

Commit to boosting coverage of what they do, centering the voices of who they target .

In fact start muting folks who over antagonize them

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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 1d

George Santos is the 10th GOP Congressman to get a pardon or clemency from President Trump. The other nine were also all convicted of various criminal charges:

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