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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Pete Hegseth said "it takes money to kill bad guys" while asking for $200 BILLION for a war that didn't exist 3 weeks ago as DHS is closed and Americans pay record gas prices. These are the people who screamed about the debt every single day
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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
MAGA: The Constitution is sacred. Also MAGA: Alex Pretti deserved to die because he was protesting (First Amendment) with a legal gun (Second Amendment). Hmm...
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Abolish ICE is not enough. Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough. We need prosecutions and trials. Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 26/01/2026
Long live India. Long live the friendship between Europe and India. 🇪🇺🇮🇳
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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 24/01/2026
💔 Russian missiles and drones hit Kyiv, killing one, critically injuring several
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Russian missiles and drones hit Kyiv, killing one, critically injuring several
A combined Russian missile and drone attack hit multiple districts of Kyiv overnight, killing at least one person and leaving three in critical condition
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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 24/01/2026
☠️ Russia loses 930 soldiers over past day
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Russia loses 930 soldiers over past day
Ukrainian defenders have killed or wounded 930 Russian soldiers over the past day
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
You know who”stayed a little back” in VIetnam? DJT.
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 23/01/2026
For Ukraine, amid Russia's attacks, 447 generators are being deployed to essential services. The Prosperity Framework is nearly agreed, focusing on productivity reforms, EU market integration, investment scaling, donor coordination, and anti-corruption efforts.
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 23/01/2026
Europe, standing firm and united in full solidarity with Greenland and Denmark, has us in a better place. Our strategy of solidarity and firmness worked. We are stepping up Arctic investments in energy, materials, and security, including new partnerships in the region. ↓
A wide shot shows Ursula von der Leyen and António Costa standing at separate white podiums against a blue backdrop during an informal meeting of the European Council members in Brussels on January 22, 2026. Von der Leyen, on the left, wears a red blazer over a light-colored top, while Costa, on the right, wears a dark suit and patterned tie. The blue background features the European Union logo and the text "European Council" in multiple languages. The back of an audience member's head is visible in the lower foreground.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/01/2026
Breaking News: A Cuban immigrant’s death in an ICE detention center in El Paso was ruled a homicide, according to an autopsy report.
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Cuban Detainee in El Paso ICE Facility Died by Homicide, Autopsy Shows
The report from the county medical examiner said the detainee, Geraldo Lunas Campos, was asphyxiated and restrained by law enforcement. Federal officials described his death as a suicide.
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 21/01/2026
Cyber and hybrid attacks hit Europe every day. We are proposing a new Cybersecurity Package to keep hospitals, energy infrastructure, banks, transport and businesses safe from state hackers and cyber-attacks.
Illustration of a glowing blue padlock at the center of a digital circuit network, symbolising cybersecurity and data protection in Europe, with the EU flag in the corner and the text “Cyber-Safe Europe” at the bottom.
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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 21/01/2026
🇩🇰 Denmark allocates €20m to support Ukraine's energy sector
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Denmark allocates €20m to support Ukraine's energy sector
Denmark is providing additional support to Ukraine's energy sector amounting to 150 million Danish kroner (€20 million) to help Ukrainians get through the winter.
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European Investment Bank @eib.org · 21/01/2026
Europe's commitment to Ukraine and its people is unwavering. Together with @ebrd.bsky.social, IFC, Swedfund & Impact Fund Denmark, we signed a €50 million contribution to the Amber Dragon Equity Fund, the first-ever infrastructure equity fund for Ukraine’s recovery. ➡️ go.eib.org/EquityFundUkraine
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 21/01/2026
I am introducing the Melt ICE Act to end funding for immigrant detention and monitoring. We have seen the danger in infusing resources into DHS’s abuses of power. Funding for ICE is fuel for human suffering. It’s time to start melting ICE.
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European Parliament @europarl.europa.eu · 19/01/2026
🔴 Tomorrow at 9:00 CET. Parliament will debate ways to tackle AI deepfakes and sexual exploitation on social media. Watch the debate live here 👉 www.youtube.com/live/_wWWkVj...
Visual promoting the European Parliament's livestream of a plenary debate on tackling AI deepfakes and sexual exploitation on social media, taking place on Tuesday 20 January from 9:00 - 10:30 CET. There is a European Parliament logo in the bottom right-hand corner.
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Taracas @taracas.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
“ when people accumulate mass wealth and power, they begin to believe the rules no longer apply to them, and their behavior often drifts toward domination, exploitation, cruelty, violence, and the outright most vile and abhor.”
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Elite Sadists, Their Nihilist Systems, and Their Perpetual Class-Based Immunity
There are increasingly louder rumblings about what is buried in the Epstein files—what more names are in there, what behavior and crimes are documented, what networks might be exposed, and what level ...
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 18/01/2026
Inside the detention center, Gibson said officers put him in a bare, metal holding cell about the size of a small conference room with around 40 other detainees. Their legs were shackled. Gibson said one person in the cell appeared to have scabies.
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Minneapolis man says ICE agents took 'trophy' photos, locked him in overcrowded cell
Garrison Gibson, a Minneapolis man from Liberia, shared details of his experience with federal immigration enforcement this week at a press conference Saturday.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 18/01/2026
Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.
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Fight The Right… 👊🏼👊🏽👊🏿 @wtafc.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/01/2026
The next government shutdown could hit at the end of this month, and if the budget bill includes more funding for ICE — shut it down! ICE is a horror show of abuse, violence, and human rights violations. Every Dem in Congress should be talking about it like @repespaillat.bsky.social 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Time For A New, Blue Generation Of New Leaders, Especially Rational Folks AND Women.......
