Jim Raffensperger
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No relation to Brad Find little sparks of joy to spite the horrors.
Someone needs a picture of this orchid.
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Kyle Cheney
11 days ago
JUST IN: Judge Provinzino in Minnesota has held a Justice Department attorney in civil contempt for violations of her order requiring the return of a released ICE detainee’s ID documents. He must pay $500 a day until the documents are returned.
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Tal Lavin
16 days ago
in which i discuss the reuben, a glorious sandwich and the pride of omaha and the patriarch reuben, disowned by his father for being a slut
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Notable Sandwiches #138: Reuben
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I trip merrily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a...
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
18 days ago
hey want to help people harmed by people like Epstein and Maxwell and Trump and Clinton and Wexner and Chomsky and Gates and Musk and Prince Andrew and Summers and Tisch and Brin and Chopra and and and and all the other perpetrators and complicit motherfuckers this is a good place
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National Survivor Network
We are leaders in the fight against human trafficking
https://nationalsurvivornetwork.org/
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Matt Gabriele
20 days ago
just a reminder that I wrote up some readings you might like to help you think about "hope" as a concept - one distinct from optimism. it's an attitude more than an emotion.
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Hope | American Medieval
Get more from American Medieval on Patreon
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The Lincoln Project
20 days ago
Epstein survivors are sharing the most important ad you’ll see today. Please watch. Trump and his administration are trying to cover up this scandal, but we are not moving on from it.
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@GottaLaff
22 days ago
Re-upping because a bunch of stories broke at the same time, and this one shouldn't get lost in the shuffle. Thread:
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Kyle Cheney
22 days ago
BREAKING: A 5th Circuit panel has backed ICE's mass detention policy, a decision that clears the way for the administration to lock up people who are in immigration proceedings It's a 2-1 ruling Majority: Jones (Reagan), Duncan (Trump) Minority: Douglas (Obama)
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Scott Horton
23 days ago
This is an immensely significant document that continues to get virtually no attention in US media—but lots abroad. In Jul 2015, Epstein arranged a meeting between a known highest-level Russian intel operative, Sergey Belyakov and Peter Thiel,
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Omg. WTF is Happening?
24 days ago
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks
#ProudBlue
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maimonides nutz
28 days ago
it's done, it's up. I decided to go with the silhouette for the shirt design because I think it reads faster. All proceeds benefit MIRAC (Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee)
www.bonfire.com/exodus-23-9/
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Exodus 23:9 | Bonfire
Buy Exodus 23:9 merchandise that supports Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee Education Fund. Featuring Solid Black Blend Premium Unisex Tees, professionally printed in the USA.
https://www.bonfire.com/exodus-23-9/
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Tal Lavin
26 days ago
ps if u want a sense of why people seem so zealously to believe themselves to be pure, just, & right while carrying out acts of unimaginable cruelty, do i have a book for you
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Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America
How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America
https://bookshop.org/p/books/wild-faith-how-the-christian-right-is-taking-over-america-talia-lavin/1cf72a0d0396cdce
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Tom of Bedlam 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽🇺🇦🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺
27 days ago
"This goes beyond abolishing ICE.. we must fundamentally overhaul D.H.S... if we are to have just and lasting peace in this country." "The war on terror has become a war against ourselves. That must come to an end. Enough with the military gear and mass surveillance."
#NHPolitics
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Opinion | The Rot Goes Deeper Than ICE
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/opinion/minneapolis-dhs-ice-security.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JFA.ASE7.zdd3Je12qFIh&smid=url-share
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@GottaLaff
30 days ago
Please, everyone, don't forget about Georgia Fort's arrest.
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maimonides nutz
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Matt Novak
about 1 month ago
Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera. Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
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Matt Novak
about 1 month ago
Black Hart of St. Paul on University Ave
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@GottaLaff
about 1 month ago
💥Nothing has changed. "A person was shot in an incident involving U.S. Border Patrol in Arizona on Tuesday, according to a Pima County Sheriff spokeswoman."
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Person in critical condition after being shot in incident involving Border Patrol in Arizona
The individual is in custody and receiving care, according to law enforcement.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/person-shot-border-patrol-involved-arizona-rcna256137
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cdrLogic
about 1 month ago
@durbin.senate.gov
abolish DHS. There is no reforming it. You have been a senator for longer than DHS existed. You were there when it began and you can end it. Now.
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Gregg Gonsalves
about 1 month ago
Call Schumer's office today at (202) 224-6542. Then get on the phone to Jeffries at (202) 225-5936. 7/
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Celeste Ng
about 1 month ago
Like it or not (I don't), they're supposed to work for all of us. Call them and tell them to abolish ICE. 👇
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Greg Olear
about 1 month ago
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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David M. Perry
about 1 month ago
Does everyone have a warm bed? Does everyone have enough to eat? Does everyone have a place to be safe? Whose getting snatched in the night? - Junauda Petrus, "Ritual on How to Love Minneapolis Again"
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Popehat’s Wicked Ideologies
about 1 month ago
www.popehat.com/p/we-should-...
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We Should Talk About The Morality of Political Violence
What Are The Best Moral Arguments Against It?
https://www.popehat.com/p/we-should-talk-about-the-morality-of-political-violence
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Joanne Freeman
about 1 month ago
Consider: What can you offer as resistance? Be creative! Then offer it. This is a great example.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)
about 1 month ago
It’s time to defund ICE.
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Chris Murphy
about 1 month ago
I spent the morning at the San Antonio immigration court. It’s out of control. Crawling with ICE - arresting legal immigrants showing up for court appearances. I asked one officer who they are prioritizing. His answer: everyone. I need to share with you what I saw.
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Marisa Kabas
about 1 month ago
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
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ashley fairbanks
about 1 month ago
crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours. please keep sharing with your networks.
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Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
https://www.standwithminnesota.com/
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Count Mysterioso
about 1 month ago
This is quite a post
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Tyler Walpole - ECCC
about 1 month ago
I might have to share this every day until ICE stops terrorizing this state.
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Street Sharks Explained 🇨🇺🇵🇸
about 2 months ago
This dude is intense and correct
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@GottaLaff
about 2 months ago
Off topic, but will you and your colleagues PLEASE start drawing attention to this and providing some answers? Thanks.
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 2 months ago
My former student Tikia Hamilton, who teaches now at Loyola Chicago, has her first book coming out in March. It's all about the African-American campaign for equal education in Washington DC before Brown. If you're interested, here's a flyer with a 30% off discount QR code.
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Acyn
about 2 months ago
Frost: People should know that them cutting your healthcare, them cutting nutritional assistance, SNAP benefits, all this stuff—they're cutting that from working people so they can give ICE money to go terrorize our communities.
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Laura Jedeed
about 2 months ago
The article appears to be partly paywalled and I would encourage anyone who can afford it to subscribe, Slate's got a hell of a sale going right now and subscriptions are how they can afford to pay freelancers for articles like this one For my fellow brokies, though:
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You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260113135117/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/ice-recruitment-minneapolis-shooting.html
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Senator Patty Murray
about 2 months ago
Repost if you agree: The Senate should vote TODAY to extend the ACA tax credits. The House already passed a bill with a three-year extension that would bring down premiums for MILLIONS of Americans. Now it’s up to the Senate. Leader Thune: Let the Senate vote ASAP.
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Leah McElrath
about 2 months ago
A clear-eyed update on events in Iran from Danny Citrinowicz is below. Although Citrinowicz was formerly head of the Iran branch of Israeli defense intelligence, his analysis is remarkably non-idealogical and nuanced. 1/
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emptywheel
about 2 months ago
I wrote about how all the Butt Cracks and Beer Bellies we're seeing in the assault videos has neutralized the fascist porn efforts.
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Butt Cracks and Beer Bellies: Is Trump Failing on Immigration because ICE Creates Negative Spectacle? - emptywheel
I suspect that a big reason Stephen Miller has turned immigration into a losing issue for Donald Trump is because Miller's goons create an endless supply of negative spectacle that goes viral and seed...
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/buttcracks-and-beer-bellies-is-trump-failing-on-immigration-because-ice-creates-negative-spectacle/
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James Goodwin
about 2 months ago
It looks ridiculous to put it in writing, but the only way to stop this administration is to stop this administration. It's clear by now you have to say "no" to everything. You cannot compromise with them or hope they will do the right thing if you shame them enough.
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You should follow Jeschill if you like cool art.
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Charlotte Clymer
about 2 months ago
Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread) 1. Pat Bagley
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This is what happens when you create the fifth largest military in the world and set them to be unfettered law enforcement charged with mass arrests.
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emptywheel
about 2 months ago
This, from
@rgoodlaw.bsky.social
in 2019, is important background to the congressional discussion we're about to see.
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Barr’s Playbook: He Misled Congress When Omitting Parts of Justice Dep’t Memo in 1989
When Bill Barr was head of Office of Legal Counsel, he gave Congress the legal conclusions and reasoning of an important Justice Department memo but left out major portions of it. When the full memo w...
https://www.justsecurity.org/63635/barrs-playbook-he-misled-congress-when-omitting-parts-of-justice-dept-memo-in-1989/
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Joanne Freeman
about 2 months ago
Hey folks, Tomorrow on my live podcast, “History Matters:” Talkin’ About a Revolution: 1776 and Now Man, oh man. What a year to ponder resistance! The past is alive. Join us! Friday 10AM ET On my YouTube channel:
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Dr. Joanne Freeman
Professor Joanne Freeman is an award-winning historian who studies the politics and culture of America's past to better understand our history as a nation, and the roads and choices that have led us t...
https://m.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755/featured
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@GottaLaff
about 2 months ago
Screaming!
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Katie Phang
about 2 months ago
ICYMI: The deposition transcript of Former Special Counsel, Jack Smith, has been released by the House Judiciary Committee. (I’ll share my thoughts and observations after I’ve had the chance to review it.)
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The Tennessee Holler
2 months ago
Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️
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Daniel Pitti
2 months ago
Gift:
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Opinion | The Epstein Files Should Not Have Been Released This Way
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/opinion/epstein-file-release-truth.html?unlocked_article_code=1._U8.dxRL.8itrui8ogmY8&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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maimonides nutz
2 months ago
I said it better on Instagram
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