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Fly fishing. Skiing. Native Montanan.
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Read this story and decide if this is the America you want to live in.

ICE saw a Latino man driving a car. Chased him down and rammed him. Just because he wasn’t white.

He was just a guy - an American citizen - driving to the auto shop.
ICE rams car in south Minneapolis while profiling Latino driver
ICE agents rammed into a man’s car in south Minneapolis Monday afternoon while profiling the Latino driver.
sahanjournal.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
January 13, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.

A citizen.

Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.

"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.

Agents took and sold his phone

And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
January 13, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present.

He was bundled into the van & taken away.

Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”

I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
January 13, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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BREAKING: Jack Smith will testify publicly to the House Judiciary Committee on Jan. 22 at 10 am.
January 13, 2026 at 3:14 AM
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This video is the perfect encapsulation of the illegal, thuggish, unprovoked, violent conduct of ICE. Rep. @benniethompson.bsky.social, I trust that you and the House Homeland Security Committee will have interest in this.
January 13, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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Note that the fascist is not using the pepper spray for crowd control. He is entering a vehicle unimpeded to depart. He is simply using the pepper spray to physically punish an unarmed citizen he doesn't like.
Big clash this afternoon between DHS agents and protesters in a residential street in Minneapolis, following a DHS agent hitting another vehicle. Tear gas was deployed in people’s yards and agents pepper prayed people.
January 12, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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Frey: "Last week a group of our city's Public Works employees were stopped by ICE agents. 3 of the 4 employees were not white. The ICE agents asked to see the IDs of the 3 non-white employees and didn't even bother to ask the white employee for identification."
January 12, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to:

* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon

The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire

www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings
A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.
www.wsj.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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The catalog of ICE abuses in Noah Smith’s article is staggering.
January 11, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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Italian Prime Minister Meloni reaction to the growing US threat: “Should we close American military bases? Or cut trade relations? Should we storm McDonalds? I don't know what we should do?”
January 11, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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Two-thirds of Montana’s private land is in the hands of a few thousand owners montanafreepress.org/2026/01/06/m...
#mtpol
Two-thirds of Montana’s private land is in the hands of a few thousand owners
The finding, based on an analysis of Cadastral data, has implications for wildlife management, recreational access
montanafreepress.org
January 11, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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“Do not get lost in a sea of despair.”

- John Lewis #RIP
January 10, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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DAVE MATTHEWS: “I don’t want my taxes to pay for masked thugs to roam our streets & terrorize our communities... She was trying to get away. He shot her 3x in the head. Murdered in cold blood. They’re trying to tell us not to believe what we see. FUCK ICE.”

(H/T @marcofoster.bsky.social )
January 10, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Again I say into the void: stop saying the ICE officer had no time to think. Time doesn’t start when the drama starts. They drove up. They walked up. They engaged. Stop saying there is only reflex, no thought. If so, stop arming ambulatory startle reflexes & calling them cops
January 10, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Me “I should watch the news”. Watches news. Also me “I really need to catch up on real housewives”.ny brain just needs a little soothing.
January 10, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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i honestly can't believe i didn't see this until today
Trump is clearly not well.

At a meeting with oil industry CEO’s Trump suddenly interrupts his introductory remarks, gets up and looks out the window and starts talking about his ballroom. Trump then realizes his mistake and says “unusual time to look”, and sits back down to continue.
January 10, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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I think this is just the right amount of rage required here.
January 10, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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From Mayo Clinic. That’s ICE going into the patients’ PARKING GARAGE where there kidnapped someone. Do you know how many foreign born patients and researchers and physicians are here?!
January 10, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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This is the video.
January 7, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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“A member of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) restrains a protester trying to block vehicles from leaving the scene after a driver of a vehicle was shot in Minneapolis, Minnesota.”

@reuters.com
January 7, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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ICE agents stopped by protesters after the shooting an observer in Minneapolis, according to witnesse. ICE deployed pepper spray and tear gas.
January 7, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Wow. I go to sleep and we’re kidnapping foreign powers. Now what?
January 3, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Time to watch Desk Set. One cocktail down and having tea in between
December 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
It never fails to amaze me how so many people are like “the ACA is awful and we need to get rid of it” and I think the venn diagram of people who think that and people who don’t use healthcare for a chronic condition. Is a perfect circle
December 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM