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I’m a tall drink of water, but the glass is half empty.
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Brooke
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And never forget. These are asylum seekers. This is what the USA is doing to the most vulnerable people on the planet who we promised to protect.
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The Super Bowl always has an altcast, it just involves watching or doing anything else with your day.
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The Pitt is short for Pittsburgh, was ER short for Chicager?
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Will Stancil
1 day ago
By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet
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Peter Labuza
2 days ago
MLB TV will remain $150 a season but look at this BS they’re trying to pull. You cannot “buy” MLB TV without buying ESPN Unlimited, but they give you a one month free trial, and then the hope is you forget to cancel since you don’t need ESPN to have MLB TV, only to initially purchase.
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Aaron Rupar
2 days ago
ICE is still doing checkpoints in Minneapolis like we are an occupied territory. Life remains really hard here thanks to Trump's thugs.
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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D.
3 days ago
I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
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Kelly
3 days ago
The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!
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Acyn
3 days ago
AOC: We are going to have to reckon, as a country, with this time. And I hope that that reckoning includes prosecution of people who are involved with the lawbreaking and human rights violations they are knowingly engaging in right now.
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Rebel with a Cause
4 days ago
Gestapos opened fire, striking Martinez 5 times in the arm, chest & both legs 1 gestapo had body cam ... Martinez has said in court that it shows an officer shouting "do something b--" The gestapo who shot her, in a group text: "I fired 5 rounds & she had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys."
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'My own government attempted to execute me,' Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol testifies
Marimar Martinez said she believes that she survived her encounter with Border Patrol agents so she could share her story.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/own-government-attempted-execute-chicago-043218412.html
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Hopeful in AZ
4 days ago
Let me get this straight. America... ...is arresting journalists ...is kidnapping citizens with no charges ...is running concentration camps ...is killing protestors ...is threatening allies ...is invading neighbours ... Are we waiting for photos of gas chambers?
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ProPublica
5 days ago
"In my few days in Minnesota, I’ve been witness to countless scenes that remind me of moments I’ve seen during previous trips covering conflicts around the world," photojournalist
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https://propub.li/4acxEeY
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Arizona Right Watch
4 days ago
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
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mattie lubchansky
4 days ago
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
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Jon Collins
4 days ago
“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.”
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Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/04/pursued-by-federal-agents-suburban-ice-observers-remain-resolved
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OKSOTHICK.
4 days ago
You don’t have to be white to uphold white supremacy.
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If you’ve only been pissed off for a couple months, don’t worry it’s easy to catch up.
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ProPublica
4 days ago
NEW: The DHS arrest records make no mention of the Tren de Aragua gang even though officials repeatedly cited its presence in the building as motivation for the raid, in which agents descended from a Blackhawk helicopter and zip-tied U.S. citizens.
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The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building
The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-raid-landlord-tren-de-aragua?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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It’s remarkable how diverse the GOP’s white nationalist coalition is.
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Who are these people who are so eager to stand behind a guy who couldn’t care less about them, as they proudly hold his merch in the camera frame like the most disciplined of Barker’s beauties?
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Radley Balko
5 days ago
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
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DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
https://newrepublic.com/post/206088/homeland-security-67-year-old-us-citizen-criticized-email
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Jon Seidel
5 days ago
Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths 'I am their voice' NEW w/
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chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Marimar Martinez, shot by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Good, Pretti deaths: 'I am their voice'
In a wide-ranging interview with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Martinez discusses her shooting, the federal government’s failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fi...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/02/03/marimar-martinez-shot-border-patrol-chicago-speaks-out-after-good-pretti-deaths-i-am-their-voice
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Julia Carrie Wong
6 days ago
DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.
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The Road Less Traveled is littered with tread upon snakes.
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Imani Gandy
7 days ago
Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen
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taylr
9 days ago
feds have arrested jamael lundy alongside journalists georgia fort and don lemon for the protest at a st. paul church led by an ICE agent lundy is currently running for state senate district 65 in minnesota. his wife is anika bowie, a st. paul city councilmember
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Jonathan W. Gray
9 days ago
These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée
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jenna ruddock
9 days ago
Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.
