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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

"interesting solutions to shove high-quality scrap metal down a drowning man's pants" is an amazing simile!

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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

To quote my teenage daughter: Who does that?

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning. www.therage.co/persona-age-...

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Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web

Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

There's objectivity, which is an essential trait in journalists, and then there is bending painfully backwards to avoid presenting the context which is blindingly obvious to anyone who has bothered to explore the subject for just a few minutes...

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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The UN: Our emblem will show all countries of the world. To be as fair as possible we will use a projection that makes areas further from the center be shown larger instead. The Board of Peace: Our mandate is to create peace in Gaza, so our symbol is gonna be a globe view centered on New Orleans.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot

It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Dave from the Rust Belt @rustbeltdave.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

A big "thank you" to whoever put Miss Piggy in the trailer for "Melania" youtu.be/XTAQkifHAxY?...

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Miss Piggy documentary parody trailer AI

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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

"In my opinion the orcs are the bad guys. I am not proud that the Dark Lord I enjoy so much working for is part of this."

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Congrats to Ilhan Omar who definitely earned 14M in the past few days Wild to see the President of the United States posting Hirsch Stats

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 25/01/2026

Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis, on January 24. DHS claims he died after an armed struggle, but videos of the incident appears to contradict that claim. Read our analysis here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

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Alex Pretti: Analysing Footage of Minneapolis CBP Shooting - bellingcat

Bellingcat has analysed video of the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. The footage appears to contradict statements made by the Department of Homeland Security.

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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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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The Board of Peace sign with a little map showing the only important part of it.

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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Challenge: Speak for two minutes without contradicting yourself. trump: Nobody can contradict themselves as much as I can!

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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Shocking, who could have foreseen that they would be sloppy/illegal with how they handled this data?

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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

If this was a megagame, nobody would accept a council where the rules were this lopsided, and many megagames intentionally set the council rules to be lopsided...

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 16/01/2026

Just hours after Renee Good was shot, one member of Customs and Border Patrol’s elite tactical team on an adjacent street fired a less-lethal weapon five times in less than five minutes, with four shots aimed at the faces of protestors. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

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Analysing One Federal Agent’s Use of Less-Lethal Launcher in Minneapolis

After the fatal shooting of Renee Good, Border Patrol agent "EZ-17" was filmed shooting less-lethal munitions at protesters five times in five minutes.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Only Pew Research Center to go!

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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The most benign interpretation of what he says is that they are willing to let people get away with crimes if they will just do the regime's bidding. But the most plausible interpretation is that they are using the legal system for coercion through false accusations.

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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I particularly enjoy this background image. It's from the war the Americans fought against the guy who coined that phrase.

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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

This is pure racketeering, trump is doing exactly the thing that he accuses Cuba of having done.

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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Classic trump, threatening those he pretends to help.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 09/01/2026

New footage from the ICE agent's phone who shot at Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis has emerged, posted by AlphaNews on X. We've placed that footage in a synced timeline with the other currently available footage.

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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I never thought leopards would not eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Not Eating People's Faces Party.

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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Musk vs Vance? Not gonna lie, I'd pay to see that.

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S Peter Davis @speterdavis.com · 09/01/2026

Most technical bugs in the early phases of technology don't result in the industrial scale generation of nonconsensual and child pornography, if they did you wouldn't usually expect it to take two weeks to address, and if it did you wouldn't expect them to address it by monetizing it.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

We can clearly see from the New York Times analysis that both Trump and Vance are lying. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Calling it now, Maduro will be convicted for something, then there will be a very large anonymous purchase of trumpcoin, and trump will pardon Maduro.

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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

The former (figurehead) president of russia saying "Finland's got to pay for its vile Russiophobia." is a very neat summation of why the russian regime must be stopped.

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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I'm still not sure if trump actually thinks he can get a Nobel Peace Prize, or if this is just another smokescreen for all his rape and pillaging, both literal and figurative.

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This week could be pivotal for diplomacy. It is clear that Russia does not want peace, and therefore we need to make Ukraine as strong as possible. My doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council on Defence ↓

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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I'd rather not have you ask the question. But I'm proud to answer the question. Or at least I'm proud that I allowed you to ask the question. And I'm proud that my family is making a lot of money from my decisions as president.

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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I'm so glad we gave these beauties to Ukraine, and to hear that they are being put to such good use.

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Joel Dongsteen @joeldongsteen.northsky.social · 26/10/2025

The power in you is greater than any power that’s coming against you. If you were on your own, it would be a problem, but you’re not alone. Your dick is with you.

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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

- Mom, I want OGRE! - We have OGRE at home.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Meeting Trump in Budapest is perfect. That's where we promised never to invade Ukraine in the first place.

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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

We have always been at war with Eastasia.

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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. "It almost always works."

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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Woke russian oil companies building solar cells, just because Greta says so. Don't they know the sun doesn't shine at night?!

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 08/10/2025

Newsletter: Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022. www.citationneeded.news/issue-94/

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Issue 94 – Backdoor deals

Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022.

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Jon Hallin @jonhallin.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

"Antifa" is their label for anyone who's protesting anything they do, not an actual organization. And alleged TDA membership is their excuse for doing murder by airstrike on boats in international waters. Saying that the two are comparable is extremely ominous, straight out of the fascist playbook.

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