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Margaret Eisenbrandt

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(They/she) Neuroscience Ph.D candidate Baylor College of Medicine Margot Williams lab 🐟🧬🔬🏳️‍🌈 Views are my own

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
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Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 23/04/2026
Staten Island traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck blasting through school zones or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. The truck belongs to James Giovansanti, who lives and works there as an NYPD officer. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/t...
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To Protect And Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets Yet Remains On The Force - Streetsblog New York City
One of the city’s most-dangerous drivers is an officer with the NYPD, which does nothing to stop his reign of terror on Staten Island.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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“It means that people get fired because there is uncertainty about whether the grant will come through,” said Dr. Joshua Gordon, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health. “It means budgets get busted. It means research projects get stalled.”

However alarming the canceled grants and spending delays were last year, Dr. Gordon said, “I’m more worried this year.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
St. Paul, MN @reuters.com #NoKings
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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New Mexico jury finds Meta is harmful to children’s mental health and in violation of state consumer protection law, imposes U.S. $375 million penalty apnews.com/article/meta...
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New Mexico jury finds Meta violated consumer protection law at trial about child safety
A New Mexico jury finds that social media conglomerate Meta is harmful to children’s mental health and in violation of state consumer protection law.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
congrats to the mens hockey team for letting a demented 80 year old sex criminal steal your shine and make himself the center of your accomplishment
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
So the President of the United States illegally taxed our groceries, clothes, and other basics goods for nearly a year. Where’s our refund?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
BREAKING: NIH director Jay Bhattacharya will take on the additional role of acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, two administration officials told @sherylnyt.bsky.social on Wednesday. Bhattacharya will also continue to run the NIH, she reports for @nytimes.com.
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N.I.H. Director Will Temporarily Run C.D.C. in Leadership Shake-Up
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 29/01/2026
The parents of Alex Pretti have retained a former federal prosecutor who helped Minnesota's attorney general convict the police officer who kneeled on George Floyd's neck of murder. to.pbs.org/3ZA2HfU
pbs.org
Family of Alex Pretti retains lawyers who helped prosecute the George Floyd case
The parents of Alex Pretti have retained a former federal prosecutor who helped Minnesota’s attorney general convict the police officer who kneeled on George Floyd’s neck of murder.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 28/01/2026
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The Chicks posted in solidarity with MSP on facebook and the comments are full of "well i'm never listening to you again, how dare you be woke!" and umm i really think perhaps you haven't been paying attention to the past twenty years of their career?
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 27/01/2026
BREAKING: Two Republican senators, Thom Tillis and Lisa Murkowski, call for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to resign.
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Two Republican senators call for Kristi Noem to resign as DHS secretary
Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Thom Tillis are the first GOP members of Congress to call for Noem to step down as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"Every day, I wake up and see the news and I'm horrified. I think it is crazy that some people make it sound like it's acceptable, like the murder of civilians is acceptable." - Victor Wembanyama says about the killings in Minnesota Via DonHarris4/X
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Alex Pretti’s most immediate legacy is galvanizing the country against tyranny. We should do what we can to see to it that his other legacy is reclaiming the public meaning of masculinity from the whiny, sadistic freaks responsible for his murder. www.offmessage.net/p/alex-prett...
offmessage.net
Alex Pretti, MAGA, And The Public Meaning Of Masculinity
If you'd rather be like them than like him, it's time to take a look in the mirror...
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
50501 announcing a major anti-ICE campaign, including protests this Saturday, boycott campaigns against businesses who serve ICE, and primary efforts on the 7 House Dems who voted for DHS funding (this part is unsophisticated; the filing deadline passed for 3 of them, and Golden's retiring)
ICE Out of Everywhere

50501 is mobilizing for the ICE Out of Everywhere National Day of Action this Saturday, January 31st, when communities in all 50 states will come together to protest outside of ICE detention centers, ICE field offices, airlines flying out ICE victims, and Congressional Offices to demand the blocking of DHS funding until ICE and CBP are permanently removed from our streets, the abolition of ICE and dismantling of DHS, and justice for the murders of Renee Nicole Good, Alex Pretti, and Geraldo Campos.


