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Teknowledge420

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Data science nerd. Hiking, photography and nature. Couple of fake hips, Canadian partner and a couple older daughters in a house on a hill. Also NO DMs.. Seriously, I hate them. Don’t.

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Teknowledge420 @teknowledge420.bsky.social · Nov 20

Kewl...

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Molly Jong-Fast

@mollyjongfast.bsky.social

What a waste of money

January 26, 2026 at 3:25 AM

Teknowledge420

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Ok, feel good story of the day. My neighbor across the street cleaned off the rest of our driveway with his snowblower. Possible he did it as Canadian solidarity since he has seen the in laws plates parked and walking around. We don’t know them personally. So either my grey hair, our sad shoveling?

January 25, 2026 at 10:14 PM

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David Corn

@davidcorn.bsky.social

It was an extrajudicial execution. Anyone who defends this is defending a police state.

January 25, 2026 at 1:49 PM

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn

@badideas.bsky.social

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM

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Dave Jorgenson

@davejorgenson.bsky.social

Clarissa explains it all to the DHS Instagram account

January 24, 2026 at 10:32 PM

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Kevin M. Kruse

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Well worth a watch.

Another case of normie radicalization. This guy is the former president of a local HOA, a web developer for real estate companies and a self proclaimed "member of the square community" and he's out in the streets.

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d

The whole interview is worth it

January 24, 2026 at 9:15 PM

Teknowledge420

@teknowledge420.bsky.social

Ah the 2016 Brooklyn snow storm (Oddly it was “On the day” photos). This one is adding a few inches more and I’m further north and getting 18” tomorrow…

January 24, 2026 at 2:48 PM

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Bruce Little

@brucedlittle.bsky.social

Four-time Grammy Award nominee Jesse Welles performs his song "Join Ice."

Bob Dylan once said a single folk singer could defeat an entire army. Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have our man.

January 24, 2026 at 9:10 AM

Teknowledge420

@teknowledge420.bsky.social

I seem to have a problem of watching AMC+ Thriller channel on YouTube TV…
The movies are actually good and some with big names in them. Either way, beats most other things to watch now.
Next up, “Inner Demons”. Reality TV, drugs and a demon….

a man in a plaid shirt sits on a couch with a woman

ALT: a man in a plaid shirt sits on a couch with a woman

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January 24, 2026 at 1:47 AM

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Ron Filipkowski

@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

JD picked a fight with the wrong person today.

January 23, 2026 at 11:20 PM

Teknowledge420

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I knew I’d seen this storm before. Brooklyn 2016. Hey, the bars were open since the bartenders lived upstairs and opened up the places. It was a fun time watching people unbury cars with a Walgreens scraper.

January 23, 2026 at 12:48 PM

Teknowledge420

@teknowledge420.bsky.social

Remember when the media craze was shows like Planet Earth and there were so many awesome versions of nature shows….
Now we have horror thriller (don’t get me wrong, love them) or John Wick Marvelverse and 90 Days of ___.
I miss the days of NOVA, Planet Earth, Blue Planet, the Netflix ones, etc….

pepperidge farm remembers is written on the screen of a tv

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January 23, 2026 at 4:09 AM

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Ron Filipkowski

@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Carney put crybaby Donnie in his feels.

January 23, 2026 at 2:00 AM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Wow -- Fanone coughs "go fuck yourself" to Trey Nehls as Nehls blames Capitol Police leadership for January 6

January 22, 2026 at 7:22 PM

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Acyn

@acyn.bsky.social

Smith: Again, and I think all of us, if we're reasonable, know that there's going to be more crimes committed by these people in the future. I do not understand why you would mass pardon people who assaulted police officers. I don't get it. I never will.

January 22, 2026 at 7:11 PM

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Abigail Nussbaum

@abigailnussbaum.bsky.social

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · Nov 25

yeah, just out of interest, how many people choose the pen on the right for real work or art? See a lot of them in professional workplaces, do you?

Picture of two pens. The first is an ordinary ballpoint pen, with the caption “how work feels doing it alone”. The second is a picture of one of those novelty pens with ten colours that you had when you were thirteen, with the caption, “how work feels worh an AI employee”. At their bottom it says “hire an AI employee for $0.97/day”.

January 22, 2026 at 12:21 PM

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Mueller, She Wrote

@muellershewrote.com

lol

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 4d

Adventures in due process in an actual SCOTUS arg exchange:

Alito: "Are the mortgage applications even in the record in this case?"

Sauer: "I know that the text of the social media post that screenshots of the mortgage applications is in the record."

January 21, 2026 at 4:23 PM

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Molly Jong-Fast

@mollyjongfast.bsky.social

Good for al gore

Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 4d

the ft reporting that christine lagarde walked out on lutnick, and lutnick was being heckled by... al... gore?

January 21, 2026 at 1:00 PM

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Acyn

@acyn.bsky.social

Jones: All you do is keep people fearful because you get paid 45 million a year to keep people fearful so they don’t pay attention to the CEOS taking their healthcare. You don’t care about the American people. You want them to be afraid of immigrants because all you have is fear.