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.

To help you keep track today in Minneapolis: -ICE tear-gassed children, adults and abducted a legal observer from a park. -Tear-gassed people at an Alex Pretti memorial. -Are drive-by pepper spraying folks. Including myself. I was wearing a stole. These are intentional acts of terror.

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So we know there are images of death, physical abuse, and injury in the #EpsteinFiles. Got it.

In a bizarre coincidence, Barr also as AG oversaw the federal Bureau of Prisons, where Epstein, um, died

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

Remember, the full Epstein Files are well over 6 million pages long. What you have seen so far is the *least offensive* 3 million pages. Trump and his lawyers are hiding the other 3 million pages—and have made clear that they will never ever release them, federal law be damned.

From the court's order granting habeas corpus for the 5 year old & his father: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us,the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned."

The nazis redistributed the stolen property of deported Jews to the German population. It was called Aryanization. This is no different. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryaniz...

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.

Will the new tenants be able to keep the art & stolen property left in the deportees' "affordable housing" they now live in, or will the state confiscate it? One day we'll get movies about the lawsuits of the grandchildren of these "illegal aliens" trying to recover their families' belongings.

Why, yet thy scandal were not wip’d away

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A line from Sophie Gilbert's review of the new Melania movie. "Melania shows off her custom-made inauguration gown, stark white with black ribbons overlaying it, a dress that now looks unavoidably like the redacted Epstein files." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Louis Brandeis got here first and best, in 1927: “If there be a time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence”.

Trump’s America 2026. Masked armed men in body armor arresting journalists in the night. We’re truly going back to the 1930s. My almost 90 y/o mom was right when she moved back to Austria this year: “I grew up under fascism, I don’t need to die under it” 😳

This Epstein drop is HUGE and utterly disgusting. I don’t see how this man is allowed to remain in office. Where are the evangelical leaders, the soccer moms, the folks stocking up on eggs, the farmers, the small business owners. Decide. Who are you?

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DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:

Throughout the new documentary “Melania,” the camera seems desperate to find action. Sophie Gilbert on what the film actually reveals:

Exeunt, leading Katherine.

LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT: Trump takes over the Kennedy Center, illegally slaps his name on it, and uses the venue to premiere a film about his wife—a film, directed by an accused rapist, that is a gift from the founder of Amazon, who wants to avoid regulation and is firing a fuckton of reporters.

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Boot-licker Ballroom BASH.

🚨"They're stealing the car!" As Tom Homan vows "safer" ICE operations, ICE rammed into a driver's car in Minneapolis—in front of an elementary school—then chased him. After failing to catch him—they stole his car. "Back up before I f*cking spray you!" ICE yelled at observers ⬇️

boss’d with pearl

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my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt

More than a little late, but a great development that will hopefully find echoes in other local PDs

Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...

Wait, they're replacing a Greg with a Tom

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Even as the Trump administration murders Minnesotans in the streets they can't help but attack our state on other fronts. This press release is from today!

this is so fucking beautiful, I'm crying again

If you are still arguing that the huge, loud, nonviolent protest movement against the Trump Regime is not making a difference, you are not paying attention. Call your senators at 202 224 3121 and tell them VOTE NO ON DHS FUNDING BILL. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

Apple CEO TIm Cook went to the White House the evening after Alex Pretti was murdered and took selfies with Trump and the serial sexual abuser who directed the Melania film. No spine. No soul. And your fucking iOS updates are ass.

Can't make this shit up.

Guy next to me at the airport is reading this week’s New Yorker with a ripped-from-the-headlines cover of Trump guzzling Venezuelan oil… and it’s crazy how distant that now seems with all the new horrors.

Holy shit. Like Tiananmen Square levels of bravery.

My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti Absolutely heartbreaking

You are currently making roughly 8000 calls per hour via 5 Calls 💪📞😎

People. Magazine.

I beg for justice - Romeo and Juliet (III, 1)