Mark Urban
@markurban8plus1.bsky.social
Grateful husband, father, & Holy Cross educator; Goonie; Tralfamadorian; Rider of Rohan. In a world of 11s, be a Hopper. Sober & Vigilant. PEACE
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https://themarkivesblog.wordpress.com
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https://themarkivesblog.wordpress.com
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If only they had had time for the "don't kidnap 5-year-olds and send them to detention centers 1000 miles away from their families" training module
January 21, 2026 at 11:14 PM
If only they had had time for the "don't kidnap 5-year-olds and send them to detention centers 1000 miles away from their families" training module
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Children! Absolutely disgraceful. This is what happens when Donald Trump’s government pays bounties for people. Doesn’t matter if they’re legal. Doesn’t matter who they are. Doesn’t matter if they’re five-years-old. How can anyone justify this any more?
A 5-year-old preschool student was taken with his father by federal immigration agents shortly after arriving home from school, Columbia Heights school leaders said Jan. 21.
Preschooler and three other students detained by ICE, school district leader says
The detentions of Columbia Heights students come after weeks of heightened concern and enforcement presence near and on Twin Cities school property.
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January 22, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Children! Absolutely disgraceful. This is what happens when Donald Trump’s government pays bounties for people. Doesn’t matter if they’re legal. Doesn’t matter who they are. Doesn’t matter if they’re five-years-old. How can anyone justify this any more?
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Breaking WaPo:
The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner.
The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner.
Autopsy report classifies ICE detainee’s death as a homicide
The report deeming an ICE detainee’s death in Texas a homicide comes the same day that a federal judge temporarily barred the deportation of two witnesses.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Breaking WaPo:
The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner.
The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner.
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The United States government used armed thugs to kidnap a 5-year-old child off an American street, separate him from his dad, traffic him to another state, and sling him into a scary & unsafe concentration camp.
"This is not who we are!!!"
Yes, unfortunately, it now is.
"This is not who we are!!!"
Yes, unfortunately, it now is.
January 22, 2026 at 1:54 AM
The United States government used armed thugs to kidnap a 5-year-old child off an American street, separate him from his dad, traffic him to another state, and sling him into a scary & unsafe concentration camp.
"This is not who we are!!!"
Yes, unfortunately, it now is.
"This is not who we are!!!"
Yes, unfortunately, it now is.
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FRIDAY: Minnesota activists are holding a day of action, and asking allies across the country to hold solidarity actions to keep the focus on ICE’s brutality and the need to get ICE out of our cities now: iceoutforgood.org/
January 22, 2026 at 12:00 AM
FRIDAY: Minnesota activists are holding a day of action, and asking allies across the country to hold solidarity actions to keep the focus on ICE’s brutality and the need to get ICE out of our cities now: iceoutforgood.org/
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This guy cannot get to the Hague fast enough.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino is seen deploying a gas canister at Mueller Park in south Minneapolis this afternoon.
Video by Ben Luhmann.
Video by Ben Luhmann.
January 21, 2026 at 11:59 PM
This guy cannot get to the Hague fast enough.
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Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.
His not being impeached by the end of the business day as a result of this threat is as much a problem as the threat itself. It’s not just Trump that the world has to worry about, it’s a GOP that supports him and Democrats who suck their thumbs and refuse to even discuss pushing to remove him
January 21, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.
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Ohio’s young people deserve a candidate who is fighting for a future where they can get ahead.
That’s why I’m fighting to invest in our public education, prioritize workforce development, and lower costs so all Ohioans can thrive. Thrilled to be with you all!
That’s why I’m fighting to invest in our public education, prioritize workforce development, and lower costs so all Ohioans can thrive. Thrilled to be with you all!
January 22, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Ohio’s young people deserve a candidate who is fighting for a future where they can get ahead.
That’s why I’m fighting to invest in our public education, prioritize workforce development, and lower costs so all Ohioans can thrive. Thrilled to be with you all!
That’s why I’m fighting to invest in our public education, prioritize workforce development, and lower costs so all Ohioans can thrive. Thrilled to be with you all!
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are they not monsters?
January 22, 2026 at 12:08 AM
are they not monsters?
