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octahedral.bsky.social @octahedral.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I can't remember seeing a pink sun before
A dusky pink sun against a tan, smoke filled sky.
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
9/ This is an enormous reminder that eradication isn't permanent without continued investment. We eliminated screwworm. I said it last week and I'll say it again- keeping threats at bay requires funding, surveillance, expertise, and long-term commitment. Prevention only works when we keep doing it.
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
That's a pogrom. She's describing a pogrom
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The US is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure
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Lowell/Lawrence ABC @llabc24.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Oregon DOC is actively disappearing Malik Muhammad malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/2026/04...
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The position “American shuls are presumed valid targets unless they proactively disavow Israel” is as wrong as “American Muslims need to proactively disavow Islamist violence to be considered good, loyal Americans.” Both are racist, and both are wrong.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Reupping. Not only did Trump minimize possibility of terrorist attacks on US. But White House nixed a law enforcement bulletin ABOUT those threats.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
UPDATE: Sunny, a U.S. citizen, is on her way home after being shipped across state lines overnight. How the hell did this happen? Press conference tomorrow at Broadview, where we will hear Sunny’s side of the story. More details soon.
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 28/02/2026
With alt text. I’ve…never seen a court talk like this before?
VI.
FINAL NOTICE
This Memorandum Opinion and Order serves as explicit notice to all officials-state and
federal involved in the detention of individuals whose cases come before this court.
Continued detention without individualized custody determinations, after this court's
repeated holdings that such detention violates the Fifth Amendment, will result in legal consequences. For state jail officials, those consequences include personal civil liability without qualified immunity protection. For federal officials, those consequences include exercise of this
court's full inherent authority to enforce constitutional compliance including contempt.
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵 Before he became a Harlem Hellfighter, James Reese Europe was already one of the most famous and influential Black musicians in the United States. Let's get into it! (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.historynet.com/how-harlem-h...
historynet.com
How Harlem Hellfighter James Reese Europe Became a Ragtime Legend
“He was our benefactor and inspiration,” Eubie Blake, the jazz great, once said of James Reese Europe, who wielded a baton, not a rifle, for much of World War I. How the Harlem Hellfighters brought ja...
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Herb Carnegie was so good with the Quebec Aces that his teammate Jean Beliveau copied his skating and stickhandling style. Considered the best Black player to never play in the NHL, he had a big impact on hockey. Oh, and he was a champion golfer. This is his story! 🧵 1/10
Herb Carnegie sits on a bench wearing a dark hockey jersey with red and white striping and red pants, smiling while holding a small trophy in both hands. The trophy has a wide top and a narrow stem, with a ribbon hanging from it. Other players in similar jerseys are partially visible behind him. The photo is a colorized portrait, and text below the image reads “Herbie Carnegie” and “Photo by La Patrie Newspaper / March 1953.”
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
When Neil Gorsuch conceived of the impossibility of Congress abdicating one of its core roles in November, he raised the power to declare war. This was the oral argument for the tariffs that SCOTUS just declared illegal. emptywheel.net/trumps-illeg...
JUSTICE GORSUCH: — we shouldn’t be concerned with — I want you to explain to me how you draw the line, because you say we shouldn’t be concerned because this is foreign affairs, the President has inherent authority, and so delegation off the books more or less.

GENERAL SAUER: Or at least —

JUSTICE GORSUCH: And if that’s true, what would — what would prohibit Congress from just abdicating all responsibility to regulate foreign commerce, for that matter, declare war to the President?

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JUSTICE GORSUCH: Can you give me a reason to accept it, though? That’s what I’m struggling and waiting for. What’s the reason to accept the notion that Congress can hand off the power to declare war to the President?

GENERAL SAUER: Well, we don’t contend that. Again, that would be —

JUSTICE GORSUCH: Well, you do. You say it’s unreviewable, that there’s no manageable standard, nothing to be done. And now you’re — I think you — tell me if I’m wrong. You’ve backed off that position.

GENERAL SAUER: Maybe that’s fair to say.

