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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Republicans JUST blocked Democrats' bill that would have ENDED Trump's tariffs on Canada and his ability to keep starting these trade wars. This would have saved Americans THOUSANDS of dollars. But Republicans chose once again to put Trump's approval over the American people.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The facts suggest two interpretive frameworks for Iran: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the U.S. Join my live conversation with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social, 12:00pm ET, snyder.substack.com

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Well, my fellow Maine voters. Here is Susan Collins today paying tribute to her boss while holding her MAGA hat.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

MAGA will always be escalating. A political party tries to court your vote. An authoritarian regime tries to keep you from voting and sow chaos and spread violence to seize control over elections.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Beyond helping establish DHS itself in 2003, Mr. Mitnick was a senate-confirmed Trump choice for General Counsel for DHS in his first term. I've talked with him a few times, and he's not a man for hyperbole. So bear that in mind when you see him calling out DHS's "lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty."

John Mitnick
@JohnMitnick
I helped to establish DHS in 2002 and 2003 and later had the homeland security portfolio as a White House Counsel and served as General Counsel of the Department.

I am enraged and embarrassed by DHS’s lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty.

Impeach and remove Trump—now.

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
@gtconway3d
The deadly shooting in Minneapolis today was a straight-up execution of a protester by Trump's federal brownshirts.

The thugs wrestled him to the ground. They pistol-whipped him, then shot him multiple times. They murdered him.

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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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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

"The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now" -- Senator Van Hollen

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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

In the USA now, lawfully carrying a camera (1st Amendment) and a gun (2nd Amendment) allows the government to kill you.

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Authoritarian regimes ALWAYS lie That is why it is so important and necessary to record and document everything.

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Federal agents killing people in the streets is an assault on the right of all Americans to be safe. Senate Democrats must reject funding for ICE this coming week and demand an end to this madness. Doing anything else would be a tacit endorsement of the terror and chaos in our streets.

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CatDaMaMa @catdamama.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I just read @marcelias.bsky.social newsletter and the way the Rs are trying to pass it, is to attach it to must needed bills that has to pass. We must all call our senators and tell them not to vote for those bills if the save act attached to it.

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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 22/01/2026

ICE is out of control. We proposed simple, common-sense guardrails: no deporting U.S. citizens, no masks, require warrants, stop excessive force. Washington Republican leadership rejected every one.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The ombudsman for Stars and Stripes, the deployed servicemember's paper of record, writes in its pages that the publication "is in peril of losing its editorial independence and becoming nothing more than a public relations arm of the Pentagon." www.stripes.com/opinion/2026...

stripes.com

Pentagon wants a ‘refocus,’ but Stripes hasn’t wavered from its true mission

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tarahug.bsky.social @tarahug.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

“Donald Trump sounded like a fascist dictator suffering from a brain bleed during his speech yesterday at Davos. It was a national embarrassment even by the lowly standards of modern American politics.” Aaron Rupar open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

open.substack.com

American embarrassment. Global pariah.

Trump's Davos debacle marked a new low.

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Paulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

This memo will self destruct in five seconds...

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/01/2026

The Civil Rights Division is going to charge a Black Man under the Ku Klux Klan Act on MLK day. Do I have that right?

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Attacking 6 month old babies. The infant was in such respiratory distress CPR had to be administered.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

BREAKING: Hundreds of sensitive U.S. records obtained by WIRED undercut the Trump administration’s claims portraying Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua as a unified terrorist force invading the country. Intelligence agencies spent much of 2025 unsure TdA even functioned as an organization on U.S. soil.

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Trump Warned of a Tren de Aragua ‘Invasion.’ US Intel Told a Different Story

Hundreds of records obtained by WIRED show thin intelligence on the Venezuelan gang in the United States, describing fragmented, low-level crime rather than a coordinated terrorist threat.

