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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here's a gift link to my 9/11 essay in the NYT. Civil libertarians long warned that before giving government new powers, we should consider how an administration with authoritarian ambition might abuse them. We were told that America was too exceptional to elect such a person. Well here we are.
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Opinion | Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened. (Gift Article)
The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.
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a frightful hobgoblin stalking throughout Europe @supermathskid.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
That tweet about "this how the photos be lookin in headlines when a white man kills his entire family" and it's a photo of a white guy speed boating with his white wife and white daughter
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Shane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Scoop: In an internal survey, CIA analysts report that politicization of intelligence is on the rise and affecting the objectivity of analysis. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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CIA Analysts Say Political Pressure Is on the Rise
A survey reveals concern among the rank and file that Trump-administration meddling is undermining intelligence work.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Voters Can Be Disenfranchised Now
Just say it’s because they’re Democrats.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/04/2026
this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 18/02/2026
This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades. It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
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Bill @bill-maxwell.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Trump's former attorney. "THIS IS NOT A DRILL!"
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MFD @midefd.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
lol. @jackdad19.bsky.social @fasteddie92.bsky.social
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MFD @midefd.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Are people still buying this nonsense? @fasteddie92.bsky.social
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
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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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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 27/01/2026
I’ve never been prouder to be a Minnesotan.
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Jon Krawczynski @jonkrawczynski.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Right now, ‘nothing feels right’ in Minneapolis. An NBA basketball game is no exception www.nytimes.com/athletic/699...
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Right now, ‘nothing feels right’ in Minneapolis. An NBA basketball game is no exception
Minnesotans hoped to "forget everything" for a moment at Warriors-Wolves. But amid city-wide unease, that simply wasn't possible.
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 26/01/2026
Never forget the Minnesota GOP invited Nick Shirley here & plied him with intel, resulting in targeted harassment of innocent people and ultimately, this occupation.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
Screenshot of a TikTok video with error message at top saying “your video is under review and can’t be shared right now.”
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/01/2026
New in PN: Kristi Noem's assault on the Fourth Amendment "The Department of Homeland Security deliberately confuses reasonable suspicion and probable cause in hopes that no one will notice that ICE and CBP are making illegal arrests as standard operating procedure."
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Kristi Noem's assault on the Fourth Amendment
Thanks, Brett Kavanaugh.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 18/01/2026
Hearing reports that a man taken by ICE in Minneapolis died in federal custody.
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 16/01/2026
Was just going over some old issues of The Racket and found this. I wrote it in July 2024, just after the Republican convention.
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THE RACKET
And don't be confused about this:
Rounding up 20, or even 10 or 5, million people is a project that will touch every aspect of life in the United States. It will mean checkpoints and random raids at workplaces and in neighborhoods; it will mean mistakes, wrongful detentions and deportations, racial profiling and state violence at an unprecedented scale. I can tell you from having covered past threatened mass expulsions, particularly in the Dominican Republic, that even when the full extent of the government's threat is not realized, in practice it is an exercise in terror and a virtual carte blanche for
violence against the targeted minority, up to and including outright lynching.
The Times wrote that "consensus among immigration experts and former homeland security officials is that logistical, legal,
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Derek Johnson @derekjjohnson.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Just so people outside of MN know - a lot of the US citizens getting “arrested” by ICE never get processed at Whipple. They are roughed up during the arrest and then often dropped off miles from where they were picked up. It means we don’t know the true scale of what ICE is doing based on ICE stats
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I will say that this experience has really changed the way I think about a lot of historical events and the motivations and thinking of historical actors, especially those that history often reduces to passive victims, which is a little bit annoying tbh.
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 14/01/2026
Boosting —hey @chriswarcraft.bsky.social & @lollardfish.bsky.social & @normcharlatan.bsky.social &the rest of you, can you also boost?
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 12/01/2026
"the worst of the worst"
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MFD @midefd.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
WITNESS: "I just can't let this narrative of self-defense go any further. That’s absolutely not what it was… ICE agents didn’t let anyone help her for 15 minutes, then medics couldn’t get through with their ambulance.”
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying. They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Video makes clear almost every word of this is a lie.
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Feral Maui Hermit @mauigreg.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
So, this should finally put to rest any delusions that there are decent people left in the US military who will stand up to illegal orders and protect democracy. The US military is now more likely to kill US citizens rather than help them. They are not our friends.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Who Controls AI Exactly? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/who-c...
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Who Controls AI Exactly?
I’ve been getting lots of your emails about Artificial Intelligence and its...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/12/2025
there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/12/2025
Mpls Mayor Jacob Frey: "What we are seeing again & again is discrimination only to the extent that it applies to certain groups. So they're discriminating only as it applies to Latinos and Somalis ... you can't do that. You can't do that in Minneapolis. You can't do there anywhere in this country."
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted.
Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't. It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...
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MFD @midefd.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I’ve seen enough…the Vikings had a massive miss on JJ McCarthy. He may eventually be a decent NFL QB, but he won’t be this year. They had a roster that could’ve contended with a decent QB. That decision will probably cost both Kwesi and KOC their jobs at the end of the season. As it should.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/11/2025
Stephen Miller said the Chicago building was “filled with TdA terrorists.” DOJ prosecutors have not filed criminal charges or shown evidence that anyone arrested in the raid belonged to the Tren de Aragua gang. With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social & @blockclubchi.bsky.social
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“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
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Men in Blazers Media Network @meninblazers.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Nigeria's elimination from World Cup qualifying means eight of the 10 most populous nations will not be at the tournament ❌ With the USA taking a host-nation berth, only one of the 10 countries with the world's biggest populations actually qualified 🤯
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Yes, sadly it is real.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, sex assaults in several states, FBI says FBI urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity—including by allowing calls to local police
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FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
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MFD @midefd.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Fucking idiot. The US has won exactly ONE war post 1945. Everywhere else has been stalemate at best and outright defeat at worst. Now we want to invade a country of 250M ppl? And no, we won’t be greeted as liberators. We will send >1M soldiers needlessly to their deaths. @fasteddie92.bsky.social
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
The thing about making being "Woke" worse than being a Nazi is that the people who listen to you are going to conclude that being a nazi is ok, since unlike the former it has fewer social consequences among their peers
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MFD @midefd.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
These guys were willing to take a bullet for their country, just not reduced retirement pensions? 🤷🏽‍♂️
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MFD @midefd.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
The actual number of ppl to leave because of Mandami will be <100 households. Many thousands will *claim* this is why they left, but these are ppl planning on moving anyway for other reasons (retirement; better weather; lower taxes; etc)
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This is ugly. But the reason this lady was protesting is even worse. ICE thugs detained two children and their father on their way to school. One child appears to have been beaten in detention, and no one seems to know where the 12-year-old girl is right now. The family had been seeking asylum.
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Shock Video Shows ICE Agent Assaulting Woman Who Asked If He’s A Good Christian
Hundreds protested Tuesday at an ICE facility in southwest Colorado after agents detained two children on their way to school.
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