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Reminder of the spectacularly poor judgement of these people
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
NEW: Per new @CBSNewsPoll - Majority of respondents in America say I.C.E. is making our country LESS safe
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sylviseb 💙🌈☮️🌊💙💛Maga➡️blocked💛💙🌎🌻✌️🦋 @sylviseb.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
"Justice Department asks federal judge to deny special master for Epstein files." NO ONE FIGHTS THIS HARD TO NOT OBEY A LAW THAT MANDATED RELEASE OF THE FILES WEEKS AGO. NOT UNLESS THEY ARE GUILTY AS HELL. RELEASE.ALL.OF.THE.EPSTEIN.FILES.NOW!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/01/2026
Gallego: "We cannot vote for anything that actually adds more money and doesn't constrain ICE ... we cannot keep funding this type of goon squad"
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 17/01/2026
Vladimir Putin has been unable to protect his allies in Venezuela and Iran from an unexpectedly belligerent Donald Trump. In Russia, it has not gone unnoticed. 🔗 politi.co/4qcQ5XM
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Book Jawns @bookjawns.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
STAR TREK HAS GONE WOKE! SESAME STREET HAS GONE WOKE! STAR WARS HAS GONE WOKE! RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE HAS GONE WOKE! Nothing will ever be funnier to me than these dipshits getting mad about shit that’s been “woke” since it’s been in existence.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 17/01/2026
Greenlandic organizations said today they had mobilized thousands of demonstrators across Denmark and Greenland to protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to take over the Arctic island, framing the rallies as a defense of democracy and self-determination.
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‘Hands off Greenland’ protests sweep Denmark as Trump escalates takeover threat
Greenlandic organizations said Saturday they had mobilized thousands of demonstrators across Denmark and Greenland to protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to take over the Arctic island, f…
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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 17/01/2026
🫂 Lithuania pledges additional energy support for Ukraine
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Lithuania pledges additional energy support for Ukraine
Lithuania's government is planning to make a decision in the coming days to provide Ukraine with additional energy assistance, specifically power generation equipment, to help the country address ener...
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 18/01/2026
The European Union and the Mercosur bloc yesterday signed their long-awaited trade agreement, sealing one of the world’s biggest free-trade deals after more than 25 years of negotiations and repeated political standoffs.
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EU and Mercosur seal historic trade deal 
Signing by the EU and the South American trading bloc capped 25 years of talks and sets up a parliamentary showdown in Brussels.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 17/01/2026
Hungarians will head to the polls in April. Unusually, someone besides PM Viktor Orbán has a chance to win. 🔗 politi.co/4jK7wN9
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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 17/01/2026
💔 Russians strike Kharkiv, civilians injured
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Russians strike Kharkiv, civilians injured
Russia's forces hit Kharkiv in the afternoon of 17 January, injuring civilians.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 18/01/2026
OPINION: In a world of contested truths and ever greater power plays, democracy needs both witnesses and champions. The EU, I hope, will continue to be among them, writes the EU's former top diplomat Josep Borrell. 🔗 politi.co/49ivz1Y
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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paigetomkinson.bsky.social @paigetomkinson.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
He's seeding the idea of the government takeover of the media.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 18/01/2026
While a military confrontation between the U.S. and any European force would likely result in one of the shortest wars in history, there are other ways that Greenland’s allies can resist Donald Trump if he refuses to compromise on the island's future. 🔗 politi.co/49A8WF3
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 18/01/2026
🫂 Over US$275,000 raised in Poland for generators for Kyiv
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Over US$275,000 raised in Poland for generators for Kyiv
In Poland, volunteer initiatives have already raised over 1 million zlotys (about US$275,000) to provide generators for Kyiv, which faces a potential humanitarian crisis due to Russian attacks on its ...
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 18/01/2026
Documents seen by POLITICO show Serbia brought in Russia's FSB to conduct experiments on animals. 🔗 politi.co/45HOUr4
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Murder. And not just the one who pulled the trigger.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Absolutely definitive video analysis of Renee Good killing here. Look at the image framed in red. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...
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Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I think it’s basically time to retire the peace prize because it really is meaningless at this point. Another 100+ year-old tradition cheapened, wrecked, and discredited by the gauche garish gangster.
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Hal @adaptable.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 15/01/2026
After ICE agents shot people in Minneapolis tonight, a crowd faced them down and eventually chased them away, despite federal mercenaries and police shooting a tremendous amount of tear gas. ICE agents abandoned vehicles in the area, containing IDs, paperwork, license plates, and operational plans.
An abandoned ICE vehicle with graffiti on it.An abandoned ICE vehicle with graffiti on it.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15/01/2026
Near Lyndale and 24th Ave in Minneapolis tonight, feds have reportedly shot another person. Preliminary info is shaky for now, hearing two people injured. BORTAC just rolled up in an armored vehicle. A crowd is gathering outside the police tape—MPD presence as well.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/01/2026
Frey: "This is not sustainable. This is an impossible situation our city is being put in. We cannot be at a place in America where we have 2 governmental agencies literally fighting one another. We are put in this position b/c we have approximately 600 police officers & there are 3,000 ICE agents."
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🚨BREAKING: ICE unleashes ONSLAUGHT of flash bang grenades and chemical ammunition at unarmed Minneapolis protesters in WAR-LIKE attack. Several protesters struck. Our reporter @zdroberts.bsky.social struck in the head. "I got hit in the head really bad." LIVE NOW ⬇️
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
On the ground here in Minnesota, it’s hard to reconcile the immense bonds of community that have been built in a week with the fact that we live in a country whose government appropriated billions of dollars to an unaccountable paramilitary force whose sole purpose is ethnic cleansing.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️
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