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Derek Lamparty

@abrogans.bsky.social
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I am a crabby bastard. :-) Unless I am doing something that I love like BBQing, gardening, backpacking, hiking, hanging with the neighbors and family. MN United and MM Wild fan, husband, father of 2 wonderful adult children.

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Havoc @havoc147.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 28/01/2026
A $1.8 billion loan guarantee to an Arizona utility to deploy clean energy are among the projects the Energy Department has canceled.
bloom.bg
Trump Nixes $1.8 Billion Biden-Era Loan to Arizona Utility for Clean Energy
A $1.8 billion loan guarantee to an Arizona utility to deploy clean energy are among the projects the Energy Department has canceled following a review of loans made during former President Joe Biden’s administration, according to the department.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 25/01/2026
Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.
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Derek Lamparty @abrogans.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/01/2026
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
bit.ly
German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it’s time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026
It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.
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Derek Lamparty @abrogans.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.”  It sounds fierce.  It feels righteous.  But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless.

The Gestapo was a secret police force.  No warrants.  No courts.  No lawyers.  And no appeals.  People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything.  The knock on the door was the sentence.

ICE isn’t that.  Not even close.

ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials.  Its agents file reports.  They seek warrants.  They lose cases.  Judges stop them.  Lawyers challenge them.  Some detainees go home.  That’s not tyranny.  That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse.

You can hate immigration policy.  You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad.  You can work to have the law changed if you wish.  That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do.  

But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil.  You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor.  And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize.

In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight.  This one hasn't yet.  It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses.

That difference matters.

Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history.  We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with.

