Barry the pug
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Here for more pugs and fewer fascists. PNW
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āThis is the essence of the party; they are the Porn site Nazi guys. When Tim Walz just called them āweirdā he was being extremely kind, or, at least, Midwest nice.ā
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Philip Bump
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Thereās the winning message. They finally nailed it.
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Governor Tim Walz
about 3 hours ago
Law enforcement cannot be lawless. Thousands of aggressive, untrained agents of the federal government continue to injure and terrorize Minnesotans. This must end.
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ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital
Nurses in Minneapolis doubted federal immigration officers' claims about a Mexican immigrant's severe injuries.
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-minneapolis-hospitals-32cd5ca61d495e155d43b7cfd5e563b9#
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Jon Cooper
about 4 hours ago
The death of Alex Pretti has been ruled a homicide, the Hennepin County medical examinerās office said. Pretti was shot Jan. 24 during a chaotic encounter with federal immigration officers in Minneapolis. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez were named as the two officers who fired at Pretti.
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Alex Prettiās death ruled homicide after Minneapolis shooting by federal agents
The death of Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis man killed by federal agents, has been ruled a homicide, the Hennepin County medical examinerās office said.
https://www.aol.com/articles/alex-pretti-death-ruled-homicide-192052377.html
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
about 4 hours ago
Has the NRA seen this?
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Rep. Jim McGovern
about 2 hours ago
For the record: I will not send another cent to Kristi Noem or Stephen Miller while the department they run is shredding the Constitution and murdering American citizens in the streets. A two-week extension is two weeks too long. Iām voting no.
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Christopher Webb
about 4 hours ago
A community is devastated after ICE raids an LA church and arrests a congregant during a church event. āThis was a violation of our Sacred Right to Worship and Serve our Lord Jesus Christ Freely and Safely.āĀ ~ Church officials, in a press release
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Kyle Griffin
about 2 hours ago
BREAKING Star Tribune: Eight additional federal prosecutors are in the process of leaving the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation. The departures follow the mass exit of six veteran prosecutors who left the office last month.
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The latest: Eight more federal prosecutors set to leave the Minnesota U.S. Attorneyās Office
The recent wave of departures follows the mass exodus of six veteran prosecutors last month who quit in protest of recent directives from the U.S. Department of Justice.
https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426
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Timothy Snyder
about 1 hour ago
Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by āfree economic zonesā with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
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Mueller, She Wrote
about 3 hours ago
They're desparate to stop Senate Democrats from defunding ICE. Keep calling. Keep pushing.
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Radley Balko
about 3 hours ago
Sometimes you have to say it out loud to appreciate how dire t all is: The president just openly declared his plans to steal the midterm elections ā in an interview with the former number two person at the FBI.
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Tom Nichols
about 4 hours ago
This is sad, but good: Artists are refusing to normalize this idiocy, and instead of just commanding performances - which they can't do - the Trump people are closing it down and slinking away.
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Jason Concepcion
about 4 hours ago
crazy that basically every person complaining about "woke overreach" over the last 12 years is also in the epstein emails being like "thanks for the pussy, jeff ;)"
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Norm Charlatan
about 2 hours ago
Explain to me why Iām standing in front of my childrensā schools in subzero weather trying to make sure none of their classmates are kidnapped by armed, masked goons then.
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Tina Smith
about 4 hours ago
Predicting that this week weāll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since theyāre starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.
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Brendan Nyhan
about 4 hours ago
The last time he started talking like this, his allies minimized the risks and we ended up with January 6. This time we must take him literally and seriously. These comments are a five-alarm fire for democracy. In a functioning republic, he would be impeached and removed from office today.
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Marisa Kabas
about 4 hours ago
A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.
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Defendant contacted police before freeway shooting
Charles Glen Simmons, 53, of Dillard, is in the Douglas County Jail on $1 million bail after Thursday morningās alleged crime spree. According to a press release from the Oregon
https://www.nrtoday.com/news/crime/defendant-contacted-police-before-freeway-shooting/article_3d90dd88-32a3-4cb7-82fa-a6854790a753.html
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Ilhan Omar
about 2 hours ago
Abolish ICE. Thereās no reforming it. Thereās no compromise. Thereās only one way to rein in ICEās terror campaign. Abolish it.
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Rachel Maddow
about 5 hours ago
āWe are trying to show there are economic consequences to choosing the side of fascism,ā she said...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
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Protesters Press Target to Take a Stand Against ICE Crackdown in Minneapolis
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/target-protests-immigration-minneapolis.html
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Karen K. Ho
about 6 hours ago
Last year, I was constantly worried about my TN work visa being revoked. I could also be rejected by a CBP officer any time I re-entered the US, so my immigration lawyer advised no travel. After I was laid off, I had only 60 days to find a new job or I had to physically leave the US by December 31.
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David Corn
about 5 hours ago
This is important to pay attention to. Trump's saying the quiet part of the plan out loud. With the midterms increasingly looking like a bloodbath for the GOP, he's calling on the Republicans to take over the election. This is what an attempt to end democracy looks like. Read
@ariberman.bsky.social
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Trump goes public with plan to "take over" elections
After the FBI seized 700 boxes of ballots in Georgia, the president calls on Republicans to assert control over voting "in at least 15 places.ā
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/trump-goes-public-with-plan-to-take-over-elections-fulton-county-georgia/
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Asha Rangappa
about 5 hours ago
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George Pearkes
about 6 hours ago
Feels like this is the first rat off the sinking ship.
