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I forget what went here. Welcome to Bluesky. Don’t be a dick.
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Mike Baker
about 17 hours ago
A new statement from Epstein survivors: "Once again, survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous."
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Norm Charlatan
2 days ago
I will believe that ICE enforcement has changed on the ground when I stop getting daily notices that armed, masked goons are circling my kids’ schools and trying to sow fear in the parent patrols.
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Radley Balko
2 days ago
"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
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Radley Balko
2 days ago
Feds have been ramming people with their cars. No one has murdered them in response. If the suggestion here is that these officers killed Pretti because of this previous incident, that’s worse. Kicking a tail light is not a capital crime. And we don’t do delayed, extrajudicial executions here.
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Shane M. Bailey
2 days ago
Oh wonderful.
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Here’s How Many ICE and CBP Agents Allegedly Preyed on Children
Apparently the institutions are riddled with accused sex criminals.
https://newrepublic.com/post/205719/ice-cbp-agents-alleged-sex-crimes-children
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Nicholas Handler
3 days ago
Your regular reminder that civil service protections are generally popular because they result in better service delivery! Nothing is more wasteful than poorly run patronage systems!
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Vandy, C.A.
3 days ago
and they also commit crime at a lower rate than non-immigrants bc they fear law enforcement, while at the same time are targeted by criminals for the same reason: they don't report it for fear of deportation
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Ari B Friedman
4 days ago
From my grandmother's story: "One by one our good decent teachers disappeared and instead Nazi teachers replaced them."
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Adam Serwer
5 days ago
An absurd percentage of the immediate Reconstruction era black leadership class is just children of women raped by slaveowners
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Walter Olson
5 days ago
Pam Bondi's U.S. Department of Justice wasn't given the go-ahead it needed to arrest some demonstrators and journalists over the St. Paul church disruption. So it decided to turn the screws on the judges. New from me.
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Feds: find us that probable cause, and make it snappy
Judges not giving you the go-ahead to arrest someone? Turn the screws on them.
https://walterolson.substack.com/p/feds-find-us-that-probable-cause
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Dmitry Grozoubinski
6 days ago
It's not just that these professional politics observers somehow failed to spot the obvious rise of American nativist thuggery. It's how much energy they devoted to arguing the real problem was the volume, tone, and vocabulary of those raising the alarm about it.
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Steve Vladeck
6 days ago
This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link:
georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
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Chris DeLeon ⓥ DevPods.gg gamedev collabs
6 days ago
hey everybody lifelong tech expert here > "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
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Kyle Cheney
7 days ago
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Aaron Rupar
6 days ago
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
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Yes, this is hypocritical if you’re a normal person. But if you start with the premise that conservatives should be allowed to oppress and murdering liberals is fair game, then it follows naturally.
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Jack Jenkins
7 days ago
“Checking for a pulse and administering CPR is standard practice. Instead of doing either of those things, the ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds. I asked the ICE agents if the victim had a pulse, and they said they did not know.”
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Jeff Yang
7 days ago
Per his colleagues: The victim’s name was apparently Alex Pretti and he was an ICU nurse caring for severely injured veterans at the VA Hospital. He was acting as an observer, filming the raid. Any suggestion that he was there with violence on his mind is horrific gaslighting.
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geri katz
7 days ago
ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.
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Dara Lind
7 days ago
Many of us have been pointing out that the readiness with which these agents have drawn weapons, and gotten their fingers anywhere near the trigger, is WILDLY contrary to best practices and the sort of thing that inevitably leads to people getting shot.
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Ryan Goodman
8 days ago
FBI leadership coverup of Renee Good killing. A supervisor in FBI’s Minneapolis field office resigned "after bureau leadership in Washington pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into" ICE agent Jonathan Ross. "Such inquiries are a common investigative step in similar shootings."
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F.B.I. Agent Who Tried to Investigate ICE Officer in Shooting Resigns
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/us/fbi-agent-ice-shooting-renee-good.html
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Catherine Rampell
8 days ago
The most disturbing government abuses of data aren't necessarily the data they're *deleting* but the data they're *collecting.* The Trump administration is compiling lists of dissidents, immigrants, people with disabilities, Jews.
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-chil...
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David Simon
9 days ago
Everytime this pig opens his mouth, he drags our country lower into the gutter. Facts: Per capita, the Danish people lost more soldiers in Afghanistan than any coalition nation. Per capita, the U.K. suffered losses at about the same rate as the U.S. Trump stayed all the back. Bone spurs made it so.
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Walter Olson
8 days ago
DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin has now responded to the revelation that criminal and purported fugitive Lue Moua, in search of whom ICE smashed down Scott Thao's door, has actually been in a Minnesota prison since 2024. And what do you know, she's telling more untruths. /1
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Deadly Keystone Cops
DHS and ICE are incompetent—but that doesn’t make them any less dangerous.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/deadly-keystone-cops-ice-dhs-chunly-thao-minnesota-minneapolis-jack-smith-congress-testimony
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Tina Smith
9 days ago
This family did every single thing they’ve been asked to in order to seek asylum here. Yet in less than 24 hours, this kid and his Dad were nabbed off our streets and sent to Texas, using tactics that can only be described as pure evil.
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10 days ago
Vought, the publication explains, “began firming up DOGE’s legacy behind the scenes, using the power of his office to embed DOGE personnel in federal agencies as full time staff & institutionalize funding cuts through ILLEGAL use of the Impoundment Control Act.”
www.commondreams.org/news/departm...
