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Mark Rice
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Associate professor of history at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Author of Making Machu Picchu/Destino Machu Picchu. Fulbright scholar. Department chair.

https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/markrice1/

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2h
70% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to govt data.

Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”

As ICE terrorizes cities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of Trump's major donors are private prison corporations.

Reposted by Mark Rice, Nicole Guenther Discenza

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 3h
The caviar station is back at Mar-a-Lago as Trump’s cuts defund Meals on Wheels

Reposted by Jonathan Hopkin, Mark Rice

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 12h
Trump is doing to politics what biz schools taught future CEOs to do: break the social contract (e.g., the one btw mgmt & labor that once ensured steady jobs) & extract all the value stored inside.

This will have the same effect on politics as it did on the labor mkt: instability & immiseration.
lastpositivist.bsky.social lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 14h
If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.

Reposted by Mark Rice

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 23h
I need to find the full video of this. All I know is his name is Rob of the Episcopal Church of New Hampshire and that he’s appears to be talking about clergy putting their bodies between ICE and civilians.

Reposted by Mark Rice, Dunlap

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d
 Michael Fanone: "This exact scenario is not an uncommon scenario for most law enforcement officers. I came across it countless times in my career. The amount of times that I fired my weapon is zero… There's no way that you can justify what this agent did."

Reposted by Tom Clark, Mark Rice

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 1d
Mayor Frey describes incident where federal agents snatched someone out of their car on 3rd Ave: "They left the car in the middle of the street. The car wasn't even in park. So you've got this vehicle that's rolling down the street with nobody in it."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d
LETTERMAN: “.. CBS News is a wreck. It’s just gone. .. The integrity of CBS News .. has been trampled on, pissed on and eviscerated by these idiots that have taken it over.”

@letterman.bsky.social $PSKY
youtu.be/CHYksa07oQA?...

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 1d
This is Minneapolis:

-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you
Photo through the windshield of a car showing an armored police vehicle driving on Nicollet

Reposted by Nandita Sharma, Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan , and 13 more

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d
This is the second time in three months a DHS agent called a US citizen a "bitch" as he shot her. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
The video also allegedly shows the CBP agent saying “Do something, bitch” before shots were fired. In private Signal chats, the CBP agent boasted to other officers: “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.” If he felt comfortable enough communicating that to fellow employees, it speaks to an irredeemable organizational culture.

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Elizabeth Saunders, Nandita Sharma , and 16 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Rep. Angie Craig: "We were told because this facility is being funding by the 'Big Beautiful Bill,' not the congressional appropriations act, that we would not be allowed to enter the facility. That's complete nonsense ... I informed them they were violating the law. They said they didn't care."

Reposted by Lesley Bartlett, James Goodwin, Mark Rice , and 1 more

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d
NEW: Text messages reveal the strange relationship that John Davis, the former Mississippi official who directed millions in welfare dollars to sports celebrities, shared with WWE wrestlers Ted DiBiase Jr. and Brett DiBiase.

"It is me who tried to buy your love," he wrote in one text read in court.
DiBiase Trial Spotlights Wrestlers' Odd Bond With Mississippi Welfare Scandal Mastermind
The odd relationship between the mastermind of the Mississippi welfare scandal and two ex-wrestlers was on display in Ted DiBiase Jr.’s trial.
www.mississippifreepress.org

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz, Lisa W. Fazio, Brendan Nyhan , and 6 more

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 2d
Think about the mindset, and the expectation of immunity, of someone who texts this to friends.

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Mark Rice

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d
Over at The Bad Place, all the MAGA cultists are repeating the same language now, that she "gunned" the vehicle at him, which is a sad little lie, in addition to being ghoulish for obvious reasons. They all think it somehow empowers them to robotically repeat the same phrases to each other.

Reposted by Will Jennings, Rosemary A. Joyce, Aaron Sojourner , and 6 more

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d
🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )

Reposted by Juan Cole, Aaron Sojourner, Mark Rice , and 1 more

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d
Since last year, Trump admin planned what to do if ICE agents were accused of crimes (even murder):
Protect them “no matter what."

Trump laid out ways to retaliate:
—Refuse to hand over an agent
—Charge local officials with “obstructing"
—Threaten to cut off more funding

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Inside Trump’s Plans To Protect Killer ICE Agents ‘No Matter What’
Minnesota officials want to investigate ICE’s killing of a mother in Minneapolis. Team Trump has been planning for a moment like this.
zeteo.com

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Mark Rice, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 3d
I can never find the interview but in Early stages of trump 1 I heard conversation with a Russian propaganda expert...

And their point was that the Russians don't actually try to persuade anyone... They just offer a buffet of answers so that someone can pick their own "true" answer...

