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Lori K. Davies
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Lawyer, teacher, Dodger fan, and procrastinator.
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realtexaspaul.com
Ice almost murders six month old infant. Baby requires cpr after ICE attacks family's van.
www.fox9.com/news/childre...
North Minneapolis ICE shooting: Children hospitalized after flash bang, tear gas hits van
A family was caught in clashes between protesters and law enforcement during protests in north Minneapolis, leading to three of their six children, including a 6-month-old baby, being hospitalized.
www.fox9.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:29 AM
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grudgie.bsky.social
“Corruption” isn’t even really sufficient for Grand Theft Nation
davmicrot.bsky.social David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 13h
This is getting lost in Trump's ongoing occupation of Minnesota, but Trump used the US military to steal $500 million from Venezuela and place it in a bank account in Qatar.
davmicrot.bsky.social David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 1d
So Trump ordered US military to kidnap President of Venezuela, Trump demanded $billions in oil to avoid more kidnapping, now Trump is laundering proceeds through Qatar? What is Jared’s cut?
January 16, 2026 at 3:29 AM
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collinswatch.bsky.social
A lot going on but at some point (preferably sooner than later) Janet Mills should tell Dem primary voters if she thinks Schumer should lead Senate Dems or not.

It's a consequential question -- growing more significant by the hour -- and if she wins it will be the first vote she casts. #MEpolitics
murshedz.bsky.social Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 20h
Just got this forwarded. Here are the talking points Schumer's team just emailed out to their allies TODAY - this afternoon.

The words "Minnesota" or "ICE" don't appear anywhere here.
Schumer Remarks and Talkers on Democrats’ Plans to Address the Affordability Crisis as Trump and Republicans Send Costs Skyrocketing and Create Chaos in the Economy Unlike Republicans, Democrats are laser-focused on lowering costs for the American people and will roll out precisely how a Democratic majority will lower costs for everyday Americans, starting today with housing. Today, Leader Schumer rolled out a new housing agenda, Opportunity Starts at Home – Democrats’ new vision to tackle the housing crisis and lower housing costs for every single American. For millions of Americans, owning a home is the most important part of the American dream, it builds equity and a future for Americans. But the median price of a home is up 55% since Covid, and rent is up by one-third. The average American homebuyer is now 40 years old, a record high. Donald Trump’s tariffs have raised construction costs by $17,500 per home. He’s proposed 50-year mortgages, an idea so unserious it was ridiculed by everyone, left, right, and center. Trump is launching a criminal investigation against the Chair of the Federal Reserve, making it more likely interest rates will go up and stay up. The only decent idea Trump has floated on housing he stole from Democrats – calling for an end to institutional investors buying up homes. Every Democrat voted to get it done last year, but Congressional Republicans blocked it. Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture offered the administration’s solution to grocery costs, which boils down to “eat less and spend less.” The Trump administration is filled with a bunch of out-of-touch people living in a bubble. And this is what Trump’s so-called Golden Age looks like – get by with less, and stop complaining about affordability. A Democratic majority will tackle the housing affordability crisis by working to reduce rent, boost homeownership, stop predatory corporations, supercharge construction, and provide housing security for all Americans. Democrat…
January 16, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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nancyannn.bsky.social
ICE funding runs out on Jan 30. Please call you senators and House member and demand they not fund them.

The Capitol switchboard number is: 202.224.3121. Ask for your representative’s office. You’ll be connected. You can leave a message. Please call all three of your representives.
January 15, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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joolia.bsky.social
is it normal for encyclopedias to include “skin tone” or just when they’re generated by a white nationalist’s ai?
Grokipedia vo.2 Family Origins and Childhood Julia Carrie Wong was born to a Chinese immigrant father and a white Jewish mother, resulting in her biracial Chinese-Jewish heritage and brown skin tone. 181
January 16, 2026 at 12:53 AM
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atrupar.com
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
January 15, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
I want to talk about a dystopian world we are entering - where every moment, event, and crisis just become commodities.

Life stops being something we live, but something we sell and trade. It will breed both corruption & emptiness.

1/ A 🧵on why our politics can't ignore this.
January 14, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
now is the time of will stancil
whstancil.bsky.social Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d
Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
ajcousins.bsky.social Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 2d
"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"

"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
January 14, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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simonwdc.bsky.social
Please watch this clip, and share as widely as you can.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Laura Jedeed on applying for a job with ICE: "I expected them to Google me, and they didn't ... they sent me a final job offer ... what's disturbing is we don't know who is wearing these masks with guns in our city. We don't know if they have domestic violence convictions."
January 14, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Watchdog agency blindfolded, neutered
January 14, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Ex Republican congressman says “abolish ice”, calls it “state-sponsored terrorism”
January 14, 2026 at 5:23 AM
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grudgie.bsky.social
“Ties to community safety!”
premthakker.bsky.social Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d
This is an unbelievable headline
January 14, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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bradmossesq.bsky.social
This is America.
noturtlesoup17.bsky.social amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d
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 7:05 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
U.S. citizen detained by ICE:

