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John Clark
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Refugee from the Elno disaster.

I try to reskeet responsibly, not flooding people's feeds. Let me know if it's a problem before unfollowing me.
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nickharkaway.com
Terrible restaurant could close unless people enthusiastically embrace bad food, complains chef.
January 20, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
This five year old is still in jail
January 27, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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timothydoyle.bsky.social
Hey guys- I guess I went viral on Reddit and insta today. Weird.
Also- I like drawing and writing. Give me a comics job.
January 26, 2026 at 6:42 AM
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metaresistance.bsky.social
Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔
January 26, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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trungles.com
Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis.

#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls
Just before Christmas, I got a puppy. Her name is Minerva, and we call her *Minnie. I'm still learning how to understand her. Me: Do you need to go outside? Do you need to go outside, little baby? Do you need to do a poo? Do you need to do a widdle piddle? Minnie: Arf! *I just call her "little baby" most of the time. I'm also realizing I can't turn off the baby talk now. Nobody tells you about that. I got so lucky with my first puppy. Her wonderful foster parents had her completely house-trained by the time we adopted her, so taking her outside for potty time has been pretty easy. I've got the puppy poopy routine pretty much down, now. Me, putting on my coat: Let's see... I got the little poopy bags, puppy treats for bribes, jacket, scarf, phone… I think that's everything… Oh yes! And my passport. I had been carrying around my passport for a while, but I knew it didn't matter. This is wrong. Nobody is required to carry around their papers. I became a US citizen when I was seven. Since I was born in a refugee camp, I was stateless. The US is the only nation where I've ever held citizenship. It's the only passport I've ever had, and it still felt important. Protective. I would hold it in my pocket like a talisman, like it might ward off ghosts or something. But I realized I was holding onto it basically out of superstition. ICE will pick up anybody. I know that. So I tucked my passport away. And I largely avoid leaving my house. I live a few blocks just South of George Floyd Square. I was in the neighborhood for that, too. And all the neighbors came together to protect each other. We're already organized. We'll do our best to get through this. Me, to my dog: I hope I can take you for a walk someday soon. Won't that be nice, little baby?
January 16, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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muellershewrote.com
I don’t see too many people talking about what an incredible accomplishment it was for MN officials and lawyers to get those affidavits and that motion written and filed and to get a Trump appointed judge to issue a TRO against the feds to stop them from destroying evidence - all in the same day.
January 25, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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davidsirota.com
This is correct. This is what everyone needs to hear and know in their hearts, especially right now.
January 25, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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jelaniya.bsky.social
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. — Frederick Douglass
January 24, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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sennamatic.bsky.social
Oscar's interview 🎙️🖼️
A comic of an anthropomorphic lion talking about visual arts A comic of an anthropomorphic lion talking about visual art
January 21, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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digby56.bsky.social
I'm finding it very cognitively dissonant to see Dems navel gazing about how to "message" on grocery prices when the batshit crazy president is waging warat home and abroad. I guess that's all they believe we care about but it feels more and more like fiddling while the world burns.
January 20, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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miloneuman.bsky.social
Never been a better time to stop using spotify and start using Qobuz, which pays artists something like six times more per stream
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In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.

The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.

Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 16, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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lukeoneil47.bsky.social
A buddy in MN shared a drawing a classmate of his kid made. They've been making thank you notes for parents who have volunteered to carpool them to school so their own parents don't have to risk waiting out by the bus stop.
kid's drawing of a truck thank you for helping my friends come to school
January 15, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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polerin.bsky.social
they are taking us apart one thread at a time. I feel like my goddamn life is unraveling
January 13, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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tomtomorrow.bsky.social
sparky tells ICE they're acting like nazis, they respond that this is a very hurtful thing of him to say
January 11, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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elienyc.bsky.social
The U.S. is a rogue state which should be sanctioned and condemned by the international community for our flagrant violations of international law and the peace of the world. We won't be, because imperialists tend to stick together.

My latest in @thenation.com

www.thenation.com/article/worl...
The US Is a Rogue State That Deserves to Be Sanctioned
Where is the international outrage over the US assault on Venezuela and kidnapping of Maduro?
www.thenation.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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elysiatatsu.bsky.social
A very fucking firm reminder to active duty folks that "I was just following orders" is the nazi defense. Don't follow unlawful orders, resign. Fuck your benefits, fuck the money, you are breaking international law. Tell them to stuff it and keep your soul intact. No sympathy for anything else
January 3, 2026 at 7:42 AM
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kommanderkarl.bsky.social
“I am an AI hater” amazingly written

anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
December 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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miloneuman.bsky.social
Insane that you can help write one of the most beloved games of the decade and still need to run GoFundMe campaigns for your survival but I guess that's just the world we are living in. Fuck the technocrats and power to the artists: gofund.me/935cc76e4
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December 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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alinaisyou.bsky.social
Whenever journalism is suppressed, but especially today as CBS slumps its way towards state-sanctioned media, I think of my own experiences in nerdy news.

I say this occasionally. It remains true. A lot of what you're seeing now in mainstream news was first practiced in my little corner of the sky.
December 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
Okay first this is extremely funny and just as predictable. Notable, can you
Imagine what you’d have to get in a segment on CECOT to think wow, Trump comes out of this torture gulag thing looking pretty good! lol. Predictable, stupid, absurd.
December 22, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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lukeplunkett.com
There's an unsurprising tendency across leaders in the tech world (games included) to see art as merely part of something's production line, a box that needs to be ticked before copies can be sold. It's why AI is often justified as something that saves time, or saves money. But with art, that process is the point. The themes and ideas artists draw on, the way they iterate through those ideas with sketches, the work itself is what creates art. There are no shortcuts.
December 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.

They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
An interview with Twitter's Chief Product Officer title "X Wants Its Haters Back"
December 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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avitek.bsky.social
This does actually change the entire story. Assuming it's correct, it was an entirely lawful seizure.
December 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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davidleavitt.bsky.social
I just want someone in my life who would decorate our door with The Wreath of Khan
December 10, 2025 at 5:06 AM