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"A government for the people, by the people; not for the money, by the money" “What you’re thinking is what you’re becoming.” – Muhammad Ali

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Manuel @manuelofreire.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AI can't help ignorance in coding Recurring means recurring Other amount mean other amount WTF is wrong with Bank of America moron developers @bankofamerica.bsky.social
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Manuel @manuelofreire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
EVERYONE NEEDS TO LISTEN www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Video: Opinion | Bill Gates’s Blunt Warning on A.I.
As A.I. capabilities accelerate, the technologist is shocked by the “complete lack of engagement” with the question of how to manage its risks.
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John Quigley @johnhquigley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"While satellites have helped reveal previously unknown methane emissions, such pollution is still vastly underreported, with researchers recently estimating actual US oil and gas methane emissions are around 64% higher than official EPA figures." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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US ‘super-emitters’ of planet heating methane identified by satellite analysis
Energy Transfer, whose CEO is a major Trump donor, named as biggest single methane producer in new rankings
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Manuel @manuelofreire.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Since the news is censored in the US, can I ask if anyone is getting sick? Is something going around? 😷
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Manuel @manuelofreire.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In Iran, the US is a terrorist organization. www.aljazeera.com#flips-640444...
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Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera
News, analysis from the Middle East & worldwide, multimedia & interactives, opinions, documentaries, podcasts, long reads and broadcast schedule.
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Manuel @manuelofreire.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Russian is a sick place to live if you're a young man. aje.news/bmnssj
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‘Not going to sacrifice my life’: Russia mobilisation fears grow
Military recruitment efforts are reportedly more aggressive as Russia prepares for a winter offensive in Ukraine.
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Manuel @manuelofreire.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
And the Make America Shit Show goes on and on and on and on Please Democrats, take control, impeach the MF and make it stop!!! Somebody with half a brain please!!!
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
www.democracynow.org/2026/7/31/ec...
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“Zero Accountability”: Ecuadorian Prosecutor Assassinated While Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes
U.S. boat strikes across the Caribbean and eastern Pacific have killed at least 221 people since September, while the Trump administration has provided no evidence linking the vessels or their passeng...
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Manuel @manuelofreire.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
SHIT SHOW www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/b...
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As U.S. Debt Hits a Worrying Milestone, Washington Barely Notices
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Democratic Senator Mark Kelly pops off at Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Marco Rubio and their war in Iran: "The American people are poorer and less safe because of this president...We've spent billions of dollars and this president does not have a plan." Go Mark!
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Christopher Mootham @chrismootham.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Iran Allows Ship Loaded With Epstein Files Through Strait of Hormuz open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
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Iran Allows Ship Loaded With Epstein Files Through Strait of Hormuz
Although Iran is charging vessels millions for safe passage through the Strait, “We are sending the Epstein files through free of charge,” they said.
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Manuel @manuelofreire.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
WTF 😢 www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/...
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Body of 6-year-old killed in ‘deliberate’ Israeli fire found after 12 days
Relatives find body of Hind Rajab who had begged rescuers to send help after being trapped by Israeli military fire.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
“We have guided missiles and misguided men.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
Black-and-white portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., shown from the chest up.
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Jon Hutson @jonhutson.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Concise advice on how to live fully in the moment and be resilient. Can't keep from crying as noted actor Eric Dane, 53, who just died of ALS, says to his two daughters, "Good night. I love you. Those are my last words." youtu.be/sEMpdwdVpng?...
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Eric Dane’s Final Message To His Daughters and The World | Famous Last Words | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
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Zach Buchanan @zhbuchanan.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea. It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road. Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
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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 bearwitness, 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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
"The goalkeeper told me I'm an illegal immigrant even though I was born in America, and he said Trump was gonna get me and send me back. It makes me really sad." 💔
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Manuel @manuelofreire.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion
The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 13/01/2026
“Stolen from Us”: Family Demands Justice for Keith Porter, Black Father Killed by Off-Duty ICE Agent
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“Stolen from Us”: Family Demands Justice for Keith Porter, Black Father Killed by Off-Duty ICE Agent
Activists in Los Angeles are demanding justice for Keith Porter Jr., an African American 43-year-old father of two, who was fatally shot by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year’s Eve. His family is deman...
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Kacey325 @kacey325.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Keith Porter was murdered for daring to behave like many Americans celebrating the New Year. He just did it while Black. FUCK ICE. abc7.com/post/keith-p...
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Loved ones gather at vigil for man killed by off-duty ICE agent in Northridge
Friends, relatives and civil rights advocates gathered at a candlelight vigil to remember a man killed by an off-duty ICE agent in Northridge, calling for transparency and accountability in the invest...
