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Lauren
@lmo.bsky.social
NYC-based writer (laurenoster.com).
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Cafe at The Portland art museum has Rothko no. 5 cakes. Something intellectually meaty about seeing the painting in person, and then eating a cake copy. The complete experience. Full spectrum.
January 28, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it
January 28, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”
January 28, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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Greg Bovino sadly filling one steamer trunk after another with elaborate fashy overcoats, the teargas canisters he always has bouncing around on him like labubus, and dozens of "chest-belts." They will be shipped ahead of him as he prepares to return to his home, which is a men's size 10 boot.
January 27, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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The fact that he calls a poster a billboard is how I know this man has never been to a protest in his life
KARL: He was an ICU use who worked for the VA and there's no evidence he brandished the gun whatsoever

BESSENT: But he brought a gun

KARL: I mean, we do have a Second Amendment

BESSENT: I've been to a protest -- guess what? I didn't bring a gun. I brought a billboard
January 25, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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“ICE > MN” is impeachable by itself.
This is an actual post from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: Praising ICE after Alex Pretti was killed, blaming the Democratic leadership of Minnesota, and writing that ICE is greater/better than Minnesota.

He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.
January 24, 2026 at 11:06 PM
For the shaking off of psychic sludge, consider that the cast of HAMNET took regular on-set dance breaks to release the emotions they were wrangling in the course of their work. A mid-horrors drop I for one needed today:
www.instagram.com/p/DTvQI7ljx2...
Chloé Zhao on Instagram: "After traveling with Hamnet for months, meeting so many of you in person and watching online audience reactions from around the world, our hearts are FULL. We made the film f...
333K likes, 4,600 comments - chloezhao on January 20, 2026: "After traveling with Hamnet for months, meeting so many of you in person and watching online audience reactions from around the world, our ...
www.instagram.com
January 22, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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Please help us bring Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos (he’s only 5 years of age and is currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and his father were kidnapped by ICE. This will help the family with legal services to help reunite Liam and his dad with their family.

gofund.me/be8a1b2ab
Donate to Help Bring 5-Year-Old Liam Home, organized by sarai Orquiz
Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos is just 5 years old and currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and h… sarai Orquiz needs your support for Help Bring 5-Year-Old Liam Home
gofund.me
January 22, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Not the important part of the item in any way, but as someone still in recovery from a childhood in Laguna Hills: there's no airport in Laguna Beach, CA? Saying Fled Cruz was "heading to Laguna Beach" on the plane implies some intel in addition to the pic, no?
www.newsweek.com/ted-cruz-lea...
Ted Cruz responds to photo of him leaving Texas before Winter storm
A post has surfaced on X showing Cruz onboard what is allegedly a flight heading for California. The image has gone viral.
www.newsweek.com
January 21, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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I've enjoyed all the other chambers of America we've danced through, but this last, where the walls and floor are black as night and the crimson face of an ebony clock sits dolefully ticking the slow hour by, is kind of weirding me out. Oh hey maybe this figure clad in rags will lighten things up
January 21, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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Video of federal agents getting run out of Lyn Lake this afternoon. Agents drop a gas can at the end and someone kicks it back at them.
January 12, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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God Addams really was the best. I’ve been on a mission to collect some of his old New Yorker covers they’re incredible
January 19, 2026 at 3:23 AM
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pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:
January 15, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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me again
what a legend lmao
January 15, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.

If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
That is what was relayed
January 15, 2026 at 4:27 AM
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A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis

The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway

They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
January 12, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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I do kinda hope there’s a bunch of like university presidents and CEOs and such seeing Powell’s video and having at least a moment of like “oh, shit, yeah, I guess”
January 12, 2026 at 3:15 AM
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Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power

- file impeachment articles every day in the House

- withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee

- be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable
January 8, 2026 at 3:16 AM
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Dems: get up out of your fucking defensive crouch and fight back, it still makes a difference in the coverage

as I was saying earlier today, if all you can really do is yell, the quality of the yelling has to be better

it was today, and it’s helped

keep calling these people what they are
There's honestly been some pretty good news coverage tonight on TV regarding today's events. It's not a coincidence.

Like half a dozen prominent Democrats finally came out this afternoon and said ICE is terrorist trash led by a secretary who should be impeached and it flipped the whole narrative.
January 8, 2026 at 4:49 AM
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I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK
I’m eating lunch, I’m having a panic attack, I’m charging my phone, and then I’m going back out to try and keep my neighborhood safe.
January 7, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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Donald Trump is doing colonialism the right way.

by Ezra Klein
January 5, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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We love frosting and make no apologies
January 2, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Learned today that I will be expected to use Amazon Pharmacy for RX meds I need bc of an Eric Adams deal that forced it on NYC employees and their families thru Emblem Health. This is EXACTLY the kind of thing the City should discontinue; @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, please don’t let this stand!
January 2, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later

Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
December 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons…

To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles.

When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.

This is outrageous.
December 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM