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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/05/2026
DHS officials previously insisted children were not zip-tied during this raid, but in his claim, a 16-year-old boy who hyperventilated at the sight of agents assaulting immigrants said he and his mom were zip-tied outside the building.
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Immigrants Detained in Chicago Military-Style Raid Seek Millions in Damages
New accounts from 17 men, women and children taken in a midnight raid paint a violent, terrifying portrait of the federal agents’ alleged actions. These descriptions form the basis of claims filed thi...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
"It's not a golden idol forbidden by the Lord because we're not in a cult, y'all!"
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Donald is too stupid to realize that you only win Uno when you have no cards. Idiot.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I cannot find acceptable words to describe how much I despise anyone who looks up to this man and thinks this is cool or funny.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 01/05/2026
Step One: Militarize Our Streets Step Two: Suppress Lawful Dissent Step Three: Immunize Lawlessness Operation Midway Blitz was no accident — the point was to instill fear. The perpetrators must face consequences.
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Illinois commission recommends local prosecutors investigate federal agents in immigration blitz
An independent commission created by Illinois Governor JB Pritzker in the wake of an aggressive immigration crackdown in the Chicago ‌area last year has recommended that local prosecutors investigate ...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Donald Trump is *so stupid* he doesn’t know when not to say something that will make him sound totally stupid.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 29/04/2026
We must call this for what it is: voter suppression that will silence Black and brown voters. The magnitude of this decision cannot be understated — it guts the Voting Rights Act and its very purpose of protecting all voices. Every American deserves an equal vote.
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Live updates: Supreme Court ruling weakens a key tool of the Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court has weakened a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped root out racial discrimination in voting since 1965. The case concerns a district in Louisiana.
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NPR @npr.org · 23/04/2026
The executive director of World Press Photo said this image shows the inconsolable grief of children losing their father in a place built for justice. It is a stark and necessary record of family separation following the U.S. reform policies. n.pr/4d0E5EA
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World Press Photo announces Photo of the Year 2026
The executive director of World Press Photo said this image shows the inconsolable grief of children losing their father in a place built for justice. It is a stark and necessary record of family separation following the U.S. reform policies.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/04/2026
Joseph Schwartz’s case is the latest in a string of health care fraud pardons by Trump. The president also granted clemency to nursing home magnate Philip Esformes, convicted of a $1.3B scheme, and Judith Negron, convicted in a $200M fraud case.
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A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.
At least three families won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against former Skyline Healthcare owner Joseph Schwartz. They haven’t collected a cent.
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This was actually on my bingo card
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stevepetersonart.bsky.social @stevepetersonart.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Don’t fuck with the loon. #mnicewatch #50501movement #antifa #wIred #minneapolis
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Ok Mills and McCormick
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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I think we’re at this point.
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John W Dean @johnwdean.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Congratulations, Twin Cities! But I’m surprised this piece got past Trump propagandist Bari Weiss.
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stevepetersonart.bsky.social @stevepetersonart.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
No Kings Rally, 3/28/2026, Minnesota State Capitol, St Paul
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/02/2026
Mass shootings aren’t being driven by transgender folks. That’s just Tommy Tuberville’s lazy fear politics. Alabama had 90 mass shootings since 2020. None were committed by transgender perpetrators. But that’s not the conversation Tuberville wants to have.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 14/02/2026
Trump didn’t just waste the National Guard’s time in LA — he made small businesses pay the price • 82% reported negative impacts • 44% lost more than HALF their revenue • $840 MILLION in economic output disappeared in just 1 week Trump’s stunt caused harmful chaos that accomplished nothing
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Mike Lowe @mike-lowe.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/02/2026
Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it
Left: Aug 20 2025 Wapo editorial
The Texas gerrymander freakout
What’s happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy.

Right: Feb. 7 2026 Wapo editorial
Brass-knuckled hypocrisy in Virginia
Voters will get a chance to reject anti-democratic gamesmanship in an April referendum.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota. This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats. They hate the helpers. Which is why must keep helping.
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Twin Cities tow truck driver returns abandoned vehicles to families after ICE arrests
Juan Leon sends a "chase" car to check out where abandoned vehicles are located and arranges discreet drop-offs. Since late December, he estimated they have dropped off 250 cars.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Seems kinda' crazy that a guy getting paid to let the government run a gulag on his property also owns an upscale cafe in a county that went 28 percent for Trump in 2024. Maybe the people who regularly dine there need to be better informed about who owns it.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/02/2026
When the U.S. Supreme Court said that you could detain people based on their race, their accent, or the language they spoke… there is nothing to preclude ICE from doing that while you’re standing in line getting ready to cast a ballot. Stacey Abrams Voting-rights expert
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/02/2026
Ciji Graham’s is the seventh case ProPublica has investigated in which a pregnant woman died after she was unable to access standard care in a state that has significantly restricted abortion. Read her story: propub.li/4r4VQr4
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
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Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade
The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou: The fact that the very people who are meant to lead this country have completely retraumatized us… it’s—I mean—it’s like being raped by the Department of Justice.
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stevepetersonart.bsky.social @stevepetersonart.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Cartoon: Sic Semper Tyrannis
This is not a law and order campaign. This is ethnic cleansing cloaked in unlawful arrests, warrantless searches and summary executions directed�by a convicted felon and unrepentant pedophile.
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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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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
🚨🚨Poland to examine “increasingly likely possibility that pedophilia scandal was co-organized by intelligence services” in Moscow. Read the full story below. 🖇️ www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/02/2026
“If ICE can come in, we can come in.” Protesters of the federal immigration crackdown in Minneapolis have turned their attention to Target stores across the country, putting pressure on the Minnesota-based retail giant to stop cooperating with federal agents.
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Protesters Press Target to Take a Stand Against ICE Crackdown in Minneapolis
The Minnesota-based retail chain has avoided criticizing anyone, even after federal agents detained two employees at a local store. Its new C.E.O. faces pressure to do more.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/02/2026
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 02/02/2026
The FBI’s unprecedented seizure of 2020 election ballots and records in Fulton County, Georgia has election experts raising red flags for 2026. One expert warns the raid was a possible test run for future midterm interference in swing districts.
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FBI’s Fulton County raid may have been illegal, legal experts warn. But it definitely raises fears for 2026
'This is a test run for 2026... Trump could try to seize voting machines or otherwise interfere with state ballot tabulation processes in swing districts around the country.'
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Antifa International @antifaintl.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
#mpls, #minneapolis, #fuckice, #chingalamigra, #nooneisillegal, #antifascist, #antifascism, #icewatch
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Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Remember this gem? Oh brother, what a doozy! 👹
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Shep/Polly @sheppolly.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Really interesting Target lets ICE kidnap employees in their store but told us the parking lot which serves several other businesses is their private property and they wouldn’t allow me and @vangirl427.bsky.social and others in their parking lot.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
“There was no way this person ran headfirst into a wall.” abc7ny.com/post/ice-min...
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ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital
Intensive care nurses immediately doubted the word of federal immigration officers when they arrived at a Minneapolis hospital with a Mexican immigrant who had broken bones in his face and skull.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Unmarked car, no lights or police insignia. Masked armed men leap out. Victim not in the act of committing any crime. This is not how a serious federal law enforcement agency acts in a free society. How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?
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stevepetersonart.bsky.social @stevepetersonart.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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Piyush Mittal @piyushmittal.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Children raped and killed. American citizens shot in the street. Immigrants illegally shackled, tortured, killed. Journalists arrested. While a $300 million ballroom is constructed and a trash documentary released.
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Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This is the surveillance toolkit - including facial recognition and cell phone tracking - that ICE is using to identify people in Minneapolis: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The arrest of Don Lemon is textbook fascism—a brazen attempt to silence reporting on a criminal regime. Stand up for Don, because our rights stand and fall with those of courageous journalists throughout this country.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Melania & Ghilaisne appear to have been on shorthand name basis— Melania: “G!” Ghislaine: “Sweet Pea”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/01/2026
This appears to be a very friendly email from Melania to Ghislaine Maxwell:
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stevepetersonart.bsky.social @stevepetersonart.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/01/2026
This make you uncomfortable? Good! Because this isn’t history, it’s reality and what ICE has normalized.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Sitting President attempts to steal $10 BILLION from taxpayers. The most corrupt regime of our lifetimes. With no close second. And the Hunter hunters are silent. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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