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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 3d

Sometime around late September people began talking about it. It has only grown since then.

This month Blackout the System began to take hold.

A national call to boycott Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 4h

If you can afford it, a *monetary* donation (it goes a lot farther!) to your local food bank would be a most excellent thing to do right now.

jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 12h

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 4h

Ecuador Rejects Prosecution of Survivor of U.S. Strike on Vessel

The country has freed the man, one of two survivors of a U.S. military strike on a submersible vessel last week, defying President Trump’s claim that he would be held and prosecuted.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Ecuador Rejects Prosecution of Survivor of U.S. Strike on Vessel

www.nytimes.com

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CNN @cnn.com · 4h

A chaotic scene briefly erupted in downtown Manhattan when ICE agents began arresting illegal street vendors, a law enforcement official told CNN. It was not immediately clear how many arrests were made.

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Just some random weirdo @susanvp.bsky.social · 4h

The farmers' market people might already have a plan. I should ask. www.millcityfarmersmarket.org

Mill City Farmers Market - Minneapolis, Minnesota - Local groceries, community connection

A year-round farmers market dedicated to providing fresh, local food every Saturday May-October and first and third Saturdays November-April.

www.millcityfarmersmarket.org

Just some random weirdo @susanvp.bsky.social · 4h

Apart from the farmers' market, there are MANY restaurants, hotels, and bars here in the Downtown East / Mill District with Central and South American staff. But again, would ICE stage a raid in a nice, fun, wholesome, $$$ area, just for revenge on Minneapolis for being woke or whatever?

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Just some random weirdo @susanvp.bsky.social · 4h

The market just moved indoors (inside a nearby museum's atrium) for the year, & this is in a $$$ / touristy downtown neighborhood. Seems a very unlikely target for a raid, but who even knows any more.

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Just some random weirdo @susanvp.bsky.social · 4h

Some Guatemalans and Southeast Asians (Hmong? Vietnamese? I'm not sure) sell produce every Saturday at the Mill City farmers' market over here. Do we need to plan what to do if ICE shows up? #Minneapolis

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Just some random weirdo @susanvp.bsky.social · 17h

I wish I knew who made it — it's not by me, and I don't remember where I found it. ...It's Moo Deng, the Thai pygmy hippo / internet sensation. I agree, it is very cute. :)

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Just some random weirdo @susanvp.bsky.social · 22h

Fripp & Eno - Evening Star (Evening Star, 1975)

YouTube video by Robert Fripp

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snackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 23h

Your yearly reminder that "sugar maple tree" in the Dakota language is ćaŋ-ha’-saŋ or "chanhassen."

A beautiful maple tree at the University of Minnesota with orangey, red leaves.

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Just some random weirdo @susanvp.bsky.social · 1d

Still need to do this, or someone else could

Just some random weirdo @susanvp.bsky.social · Mar 29

Actually planning to buy a beaver costume and attend protests as the Prosecutor Beaver. "J'ACCUSE!!!"

Black and white image of the Prosecutor Beaver from the film Hundreds of Beavers, with text reading "J'Accuse...!"

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Just some random weirdo @susanvp.bsky.social · 1d

Gratitude is hard for me to find at times but very rewarding when I remember to try to think that way

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Just some random weirdo @susanvp.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/8eXBqcYfr6A?...

Minutemen - Tour Spiel [1985]

YouTube video by [ Eye Tunz ] [HD]

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 2d

We just live in a john carpenter movie now.

A warning over a highway near Interstate 5 in Los Angeles that reads “live weapons over freeway”

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Just some random weirdo @susanvp.bsky.social · 1d

Just don't use the word "menchies"

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Just some random weirdo @susanvp.bsky.social · 1d

"it's weird saying that" is truly desperate

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Just some random weirdo @susanvp.bsky.social · 1d

Good to know! ...I don't know anyone in Quito, though, whereas I do know an American who moved from Seattle to Costa Rica a few years ago and likes it there.

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Just some random weirdo @susanvp.bsky.social · 1d

That's all very good, but I fear the "high 60s to low 70s" stage is over as of today. The "increasing cold and darkness" part is what bothers me. Early fall: classic. Late fall: dud.

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Just some random weirdo @susanvp.bsky.social · 1d

I hear Costa Rica is a very nice place to live

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Just some random weirdo @susanvp.bsky.social · 1d

We're not sending our best.

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The New Universal Solar Calendar @calendarsolar.bsky.social · 2d

Mysteries of the Sandman

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Just some random weirdo @susanvp.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting conversations on here
www.reddit.com/r/ICE_ERO/

ICE_ERO

*This is a unofficial forum for current Deportation Officers, prospective applicants and retired Deportation Officers to have a platform for discussion* This Reddit is 100% UnOfficial, but for many p...

www.reddit.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d

Trump's meticulous construction of a secret police force in the traditional authoritarian model: hyper violent, targeting domestic political adversaries, unaccountable under law and to court. Pro Publica does a fine job here, with the sort of piece that NYT, WaPo and WSJ don't have the guts to run.

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force

Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...

www.propublica.org

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Just some random weirdo @susanvp.bsky.social · 2d

I shop there about 2x/week. This specific location has advantages for me: it's half a block away so I don't have to park at it; it's unusually spacious, hence fairly easy to navigate; and with my schedule I can go when it's less busy. But I hear you. (And I wish staff weren't so insistently chatty!)

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