As usual, Mayor Dickens is doing nothing that has to do with his job description.

Comrade DiaMat@comradediamat.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Gov. Newsom to a black crowd: "I am like you. I'm a 960 SAT guy. I can't read."

it's almost as if nonBlack people should also be responsible for their actions... instead of us being responsible for our reactions...

I actually do think that a nonBlack person who can't help themselves from screaming the N word qt Black people should probably be kept away from us And I'm okay if that means they gotta stay out of the public at times, we've had our free movements restricted for literal centuries, y'all will live.

If I have to hear “AI is coming” or “AI is inevitable” one more time.

My cynicism says it’s also because they’re aware of climate change and its effects on food stability. So they’re trying to “program” themselves to live without it. And yeah, they’re also joyless assholes.

Baratunde@baratunde.com · 6mo ago

Ask your nearest CEO what they’re favorite food is and see what they say. If they are all about Soylent and supplements as a way to fuel their productivity but have no interest in the beautiful sensation of food itself, BE WARY!!

I love this. Children are the foundation of society and we should always treat them like they belong!

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

These kids had to be walked to prison by school officials bcz there is no family to take them. They have committed no crime and didn’t get a trial. They are in prison and are in 3rd and 5th grade.

MPR News@mprnews.org · 6mo ago

“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.

North America as a whole cages 35 kids for every 100k kids The US? 49 kids per 100k overall Latino kids? 57 Indigenous kids? 181 Black kids? 228

Youth Justice by the Numbers – The Sentencing Project

Between 2000-2022, there has been a 75% decline in youth incarceration. However, racial and ethnic disparities persist.

sentencingproject.org

Felonious Musk@seca550.bsky.social · 12mo ago

North America includes Canada and Mexico so USA must be even higher than that.

Zero. None. And that’s forever! Not temporarily or accidentally. Not one child ever.

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The only acceptable number of children for any government to kidnap and traffic and cage is zero, every year

For the people who keep saying we should wait for midterms. That man has been broadcasting his plans since day 1.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo ago

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

I know everyone is applauding Ilhan Omar for continuing to speak after being attacked but I sincerely wished she would have gone to get checked out instead.

I have been writing researching and writing about threats to Ilhan Omar for like 8 years and so I don't mean to go all Bluesky Discourse™ on a viral moment I just see in her my friends who I worry about and I'm still shaken. That was too close. My article (well my research) from 2019

He easily found hundreds of death threats against Rep. Ilhan Omar. He wants Twitter to stop them.

Cybersecurity expert Chad Loder said he’s been frustrated by the platform’s seeming inability to crack down on accounts that espouse racist, homophobic and violent rhetoric.

washingtonpost.com

To clarify, I fully support Ilhan Omar being ready to rock that dude's shit (it's a good lesson in what happens when someone oversteps) I just just know how my BW friends are TIRED and I don't want us always celebrating them as fierce when bad shit happens, give them money and support REGARDLESS

I don't want to celebrate how Ilhan Omar was ready to throw down. Tired of valorizing Black women as fighters, that dude should have been stopped and stomped out before he got close to her.

From a friend who works at an MPS school with hundreds of families in hiding: "The thing REALLY needed is money for rent/utilities/cell phone bills. It looks like there is a lot of money raised but across 5 schools it’s not enough with February rent coming due." givebutter.com/rent4mplsfam...

Rent Relief for Minneapolis School Families

By Mpls Families

givebutter.com

The thing I’ve always enjoyed about watching this is seeing how much love and admiration they had for each other. Just beautiful.

Strictly 4 My Navigators@lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I will forever love this performance.... The #1 song 40 years ago on the Billboard Hot 100.... *The original version is Dionne, Stevie, Gladys Knight & Elton John... Rest easy Luther & Whitney 🕊

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

I need you all to understand something for those of you who think you know what this black woman who has lived in racist America really thinks. I know this is hard for you all, but some of us saw this coming for years, decades even. So understand, I am not being snarky. I am grieving.

If there's anyone who still thinks this will all blow over when our big beautiful president Leaves Us, you have to realize the Republican Party is crawling with fascists

Adam Isacson@adamisacson.com · 6mo ago

When an ICE agent confronts you is "when your due process ends," says the member of Congress from the largest border district. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

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So once ice vehicles have been discovered and are being followed, they often become incapable of doing their sinister work. This is why people risk their lives to tail federal agents, all over the twin cities and the suburbs.

Essentially, what stops abductions is when crowds outnumber the masked kidnappers. When people aggressively follow ICE with whistles and horns, crowds are ready to show up. If they show up fast enough, ICE leaves and a family is not broken. (People here understand the stakes).

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

If you can, please help this family stay safe. Every little bit helps!

Tale as old as time. If I had dollar for every time this happens, I’d be a trillionaire.

Anna Gifty@itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 6mo ago

lol non-Black women trying to center themselves in the conversation about Black women losing their jobs is interesting (derogatory).

In Pakistan, the CIA went around door-to-door pretending to be giving polio vaccines, while secretly hunting for Osama bin Laden. The result was that real health care workers were ignored or even killed, and hundreds of people got polio, which had otherwise been nearly eradicated worldwide.

Steve McPherson@steventurous.bsky.social · 7mo ago

There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.

As I (and many others before me) have said, what America reaps on Black people globally will eventually make its way home. History repeats.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 7mo ago

RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.