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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)

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PoliSci/Comm @ UW-Madison via UMich. Views mine, ~90% right. US politics, votes, violence, history, psych. 3📚+1 in progress: How WE Make US Democracy. Dad w/ jokes. 🧗🏼*🧙🏻*🥏⛳🏆* Congress said I have "tremendous sway over SM platforms"😂 nathankalmoe.com .. more

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 7h

BRAVO @isaiahmn.org! Chipping endlessly away at the pillars that prop up the regime.

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ISAIAH on Instagram: "🚨 BREAKING: Minnesota clergy have successfully secured a meeting with @target CEO Brian Cornell! 🔊🎯 We’re glad Cornell agreed to meet. But real leadership means action. We will...

326 likes, 14 comments - isaiahorg on January 15, 2026: "🚨 BREAKING: Minnesota clergy have successfully secured a meeting with @target CEO Brian Cornell! 🔊🎯 We’re glad Cornell agreed to meet. But re...

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 7h

Gavin Newsom has never had a homeless, a working unhoused, or an affordable housing advocate on his podcast despite governing California.

So yeah I think it’s weird that he’s entertained & platformed multiple fascists while grinning, nodding & relenting to their easily defeatable talking points.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 9h

Yes please! This is what Gov Walz should’ve been announcing last night, not “good luck with your mutual aid & whistles.”

Elliott Payne @elliottpayne.org · 12h

Today the Minneapolis City Council unanimously passed a resolution calling on Governor Walz to enact an eviction moratorium to keep Minneapolis families in their homes to protect them from ICE.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 9h

I know it isn't the most important thing but if that is one of the original copies of the Declaration of Independence on the wall it is getting damaged by the bright lighting

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9h

As WSJ calls Mamdani a "communist" for suggesting that the wealthiest pay tax rates that are still lower than they were under Eisenhower, Trump is engaged in bona fide communism by forcing state ownership of major commercial ventures. Here's yet another one.

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 9h

M 6.0 earthquake off the coast of Oregon

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Map of the Western US showing earthquakes that have occurred in the last seven days. Off the coast is a large red dot showing the location of the magnitude six earthquake.

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 9h

Gov. Tim Walz said the state is creating a "database of atrocities" by federal agents against Minnesotans.

The Minnesota Attorney General's Office has launched a form where residents can share information about the actions of federal agents in Minnesota: www.ag.state.mn.us/Federal-Acti...

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 9h

Interesting which stories don't get held for "a few more phone calls" www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

CBS News report on ICE officer’s injuries drew ‘huge internal concern’

Anonymously sourced report that Jonathan Ross ‘suffered internal bleeding’ after killing Renee Good faced skepticism inside CBS newsroom

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 9h

The Streisssnd effect is an icy bitch.

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 9h

perfection

GWAR cover “Pink Pony Club” by Chappell Roan

YouTube video by The A.V. Club

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Erik E. Mueller @erikemueller.com · 9h

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Minnesota farmers fear ICE surge could cause economic damage

Minnesota farmers are raising concerns about the economic fallout from increased ICE operations in their communities.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 9h

🚨 Everyone in Minnesota!! You need this DHS PSA:

You should NOT POUR WATER ON THE GROUND TO FREEZE BY ICE VEHICLES so the goons slip.

REPEAT: DO NOT MAKE TREACHEROUS ICE SLIDES WHERE GOONS WILL BE WALKING!!!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin on "acts of violence" against ICE agents in Minnesota: "Pouring water on the ground so that it would freeze the ground in front of our federal law enforcement vehicles so that they would potentially slide, crash, and potentially kill them"

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 9h

It rocks that everyone at CBS News is blabbing www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

CBS News report on ICE officer’s injuries drew ‘huge internal concern’

Anonymously sourced report that Jonathan Ross ‘suffered internal bleeding’ after killing Renee Good faced skepticism inside CBS newsroom

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9h

Have had the unfortunate experience of watching broadcast all day. Insanity inducing to watch the coverage of last night ("they threw water bottles!").

Heavily armed men attacked an entire neighborhood. People only smashed cars *after* feds had left the area and poisoned blocks of family homes.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 9h

It’d be a real shame if our nation’s noble ethnic cleansers came down with a mass epidemic of explosive diarrhea from some bad food they all ate. I hope the people making their food take extra care to prevent that from happening.

Laurie Hertzel @lhertzel.bsky.social · 12h

One of the stories that makes me the saddest out of this ICE invasion is one out of the Minnesota Star Tribune today about ICE agents eating at a little Mexican restaurant in the small town of Willmar, Minn, —and then, when they were done, arresting some of the workers.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 9h

80 co-sponsors on resolution impeaching Noem on three articles: obstruction of Congress, 'violation of public trust' (ICE crimes), and self-dealing corruption.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 9h

The Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place:

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 9h

A reminder that you now live in a country that has concentration camps & multiple classes of citizenship & party-affiliated paramilitaries knocking door-to-door hunting groups it doesn’t like, & we told you this would happen if people didn’t go to jail & weren’t barred from office for trying a coup.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 10h

Trump: I invented water
Media: Trump, Inventor of Water, Sits for Wide-Ranging Interview

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 10h

We are hoping to raise one-fourth of the amount that the National Endowment for the Humanities has just granted to 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴.

In this time of authoritarian consolidation, building and supporting true opposition media is more important than ever: www.liberalcurrents.com/liberal-curr...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10h

Jesus.

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January 15, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Reid Forgrave
ICE agents eat at small-town Mexican restaurant — then arrest workers
Federal agents detained three workers from a family-owned Mexican restaurant in Willmar yesterday, hours after four agents ate lunch there.

It was not immediately clear what the immigration status of those detained was, or whether the people detained included the restaurant’s owners or only workers.

An eyewitness who declined to give a name for fear of retribution, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that four ICE agents sat in a booth for a meal at El Tapatio a little before 3 p.m. Staff at the restaurant were frightened, said the eyewitness, who shared pictures from the restaurant as well as video of the arrest.

The arrest happened around 8:30 p.m. near a Lutheran church and Willmar Middle School as agents followed the workers after they closed up for the night. A handful of bystanders blew whistles and shouted at agents as they detained the people. “Would your mama be proud of you right now?” one of the bystanders asked.

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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 10h

It’s even more embarrassing than I imagined.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10h

genuinely hard to believe how clownish this era is

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 10h

President Trump is keeping the Nobel Peace Prize medal presented to him by its recipient, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-mee...

Trump accepts Nobel Peace Prize medal from Venezuelan opposition leader Machado

President Donald Trump met with Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado at the White House Thursday, where she said she presented him with her Nobel medal.

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 10h

Officials from the Oglala Sioux Tribe are unable to locate three tribal members after they were arrested by ICE in Minneapolis.

“There’s nobody more American than American Indians,” activist and immigration attorney Chase Iron Eyes said.

📸: Louis Krauss/The Minnesota Star Tribune.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h

Grinning like a 5-year old getting his participation trophy at the post-season T-ball pizza party.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10h

DHS said the man died while he tried to commit suicide and “violently resisted security staff.”

A medical examiner called it “asphyxia due to neck and chest compression.”

A witness told the Washpost *on the record* that guards choked him as he said, “no puedo respirar.”

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