Josh
@joshpagano.bsky.social
They get away with what we allow them to get away with
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Josh
@joshpagano.bsky.social
· Mar 22
Let me state unequivocally: I do not believe @schumer.senate.gov is the literal impersonation of spineless cowardice, a craven husk of flaccid ideals masquerading as the floppiest invertebrate, a writhing worm awaiting the boot.
But he all too frequently has created that impression via his actions.
But he all too frequently has created that impression via his actions.
Ah yes, who could forget the obvious distinction between being an antisemite and "creating the feeling of safe harbor for far-right elements who unabashedly or in coded language express antisemitic sentiments"
100%
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Hungary for the win!!
Fun ways of saying “be quiet” that I’ve heard in five different countries:
1. Shut your Camembert box (France)
2. Shut your pie hole (US)
3. Hold your slipper (Austria)
4. Save your breath to cool your porridge (Scotland)
5. If you don’t shut up, I’ll climb into your mouth and shit myself (Hungary)
1. Shut your Camembert box (France)
2. Shut your pie hole (US)
3. Hold your slipper (Austria)
4. Save your breath to cool your porridge (Scotland)
5. If you don’t shut up, I’ll climb into your mouth and shit myself (Hungary)
January 23, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Hungary for the win!!
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we're told we can't afford healthcare or food stamps, but sure, let's build this 🙄
January 23, 2026 at 1:11 PM
we're told we can't afford healthcare or food stamps, but sure, let's build this 🙄
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The first thing Virginia Spanberger did after being sworn in as Governor of Virginia was repeal Youngkin’s executive order requiring state and local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE.
This is the kind of leadership Democratic governors nationwide should be emulating.
This is the kind of leadership Democratic governors nationwide should be emulating.
January 18, 2026 at 11:35 AM
The first thing Virginia Spanberger did after being sworn in as Governor of Virginia was repeal Youngkin’s executive order requiring state and local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE.
This is the kind of leadership Democratic governors nationwide should be emulating.
This is the kind of leadership Democratic governors nationwide should be emulating.
Ice threat continues into the weekend.
And a winter storm is coming too.
And a winter storm is coming too.
January 22, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Ice threat continues into the weekend.
And a winter storm is coming too.
And a winter storm is coming too.
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This is Liam Ramos. The five year old that ICE took from a Minneapolis school and sent BY HIMSELF WITHOUT HIS FAMILY to a detention facility in Texas. There are monsters among us and they are wearing masks, carrying guns, and work for the US government.
January 22, 2026 at 12:41 AM
This is Liam Ramos. The five year old that ICE took from a Minneapolis school and sent BY HIMSELF WITHOUT HIS FAMILY to a detention facility in Texas. There are monsters among us and they are wearing masks, carrying guns, and work for the US government.
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The downside of high ICE/CBP attrition is that the rump will grow increasingly sadistic and criminal.
January 22, 2026 at 3:08 AM
The downside of high ICE/CBP attrition is that the rump will grow increasingly sadistic and criminal.
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They want an ICE agent to get shot.
They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:44 PM
They want an ICE agent to get shot.
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by the way, all of this, dozens of goons, weapons brandished massive teargassing of public space, people beaten in the street, destroying two intersections on either side of my neighborhood, horror, all seems to have been to create a distraction to abduct crying two teenagers who were here legally
look what they’re doing to my city. apologies for the camerawork
January 21, 2026 at 10:33 PM
by the way, all of this, dozens of goons, weapons brandished massive teargassing of public space, people beaten in the street, destroying two intersections on either side of my neighborhood, horror, all seems to have been to create a distraction to abduct crying two teenagers who were here legally
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The fundamental problem here is not one of bad apples. This is what the agency is designed to do. The barrel is bad to start with.
This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.
Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
January 22, 2026 at 3:08 AM
The fundamental problem here is not one of bad apples. This is what the agency is designed to do. The barrel is bad to start with.
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To say what our government is doing is unconscionable greatly under states what’s happening?
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 12:35 AM
To say what our government is doing is unconscionable greatly under states what’s happening?
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Mic drop quote from the article: "Right-wing populists don’t view Christianity as a faith; rather...they use Christianity as a cultural identity marker of the “pure people” against external “others,” while in many cases remaining disconnected from Christian values, beliefs, and institutions."
January 21, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Mic drop quote from the article: "Right-wing populists don’t view Christianity as a faith; rather...they use Christianity as a cultural identity marker of the “pure people” against external “others,” while in many cases remaining disconnected from Christian values, beliefs, and institutions."
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Today I was Kidnapped By ICE - Dawokefarmer
January 18, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Today I was Kidnapped By ICE - Dawokefarmer
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Today - Despite ceasefire claims, Israel continues to kill children.
(Gaza Notifications)
(Gaza Notifications)
January 21, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Today - Despite ceasefire claims, Israel continues to kill children.
(Gaza Notifications)
(Gaza Notifications)
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Democrats struggle with messaging about the attacks in Minnesota after the disastrous response to "defund the police"
But Mamdani offers a clear, unambiguous statement
Abolish ICE
He's right. We must rid America of these goons, because what they are doing is illegal, immoral and outright harmful
But Mamdani offers a clear, unambiguous statement
Abolish ICE
He's right. We must rid America of these goons, because what they are doing is illegal, immoral and outright harmful
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
January 20, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Democrats struggle with messaging about the attacks in Minnesota after the disastrous response to "defund the police"
But Mamdani offers a clear, unambiguous statement
Abolish ICE
He's right. We must rid America of these goons, because what they are doing is illegal, immoral and outright harmful
But Mamdani offers a clear, unambiguous statement
Abolish ICE
He's right. We must rid America of these goons, because what they are doing is illegal, immoral and outright harmful
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ICE is insanely out of control and we have a deranged lunatic for president.
Extending a big middle finger to the folks who told us we were being too dramatic when we said Donald Trump was going to destroy this country.
Congratulations, MAGAts, thanks to your stupidity, this country is FUBAR.
Extending a big middle finger to the folks who told us we were being too dramatic when we said Donald Trump was going to destroy this country.
Congratulations, MAGAts, thanks to your stupidity, this country is FUBAR.
January 19, 2026 at 8:31 PM
ICE is insanely out of control and we have a deranged lunatic for president.
Extending a big middle finger to the folks who told us we were being too dramatic when we said Donald Trump was going to destroy this country.
Congratulations, MAGAts, thanks to your stupidity, this country is FUBAR.
Extending a big middle finger to the folks who told us we were being too dramatic when we said Donald Trump was going to destroy this country.
Congratulations, MAGAts, thanks to your stupidity, this country is FUBAR.
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⚠️ #ICE broke into an American citizen home and took him out, half dressed in the cold - only to discover they had the wrong person. In addition, they put a gun to his daughter-in-law’s head. Americans are being terrorized by our own government‼️
January 19, 2026 at 9:27 PM
⚠️ #ICE broke into an American citizen home and took him out, half dressed in the cold - only to discover they had the wrong person. In addition, they put a gun to his daughter-in-law’s head. Americans are being terrorized by our own government‼️
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A community member armed with a firearm stands guard in his neighborhood after ICE was spotted nearby during an abduction operation in St. Paul, Minnesota, on January 18, 2026.
January 19, 2026 at 12:18 AM
A community member armed with a firearm stands guard in his neighborhood after ICE was spotted nearby during an abduction operation in St. Paul, Minnesota, on January 18, 2026.
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Here is my big list of Dad jokes.
#1. What did the pirate say on his 80th birthday?
#1. What did the pirate say on his 80th birthday?
November 12, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Here is my big list of Dad jokes.
#1. What did the pirate say on his 80th birthday?
#1. What did the pirate say on his 80th birthday?
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I suspect 9 of 10 Americans are unaware that the Hmong are here because they aided the US in the Vietnam war, and then had to flee as refugees afterwards. Quite the “thank you” we’re giving them 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
ICE is allegedly hunting for Hmong people in Minneapolis and as I watched video of the incident lo and behold @whstancil.bsky.social was on the scene
January 20, 2026 at 12:35 AM
I suspect 9 of 10 Americans are unaware that the Hmong are here because they aided the US in the Vietnam war, and then had to flee as refugees afterwards. Quite the “thank you” we’re giving them 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
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New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.
My story:
My story:
Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home
DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 20, 2026 at 12:29 AM
New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.
My story:
My story:
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If you know anything about the Vietnam War, you know why Hmong Americans are here in the US - they were US allies who risked their lives in Laos to aid the US and had to flee at the end of the war when the Pathet Lao won. Infuriating that members of their community are being targeted like this
New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.
My story:
My story:
Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home
DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 20, 2026 at 1:00 AM
If you know anything about the Vietnam War, you know why Hmong Americans are here in the US - they were US allies who risked their lives in Laos to aid the US and had to flee at the end of the war when the Pathet Lao won. Infuriating that members of their community are being targeted like this
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Schumer and Jeffries must step down from leadership if we have any hope to reform this country.
They are all part of the same club. They work for the corporate donors and all they want is restoration.
They won't fight b/c it's not in their interest.
It's so clear and yet still...
They are all part of the same club. They work for the corporate donors and all they want is restoration.
They won't fight b/c it's not in their interest.
It's so clear and yet still...
January 19, 2026 at 4:47 AM
Schumer and Jeffries must step down from leadership if we have any hope to reform this country.
They are all part of the same club. They work for the corporate donors and all they want is restoration.
They won't fight b/c it's not in their interest.
It's so clear and yet still...
They are all part of the same club. They work for the corporate donors and all they want is restoration.
They won't fight b/c it's not in their interest.
It's so clear and yet still...
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Malcolm Nance posted this.
January 19, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Malcolm Nance posted this.
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Yes! I've been telling people this. One real Minnesota cold snap, and these baby boys are going to fall apart.
Hi. MN getting a lot of attention right now.
Do NOT underestimate weather’s potential to absolutely BREAK people here, especially new-to-towners.
When it snows hard, drops to way below zero, everything frozen, it can make you stop functioning. Horrify and immobilize you. Changes EVERYTHING.
Do NOT underestimate weather’s potential to absolutely BREAK people here, especially new-to-towners.
When it snows hard, drops to way below zero, everything frozen, it can make you stop functioning. Horrify and immobilize you. Changes EVERYTHING.
As of late morning, snow was falling in the Red River Valley with northerly winds gusting to more than 40 mph. Weather stations were reporting near-zero visibility at times.
January 18, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Yes! I've been telling people this. One real Minnesota cold snap, and these baby boys are going to fall apart.