Mike Spangenberg

Mike Spangenberg

@mikespangenberg.bsky.social

Minneapolis, MN. Interested in making the world more just and healthy for our kids. Professional experience in education and nonprofits.

1,643 Followers 744 Following 1,783 Posts Joined Feb 2024
14 hours ago

Target hasn’t done anything that would lead to an end of the boycott. Seems like they’re trying to work the local refs at the Strib. I’m sure this will go over well with everyone they alienated by abandoning the community at the slightest sign of profit/favor with an authoritarian!

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14 hours ago

Re the supposed end of the Target boycott, here's what I got in my e-mail at 11:05 a.m.:

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16 hours ago

(Please just end)

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16 hours ago

I don’t know how to explain this but there have been 40 pages left in the book I’m reading for the last 50 pages.

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18 hours ago

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

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21 hours ago
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Family at Dilley ICE center details moldy food, medical neglect The family, including the mother and her five children, detail in letters what they describe as neglectful medical care, inedible food and a disregard for their religious accommodations. They’ve been ...

"This place broke something in us."

In letters and drawings, a mother and her five children held in the Dilley ICE detention center detail what they describe as neglectful medical care, inedible food and a disregard for their religious accommodations.

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1 day ago
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Stop me if you've heard this one before. Trump admin did a massive unconstitutional surge of secret police, claimed it was about fraud, and wrecked the local US Attorney's Office in the process. And now they're really struggling to prosecute actual fraud.
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1 day ago

this is also my ongoing frustration. you can not run for office on "democracy is under threat" and then lose and go "oh well, nice game everyone"

they put us in a constant state of hypervigilance & terror begging for our last $5 to save the country and then they do the joint softball game.

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1 day ago

Helluva way to run a war, as the NYT reports. But the article doesn’t go far enough. WHY are his aides terrified of telling Trump the truth? Because the commander-in-chief is not OK in the head, that’s why. These reporters should say it instead of covering it up. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

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1 day ago

Have also heard this from youths in my home

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1 day ago

I too would rather ignore politicians but alas they have too much power over how I live.

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1 day ago

Bam Adebayo?

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1 day ago

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

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1 day ago

Platforms like YouTube, TikTok and Instagram used to be called "social media" but that has been a misnomer for just as long. They're media giants that prefer to be called something else so they neither have to pay nor take responsibility for the content they provide. It's a far more lucrative model.

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Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"

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1 day ago

I’ve lived in Minnesota long enough to have known this was coming, but I confess it’s still a soul crusher

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1 day ago

This is a powerful letter from Minneapolis Legislative Delegation asking Mayor Frey to sign Pause Evictions, Save Lives.

16/17 state legislators who represent Minneapolis signed onto this letter. It’s time for Mayor Frey to sign this ordinance and support our immigrant neighbors.

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2 days ago
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Thick smoke was seen rising from the direction of the Bapco oil refinery in Bahrain on March 9

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3 days ago
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Key Details of 13-Year-Old Trump Accuser’s Accounts Are Verified The newly corroborated details suggest the woman was truthful about numerous aspects of her life.

There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase “accused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory “hasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...

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3 days ago

Are you fucking kidding me? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? This got covered up for SEVEN YEARS?

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3 days ago

Global calamity

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4 days ago
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CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen says black, oil-contaminated rain is falling over Tehran after strikes on oil facilities by U.S./Israeli airstrikes.

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4 days ago

Just watched Bugonia please bear with me

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4 days ago

I don’t love that the most unhinged versions of the Epstein theories get more plausible the more information we get instead of less

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North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.

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4 days ago

One of those clips where you really have to watch the whole thing, because reading the most egregious quote in the rant doesn’t fully capture how 1) racist, and 2) cognitively impaired the president is.

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4 days ago

Damn.

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4 days ago

Since we're dumping on Timothee today, I watched Marty Supreme yesterday. It's neurotic and propulsive (complimentary) and Chalamet is physically throwing himself into it. But I could not get past the fact that he was the only actor not doing an appropriate accent. It was weird!

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4 days ago

A man who was held at an ICE detention facility in Texas before being deported to the Netherlands told the AP that he heard a guard talking about a staff betting pool on which detainee would be next to commit suicide

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4 days ago

I continue to believe that a whole lot of these misperceptions would be alleviated if they made the models reply in the third person, rather than the first. Not, “I found this information for you,” but instead, “the query generated the following results.”

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