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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

$55M: what Vivek Ramaswamy and his super PAC spent on ads. <$3M: what Dr. Amy Acton spent. This is Ohio, a state Trump won by 11. The new poll showing what $55 million actually bought him: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-thou... #TrumpsCorruptCongress

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A minor detail is missing from the headline.

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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Why isn’t this a bigger story?

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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Ohio voters could change the direction of the entire country in November. That starts with electing Democrats up and down the ballot — including fighters like Sherrod Brown and Amy Acton! I can tell Ohio Democrats are ready to win, and I’m going to do everything I can to help them.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2026

"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

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Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/07/2026

🤔 DID YOU KNOW? Texas made the same clerical error as New Jersey with noncitizens — but the two instances are being treated very differently. “Have you heard the Department of Justice condemn Texas?” Marc Elias asks. If you’re sick of the hypocrisy, join our fight: demdock.com/3T3Owjg

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Taking away someone's food and medicine makes you responsible for their death

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Big news here. After Salgado Araujo was killed by an ICE agent, *someone* leaked that a search warrant for the van showed FBI thought they might have seen drug baggies in it. The family said it was drink powder. Apparently the substance was tested and the family was correct.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

EXXON SVP NEIL CHAPMAN, at the Bernstein conference: (via Eric Nuttall) $XOM

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 16/03/2026

Just a reminder that Donald Trump campaigned on lowering costs and no new wars.

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Debra 🇺🇸🇨🇦 @starfyre59.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Over 400 women have been arrested since they overturned Roe v Wade— yet not a SINGLE man has been arrested for raping children with Epstein.

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The pedophile president is destroying America's working class with his boneheaded tariffs — and even Republicans can no longer ignore it. 😳👇

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Jonathan V Last: "In 2023, the economy added 3 million jobs. In 2024, still under Biden, it added 2.2 million jobs. In 2025, under Trump, it added just 181,000 jobs. This is a story about an economy getting throttled by one man's capricious, destructive governance."

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Shock Poll: Americans Miss Joe Biden’s Economy

Here’s what they’re worried about.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

West Virginia’s Republican chief election official denied DOJ’s demand for full access to the state’s voter roll, rejecting what he described as an unlawful attempt to seize the sensitive personal data of individual voters by the Trump administration. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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‘DOJ doesn’t have authority to run a state’s elections’: West Virginia’s GOP election chief pushes back on voter roll grab

“State law is clear: voter lists are available in a redacted format from my office, but I'll not be turning over any West Virginian's protected information,” Secretary of State Kris Warner said in a s...

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The SAVE Act Is A Poll Tax Voters suddenly would need costly passports or burdensome birth certificates just to register again. - Millions of citizens don't have either. - A Hurdle For Low Income Americans That is voter suppression. 🚫🗳️ #HandsOffHerVote

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

It's neat that the admin is trying to violate the Transparency Act in as many ways as possible I guess?

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Laura Pietenpol ❌👑 @lp55.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Should be on the front page of every newspaper tomorrow.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 09/02/2026

The Senate version of the new SAVE Act would require Americans to produce documents like a passport or birth certificate not just to register, but every time they vote. Tell your senators to stop this attack on the freedom to vote: bit.ly/4tmVIor

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

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Opinion | Liam Ramos Was Just One of Hundreds of Children at This Detention Center. Release Them All.

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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 27/01/2026

"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

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Eric Holder @ericholder.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Bovino is not leaving Minneapolis cause he wants to. Not cause Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Vance or Trump want him to go. He’s leaving because the extraordinary “ordinary” citizens of that great city - by peacefully protesting en masse - kicked him out. Lesson to be learned. We have power.

