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Shane Hotakainen

@coldbringer

Nerdy lefty elder punk and vegan from Minneapolis. I’m also a tabletop gamer especially RPGs. Currently GMing Dragonbane and soon Daggerheart. Playing Perils and Princesses

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landlords are going to show up tomorrow, it is critical that regular folks do too.

03.03.2026 02:38 👍 292 🔁 143 💬 1 📌 0
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Remember that Donald Trump, Jr. is involved with both Polymarket & Kalshi — and the Trumps’ social media company is launching its own prediction market.

Meanwhile, Trump’s regulators have announced they will fight any state that attempts to regulate prediction markets.

Always follow the money.

02.03.2026 16:30 👍 2153 🔁 1012 💬 96 📌 60

“If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.” - Trump, 11/1/24

“I’m not going to start a war, I’m going to stop wars.” - Trump, 11/5/24

28.02.2026 12:42 👍 6627 🔁 2056 💬 152 📌 99
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A mad king's illegal war on Iran is a cry for regime change...in Washington | Will Bunch Democracy really did die in darkness as Donald Trump's unconstitutional war on Iran stamps America as a dictatorship.

No wonder Trump went to war with Iran in the dead of night, with the Capitol empty, most Americans soundly asleep

This war is illegal. Full stop. The worst abuse of presidential power in American history aims to cement a dictatorship on U.S. soil

My instant column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

28.02.2026 18:32 👍 3413 🔁 1078 💬 75 📌 53

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

28.02.2026 14:20 👍 26268 🔁 8889 💬 289 📌 334
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US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

28.02.2026 16:00 👍 17016 🔁 6541 💬 469 📌 549
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The U.S. just surpassed a grim measles milestone As the U.S. officially breaks 1,000 measles cases in 2026, experts say that the rate of infections is accelerating much faster this year than it did in years past

Congratulations to us.

We've officially passed 1000 measles cases. In two months, we approached half of the TOTAL confirmed cases (2281) in 2025. And that is in the beginning of 2026. The rate of infections is accelerating faster than last year.

🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-...

28.02.2026 17:14 👍 374 🔁 201 💬 24 📌 21
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JUST IN: A federal judge says the Trump administration has been “terrorizing” refugees — violating the promise America made to them when they fled persecution at home — by locking them up illegally. He blocked the policy for those in MN storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

27.02.2026 22:35 👍 5730 🔁 1871 💬 47 📌 49

BREAKING:

The US and Israel dropped bombs on an elementary school for girls in Iran’s city of Minab.

50 little girls have been killed so far.

People are still pulling bodies from under the rubble.

Not militants. Not combatants.

Little girls. Students.

This is terrorism.

28.02.2026 12:36 👍 214 🔁 124 💬 14 📌 9
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Amazon's tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts The 87 percent drop is largely due to a more generous depreciation break in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act.'

Trump is giving tax cuts to Bezos but none to you.

21.02.2026 20:32 👍 3553 🔁 1483 💬 164 📌 69

Why is Trump so desperate to revive conspiracy theories about the 2020 election?

Because he’s trying to create the pretext to interfere in 2026.

We see what he is doing and it will not work.

21.02.2026 21:03 👍 1391 🔁 354 💬 26 📌 12

I picked up #ShadowDark post gaming convention. I made a character. It took all of 10 minutes and between the Ability score rolls, background and starting by gold rolls I made a character that had a clear emergent history. I forgot how fun letting the dice do there thing can be.

19.02.2026 03:46 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Gary Kasparov:
As I wrote, if you think a massive US Gulag is being built just for illegal immigrants, along with a federal paramilitary force as large as the Marines, you're a fool. Billions in unaccountable cash from Venezuelan oil, shock troops, and detention camps. This is not a drill.

Gary Kasparov: As I wrote, if you think a massive US Gulag is being built just for illegal immigrants, along with a federal paramilitary force as large as the Marines, you're a fool. Billions in unaccountable cash from Venezuelan oil, shock troops, and detention camps. This is not a drill.