Reposted by Mark Rice, Henry Jones, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 3d
Alexander Van Hook is confirmed 53-40 to be a District Judge of Western Louisiana. According to @senatepress.bsky.social, the Dems yeas are Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan (NH), Tim Kaine (VA), Amy Klobuchar (MN), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), and Peter Welch (VT). Angus King (I-ME) was also a yea.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 3d
“A social media video shows a uniformed DHS officer kicking over a candle at a memorial set up for Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.”

"The officer in the video told a protester who confronted him, ‘I don't give a f—.’”

people.com/dhs-officer-...
DHS Officer Seen on Video Kicking Memorial Candle for Renee Nicole Good, Woman Killed by ICE: 'Don't Give a F---'
When confronted by a protester seconds later, the federal agent pushed him back and said, "I don't give a f---." Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.
people.com

Reposted by Will Jennings, Mark Rice

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Nancy @plaintanjane.bsky.social · 3d
Los Angeles, June 7, 2025

“Arrest as many people that touch you as you want to. Those are the general ORDERS all the way to the TOP. Everybody fucking gets it if they touch you. You hear what I'm saying?” ~ Greg Bovino

🎥 via @blockclubchi.bsky.social

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
"This was a family that could've been like mine" -- Philip Bump breaks down crying on MS NOW when talking about the stuffed animals in Renee Good's car when she was killed

Reposted by Mark Rice

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d
MAGA can obfuscate all they want, but here's the bottom line: Their broader project of flooding our cities with armed government militias and diverting resources into mass ethnic purification makes such shootings far more likely. Feature, not bug.

Exchange on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2050...

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace, David R. Miller, Mark Rice

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Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 3d
Yeah I just don’t understand why the government behaving immorally on a minute by minute basis isn’t worthy of coverage.
whstancil.bsky.social Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3d
I keep going back to this. This is a taunt. They're taunting us. There is no other possible interpretation of what they're doing.

But media simply ignores this deranged behavior, because if they talk about it, one must conclude that DHS is a rogue agency, of villainous paramilitary thugs.

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Kim L. Scheppele, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 10 more

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d
According to my sources, the FBI was initially open to a concurrent investigation with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency that would do this investigation).

Trumpy U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen heard about this and intervened, barring the FBI from cooperating with local police.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe.

@reuters.com

Reposted by Neil Pederson, Steve Peers, Fabián Muniesa , and 11 more

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 3d
New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant

“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co

Reposted by John Foot, Mark Rice

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d
The danger of this moment cannot be overstated. Trump/Noem's vile defense of the killing shows that the heavily-armed government agents roaming our cities are unbound/unaccountable even when they kill Americans.

On the pod, @felipedlh.bsky.social and I dig into this:
newrepublic.com/article/2050...
Trump’s ICE Agents Killed a Citizen. Then Damning New Details Emerged.
As the ICE shooting horror in Minneapolis gets worse, a writer who focuses on ICE accountability explains why the government’s cover story is full of holes—and what recourse we have now.
newrepublic.com

Reposted by Elizabeth Saunders, Steven Heydemann, Norbert Schwarz , and 14 more

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3d
Minneapolis public schools canceled classes officials after Roosevelt High School said armed Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.
www.mprnews.org

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 3d
A country that blows up foreign fishing boats for no reason is one that will shoot its own citizens for no reason.

Reposted by Alan Richardson, Mark Rice

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 3d
No school in Minneapolis tomorrow and Friday. Just got this email.
Dear MPS families, Out of an abundance of caution, there will be no school on Thursday, January 8, 2026 and Friday, January 9, 2026 due to safety concerns related to today’s incidents around the city. All MPS-sponsored programs, activities, athletics, Community Education, including Adult Education, will be canceled. The District will not move to e-learning because that is only allowable for severe weather. MPS will continue collaborating with the City of Minneapolis and other partners on emergency preparedness and response. Sincerely, Minneapolis Public Schools

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Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 3d
As the orange guy would put it-dying country
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 3d
Congressional forecasters have lowered their projection for U.S. population growth over the next decade by 7 million people as a result of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown as well as falling birth rates. n.pr/4sqO1wZ
U.S. population growth is slowing. The immigration crackdown is a major factor
Congressional forecasters have lowered their projection for U.S. population growth over the next decade by 7 million people as a result of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown as well as falling birth rates.
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NPR @npr.org · 3d
Congressional forecasters have lowered their projection for U.S. population growth over the next decade by 7 million people as a result of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown as well as falling birth rates. n.pr/4sqO1wZ
U.S. population growth is slowing. The immigration crackdown is a major factor
Congressional forecasters have lowered their projection for U.S. population growth over the next decade by 7 million people as a result of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown as well as falling birth rates.
n.pr