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The party that has spent unlimited resources and energy getting states to pass laws to allow citizens to openly carry loaded weapons anywhere - now believes that exercising this right is permission for law enforcement to murder you.

Honestly, how dumb do they think we are?
January 25, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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It's not just that these professional politics observers somehow failed to spot the obvious rise of American nativist thuggery.

It's how much energy they devoted to arguing the real problem was the volume, tone, and vocabulary of those raising the alarm about it.
January 25, 2026 at 10:24 PM
This is a no-nonsense MINIMUM for dems in Congress right now. Do something
Congress is not powerless. Democrats must unify around an actual agenda.

1. Vote no on DHS funding bill.

2. Repeal the multi-year $75 billion funding for ICE.

3. End qualified immunity for ICE agents.

4. Investigate and prosecute every single ICE agent who broke the law.
January 25, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position,

Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.
January 24, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it?

[Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
January 23, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Every paper needs to be doing this every day until it stops.
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 23, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) lists criticisms he says he's heard from Republicans... about Trump
January 22, 2026 at 5:23 PM
It’s hard but we can’t get numb to this stuff. It’s not normal and not ok
school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history
January 21, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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I've harped on congressional war powers for a long time and we do need to fix all that, but threatening to invade Greenland while ranting at Norway about the Nobel Peace Prize and imposing trade sanctions on NATO is more the kind of thing you can only fix by not having a literally insane president.
January 19, 2026 at 8:35 AM
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For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.

The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
www.ms.now
January 16, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
Vehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE detention and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost.

Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746
January 16, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Never woulda guessed!
January 16, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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Cartoon by Adam Zyglis
January 15, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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haters will say this is a made up stat
January 14, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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For Renee Nicole Good, for her wife, child, city, country, and every person she died to protect... it's fundraiser time.

I'm giving $1 to Community Aid Network MN for each repost this gets.
AND $1 for each new follower I get.
And if YOU donate to Community Aid Network MN, tell me and I'll match it.
January 13, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Well there ya have it
January 12, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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Totalitarianism.
Masked government agents are killing people in the streets, abducting people from their homes in the middle of the night, and arresting those who speak out.

If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
January 8, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.
January 7, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Your money matters a great deal to the corporations you support. Always remember this. Lyft over Uber etc, etc!!
1. Hundreds of corps that pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 5 years

But we've identified 10 promise keepers:

Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
Eversource Energy
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft
Five years later, these 10 corporations still aren’t funding election deniers
Five years ago today, on January 6, 2021, a violent mob stormed the Capitol building.
popular.info
January 6, 2026 at 3:43 PM
It’s hard to view recent history in any other light.
The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made
January 6, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Old enough to remember this
Five years ago.
January 6, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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If you are a foreign president who commits crimes overseas, America will come get you, arrest you, and lock you up.

But if you are a US president who commits crimes here in the United States, America will give you immunity from prosecution, reelect you, and bribe you with billions of dollars.
January 4, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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The same Justice department that couldn’t get a conviction of Sandwich Guy will surely handle this well.
January 3, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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Looking forward to watching all the people who initially defended the Iraq war....

....who then "reinvented" themselves to align with Bannon's/MAGA's anti-forever war, "America First" isolationism....

....suddenly morph back into regime-changing, oil recouping, Neocon occupiers....

1/
Q: You said the US is going to run Venezuela. So who's in power right now?

TRUMP: Well, we're gonna be running it with a group. We're gonna make sure it's run properly. We're gonna rebuild the oil infrastructure which will cost billions of dollars.
January 3, 2026 at 6:24 PM