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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
A lot of our political discourse would be easier if we didn't extend good faith to people who would never extend it back.
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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Every American needs to watch this:
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 05/02/2026
A bizarre number of people have stepped up to defend Julie Le. What you see in that transcript is an attorney who chose to do evil work—deporting people for ICE then moving over to DOJ in early Jan. specifically to fight these habeas petitions—being called to the carpet. She's desperate, not heroic.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
ICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working. This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose. Let me explain & offer some advice.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I think after the CBP murders, rolling out troops for a pogrom in direct contravention of a federal ruling would be a big escalation even on the terms of the administration. They may nevertheless find the stomach for it but they'd be risking a lot. if they go for it we have to make them pay dearly.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
They aren’t deescalating anything. They’re claiming new extra-constitutional powers. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
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ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants
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Mark Agee @markagee.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
Anyway, good morning from this evergreen quote from a guy we teach the kids is a great American hero
Frederick Douglass quote from 1857:

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power conceded nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/01/2026
Trump: "I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people who own homes."
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
It’s easy to forget since he’s still a high public official but Homan straight up took $50,000 in cash from undercover agents on camera and then nothing happened
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This is sort of a throughline in cases of excessive force used by law enforcement. The civilian is supposed to perfectly adhere to some unwritten code of conduct; the armed professional supposedly trained for such situations is only human & must be given lattitude if they succumb to fear and rage.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 28/01/2026
Democrats should demand every sitting Republican decry this attack and explicitly denounce it, and then censure all of them when they don’t do it. Act like normal decent humans defending your colleague.
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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
One thing I see liberal outlets giving ground on that I feel the need to correct: it’s impossible to “dox” a paid public official By simply reporting their name, institutional role, and political affiliations
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/01/2026
Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
before you take any of the "Trump is pivoting/lamenting/lowering the temperature after the Pretti murder" stories too seriously, absolutely nothing has changed in Minneapolis: "an absolutely brutal day of raids and abductions" says one friend
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The people who have been saying for many years, and were laughed off by too many, that this isn’t about “illegals” they will do this to people here legally should not have to prove their already obvious point any longer given the rising body count of literal U.S. citizens
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/01/2026
if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Exactly right. Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign. Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE. Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them. Every possible angle.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Minneapolis is winning. The tide is shifting. Can you feel it? It’s their Gettysburg. The first Minnesota is charging down the hill, bayonets drawn. This is their furthest advance and they will go no further. WE ARE GOING TO WIN
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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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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The shitty choice here is kidnapping people and shooting protesters. We’ll stop calling you murderous kidnappers when you stop murdering and kidnapping.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/01/2026
strange to me that a lot of people on this website simultaneously agree that the administration is run by incompetents who struggle to carry out their agenda without major political blowback AND that they’ll pull off a complex and sophisticated effort to rig elections and prevent defeat in November
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Daniel Harper @danielharper.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/01/2026
i think they are bad consolidating authoritarianism choices because effective consolidation involves carrots as well as (secret) sticks. this administration is doing the opposite. no carrots whatsoever and ostentatious public violence against members of the dominant racial/ethnic/religious group
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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I keep thinking about this fact that his last words were are you okay and hers were I'm not mad at you and it feels like a weird coincidence but it's just a reflection of the fact that the people who are coming out to take care of their neighbors are good and the people who are after them are bad
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
What’s happening in Minneapolis really drives home the absolute fakery of “brave stands against wokism” brand building pundits have been doing for the past decade
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
By Saturday afternoon, some Trump admin. personnel had already begun scouring the internet and other resources trying to find information on Alex Pretti, including social media posts, that could tie him to what Team Trump call “extremists,” two sources familiar with the matter tell @zeteo.com …
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Glad to see the parents highlight something I felt was overlooked: Alex Pretti’s “interference” with border patrol agents was standing in the way while they were roughing up a woman.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The statement from Alex Pretti’s parents is just “tell the government to stop telling smirking, transparent lies about why it killed our son” which feels like a new low for our nation. This president and his toadies have brought us to our knees and must be driven out
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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
But the biggest indication is the way the ICE thugs react after the shots. They don't try to arrest him or secure the gun, they either back away or run away. They immediately knew it was a crime and tried to distance themselves.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I’m completely fed up with elected Representatives saying shit like, “Republicans will tell you behind closed doors that they don’t agree with what ICE is doing”. Playtime is over. Professional courtesy no longer exists. Name them, record them, and make it public.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
It must be wild being a Republican. Literally no beliefs other than a burning desire to have a bigger, more confident man tell them what to do.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I have never seen a community of people so united and so committed to helping each other in the face of something so terrible, in my decades of reporting on terrible things. The people of Minneapolis are all in this together, legit. You can feel it and see it everywhere. It's incredible.
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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The latest ICE murder victim was, by all accounts, a good person. Caring and brave and kind. A profound loss. But the worst person in Minnesota doesn't deserve to be killed by his government either. You don't have to earn the right not to be murdered by the state. That's what makes it a right.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 24/01/2026
People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
It can be a hard pill to swallow but you have to accept that while you will prevail in this struggle, you may not be there to witness it.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
And he didn’t. He tried to help a woman who’d just been assaulted. There was nothing rash, stupid, or radical about what he did. He showed kindness. And they killed him for it.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
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David Dennis Jr @daviddennisjr.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
You can’t “we need our guns” your way to perpetuating school shootings while “he had a gun” your way to justifying public executions. A nurse. Someone who’s actually saved lives.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
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