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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Please stop saying TACO. We’re talking about an ungodly number of people who could die or maimed. It’s not time for cutesy little internet slang. We have to get away from this bizarre desensitization.
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bobby @mrbobloblaw.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
i get it, but the overwhelming fear of a nuclear holocaust probably prevented one during the cold war. reminding ourselves of the immense destructive capability we have -- and which we entrust to our leaders -- is a civic and moral responsibility
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.
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bobby @mrbobloblaw.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
the president's genocidal remarks about iran should be the final straw for his presidency. that it won't be -- and everyone will forget about this by noon -- is an indictment of our entire political system and process
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bobby @mrbobloblaw.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
if you pay good players, most front offices think you're a mark, apparently. all this means is that the dodgers are functionally exploiting the same market inefficiency that SABR the first time, just on the opposite side of the coin
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bobby @mrbobloblaw.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
this is so unbelievably scummy and ridiculous
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bobby @mrbobloblaw.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
and then jesus said unto them: the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Another ruling just yesterday in Minnesota: A federal judge calls it "particularly craven" that ICE transfered "a nursing refugee mother" out of state. Ta Eh Doh Lah was admitted as a refugee from Myanmar in 2024, has no criminal history and a 5-month-old. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Wael Tarabishi, the last person I wrote about for the Star-Telegram, died on Friday. Wael’s health declined rapidly after his father and primary caretaker, Maher, was detained by ICE last fall. The Tarabishi family believes that if Maher had not been arrested, Wael would still be alive. I do too.
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bobby @mrbobloblaw.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
i think about this piece by gessen very often. www.nybooks.com/online/2016/...
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Autocracy: Rules for Survival | Masha Gessen
In the face of the impulse to normalize, it is essential to maintain one’s capacity for shock. This will lead people to call you unreasonable and hysterical, and to accuse you of overreacting. It is n...
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
mr president sir, im a lifelong conservative and im just wondering which deeply held belief of mine today you would like me to dump in the trash no questions asked to defend your dementia-fueled insanity sir? preferably something ive been incredibly vocal about my entire life
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/01/2026
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
INBOX: Schumer announces Senate Democrats Will Not Advance Appropriations Bill If DHS Funding Is Included. "Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included"
Leader Schumer Statement Announcing Senate Democrats Will Not Advance Appropriations Bill If DHS Funding Is Included

 

New York, N.Y. – Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer released the following statement on the appropriations bill following the shooting in Minnesota:

 

“What’s happening in Minnesota is appalling —and unacceptable in any American city. Democrats sought common sense reforms in the Department of Homeland Security spending bill, but because of Republicans’ refusal to stand up to President Trump, the DHS bill is woefully inadequate to rein in the abuses of ICE. I will vote no.
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bobby @mrbobloblaw.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
this feels almost wrong to say but the hardest part of processing all of this is the insane, shameless, and utterly blatant lying and gaslighting. it just adds something unique
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Democrats spanning from Jim McGovern to Seth Moulton have publicly called for abolishing ICE and there are clearly Dem votes for a shutdown so naturally "why aren't Dems saying anything?" remains the easiest way for low-effort clout chasers that don't pay attention to anything to rack up RTs
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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/01/2026
A new video appears to show the moments leading up to a fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis, with the individual appearing to simply record on his phone as agents escalated the situation. 🎥 dangjessie / Threads
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
After the Minneapolis shooting, the AP reports an angry crowd gathered and screamed profanities at federal officers, calling them “cowards” and telling them to go home. One officer responded mockingly as he walked away, telling them: “Boo hoo.”
apnews.com
Man shot during Minneapolis immigration crackdown has died, hospital record shows
A 51-year-old man shot by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis has died, a hospital record obtained by The Associated Press shows. Gov.
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John “Danielle” Phipps @magitekdad.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE claims he drew a weapon. It appears to me his weapon was confiscated before the shot was fired. The man in the tan jacket. Look at his right hand. Empty. He goes in at the victim’s lower back. You can see the victim’s shirt lift. Jacket man walks away with weapon. Shot fired. Man dies. Murder.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The federal government’s official story—which is of course likely a lie—is that DHS killed a guy for simply having a gun. This is the gun rights lobby’s nightmare scenario, and they likely won’t utter a mumbling word of opposition.
Sarah Nelson
JANUARY 24, 2026 AT 12:08 PM
Federal agents shot armed man in Minneapolis, Homeland Security says
Department of Homeland Security officials said the man fatally shot by federal agents this morning in south Minneapolis was armed with a gun and two magazines.
The agency has not publicly identified the man or released details about what led up to the shooting, including how agents came into contact with him or what actions preceded the use of force.
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bobby @mrbobloblaw.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
incredibly personal take: it is very annoying that it’s the dodgers doing this and not the yankees
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
This is the dynamic across most of America: Liberal cities generate revenue, which state governments then transfer to benefit conservative rural areas, whose residents despite city-dwellers and consistently vote to harm them. But politicians endlessly pander to rural voters and demonize cities.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14/01/2026
Seizure ... by whom? If we're asserting that the money is safer in Qatar than the US, that suggests that it is being protected because Qatar has something the US lacks — presumably a lack of accountability to American courts and Congress. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I think the disconnect between Atlantic elites is that Americans think Donald Trump is a kid getting to drive a monster truck for Make A Wish and Europeans and Canadians think Donald Trump is the president of the United States.
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bobby @mrbobloblaw.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
one underrated part of this is how her communication skills are excellent. live interview, but she name-dropped vance twice (will be in every story and video), speaks clearly and authoritatively about what happened (also twice), and twice differentiates herself. A+ political communication
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This approach, of course, is quite familiar to communities that have been dealing with police abuses for as long as there have been professional police forces. In 2000, then–New York City Mayor and future Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani justified the killing of the Haitian American Patrick Dorismond by police by quipping that he was “no altar boy.” Embarrassingly for Giuliani, whose capacity for shame was overestimated even then, it turned out that Dorismond had literally been an altar boy. Dorismond’s mother responded to the campaign to justify her son’s killing with an observation that continues to haunt me decades later.

