Brian Dunten ❌👑
@bdunten.bsky.social
Lifelong geek. Gaymer. 🏳️🌈 Husband 👨❤️👨. IT professional. He/him/his
Trans & Black Lives Matter. Anti-facist.
Trans & Black Lives Matter. Anti-facist.
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I'm gonna add to this that the Dems had ZERO to do with the Bovino firing. It was the tireless work of the good people of MSP standing strong, filming and writing the news with their first hand accounts. The press tried to both sides it. They WANTED to. But the citizens of Minnesota ended this guy
The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.
January 27, 2026 at 1:26 AM
I'm gonna add to this that the Dems had ZERO to do with the Bovino firing. It was the tireless work of the good people of MSP standing strong, filming and writing the news with their first hand accounts. The press tried to both sides it. They WANTED to. But the citizens of Minnesota ended this guy
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
Would I like to watch the new Star Trek Academy series as a momentary escape? Yes.
But I refuse to subscribe to the Ellison-controlled Paramount+ service, so I will have to make do with the one free episode and wait until my local public library has the series on DVD.
But I refuse to subscribe to the Ellison-controlled Paramount+ service, so I will have to make do with the one free episode and wait until my local public library has the series on DVD.
January 27, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Would I like to watch the new Star Trek Academy series as a momentary escape? Yes.
But I refuse to subscribe to the Ellison-controlled Paramount+ service, so I will have to make do with the one free episode and wait until my local public library has the series on DVD.
But I refuse to subscribe to the Ellison-controlled Paramount+ service, so I will have to make do with the one free episode and wait until my local public library has the series on DVD.
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Please read. And please forward to people who have asked this question. A quick, clear, and common sense explanation. "Libraries exist for a simple but profound reason: to ensure that everyone, regardless of income, background, belief, or zip code, has access to information, ideas, and stories."
Anyone ever say to you when you're talking about banned books some version of, "Well if you want the book, just buy it!" The Freedom to Read Project broke down exactly why that argument doesn't stand up to scrutiny:
What the Library Is For and Why “Just Buy the Book” Gets It Exactly Backwards
Libraries exist to guarantee equal access to ideas; telling families to buy books themselves undermines equity, choice, trust, and opportunity.
www.freedomtoreadproject.org
January 26, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Please read. And please forward to people who have asked this question. A quick, clear, and common sense explanation. "Libraries exist for a simple but profound reason: to ensure that everyone, regardless of income, background, belief, or zip code, has access to information, ideas, and stories."
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As a non-gun person, who agrees with the OP that America's gun laws are "nuts," I found this thread informative.
I'm going to say a couple of things about Alex Pretti's handgun, that I don't think people who do not shoot will initially understand.
This photo was almost immediately distributed by the feds. I think that doing so was, for them and their attempt to whitewash the murder, a *huge* error.
This photo was almost immediately distributed by the feds. I think that doing so was, for them and their attempt to whitewash the murder, a *huge* error.
January 26, 2026 at 9:18 PM
As a non-gun person, who agrees with the OP that America's gun laws are "nuts," I found this thread informative.
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A major newspaper publishing guide to help people identify the munitions their government is using against them is a real "Late Republic America" timepeice that future historians will comment on.
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 8:54 PM
A major newspaper publishing guide to help people identify the munitions their government is using against them is a real "Late Republic America" timepeice that future historians will comment on.
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Minnesota ✊
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
January 26, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Minnesota ✊
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RIGHT WING FANTASY: This is a deeply bankrolled insurgency! Who are the paymasters?! How do we stop this conspiracy?!
ME: Oh. Thanks for reminding me, Bree. (Takes two minutes of my life to donate). Right, back to pretending for a living.
ME: Oh. Thanks for reminding me, Bree. (Takes two minutes of my life to donate). Right, back to pretending for a living.
Did you miss out on your last opportunity to bankroll the fully stocked pop-up leftist supply depot?? Do you want to send free hand warmers, winter gear, first aid supplies, YOU NAME IT, to the Twin Cities?
This is your moment. Let's ride.
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
(non 'zon in follow up!)
This is your moment. Let's ride.
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
(non 'zon in follow up!)
