DrEnglish
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Professor of English | English education | Writer | Ecosophe | Etc. Etc. Etc.
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,668,693! I tried to be an elder but I never got an invite until much later! I kept trying, though!
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Nicole Bedera
about 16 hours ago
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
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Asha Rangappa
about 19 hours ago
The administration needs to be asked directly how many J6ers, and anyone convicted of seditious conspiracy, are now ICE agents with a badge and a gun.
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Ron Filipkowski
about 15 hours ago
When Trump desperately needed people to vouch for him with skeptical evangelicals in the 2016 primary, David was there to do it for him at the Christian Broadcasting Network.
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Brava! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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about 14 hours ago
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 15 hours ago
Shoot this right into my veins.
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Rachel Maddow
about 16 hours ago
"Fierce opposition to ICE and the Border Patrol has sprung up through block clubs, neighborhood group chats, school Facebook groups and Catholic parishes, stretching beyond the typical Democratic voter base..." Yup. Exactly.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
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How ICE Crackdowns Set Off a Resistance in American Cities
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/ice-protests-activism.html
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Joyce White Vance
about 15 hours ago
It will become increasingly important for people to take video and protect and save that video so that when there is finally an accounting for what’s happening, there will be evidence.
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Ron Filipkowski
1 day ago
Europe having to perform military exercises against their primary threat, the United States.
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Acyn
about 17 hours ago
Pritzker: The Insurrection Act is designed for circumstances where your rights can’t be protected by local authorities This is exactly the opposite. Your civil rights are being infringed upon by CBP and ICE, and then they want to call in troops claiming that they’re protecting CBP and ICE.
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 16 hours ago
There's a lot wrong here, but I just can't get over the Beltway belief that Democrats have to be "laser-focused" on affordability issues and affordability alone.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑
about 17 hours ago
Yes, voting against ICE funding is the morally right thing to do. But you can be the most heartless political consultant bastard out there - cutting ICE is still the smart play. That Schumer/Jeffries are silent right now is political malpractice (and morally reprehensible, if you care about that).
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 16 hours ago
Naaaaaaailed it
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Joseph Zucker
about 16 hours ago
Minneapolis residents are painting tunnels onto brick walls and ICE agents are running into them. This is not funny.
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Walter Olson
about 17 hours ago
“Noem: U.S. Citizens Should Be Prepared To Show Proof.” Did you vote for a “Show Me Your Papers” society?
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 23 hours ago
ICE keeps saying the people protesting it are being paid without any evidence, but we have receipts showing that the people *defending* ICE are absolutely being paid. And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.
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Governor JB Pritzker
about 24 hours ago
Donald Trump and Kristi Noem are using armed, militarized agents to provoke Minnesotans. The Insurrection Act should not be used as an excuse to send armed troops into our streets.
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Mark Jacob
1 day ago
Trump's stealing of Venezuelan oil and putting the proceeds in Qatar at his personal disposal is NOT LEGAL. Problem is, he doesn't care, and his co-conspirators in Congress don't either.
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Marc Elias
2 days ago
As we await the release of Supreme Court opinions, I want to remind everyone just how much Democracy Docket is tracking: Active Voting Rights Cases: 170 Active Redistricting Cases: 47 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 90 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 76 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 26 Subscribe now.
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Marc Elias
3 days ago
If any private lawyer acted this disrespectfully towards a federal judge, we would be facing bar proceedings, court sanctions or both. The fact that Trump administration lawyers continue to act this way is a disgrace. It is time for judges to put an end to it.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Disqualified Trump appointee Halligan accuses judge of 'gross abuse of power' for questioning her authority
Read more here.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/lindsey-halligan-disqualified-trump-attorney-judge-power-abuse-authority/
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Aaron Rupar
1 day ago
Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.
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Bill Kristol
3 days ago
"Senior executives at tech companies have been circulating a letter calling on their companies to break ties with the White House’s immigration enforcement. The Bulwark has learned the letter has garnered more than 150 signatures in the days after Good’s shooting."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Send It In, Jerome!
The Fed chair finally learns that the only way to deal with Trump is to push back.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/send-it-in-jerome-powell-federal-reserve-trump-pushback-economy-mamdani?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Kevin M. Kruse
2 days ago
These are mobsters threatening an extortion scheme.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
3 days ago
But in a sense it's actually worse than a war crime, because there is no war. It's just a crime. It's a crime—murder—whether or not the aircraft can be identified as part of a military force.
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I love this woman. That is a broiler pan, by the way! 😂
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Señor e LIAS
3 days ago
This goal of taking over countries by Trump is a Putin plan of how to end and destroy NATO. The useful idiot doing what he is told by Putin.
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K. Chen
2 days ago
The Hmong are here because they fought for the US in a war we lost.
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This guy speaks for so many of us. Bravo, buddy. “Shoot me, bitch,” indeed.
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Jon Cryer
2 days ago
As opposed to say, shooting them on the face three times?
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Acyn
1 day ago
Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
3 days ago
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*
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Amanda Katz
1 day ago
Just crazy watching an American city fully under attack
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I’m so very proud of the people of Minnesota. Keep fighting.
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Greg Pak
1 day ago
We are going to win. Normal people hate the fucking fascists.
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Scott Horton
1 day ago
After a document leak from DHS outed him, Enrique Tarrio, head of the Proud Boys militia group, acknowledged that he was now an ICE officer.
www.telemundo.com/noticias/not...
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Enrique Tarrio, exlíder de los Proud Boys, dice que se ha convertido en agente de ICE
Tarrio, quien recibió un indulto de Trump por su participación en el asalto al Capitolio en 2021, fue detenido un mes después de su liberación por un cargo de agresión en Washington D.C.
https://www.telemundo.com/noticias/noticias-telemundo/inmigracion/enrique-tarrio-exlider-proud-boys-se-convierte-agente-ice-rcna254122?utm_sf_post_ref=651620699&utm_sf_cserv_ref=152142811
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Ron Filipkowski
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John Fugelsang
2 days ago
When it comes to America annexing other countries, I always ask myself "What would Hitler do?" Then, I always choose the opposite. But that's just me.
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Tim Onion
2 days ago
It used to be that victims of murders in the U.S. would be smeared by InfoWars and Gateway Pundit as a way to fetishize guns and violence for ad dollars and supplement sales, with the added benefit of cozying up to far-right politicians. Now that work is done by CBS News.
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Alt National Park Service
2 days ago
This should alarm everyone. The FBI searched a journalist’s home and seized her work devices, despite no criminal charges. This is a direct threat to press freedom.
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The search came as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/14/washington-post-reporter-search/
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Kevin M. Kruse
2 days ago
Again, check to see if you have a dormant Hilton Honors account and, if so, call them up to cancel it.
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jamelle
3 days ago
over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
2 days ago
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Bring on the resignation!
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Darlene McDonald
2 days ago
Whatever your feelings about the Clintons, put them aside and read this letter. It will fall on deaf ears for many, but they say is what is needed to be said by more people that actually give a damn about the future and direction of the country.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read the Clintons’ Personal Letter to Comer (Gift Article)
Bill and Hillary Clinton wrote a lengthy letter to Representative James R. Comer of Kentucky, the Republican chairman of the Oversight Committee, refusing to testify in Congress.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/13/us/clinton-letter.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EVA.Aqlr.lIhaJsIvlHTx&smid=nytcore-ios-share&fbclid=IwY2xjawPUfMZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFDbWFvaWptVVhwd3NhTTlYc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHoZ-EbjWHX00GEFYZW0B6qvuYZBhLR4vVSh53iJCOVz8kI2unX_xLgjHrZQE_aem_UlTYZ9C8KcxtYh7xJfePLA
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I am horrified by how they treated these teenagers. But I have to say that the kid in the white is truly a fighter. And it is clear these “officers” are poorly trained. Wow.
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Max Boot
4 days ago
Under what legal authority does the president take ownership of another country’s oil — and then deposit the proceeds in offshore bank accounts that circumvent Congress’s power of the purse? Who knows? Trump told the New York Times: “I don’t need international law.”
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Opinion | Trump was an imperialist all along
The president is trapped in a Gilded Age bubble where tariffs and resource grabs are prized.
https://wapo.st/4pApDGu
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The Tennessee Holler
3 days ago
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I figured that was coming. Ridiculous. I want to buy that guy a beer.
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3 days ago
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Yes, yes you will.
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Aaron Blackshear
3 days ago
It’s Stalingrad and we will outlast these motherfuckers
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Alt National Park Service
3 days ago
Can we buy the Ford employee a beer? 🍻
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