Taylor Carik
@taylorcarik.bsky.social
"Originally considered a critical failure, it has since gained a cult following"
Producer of #bienvenidosdystopia, media studies adjunct + writer, former DISPATCH publisher, plays in WRRC MPLS and PARISHES, among other things.
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Producer of #bienvenidosdystopia, media studies adjunct + writer, former DISPATCH publisher, plays in WRRC MPLS and PARISHES, among other things.
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The first Minneapolis screening of They're Here is happening on Oct. 7 at the Riverview Theater with Rachel Mueller & Laura Poitras in person for Q&A. Rachel moderated my WTO/99 Q&A at Riverview in Feb. and I'm sure this will be an event you shouldn't miss. $5 tix
www.eventbrite.com/e/theyre-her...
www.eventbrite.com/e/theyre-her...
"They're Here" Screening @ Riverview Theater
Join us for an early screening of "They're Here," a short horror documentary about the ICE occupation of Minneapolis with a Q&A to follow
www.eventbrite.com
September 19, 2026 at 2:17 PM
The first Minneapolis screening of They're Here is happening on Oct. 7 at the Riverview Theater with Rachel Mueller & Laura Poitras in person for Q&A. Rachel moderated my WTO/99 Q&A at Riverview in Feb. and I'm sure this will be an event you shouldn't miss. $5 tix
www.eventbrite.com/e/theyre-her...
www.eventbrite.com/e/theyre-her...
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Fox News headline: "64 House Democrats help Republicans kill Trump impeachment effort."
18 voted to table it. 46 voted "present," Jeffries included.
They may think "present" is politically savvy. It reads as a permission slip. This is a problem.
@flareusa.bsky.social
@refusefascism.bsky.social
18 voted to table it. 46 voted "present," Jeffries included.
They may think "present" is politically savvy. It reads as a permission slip. This is a problem.
@flareusa.bsky.social
@refusefascism.bsky.social
September 19, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Fox News headline: "64 House Democrats help Republicans kill Trump impeachment effort."
18 voted to table it. 46 voted "present," Jeffries included.
They may think "present" is politically savvy. It reads as a permission slip. This is a problem.
@flareusa.bsky.social
@refusefascism.bsky.social
18 voted to table it. 46 voted "present," Jeffries included.
They may think "present" is politically savvy. It reads as a permission slip. This is a problem.
@flareusa.bsky.social
@refusefascism.bsky.social
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Today is Taco Tour on Lake Street day! 🌮
So, here's our schedule:
🕛12PM - 4PM 📍Mercado Central, 1515 E Lake St
Bring the whole family to Mercado Central to support 35+ businesses and enjoy the party with fun for all ages.
www.lakestreettacotour.com
#TacoTouronLakeStreet2026
So, here's our schedule:
🕛12PM - 4PM 📍Mercado Central, 1515 E Lake St
Bring the whole family to Mercado Central to support 35+ businesses and enjoy the party with fun for all ages.
www.lakestreettacotour.com
#TacoTouronLakeStreet2026
September 19, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Today is Taco Tour on Lake Street day! 🌮
So, here's our schedule:
🕛12PM - 4PM 📍Mercado Central, 1515 E Lake St
Bring the whole family to Mercado Central to support 35+ businesses and enjoy the party with fun for all ages.
www.lakestreettacotour.com
#TacoTouronLakeStreet2026
So, here's our schedule:
🕛12PM - 4PM 📍Mercado Central, 1515 E Lake St
Bring the whole family to Mercado Central to support 35+ businesses and enjoy the party with fun for all ages.
www.lakestreettacotour.com
#TacoTouronLakeStreet2026
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She is trans and therefore has no choice but to take seriously the catastrophe currently being inflicted on that community specifically www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
The American Transgender Refugee Crisis
If this were occurring abroad, to an ethnic minority, we would call it ethnic cleansing.
www.liberalcurrents.com
September 19, 2026 at 1:12 PM
She is trans and therefore has no choice but to take seriously the catastrophe currently being inflicted on that community specifically www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
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Where to even start
Imagining future digital archaeologists poring over boomer Facebook posts and attempting to use them to understand our culture and values the way we do tablets from the Library of Ashurbanipal
September 18, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Where to even start
lolol
Trump says he's banning CNN, MSNow & Politico from the White House.