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“I haven’t been able to find any wind farms in China”
January 21, 2026 at 3:10 PM
“I haven’t been able to find any wind farms in China”
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pepper spraying someone in the face from inches away while they are already restrained on the ground should get you fired and land you in jail, no exceptions
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 9:38 PM
pepper spraying someone in the face from inches away while they are already restrained on the ground should get you fired and land you in jail, no exceptions
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How is this making anybody safer?
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 10:29 PM
How is this making anybody safer?
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It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.
Trump: "They're paid agitators and insurrectionists. Nobody talks about the fact that $19 billion at a minimum is missing in Minnesota, given to a large degree by Somalians. They've taken it. Somalians. A lot of very low IQ people."
January 20, 2026 at 11:50 PM
It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.
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hard to believe that the Charlie Kirk firings / pearl clutchings happened mere months ago but here we are
Nick Fuentes urging Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota: "Bro, do it. Do something. Just stop chickening out. I'm just tired of the idle threats... Please pull the trigger. Please kill them, Mr. President. Please just kill them."
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
Nick Fuentes: “Please pull the trigger. Please kill them, Mr. President. … I'm not actually wishing for violence, but please send in the military and restore order.”
www.mediamatters.org
January 21, 2026 at 1:41 AM
hard to believe that the Charlie Kirk firings / pearl clutchings happened mere months ago but here we are
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an entire generation isn’t buying their parents’ bs
Minnesota's Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth made a Facebook post critical of an anti-ICE protest at a church, and got ratioed by her own daughter in the comments www.facebook.com/LisaforMN/po...
January 21, 2026 at 12:54 AM
an entire generation isn’t buying their parents’ bs
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Minnesota's Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth made a Facebook post critical of an anti-ICE protest at a church, and got ratioed by her own daughter in the comments www.facebook.com/LisaforMN/po...
January 21, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Minnesota's Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth made a Facebook post critical of an anti-ICE protest at a church, and got ratioed by her own daughter in the comments www.facebook.com/LisaforMN/po...
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Americans are realizing that unfettered federal power to detain and arrest is a very dangerous thing. I learned that lesson as a child when they put us into internment camps just for looking like the enemy. Don’t go further down this road.
January 20, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Americans are realizing that unfettered federal power to detain and arrest is a very dangerous thing. I learned that lesson as a child when they put us into internment camps just for looking like the enemy. Don’t go further down this road.
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Nation Yearns For Relative Calm Of ‘President A Giant Pedophile’ News Cycle https://theonion.com/nation-yearns-for-relative-calm-of-president-a-giant-pedophile-news-cycle/
January 20, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Nation Yearns For Relative Calm Of ‘President A Giant Pedophile’ News Cycle https://theonion.com/nation-yearns-for-relative-calm-of-president-a-giant-pedophile-news-cycle/
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Reasonable suspicion = not white
Homan: "Let's make it clear: ICE can detain a US citizen if they have probable cause that this person may have committed a crime. A short detainment and questioning, all you need is reasonable suspicion."
January 20, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Reasonable suspicion = not white
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Welp, it's been one year. He's up over 580 cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes since he was sworn in. Here's the index to each month we've catalogued thus far. The list for December 2025 will be out later this week.
Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
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January 20, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Welp, it's been one year. He's up over 580 cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes since he was sworn in. Here's the index to each month we've catalogued thus far. The list for December 2025 will be out later this week.
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Ossoff: "There's a wickedness to the program. I don't know, pastor, where it is in scripture that it says deny care to the sick, take from those with the least to give to those with the most, violate the house of worship to hunt down the refugee. Where in the scripture are those lessons taught?"
January 20, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Ossoff: "There's a wickedness to the program. I don't know, pastor, where it is in scripture that it says deny care to the sick, take from those with the least to give to those with the most, violate the house of worship to hunt down the refugee. Where in the scripture are those lessons taught?"
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Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
January 20, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
TELL YOUR CHILDREN WHO THE COWARDS WERE
McGowan has a spine. Jennings has a leash.
Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here
McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…
McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…
January 20, 2026 at 4:53 PM
TELL YOUR CHILDREN WHO THE COWARDS WERE
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Honored to receive the endorsement of some of the toughest men and women in Ohio: the United Mineworkers of America.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Na...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Na...
United Mine Workers of America Endorse Dr. Amy Acton's Campaign for Governor of Ohio
YouTube video by Ohioans for Amy Acton
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January 20, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Honored to receive the endorsement of some of the toughest men and women in Ohio: the United Mineworkers of America.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Na...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Na...