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mtsw
9 days ago
You could imagine similar situations in which members of the media coordinated in solidarity around Lemon to direct sustained negative attention to Trump over this story. Instead the political press spent the earlier part of the week making up a fake story ("new tone") to help Trump.
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In The Ancient Libraries of Popehat
10 days ago
I think Minnesota could do a lot worse for a tourism slogan than "Minnesota: we treat Nazis like Nazis"
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Matt Novak
11 days ago
Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera. Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
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Ed Markey
11 days ago
Right now, Democrats have the power to defund and abolish ICE. We should do it. This is about right and wrong—and the murder we are seeing on the streets is just plain wrong. Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans. We can stop this.
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Ricci
11 days ago
It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have
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Jane Roe Has Hope - Pro-choice Adoptee
12 days ago
The agents who beat and then killed Alex Pretti after they took his gun - they were wearing body cams. That did not stop them. Unmasking them might. Not every time. But it might stop some of them.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Alex Pretti's killing was recorded on body-camera videos, DHS says
Investigators are reviewing videos of the shooting from multiple angles, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told NBC News.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dhs-says-body-worn-camera-video-fatal-shooting-alex-pretti-rcna255978
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ashley fairbanks
11 days ago
please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota. people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.
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Norm Charlatan
11 days ago
Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.
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hannah gais
11 days ago
I don't know, Heritage Foundation-tied publication, maybe white liberal women are mad because a federal immigration official shot and killed one of them. And then called her a "bitch"? You know, on camera?
www.dailysignal.com/2026/01/27/w...
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The Unhinged Rage of White Liberal Women, Explained
Why are white liberal women lashing out against ICE? Is there an underlying rage that we fellas have missed?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/01/27/white-liberal-women-on-the-warpath-guys-we-missed-the-warning-signs
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Sahil Kapur
12 days ago
Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller
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Greg Pak
12 days ago
Okay. I have LOTS of criticisms of Gallego. But this? This is very good. Stephen Miller is one of the most viciously evil and destructive public figures I've ever seen in American politics. Getting him out would be tremendous. Also, still: defund and abolish ICE in its entirety.
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Bruce Little
12 days ago
US District Court Judge Patrick Schiltz ordered acting ICE director Todd Lyons to appear in court Friday & warned he could be held in contempt for repeatedly failing to comply with court orders. ICE has repeatedly ignored or delayed bond hearings & release orders for detained immigrants.
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US judge threatens ICE chief with contempt, orders court appearance
The chief judge of Minnesota's federal court ordered the acting chief of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to appear in court on Friday to personally explain why that agency has not complied wi...
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-threatens-ice-chief-with-contempt-orders-court-appearance-2026-01-27/
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ProPublica
12 days ago
ProPublica has identified at least 15 major disasters since 2016 in which officials in the most-harmed communities failed to use a federal system to send emergency alerts to residents — or waited until it was too late. (Published Aug. 2025)
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Local Officials Have a Powerful Tool to Warn Residents of Emergencies. They Don’t Always Use It.
ProPublica has identified at least 15 major disasters since 2016 in which officials in the most-harmed communities failed to use a federal system to send emergency alerts to residents — or waited unti...
https://www.propublica.org/article/ipaws-emergency-alerts-local-official-failures?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1769551208&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Oh no, are we cruisin’ for a bruisin’ as well?
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MinnMax
12 days ago
"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city.
youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
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Jon Bois
12 days ago
americans hate it when they're shown on tv doing something cool
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Matt McDermott
12 days ago
Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
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Chris, we don’t see you fighting, we see you capitulating.
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Jonathan M. Katz
12 days ago
I’m sorry, the
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’s own video team shows incontrovertibly that the federal agents beat, tortured, and massacred a civilian who posed no threat to them on the street and all we get is a mealy mouthed passive voice headline about “flawed and fatal decisions?”
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Kevin M. Kruse
12 days ago
Chuck Schumer's starting position should be as maximalist as possible -- complete abolition of ICE, resignations of Bovino, Homan, Noem and Miller, unmasking of all agents, and prosecution by state authorities of the murderers. Don't start with what looks like a compromise half-measure.
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