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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The inaugural speaker for the center's opening event was the unqualified hack Christopher Rufo. Rufo's goal is destroying, not expanding, intellectual freedom and he's open about it. Asking him to speak at this event is inviting the arsonist to come marvel at the fire.

Nothing in Rufo’s record indicates he’s qualified to speak about the state of higher education. He’s done no academic research and admitted that his crusade against critical race theory relied upon misrepresentation. Even Republican allies view Rufo’s trusteeship at Florida’s New College as an unmitigated disaster, complete with faculty purges, an ousted president, a grossly ballooning budget and a significant drop in the U.S. News & World Report’s rankings. Despite his record of failure, my university’s new center paid him more for his hour of propaganda than most University of Iowa graduate students make in a year as teaching assistants.

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The problem with the president of the United States breaking multiple treaties, including his own, repeatedly lying to just about every country on Earth, and holding peace talks as a perfidious ruse to murder other heads of state, means any promises he makes, oral or written, are worthless.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

"Alito is essentially saying that districts drawn under the Voting Rights Act or other federal and state laws to remedy centuries of racial discrimination are as racist as the racism (including the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow) they were meant to rectify"

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

The “well regime change is good, actually” from people who can’t tell me what happens after the regime is changed or even what was happening before the regimes was changed really isn’t doing it for me It does not mama the mia, I tell you what

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 26/02/2026

Stop pre-negotiating. Stop telling voters they have to sacrifice minorities and the marginalized to have a chance of winning. Stop telling voters to settle, to not ask for everything, to be reasonable. Don't be reasonable. Demand the world. The world belongs to us. They don't have more right to it.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 26/02/2026

I'm really sick of liberals and centrists thinking that compromise is something you start with instead of something you end with

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

No court has authority to prevent the report from being subpoenaed by congress and read into the congressional record, FWIW

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

$MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.$

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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

It’s 7:18 am and I’ve seen it 50+ times maybe it’s just disseminating racist propaganda

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 29/01/2026

Trump's number one priority has been to make the wealthy, wealthier—it has never been the millions of young Americans looking to buy their first home. He’s giving the middle finger to our youngest generation. @democrats.senate.gov are focused on making homeownership possible for everyone.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

It is wild to me that a military incursion to steal another country’s resources so the president can have a personal slush fund in Qatar is like the 5th most scandalous thing currently happening.

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Liz M @lizerenity.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Philip I am an elder caregiver, in very rural very red Colorado. All of my clients are veterans in their mid to late '80s or older. Every single one of them, believe with their whole being, that they are having an actual conversation with Donald Trump in these emails. Every one of them.

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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 26/01/2026

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 26/01/2026

We've raised a lot of money for my school community neighbors. And I predict all of it will be depleted by the end of this week. If you're in a position to donate, please help: paypal.me/lyndalepto (donations are tax deductible) 3/3

Mutual aid fundraiser poster for Lyndale Community School

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

“Today is a dark day. You may feel afraid. You may ask yourself: could I be next? And if you have to ask, the answer is yes So relieve yourself from the slow-motion uncertaintly of the inevitable. And join together in a collective rage To stop these motherfuckers.” kevinjamesthornton.bsky.social

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 25/01/2026

Give the money to social services, to public libraries, to affordable housing, to health care for all. The money's there. The money's always been there. Let's do it.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 25/01/2026

BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

It’s crucial that networks with Sunday morning shows not let Republicans lie about what happened today. Interrupt them, cut their mics, cut away. It’s reckless and inaccurate to let them spin a murder. The video is clear. I don’t expect this to happen, but the journalistic imperative is clear.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Heartbreaking

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Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Shut the government down. There is no reason to have a federal government that does this. Abolish ICE is the moderate, centrist position.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/01/2026

It appears that the White House edited this image using AI

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/01/2026

They want you to think that there is nothing in the past but shame so that people flinch away from examining history. If you examine history, you will find good people. At every time in history, you will find them. Maybe not enough, but they were there. You can be this generation's good people.

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Margarita @margarita.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Incapable of understanding how "abolish ICE" was silly but arresting 5 year olds is public policy

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Joe @joealv.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

right now the floor for me is abolish ICE and put every agent on trial and the average elected democrat is like what if we told them to cut it out

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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 22/01/2026

PhD in criminology (actually extremism) here to say GenAI products as currently constructed are powerful bias amplifiers that operate at the expense of minority out-groups in both subtle and gross ways

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Sinners Phan @cindyphanauthor.com · 19/01/2026

What is hope, if not spite persevering?

LOTR, two panels.

Top panel: Frodo, forlorn, slumped against a stone corner asking (in text on screen): What are we holding onto, Sam?

Bottom panel: Sam, facing Frodo (seen from behind), responding: Sheer fucking spite, Mr. Frodo.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19/01/2026

This dynamic is basically unchanged in the decades I've followed US politics. The right raises a bullshit bad-faith objection, Dems try to change policy to address it, the right just repeats the bad-faith objection, Dems try again ... forever.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

There is no recalibrated or sanitized way to conduct the war that Trump and Stephen Miller are waging on American cities right now. That’s because it’s a campaign of deliberate terror. The policy *is* the terror, and the terror *is* the policy. newrepublic.com/article/2053...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Hell yeah. Listen to this shit. The Feds are disappearing people and the local officials are telling people not to stand up to that and let them do it. Yes

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scribbleghoul @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

This thread is a definite must-read. Dead on target.

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Tsushi Tanuki @tsushi.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

To the "civility" people, saying the word "fuck" is violence, but the cops shooting tear gas is "peace keeping", ripping a parent from their children is "doing their job". They want to control the definition of violence and their monopoly on the use of it.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 16/01/2026

Gavin Newsom has never had a homeless, a working unhoused, or an affordable housing advocate on his podcast despite governing California. So yeah I think it’s weird that he’s entertained & platformed multiple fascists while grinning, nodding & relenting to their easily defeatable talking points.

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Jonathan Hoefler @jonathanhoefler.com · 15/01/2026

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/01/2026

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I think the right can get away with destruction, as it's the point of the right. "Establishment" Dems have a real conservatism that's about respecting institutions that might even shoot them in the face. I'm probably alone in this, but I think they need a vision of what America looks like post-ICE.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12/01/2026

There’s no reforming this. There’s no getting local cops to “enforce the law” (whatever that means) against this

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute

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ike, son of mike @i-bresnick.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Notable the second video I've seen of an ICE agent lecturing down about not having "learned" the lesson of a murder, as if they are our teachers. That's how they're going to rationalize into doing it again—they're willing to kill as many of us as it takes for us to learn our place.

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