JUSTICE GORSUCH: Okay. All right. Thank you.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This went on for years, she filed 50 complaints. She lost tenants. Financial and mental harm from racist harrassment and in the courts. "At one point, the local postal officials taped a sign to her mailbox announcing in bright red letters that they would not deliver the mail to her tenants."
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
“How many more husbands, more fathers need to die before you do something? "Julian and I had a life together. We had a dream together. I have to explain to my 5 year old every day that daddy’s not coming back. She says, 'Mommy I miss daddy’s heartbeat,' because he used to put her to bed."
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Formal invitation to the hockey team sent,,, if any people with connections to the hockey team wanna have them email my team my bio. I’m for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Email to USA Hockey
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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
This is crazy lazy corporate bs .. Pressing 2 for Spanish but guess what happens..,
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PAL @paladin42.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
someone waited their ENTIRE LIFE to write that headline...
Winds Suck Dicks
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Angie Craig: "They removed everyone from the ICE facility 30 minutes before we arrived — this is not the intent of the law. DHS is violating the law" Ilhan Omar: "What happened today is a blatant attempt to obstruct members of Congress from doing their oversight duties"
U.S. Reps Ilhan Omar (D-MN) (R) and Angie Craig (D-MN) speak to press after conducting oversight at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in St Paul, Minnesota. The two congressional representatives from Minnesota were touring the facility after being denied access last month. (Photo by David Berding/Getty Images)
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending *** As of the end of January, there have been no convictions."
theguardian.com
DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court
String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Martinez’s death would mark the 1st shooting victim under DHS in 2025, and overall 5th under the Trump Administration alongside Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, Keith Porter, Renee Good, and Alex Pretti.
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TACO
NEWS
ICE's First Shooting Victim in 2025, a 23-Year-Old, Was Just Uncovered
By Izzy Ramirez
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident
The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to the first time local police in...
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I approve this message.
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Democracy and trains @wingedisis.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The glitter guillotine is on the streets and I will no longer be responsible for anything until Ash Wednesday.
Pink light up glittery guillotine being pulled by a man and a white wig on a bicycle past houses in the Marigny
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Wilfredo Torres @wilfredotorres.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
For Liam.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
ICE has detention centers in LI now Islip
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Federal agents cornered Marimar Martinez, shot her several times, boasted about it, arrested her, lied about her to the public and in the police report, and falsely charged her with assaulting them. Now the government wants to keep evidence of their lies secret to protect these agents' "privacy."
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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
ICE kidnapped 5 people from my community this morning. I don’t live in Minneapolis. I live in LA County. They’re still here and their still brutalizing.
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Black Guy Does Sociology @blackmanbeyond.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The Senate bill is rooted in the idea that we just need to get BP/ICE "back to" only terrorizing people we deem worthy of being terrorized, and not White people. The exact problematic understanding people have been trying to warn against... While a lot of White people insisted that concern was silly
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kc kc kc (ichabod era) @katecrane.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I can't stop thinking about this. Some of the murders are overt. Some of the murders are less direct and are murders nonetheless
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Liam Ramos is still in a Texas prison. It's been 5 days
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/01/2026
Uh. So ICE just technically tried to invade Ecuador. Cool new international incident dropping.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 27/01/2026
No policy change or tone shift brings back Renee Good / Alex Pretti/ Keith Porter Accountability requires Justice
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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
donation links in this thread. start from the bottom of the list and work your way up.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 25/01/2026
DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 26/01/2026
"This isn't who we are!" - false, ignores history, keeps harmful systems in place "This isn't who we should be!" - true, imagines a better future, includes everyone.
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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 bearwitness, 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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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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Jane @jane.meangirls.online · 24/01/2026
"DHS said he had a gun" well first off they've lied about every single one of their murders. second, it's a state with concealed carry. third, there were like six guys holding him down, John Wick couldn't have gotten a shot off in those circumstances. fourth let's just emphasize how much DHS lies.
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 24/01/2026
If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Been in Minneapolis the past week ish. Here are some photos I took while I was here.
Drummers at the lead of an anti ICE march in Minneapolis A sign on a fence says “Renee was good. Fight the good fight.”A makeshift checkpoint constructed out of trash bins and chairs with signs that say “ICE OUT” and “ICE GO HOME”Protesters marching in downtown Minneapolis
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."
startribune.com
Live: Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning, police chief says
A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 23/01/2026
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 22/01/2026
He has been released. But according to a recent analysis at least 53% of his colleagues, all of whom should be striking now, functionally support his detention.
sports.yahoo.com
New Analysis Reveals Political Leanings of America’s Pro Sports Leagues
A new report using voter registration data has revealed where athletes in America's major professional leagues stand on the political spectrum.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
These are concentration camps. And these are the numbers they're comfortable sharing.
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John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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