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Lots of people are asking me why DOJ is leveraging the ICE deployment in Minnesota to obtain unreacted copies of the state's sensitive voter file data. I recently explained why this is the biggest legal story and may be the biggest political story of the year. Watch and share.

If you are tracking breaking news, read local sources: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Good explanatory mini thread

Minneapolis resisted and here’s a compilation in case any of you missed these.

❤️This is what Ukraine is fighting for. 📹 lara_shastina/Instagram

Judge William Young ends his order protecting noncitizen students targeted for deportation for their activism or speech with this quotation. It’s by Ronald Reagan, who appointed him to the bench four decades ago.

abcnews.go.com/amp/US/judge... "The Court finds it inconceivable that the Department of Justice, which holds a duty to faithfully execute the laws of the United States even those with which it may have disagreement would repeatedly ignore court orders,“

As of today, 90% of African legal immigration has been banned. Overall, half of all legal immigrants are banned. These people are pro-illegal immigration. They want immigration to be illegal. www.cato.org/blog/new-ban...

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Quite a quote from Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair, who was asked about his STOP THE GENOCIDE eye black after today’s game www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Have you seen this, Christopher? Proof they are planting agents in Mpls. www.threads.com/@amay.a100/p...

Macron wants to pull out the big guns.

The narrative of exceptional Ukrainian resilience is one of the most harmful tropes I’ve seen during this war. ​Yes, we refuse to give up. Yes, we have picnics in -15°C. Yes, we keep living, drinking coffee, and even laughing occasionally, but all of this stems from a lack of choice.

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.

An interesting case of "high on their own supply"— Trumpists apparently *believe* that weaponizing the DOJ easily gets you indictments and convictions, because they're committed to not believing that the investigations under Biden and Garland were valid and backed by lots of evidence.

www.sciencealert.com/scientists-f... Slime mold to the rescue !

gothamist.com/news/nyc-lan... “The potential conditions on the sale could mark a partial victory for Mamdani, who vowed on his first day in office to improve life for renters in the buildings.

🙃 This FB post is public.

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www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-202-... “…it’s the first time ever that the federal government has executed a search warrant at a reporter’s home for evidence in a leak investigation.”

📺 OMG—who made this?! Noah Wyle has a message for all you—vaccine skeptics… Share with a friend who needs to hear it.

This photo by Mostafa Bassim shows an ICE agent scanning someone's face with a mobile app, quite possibly Mobile Fortify as first reported by @404media.co. This is the first image I've seen of the app's UI in action. If you look closely, you can also see an interesting wristband on the agent.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a nasally delivered, antibiotic-inactivated Bordetella pertussis (AIBP) vaccine that NOT ONLY prevents SEVERE disease BUT also CURBS bacterial TRANSMISSION. This NEEDLE-FREE AIBP platform could open the door to new vaccines against other respiratory bacteria.

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COMMENTARY: If Governor Polis gives clemency to Tina Peters, it may end up being his legacy. And it could depend on whether appeasing President Trump works.

windycitygreekarchive.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/a... In Miracle at Zakynthos, Deno Seder tells the story of the only Greek Jewish community saved in its entirety from annihilation by of the Nazis.

A Trump quote without his voice or face - It's Trump without Trump. This is from his meeting with oil and gas executives in the White House on January 9th, 2026. He showed them the beginning of his great big ballroom - Ballroom dreaming.

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NEW CANARY ALBUM These recordings are from the July 1-5, 1970 gathering of Native performers in the unique, closed, independent Red Lake Nation where none of the 1,260 square miles of land is owned by any individual of whom there are now over 5,500 residents.

Starting a new thread for West Virginia v. BPJ because BlueSky is starting to time me out of the other one. West Virginia bans trans athletes as well but this time it's been challenged by a minor. Michael Williams, Solicitor General for West Virginia, is arguing on behalf of bigotry.

For today's horribles: the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on banning trans athletes. It's the most bigoted thing they'll do this term. I'll be jotting down my thoughts here.

The article appears to be partly paywalled and I would encourage anyone who can afford it to subscribe, Slate's got a hell of a sale going right now and subscriptions are how they can afford to pay freelancers for articles like this one For my fellow brokies, though:

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Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell. Wow.

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The New York Times wrote in November about the Trump regime buying stakes in private businesses – an "unusual practice [that] shows no sign of slowing." Here's a gift link. 2/2🧵

This is the vibe I'm looking for

JUST IN: Fed judge in Seattle strikes down several provisions in Trump executive order on election integrity. Judge John Chun (Biden) says the Constitution assigns the president no role in election administration. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

SDNY Judge Arun Subramanian GRANTS emergency motion for a temporary restraining order halting the Trump administration from freezing $10 billion in federal childcare and welfare funding.

Yet another American institution Trump is defacing and undermining.

President Obama deported more undocumented immigrants than Trump without killing or terrorizing people. The Trump policies aren’t about immigration, they’re about training Americans to submit to or join their terrorism. Just like ISIS.