January 26, 2026 at 8:05 PM
RIGHT WING FANTASY: This is a deeply bankrolled insurgency! Who are the paymasters?! How do we stop this conspiracy?!
ME: Oh. Thanks for reminding me, Bree. (Takes two minutes of my life to donate). Right, back to pretending for a living.
ME: Oh. Thanks for reminding me, Bree. (Takes two minutes of my life to donate). Right, back to pretending for a living.
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Update: Senate Democrats say they are unwilling to fund the Department of Homeland Security without major reforms, raising the likelihood of a partial government shutdown at the end of this week.
In the wake of Alex Pretti's death, Congress appears on track for a partial shutdown
Senate Democrats say they are unwilling to fund the Department of Homeland Security without major reforms, raising the likelihood of a partial government shutdown at the end of this week.
n.pr
January 26, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Update: Senate Democrats say they are unwilling to fund the Department of Homeland Security without major reforms, raising the likelihood of a partial government shutdown at the end of this week.
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"It's evil"
Complete perversion of privacy regulations and scientific research, to bolster eugenicist claims about race & IQ.
Complete perversion of privacy regulations and scientific research, to bolster eugenicist claims about race & IQ.
![Their papers have provided fodder for racist posts on social media and white nationalist message boards that have been viewed millions of times. Some of the papers are cited by A.I. bots like ChatGPT and Grok in response to queries about race and intelligence. On the social media platform X, Grok has referred users to the research more than two dozen times this month alone.
“It’s evil,” said Dr. Terry L. Jernigan, national co-director of the ABCD Study and a neuropsychologist at the University of California, San Diego. “It’s not just that the science is faulty, but it’s being used to advance an unethical agenda.”
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The misuse of the children’s data has validated longstanding concerns that hundreds of thousands of Americans’ genetic information held by the N.I.H. could fall into the wrong hands. The agency grants widespread access to stimulate new medical discoveries. But critics say the N.I.H. has failed to address the risks that the data, even with personally identifiable details removed, could be misused in unethical research, for commercial purposes or by foreign adversaries.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:etcwevhnlk6twwytkt3boddp/bafkreicysskxcyhgy6lq3j7gb6lt6uvbkknbvq2x72ukektxdutusht4ym@jpeg)
January 26, 2026 at 5:41 PM
"It's evil"
Complete perversion of privacy regulations and scientific research, to bolster eugenicist claims about race & IQ.
Complete perversion of privacy regulations and scientific research, to bolster eugenicist claims about race & IQ.
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“The white supremacist administration, in an excess of bloodlust and rage, has therefore decided to treat white people in the city as race traitors, subject to the same kinds of violence and smears as non-whites.”
New in PN: The regime's mind-bending lies are a tactic
"The VP told them they could kill anyone who annoyed them. Pretti annoyed them. So they killed him. Now the lies Bovino and Noem are telling about Pretti’s death are intended to encourage further extrajudicial executions and likely will do so."
"The VP told them they could kill anyone who annoyed them. Pretti annoyed them. So they killed him. Now the lies Bovino and Noem are telling about Pretti’s death are intended to encourage further extrajudicial executions and likely will do so."
The regime's mind-bending lies are a tactic
Thinking about them in terms of truth or falsity is a category error.
www.publicnotice.co
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
“The white supremacist administration, in an excess of bloodlust and rage, has therefore decided to treat white people in the city as race traitors, subject to the same kinds of violence and smears as non-whites.”
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It seems like even Trump & co. realize they fucked up with two successive murders of innocent white people in MN. Of course, they are completely incapable of admitting fault, so they're going to double-down on racism and blaming brown people, especially Somalis, for causing this. Don't let them.
January 26, 2026 at 2:52 PM
It seems like even Trump & co. realize they fucked up with two successive murders of innocent white people in MN. Of course, they are completely incapable of admitting fault, so they're going to double-down on racism and blaming brown people, especially Somalis, for causing this. Don't let them.
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All politicians do performative acts of service.
Some choose to do pull-ups with soldiers while calling them "war fighters" and ignoring all of their worth and value other than hate and killing.
Some choose to participate in homeless sweeps, and revel in throwing away what little people have left.
