Katie Sweeney
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Word slinger. Aspiring eccentric. Libraries. Bikes > cars.
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If youāre looking for a place to put your journalism money, I would like to continue beating the drum of our imperfect but great
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"If citizens canāt agree on whatās real, they canāt govern themselves. And a country that canāt govern itself is weakened, regardless of how powerful it looks on paper."
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Activate the ghost of Katharine Graham.
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1 day ago
One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office. Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.
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Sidney Coles PhD, PhD
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Absolutely NOBODY from the Epstein Files is currently being pulled over and getting their window smashed by masked agents yelling to see their passports or challenging their right to be free citizens as if they arenāt everything Noem and Miller accuse migrants of being.
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Almost daily I think about when John Fetterman said we're not in a constitutional crisis (it was almost a year ago). When, John?
www.pennlive.com/nation-world...
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Sen. Fetterman to worriers: āThere isnāt a constitutional crisisā
Sen. John Fetterman told HuffPost that his fellow Democrats in Congress and others should have faith in the democratic system and ease off the hyperbolic rhetoric about President Donald Trump and Elon...
https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2025/02/sen-fetterman-to-worriers-there-isnt-a-constitutional-crisis.html
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"A militarized federal police force that acts out of loyalty on the whim of a political leader who relishes retribution and adulation is the tip of an iceberg. You donāt build a nuclear bomb for peace any more than you build a national surveillance apparatus just to manage a border wall."
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Matt Novak
1 day ago
Agent: These guys were all threatening us yesterday with hand guns. ... Agent: *Hand* guns, like threatening to shoot us. Reporter: You mean like with hand symbols? A: Pulling them out, trying to engage us. R: Pulling out literal guns? A: No. Making... assuming we were going to do something.
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Grok hasn't caused listeria or e coli so I guess no one knows what to do. Shut. this. down.
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Greg Sargent
3 days ago
Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE. Let's spare a word for
@vanhollen.senate.gov
, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.
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Accountability, what a concept.
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mtsw
4 days ago
I wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis. If not, why not?
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lighthouse prince
4 days ago
amazing update on this: brandywine art museum down in chadds ford, october 2027-january 2028.
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Dave Byrnes
5 days ago
It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
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Prisonculture
5 days ago
A caregiving social movement IS political.
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Haymarket Books
5 days ago
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.
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Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/525-free-ebooks-abolish-ice-abolish-the-border
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Justin Hendrix
6 days ago
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by nameāciting facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html
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Ms. Shirley's videos reminded me to offer more kindness, more grace. She truly helped so many people. What a devastating loss.
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The ads for the 2028 cycle are going to be exhausting. Lies and violence over and over.
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Julia Carrie Wong
7 days ago
Staff at a Twin Cities yarn store put together a pattern for a red knit āMelt the ICEā hat inspired by the Norwegian resistance. They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along. Theyāve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.
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āRage knittingā against the machine: the hobbyists putting anti-ICE messages into crafts
Makers take a stand through āMelt the ICEā red knit caps and sparkly nails ā all while raising funds for those affected by immigration raids
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/ice-knitting-protest-immigration?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Indivisible Montgomery County PA & Friends
6 days ago
The Senate voted 55ā45 to block the spending package. Thank you to everyone who made calls, wrote letters, sent emails, signed petitions, and braved the elements to voice your concerns! (Special Note: Fetterman voted WITH Democrats!) āTogether, we make a difference!
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/gov...
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Senate fails to advance funding package ahead of shutdown deadline as ICE talks continue
The Senate failed to advance legislation to fund major portions of the government as talks over reforming ICE continue.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/government-shutdown-senate-vote-funding-package-ice/
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Jason Avant
6 days ago
"In theater"? What war is this guy fighting?
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James Brandt
7 days ago
I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
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There are so many crimes!
