Duane
@sailmn4now.bsky.social
thankful in Minneapolis (USA)
"When we cultivate anything, regularly, again and again and again, that is what is going to be perfect." I'm trying to perfect positive things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3o2kltX7RI&t=2165s
"When we cultivate anything, regularly, again and again and again, that is what is going to be perfect." I'm trying to perfect positive things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3o2kltX7RI&t=2165s
@smith.senate.gov @klobuchar.senate.gov Because based on your boss’s actual physical response (not in front of a camera or on the streets of the 14th largest media market) I assume you and your colleagues haven’t seen this.
Remember the video of that door busting ICE raid over the weekend? Not only was it done without a proper warrant, but the man they were looking for had checked in with ICE two weeks earlier. The chaos and violence is a performance.
www.fox9.com/news/judge-i...
www.fox9.com/news/judge-i...
January 16, 2026 at 5:36 AM
@smith.senate.gov @klobuchar.senate.gov Because based on your boss’s actual physical response (not in front of a camera or on the streets of the 14th largest media market) I assume you and your colleagues haven’t seen this.
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Parked my car at the end of my neighbour Steve’s driveway the other day so he couldn’t get in or out and I told him I wouldn’t move my car until he gave me the trophy he won on the weekend so you’re now looking at the new Tri-County Mixed Doubles Pickleball Champion.
January 16, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Parked my car at the end of my neighbour Steve’s driveway the other day so he couldn’t get in or out and I told him I wouldn’t move my car until he gave me the trophy he won on the weekend so you’re now looking at the new Tri-County Mixed Doubles Pickleball Champion.
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📌URGENT: Trump's regime is trying to turn Stars & Stripes into state-run media.
I was the ME of S&S.
It's MANDATED BY CONGRESS to be an editorially independent paper that reports ON the troops FOR the troops.
So I type this with precision: The draft-dodging, America-attacking slob can KISS MY ASS.
I was the ME of S&S.
It's MANDATED BY CONGRESS to be an editorially independent paper that reports ON the troops FOR the troops.
So I type this with precision: The draft-dodging, America-attacking slob can KISS MY ASS.
Pentagon says it will ‘refocus’ Stars and Stripes content
The Pentagon suggested it would take over editorial decision making for Stars and Stripes, which has long retained independence under a congressional mandate.
www.stripes.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:01 AM
📌URGENT: Trump's regime is trying to turn Stars & Stripes into state-run media.
I was the ME of S&S.
It's MANDATED BY CONGRESS to be an editorially independent paper that reports ON the troops FOR the troops.
So I type this with precision: The draft-dodging, America-attacking slob can KISS MY ASS.
I was the ME of S&S.
It's MANDATED BY CONGRESS to be an editorially independent paper that reports ON the troops FOR the troops.
So I type this with precision: The draft-dodging, America-attacking slob can KISS MY ASS.
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If they do end up making a “list” of protesters…
Thanks for documenting which side I was on for future generations, I guess. I’d rather that be crystal fucking clear to my kids and any future grandchildren than ever have them wonder, tbh.
Thanks for documenting which side I was on for future generations, I guess. I’d rather that be crystal fucking clear to my kids and any future grandchildren than ever have them wonder, tbh.
January 16, 2026 at 2:34 AM
If they do end up making a “list” of protesters…
Thanks for documenting which side I was on for future generations, I guess. I’d rather that be crystal fucking clear to my kids and any future grandchildren than ever have them wonder, tbh.
Thanks for documenting which side I was on for future generations, I guess. I’d rather that be crystal fucking clear to my kids and any future grandchildren than ever have them wonder, tbh.
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Federal agents left a Mexican restaurant in St. Paul on Jan. 11 as patrons shouted at them, saying they weren't welcome and needed a judicial warrant.
In a post on Facebook, the restaurant thanked customers who "stood strong and protected our community."
Video by Aldora Gutierrez via Storyful.
In a post on Facebook, the restaurant thanked customers who "stood strong and protected our community."
Video by Aldora Gutierrez via Storyful.
January 15, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Federal agents left a Mexican restaurant in St. Paul on Jan. 11 as patrons shouted at them, saying they weren't welcome and needed a judicial warrant.
In a post on Facebook, the restaurant thanked customers who "stood strong and protected our community."
Video by Aldora Gutierrez via Storyful.