“They kill,” Dorismond said, “and after that, they kill him the other way—with the mouth.”

Taking Good’s life wasn’t enough. The moment she died, it became imperative for the administration to also destroy her memory.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
ncronline.org
Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good
After the tragic shooting of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, the Catholic vice president of the United States took to social media to justify the killing.
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bobby @mrbobloblaw.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
good on @pbump.com. it's brave and also important for the future of the country. the reaction to events like this should not be sanitized through theory or trying to look smart. this humanizes what happens, and stands in stark contrast to the grotesque administration
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
that these people, who cannot even bring themselves to pay lip service to the value of the lives of american mothers, want to lecture you about morals and the undermining of our social fabric, it really is too much. it's just too much
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bobby @mrbobloblaw.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
trump, more than anything else, really wishes it was 1898. everything about his policies and ideology (on race, international relations and law, economics, et al.) is rooted in a view of the world from that era
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bobby @mrbobloblaw.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
thoughtful and moving essay. i think it actually has an urgent message about how adults conceptualize childhood, but it's also just a really nice way to describe what it has actually felt like to be a parent so far.
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Finished the essay. moultano.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/c...
moultano.wordpress.com
Children and Helical Time
In subjective time, childhood is half of life. Life, then, is the creation of childhoods. You have yours, and then you get to create them for others.
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bobby @mrbobloblaw.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
a profoundly moving and beautiful essay that's well worth your time: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Why I Keep Returning to Middle-Earth
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bobby @mrbobloblaw.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
it's fair to believe him, but i also don't believe him. follow up questions to ask puka: 1) do you know anything about adin ross? 1a) if yes, why did you go on his show? 1b) if no, why did you go on his show?
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bobby @mrbobloblaw.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
sort of wild that if you google "puka nacua" right now you get an entire news cycle about his ref comments (dumb, worthy of coverage) and literally nothing about the nazi propaganda he promised to do on the field
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bobby @mrbobloblaw.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
even if you're as rich and successful as steve cohen, who just triumphed over some of the city's most competitive and cutthroat people, deep down inside you there is no denying it: the yankees are big brother
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bobby @mrbobloblaw.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
anti-NBA cup discourse is truly pathetic and i have no time for it. if you can't be happy your "favorite" team won a tournament, even one with less significance than the june one, it says more about you than it does about the game
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bobby @mrbobloblaw.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
these people are intentionally provoking a reaction, and they're for sure going to get a really bad one soon. the idea that you storm into a daycare and do this is appalling and an intense provocation.
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
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bobby @mrbobloblaw.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
mamdani is not necessarily reflective of the national electorate, but his views and perspective on NYC are fairly typical for under-40-year-old new yorkers. part of being a coalitional leader is managing a coalition and there's no evidence that was done here
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bobby @mrbobloblaw.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
the only relevant national take about the NYC mayoral election is the one that isn't happening: how outrageous it is that the president is using federal funds as a tool to influence the outcome
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Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
“Cuomo closed by demonizing immigrants, forgetting his own family history. Mamdani, in his closing video, honored the legacy of New York’s Italian-American political leaders who fought for workers.” www.signorile.com/p/cuomo-disg...
signorile.com
Cuomo disgraced all Italian-Americans. Mamdani honored them in his closing.
Cuomo closed by demonizing immigrants, forgetting his own family history. Mamdani, in his closing video, honored the legacy of New York’s Italian-American political leaders who fought for workers.
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bobby @mrbobloblaw.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
i have spent a hugely disproportionate amount of time since game 7 ended thinking about game 7 and that world series in general. that has to be an all-time devastating two consecutive games for a fanbase to endure
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