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Corey O'Neill

@coreyoneill.bsky.social

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Here's a visual representation of how many times Trump's name appears in the Epstein files... so far.

www.instagram.com/p/DUgiBD_EiSP

February 18, 2026 at 7:39 PM

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Molly Jong-Fast

@mollyjongfast.bsky.social

Good

February 13, 2026 at 7:01 PM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

February 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM

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The Tennessee Holler

@thetnholler.bsky.social

Cruelty is big business

February 3, 2026 at 2:57 AM

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Amanda Katz

@katzish.bsky.social

Healthcare systems are bracing for a massive hit if Trump and Noem succeed in suddenly revoking TPS for Haitians, who are the backbone of the industry in many states. “At least 50,000 migrants with protected status work in health care,” the NYT reports www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...

Haitians Are Vital to U.S. Health Care. Many Are About to Lose Their Right to Work.

www.nytimes.com

February 3, 2026 at 1:51 AM

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Jon Cooper

@joncooper-us.bsky.social

Taylor Rehmet’s stunning victory in Texas by flipping a +17 Trump district can’t be overstated. He’s the first Democrat in 35 years to win this district, and he won by 14 points — despite the GOP outspending him by over $2 million. Democrats have now won or overperformed in 240 of 269 key elections.

February 2, 2026 at 3:24 PM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Murphy on Fox News Sunday: "I mean -- c'mon. We're still pretending that ICE is going after dangerous people? They aren't. What is happening in Minnesota right now is a dystopia. ICE is teargassing elementary schools, it is disappearing legal residents into cars, it is murdering American citizens."

February 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)

@hcrichardson.bsky.social

This. A handful of Americans have the power to stop this NOW, and they are refusing to.

amdjerz.bsky.social @amdjerz.bsky.social · 25d

His death is caused by one man and his Republican collaborators. Republicans in Congress could stop this today. Call your Senators today www.5calls.org #DefundICE

5 Calls

Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

www.5calls.org

January 24, 2026 at 8:28 PM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

January 24, 2026 at 5:37 PM

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Molly Jong-Fast

@mollyjongfast.bsky.social

We’re the bad guys now.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Jan 18

BREAKING: Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom:

January 18, 2026 at 11:37 PM

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Acyn

@acyn.bsky.social

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

January 13, 2026 at 1:20 AM

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑

@strictlychristo.bsky.social

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death - ProPublica
www.propublica.org/article/keny...

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death

“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

www.propublica.org

December 18, 2025 at 8:02 AM

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Captain Mark Kelly

@captmarkkelly.bsky.social

Listen, Trump. Your continued threats will not intimidate me or keep me from doing my job, which includes oversight of the executive branch.

Stop the threats of execution, hanging, and sending a mob before someone gets hurt.

America deserves better.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · Nov 23

New threats from Trump:

The president just endorsed a post reading, "Go get all those traitorous sons of bitches for sedition at the very least. Those pompous traitorous communists should be impeached and prosecuted."

November 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM

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Mostly Leftist Supply Depot Bree

@mostlybree.kitrocha.com

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

November 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM

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SaltyBitchables

@saltybitchables.bsky.social

Colorado approves higher taxes on the wealthy to pay for school lunches and food stamps!

#Pinks #ProudBlue #StrongerTogether #Colorado
#BlueWave
coloradosun.com/2025/11/04/p...

Colorado voters approve tax increase on high earners to fund school meals, food stamps

Proposition MM's passage means Colorado will be able to fully fund free breakfast and lunch for all public school students

coloradosun.com

November 5, 2025 at 3:57 AM

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Jay

@johnathanperk.bsky.social

This (moderate) level of racial competency is VERY rare for someone of this demo; white folks should’ve been listening to and learning from people like this for decades.

Sadly, it’s too late to dismantle racism, now. Racism has won.
White America chose it instead of a hyper-qualified Black Woman. 🙁

October 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM

Kathlene Postma

@kathlenepostma.bsky.social

That’s how you do it!

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Oct 15

Once again a BRAVE WOMAN standing up for what's right!!! 👏👏👏👏

October 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM

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Jennifer C

@thejenniwren.teamlh.social

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ICE abducted a 15-year-old autistic boy during a bathroom break and kept him hidden for nearly a week.
His mother thought he was missing. Even local police couldn’t find him because ICE never told anyone they had him.

He was selling fruit with his mom when he asked to use the restroom.

October 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM

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Nash Is Here For It

@nashishereforit.bsky.social

A real man of the people…

October 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · Oct 6

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Oct 6

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

October 6, 2025 at 2:14 AM

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Stardust 🌏🎬

@stardustbluepr.com

“Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, a McCarthy-era initiative founded in the 1940s by her father, Henry Fonda, to protect against attacks on free speech.”