And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”
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Derek Lamparty @abrogans.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
An internal review with a predetermined outcome.
independent.co.uk
Noem confirms ICE officer is under internal review after fatal shooting of Renee Good
‘We are following the exact same investigative and review process that we always have under ICE and under the Department of Homeland Security and within the administration,’ Noem said
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Derek Lamparty @abrogans.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The Trump Administration is ripping up the constitution right before our eyes. Thank goodness that we still have the courts. Congress is completely useless at this point.
fox9.com
Judge: ICE violated Liberian man’s rights by bursting through front door during arrest
A federal court judge has ruled that the recent ICE arrest of a Liberian immigrant in Minneapolis violated his constitutional rights, ordering his immediate release.
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Derek Lamparty @abrogans.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
And a FIFA Club World Cup Winner's medal... oh.. wait... no one gave that to him, he just grabbed it and stuck it in his pocket!
ms.now
Trump received a Nobel Peace Prize the same way he received a Purple Heart
The president seems to prefer a model where others do the heavily lifting and then generously turn over their honors.
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Derek Lamparty @abrogans.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I haven't seen the video, but I will just make some shit up to justify it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/01/2026
McLAUGHLIN: Racial animus has no place in DHS and of course is not use CNN: *plays clip of ICE agents asking Minneapolis woman where she was born* McLAUGHLIN: I haven't seen this clip before. She might've been assaulting law enforcement prior to this.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/01/2026
CNN: What do you say to people who watch these videos & worry Minnesota is becoming a police state? McLAUGHLIN: There's a lot of fear-mongering going on by the media CNN: Let me correct you. They are watching these videos & using their independence of mind McLAUGHLIN: No. Actually it is the media
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/01/2026
damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis
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Derek Lamparty @abrogans.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I thought that they were supposed to be draining the swamp?
latintimes.com
First Venezuelan Oil Sale Under Trump Plan Went to Major Campaign Donor's Firm
The first U.S.-brokered sale of Venezuelan crude under President Donald Trump's new energy plan went to Vitol, a global oil trading firm whose senior U.S.-based trader has been a major donor to Trump'...
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 15/01/2026
This has been the plan all along. - Foment violence and chaos in the streets of MN - Implement the Insurrection Act - Declare Martial Law - Suspend elections
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Derek Lamparty @abrogans.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
They are sending untrained thugs to the streets and causing chaos. In my eyes, this is by design. They've been talking about the insurrection act since Trump took office again in Jan 2025.
nbcnews.com
ICE error meant some recruits were sent into field offices without proper training, sources say
An AI tool used to help ICE identify potential new recruits with law enforcement experience wrongly categorized some potential new officers, sources say.
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Derek Lamparty @abrogans.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
"I won't say 'cancel the election, they should cancel the election,' because the fake news will say 'he wants the elections canceled, he's a dictator.' They always call me a dictator."
ca.news.yahoo.com
Trump floats canceling election, dismisses it to avoid 'dictator' label
President Donald Trump spoke to House Republicans as the party braces for impact in the 2026 midterms. He teased he can't cancel the election.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
fortune.com/2025/06/26/f...
fortune.com
These are the Fortune 500 companies that have active contracts with ICE | Fortune
From AT&T to FedEx, these are the organizations contracting with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Fortune 500 companies that have contracts with ICE: -Amazon -AT&T -Booz Allen Hamilton -Caci -Charter Communications -Comcast -Dell -Ecolab -FedEx -General Dynamics -L3Harris -Motorola -Thermo Fisher -UPS Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
ICE agents have shot at least nine other people just since September, killing one. Under Trump, this violence is rewarded with fat bonuses and student loan forgiveness — while nurses, teachers, and everyone else struggles to get by. We must never become numb to his cruelty.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Is this what Trump had in mind for his “Golden Age”?
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/12/2025
unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.
Much of the Minnesota Fraud, up to 90%, is caused by people that came into our Country, illegally, from Somalia. “Congresswoman” Omar, an ungrateful loser who only complains and never contributes, is one of the many scammers. Did she really marry her brother? Lowlifes like this can only be a liability to our Country’s greatness. Send them back from where they came, Somalia, perhaps the worst, and most corrupt, country on earth. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!
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Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
This is how you do it folks
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
LOSES?!?!?!!?! No. HHS canceled grants previously awarded to AAP — in what certainly looks like a retaliatory act.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
We are failing our kids
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Hilarious. The WH had all the Cabinet members simultaneously put out statements supporting Susie Wiles after the Vanity Fair article came out.
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Derek Lamparty @abrogans.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
You have to be able to read and speak English to have a commercial drivers license, but that is not necessary if you want to become a jack boot thug.
independent.co.uk
ICE applicants who can ‘barely read or write’ are being accepted, report says
The Homeland Security Department hopes to hire 10,000 new deportation officers by the end of the year to help in President Donald Trump’s massive immigration crackdown
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Derek Lamparty @abrogans.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The blatant corruption by the Trump family is astounding. Hunter Biden has nothing on these grifters.
popular.info
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...
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Derek Lamparty @abrogans.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
independent.co.uk
Hegseth forced out US admiral who had legal concerns over drug boat strikes: report
The departure of Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of U.S. Southern Command, has stunned lawmakers and military experts
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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 02/12/2025
New: A cause of death has been released for Robert Dear, the man accused of killing three people and wounding nine others a decade ago in a mass shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs. Dear, 67, died Nov. 22 at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Missouri.
trib.al
Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooter’s cause of death revealed
Robert Dear, 67, died Nov. 22 at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri.
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Derek Lamparty @abrogans.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Ah… yes… the weaponization of the Justice Department against criminals. Can’t have that.
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LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Trump’s “new health care plan” is basically the medical version of that joke: the patient is dying quick, hide the monitors. Pretend everything’s fine while the system flatlines.
DOCTOR, THE MONITORS SHOW HES DEATHLY ILL! WHAT SHOULD WE DO?!..
HIDE THE MONITORS...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I know people are going to revel in the schadenfreude here, but this is really just an admission—given how close the House is split—that they’re just mad it didn’t work. Fewer than a dozen House GOPers could change America tomorrow. That they’re not proves this is just about losing, not principles.
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Derek Lamparty @abrogans.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
This is what happens when you try to bend or break the rules to hasten your politically motivated prosecutions.
theguardian.com
US judge throws out criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James
Judge says interim US attorney for eastern district of Virginia had ‘no lawful authority’ to indict former FBI director and New York attorney general
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Derek Lamparty @abrogans.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Well... the reaction from Trump supporters should be interesting.
theguardian.com
Trump says he ‘absolutely’ would live in Mamdani’s New York during unexpectedly cordial first meeting – US politics live
President and mayor-elect refused to be drawn into talking about their differences despite repeated attempts to draw them into conflict
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
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Derek Lamparty @abrogans.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
As I have stated many times since January, the incompetence of people in the Trump administration is astounding. Wonder if yet another Trump attorney will be disbarred?
apnews.com
New hurdle in Comey case as Trump's Justice Department faces questions about the grand jury process
The prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey has hit another hurdle. The Justice Department acknowledged in court Wednesday a possible lapse in how the case was presented to a grand jury.
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Derek Lamparty @abrogans.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
A reminder: The Attorney General of the United States should be the people's lawyer, not the president's personal attorney. The Department of Justice should act to protect the public, not just the occupant of the Oval Office and his political allies.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it. Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...

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I am certain that someone thought this was particularly witty when they came up with the name, but it's honestly one of the more offensive possibilities these hateful authoritarians could have used.
Even on its face, using the name of a beloved children's book as the name of your anti-immigrant, mass-arrest operation is appalling.
But, to use a book authored by E.B. White as your name is an offense to history. White was a leading voice for American democracy and freedom and against fascism and tyranny.
Abusing his life's work like this cannot stand without a response.
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Derek Lamparty @abrogans.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Faux News is at it again. I mean... many of us were calling them out for using 5 year old pictures and videos trying to stoke even more division in the country. The city of Portland should follow Trump's lead and sue Fox for $5 Billion!
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Derek Lamparty @abrogans.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Should we have expected anything else?
theguardian.com
US judge finds evidence of ‘government misconduct’ in federal case against Comey
Judge ruled DoJ engaged in ‘profound investigative missteps’ on way to indicting the former FBI director
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Derek Lamparty @abrogans.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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