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Exclusive: Trumpās one-time weaponization chief is expected to depart Justice Department in coming weeks | CNN Politics
Ed Martin, who has been working inside the Trump Justice Department for over nine months after failing to secure a confirmation as US attorney in Washington, DC, is expected to leave the department in...
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/02/politics/ed-martin-to-leave-justice-department
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Mark Chadbourn
about 5 hours ago
CNN is reporting the real reason Trump is closing the Kennedy Centre for two years is not for renovation: āthe Kennedy Center does not have a 2026/2027 season. There would not have been any programming to announce."
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Rep. Jim McGovern
about 5 hours ago
By only releasing half of the files, Todd Blanche is still violating federal law. When Democrats are back in power, criminals who break the law will be held accountable.
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Barack Obama
about 11 hours ago
If Congress doesnāt act, the last nuclear arms control treaty between the U.S. and Russia will expire. It would pointlessly wipe out decades of diplomacy, and could spark another arms race that makes the world less safe. This piece is worth the read.
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Opinion | Let the Arms Race Begin
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/opinion/nuclear-treaty-deal-start.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JFA.PIZI.bn16SQN7Drbr&smid=url-share
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Kate Starbird
about 5 hours ago
Trump is working hard to set/reinforce a frame that connects immigration, financial fraud, & election fraud. He and the right wing propaganda machine will keep producing āevidenceā to fit this frame, then use it to justify attempts to suppress voters, kick voters off rolls, and delegitimize results.
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Max Berger
about 6 hours ago
ChatGPT is Trumpās biggest donor and is used by ICE. If you donāt like Trump or ICE, you should quit ChatGPT.
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QuitGPT ā OpenAI Execs are Trump's Biggest Donors
Join the movement. Delete ChatGPT. Cancel your subscription. It's time to quit.
http://quitgpt.org/
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Kyle Griffin
about 6 hours ago
Fulton County officials say they're filing a federal lawsuit challenging the FBI's seizure of 2020 election records in Georgia.
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Brad Lander
about 6 hours ago
House Democrats must vote ānoā on DHS funding tomorrow. Our country is in the middle of a five alarm fire, and we must act like it. While ICE agents are killing Americans in the street and using five year old children as bait, we should not give that agency another dime.
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MeidasTouch
about 6 hours ago
Epstein to Peter Thiel - August 2016: "donalds new york supporters concerned, . we can talk if you like. he cannot release his tax returns so what are his options?"
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Tim Onion
about 7 hours ago
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
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Bradley P. Moss
about 7 hours ago
Straight up admitting he wants to take over the voting process that has lasted 250 years because he is upset he lost in 2020.
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Julian Sanchez
about 12 hours ago
Since a lot of the coverage is omitting this detail: The Kennedy Center HAD a $250 million renovation and expansion just a few years ago, in 2019.
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Matt Gabriele
about 12 hours ago
For decades Republicans have pulled this bad faith who me bullshit We simply donāt have to accept this
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Mueller, She Wrote
1 day ago
A reminder that the New England Patriots plane is flown by Omni air who contracts with ICE to fly people in chains to Africa and Asia several times per week. Go Seahawks.
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Robert Reich
about 21 hours ago
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Pop Base
about 22 hours ago
Billie Eilish during her
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speech for Song of the Year: āAs grateful as I feel, I donāt need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. Itās really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting⦠fuck ICE.ā
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Jon Cooper
1 day ago
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie: āHow will we know if this bill has been successful? We will know when rich men are being perp walked in handcuffs to the jail. Until then, this is still a coverup.ā
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MeidasTouch
about 8 hours ago
šØ Pritzker: The monsters responsible for unleashing this havoc on American cities, whether they were firing at civilians in the streets or calling the shots from their cushy offices in Washington, need to be investigated and prosecuted.
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jamelle
about 11 hours ago
i truly hate how much we are living in a bad script
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Leah Litman
about 13 hours ago
Jodi Kantor in the NY Times reports that the Chief Justice requested Court employees sign nondisclosure agreements in November 2024 - moving to formal contracts requiring silence/confidentiality after Trump was reelected:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
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Liberal Currents
about 14 hours ago
āLet us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.ā
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From Powerlessness to Power
We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/from-powerlessness-to-power/
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Arieh Kovler
about 13 hours ago
If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.
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jamelle
about 12 hours ago
making tulsi gabbard DNI is itself a watergate level scandal
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Chris Geidner
1 day ago
Donald Trump and Ric Grenell want to do to the Kennedy Center what Donald Trump and Stephen Miller want to do to America: Crush everything about it that is pure and good and remake it in their distorted, hateful image.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
1 day ago
If true, this could explain a lot: Epsteinās mysterious money; the wire transactions to former Soviet states; Trumpās submissiveness around Putin.
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Epstein's sex empire was 'KGB honeytrap'
The release of more than three million new documents relating to the late sex offender gives credence to claims made by senior security officials: that Epstein was working on behalf of Moscow.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15516349/Epsteins-sex-empire-KGB-honeytrap-Paedophile-financier-Putin-Russian-girls.html
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Rachel Maddow
1 day ago
"The Fulton County raid is a test run for messing with election administrators and the counting of ballots in the midterm elections in 2026..."
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
about 21 hours ago
Just left an ICE Protest in Portland OR that started at City Hall and marched to the ICE building. Main demand was "revoke" the lease that lets the agency use their building. Crowd was 500-1000. They gassed massively after about an hour. Had to pull a lot of 16-17 year old girls out of the gas.
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Marisa Kabas
about 21 hours ago
the government is gassing our children.
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