In addition, 50501 will be supporting rapid response protests and mutual aid efforts, including general strike funds, taking place across the country with the same demands. We are encouraging organizers to work with local, established immigrant rights groups when planning both the rapid response protests and the National Day of Action.


“We must stand up and resist the administration that is murdering our neighbors in broad daylight and is using their children as bait to lure them out of their homes,” said 50501 National Partner and Voices of Florida Executive Director Sarah Parker. “On Saturday, January 31st, communities will come together across the country to shout with one voice: ICE Out of Everywhere.”No Housing for ICE

50501 is launching a boycott campaign to pressure hotels around the country to stop housing ICE, CBP, and DHS agents during their operations. We are asking participants to call hotels and explain why they should stop housing ICE agents and contractors, leave 1-star reviews on hotels harboring ICE operations, organize creative dissent near hotels hosting ICE agents, and book and then cancel reservations at hotels that refuse to back down from supporting ICE.


#DontServeICE

50501 is also launching the #DontServeICE movement to encourage local business owners, hotels, restaurants, and gas stations to refuse service to ICE, CBP, and DHS agents. This initiative includes encouraging local businesses and chambers of commerce to pledge not to serve ICE agents, calling out local ICE-friendly businesses and leaving negative reviews, encouraging consumers to boycott Target, Home Depot, and other companies that support ICE, and encouraging everyday people to make social media content using the hashtag #DontServeICE to promote economic non-cooperation with ICE. Primary Pro-ICE Democrats

The 50501 movement is committing to primarying pro-ICE democratic representatives. We are tracking each congressperson’s stance and recent votes on ICE and DHS funding, tactics, operations, and continued existence; primarying elected Democrats who have supported recent pro-ICE legislation; and pressuring Senators to vote against the DHS funding bill until ICE is permanently removed from communities across the country.


At this time, we are focusing our primarying efforts Democratic Representatives Henry Cuellar (TX-28), Don Davis (NC-5), Laura Gillen (NY-4), Jared Golden (ME-2), Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34), Marie Glusenkamp Perez (WA-3), and Tom Suozzi (NY-3), who all voted for the DHS funding bill (H.R. 7147), as well as Representative Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) who helped pass H.R. 7147, and Representative Adam Gray (CA-13), who voted for H.R. 4371, which allows ICE to strip-search minors. We will be organizing protests outside of their offices, platforming anti-ICE primary challengers, and repeatedly exposing their betrayal of the American people.


In addition, 50501 is organizing efforts to pressure elected officials into calling for and co-sponsoring legislation permanently removing ICE from our communities, as well as legislation to reduce funding for and abolish ICE and DHS, encourage local and state officials to end 287(g) agreements, and bar other forms of cooperation between ICE, DHS, and local law enforcement.
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"Let us go." Immigration attorney Eric Lee shares a drawing by his five-year-old client, stuck in an immigration prison.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026
Walz: "We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is gonna write that children's story about Minnesota."
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/01/2026
ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
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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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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
"[Minnesota] DOC says Huerta-Chuma had never been in custody, based on the department’s data records and court data. The records also showed Huerta-Chuma had committed no felonies in the state, nor was he currently under supervision from the state." thehill.com/homenews/nex...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 24/01/2026
This is Alex Pretti. This morning he was murdered by ICE. Six ICE agents held him down and shot him at point blank range. Alex was a nurse and researcher at the VA. Our thoughts are with his loved ones and we stand united in action calling for the abolishment of ICE. #ScientistsAgainstICE
Alex Pretti, wearing a green sweater with his VA badge on.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 24/01/2026
America is in dangerous territory. The combination of a masked federal paramilitary force being used against civilians, the intentional spread of extremist ideology, and the censorship and use of “science” by the state to harm specific groups of people has never ended well. #ScientistsAgainstICE
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
What we are watching is a paramilitary force learning that they can kill with impunity, that the regime will smear the victim and defend them. Unless politicians and the legal system exerts accountability, it will not stop. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
And what are they learning? Experts on the formation of internal security services in authoritarian regimes point to a sense of impunity as a warning sign. Regime officials abuse their power when they know they will be protected, and even praised, for doing so.

