Mark Z
@onlymarkzilbert.bsky.social
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Realtor by trade Wine enthusiast 🍷 USA / Latvian / Canadian Usually reading something interesting
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Just joined Bluesky after leaving X. The constant toxicity, outrage bait, and bad-faith engagement finally wore me down. Hoping for healthier conversations here.
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Rachel Maddow
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"CBS is assenting to its own diminishment." "The biggest loss is to core America values, including the right to speak freely, even in brutally mocking terms, about those in power..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/o...
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Opinion | CBS Cancels Itself, Not Just Colbert
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/opinion/stephen-colbert-late-show-cbs.html
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Do not let temporary emotions make permanent decisions, because how you feel today is not always a reflection of what your future can become.
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Skye
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jesus christ, fuck playstation
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Nana Pat
3 months ago
Let's not forget the Republicans have been tearing down the supports for democracy since the Regan era. They are the reason civics class is no longer required for graduation in high school. Book banning, starving public schools, it's all part of the plan. Ignorant people are easier to rule.
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Sacha Judd
3 months ago
when AO3 is back it would be a great time to donate to AO3! you miss it so much when it's down, support it 💖
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Marc Elias
3 months ago
DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled: Voters as “Votors” Emergency as "Emeregency" United States as "United Staes" And, it included a non-party in the caption. These are the people who want access to your sensitive voting records and who my team fights in court every day.
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The world of Sotheby's International Realty is a vast one, and let's see how many I can come across in my travels!
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Tim Dickinson
4 months 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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Stephen Rodrick
4 months ago
I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.
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Aaron Rupar
4 months ago
Murphy on Fox News Sunday: "I mean -- c'mon. We're still pretending that ICE is going after dangerous people? They aren't. What is happening in Minnesota right now is a dystopia. ICE is teargassing elementary schools, it is disappearing legal residents into cars, it is murdering American citizens."
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Christopher Webb
4 months ago
Liam made people look. Now don’t look away. We still have children in ICE custody eating bad food, drinking questionable water, living in filthy conditions, and carrying a lifetime of trauma they shouldn’t have to survive.
#FreeTheChildren
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Ashley Zacharias
4 months ago
Trump sold the oil from a seized Venezuelan tanker for $500,000,000.. Where is the money? He deposited it in a bank in Qatar where Congress can't get to it. He stole the oil from Venezuela, but he stole the money from America. Why has Congress not impeached and imprisoned him for his crimes?
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Chris Murphy
4 months ago
I flew down to south Texas today to do my job - investigate why people are dying in ICE detention centers. I was just illegally denied entry to Dilley Detention Center. Because they have something to hide.
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Elizabeth Warren
4 months ago
I’m a NO — not one more penny for ICE without stopping this violence. Two American citizens were killed by federal agents. No more roving patrols. No more secret masked police. No more warrantless raids. Investigate and prosecute ICE crimes. Get ICE out of Minnesota.
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Christopher Webb
4 months ago
It hasn’t gone unnoticed that all four people arrested today, including two journalists, were Black. And now we find out the charge is “conspiracy to violate civil rights,” a statute rooted in the Ku Klux Klan Act. Sit with that.
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Mark Lemley
4 months ago
Maybe they'll find the Epstein files in the Fulton County Board of Elections office . . .
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Spotted in my garage, my amazing new Tesla Model Y. And the last look before the experts at @fidetailingusa wrap her in a brand new style of PPF from CeramicPro. Wait for the results.
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The Tennessee Holler
4 months ago
Just kinda seems like refusing to tell us which ICE agents murdered Alex Pretti undercuts the idea that they’re wearing masks to protect themselves — rather than to be able to kill people with impunity.
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Robert Reich
4 months ago
Amazon Web Services hosts massive surveillance systems for both ICE and DHS. Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies. AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS. Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty.
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Aaron Rupar
4 months ago
Walz: "We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is gonna write that children's story about Minnesota."
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)
4 months ago
As the Supreme Court continues to delay issuing a ruling on tariffs, the Constitution remains as clear as ever. Article 1, Section 8, lists the "enumerated powers" reserved exclusively to Congress, including the power to levy duties (tariffs). Only Congress, not the President, can set tariffs.
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Ron Filipkowski
4 months ago
Alex Pretti wasn’t a part of “engineered chaos.” He was a nurse who cared about people. An individual. What is “engineered chaos” is what this admin is doing in blue cities to justify invocation of the insurrection act.
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Alan in Austin
4 months ago
Not all ice is bad
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Aaron Rupar
4 months ago
Klobuchar: "Somehow 50,000 peaceful protesters in 10 below weather were able to march without any problems, and then the next day half a dozen ICE and CBP agents couldn't handle a guy with a cell phone taking video of them and shot him. I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here."