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Quite a statement by the Republican governor of Vermont

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𝕊𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕪𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖𝕤 @saltybitchables.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A former sniper reviews ICE shooting video to reveal that an ICE-hole disarmed the victim and then accidentally discharged the weapon, causing the rest of these untrained, dumbasses to start pumping bullets into the unarmed victim on the ground! #Resist #FuckICE #Pinks #ProudBlue #AlexPretti

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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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Laura Pietenpol ❌👑 @lp55.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

💯 percent! @governorwalz.mn.gov We believe in you! ❤️💪🏼❤️

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 24/01/2026

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

BERLIN (AP) — A German soccer federation executive committee member says it’s time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump. @thestar.com @ivanthek.bsky.social www.thestar.com/sports/socce...

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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

🚨"The Ku Klux Klan used to call themselves the invisible empire, and they wore masks, and they used to raid immigrant communities—much like ICE is right now," -one of THOUSANDS of Minneapolis ICE protesters marching in -10 degrees as part of statewide generals strike. LIVE NOW⬇️

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The cowards hide behind masks while the heroes march in subzero weather. ICE out of Minnesota. ICE out of everywhere.

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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

🚨"It's wrong what's going on, our people are being targeted, I say to the people of America fight for your rights! I had family & friends who are U.S. citizens get stopped by these thugs bc of the color of their skin and that's not right" -Minneapolis ICE protesters. LIVE NOW⬇️

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

This is 100% FALSE. Immigration judges do NOT play any role in issuing administrative warrants. They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves. ICE’s own training materials say they can’t be used for a search of a home! Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.

Shown is a blank sample administrative warrant. The only place for signatures is for an immigration officer. No judge has to sign off on it.

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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

WATCH THIS: Our message to the people of Denmark. (This will air in Denmark next week.) youtu.be/2YriJ4WEqXI?...

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Darkness Returns to Europe. Americans Will Not Be Silent.

YouTube video by Save America Movement

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

"'Our operations are lawful, targeted and focused on individuals who pose a serious threat to this community,' Bovino said..." Again, Liam is **five**. Five years old.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

“.. Federal agents pin a protester to the ground and spray a chemical irritant directly into his face at 28th and Blaisdell Avenue S. in Minneapolis on Jan. 21.” @startribune.com www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 21/01/2026

Here is the bystander video of the attack on peaceful ICE protestors in Longview, TX.

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 21/01/2026

MAGA violently attacks peaceful protestors in Longview, TX. Victims aged 64 to 91 years old.

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Is Trump making America great? Let's see what's being said about him in other countries. They're saying he's a madman. A madman! A MADMAN! Yes, the world is catching on! It's an emergency! Our government is led by a madman & an entire regime of madmen & deranged women!

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/01/2026

THE WOMAN WHO WAS DRAGGED OUT OF HER CAR AND ARRESTED BY ICE SPEAKS OUT… We’ve all seen the videos, but it matters to hear Aliya Rahman say it herself. 📌 She says her treatment in custody was dehumanizing, and that officers completely failed to take her disability seriously.

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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 20/01/2026

This is a US citizen! It is zero degrees outside. Thao was taken by federal agents from his St. Paul home in frigid cold only wearing boxers and Crocs. St. Paul mayor Her ‘livid’ after ICE wrongly targets family friend, escorts him undressed into cold www.startribune.com/st-paul-mayo...

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St. Paul mayor Kaohly Her ‘livid’ after ICE wrongly targets family friend, escorts him undressed into cold

ChongLy Scott Thao was taken by federal agents from his St. Paul home in the frigid cold only wearing boxers and Crocs.

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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Ohio GOP U.S. Sen. Jon Husted has taken at least $75,000 in campaign contributions from Centene, including more than $29,000 after the company paid $88.3 million to settle allegations that it had fraudulently extracted tens of millions from Ohio Medicaid ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/16/h...

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Husted took thousands from company that paid Ohio $88 million to settle Medicaid fraud allegations • Ohio Capital Journal

U.S. Sen. Jon Husted says fraud is a reason he's against ACA insurance subsidies. But a big contributor allegedly defrauded Ohio Medicaid.

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