Over the course of weeks and months, we have seen images of DHS officials abusing American citizens and immigrants alike, including killing them. What we do not hear is regime officials calling for credible investigations into such abuses, or even expressing any concerns. Renee Good’s killer was announced innocent, and both Good and her wife was instead the subject of an investigation, a perversion of justice so obvious that an FBI agent and half-dozen career Department of Justice prosecutors assigned to Minnesota resigned.
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Robertson Reynolds @robinsonreynolds.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Arrest them before they leave your state
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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 23/01/2026
❤️❤️❤️
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Margaret Eisenbrandt @margaret-eisen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Every video I see makes me so proud of my home state. The first general strike in 80 years and an example for the rest of us. We owe it to every immigrant detained or not, documented or not to continue this movement across the country. ICE OUT.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.
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Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization
It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Minneapolis General Strike
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The agent, Tracee Mergen, left her job as a supervisor in the F.B.I.’s Minneapolis field office after bureau leadership in Washington pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the immigration officer, Jonathan Ross. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...
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F.B.I. Agent Who Tried to Investigate ICE Officer in Shooting Resigns
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max nesterak @maxnesterak.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
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Margaret Eisenbrandt @margaret-eisen.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I just learned that hospitals like @houstonmethodist.bsky.social don’t feed their ride out teams that run the hospital in the case of extreme weather? These nurses spend days there away from their homes and families, work round the clock to keep people safe and you can’t even guarantee them food?
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Margaret Eisenbrandt @margaret-eisen.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Pack city hall, Jan. 27th at 5pm
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.”  It sounds fierce.  It feels righteous.  But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless.

The Gestapo was a secret police force.  No warrants.  No courts.  No lawyers.  And no appeals.  People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything.  The knock on the door was the sentence.

ICE isn’t that.  Not even close.

ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials.  Its agents file reports.  They seek warrants.  They lose cases.  Judges stop them.  Lawyers challenge them.  Some detainees go home.  That’s not tyranny.  That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse.

You can hate immigration policy.  You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad.  You can work to have the law changed if you wish.  That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do.  

But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil.  You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor.  And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize.

In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight.  This one hasn't yet.  It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses.

That difference matters.

Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history.  We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with.

And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026
Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 20/01/2026
Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.
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US citizen says ICE removed him from his Minnesota home in his underwear after warrantless search
Federal immigration agents have detained a U.S. citizen in Minnesota at gunpoint without a warrant. That's according to ChongLy “Scott” Thao, who says agents forced open his door, entered with guns drawn and led him outside in his underwear in freezing conditions.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.
DHS: It is horrific to see radical agitators bring children to their violent riots.
PLEASE STOP ENDANGERING YOUR CHILDREN.
ABC News • @ABC• 7h
Two children, including a 6-month-old, were hospitalized last night after federal agents deployed tear gas during Wednesday night's protests, according to the Minneapolis Office of Community Safety....
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
How much are ICE operations in Minnesota costing taxpayers? Surely someone has those numbers...
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 15/01/2026
President Trump didn’t just pardon the rampaging rioters who assaulted police officers on January 6, 2021, he began to hire them. House Judiciary Democrats demand answers from Attorney General Pam Bondi and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. Which insurrectionists are working for ICE?
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House Democrats ask Trump administration if any Jan. 6 rioters are now working for ICE
Nearly one year after the mass pardon of more than 1,500 Trump-supporting Capitol riot defendants, House Democrats are asking whether any of the pardoned rioters are now working for ICE.
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
ICE in MN arrests US citizens: " they finally told me that they could offer undocumented family members of mine legal protection ...or money, in exchange for giving them the names of protest organizers, or undocumented persons. I was shocked, and told them no." www.facebook.com/share/p/1719...
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 13/01/2026
Trump admits that this is nothing but political retribution. Minnesota voted against him three times and now he’s punishing us – putting lives at risk and wasting enormous resources in the process.
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
NEW: Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting - At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good. www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...
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A new spate of Justice Department officials quit because their section didn't want to probe Renee Good's shooting
At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
In Minneapolis
A Baptist church sign reads Blessed Are the Whistle Blowers for They Play the Music of Salvation
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