11.02.2026 15:52 👍 983 🔁 380 💬 14 📌 18
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Blades '68 Blades ’68 is an official supplement for Blades in the Dark, moving the timeline forward 100 years to the swinging 60s.

Proud to be the 2,017th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Blades '68! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

11.02.2026 02:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The seething contempt Republicans have for Latino-American culture has been on full display over the last 24 hours.

09.02.2026 15:14 👍 3264 🔁 616 💬 182 📌 27
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Governor-hopeful Stacy Garrity says she’d work with Trump administration on Pa.’s elections Republican gubernatorial hopeful Stacy Garrity said Friday afternoon that she would cooperate with President Donald Trump’s administration in running Pennsylvania’s elections.

If this doesn't disqualify Stacy Garrity from ever getting near the PA Governor's seat, I don't know what does.

Garrity intends to hand PA elections over to Trump.
Not no but hell no, ma'am.
lancasteronline.com/news/politic...

09.02.2026 15:48 👍 516 🔁 236 💬 18 📌 13

Super Bowl ads dominated by AI and GLP-1s suggest our corporate overlords think we are living in the WALL-E future, but actually we are living in the Andor past.

09.02.2026 03:05 👍 676 🔁 83 💬 9 📌 4

MAGA is not popular and their hold on power is crumbling under the focus and strength of mutual aid and common decency. Thank you for your attention in this matter!

09.02.2026 03:38 👍 1847 🔁 253 💬 15 📌 1
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Black farmers are getting shut out by the Trump administration.

John Boyd, president of the National Black Farmers Association, says the WH told him, they are “moving away from DEI and small farm issues, and they were focusing on large-scale white farms… because they produce the most food.”

06.02.2026 21:10 👍 2781 🔁 1430 💬 184 📌 89
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TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer.

(I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)

06.02.2026 04:20 👍 4054 🔁 2095 💬 482 📌 654
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I’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.

05.02.2026 12:48 👍 5237 🔁 2301 💬 109 📌 142
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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

03.02.2026 16:19 👍 43248 🔁 19358 💬 2401 📌 1617
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During a door-to-door abduction operation in St. Paul, Minnesota, ICE/CBP personnel were observed taking photographs of the vehicles of press and activist groups (February 3, 2026).

03.02.2026 17:37 👍 239 🔁 176 💬 20 📌 10

This is so grim. Dreading the images we’re going to see out of Springfield this week.

02.02.2026 12:29 👍 952 🔁 243 💬 10 📌 4

Today at school dismissal, I followed a suspicious pickup around for a bit, keeping an eye on them, trying to figure out if they were ICE. Then I realized they were keeping an eye on me also. Then I realized they were, in fact, other parents. Life in Minnesota, January 2026.

02.02.2026 22:09 👍 12717 🔁 1637 💬 225 📌 83

HOORAY, WE’RE SAVED!

…oh wait that wasn’t the real problem, like at all.

02.02.2026 22:36 👍 746 🔁 89 💬 19 📌 0
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NEW FOOTAGE: Protesters take over a Minneapolis Target Saturday to protest the retailer’s cooperation with ICE. This is a movement! Share so everyone is aware!

01.02.2026 22:05 👍 1921 🔁 611 💬 35 📌 29
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The Mayor of Portland, OR after ICE shot tear gas into a crowd

“To those who..work for ICE: Resign..Through your use of violence and..trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame. [G]o home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children”

01.02.2026 14:29 👍 2467 🔁 971 💬 42 📌 28

Bovino was told that Minnesota US Attorney Daniel Rosen could not attend that meeting because he observes the Sabbath.

Bovino responded with audible frustration, replying, "Do Orthodox criminals also take off on Saturday?"

Antisemitism seems to be the only Trump admin criticism Bari will allow.

01.02.2026 23:03 👍 119 🔁 45 💬 7 📌 1
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Kristi Noem refers to protesters in Minnesota as "violent monsters"

01.02.2026 23:09 👍 1796 🔁 612 💬 637 📌 267