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Sherrilyn Ifill

@sifill.bsky.social

Make it viral.

January 8, 2026 at 3:22 AM

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Alex Baumhardt

@alexbaumhardt.bsky.social

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

January 8, 2026 at 1:05 AM

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onion person

@junlper.beer

they were always going to defend this. they absolutely fine with the idea of killing anyone who oppose their nazi agenda. they’ve been intentionally advertising to and recruiting far right maniacs in hopes they would escalate this far

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting ... "

I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense. Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital. The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis. They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE. We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate!

January 7, 2026 at 9:18 PM

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Bennett Tomlin

@bft.wtf

ICE has only existed since 2003. A Bush-era creation, it is a militarized federal secret police that has been imbued with the Supreme Court with the unconstitutional power to ignore the fourth amendment.

Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.

June 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM

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the Mountain Goats

@themountaingoats.bsky.social

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people

really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

January 7, 2026 at 6:25 PM

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Luke O'Neil

@lukeoneil47.bsky.social

It's so fucking convenient that they get to "fear for their lives" anytime they want to absolve themselves of anything and when we actually fear for our lives because of them and do anything a scared person would do it's justification for our death.

January 7, 2026 at 6:43 PM

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Alex Ip 葉清霖

@alexip718.com

If ICE can do this to a random woman in a car, they could and would absolutely do this to any elected official, journalists, human rights lawyer, or immigration advocate they deem to be an enemy of the regime

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.

A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."

Bovino was there.

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Emily Heller lives near 33rd and Portland and said she woke up to a commotion outside her home. She said she saw a car blocking traffic on Portland Avenue that appeared to be part of a protest against federal law enforcement operations.

Heller said she heard ICE agents telling the driver, a woman, to “get out of here.”

“She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” Heller said.

Heller said it appeared the woman then accelerated and traveled about 100 feet before striking a utility pole and some other vehicles. She could be seen slumped over inside her car.

January 7, 2026 at 5:32 PM

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Ben Bertoli 🫜

@radishgames.com

January 5, 2026 at 10:39 PM

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derek guy

@dieworkwear.bsky.social

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why."

Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!"

First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"

Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization."

Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces.

Proud to be an American today!

USA 🇺🇸"

Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster."

Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."

Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars

If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position"

Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"

January 5, 2026 at 6:50 AM

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Governor Tim Walz

@governorwalz.mn.gov

This is Trump’s long game.

We’ve spent years cracking down on fraudsters. It’s a serious issue - but this has been his plan all along.

He’s politicizing the issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans.

www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/hhs...

HHS freezes all child care payments to Minnesota after viral fraud allegations

The Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday it has frozen federal child care funding for the state of Minnesota, citing viral fraud allegations.

www.cbsnews.com

December 31, 2025 at 12:30 AM

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Elyon113

@elyon113.bsky.social

Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.

December 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM

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Coach Finstock

@coachfinstock.bsky.social

Lmaooo when your movies bomb and you see the support Sabrina Carpenter got for telling the WH to fuck off

Sydney Sweeney Shares Emotional Response to Controversial American Eagle Jeans Ad: 'I'm Against Hate' (Exclusive)

Sydney Sweeney addressed her controversial American Eagle denim campaign, which featured the slogan "Sydney Sweeney has great jeans," in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE. See her response.

people.com

December 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM

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FBI Deputy Director “Big Nick” Lutsko

@nicklutsko.bsky.social

I’m alive

December 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM

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Chris Kohler

@kohler.bsky.social

Now I heard there was a tiny box
Engraved with names like Minecraft Notch
And Brian Fargo and FourZeroTwo, yeah
But though it promised games for free
And mobile ports on your TV
It's a cold and it's a broken Founders' Ouya

November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM

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Daiz

@daiz.moe

Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed.

I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.

Daiz @daiz.moe · Oct 29

New article on ★ daiz.moe ★

Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
daiz.moe/crunchyroll-...

A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!

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Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason | Daiz.moe

With the Fall 2025 anime season, Crunchyroll demonstrates zero respect for anime as a medium as the presentation quality of its subtitles reach an all-time low.

daiz.moe

November 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM

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oak blanco

@abomination.computer

that’s absolutely right Alex 🗣️🗣️🗣️

you shouldn’t rake the leaves in your yard. the leaves act as habitats for beneficial insects and break down into nutrients that strengthen the soil

November 21, 2025 at 3:21 AM

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shaun

@shaunvids.bsky.social

one function of capitalism is to funnel these types into positions of power, because if competent & kind people get into power they start taking from the rich and giving to the poor. capitalist leaders must be either evil or ignorant or both, only by mistake does anyone else get near power

Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · Nov 14

What if we could have leaders who aren't either evil monsters or spineless weenies

November 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM

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Preeti Chhibber

@runwithskizzers.bsky.social

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

Felipe Gaona @felipegaonar.bsky.social · Nov 14

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.

Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."