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Jeff from Kelowna 🇨🇦
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I’m Jeff. From Kelowna. I apologize for being so cynical.
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Source: ICE to begin using empty Melania theaters as temporary detention facilities.
January 29, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Omar: I instinctively tried to, like, punch him…, I was raised with three brothers who were older than me. You learn that maybe taking the first punch when somebody is bigger than you yields you better results.
January 29, 2026 at 1:39 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
“Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them.”

Watch this powerful message from Jon Stewart.
January 27, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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angrystaffer.bsky.social
Great. Everything is so fucked that somehow I agree with Greenwald.

He nails it here, though.
January 26, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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klasfeldreports.com
BREAKING via Star-Tribune: GOP gubernatorial candidate ends bid, says he can’t support "stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.”

Read more www.startribune.com/chris-madel-...
Chris Madel ends GOP bid for governor, says he can’t support federal ‘retribution’ against Minnesota
His exit comes as some other Republicans have started to distance themselves from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the state.
www.startribune.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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pattonoswalt.bsky.social
Whoa, really? Fantastic work guys!
nbcnews.com NBC News @nbcnews.com · 3d
VIDEO ANALYSIS: Witness videos appear to contradict the Trump administration's narrative of Alex Pretti's killing.

nbcnews.app.link/nl9zFuvje0b
January 26, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
They owe her, and all of us, an apology.
January 25, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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thebulwark.com
Brian O'Hara: "You have a 2nd Amendment right in the U.S. to possess a firearm. And there are some restrictions around that in Minnesota…He did not violate any of those restrictions. He is not a convicted felon. He is someone that did have a permit for the handgun to carry it."
January 25, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.
January 24, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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bradmossesq.bsky.social
I am waiting for full details but so far all indications are that this person - living in a state where you can carry a firearm with a permit - was disarmed before DHS shot five times.
eoinhiggins.bsky.social Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 5d
The guy in grey disarms the man on the ground being beaten—BEFORE shots were fired
January 24, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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asharangappa.bsky.social
I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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stevevladeck.bsky.social
This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.
January 24, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
One court decision, two different headlines.

Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
US court allows ICE to arrest and pepper-spray peaceful protestors in Minnesota Appeals Court Stays Restrictions on Federal Tactics in Minnesota The Eighth Circuit granted the Trump administration’s request to block, at least for now, a lower court’s injunction limiting how federal agents interact with protesters in the state.
January 22, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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andycraig.bsky.social
me, normally: the French Revolution and its legacy have lots of moral grey areas and complicated nuance...

me, seeing this: Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Louis de Bourbon @Louis_DucAnjou Translated from French Today, we commemorate the assassination of my ancestor Louis XVI, beheaded on 21 January 1793. In reality, it is not merely a matter of remembering this king who was unjustly beheaded.
January 22, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
The Gravamen of the Disclosure 4. The gravamen of the disclosure is as follows: a. By memorandum dated May 12, 2025 (“the May 12 Memo”), Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter into certain people’s homes without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency. b. Specifically, in the May 12 Memo, the Acting ICE Director authorized ICE Agents to rely on Form I-205 (which is not a judicial warrant) to enter the residence of an alien subject to a final order of deportation, without consent, including by “a necessary and reasonable amount of force.”2c. While addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” in practice the May 12 Memo has not been formally distributed to all personnel. Instead, the May 12 Memo has been provided to select DHS officials who are then directed to verbally brief the new policy for action. Those supervisors then show the Memo to some employees, like our clients, and direct them to read the Memo and return it to the supervisor.
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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danifroom.bsky.social
Nemik talking to Cassian Andor: "The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it. And that is the real trick of the imperial thought machine. It's easier to hide behind forty atrocities than a single incident."
January 17, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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January 21, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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January 20, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
The opinion from Judge David Novak, a Trump appointee, is about as sharp an opinion as we've seen.

Novak concludes that Halligan "elected to simply ignore valid court orders issued by Judge Currie at the direction of the Chief Judge of the Fourth Circuit."
In sum, Judge Currie, speaking for all district judges in this District, found Ms. Halligan’s appointment as Interim United States Attorney unlawful and issued two orders dismissing indictments, both of which were premised directly on that rationale. Those Orders, though currently on appeal, have not been overturned or stayed, and thus constitute the law of this District. Having been found by this Court to be unlawfully appointed, Ms. Halligan lacks lawful authority to represent herself as the United States Attorney before this Court. Importantly, in the face of Judge Currie’s rulings, Ms. Halligan had numerous legal options that could have potentially allowed her to validly identify herself as the United States Attorney while the Senate considers her nomination. First, she could have sought a stay from Judge Currie, Judge Nachmanoff and Judge Walker, or the Fourth Circuit. Second, she could have petitioned the district judges of this Court to appoint her to the position pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 546(d), as the Court did at the request of this Department of Justice for Mr. Siebert. Alternatively, she could have filed a motion with the Chief Judge allowing her to continue to use the moniker pending appeal, or filed individual motions seeking permission to use the title before each of the districtjudges of this Court as her office filed new cases either by indictment or information. Ms. Halligan chose none of these legal avenues; instead, she elected to simply ignore valid court orders issued by Judge Currie at the direction of the Chief Judge of the Fourth Circuit. The Court cannot tolerate such obstinance, because doing so would undermine the very essence of the Rule of Law. If the Court were to allow Ms. Halligan and the Department of Justice to pick and choose which orders that they will follow, the same would have to be true for other litigants and our system ofjustice would crumble. See Swan v. Clinton, 100 F.3d 973, 978
January 20, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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normative.bsky.social
Hey, remember when people used to say Trump wouldn’t be bought or corruptly influenced by wealthy interests because he was already so rich? That was fun.
raphae.li Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 9d
Here's a plain-spoken and accessible editorial - based in part on @reuters.com reporting - that outlines how much Donald Trump has enriched himself since taking power, and why that's so dangerous for democracy.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion
The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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getmoresmarter.com
Important perspective from Greenland.
January 20, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
Annual reminder that King didn't say *people* should be judged by their character rather than their skin. He said he dreamed of a future day when *his children* would live in such a state, while observing they did not; that U.S. had never delivered on its founding promises.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right down in Alabama little Black boys and Black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today.
January 15, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
Senior White House official says local and state police in Minneapolis “have been ordered to stand down and surrender.”

What?
Stephen Miller • @StephenM X.com Only federal officers are upholding the law. Local and state police have been ordered to stand down and surrender.
January 19, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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shoutingboy.bsky.social
If Russia invaded Poland tomorrow, the absolute *best* Europe could hope for from the US is “we’ll send troops if you give us Greenland.”

Insofar as NATO still exists, it is in practice an alliance without the US. And it‘s preparing to be an alliance against the US.
January 19, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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meidastouch.com
Trump: I need to take over Greenland now, because if I don’t, Russia will.

Also Trump: Vladimir will you please join my Board of Peace?
January 19, 2026 at 3:40 PM