In a post on Facebook, the restaurant thanked customers who "stood strong and protected our community."
Video by Aldora Gutierrez via Storyful.
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Correct.
Dems/patriots should be straight-up committed to abolishing ICE.
We must never again have masked, armed, untrained, unscreened, embittered rogue agents patrolling our streets, destroying civil order rather than trying to maintain it.
Empowered by 'Kavanaugh stop' and 'Roberts waiver.'
Dems/patriots should be straight-up committed to abolishing ICE.
We must never again have masked, armed, untrained, unscreened, embittered rogue agents patrolling our streets, destroying civil order rather than trying to maintain it.
Empowered by 'Kavanaugh stop' and 'Roberts waiver.'
ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it.
We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.
We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.
January 15, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Correct.
Dems/patriots should be straight-up committed to abolishing ICE.
We must never again have masked, armed, untrained, unscreened, embittered rogue agents patrolling our streets, destroying civil order rather than trying to maintain it.
Empowered by 'Kavanaugh stop' and 'Roberts waiver.'
Dems/patriots should be straight-up committed to abolishing ICE.
We must never again have masked, armed, untrained, unscreened, embittered rogue agents patrolling our streets, destroying civil order rather than trying to maintain it.
Empowered by 'Kavanaugh stop' and 'Roberts waiver.'
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We need to make this more explicit: The violence and civil collapse we're now seeing in Minnesota is by design. It's exactly what Trump and Stephen Miller want. MAGA is *all about* deliberately unleashing ethnic hatreds and violent antagonisms among Americans.
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
January 15, 2026 at 3:54 PM
We need to make this more explicit: The violence and civil collapse we're now seeing in Minnesota is by design. It's exactly what Trump and Stephen Miller want. MAGA is *all about* deliberately unleashing ethnic hatreds and violent antagonisms among Americans.
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
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I find myself thinking about this photo often. With tonight's ICE activities in Mpls driven by xenophobia and prejudices I thought of it again. The photo is over 50 years old and to me it's unthinkable that we are still struggling to have this level of friendship and acceptance in our country.
January 15, 2026 at 4:54 AM
I find myself thinking about this photo often. With tonight's ICE activities in Mpls driven by xenophobia and prejudices I thought of it again. The photo is over 50 years old and to me it's unthinkable that we are still struggling to have this level of friendship and acceptance in our country.
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They have fucking assault rifles and we have whistles and they’re scared shitless, because they know we’d rather be righteous and dead than ever be them.
January 15, 2026 at 3:56 AM
They have fucking assault rifles and we have whistles and they’re scared shitless, because they know we’d rather be righteous and dead than ever be them.
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Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.
January 15, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.
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It's worth reminding each other every couple days that every delay you create, every horrible opportunity you deter means someone gets home to their family, might even mean someones actual life is saved. All of it is worth it.
January 12, 2026 at 8:26 PM
It's worth reminding each other every couple days that every delay you create, every horrible opportunity you deter means someone gets home to their family, might even mean someones actual life is saved. All of it is worth it.
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Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.
January 15, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.
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Amazing how quickly the pretext for invading a city just falls away. The circular justification in Minneapolis is now “we are punishing the city for resisting our punishment.
January 14, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Amazing how quickly the pretext for invading a city just falls away. The circular justification in Minneapolis is now “we are punishing the city for resisting our punishment.
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You know how bad things have gotten when MINNEAPOLIS POLICE are the ones calming the agents down.
On Minneapolis police's role re: ICE: I did an on the record interview yesterday with a man who said ICE agents pulled guns on observers including him at the end of December near the 5th precinct. It was only the arrival of MPD officers that deescalated the situation, they said.
January 14, 2026 at 4:14 PM
You know how bad things have gotten when MINNEAPOLIS POLICE are the ones calming the agents down.
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this is cold as fuck
January 14, 2026 at 4:04 AM
this is cold as fuck
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Target, United Healthcare, Xcel Energy, General Mills, US Bancorp are all HEADQUARTERED in Minneapolis. 17 Fortune 500 companies headquartered there. Some of their own employees may have been affected. Their silence is getting deafening.
January 14, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Target, United Healthcare, Xcel Energy, General Mills, US Bancorp are all HEADQUARTERED in Minneapolis. 17 Fortune 500 companies headquartered there. Some of their own employees may have been affected. Their silence is getting deafening.
