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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

last month the US secretly deported nine asylum seekers to cameroon where they’ve been trapped at a local government-owned compound until they agree to return to their home countries where they face persecution and death. none have history of violence.

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U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

This quote by Thomas Massie will stick: "This is the Epstein administration."

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Dan Gartland @dangartland.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

this sequence in the U.S. women’s curling match was pure cinema

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Doron Clark @doronclark.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

There has been no draw down today. ICE snatched someone off Central Ave out of his car because he looked Latino before then letting him go a couple hours later. They were stopping people in Blaine on highway 65, they were all around Fridley, and were in the parking lot of the St Anthony liquor store

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

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Eric Lisann @ericlisann.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

This is as big a lie as the one about the 2020 election, probably even more dangerous because so many "normie" Republican officials glommed onto it to curry favor with Trump. Corporate media never exposed it, and an uneducated electorate remains confused.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

feels like i should re-post this every few weeks

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I'm a Gallup pollster. You can contact them at galluppanel@gallupmail.com to let them know what you think of this.

Is it true that Gallup plans to stop tracking approval ratings of political figures? Why? That's a terrible idea. It’s crucial for citizens in a democracy to have the ability to voice their opinions of the leaders they’ve elected and make those opinions known. As a longtime Gallup pollster, I’m ashamed that you’d even consider cutting off this important marker of American political feeling. Please reconsider.

Thank you!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/02/2026

McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man? LYONS: Yes mam McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands? LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/02/2026

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

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Jason Meisner @jmetr22b.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

in a text string after the shooting, a fellow agent told Exum he's a "legend" "Beers on me"

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

(CNN) - The United States has fallen to its worst-ever position in a leading global index that measures perception of corruption in the public sector among independent experts and businesspeople. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/b...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

This was not an inevitability. This is the result of decades of political choices that rig the system in favor of the wealthy and powerful while leaving workers behind. It does not have to be this way.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Yet another example of an out-of-control President sacrificing the American economy and blocking good infrastructure. It's also a test for Michigan Republicans: will they stand up for what's right, even when it means breaking with Trump?

freep.com

Trump says Gordie Howe bridge won't open without Canadian concessions

Canada has footed the entire cost of the $5.7-billion Gordie Howe bridge construction project, aiming to recover costs through toll collections.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I've been to some countries where people live under military rule or autocracy. And without fail, one of the questions I get when they ask about life in the U.S. is whether it's true that Americans just let homeless people die on the street.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 09/02/2026

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

$MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.$

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

American workers just took home their smallest share of the nation's wealth since 1947 — even as corporate profits soar. Why? This chart has the answer.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/02/2026

on the balance i think partisan gerrymandering is bad but the only way it ends is if democrats weaponize it against republicans everywhere they can. wiping out republican lawmakers in blue states might bring the GOP to the table to end the practice.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 05/02/2026

Imagine if four years into our war in Iraq we had only occupied 20 percent of it and lost 1.2 million men. Would anyone say the US is winning? No? Then how in the hell can you say Russia is winning?!

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 06/02/2026

TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer. (I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

so crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

A follow up on this Jesse Watters clip from 3 weeks ago. The victim of ICE testified today before Congress that she was on her way to a 39th scheduled treatment at a traumatic brain injury center.

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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

It just shows you how WOKE the NFL has become that they chose the most popular musician in the world who just won the Best Album Grammy for the halftime show instead of someone with broad appeal, like Lee Greenwood or a country musician named “Truckley Brucksom”

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Shane McNichol @ontheshanetrain.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

This remains the best thing about Raf. He knows the game, including its modern changes, and loves it.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Very important vote. It makes repealing ICE surge funding the mainstream position in the party, with bipartisan support.

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Will Warren @statsbywill.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Instant classic of an image via Getty

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

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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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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 29/01/2026

Trump's number one priority has been to make the wealthy, wealthier—it has never been the millions of young Americans looking to buy their first home. He’s giving the middle finger to our youngest generation. @democrats.senate.gov are focused on making homeownership possible for everyone.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/01/2026

Trump: "People that own their homes -- we're gonna keep them wealthy. We're gonna keep those prices up. We're not gonna destroy the value of their homes so that somebody who didn't work very hard can buy a home."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/01/2026

RAND PAUL: If a country bombed our air defense missiles, captured & removed our president, & blockaded our country, would that be considered an act of war? RUBIO: We just don't believe this operation comes anywhere close to the constitutional definition PAUL: Of course it would be an act of war!

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Zach Buchanan @zhbuchanan.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea. It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road. Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable.

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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...

science.org

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office

A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 26/01/2026

Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution. If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Oh my god she admit it

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/01/2026

this is completely insane and more people need to say that doing this is completely insane

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Following the Kent State massacre in May 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58% of Americans thought the shootings were justified. The night *before* the killings, Ohio's GOP governor described the student protesters this way: "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

“If your state doesn’t help us we will be forced to murder its citizens” is an argument that only works on people who are already subnormal bootlickers.

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