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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

It's February--trivia: Did you know February 2100 will only have 28 days since it's not a leap year?--and with Groundhog Day behind us, at last (or is it?) time for a sweet, straight friends-to-lovers romance set on the Upper West Side. What's not to like? www.amazon.com/Theory-About...

UBS has said it wants to bring greater transparency to Switzerland’s dark chapter helping the Nazis in World War II.

This is a wild story. You can read the details here: www.stevevladeck.com/p/207-the-ju...

I haven’t seen it. I hope you don’t, either. But let's be real about what's going on here. My purpose today is less to highlight this inane excuse for a film than to talk about its real excuse. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/melania-the-film-the-shame

@ericturkewitz.bsky.social @jtfdenver.bsky.social Listen to the whole thing.

I was there. They were indiscriminately firing multiple canisters into a huge peaceful crowd. Fucking cowards

At first I wondered whether it was real because of the mistake in the date. Holy CRAP. I was a legal secretary for 23 years, and I have NEVER seen anything close to this.

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

BREAKING: The DOJ just DELETED a document in the Epstein Files that contained allegations made against Donald Trump. But we saved it. 👇

Emma.

The arrest of Don Lemon is textbook fascism—a brazen attempt to silence reporting on a criminal regime. Stand up for Don, because our rights stand and fall with those of courageous journalists throughout this country.

The first chapters of Redemption: dermodyhouse.com/books/redemp...

An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.

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And here I was thinking I didn't have to worry because I'm in my 60s and white. @mikesacks.bsky.social @repglatimer.bsky.social

Against smoke and rubber bullets By the dawn’s early light Citizens stood for justice Their voices ringing through the night And there were bloody footprints Where mercy should have stood And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets Alex Pretti and Renee Good

They will trample on any rule if it means they can hurt someone they want to hurt.

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Apparently you're not alone. @jaimedilleditor.bsky.social bbc.com/culture/arti...

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Some ICE observers have found their Global Entry status has been revoked after having interactions with DHS officers.

"Don't forget to add the bit about people only having rights if they agree with what the government is doing."

It was an extrajudicial execution. Anyone who defends this is defending a police state.

Working on a pair of novels, chiefly in New York 140 years apart. The back shots are coincidental.

Bookmark that Vice President and future presidential candidate JD Vance retweeted a post that said Alex Pretti was “an assassin who tried to murder federal agents.”

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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

ICE killed another Minnesotan. there is video and it is very bad. www.facebook.com/share/r/1aPB...

Fascists

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

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A Kavanaugh Stop. @ericturkewitz.bsky.social @jtfdenver.bsky.social

That is an AMAZING ad. Standing ovation.

Gran Torino rev up

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

A joke for the history buffs: Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

A former federal agent after watching the New York Times breakdown of the ICE shooting:

Newly available videos and existing footage synchronized and assessed by The New York Times provide a millisecond-by-millisecond look at the killing of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis. Watch our visual investigation.

Ms. Cohen is getting to the heart of the matter.

Renee Good's family is accusing federal immigration officers of killing the Minneapolis mother of three as she attempted to follow agents' instructions, and have now hired the same law firm that represented George Floyd's family to press for answers and accountability.