If he goes through w/ this, the WH press corps needs to boycott.
Fox too
No more of the correspondents association's white-tablecloth, gladhanding bullshit.
Pentagon reporters showed they don't need in-house access. You can too.
If he goes through w/ this, the WH press corps needs to boycott.
Fox too
No more of the correspondents association's white-tablecloth, gladhanding bullshit.
Pentagon reporters showed they don't need in-house access. You can too.
September 18, 2026 at 7:50 PM
lolol
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It's so funny that Mamdani is doing *exactly* what the abundance types are calling for -- competent government in service of constituents' quality of life -- but they can't embrace him because their billionaire donors hate Muslims.
It's pretty damn impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC.
I was reading through the numbers this morning, and they're kinda astonishing.
(thread)
I was reading through the numbers this morning, and they're kinda astonishing.
(thread)
September 18, 2026 at 5:38 PM
It's so funny that Mamdani is doing *exactly* what the abundance types are calling for -- competent government in service of constituents' quality of life -- but they can't embrace him because their billionaire donors hate Muslims.
MSP airport is still a central hub of deportations
NYT - Two men deported to Equatorial Guinea by the Trump administration were hooded, bound, beaten with guns and shoved down a flight of stairs recently by police officers at a remote hotel where immigrants are being held indefinitely. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/wo...
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2026 at 5:13 PM
MSP airport is still a central hub of deportations
Great tempered questions about the MPS school closure shit show.
I wrote a letter about the MPS school closure proposals.
Readers Write: Potential closure of Minneapolis schools, Waymo
Show your work, Minneapolis Public Schools. Families don’t trust you.
www.startribune.com
September 18, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Great tempered questions about the MPS school closure shit show.
“The exchange was not unlike talking to the AI at a Wendy's drive thru, except that Mia has a face. She blinks and shifts her weight. She casts a ‘shadow’ in her box.”
'Super Buddy' AI hologram expected to help kids learn life skills at Lifetown Columbus
The artificial intelligence hologram named Mia is designed to ask for advice, allowing kids to share what they've learned and become mentors.
www.wosu.org
September 17, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Minnesota is currently at the forefront of several battles in America’s political, social, and cultural acceleration into full blown authoritarianism.
Here’s the region’s leading news media outlet in the middle of all of it.
Here’s the region’s leading news media outlet in the middle of all of it.
deeply bizarre to see the entire homepage of the Minnesota Star Tribune turned into a multi-pronged commercial for Kwik Trip, a gas station with gas station-quality food
September 17, 2026 at 7:09 AM
Minnesota is currently at the forefront of several battles in America’s political, social, and cultural acceleration into full blown authoritarianism.
Here’s the region’s leading news media outlet in the middle of all of it.
Here’s the region’s leading news media outlet in the middle of all of it.
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This, absolutely sincerely. Most of these guys are doing high crimes and misdemeanors. A bunch of them are involved in waging an illegal, unauthorized war.
Congress' investigatory powers are at their *peak* in an impeachment context.
So impeach, impeach, impeach.
Congress' investigatory powers are at their *peak* in an impeachment context.
So impeach, impeach, impeach.
September 16, 2026 at 4:44 PM
This, absolutely sincerely. Most of these guys are doing high crimes and misdemeanors. A bunch of them are involved in waging an illegal, unauthorized war.
Congress' investigatory powers are at their *peak* in an impeachment context.
So impeach, impeach, impeach.
Congress' investigatory powers are at their *peak* in an impeachment context.
