Joshua Dahlman
More Goofus than Gallant
Mill City USA
Program Director (MN Features & Shorts) at Twin Cities Film Fest. Theater lover, runner, city biker, choral singer, and consumer of fine rum.
- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanThank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots: 1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...
- “You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)
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- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanA brand new Super PAC — Elect Chicago Women — just dropped hundreds of thousands of dollars into this race. Why? Because it’s actually a front for AIPAC dark money. And they’re doing everything they can to buy my race:
- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanThis is like a scene out of Monty Python. ICE agents get a name back from face recognition and multiple agents start calling out "Maria! Maria!" to see if a woman in custody reacts. (Presumably if she does that's a match???) It didn't work, so they ran the app again and got another name.
- Reposted by Joshua Dahlmanunraveled is *two* people, doing work that much bigger newsrooms aren't
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- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanBREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. (1/2 🧵)
- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanThis morning there was an ICE presence on McKinley street but then over 20 neighbors responded right away with their whistles and cameras and ICE left. This follows over a dozen ICE agents breaking into an apartment on Franklin Ave at 6 am this morning without presenting a warrant.
- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanThey were never going to get to their stated deportations goal with due process. So they're phasing it out. (Part 2)
- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanIan McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
- Reposted by Joshua Dahlmantoday's report: our "adopt a rent" venmo campaign paid 43 families rents who were at risk of evictions, including several moms of 4+ children this is the way to get rent paid fast. like. 1000x better than any other way.
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- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanThe government of Canada has put out some kind of propagandistic scare about Cuba but has refused to change its warnings for USA, where fascists are kidnapping and executing people daily, in a year
- Reposted by Joshua Dahlman‘Lord Of The Rings’ Reader Can’t Believe How Long It Taking Sam And Frodo To Fuck theonion.com/lord-of-the-rings-r…
- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanThis pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanImmigration agents have profiled other U.S. citizens in Oregon but this stop appears to mark the first instance of extensive injuries to a citizen here. Read more at oregonlive.com/politics/2026/02/us…
- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanUpdate: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA. Facts that bear repeating.
- Reposted by Joshua Dahlman“Yes,” said Frog, reaching for a cookie, “we need will power.” “What is will power?” asked Toad. “Will power is trying hard not to do something you really want to do,” said Frog.
- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanIs That Black Enough for You?!? (2022) Written and Directed by Elvis Mitchell Documentary covering the history of Black cinema, focused mainly on the '70s. Includes archival and new interviews with many of the key players from the era. #BlackHistoryMonth
- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanJust a reminder that real journalism is required to educate voters enough for democracy to work. The people dismantling journalistic institutions right now want American democracy to fail.
- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanIt is like an extra level of depressing that our country isn’t even making concentration camps, where folk can at least go outside from time to time, rather they’re just big warehouses where folks are locked in cages and sleep on concrete floors, and no one can see the cruelty inside.
- Reposted by Joshua Dahlmanthe bloodshed? came after: “it’s okay, i’m not mad at you” & “are you okay?”
- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanAs best I can tell, no one actually has jobs so much as they have competing spheres of influence that are affected by the whims of dementia orange grampa.
- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanI think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanHighlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
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- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanSaw a top 10 Westerns list in my feed, so thought I'd do one of my own.

- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanThis part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
- This @bostonreview.bsky.social piece by @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social is an absolute must-read, as are many of the responses to it. Spread this one far and wide.
- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanCan comfirm from MN, as can anyone who lives here, that not a THING has changed except little Bovino isnt peacocking around the streets anymore. And there hasn’t been a third high-profile murder of a white person yet. But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...
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- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanFolks outside of Minnesota: Looking for how you can support Latino small businesses in Minneapolis? Here you go.
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- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanThis isn't “parental choice.” It’s shelves emptied, stories erased & students cut off from ideas that help them learn, question & grow. Every removed book is a reader who won't see themselves reflected & narrows the world a little more. FL students deserve libraries full of possibility, not fear.
- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanA good thing happened today: Haitians in Springfield, Ohio and elsewhere are (for now) safe from the planned ethnic cleansing operation. This happened because people came together — organizers, reporters, and those who care — and made it happen. Let’s take the win and continue the work.
- Minnesotans are being protected by literal whistleblowers right now but I swear there was this dude in 2013 who was considered a whistleblower who tried to warn us all.
- In which @tressiemcphd.bsky.social scares the shit out of me. “ICE knows that it cannot shoot us all. But the Department of Homeland Security is close to being able to track us all.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
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- Cool. Now executions by the state can be lived streamed with Fox News commentary in a post apocalyptic sporting event.
- All immigration officers on the ground in Minneapolis will be equipped with body cameras, Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said on Monday. Read more: nyti.ms/4rx9XoY
- boxd.it/cY8dZt My movie club had me watch this (I just learned of its existence) and I was wholly surprised how much I loved it.
- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanThings are still bad here in MN. But until Bovino left, the admin would meet each challenge with more escalation. Withdrawing him cracked their resolve. Now they seem increasingly scared to escalate. So they’re stuck. They should simply leave.
- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanPalantir needs to be obliterated the same as ICE, and Peter Thiel can face the Truth and Reconciliation committee he’s spent his entire life trying to negate. If we want to fix our country, this is non-negotiable.
- Sandy Hook irrefutably proved a large portion of the USA does not give a single fuck about children and there’s zero political appetite to protect them. So why would you think that molesting kids would be any different?
- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanFar-right Americans want you to believe that having nice things is impossible, and that serving billionaires is the only thing you can do. This is a lie. The rest of the world has solved many problems Republicans pretend are impossible.
- Motherhood costs Danish women an average of $120,000 in earnings over two decades, according to a sociologist who researches family and economics. Generous government benefits like paid leave, childcare and child allowances recovered about $100,000 of that loss. buff.ly/pAtuCS0
- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanIn 1946, cartoonist & illustrator Noel Sickles was sent by Life magazine to sketch the Nuremberg trials. Here is his sketch of the execution of Joachim Von Ribbentrop, who claimed at trial that his boss had made all of the important decisions, & that he was only following orders.
- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanBro, what do you mean the AI-based avatar is out-of-network?
- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanThis watermark graffiti by street artist Mathieu Tremblin is, like, the best thing ever.
- Reposted by Joshua Dahlman#FilmNoir Double Indemnity playing at the Wisconsin Theatre in Milwaukee, 1944 🎞 🍿
- Reposted by Joshua Dahlmancrazy that basically every person complaining about "woke overreach" over the last 12 years is also in the epstein emails being like "thanks for the pussy, jeff ;)"
- Reposted by Joshua DahlmanGreat Blue Heron courtship #birds