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
JUSTICE FOR RENEE GOOD AND KEITH PORTER‼️
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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Just wondering has anyone lost their job over saying vile things about Renee Nichole Good and/or Keith Porter?
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Meta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Mother of Keith Porter...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 13/01/2026
“Stolen from Us”: Family Demands Justice for Keith Porter, Black Father Killed by Off-Duty ICE Agent
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“Stolen from Us”: Family Demands Justice for Keith Porter, Black Father Killed by Off-Duty ICE Agent
Activists in Los Angeles are demanding justice for Keith Porter Jr., an African American 43-year-old father of two, who was fatally shot by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year’s Eve. His family is deman...
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it's Candy Love @candylovely.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Keith Porter who was shot and killed by an off duty ICE officers mother speaks.😞😔🙏🙏 Keith Porter also has a Go-Fund-Me-page"
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Uhhnya Porter speaks out after her father, Keith Porter was killed by an off duty ICE agent on New Year’s Eve. /
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🌞🌻🌙 @honeyp0t.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
bsky.app/profile/silv... Re: Renee Good and Keith Porter
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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Keith Porter, Peace, Power. 🙏🏾
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Ⓐnarchohoodism 🐈‍⬛ 🏴 @161bklyn.myatproto.social · 13/01/2026
Justice for Keith Porter Jr.
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Loved ones gather at vigil for man killed by off-duty ICE agent in Northridge
Friends, relatives and civil rights advocates gathered at a candlelight vigil to remember a man killed by an off-duty ICE agent in Northridge, calling for transparency and accountability in the invest...
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Manuel @manuelofreire.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Unbelievable Times we live in www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
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Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
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Manuel @manuelofreire.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Heartbreaking
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Manuel @manuelofreire.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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Trump’s energy secretary orders a Washington state coal plant to remain open
Chris Wright declared an energy “emergency” in the Pacific Northwest.
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Manuel @manuelofreire.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Idiots www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Here’s What It Can Cost to Detain and Deport Just One Person
After one man was sent to multiple detention centers across the country and spent over 4 months in custody, his journey shows deportation under the Trump administration is anything but straightforward...
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Manuel @manuelofreire.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
@foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social you might like these pictures I ran across ... www.pinterest.com/pin/99571841...
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Pin by Raven Holt on Hair. Colour. Style. in 2025 | Dorothy lamour, Old hollywood, Classic hollywood
May 25, 2025 - This Pin was discovered by Raven Holt. Discover (and save!) your own Pins on Pinterest
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/10/2025
Reagan’s words about tariffs are going viral after Trump’s insistence that they are “fake” created a “Streisand Effect”
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Manuel @manuelofreire.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
@msnbc.com Pushed me over the edge!!! Enough already with 24/7 Trump TV and who the hell are these pundits and why are they talking? Do we need someone to tell us how to think? The anchor asks some guy to explain what we already know and then wait for more commercials. The addiction is not for me!
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Manuel @manuelofreire.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Wall Street vs Clean Energy www.wsj.com/opinion/deat... @michaelemann.bsky.social
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Opinion | Death of a ‘Clean Energy’ Debacle
A new ‘endangerment’ study shows that the climate battle is over except for the lawfare.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
"Two Top Scientists Tackle Trump’s Idiocracy" | Great review of my new book with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social, #ScienceUnderSiege, by @danfalk.bsky.social for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Two top scientists tackle Trump's idiocracy
In a new book, Michael Mann and Peter Hotez examine the risks posed by entrenched beliefs, corporate greed, and regressive governments.
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Cyndiboo🌈💜 @cyndiboo.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n... So I'm thinking no state should use these machines now😒
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Dominion, the voting tech company at the center of false 2020 claims, is sold
Dominion Voting Systems, the company at the center of false fraud claims about the 2020 election, has been acquired by an entity called Liberty Vote.
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Manuel @manuelofreire.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Stock market crashes today and Bloomberg/CNBC doesn’t have anything to say. 🤔
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Liverpool John Lennon Airport @liverpoolairport.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Thinking of John Lennon today on what would have been his 85th birthday. Happy heavenly birthday, John! 🎈
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
John & Sean Lennon. John would’ve been 85 today ♥️ Sean is 50 today ♥️
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Beatles Archive @beatlesarchive.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Happy Birthday John Lennon Sean Lennon
Happy Birthday John Lennon Sean Lennon
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”
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Manuel @manuelofreire.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Arresting the mayor of Newark NJ was a warning to all mayors.
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Manuel @manuelofreire.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
It’s getting worse isn’t it.
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