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Andy Carvin
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Interim social media editor, Forward.com. Former managing editor and current nonresident senior fellow, DFRLab.org. NPR and Reported.ly alum. Woodturner, #ActuallyADHD, veteran of the prolactinoma wars. Calling BS is my calling. I used to tweet a lot.
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Tom Homan vows that protesters will be... ah, what is the word for it... unmasked?

www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
January 27, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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The Raygoza case in LA is important bc it's an attempt to criminalize observation. DOJ dropped doxing charge but not conspiracy, then added stalking. Here's how Raygoza is attempting to make stalking case go away.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 27, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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I'm more confident that we're going to win than I felt a couple of days ago. We'll know we held together, cared for each other, were strong, joyous, and bonded.
But if/when we do win, this will all stay with us. It's burned in. We won't be back to how it was before. We'll adjust to the new reality.
January 27, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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As a Minnesotan who has dedicated his career to mental health issues, it's really hitting me that I'll be dealing with the ICE occupation for as long as I'm both a Minnesotan and a mental health person.
It's trauma for our community.
Most of us will survive. But we'll be forever changed.
January 27, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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Get off Twitter, it is the only way these oafs investigate anything. It is literally dangerous to your speech rights to be or appear on that website.
The FBI director, Kash Patel, said the inquiry followed a far-right influencer’s post about anti-ICE Signal chats
FBI to investigate Minneapolis activists after far-right claim about Signal chats
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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The US Border Patrol was involved in a shooting in Arizona, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said in a statement, adding that his office was working with the FBI and Customs and Border Protection to look into the incident reut.rs/45BjeUm
January 27, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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Verified videos emerging from Iran show bodies piled up in a hospital in Tehran following the deadly crackdown on protests.

The BBC counted at least 31 bodies in just one video. Another clip shows seven body bags laid on the ground outside the hospital.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New Iran videos show bodies piled up in hospital and snipers on roofs
Footage from a hospital in Tehran shows at least 31 bodies piled inside and seven body bags outside.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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Pepperball guns, tasers and tear gas are among the weapons recently deployed against protesters in the US. In a new guide, @easybakeovensz.bsky.social details some of the “less-lethal” equipment federal agents have carried during the current immigration raids. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
Guide: The ‘Less-Lethal’ Weapons Used by the DHS
Tear gas and PepperBall guns are among the weapons ICE and Border Patrol agents have been seen with at nationwide raids and protests related to immigration.
www.bellingcat.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib.

He thought he was going to die.

Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.

And a mob of agents killed him.
January 27, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
January 27, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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Interesting plan to promote the heroes of the Minnesota resistance
TOM HOMAN: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.”
January 27, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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Kat Abughazaleh doesn't just influence the Overton Window; when she speaks she sits in the driver's seat of the Overton Window. She has shaped this race and shows the dedication & awareness to shape the national conversation. We're all done with the chickenshits; Kat meets the moment.
ICE does not need more training. They’re doing exactly what they’re trained to do.

Democrats cannot vote for a single cent to ICE.
January 27, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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To save costs, they’ve already pre-determined the outcome
Breaking MS NOW:

Trump's Justice Department has decided there will be no civil rights investigation of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, and instead two units of DHS will investigate their own officers and the man they killed.
No civil rights violation probe into latest MN shooting, sources tell MS NOW
As DHS takes over the federal investigation, current and former law enforcement agents warn that Trump’s DOJ isn’t committed to facts or fairness.
www.ms.now
January 27, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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For some strange reason, I believe Carney and do not believe Scott Bessent.
Carney says he told Trump 'I meant what I said in Davos,' contradicting U.S. account | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney is dismissing a claim that he walked back the remarks he made in Davos last week during a conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday.
www.cbc.ca
January 27, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Got anything to say about this, NRA?
Take your time.
Trump on the killing of Alex Pretti:

"You know, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. Can't walk into this. You can't do that."
January 27, 2026 at 6:04 PM
"I fought like hell to stop that launch. I'm so torn up inside I can hardly talk about it, even now."

Tomorrow will be 40 years since Challenger. It feels like yesterday; I can still feel how cold it was that morning.

Howard Berkes recalls the story of the engineers who tried to stop the launch.
40 years after Challenger: Lingering guilt and lessons learned
Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades of guilt and the vital lessons that remain critical for NASA today.
www.npr.org
January 27, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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Public opinion still matters, and it has strongly turned against Trump.

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-imm...
January 27, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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"No infraction is too small to be investigated and, if the evidence warrants, charged. We will need an American Nuremberg."

Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/49KD9mm
This Photo Shows the Way Forward
Victory without accountability is dangerous.
lnk.thebulwark.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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This makes him even more courageous for stepping up again. We lost a true role model.

Damn it.
January 27, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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Immediate reactiuon from a CBS News staffer to Bari Weiss' all-hands meeting:

"She seems very small. She can read talking points off the teleprompter but it doesn't really connect to what's happening inside the organization."
January 27, 2026 at 5:51 PM
@truahrabbis.bsky.social and @bendthearc.bsky.social are organizing a Jews Against ICE protest near ICE HQ on Wed, Feb 11.
ICE is terrorizing our families, friends, and neighbors — and we won’t be silent.

On 2/11 at 1:30 PM, Jewish clergy and community members will gather near ICE HQ in D.C. to show the world that we oppose their cruelty and violence.

truah.org/jewsagainstice
January 27, 2026 at 5:51 PM
There has only been one other homicide in Minneapolis this year. That means ICE/CBP agents have inflicted 66% of the homicides so far.
Trump: "Minnesota, and in particular Minneapolis -- because it's not all of Minnesota -- every city that we've gone to literally crime has gone down 50, 60, 70, 80, in Washington it has gone down to practically no crime ... it's down in Minneapolis very much" (DHS has killed 2 people here)
January 27, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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“I think it’s time to pull out of Minnesota, that battle is lost," a Border Patrol agent said in a private chat I obtained:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads
ICE Unloads
Immigration officers speak out: “Fuck this.”
www.kenklippenstein.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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Composer Philip Glass drops Kennedy Center world premiere over Trump takeover - www.reuters.com/world/us/com...
Composer Philip Glass drops Kennedy Center world premiere over Trump takeover
American composer Philip Glass withdrew the world premiere of his symphony "Lincoln" from the Kennedy Center on Monday, saying the work's values conflict with those of the performing arts venue that w...
www.reuters.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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“The two were held for almost a week in a hotel 80 miles from their home, without access to a lawyer or a hearing before a judge, before being deported.”

We’ve been following the story of Génesis at @thebarbedwire.com — glad @theguardian.com reported this.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown
Mother whose visa application was pending says she will send girl back to US soon accompanied by another relative
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:36 PM