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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Americans are being sent to die in Iran by men who don’t even have the courage to say, “Uh, thank you, Mr. President, but I wear a size 9 shoe.”

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Mary Faulkner @mfaulkner.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

This is one of the dumbest things...and there have been so many dumb things.

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paige @turnthepaige.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

things have not changed here. please, if you’re not in minnesota, do not look away. please prepare where you are. this is what they’ll do to your community next.

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Mary Faulkner @mfaulkner.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Dear Press/Media/Etc. - HOUND KAROLINE LEAVITT. Do not let her dismiss you. Interrupt her answers. Make sure she's flustered. Hold her accountable. HOUND ALL OF THEM. Make them uncomfortable. Embarrass them. Make them clearly state where they stand. Ask "And you think that's okay?"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/01/2026

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/01/2026

Governor Tim Walz warns of a national unraveling in an interview with @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social. “It’s worse than you think,” Walz says of the situation in Minnesota.

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Tim Walz Fears a Fort Sumter Moment in Minneapolis

The Minnesota governor warns of a national unraveling.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/01/2026

ICE doesn’t de-escalate, it escalates, then runs. 🚨ICE agent pepper-sprays woman after shoving her. Totally unnecessary. Santa Barbara police and paramedics showed up to clean up the mess. ICE already fled the scene.

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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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/01/2026

damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis

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Mary Faulkner @mfaulkner.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Nothing that is happening with this administration benefits the US as a nation.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 09/11/2025

Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people. Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.

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Mary Faulkner @mfaulkner.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

To @bennet.senate.gov and @senatorhick.govpeeps.us - do not cave. Hold the GOP accountable to this administration’s acts of cruelty. The fact they demanded states to roll back SNAP benefit distribution tells you everything you need to know.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/11/2025

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

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Mary Faulkner @mfaulkner.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Did no one watch Black Mirror?!

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Mary Faulkner @mfaulkner.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

We have a sitting president declaring war on his own citizens. This is not something you laugh away. If you support this, pretend this is Obama, Biden, Harris saying this. How do you react? I am disgusted we are here.

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Mary Faulkner @mfaulkner.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Once upon a time, I was a semi-regular blogger. I had a site and everything. For various reasons, I ended up writing more elsewhere, but today I fired it back up to see if I want to write a little more regularly again. Anyway, here's where you can find it. survivingleadership.blog/2025/09/25/w...

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When progress stops belonging to all of us

History shows us something important: most technological revolutions eventually became part of the public fabric of life. The printing press didn’t just lower the cost of books, it broke down walls…

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

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Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel

Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

After DEA GOONS begin to harass and question a man sitting in Starburst Plaza in NE Washington DC, local neighbors remind him of his rights and stand with him until the GOONS give up on their harassment.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 01/08/2025

Last year, Direct File saved taxpayers $5.6 million in tax preparation costs by allowing people to file their taxes for FREE. That’s why tax preparation companies like TurboTax and Intuit lobbied to get rid of it. Trump just gave them their wish. news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...

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IRS Chief Says Direct File Is ‘Gone,’ Other Audit Tech Is Coming

The Biden-era IRS free filing tool, Direct File, is “gone,” IRS Commissioner Billy Long said.

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heather bussing @heatherbussing.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Independence Day is a great day to read the Constitution. Here it is! U.S. Senate: Constitution of the United States share.google/kkUqTtmFqWUV...

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U.S. Senate: Constitution of the United States

Constitution of the United States

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

When your neighbor on the left is being dragged away by masked men and your neighbor on the right can't get an X-ray for their child, be sure to quickly explain that "both parties are the same" and whatnot.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Trump’s cruelty today is directly commensurate with the level of his fear since 2016 that he would go to jail.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 29/06/2025

Notice the pattern? Republicans work to advance their worst bills in the middle of the night—hoping you’re asleep while they attack your healthcare, your rights, and your future. (1/2)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2025

no one cares that this is illegal but it is illegal and seems like something that might trip the court’s “major questions” doctrine

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

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Mary Faulkner @mfaulkner.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Boebert is a f*cking embarrassment. We need to vote her out.

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Mary Faulkner @mfaulkner.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Still retaliation. This isn't "negotiation." This is abuse of power.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

If we’ve learned anything today, it’s that the pettiest bitches are dudes.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Ah, the golden age.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Our current president is severely mentally unwell, and the media needs to cover it now.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/05/2025

MIKE JOHNSON: We are not cutting Medicaid in this package. TAPPER: 1.4m people in Louisiana are on Medicaid. Is it your contention that if any of them lose benefits, it's bc they shouldn't have been receiving them? J: Yeah. Every district in America has people who are on the program who shouldn't.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

That was fast. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

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Rachel Vindman @natsechobbyist.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

It’s hardly surprising that the same people who were fine with older Americans dying from Covid have no issues with cutting Medicare.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Crockett: That’s why they hired everybody from Fox because all they’re trying to do is put on a show.. I want us to refocus our attention on the American people and stop demonizing every person that ends up in ICE custody… *Applause* Van Drew: *bangs gavel*

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Marc N Cunat @marccunat.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

She be cray-cray.

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