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printmaker, cultural worker/arts admin, cranky old hag. 780 via 416. hashtag zines, punk, queer. 🍉🏴
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ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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Abolition is the only way.
January 24, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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What authority does ICE have to arrest or detain citizens who witnessed a homicide?
Per this report ICE has detained several witnesses
ICE attempted to order local police from the scene of the Minneapolis shooting, but the police chief refused and instructed his officers to preserve the crime scene.

www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 24, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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ok i just watched the video and i don’t think enough people are emphasizing the fact that THEY UNLOAD A FULL CLIP INTO HIM AFTER HE IS ALREADY DEAD
January 24, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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the man who murdered Renee Good had plenty of training — in fact it was his training to kill people that made him kill a person
January 24, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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If you’re not from here, I need to explain this execution was on Eat Street, a commercial corridor of restaurants and coffee shops that literally everyone goes to. Normies, queermos, weirdos, neighborhood folks. Whatever that place is in your city, imagine ICE executing someone in cold blood there.
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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At 26th and Nicolett in Minneapolis this morning—

Feds have just shot another person in the streets. Furious community members are gathering. State police and conservation cops here in front of ~50 federal agents.
January 24, 2026 at 4:23 PM
its all too much. too fucking much.
January 24, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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I don’t know how much longer we can be expected to live alongside the lie that this is not exactly what it looks like: a violent siege, meant to destroy people. The lie makes it even more destructive.
January 24, 2026 at 5:59 PM
“a walk among the zoloft pines”
January 24, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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It's really disturbing to see Greenland, an Inuit majority country that has had a popular independence movement for decades already, discussed as strategic chess between colonizing nations.

Everywhere I'm seeing "takes" on the posturing between USA/EU, and not about 50k Inuit people's fuckin home.
January 20, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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Sometimes I think about everything I could do, all that I’d be capable of, if I wasn’t stressed at a bone-deep level about absolutely everything 100% of the time.
January 20, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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New from me, in conjunction with 8th Fire Rising and The Breach -- the first piece of a broader research project on anti-protest injunctions and the limits of access to justice.
From Palestine protests to Indigenous land defence, police are dusting off old, abandoned court orders—”zombie” injunctions—to threaten or arrest organizers

@irinaceric.bsky.social explains how these legal threats are being used to chill social movements.
breachmedia.ca/police-using...
Police are using ‘zombie’ court orders to shut down social movements ⋆ The Breach
Police are reanimating years-old injunctions to threaten activists, casting a chill over protests and free speech
breachmedia.ca
January 19, 2026 at 10:16 PM
i love it here
A well-known emergency medicine physician has compiled a list of six patients who died waiting for a doctor to attend to them in Alberta’s packed and chaotic emergency rooms over the two weeks at the end of 2025 and the start of 2026. @djclimenhaga.bsky.social writes. #abpoli
Alberta’s ERs Have Become ‘Death Zones,’ Warns Doctor | The Tyee
A review by Paul Parks found six people died while waiting to see a doctor in two weeks.
thetyee.ca
January 20, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things
January 3, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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His collection seems to have ended up at Cornell, where they've digitized some of the show flyers (!): digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog?f%5B...
December 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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This letter by Aaron Cometbus in a 1997 issue of Factsheet Five begins, "It seems like soon someone will hopefully be cataloguing fanzines from the last 20 years onto microfilm..." & then notes that he has about 3,000 zines in his collection. archive.org/details/fact...
December 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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solidarity with trans people and death to fascism
December 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies.

They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube.

Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.
December 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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A far-right party in Canada is imploding over a 22-year-old staffer’s extreme posting online.

I got my hands on audio from @antihate.ca that might leave Canadians asking how the hell someone like this got into politics at all.

It involves Diagolon, "remigration" and some trojan-horse-style plots:
December 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
thanks i hate it 👎👎👎👎👎👎💌💌💌💌💌💌💌💌💌
Canada Post’s path forward includes job cuts, changes to service and a cash injection from the federal government, CEO Doug Ettinger told a committee of MPs last Thursday.
What’s the Way Forward for Canada Post? | The Tyee
Its CEO says ending door-to-door deliveries is part of a plan to save the corporation. But the union wants to expand services.
thetyee.ca
December 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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For anyone who struggles with gender-neutral language while speaking French, this zine will help!

Free download: sheerspite.ca/product/se-f...
Print version, $0-3: sheerspite.ca/product/se-f...
December 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Extremely excited for @theghostpine.bsky.social's Temporary Places, coming in April. Warm, insightful, relatable writing from one of the best humans I know.
For readers of Jennifer Egan and Heather O’Neill, TEMPORARY PALACES is a stunning debut that captures a generation caught between the dreams that define us and the compromises that save us. 🏚️

🔗 TEMPORARY PALACES by Jeff Miller publishes April 21st. Learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/tem...
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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👽 Call for Submissions! 👽

We're excited to announce we're accepting pitches for sex worker sci-fi and speculative fiction for a new anthology titled Liquid Silver, edited by @miawalsch.bsky.social . Submissions are open until Dec. 31st, check out the details below!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
July 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM