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🪐✨ electrified meat in the laniakea supercluster they/them *no longer prone to magical thinking
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Tensions are rising between the Department of Homeland Security and indigenous tribal leaders who say they believe federal agents have arrested several Native American men amid the immigration-enforcement surge in Minneapolis.
Native Americans are Caught Up in ICE Crackdown in Minneapolis
Oglala Sioux tribal officials say they are searching for several homeless members of the tribe they believe were detained.
on.wsj.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Tensions are rising between the Department of Homeland Security and indigenous tribal leaders who say they believe federal agents have arrested several Native American men amid the immigration-enforcement surge in Minneapolis.
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Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
January 15, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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BREAKING: Medical examiner says death of ICE detainee was a HOMICIDE - a witness says he was choked to death by GUARDS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:09 PM
BREAKING: Medical examiner says death of ICE detainee was a HOMICIDE - a witness says he was choked to death by GUARDS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
#repostforever #thestateofthings
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January 15, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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Israel kills 8 in Gaza as US declares phase two of ceasefire deal launched https://aje.news/513lia
January 15, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Israel kills 8 in Gaza as US declares phase two of ceasefire deal launched https://aje.news/513lia
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Somebody could formulate this thought better than me, but notice how the right uses the idea of maternal protection to dismantle public health infrastructure, but disparages the women protecting their kids from ICE gangs.
HHS Secretary RFK Jr: "This idea that you should trust the experts, a good mother doesn't do that"
January 15, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Somebody could formulate this thought better than me, but notice how the right uses the idea of maternal protection to dismantle public health infrastructure, but disparages the women protecting their kids from ICE gangs.
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Trump as the Florida Panthers stand behind him: "What's going on in Minnesota -- we're taking out some of the worst criminals in the world are being taken out of our country. Murderers, drug dealers. We have the best crime numbers we've ever had."
January 15, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Trump as the Florida Panthers stand behind him: "What's going on in Minnesota -- we're taking out some of the worst criminals in the world are being taken out of our country. Murderers, drug dealers. We have the best crime numbers we've ever had."
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Machado says she 'presented' Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize medal
January 15, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Machado says she 'presented' Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize medal
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You do realize that if Trump didn't accept her Nobel and said "I can't it's not mine and I don't deserve it" it means the world is ending later today 🤦🏼♂️
January 15, 2026 at 10:00 PM
You do realize that if Trump didn't accept her Nobel and said "I can't it's not mine and I don't deserve it" it means the world is ending later today 🤦🏼♂️
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NYT: The U.S. is pressuring Mexico to allow U.S. troops into the country to target fentanyl labs, American officials said.
January 15, 2026 at 8:19 PM
NYT: The U.S. is pressuring Mexico to allow U.S. troops into the country to target fentanyl labs, American officials said.
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He’s not destroying America, he’s roasting it!
Q: Americans for generations have fought and died for democracy. Are you saying the president finds the idea of canceling elections funny?
LEAVITT: Where you in the room? Only someone like you would take that so seriously
LEAVITT: Where you in the room? Only someone like you would take that so seriously
January 15, 2026 at 7:07 PM
He’s not destroying America, he’s roasting it!
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Fascism in its essence 👇
LEAVITT: Why was Renee Good unfortunately and tragically killed?
REPORTER: Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably
LEAVITT: Oh, ok. So you're a biased reporters with a biased opinion. You're a left-wing hack.
REPORTER: Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably
LEAVITT: Oh, ok. So you're a biased reporters with a biased opinion. You're a left-wing hack.
January 15, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Fascism in its essence 👇
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Hey y’all!
Trump is lying. He’s not arresting the worst of the worst and deporting them.
Masked men are beating down American citizens. Beating women.
Everyone should be armed. This is the government coming for us.
#DV1
#Voices4Victory
#SheShed
#Pinks
Fuck the 40% who approve this Gestapo!
Trump is lying. He’s not arresting the worst of the worst and deporting them.
Masked men are beating down American citizens. Beating women.
Everyone should be armed. This is the government coming for us.
#DV1
#Voices4Victory
#SheShed
#Pinks
Fuck the 40% who approve this Gestapo!
January 14, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Hey y’all!
Trump is lying. He’s not arresting the worst of the worst and deporting them.
Masked men are beating down American citizens. Beating women.
Everyone should be armed. This is the government coming for us.
#DV1
#Voices4Victory
#SheShed
#Pinks
Fuck the 40% who approve this Gestapo!
Trump is lying. He’s not arresting the worst of the worst and deporting them.
Masked men are beating down American citizens. Beating women.
Everyone should be armed. This is the government coming for us.
#DV1
#Voices4Victory
#SheShed
#Pinks
Fuck the 40% who approve this Gestapo!
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Enten: "Americans at this point do not like ICE. And that's very different from what we saw during Trump's first term. We're talking about -17 approval rating. That's a 17 point drop from where we were during Trump's first term. Among independents, the number is even lower."
January 15, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Enten: "Americans at this point do not like ICE. And that's very different from what we saw during Trump's first term. We're talking about -17 approval rating. That's a 17 point drop from where we were during Trump's first term. Among independents, the number is even lower."
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January 15, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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The president once promised to combat the supposed excesses of woke culture—but since taking office, he’s been dismantling something else, @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.
What Trump’s War Against Wokeness Is Really About
The president once promised to combat the supposed excesses of woke culture, but since taking office he’s been dismantling something else.
bit.ly
January 15, 2026 at 12:35 AM
The president once promised to combat the supposed excesses of woke culture—but since taking office, he’s been dismantling something else, @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.
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Timothy Naftali, the founding director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, joins @davidfrum.bsky.social to discuss what Frum calls the “many strange moneymaking schemes” around Donald Trump’s plan for a presidential library in Miami.
Watch the episode:
Watch the episode:
Trump Has Redefined Presidential Scandal
The historian Timothy Naftali on Donald Trump’s presidential library, comparing the many scandals of the Trump presidency to those of Richard Nixon’s, and Trump’s foreign policy of American weakness. Plus: a head-spinning week of terrifying crises, and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.
bit.ly
January 14, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Timothy Naftali, the founding director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, joins @davidfrum.bsky.social to discuss what Frum calls the “many strange moneymaking schemes” around Donald Trump’s plan for a presidential library in Miami.
Watch the episode:
Watch the episode:
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If Donald Trump makes good on his threat to use force to gain Greenland, it could set in motion a disastrous chain of events, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues: theatln.tc/nM4fmwGc
January 14, 2026 at 11:09 PM
If Donald Trump makes good on his threat to use force to gain Greenland, it could set in motion a disastrous chain of events, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues: theatln.tc/nM4fmwGc
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The Senate on Wednesday blocked a resolution that sought to force Donald Trump to seek congressional approval for any U military action related to Venezuela, because Josh Hawley and Todd Young were only holding out initially to get something now.
GROSS. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
GROSS. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US Senate blocks effort to rein in Trump's Venezuela war powers
U.S. Senate Republicans voted on Wednesday against a resolution that would have barred President Donald Trump from further military action in Venezuela without Congress' authorization, after the Repub...
www.reuters.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:04 AM
The Senate on Wednesday blocked a resolution that sought to force Donald Trump to seek congressional approval for any U military action related to Venezuela, because Josh Hawley and Todd Young were only holding out initially to get something now.
GROSS. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
GROSS. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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16-year-old Arnoldo Bazan and his father were getting McDonald’s before school when immigration agents pulled them over.
They slammed his father to the ground and put the teen in a chokehold. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” he said.
Read the full story: https://propub.li/4qSnVkQ
They slammed his father to the ground and put the teen in a chokehold. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” he said.
Read the full story: https://propub.li/4qSnVkQ
January 15, 2026 at 1:16 AM
16-year-old Arnoldo Bazan and his father were getting McDonald’s before school when immigration agents pulled them over.
They slammed his father to the ground and put the teen in a chokehold. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” he said.
Read the full story: https://propub.li/4qSnVkQ
They slammed his father to the ground and put the teen in a chokehold. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” he said.
Read the full story: https://propub.li/4qSnVkQ
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Dear Black people,
they’re coming for us too.
they’re coming for us too.
January 15, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Dear Black people,
they’re coming for us too.
they’re coming for us too.
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It's come to this
Europe having to perform military exercises against their primary threat, the United States.
January 15, 2026 at 1:17 AM
It's come to this