So impeach, impeach, impeach.
The current MPS plan is three options for my kid's school: close the school, close the school, merge the school.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
September 16, 2026 at 4:17 PM
The current MPS plan is three options for my kid's school: close the school, close the school, merge the school.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
Please support the work of @liberalcurrents.com during their membership drive!
Even though there is a lot of online writing about current affairs, the editorial team at LC has some of the most informed, grounded, and thoughtful approach and perspective of any publication at the moment.
Even though there is a lot of online writing about current affairs, the editorial team at LC has some of the most informed, grounded, and thoughtful approach and perspective of any publication at the moment.
The week of Renee Good's murder, I was put in touch with @taylorcarik.bsky.social, who wrote something that I felt was very important to publish at the time: a view into what it was actually like to live in Minneapolis at a moment when thousands of federal agents were running riot there.
So, How’s the Occupation Going for You?
What’s it like to live in America with a domestic military occupation? Minnesota has the answer.
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September 16, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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Even though there is a lot of online writing about current affairs, the editorial team at LC has some of the most informed, grounded, and thoughtful approach and perspective of any publication at the moment.
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We have started our subscriber drive this week. For $60 dollars you can access our Discord community right now, get a copy of this year's issue of The Reconstruction Papers, and reserve next year's. But I'd like to highlight some of the work we've done this year on the main publication.
Redeem This Deal to Subscribe to Liberal Currents Today!
Reserve your copy of next year's issue of The Reconstruction Papers.
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September 16, 2026 at 1:05 PM
We have started our subscriber drive this week. For $60 dollars you can access our Discord community right now, get a copy of this year's issue of The Reconstruction Papers, and reserve next year's. But I'd like to highlight some of the work we've done this year on the main publication.
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Cops are putting gibberish, jokes, or other nonsense into Flock’s “reason” box, highlighting the casualness and lack of care some cops have when searching an incredibly powerful surveillance system. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports.
Read now: www.404media.co/cops-search-...
Read now: www.404media.co/cops-search-...
September 15, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Cops are putting gibberish, jokes, or other nonsense into Flock’s “reason” box, highlighting the casualness and lack of care some cops have when searching an incredibly powerful surveillance system. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports.
Read now: www.404media.co/cops-search-...
Read now: www.404media.co/cops-search-...
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For international readers, you can pay $150 now www.liberalcurrents.com/drive/
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Redeem This Deal to Subscribe to Liberal Currents Today!
Reserve your copy of next year's issue of The Reconstruction Papers.
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September 14, 2026 at 11:43 AM
For US readers, you can pay $60 now, join our Discord, get a copy of the current issue of The Reconstruction Papers while inventory lasts, and reserve a copy of next year's issue.
For international readers, you can pay $150 now www.liberalcurrents.com/drive/
For international readers, you can pay $150 now www.liberalcurrents.com/drive/
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By supporting @liberalcurrents.com you are not just supporting a business or organization, you are also supporting a community. We've been around since 2017 and until the fundraiser last year, a community was more or less ALL that we were. It continues to be the *core* of what we are.
Join the Liberal Currents Community Today and Be Part of Our Fight for the Future of Liberal Democracy
Get a copy of The Reconstruction Papers while inventory lasts, and reserve a copy of next year’s issue.
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September 15, 2026 at 12:32 PM
By supporting @liberalcurrents.com you are not just supporting a business or organization, you are also supporting a community. We've been around since 2017 and until the fundraiser last year, a community was more or less ALL that we were. It continues to be the *core* of what we are.
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Glad 60 Minutes is doing a Jacob Wohl story literally nine years after I reported on that guy. One time he was pretending a scam website he was running wasn't his, so I called the number on the website and it went to his mom's voicemail. Jacob is like training wheels for investigative journalists.