Some choose to do pull-ups with soldiers while calling them "war fighters" and ignoring all of their worth and value other than hate and killing.
Some choose to participate in homeless sweeps, and revel in throwing away what little people have left.
Zohran out there with the people rolling up his sleeves 👇🏽
January 25, 2026 at 8:12 PM
All politicians do performative acts of service.
Some choose to do pull-ups with soldiers while calling them "war fighters" and ignoring all of their worth and value other than hate and killing.
Some choose to participate in homeless sweeps, and revel in throwing away what little people have left.
Some choose to do pull-ups with soldiers while calling them "war fighters" and ignoring all of their worth and value other than hate and killing.
Some choose to participate in homeless sweeps, and revel in throwing away what little people have left.
Folks outside the US who want to find a way to help, this is a good start.
Advocate for your nations to boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. Do not travel here. Get your pension funds to sell their US treasury bonds. Boycott American products. USA big businesses needs to understand the cost of propping up this despotic regime.
January 25, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Folks outside the US who want to find a way to help, this is a good start.
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Renee Good's last words were "I'm not mad at you, bro"
Alex Pretti's last words were "are you okay?"
I am mad.
I am not okay.
Alex Pretti's last words were "are you okay?"
I am mad.
I am not okay.
January 24, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Renee Good's last words were "I'm not mad at you, bro"
Alex Pretti's last words were "are you okay?"
I am mad.
I am not okay.
Alex Pretti's last words were "are you okay?"
I am mad.
I am not okay.
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Abolish ICE, prosecute and imprison its leaders, impeach and remove the President from office. This is the only sane reaction to a group of armed men kidnapping and gunning down our neighbors in the street.
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.
ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Abolish ICE, prosecute and imprison its leaders, impeach and remove the President from office. This is the only sane reaction to a group of armed men kidnapping and gunning down our neighbors in the street.
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Let's be perfectly clear: every single Republican in Congress who allows this to continue without removing this president and prosecuting these lawless ICE murderers, is declaring their allegiance to a tyrant, and themselves enemies of the very Constitution they swore to defend.
January 25, 2026 at 3:03 AM
Let's be perfectly clear: every single Republican in Congress who allows this to continue without removing this president and prosecuting these lawless ICE murderers, is declaring their allegiance to a tyrant, and themselves enemies of the very Constitution they swore to defend.
$100 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
Thanks for amplifying this @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social
Thanks for amplifying this @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social
For those who can, here are links to donate directly to local efforts on the ground resisting ICE's terrorizing of Minneapolis. Let me know what you donated to where, and I'll match it until I get a panicked call from my bank!
linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid
linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid
@mplsmutualaid | Linktree
Clearinghouse of mutual aid for our neighbors
linktr.ee
January 25, 2026 at 2:35 AM
$100 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
Thanks for amplifying this @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social
Thanks for amplifying this @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social
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January 25, 2026 at 12:52 AM
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Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
January 24, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
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This is nothing less than violent mob extortion by the Trump regime of a state that voted against Trump three times and exposes any so-called concern about immigration issues in Minnesota as a lie.
Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.
Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
January 25, 2026 at 1:09 AM
This is nothing less than violent mob extortion by the Trump regime of a state that voted against Trump three times and exposes any so-called concern about immigration issues in Minnesota as a lie.
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
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Holy fucking shit.
Children screaming and crying can be heard as a possible uprising is underway at the ICE Children's Concentration Camp in Dilley, TX (1/24/26).
January 25, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Holy fucking shit.
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A reminder: If you do experience something traumatic, studies have shown that playing Tetris afterward helps prevent PTSD symptoms.
I don't use Tetris myself, but do have a match-3 renovation game on my phone for such situations. It does help me.
I don't use Tetris myself, but do have a match-3 renovation game on my phone for such situations. It does help me.
January 24, 2026 at 8:11 PM
A reminder: If you do experience something traumatic, studies have shown that playing Tetris afterward helps prevent PTSD symptoms.
I don't use Tetris myself, but do have a match-3 renovation game on my phone for such situations. It does help me.
I don't use Tetris myself, but do have a match-3 renovation game on my phone for such situations. It does help me.