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🌻Blue💙SkiesGazer @blueskiesgazer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

St Paul, MN shining brightly today for the No Kings rally. United we stand.

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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

The Gravamen of the Disclosure

4. The gravamen of the disclosure is as follows:
a. By memorandum dated May 12, 2025 (“the May 12 Memo”), Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter into certain people’s homes without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency.

b. Specifically, in the May 12 Memo, the Acting ICE Director authorized ICE Agents to rely on Form I-205 (which is not a judicial warrant) to enter the residence of an alien subject to a final order of deportation, without consent, including by “a necessary and reasonable amount of force.”2c. While addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” in practice the May 12 Memo has not been formally distributed to all personnel. Instead, the May 12 Memo has been provided to select DHS officials who are then directed to verbally brief the new policy for action. Those supervisors then show the Memo to some employees, like our clients, and direct them to read the Memo and return it to the supervisor.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

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BNO News @bnonews.com · 07/01/2026

NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed

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🌻Blue💙SkiesGazer @blueskiesgazer.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

#NoKings Minneapolis MN.

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 06/10/2025

OK, so this is going to be tough to hear, but it needs to be said. Now that Trump has been enjoined from sending *any* NG to Oregon, ICE is going to go gangbusters in Oregon, dialing everything up to 1000%. Because they need riots. They need someone punching an ICE officer. DON'T TAKE THE BAIT.

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🌻Blue💙SkiesGazer @blueskiesgazer.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

It was a sad day today as we went to bid thank you & goodbye to MN Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark & their bestest dog Gilbert. Thousands upon thousands lined up to pay their respects. 2 really good people & 1 really good dog gone forever but never forgotten.🤍🕯️🕊️🤍

Melissa, Mark and Gilbert Hortman lie in state in the MN Capitol Rotunda.

Wood carved drawing of Gilbert the dog, with a red heart and candle nearby.

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🌻Blue💙SkiesGazer @blueskiesgazer.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

On the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War, we still fight back! The resistance was loud & clear today! We carry your torch, Paul Revere.🇺🇸 #NoKings #HandsOff #50501Movement #SaveDemocracy #SaveOurPlanet

People protesting trump admin with signs and flags.

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Judge Luttig @judgeluttig.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

On this day, April 14, 2025, the President of the United States openly defied the Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion of April 10, 2025, ordering him to “facilitate Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 20/03/2025

america's new normal

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Interesting statement on Russia and Ukraine from leadership at the George W Bush Presidential Center. www.bushcenter.org/publications...

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America First should not put Russia second | George W. Bush Presidential Center

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

SCOOP: Top DHS officials received a memo on Friday ordering an immediate stop to work connected to climate change and the elimination of climate-related terms across the agency By @zhirji.bsky.social w/asst from me 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Trump Ends Climate Work Inside Agency That Responds to Disasters

A memo sent to leadership at the US Department of Homeland Security orders the elimination of climate-related activities.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The Acting Solicitor General has notified Congress of DOJ's intent to ask #SCOTUS to overrule Humphrey's Executor—a major 1935 ruling upholding the independence of agencies like the FCC, FTC, NLRB, etc. fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc... Because *less* independence is what we need...

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 02/02/2025

Here is the guidance in full. The wording is very broad. This should help a lot of organizations and people.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/02/2025

“What started as a purge of the security services accelerated Friday into a full-blown coup, as technical units aligned w/ oligarch Elon Musk moved to seize key systems at Treasury, block outside access to personnel records, & take offline comms networks.”

doomsdayscenario.co

Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government

Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now

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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Former Secretary of Transportation--who was not on The Real World or Road Rules--weighs in on the President's efforts to blame the fatal air traffic accident on DEI.

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Chris D. Jackson @chrisdjackson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Yes he did. 😑

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I see some suggestions, in the reporting regarding the OMB impoundment order, that a mere delay in spending appropriated funds is legal. But that's not really true. The delay OMB has ordered specifically contradicts the Impoundment Control Act. A thread.

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SeditionHunters @seditionhunters.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

For those people boycotting Target, don't just Boycott, tell them why you are not shopping there, Post receipts where you shopped elsewhere to show the money they are losing to their social media Expand your impact www.facebook.com/target/ x.com/Target www.threads.net/@target

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

"Today, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided a local establishment in the City of Newark, detaining undocumented residents as well as citizens, without producing a warrant. One of the detainees is a U.S. military veteran"

newarknj.gov

News: MAYOR RAS J. BARAKA’S STATEMENT ON ICE RAID ON NEWARK BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT

Official Page of Newark, NJ News: MAYOR RAS J. BARAKA’S STATEMENT ON ICE RAID ON NEWARK BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT

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Po Murray @pomurray.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Today, I will not acknowledge the inauguration of the most corrupt greedy criminal fascist. Instead, I will honor MLK, President Biden, Vice President Harris, and other true leaders who fought tirelessly for our safety, equality, democracy, justice, & world peace.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

But some people are just too old and frail to handle cold weather.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

“Now it’s your turn to stand guard - may you all be the keeper of the flame. May you keep the faith.” 😭

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

They say hell freezes over between 14° and 23°.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

🧵 WHY WERE HUNTER BIDEN'S CASES UNPRECEDENTED? (1/5) Hunter Biden was investigated for FIVE years by the DOJ. After FIVE years of investigations, the Trump-appointed US Attorney, David Weiss, in Delaware agreed with Hunter's lawyers to a non-prosecution agreement.

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

pro tip: if you said nothing when Donald Trump pardoned donors, cronies, extended family members and war criminals, then sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up about Joe Biden pardoning his own son. just put a fucking sock in it

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