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Unprofessional data wrangler and Bluesky’s official fact checker. Older and crankier than you are.
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Catherine Rampell
about 17 hours ago
Top Senate negotiators say an effort to renew expired healthcare subsidies has effectively collapsed
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Negotiators Say Talks to Restore ACA Subsidies Likely Dead
New, higher health-insurance bills are kicking in for many households.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/negotiators-say-talks-to-restore-aca-subsidies-likely-dead-a9c710b4?st=u4EGJd
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Chris Hayes
about 22 hours ago
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
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Aaron Rupar
2 days ago
Casar holds a 3 minute and 26 second moment of silence to represent the time in which DHS officers let Renee Good bleed out after she was shot
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The Tennessee Holler
2 days ago
ICE agent: “I fired 5 shots. She had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys.” 😳
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Life is so hard for these guys. Shed a tear for the plutocrats. 😢
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Aaron Rupar
2 days ago
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
2 days ago
Horrifying and unnerving. DHS sent an administrative subpoena to Google for this retiree's records and even sent armed agents out to his house for the "offense" of writing the following completely anodyne email to a federal prosecutor using an email address he found via Google.
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Mike Masnick
2 days ago
According to Harmeet Dhillon and Pam Bondi, disturbing a church service is a felony that deserves immediate arrest for. Think they'll go after these ICE agents?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
3 days ago
Judge Reyes begins by explaining who the plaintiffs are: not "killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies" as Kristi Noem suggested. They are a neuroscientist, a software engineer, a laboratory assistant, a registered nurse, and an economics major. All were facing deportation.
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Catherine Rampell
3 days ago
Quite the closing words from the judge too:
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These are concentration camps, not "detention facilities."
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
4 days ago
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Interesting.
www.propublica.org/article/alex...
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
https://www.propublica.org/article/alex-pretti-shooting-cbp-agents-identified-jesus-ochoa-raymundo-gutierrez
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Rachel Maddow
4 days ago
"She sustained a torn rotator cuff, concussion and bruised ribs during the incident and received medical treatment at a hospital..."
www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...
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Joaquin Castro
4 days ago
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
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Tim Dickinson
5 days ago
Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
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Laleh Khalili
5 days ago
The director of Melania movie
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The Tennessee Holler
5 days ago
MINNESOTA: Mexican immigrant hospitalized with a shattered skull and broken face — Trump’s ICE goons claim he “purposefully ran into a brick wall” NURSE: “NO WAY”
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Dr. Jen Gunter
5 days ago
Oh look, according to Peter Attia MD “pussy is low carb” something that is totally normal for a doctor to say to Epstein, who had previously been convicted of procuring a child for prostitution
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Menendez is the David Brooks of judges.
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Justin Hendrix
5 days ago
"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident."
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St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident
The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to be the first time local police...
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/30/st-peter-police-chief-intervenes-prevents-federal-agents-from-arresting-resident
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Max Kozlov
6 days ago
I'm at the Willard Hotel where I've been denied entry and kicked out of the Reclaiming Science event with NIH director Bhattacharya & other top agency leaders.
@jocelynkaiser.bsky.social
and I registered for the event months ago yet were told capacity was full, even as they let in dozens of others.
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Norm(ie) DePlume
8 days ago
Hannah Arendt did not mince words, did she? 'Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.' From "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951)
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Philip Ball
6 days ago
I had intended to post something about this new Google DeepMind paper that appeared yesterday in Nature, but the press coverage has added to what there is to say. So this is a long 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with AlphaGenome - Nature
AlphaGenome, a deep learning model that inputs 1-Mb DNA sequence to predict functional genomic tracks at single-base resolution across diverse modalities, outperforms existing models in variant effect...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10014-0
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Tim Dickinson
6 days ago
Elon Musk, Jeffrey Epstein and Woody Allen on a Carribean island at Christmastime?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
6 days ago
BIG news from
@bloomberg.com
, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/us-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-warehouses-for-ice-detention-centers?srnd=undefined&sref=ekORE1fh
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Phil Lewis
6 days ago
Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow
6 days ago
😬😡 ICE’s surveillance app is a techno-authoritarian nightmare | Moustafa Bayoumi
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ICE’s surveillance app is a techno-authoritarian nightmare | Moustafa Bayoumi
Mobile Fortify lets agents obtain vast amounts of information on anyone by scanning their face
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/30/ice-surveillance-app-mobile-fortify-authoritarian?CMP=share_btn_url
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Federal science pillage by the Trump administration.
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OpenAI’s Prism is about as unintuitive as you can get. Even ChatGPT thinks so.
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Dave Weigel
9 days ago
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
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Gambled And Lost Hat
9 days ago
It’s a good day for a clot
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Mark Joseph Stern
10 days ago
The testing ground for Bovino’s Operation At Large was Los Angeles. A California judge initially prohibited ICE/CBP’s most flagrant constitutional violations. SCOTUS overruled her 6–3, handing Bovino a blank check to inflict unspeakable brutality on Chicago and Minneapolis. The 6 bear so much blame.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹
10 days ago
Deeply disturbing, and of course unlawful on the part of the federal agents. A specific curiousity: how are they reacting when people simply refuse to talk to them? People often acknowledge following/filming, telling officers (correctly) it's legal, but what if you won't answer?
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Charles Ornstein
10 days ago
The
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, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”
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Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence
The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer....
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-artificial-intelligence-google-gemini-transportation-regulations
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11 days ago
Gift link
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Aaron Rupar
11 days ago
BASH: Are they agents who were involved still on the job? BOVINO: Yes
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Rev. AJ van Tine
11 days ago
I keep thinking about this quote from Amos Lawrence about the 1854 Boston Slave Riot - “We went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
11 days ago
Things are so bad that the Minnesota prison system has had to launch a website specifically to combat DHS lies. The first major release from DOC officials suggests Gregory Bovino outright lied about the target of the Border Patrol operation during which agents shot and killed Alex Pretti.
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Carl Zimmer
11 days ago
Newsmax fabricated a quote from me about my father Richard Zimmer today. They never contacted me. It's not just outrageous but funny. He was talented in many ways, but most definitely not at golf or cooking or craftsmanship.
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11 days ago
A legend of public health has died. Dr. William Foege co-led the successful global effort to eradicate smallpox, and later was director of the CDC. I quite recommend his book, "House on Fire." It is a remarkable account of smallpox eradication, one of the greatest public health achievements ever.
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The Tennessee Holler
12 days ago
“It’s like call of duty! So cool huh?” Trump’s goons treat shooting at and tear gassing protestors like a video game, caught on national TV on a hot mic One even clapped after Alex Pretti was killed abolish ICE
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Kai Kupferschmidt
12 days ago
“Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man.”
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Asha Rangappa
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Adam Kinzinger
12 days ago
This is ok tho
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS
12 days ago
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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Marisa Kabas
13 days ago
there are so many gutting stories, but this one is hitting me extra hard. just imagining wael tarabishi slowly dying without his dad there to care for him because he was jailed by ICE makes me…i don’t have words. this country is disgusting.
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Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization
It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral.
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/tarrant-county/disabled-son-ice-detainee-dies-30-days-hospitalization/287-0b945cda-2cd7-4abd-8eb9-d81117e47061
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