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Minneapolis's newest bookstore is Inkwell Booksellers, at the HenCen building at East Hennepin and Central Aves. SE, which is holding its grand opening today.

The number of people who are boycotting Target, Walmart, and Amazon isn’t being talked about enough. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Say what now?

Trump's DOJ is preparing to put all incarcerated transgender women into men's facilities as early as next week, and according to NPR "the bureau is well aware of concerns about potential risks of assault, sexual violence and suicides"

““We did not elect him,” a man shouted. As the town hall reached its scheduled end, more constituents shouted questions about Musk’s access to taxpayer data and yelled “don’t lie to us””

let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

Let's be clear: CQ Brown was fired because Trump and Hegseth couldn't see past his skin color. General Brown has 40 years of distinguished service. Trump and Hegseth just want yes men who look like them. This is destabilizing for our nation.

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

This is WSJ edit board’s second piece in a week raising escalating alarm about RFK Jr’s groundless & lethal anti-vax predilections and now policies (firing CDC vax experts) — and it pull punches in portraying him as no more & no less than a treacherous corrupt killer www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white **retired** Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

"We don't work for DOGE. We have always worked for you." Yes!

Overflow angry crowd for town hall with Glenn Grothman in Oshkosh this morning ... www.wpr.org/news/glenn-g...

If you look at all the firings across the government over the last two weeks it's frequently been taken as a given that any black or woman official or officer is either a DEI hire or supports DEI and is summarily fired on that basis. Seems like the same model here.

I maintain the Citizens United will be remembered as one of the top three worst decisions of the Roberts Court

A female admiral. A Black general.

Yeah, these federal workers actually understand what they do for us and how devastating these cuts are for us. It'd be great if the media could explain that clearly instead of taking Elon Musk's word that he's magically produced "savings" that come with no downside.

BREAKING: USCP is arresting Enrique Tarrio for swiping his hand at a counterprotester who got in his face.

UVA students are gathering outside the rotunda to protest a closed meeting of the board of visitors scheduled to discuss the fate of gender affirming care at UVA hospital

FAFO

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

Our fascists are scaring off other fascists.

more and more stories like this www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

I cannot emphasize enough that the New York City subway is not scary. It’s one of my favorite parts of living here. I grew up in the suburbs having to drive on highways everywhere and that’s way scarier

Also and not for nothing, vote by mail

Yet another sports study supporting trans inclusion in women's sports. These are becoming harder and harder to ignore.

gravedigger of american democracy. a more malign influence than john c calhoun.

So an 11 year old girl died by suicide in Texas because she was bullied by classmates about her immigration status..... Literally FU to every single adult that platformed and/or support 45.

As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.

Stop calling these acts of deliberate malicious destruction mistakes — if you close your eyes and fire machine gun spray ceaselessly into a crowd claiming you just want to scare some of them off, it’s not a mistake that there are casualties.

Someone pointed out to me that DEI, the thing Democrats keep saying they need to run away from, is far more popular than they are lmao.

I think Alzheimer’s is bad, and we should work on prevention, treatments and ideally cures. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.

“I am a king and my will is law” isn’t a clever distraction from what he’s doing, it’s the central underlying justification for everything he’s doing.

Tragic.

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AOC speaking to a thousand NYC federal workers and allies about the urgency of resisting Musk 🔥🔥🔥

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

The Washington Post's treatment of the Trump administration's anti-trans eliminationist language and policy here is appalling. What *is* that second paragraph, in particular, and for what other groups would the Post consider it acceptable to just describe as a "philosophy"?

I want every Democrat to sound like this. Meanwhile I'm listening to the sounds of (congressional) silence.

If this is true it’s an unbelievably foolish, self-destructive approach to the problem. The media cannot function properly while it cuts secret deals with this administration behind the scenes.

I'm seeing reactions that "this is all a distraction!" but no, this is a pretty good illustration of Trump's authoritarian turn and a nice way to break through to normal folks who think he's doing normal things.

As a former lawyer in DOJ’s Office of the Deputy Attorney General, I can say that it’s unheard of for DOJ’s #2 official to argue a motion in court. That’s handled by lawyers in DOJ’s litigating divisions or U.S. Attorney’s Offices. But none of them support this motion. So Bove did it himself.

Good. Stay the course.