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I know a decent amount of good local journos and I would looove to hear them report a story of why all the major corporations and their CEOs are absolutely silent about the occupation of minnesota.
January 13, 2026 at 10:34 PM
I know a decent amount of good local journos and I would looove to hear them report a story of why all the major corporations and their CEOs are absolutely silent about the occupation of minnesota.
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The Trump era in a nutshell:
Ordinary citizens are holding ICE accountable, while large law firms are doing nothing.
Small businesses are speaking out, while large corporations remain silent.
Independent media show moral urgency, while legacy media reports "both sides."
Ordinary citizens are holding ICE accountable, while large law firms are doing nothing.
Small businesses are speaking out, while large corporations remain silent.
Independent media show moral urgency, while legacy media reports "both sides."
January 13, 2026 at 4:44 PM
The Trump era in a nutshell:
Ordinary citizens are holding ICE accountable, while large law firms are doing nothing.
Small businesses are speaking out, while large corporations remain silent.
Independent media show moral urgency, while legacy media reports "both sides."
Ordinary citizens are holding ICE accountable, while large law firms are doing nothing.
Small businesses are speaking out, while large corporations remain silent.
Independent media show moral urgency, while legacy media reports "both sides."
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UPDATE: Judge Menendez makes it clear she intends to rule on the emergency motion by protesters — seeking to halt key police tactics by ICE in Minnesota — by Thursday afternoon.
January 13, 2026 at 5:15 PM
UPDATE: Judge Menendez makes it clear she intends to rule on the emergency motion by protesters — seeking to halt key police tactics by ICE in Minnesota — by Thursday afternoon.
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The curse of great wealth is that slowly your money comes to own you, not vice versa. California's billionaires are demonstrating this to everyone.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/prisoners-...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/prisoners-...
Prisoners of Fortune
When your money owns you.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:03 PM
The curse of great wealth is that slowly your money comes to own you, not vice versa. California's billionaires are demonstrating this to everyone.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/prisoners-...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/prisoners-...
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It’s a way for elites to displace responsibility for their own failure to act onto the unwashed masses (who have in fact consistently acted with far more bravery and integrity than university presidents, CEOs, politicians, etc)
The idea that Americans are unusually quiescent is a weirdly load-bearing and ideologically widespread position, one that has survived multiple massive protest waves and visible community organizing in the face of violent state repression with nary a ripple. It's really odd
I see this take around from time to time and totally disagree. ICE just murdered a woman standing up to them. No Kings is among the largest protests in history.
The complacency is coming from elites in media, business, universities, and the Democratic leadership
The complacency is coming from elites in media, business, universities, and the Democratic leadership
January 12, 2026 at 4:20 PM
It’s a way for elites to displace responsibility for their own failure to act onto the unwashed masses (who have in fact consistently acted with far more bravery and integrity than university presidents, CEOs, politicians, etc)
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This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.
Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."
January 12, 2026 at 1:45 AM
This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.
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minneapolis is under siege and it is taking basically all of ICE’s manpower
they cannot replicate this across the country and they aren’t close to recruiting the kind of numbers they’d need to even get close
they are, flatly, not going to be able to get there
they cannot replicate this across the country and they aren’t close to recruiting the kind of numbers they’d need to even get close
they are, flatly, not going to be able to get there
January 11, 2026 at 7:02 PM
minneapolis is under siege and it is taking basically all of ICE’s manpower
they cannot replicate this across the country and they aren’t close to recruiting the kind of numbers they’d need to even get close
they are, flatly, not going to be able to get there
they cannot replicate this across the country and they aren’t close to recruiting the kind of numbers they’d need to even get close
they are, flatly, not going to be able to get there
Al Michaels is 81 years old. He is still good and I think he should retire. He’s rich and every year he continues he’s grabbing income from a younger person.
There’s a lot of stunted careers from old rich people not realizing they are stealing from their successors.
Not just in media either.
There’s a lot of stunted careers from old rich people not realizing they are stealing from their successors.
Not just in media either.
January 11, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Al Michaels is 81 years old. He is still good and I think he should retire. He’s rich and every year he continues he’s grabbing income from a younger person.
There’s a lot of stunted careers from old rich people not realizing they are stealing from their successors.
Not just in media either.
There’s a lot of stunted careers from old rich people not realizing they are stealing from their successors.
Not just in media either.