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Carl Quintanilla
7 days ago
ā.. U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaks on the phone while standing inside a vehicle loaded with boxes outside the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center after the FBI executed a search warrant there.ā
@reuters.com
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Ben Evans
7 days ago
Joy keeps a movement going. Never let them take it - and remember that it is a weapon in its own way - b/c it reminds the fash of real human emotions rather than the cheap facsimile fueled by cruelty that is all they got, and that undermines their commitment bit by bit.
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The revolution's about to be televised. You picked the right time, but the wrong guy.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...
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Opinion | Weāre Seeing the Weakness of a Strong State
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/opinion/trump-minneapolis-ice-protest.html?unlocked_article_code=1.H1A.9qnV.PG19t6VsCKIc&smid=url-share
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More Perfect Union
8 days ago
"...represents a moral failure to protect those in our community," says the letter to management."
www.businessinsider.com/target-emplo...
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Hundreds of Target employees urge the company to keep ICE out of stores. Read the letter to leadership.
More than 275 employees signed a letter to Target leadership that outlined four steps they say the company should take in response to ICE.
https://www.businessinsider.com/target-employees-urge-company-to-keep-ice-out-of-stores-2026-1
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On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, here's a piece I wrote about my Dutch GP's office, which was a former Jewish orphanage. Never again for anyone.
katiesweeney.com/an-other-his...
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An Other History | Katie Sweeney
https://katiesweeney.com/an-other-history/
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Max Berger
9 days ago
The Minnesota civil resistance campaign has been remarkably successful: - The GOP governor candidate dropped out - Numerous DOJ officials resigned - GOP members of Congress are speaking out; business feels pressure - Noem has been relieved of operational responsibility The campaign is winning.
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Max Berger
9 days ago
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE
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Did Verizon send a text with a credit after the outage last week?
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Prisonculture
11 days ago
I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
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Lydia Polgreen
11 days ago
One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!
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Dan Hinkel
11 days ago
Worth noting that one reason youāre benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribuneās timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that itās a metro newspaper that hasnāt been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.
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Frankiam
11 days ago
These democrats just approved $10 billion ICE funding.
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August J. Pollak
11 days ago
All three living Democratic presidents have said nothing about any of this. I donāt mean just today, I mean any of it. Obamaās last two tweets are about basketball and wishing his wife happy birthday. Nothing on Renee Good who was murdered 17 days ago
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Amanda Litman
12 days ago
At nearly every crisis point over the last year - and there have been so so many š« - totally ordinary people have been exponentially braver than the billionaires and elite. Turns out, you canāt buy courage!
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Emily Drabinski
12 days ago
Bc itās the library!
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Ana Marie Cox
13 days ago
I know people keep saying this but itās hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, Iām on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. Itās wild. Absolutely wild.
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social
13 days ago
You donāt know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer. In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said āBring me your clothingā.
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Fanoneās life changed instantly on Jan6, and every day since heās chosen to do the hard (and correct) thing by speaking out against 2 powerful institutions: the government and law enforcement, even despite personal risk to himself & family.
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Stephanie Farr
13 days ago
Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the Presidentās House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so. How far we have not come in 250 years.
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Why wouldn't they bandage his hand for Davos?
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Just bought 2 bags of ice melt, so don't worry - the storm will be a nothingburger.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
14 days ago
At a time of unprecedented daily scandals, this this whistleblower complaint, and the memo it reveals for the first time, breaks through for me as beyond the pale. It's the federal government conspiring in secret to subvert the Fourth Amendment. Read it here:
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26499371/dhs-ice-memo-1-21-26.pdf
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The Dutch rail system runs entirely on wind energy.
www.ns.nl/en/about-ns/...
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Ed Burmila
15 days ago
I donāt think people understand how hard it is to find an issue that polls in the single digits. Itās close to impossible.
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mtsw
14 days ago
This is why I always emphasize that "the media just likes Trump for clicks and ratings" is not accurate. The Jeffrey Epstein scandal is the worst in political history and instead of sensationalizing it, they repeatedly minimize it and downplay it despite massive public interest
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David Ho
15 days ago
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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