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Governor JB Pritzker
4 months ago
Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution. If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.
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The Tennessee Holler
4 months ago
Bovino: “ICE are the victims”
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Ron Filipkowski
4 months ago
Naming someone is not doxxing. They aren’t undercover. They aren’t intelligence agents overseas. This is outrageous - we are supposed to be a free Republic and these people want an authoritarian police state. Lawsuits should be filed & ranking Dems in Congress should act.
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Bill Kristol
4 months ago
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
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Aaron Rupar
4 months ago
Needless to say that Renee Good and Alex Pretti will go down as heroes here in Minnesota and nationally, their names synonymous with sacrifice and caring for vulnerable neighbors even at the risk of your own life. And hopefully no more innocent lives are lost.
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The New York Times
4 months ago
Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by Border Patrol agents on Saturday, was a registered nurse who worked in the ICU at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis. “He wanted to be helpful, to help humanity and have a career that was a force of good in the world,” a colleague said.
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Forbes
4 months ago
Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, was shot and killed by ICE agents on Saturday.
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Athletes And Celebrities Condemn Alex Pretti Shooting In Minneapolis
Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, was shot and killed by ICE agents on Saturday.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2026/01/25/athletes-and-celebrities-condemn-alex-pretti-shooting-in-minneapolis/?utm_campaign=forbes&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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4 months ago
So. To date, I have seen ONE Dem Rep in Congress call for ICE to be abolished. Ilhan Omar. Not defunded. Not trained and restrained. ABOLISHED. Are there any others? If so, post them and let's get a count on the number of Dems in Congress.
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Kat Abughazaleh
4 months ago
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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Just shot from my window
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Marc Elias
4 months ago
“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.” -- Martin Luther King Jr.
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Makes you think about accountability at home as well as abroad.
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Marlene
4 months ago
For Trump to say theres a need to change leadership in other countries I'd say it's time to say the same for the United States.
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Robert Reich
4 months ago
"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence
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Nina Turner
4 months ago
If ICE is stopping and detaining people based on their skin color and/or accent, what they are doing is essentially an ethnic cleansing campaign.
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4 months ago
I'm hoping the EU goes "the full Carney" on the USA. Enough of this bullsh*t.
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Teeje
4 months ago
Ain't even mad about that loss. Hell of a game, incredible season. That CW touchdown pass to take it to overtime was an all-timer. This team has something truly special brewing. 🐻⬇️
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Dr. DaShanne Stokes
4 months ago
A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑
4 months ago
A protester is currently lying in a hospital bed with a piece of shrapnel in his neck 7mm from his carotid artery. While he lay bleeding on the pavement, blinded in his left eye, gasping for air, agents did not call a medic. They dragged him and sneered: "You're going to lose your eye."
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)
4 months ago
When ICE fires multiple chemical rounds directly at the head of a praying, priest, DOJ concludes it is completely justified. When protestors make noise during a sermon by a right-wing ICE pastor, DOJ announces a major investigation. It's not about immigration; it's about control.
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DOJ vows to press charges after activists disrupt church where Minnesota ICE official is a pastor | CNN
The U.S. Department of Justice said Sunday it is investigating a group of protesters in Minnesota who disrupted services at a church where a local official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcemen...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/18/us/st-paul-church-ice-protesters-disrupt-service-hnk
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Ranger Matt
4 months ago
Four attorneys told ABC News they have been denied access to their clients at the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, where they are being held, which they say would violate 5th & 6th Amendment rights to due process & the right to consult with counsel.
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Lawyers allege Dept. of Homeland Security is denying legal counsel to Minnesota detainees
Four attorneys told ABC News they have been denied access to their clients at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, where they are being held.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-allege-dept-homeland-security-denying-legal-counsel/story?id=129335914
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Jon Webb
4 months ago
I've heard rumors that Philadelphia is next for the ICE invasion after Minneapolis. Maybe I'm wrong, but 1) More than 11% of all ICE agents are in Minneapolis, and they've utterly failed to pacify the city. 2) Philly is 5x the size of Minneapolis. 3) "Minnesota nice" is a thing. We don't have that.
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Rep. LaMonica McIver
4 months ago
Protecting people is my job. No one—not this administration, not ICE—will keep me from doing it. I sat down with
@newyorker.com
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Norm Charlatan
4 months ago
Honestly boycotting the World Cup would be the most effective and probably the least disruptive of all of the options available to Europe. I’m not sure how you can send teams and fans to contribute to a spectacle designed entirely to celebrate a guy trying to invade your territory.
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