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Drew Turner @drewturner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

First came the “kratom” headlines. Then came the facts. The Ole Miss cases reportedly involved Pseudo-DHM products, not traditional kratom leaf. Toxicology hasn’t established the cause of death yet. And these products were already prohibited by local and federal law. medium.com/@DrewTurnerM...

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First Came the Kratom Headlines. Then Came the Facts.

The Ole Miss deaths show what happens when the media treats lab made kratom derivatives, traditional leaf, and an unconfirmed cause of…

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Drew Turner @drewturner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Something I’ve been working on. Prohibition just doesn’t work. We keep repeating the same cycle: ban it first, criminalize people, create a black market, and then act surprised when the consequences are worse than the problem we were trying to solve. medium.com/@andrewturne...

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America’s Favorite Drug Policy: Ban It First, Figure It Out Later

Every few years, America discovers a substance it does not quite understand, watches a loosely regulated market develop around it…

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Drew Turner @drewturner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

But hey, vote blue no matter who right?

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's Saturday. Again, every time someone says "Trump can't do that" the only serious response is "Yes, he can, until Congress removes him"

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A significant majority of the $75 billion that Congress gave ICE in the OBBBA will go to private companies that operate most of the machinery of mass deportations; they staff and provide the prisons, they drive the buses, and they own and fly the planes. They are all set to cash in massively.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

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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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

This is correct. MN officials are the ones appealing for calm. The White House is demanding obedience.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 24/01/2026

So I watched the shooting video frame by frame and it looks like: 1) They were beating a struggling man with batons 2) His jacket opened revealing a gun in his waistband or lower back 3) The agent in gray grabbed the gun and was walking away 4) THEN the other agents shot the man in the back

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

If only we as a country, as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our independence, had some historical events from our founding era that might help us understand why agents of a distant government shouldn’t murder protesters on the streets of the city where they live.

A depiction of Crisps Attucks being killed by agents of the state on the streets of Boston for the crime of protesting.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

As the other E Higgins points out, he looks like he was disarmed prior to the shooting bsky.app/profile/eoin...

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I just watched the shooting video. It's a horrific beating and execution in the middle of the street. If local and state officials don't move to arrest everyone involved for murder, they need to resign. Making arrests will de-escalate the situation. Do nothing and this is going to explode.

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

DHS said in October that "comparing ICE day-in and day-out to the Nazi gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences." After I found one of their lawyers for ICE is a racist and a self-described fascist who has praised Hitler, there have been no consequences.

These type of threats against our brave ICE law enforcement officers and their families are disgusting. These officers risk their lives every day to arrest murderers, pedophiles, rapists, terrorists, and gang members from our communities. Comparing ICE day-in and day-out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences," said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. "The men and women of ICE and CBP are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer. Like everyone else, they just want to go home to their families at night. The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop."

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Fight and help win a world war. Establish a global order that cements your national power for 80 years. Blow it all up. What am I missing?

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 18/01/2026

Have helped guard a local mosque during their Friday prayers. Been very cold but Somali restaurant offers us delicious, warm tea constantly. Members expressed much gratitude & confidence this ugly time will pass.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Media reports say two battalions of the US Army's 11th Airborne Division (aka the "Arctic Angels"), who specialize in cold weather warfare, are on standby for possible deployment to Minnesota.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The White House wants a civil war and they are taking steps to implement one. Democrats who can't recognize or accept that are incapable of leading.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Leadership need not come from the House or Senate. Governors would be better. Barring that, big city mayors. Even influential activists. But it cannot be these two.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I said this morning that we would win. But we will lose — and lose badly — if the opposition party doesn't recognize the gravity of the situation. Schumer and Jeffries must be supplanted as the party leadership's center of gravity. It's vital. They're not capable of leading us through this.

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Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

These soldiers come from two infantry battalions, officials say. White House does not confirm but official there says it's typical for the Pentagon "to be prepared for any decision the President may or may not make." Move comes after Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act on Thursday.