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Democracy Watchdog Exposes 'Heartbreaking Catalog of DOGE's Depredations' | Common Dreams
"Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s attacks on the federal government will have long-standing effects on the American public," said the group's research director.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/department-of-government-efficiency
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Julie DiCaro
9 days ago
In case you missed it: One of the ICE observers was pulled out of her car by CBP, who used facial recognition on her. Three days later, she learned her TSA-Pre clearance had been revoked.
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ryan cooper
9 days ago
ICE is underwater with noncollege whites, god damn
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Brendan Nyhan
9 days ago
The director of the FBI: "I don't read." His staff (paraphrased): "he doesn’t like meetings in office settings. What he wants is social events."
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Nick Timiraos
9 days ago
In revealing his thinking on Wednesday about his Fed chair decision in his speech at Davos, Trump telegraphed his core anxiety: that candidates tell him what he wants to hear during interviews but then become their own guy once they have the job.
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David Noll
9 days ago
One of the things my extremely normie, conservative, David Brooks-reading parents have done in retirement is work at their church's food pantry a few days a week. This rogue federal force is coming for anyone who doesn't support their ethnic cleansing.
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Chad Lykins
9 days ago
Everyone: Judges have ruled several times that the President has broken the law. Do you support impeachment? House Leader: Yes... Everyone: Oh, okay... House Leader: ....of the judges.
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Radley Balko
10 days ago
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www.cato.org/blog/2025-wa...
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2025 Was the 2nd Safest Year for Border Patrol and ICE Agents
Being a Border Patrol or ICE agent earns many insults, but words aren’t violence. Neither are they dangerous jobs.
https://www.cato.org/blog/2025-was-2nd-safest-year-border-patrol-ice-agents
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LeCaffeinated
10 days ago
This is disgusting. I honestly cannot handle any more of this.
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Texas Tribune
10 days ago
A Cuban detainee’s death at an El Paso federal immigration detention center was ruled a homicide Wednesday, with the medical examiner finding he was suffocated while restrained, contradicting immigration officials’ claim that he died by suicide.
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El Paso medical examiner rules death in ICE camp a homicide
Immigration officials initially said the 55-year-old Cuban detainee died of “medical distress” but later changed the cause to suicide. The medical examiner ruled he was suffocated while being restrain...
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/21/texas-el-paso-immigrant-death-ice-custody-homicide/
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James Ball
10 days ago
I cannot tell you how absolutely infuriatingly this stuff comes across to Europeans. When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.
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Catherine Rampell
10 days ago
America 2026
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Trump is the ultimate American conservative
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Molly Jong-Fast
10 days ago
You cant buy a house because our president is really mad he didn’t get a Nobel peace prize and so he is threatening Greenland.
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Julian Sanchez
11 days ago
I grew up hearing stories from my father about how folks abducted by Franco’s secret police would routinely “escape” to the roof of police HQ and “commit suicide.” The obviousness of the lie was itself an intimidation tactic.
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Kathleen Bachynski
11 days ago
Please enjoy this local news: “Lehigh County Executive Josh Siegel said he is evicting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit from a county-owned building where it has occupied an office for about three years but never paid rent… “We’re going to deport ICE,” Pinsley said at the news conference”
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Lehigh County exec says he’s evicting ICE agents from Allentown office, citing 3 years of unpaid rent
Lehigh County Executive Josh Siegel’s announcement to evict the ICE agents came shortly after the county’s financial watchdog revealed the agency owes more than $115,000 in rent.
https://www.mcall.com/2026/01/20/lehigh-county-josh-siegel-evicting-ice-allentown-office/
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Laura G Mitchell
11 days ago
This is Minneapolis: I’m at a major healthcare clinic (just here for a friend) and overheard the front desk staff mention they’ve had 97 missed appointments today. People aren’t getting medical care bc they’re afraid to leave home.
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Gregg Gonsalves
10 days ago
The multi-year NIH funding of grants tagged to 2025 allows Russell Vought to reduce the number of grants funded this year because he insists that a 5 years of $$$ has to be committed. This is bad. We could see a cut in actual grants by 1/3 or more. Spread the word.
www.statnews.com/2026/01/16/n...
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Limit on multiyear funding of NIH grants is a sticking point in Senate budget talks
A clause limiting the use of multiyear NIH grant funding has become a sticking point as the Senate appropriations panel finalizes the HHS spending bill.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/16/nih-grants-multiyear-funding-sticking-point-hhs-budget/
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Dare Obasanjo
10 days ago
I stopped taking American voters seriously after the 2016 election season where polls showed the top fear of American voters was “corrupt government officials” so they then proceeded to elect Donald Trump in the next two out of three elections. And yes, I know that was code for Hillary Clinton.
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Karl Bode
10 days ago
what's wild is this will somehow get 10% of the news coverage of any one of Trump's baseless election theft claims
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Catherine Rampell
11 days ago
Last year a whistleblower said DOGE had illegally accessed a Social Security database. SSA now acknowledges it's true—& that DOGE employees had secret agreement w/ unidentified political advocacy group to use SocSec data to help overturn election results.
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Maybe with his heart?
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the corgi from cowboy bebop
11 days ago
it’s cool that your psychiatrist, therapist, and PCP can all be like, “you need to be in this intensive outpatient program for your mental health,” but some “doctor” who dropped out of residency, has never managed your care, and works at an insurance company can be like, “hmmmm I don’t think so”
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Cooper Lund
11 days ago
Paul's back and he nails it here
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Jay Shambaugh
11 days ago
As Carney notes, the U.S. has long had power through its economic choke points. We had primarily used this power to combat terrorism, nuclear proliferation, or violation of international rules. So others tolerated/supported this power. Trump is abusing it. The old order is gone at great cost to US.
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