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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 25/08/2026
“Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is harboring a criminal fugitive. The fugitive is ICE agent Christian Castro, charged in Minnesota with four felony counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and one misdemeanor count of falsely reporting a crime,” writes Michael Stokes Paulsen and Sanford Levinson.
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Opinion | Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is harboring a fugitive ICE agent from Minnesota’s justice system
Minnesota should consider criminal charges against Abbott if his irresponsible lawlessness enables Christian Castro's escape, the authors write.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 26/07/2026
A letter from the mother of Alex Pretti, six months after he was murdered by ICE.
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Today marks the six-month anniversary of Alex's murder. No one has been held accountable, no apologies, not a single phone call from any governmental official, hospital personnel, or the mpls police dept. Six-months of pain, a roller-coaster of trauma over and over. Every time another a death, another mention, a picture, a tribute, a sorrow so deep. I wonder how to move forward. Will I ever get over this loss and this pain?
Will I ever be able to enjoy life again? How does one live knowing that I have no power to change what has happened?

And yet the outreach not only from Minnesota, but from around the world has been nothing less than spectacular. Every card, every gift, every heartfelt letter has been read, touched, held, and cherished by us all. The kindness you've all shown us is beyond words. Please never forget Alex and what he believed in ~ equality and peace for all. I will remember the things that made you, you. It will never take your memory. As long as I'm here, you will never be forgotten.

For all you asking what you can do. Continue this fight. Never give up your right to speak out, protect your neighbor, your community and don't forget to spend time with those you love...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2026
Trump: "If the Elections in Minnesota weren’t RIGGED, any Republican could win, but they were, and that is why nobody has won there since Richard Nixon many years ago. I thought I won it all three times, only to be disappointed in the end. Vote for Mike Lindell for Governor ... "
Amy Klobuchar, the lightly respected Senator from Minnesota, is running for Governor to take the place of the current Corrupt and Incompetent Tim Walz. I have gotten to know Klobuchar over the years, and find her to be equally as incompetent as Walz, and probably equally as corrupt in that, as a high Government Official from Minnesota, she knew everything that was going on. If the Elections in Minnesota weren’t RIGGED, any Republican could win, but they were, and that is why nobody has won there since Richard Nixon many years ago. I thought I won it all three times, only to be disappointed in the end. Vote for Mike Lindell for Governor, who has my Complete and Total Endorsement, and forget about these Corrupt Dumocrats like Amy Klobuchar. MAKE MINNESOTA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
It’s one of the true pleasures of the job - historians get to skip the whole “this isn’t the time” commentary and have at it. Graham was a plague on the Senate, a chickenhawk, and one of the most accomplished hypocrites in this country’s recent history.
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Demand justice for Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The chances that he will stay in the race to drag us all to hell with him seem woefully underpriced
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Death, taxes, and the usmnt losing in the round of 16
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21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Giving up a goal because the keeper Younghoe Koo’d himself Jesus fucking wept
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This is what the little word games subscriptions are funding
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
It’s also the anniversary of the 1st Minnesota’s charge at Gettysburg, suffering the worst casualty rate of any unit in US history
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"Not a man wavered"--The 1st Minnesota at Gettysburg
The 1st Minnesota played a critical role in the battle of Gettysburg.
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Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
"I am uninformed and loudly angry about it" is the defining ethos of our era, irrespective of political orientation.
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BumboJumbo @bumbojumbo666.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
You should kill the part of you that cringes, actually. Cringe is a lie by big fascism in order to get you to buy more irony poisoned nihilism.
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Obviously a complete and total collapse in security and professionalism and blah blah blah but to be honest I would smile the day these jackals are brought up on national security charges.
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Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Its so funny how reporters talk about "news cycles" and "making a story stick" like they're natural phenomena, and not the choices of reporters and editors (and their bosses) on what to devote time and attention to. If the NYT wants to create drumbeat coverage of a story, they can simply do so.
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21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I do get emotional at this speech every time I read it
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"To those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late...The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights"
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Call me Zachary Taylor the way I'm pounding cherries and milk as a post run snack
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Its fucking insane that people will argue for hours that Trump and Obama are equally bad and still consider themselves on the left
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Well, the important thing is that journalists have once again managed to make themselves the main characters of The News
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
just remember how mad they were about this
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Galatians 6:7 🤲
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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Reading theory:
patrickwyman.substack.com
American Gentry
Local Power and the Social Order
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
We regret to inform you that the $180K Trump sneakers have been destroyed by an Iranian Shahed. No refunds
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Big Strong Men with tears in their eyes looking up and saying Thank You president Trump for finally including externalities in the price of gas
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"I wasnt drawn to the right by their antiquated, but broadly pro-social marketing, but because they were outwardly evil"
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Jesus said to pay your fucking taxes
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
media.tenor.com
a man in a suit stands in front of a cartoon drawing of a rainbow and a sun
ALT: a man in a suit stands in front of a cartoon drawing of a rainbow and a sun
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Clean on opsec 🦅👊🔥
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
These are rookie numbers. We gotta get that balance of power even lower
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Impossible to overstate how boring my high school's alumni are. Its like hockey player, football player, union head, hockey player, guy killed fighting for ISIS in Syria, Sid Hartman's kid, and hockey player. Supremely underachieving high school tbh
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
LIVE MIKE JOHNSON REACTION
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
They're calling it Herbert Hoover's second term
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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
One of the more interesting dynamics to the Battle of Minneapolis is that it's very clear that it was chosen as a target because of 2020. Which, IMO, was a significant misstep because 2020 is what taught both its activists, police, and leadership how to handle such a situation.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 27/01/2026
I’ve never been prouder to be a Minnesotan.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Christ, this (from Lizza's latest) is pretty fucking damning of...literally the entire media(?) What the fuck?
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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
They even got the "challenge coins" HOLY FUCK
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
A coherent antiwar movement would be great. Unfortunately, the actually existing antiwar movement has decided to be pro-fascist
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
they dont do this because they like Trump and want to help him. after he is gone and no longer of use to The Powers That Be, they will all laugh and swap stories about how "everyone knew" how it was much worse than is being openly reported now
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 14/12/2025
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
The spirit of '89 is as applicable today as it was the day Lafayette wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen: Women (and men) are born and remain free and equal in rights.
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I regret to inform you that MAGA Maoism is, in fact, real
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Those NFL shop ads with the QR probably convert a lot of traffic. That might be a good way for Democratic campaigns to drive users to policy websites or videos. A common low-info claim about dem campaigns is that they have no policy. I disagree but it might help defuse that if its shoved in faces.
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Three day Special Redaction Operation
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
And here I thought a magistrate was on the level of, like, an Achaemenid satrap or at least a guy who passed the civil service exam in Song China
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Jack Brandes @jbrandes.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Oh yeah, one day before January 6th
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