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Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

About 1,500 soldiers w/ 11th Airborne Division in Alaska have been placed on prepare-to-deploy orders with a mission in Minnesota in mind, defense officials tell me tonight. Unclear if some or all of them ultimately will go. News reported tonight by ABC News, too.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Her mother called 911 for help… and got turned into ICE instead. They placed her and her five year old daughter in a hotel and told them not to contact anyone. ICE didn’t want the community fighting for them. Mother & daughter have been deported to Honduras and the local police were complicit.

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ICE deports 5-year-old US citizen from TX to Honduras, group says

Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos and her mom were arrested in Austin on January 5.

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account. Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.

Homeland Security &
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Law enforcement uses 'reasonable suspicion' to make arrests, as protected under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court has already vindicated us on this position.
A person's immigration status makes them a target for enforcement, not their skin color, race or ethnicity.
@TriciaOhio

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

ICE detained people while waiting in line at a food pantry. Again, ICE DETAINED PEOPLE WHILE WAITING IN LINE AT A FOOD PANTRY.

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ICE detained people waiting at a food pantry, Salvation Army says

A foodbank in New Jersey cautioned its partners to have a plan in place in case of an ICE raid.

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Nichole Hiltz 🧡 @nicholehiltz.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Oh, and if anyone was confused. You build houses for the unhoused. Not kill them. Thank you.

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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Guantanamo today has 15 wartime prisoners, all held in one facility run by a Pentagon staff of 800 military police and other government workers. A look at the operation that began 24 years ago with these first 20 prisoners, one of whom is still there today. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

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Guantánamo Prison Enters 25th Year

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Who is this guy? He just threatened to murder a woman on camera. He should be arrested by local authorities for menacing.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.

Chart showing "Detention Population, Among Those Arrested in the interior, by Criminal Record, May 2019 through January 27, 2026. There are three lines on the graph: prior conviction, pending criminal charges, and no criminal record. from 2019 through January 2025, "prior conviction" is by far the highest, followed by pending charges much lower down and "no criminal record" the lowest. During the Biden admin, very few people arrested by ICE in the interior and detained had no criminal record. Beginning in January 2025, all three lines jump, but the highest spike is among those with no criminal records. By September, that has become the single largest. Since that point, there are now thousands more people in detention with no criminal record than people with prior convictions.

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

My favorite part of the US doing horrible shit is every time it happens there is a segment of the population who says "this isn't who we are!" As though they are 12 years old.

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Drew Turner @drewturner.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Truly wild that 2 of the 4 charges being put forward against Maduro and others charged are based on US gun laws that literally wouldnt apply in another sovereign nation. Absolutely silly shit. www.nbcmiami.com/news/nationa...

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These are the charges Maduro and his wife face following their capture

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi says Maduro and his wife will face criminal charges after an indictment in New York.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Question that needs to be asked and answered: "If this was an 'arrest operation,' as in law enforcement, then how do you feel about 40 civilians being killed in the process?"

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/01/2026

They fired all the generals who wouldn't go along, then they kicked all the reporters out of the Pentagon.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

If Nicolás Maduro stands trial in the United States and gets convicted of 34 felonies, does that mean he’s qualified to be our next president now? Just checking what the standards are these days.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Perhaps now people will stop wishcasting about the US military refusing illegal orders. That's not a thing that happens. The 100% compliance rate with using civilian boats for target practice was a bit of a tell.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Anybody tracking Congressional statements on Trump's illegal war and kidnapping?

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Pissing off the entire world and then setting the precedent that it's cool to kidnap heads of state is certainly a choice.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

If Xi Jinping invaded Taiwan right now, and toppled the president there, on what grounds would the United States object? Or have any credibility to say anything?

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 24/12/2025

Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

"The former entertainer" lmao

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Fudali: This is what we call in the civil litigation world a document dump, where you hide things in plain sight by throwing out a massive volume of documents with zero context, no order, no rhyme or reason, and then force the people who actually want information to dig through it.

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