“…they finally told me that they could offer undocumented family members of mine legal protection if I have any…or money, in exchange for giving them the names of protest organizers, or undocumented persons. I was shocked, and told them no.”
ziibiing.com ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 3d
just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday
Eyewitness account: Good morning, My name is Brandon Siguenza, and l am a US citizen from Minneapolis. Yesterday, while doing legal observation, ICE stopped their cars to harass my friend and me. They sprayed pepper spray into the vent of our vehicle. We held our hands in the air and told them we were not obstructing, that the car was in park and they were free to drive forward and away. There was no active immigration raid. They returned to their cars, and drove forward a bit, then decided to stop again. They surrounded us, smashed the windows of our car, opened the doors (they were unlocked), ripped my friend and I out of the car and arrested us on charges of obstruction. I was put in an unmarked SUV, separated from my friend. As I was put in the back seat an ICE agent tore the whistle off my neck and said "I'll be taking this, I might need it later." My phone was knocked out of my hand while being arrested. As we drove away I asked the driver and the passenger if they wouldn't mind buckling my seatbelt, as they were driving erratically. I was ignored. I asked them if I could have the handcuffs loosened, as I was losing circulation, and was told no. At one point the passenger realized his own driver's license was in the backseat next to mine, and tried to surreptitiously grab it without me seeing it. We were taken to the Whipple federal building, where I saw dozens of brown people being processed in an unheated garage. I was frisked, told of my charges, and saw buses and vans being prepped. I later learned that these were being filled with detainees and driven to the airport for deportation. As we were led in, I noticed that the building was very busy. I got the impression that one of the 2 agents bringing me around was being trained. At multiple points throughout my stay, government agents were unable to open doors, not sure where they were meant to be going, and overall confused and overwhelmed. They couldn't figure out how to use the building phones, or complai…
January 13, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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schooley.bsky.social
Other countries are debating banning Grok as a sexual harassment horror show, but we take a different approach here in America.
reuters.com Reuters @reuters.com · 3d
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the integration of Elon Musk's xAI platform, Grok, into military networks as part of a new "AI acceleration strategy" during a visit to SpaceX.
January 13, 2026 at 5:13 AM
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maddowblog.bsky.social
NEW: Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting - At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...
A new spate of Justice Department officials quit because their section didn't want to probe Renee Good's shooting
At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
www.ms.now
January 13, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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volts.wtf
I mean, what do you say any more?
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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maxberger.bsky.social
The DOJ is more than three weeks late in delivering the Epstein Files. In those three weeks:

- Trump declared himself acting President of Venezuela
- ICE murdered a woman in Minnesota
- Trump is preparing an invasion of a NATO ally
- Trump initiated a criminal investigation of Fed Chair Powell
January 12, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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rajivmote.bsky.social
When "hit me, I need the insurance money" becomes "hit me, I need the pretext to kill you."
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5d
It appears that DHS agents have strategically been stepping in front of vehicles to ‘justify’ shooting since at least 2014.

This seems to be the training.

www.thenation.com/article/arch...
FEBRUARY 28, 2014 US Border Agents Intentionally Stepped in Front of Moving Vehicles to Justify Shooting at Them An internal review of the US Border Patrol raises serious questions about the agency’s use-of-force policy. STEVEN HSIEH
January 11, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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axidentaliberal.bsky.social
If you think it’s ludicrous to even consider that the US might invade Greenland and this is just another of Trump’s idiotic wet dreams

You should know he wants to increase the military budget-which already greatly exceeds every other country in the world-from $900 billion to $1.5 trillion
January 11, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Immediately after the murder of Nicole Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem signed a new memorandum directing ICE agents not to comply with laws requiring them to admit members of Congress and their staff for inspection visits.
January 11, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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joycewhitevance.bsky.social
1984: “The National Portrait Gallery removed a swath of text that mentioned President Donald Trump’s two impeachments and the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection as it swapped out a prominent photo of him this week.” www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Smithsonian removes Trump impeachment text as it swaps his portrait
A Trump official previously complained about a caption beside his National Portrait Gallery photo mentioning his impeachments and the U.S. Capitol insurrection.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 10, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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mcbridetd.bsky.social
New vaccine schedule adds near- and long-term risks for children, experts warn www.statnews.com/2026/01/06/w...
New vaccine schedule adds near- and long-term risks for children, experts warn
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pledged to improve children’s health. But his sweeping changes to the nation’s childhood vaccine schedule will do the opposite, health experts warn.
www.statnews.com
January 10, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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normcharlatan.bsky.social
Absolutely insane that my life has become texting with local church pastors to try and find a safe place to hold an emergency meeting for parents at my kid’s’ preschool to figure out how to respond to the federal government kidnapping neighbors.
January 10, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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ilhanmn.bsky.social
I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building.

Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained.

The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.
premthakker.bsky.social Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6d
JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.

@zeteo.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:17 PM