John B. Cole
@johnbcole.com
Dairy cattle geneticist, mediocre Python programmer, eccentric cat gentleman, Irish bouzouki owner, LSMSA, LSU.
Minnesota, friends, Bribe Guy is coming to town. I hope he gets the welcome he deserves.
Trump is deploying his border czar to Minneapolis as a political crisis grows over his administration’s immigration enforcement tactics, a move viewed by many Republicans as an effort to calm tensions in Minnesota.
Border czar Tom Homan’s arrival in Minnesota signals a shift by the Trump administration
Homan’s assignment comes amid reports that some federal immigration agents will soon be pulled out of Minnesota.
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January 27, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Minnesota, friends, Bribe Guy is coming to town. I hope he gets the welcome he deserves.
100%. With very few exceptions, the identity of federal employees is NOT a secret. This is really important, becuase there can be no accountability without this. I was a Fed for 17 years. There was never one time when I had any reason to hide my identity.
Naming someone is not doxxing. They aren’t undercover. They aren’t intelligence agents overseas. This is outrageous - we are supposed to be a free Republic and these people want an authoritarian police state. Lawsuits should be filed & ranking Dems in Congress should act.
January 26, 2026 at 9:20 PM
100%. With very few exceptions, the identity of federal employees is NOT a secret. This is really important, becuase there can be no accountability without this. I was a Fed for 17 years. There was never one time when I had any reason to hide my identity.
Dipshit Chuck Schumer about to give away his leverage again. You vote on defunding DHS first, seriously, why am I having to explain legislative process to the Senate Minority Leader?
January 26, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Dipshit Chuck Schumer about to give away his leverage again. You vote on defunding DHS first, seriously, why am I having to explain legislative process to the Senate Minority Leader?
My dude, your Gestapo thugs are stealing children and murdering people in the streets.
Bovino: "When politicians, community leaders, & some journalists engage in that heated rhetoric we keep talking about, when they make the choice to vilify law enforcement calling law enforcement 'Gestapo' or using the term 'kidnapping,' that is a choice & there are actions & consequences."
January 26, 2026 at 8:02 PM
My dude, your Gestapo thugs are stealing children and murdering people in the streets.
They can make it stop right now, today, by resigning and going home. Until the trials begin, I mean.
Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports
Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports
Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports
www.independent.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 7:58 PM
They can make it stop right now, today, by resigning and going home. Until the trials begin, I mean.
That...might be worse? "I voted for it because I didn't understand it, not because I supported it", is in no way exculpatory. "Vote for me, I'll read it next time, I promise!"
Chat is it good when the guy you elected to represent you in Congress who decides how your hard earned tax money is spent says "I don't know what I'm doing" out loud
Rep. Tom Suozzi(D-NY), getting raked over the coals for his vote for more ICE funding, says in a campaign email that he didn’t understand what he was doing
January 26, 2026 at 4:25 PM
That...might be worse? "I voted for it because I didn't understand it, not because I supported it", is in no way exculpatory. "Vote for me, I'll read it next time, I promise!"
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The people are starting to move Democrats into taking action on ICE/CBP. Dems' first instinct will be to offer symbolic changes--like making them take off their masks--that won't make a material difference to the people they hurt. We have to be prepared to reject that and keep pushing.
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
January 26, 2026 at 12:19 PM
The people are starting to move Democrats into taking action on ICE/CBP. Dems' first instinct will be to offer symbolic changes--like making them take off their masks--that won't make a material difference to the people they hurt. We have to be prepared to reject that and keep pushing.
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
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rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know
January 25, 2026 at 7:57 PM
rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know
He just said what we're all thinking.
January 25, 2026 at 5:26 PM
He just said what we're all thinking.
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Like a lot of dudes my age I’ve frankly always wanted to beat the Nazis in a war. Welp here’s our chance
January 25, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Like a lot of dudes my age I’ve frankly always wanted to beat the Nazis in a war. Welp here’s our chance
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“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
January 24, 2026 at 9:24 PM
“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
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I am past 'retrain ICE.' I am past 'reform ICE.' I am past 'abolish ICE.'
I am at 'imprison ICE.'
I am at 'imprison ICE.'
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
January 25, 2026 at 2:27 AM
I am past 'retrain ICE.' I am past 'reform ICE.' I am past 'abolish ICE.'
I am at 'imprison ICE.'
I am at 'imprison ICE.'
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We’ve got fascists and not-fascists. That’s the political binary now. There is no “bipartisanship” with fascists.
anybody who talks about "bipartisanship" is wholly unserious at this point
January 24, 2026 at 4:40 PM
We’ve got fascists and not-fascists. That’s the political binary now. There is no “bipartisanship” with fascists.
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We had 50K people downtown yesterday, no ICE and zero incidents. ICE is the fucking problem.
January 24, 2026 at 4:20 PM
We had 50K people downtown yesterday, no ICE and zero incidents. ICE is the fucking problem.
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Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.
January 24, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.
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Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position
January 24, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position
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live your life in such a way that you aren’t defending kidnapping a 5-year-old
January 24, 2026 at 7:40 AM
live your life in such a way that you aren’t defending kidnapping a 5-year-old
Watching "The Residence" tonight - fun show, great cast - and wondering what it must be like for the real White House staff, who have to interact with some of the most repulsive people in the US under this administration.
January 24, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Watching "The Residence" tonight - fun show, great cast - and wondering what it must be like for the real White House staff, who have to interact with some of the most repulsive people in the US under this administration.
They didn't detain a person, they straight-up stole someone's child.
January 23, 2026 at 10:24 PM
They didn't detain a person, they straight-up stole someone's child.
It just occurred to me that I don't know how WCGALP proceedings are licensed, and I don't want my work to end up scraped into some LLM slop. Hm.
January 23, 2026 at 10:18 PM
It just occurred to me that I don't know how WCGALP proceedings are licensed, and I don't want my work to end up scraped into some LLM slop. Hm.
I'm writing a paper for a conference submission, and their template uses full justification. I feel so dirty.
January 23, 2026 at 9:07 PM
I'm writing a paper for a conference submission, and their template uses full justification. I feel so dirty.
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1/2 Want to become up to date with pangenomes and genome graphs and their history? Check out this fantastic review by @zbao.bsky.social!
Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics
#pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics
#pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
1/2 Want to become up to date with pangenomes and genome graphs and their history? Check out this fantastic review by @zbao.bsky.social!
Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics
#pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics
#pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Hey MAGA and GOP Republicans - you probably haven’t seen a demonstration of true religious faith before - so here you go:
Clergy are being arrested in Minnesota for peacefully protesting - 1/23/2026
January 23, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Hey MAGA and GOP Republicans - you probably haven’t seen a demonstration of true religious faith before - so here you go:
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Okay sorry one more shot:
January 23, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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