Donna Spencer 🔄🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🍉
@donnaspencer.bsky.social
Language, music, lefty politics and theology, Appalachia, road trips, cocktails, pie, and yarn. Knoxville, Tennessee. she/her
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Echoing the cowardly white moderates who inspired MLK to write Letter from Birmingham Jail, 60 Minnesota CEOs made no mention of ICE, Alex Pretti or Renee Good in a bloodless plea for MN's problems to disappear
Craven corporations will pay a price
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Craven corporations will pay a price
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
What gutless corporations don’t get about ICE | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, a Fetterman shows moral leadership on Minnesota.
www.inquirer.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Echoing the cowardly white moderates who inspired MLK to write Letter from Birmingham Jail, 60 Minnesota CEOs made no mention of ICE, Alex Pretti or Renee Good in a bloodless plea for MN's problems to disappear
Craven corporations will pay a price
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Craven corporations will pay a price
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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What lying fucks they all are.
January 24, 2026 at 10:00 PM
What lying fucks they all are.
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For Alex, our north star during this dark time.
January 25, 2026 at 4:36 AM
For Alex, our north star during this dark time.
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Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939
January 25, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939
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“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
January 24, 2026 at 9:24 PM
“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
January 25, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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Every single statement you will hear from every federal government agency related to this murder will be a lie. A criminal cartel has taken over the entire federal government. That is where we are, folks.
January 24, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Every single statement you will hear from every federal government agency related to this murder will be a lie. A criminal cartel has taken over the entire federal government. That is where we are, folks.
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Can someone smuggle copies of this newspaper into the offices of The New York Times and Washington Post so their editors can learn how to write headlines again?
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
January 24, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Can someone smuggle copies of this newspaper into the offices of The New York Times and Washington Post so their editors can learn how to write headlines again?
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Standing with my former neighbors and never prouder to have been a Minnesotan.
January 23, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Standing with my former neighbors and never prouder to have been a Minnesotan.
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Jesus said... whatever you did to one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did to me.
That's why I draw pictures like this one.
That's why I draw pictures like this one.
January 23, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Jesus said... whatever you did to one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did to me.
That's why I draw pictures like this one.
That's why I draw pictures like this one.
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Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)
January 21, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)
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It’s infuriating that everything that is happening during this federal government occupation in service of ethnic cleansing can make you absolutely hate this country but then love its people in almost equal measure.
January 21, 2026 at 4:23 AM
It’s infuriating that everything that is happening during this federal government occupation in service of ethnic cleansing can make you absolutely hate this country but then love its people in almost equal measure.
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This is pure, unabashed bigotry.
If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party.
But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence.
A stain on our Congress.
If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party.
But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence.
A stain on our Congress.
January 19, 2026 at 7:42 PM
This is pure, unabashed bigotry.
If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party.
But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence.
A stain on our Congress.
If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party.
But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence.
A stain on our Congress.
Every word of this.
open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...
open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...
White Friends, Our Privilege is Currency. It's Time We Spent It.
Yesterday, I came across a TikTok by a creator who goes by the name of @professionalyapper19, speaking eloquently about the murder of Renee Good.
open.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Every word of this.
open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...
open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...
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One year ago today Donald Trump confessed that he and Elon Musk conspired to steal the 2024 election and Democrats did fuck all 🤬
Kamala Harris is the rightful 47th President
Kamala Harris is the rightful 47th President
January 19, 2026 at 3:33 PM
One year ago today Donald Trump confessed that he and Elon Musk conspired to steal the 2024 election and Democrats did fuck all 🤬
Kamala Harris is the rightful 47th President
Kamala Harris is the rightful 47th President
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People here are outside patrolling their neighborhoods in this, trying to keep their neighbors safe from lawless armed masked goons. Armed with whistles and vests, they are essentially fighting a war against their own government and its ethnic cleansing campaign.
January 19, 2026 at 12:43 PM
People here are outside patrolling their neighborhoods in this, trying to keep their neighbors safe from lawless armed masked goons. Armed with whistles and vests, they are essentially fighting a war against their own government and its ethnic cleansing campaign.
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I have been feeling a lot of anger lately due to our political climate.
Dolly made this video today for her 80th birthday to benefit pediatric cancer.
We can’t lose hope.
youtu.be/McaD2PG8jOE
Dolly made this video today for her 80th birthday to benefit pediatric cancer.
We can’t lose hope.
youtu.be/McaD2PG8jOE
Dolly Parton - Light of a Clear Blue Morning ft. Lainey Wilson, Miley Cyrus, Queen Latifah & Reba
YouTube video by Dolly Parton
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January 18, 2026 at 12:46 AM
I have been feeling a lot of anger lately due to our political climate.
Dolly made this video today for her 80th birthday to benefit pediatric cancer.
We can’t lose hope.
youtu.be/McaD2PG8jOE
Dolly made this video today for her 80th birthday to benefit pediatric cancer.
We can’t lose hope.
youtu.be/McaD2PG8jOE
@nikdanger.bsky.social Followed because of your username. Brouhaha? HA HA HA.
January 19, 2026 at 4:24 AM
@nikdanger.bsky.social Followed because of your username. Brouhaha? HA HA HA.
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JUST NOW: Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social arrives at the start of the new Tennessee legislative session with a huge “ABOLISH ICE” flag
January 13, 2026 at 6:01 PM
JUST NOW: Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social arrives at the start of the new Tennessee legislative session with a huge “ABOLISH ICE” flag
This thread 🙌
When Trump’s dead, and if we emerge from whatever white nationalist regime follows him and return to some normality, the media and commentariat are going to do everything in their power to normalize what happened and make it into simple policy differences suitable for “my two guests are.”
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January 12, 2026 at 4:02 PM
This thread 🙌
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I filmed this backstage at a Dead & Company show, not long after the Parkland shooting. Bob Weir had asked to meet a group of student survivors — and the care, time, and respect he showed them was unforgettable. He always showed up to inspire the next generation. Fare thee well to a true legend.
January 11, 2026 at 5:10 AM
I filmed this backstage at a Dead & Company show, not long after the Parkland shooting. Bob Weir had asked to meet a group of student survivors — and the care, time, and respect he showed them was unforgettable. He always showed up to inspire the next generation. Fare thee well to a true legend.
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“I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.”
January 10, 2026 at 3:12 PM
“I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.”
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