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Nick Rattray @nickrattray.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The excerpt where Schmidt describes this presidency is worth reading.

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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

A woman demonstrating her exceptional intelligence in contrast to a wealthy but arrogant individual.

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Nick Rattray @nickrattray.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Obscene, mafia-esque level corruption

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Greater Lafayette Indivisible ❌ 👑 @lafayetteindivisible.com · 01/02/2026

In memoriam, #AlexPretti. Thank you for the inspiration, Michael F. Dubois. H/T @joycevance.bsky.social for sharing it with your readers, including us!

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Nick Rattray @nickrattray.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I'm proud of these students North Central High School & the organizers! (fatherly pride). #iceout #hoosiersky @centralindsa.bsky.social

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Nick Rattray @nickrattray.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

ICE Out! 46th Meridian St. Indianapolis.

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Nick Rattray @nickrattray.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

"This list should give pause to anyone—no matter his or her political beliefs—who cares about the rule of law. ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence." -- Judge Schlitz

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Nick Rattray @nickrattray.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Miller is an unelected architect pushing a weaponized narrative, which is an indicator of institutional decay and layers of impunity

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

English translation of statement from Ecuadorian Consulate regarding ICE’s attempt to enter their building in Minneapolis today:

REGARDING THE ATTEMPTED INCURSION INTO THE ECUADORIAN CONSULATE IN MINNEAPOLIS BY ICE AGENTS
This morning, the Ecuadorian Consul in Minneapolis reported that, at approximately 11:00 a.m., an agent from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attempted to enter the Consulate premises.
Consulate officials immediately prevented the ICE officer from entering the consular office, thus guaranteeing the protection of the Ecuadorian citizens who were present at the consulate at that time and activating the emergency protocols issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility.
Therefore, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic immediately submitted a letter of protest to the United States Embassy in Ecuador to ensure that acts of this nature are not repeated at any of Ecuador's consular offices in the United States.
REPUBLIC
OF ECUADOR

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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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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and Minneapolis resident, was murdered by ICE today. He was a lawful gun owner. Our government saw his Second Amendment right as a threat and executed him in the streets.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/01/2026

ANOTHER ANGLE: the original video was deleted but I screen capped it. Here it is.

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Tanya 🧚‍♀️👑 @faeryqueene73.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Liam Ramos, a preschooler ICE detained the five-year-old Minnesota boy as he returned home from school and transported him to a detention center in Texas.

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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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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Trump is selling seized Venezuelan oil and putting the cash in a bank account in Qatar. Nothing to see here. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

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Nick Rattray @nickrattray.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Current actions in Minneapolis and beyond are NOT done within the scope of authority of ICE. They also cannot arrest legal citizens. An investigation is essential even if it looks improbable

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Last night, cities across the country organized protests in response to ICE murdering Renee Nicole Good, a U.S. citizen and the agent responsible still not being in custody. Thank you Minneapolis, New York City, San Francisco, Portland, Eugene, Miami, and Houston.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Children will die with RFK Jr.'s new vaccine recommendations. We're NOT doing the "experts disagree" game. The US vaccine schedule was painstakingly constructed through a deep & thorough process by experts with unquestionable expertise. This is policy by fiat. It is pre-meditated murder. 1/

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Nick Rattray @nickrattray.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

A powerful exposition of how work requirements in social policy echo eugenic logic that devalues #disabled lives deemed "unproductive," warning that current Medicaid cuts resurrect the deadly assumption that human worth must be earned through labor, thanks! @danilynrutherford.bsky.social

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Nick Rattray @nickrattray.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

“It is ... really hard to get your head around the raw hubris of the majority. They really will be destabilizing the operating structure of the entire U.S. government. Why? Because they believe they have a better idea about how the past century should’ve been done." @debpearlstein.bsky.social!

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Nick Rattray @nickrattray.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

These outrageous conditions are unconscionable

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Priorities.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

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Nick Rattray @nickrattray.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

What a factual and critical reframing of an absurd question.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Every race. It’s basically been every race. Governors. Mayors. Long-held GOP dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three GOP Uber drivers. Just everything.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

trickle down economics trickle down economic trickle down economi trickle down econom trickle down econo trickle down econ trickle down eco trickle down ec trickle down e trickle down trickle dow trickle do trickle d trickle trickl trick

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

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Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

New 20 just dropped to commemorate the Trump presidency

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Yet Trump ignored every step, acting unilaterally through executive order, bypassing oversight, and ordering demolition as if he were a monarch. The result: the people’s house, altered without the people’s consent.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

This is what No Kings Day felt like 🐸🐔🦄🐿️✨ “Tʜɪs ɪs ᴡʜᴀᴛ Dᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ ʟᴏᴏᴋs ʟɪᴋᴇ!“ 🗣️✨ This country belongs to the people. #StandTALL 🚀🗣️ (Prints at www.Nikkolas.Art)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

This is what solidarity looks like. Together, we will win.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in. Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators. The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

wizard frog is insane

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2025

this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight. www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

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Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset

We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

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Nick Rattray @nickrattray.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

"The ambiguity is calculated. They never said, “We are declaring a dictatorship.” Instead, they spoke in terms elastic enough to give cover." poignant point, Dr. Greenberg

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Remember that this is what the Trump-Republican big, ugly bill was all about. It's Robin Hood in reverse. Why would any Democrat vote for a continuing resolution that greenlights this regime's cruelty?

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Freethinker @69eerrr.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Einsteins theory has been proven.

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