September 14, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Glad 60 Minutes is doing a Jacob Wohl story literally nine years after I reported on that guy. One time he was pretending a scam website he was running wasn't his, so I called the number on the website and it went to his mom's voicemail. Jacob is like training wheels for investigative journalists.
Free PAC ad buy idea: 10-15 sec spots that run match clips of Trump to gas prices, Iran War, grocery prices, data centers, Epstein, racists, etc and then button the end with “Love Trump and what he’s done? Vote Republican”
I'm serious when I say I've lost track of all the recent revelations of literal Nazis working in high-level positions in Republican congressional campaigns and I would very much appreciate a journalist who took the time to detail as many of them as can fit into an article.
Ossoff: "Then there's the ex-staffer posting swastikas and Klan regalia. And the neo-Nazi with a million followers who produces neo-Nazi propaganda at Collins's house ... a man who won't take responsibility for what happens under his own roof can't be trusted with our national affairs."
September 15, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Free PAC ad buy idea: 10-15 sec spots that run match clips of Trump to gas prices, Iran War, grocery prices, data centers, Epstein, racists, etc and then button the end with “Love Trump and what he’s done? Vote Republican”
We live in a dystopia not because of the cages, but rather the ubiquitous and directly contradictory narratives that take dominate our mental and physical spaces. Info + reality are not fully covered up or erased, but rather experienced and then contradicted over and over.
Alligator Alcatraz’ confined detained immigrants in cages the size of phone booths, according to a new report by the DHS inspector general.
DHS watchdog: Immigrants held in outdoor cages the size of phone booths at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
The cages, called “calming areas,” were used for detainees to “reflect on their behavior choices, manage their emotions, reduce stress and practice self-directed behavior,” according to the inspector general’s report.
nbcnews.to
September 14, 2026 at 7:45 PM
We live in a dystopia not because of the cages, but rather the ubiquitous and directly contradictory narratives that take dominate our mental and physical spaces. Info + reality are not fully covered up or erased, but rather experienced and then contradicted over and over.
Alligator Alcatraz’ confined detained immigrants in cages the size of phone booths, according to a new report by the DHS inspector general.
DHS watchdog: Immigrants held in outdoor cages the size of phone booths at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
The cages, called “calming areas,” were used for detainees to “reflect on their behavior choices, manage their emotions, reduce stress and practice self-directed behavior,” according to the inspector general’s report.
nbcnews.to
September 14, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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this guy is one of the architects of a war that might rank as one of the worst strategic missteps in american military history and here is on CBS getting a softball interview about his feelings
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tells 60 Minutes that news of a U.S. fighter jet being shot down over Iran woke him in the middle of the night. His first thought: “S***.”
September 14, 2026 at 2:18 AM
this guy is one of the architects of a war that might rank as one of the worst strategic missteps in american military history and here is on CBS getting a softball interview about his feelings
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COMMUNITY MEAL
Pay-what-you-want
Weds. Sept 16, 5-7pm
$1 from every beer Arbeiter sells will help pay for the food, purchased from an immigrant-owned biz.
This is your invite, and also I'm passing the hat - you can donate here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
info about the last one⬇️
Pay-what-you-want
Weds. Sept 16, 5-7pm
$1 from every beer Arbeiter sells will help pay for the food, purchased from an immigrant-owned biz.
This is your invite, and also I'm passing the hat - you can donate here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
info about the last one⬇️
September 14, 2026 at 12:55 AM
COMMUNITY MEAL
Pay-what-you-want
Weds. Sept 16, 5-7pm
$1 from every beer Arbeiter sells will help pay for the food, purchased from an immigrant-owned biz.
This is your invite, and also I'm passing the hat - you can donate here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
info about the last one⬇️
Pay-what-you-want
Weds. Sept 16, 5-7pm
$1 from every beer Arbeiter sells will help pay for the food, purchased from an immigrant-owned biz.
This is your invite, and also I'm passing the hat - you can donate here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
info about the last one⬇️