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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

They’re escalating. Not sure what it’s going to take for folks to understand we are mirroring the past, the difference is it’s us—the US, and the targets are everyone that isn’t a white man. Trump’s Gestapo has now blocked of an entire neighborhood and is going door to door in St. Paul, MN. F ICE

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404 Media @404media.co · 07/01/2026

At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

404media.co

DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman

At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

“.. they carried her body out, just like by her limbs, they didn’t even have a stretcher," Heller said. "She was carried out like a sack of potatoes." “This was horrific and will change my life forever,” she said. “I feel so scared." @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Minnesota ICE shooting live updates: Driver fatally shot by immigration agent

Follow the latest news after an ICE agent fatally shot a 37-year-old woman after a group of individuals began to block an immigration-related operation.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

AOC: ICE has less accountability than virtually any law enforcement agency in the U.S., yet they are some of the most well-funded, operating with impunity—and we just saw them murder an American citizen in cold blood in the street.

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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

#ICEShooting #Minneapolis They wouldn’t let a Dr tend to the murder victim

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Jessica Berlin @berlinbridge.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

You cannot cheer America’s illegal attack on Venezuela while condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s threats against Taiwan. Selective application of international law means no rule of law.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

“'You would have no command and control over the military and no police force,' he said. 'You’d have looting and chaos.' Any U.S. military deployment meant to stabilize the country would probably require tens of thousands of troops, he said."

nytimes.com

U.S. Ran a War Game on Ousting Maduro. Venezuela Fell Into Chaos.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine. We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 03/01/2026

Venezuela ships this blend because it has to mix their main crude oil reserve, from the Orinoco belt (which is EXTREMELY heavy, gravity 8° or so) with lighter crude from elsewhere for it to be shippable. And that’s the problem with Venezuela’s oil reserves: they’re basically sludge.

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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

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GeBe Anti-fa-scist @rebornintotheblue.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

As Individuals...we DON'T have the power of the purse!

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demsrock2024.bsky.social @demsrock2024.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

bsky.app/profile/bock... Sad 😢

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/11/2025

Mike Johnson says he's talked to Thune & he's "very confident that when this moves forward in the process - if & when it is processed in the Senate, which is no certainty - they will take the time methodically to do what we have not been allowed to do in the House. To amend this discharge petition."

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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

⚠️ This constant abusive behavior by the President of the United States is incredibly triggering to SA and/or DV survivors. Statistics state 1 in 6 women have been assaulted in our lifetime. But we all know that number is even higher - coercion, threats, death, silence. The complicity is worse.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

"I got a call from the general counsel at the F.B.I. about changing exceptions to the gift rules because his boss, Kash Patel, felt like he should be able to accept more expensive gifts..." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

nytimes.com

60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department

Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I don’t think US taxpayers should subsidize treason against the United States

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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com

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StraightFromThe Hut | Jake Lahut | Substack

A campaign and communications strategy newsletter, plus a home for Jake Lahut's freelance feature reporting and other notebook items (no paywalls, but pay to support). Click to read StraightFromThe Hu...

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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The TOP 7 Ways to Help Struggling SNAP Recipients Please read! Even if you don't read it, please share it, so your followers can. Let's come together in these dark times!

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The Top 7 Ways to Help Struggling SNAP Recipients

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KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 15/10/2025

RFK Jr. said the Rural Health Transformation Program is the “biggest infusion of federal dollars into rural health care” in U.S. history. But rural areas will lose more in Medicaid cuts than they might gain from a new rural health program. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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RFK Jr. Misses Mark in Touting Rural Health Transformation Fund as Historic Infusion of Cash - KFF Health News

The health secretary’s statement doesn’t consider the impact that the Medicaid cuts advanced in the same law will have on health care in rural America.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

This is our "What can you do for your country" moment. youtube.com/shorts/4eY7X...

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What Can We Do for Our Country A Call to Action

YouTube video by Machine Pun Kelly

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Ashley’s Corner @myeffinopinion.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

It’s just the start

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