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EBFG, ECS tifo, activism, reading, gardening, endless number-crunching, analyzing all the data about all the things
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hunterub.bsky.social
I'm not sure I've ever seen any politico less able to meet the moment. Any moment. Ever.
murshedz.bsky.social Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 4h
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 15, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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factpostnews.bsky.social
21-year-old activist injured by ICE:

I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.
January 15, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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irhottakes.bsky.social
I think the disconnect between Atlantic elites is that Americans think Donald Trump is a kid getting to drive a monster truck for Make A Wish and Europeans and Canadians think Donald Trump is the president of the United States.
January 14, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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atrupar.com
Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.
January 15, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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sifill.bsky.social
Look at what Trump has done.
January 15, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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markharris.bsky.social
My husband was on the 2 train and a guy started braying about how Renee Good deserved to die and her "lesbian lover" did too. My husband got pissed and said, "You're absolutely disgusting." "Fuck you!" the guy said. "Fuck YOU!" my husband said. The guy left.

See? We just need to talk to each other.
January 14, 2026 at 11:46 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
/6 ICE is a monument to totalitarianism, lawlessness, and bigotry. It should be ripped out and woodchippered root and branch and replaced with something focused on the concept that you can’t defend the rule of law by burning it down.
January 14, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
the shootings involving federal law enforcement will continue until morale improves
minneapolismn.gov City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov · 23h
We are aware of reports of a shooting involving federal law enforcement in North Minneapolis. We are working to confirm additional details.
January 15, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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benrosen.bsky.social
the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained
January 15, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
/9 The classic response is to say this: imagine you are in your favorite Italian restaurant. The waiter delivers a magnificent dish of delicious pasta. In the middle is a cockroach. Do you send it back, or eat around the cockroach? The government wants to you eat around the cockroach.
January 14, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
"You don't see the link? It's right there on the bottom of the Slack thread from yesterday about which shared drive folders link to Dropbox folders that contain all the shared PDFs."
My Comments Are in the Google Doc Linked in the Dropbox I Sent in the Slack
Our 5th most-read article of 2024. - - -Thanks for sending this along. I left my comments in the Google Doc. You don’t see my comments? You’re loo...
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January 15, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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whodat35.bsky.social
This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.

ictnews.org/news/north-c...
Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
ictnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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unraveledpress.com
A single federal agent with a long gun just walked through the crowd, slipped on the ice on his way under the police tape.

Dropped his loaded clip.
January 15, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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christycoysh.bsky.social
I’ve got something to show you. Feat. @brettdomino
January 13, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
boy that gyre sure keeps getting wider
January 14, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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amyraehill.bsky.social
Break the ice. We're not supposed to be here.
Plate featuring three astronauts wielding pick axes toward a central spot on a frozen tundra, breaking though transparent ice that resembles the universe with several shining stars underneath. A small ship can be seen close to the right astronaut. Plate featuring three astronauts wielding pick axes toward a central spot on a frozen tundra. Detail of astronauts.
January 13, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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smbccomics.bsky.social
This is actually the Heaven and Hell that God promised.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/after-3
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
1-panel SMBC comic update. A blond man is at his computer, annoyed, talking and typing furiously. He says "no, I don't want to see your boobs. No, you can't have my credit card. Look, let's just focus on how your media, institutions, and leaders are all untrustworthy." The caption below the comic reads : If we all left the Internet, it'd be nothing but propagandists and sex-bots talking back and forth for eternity.
January 12, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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lauragmitchell.com
This is Minneapolis:

Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city.

Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.
Sign on door prohibiting immigration enforcement on private property Shelf filled with goggles and whistles
January 13, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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cboehm.bsky.social
My fellow Americans who DO have voting representation in Congress, can we please stop electing the dumbest people imaginable
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Rep. Randy Fine on his bill to make Greenland the 51st state: "We need to make sure we assert our dominance over the Western Hemisphere ... the last thing we need is Greenland to become another Venezuela where we have huge problems we have to deal with in the future."
January 13, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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noamlaw.bsky.social
Internal DHS training docs are correct: profanity-laden screaming at ICE agents is protected First Amendment speech
kenklippenstein.com 口 What is NOT a Violation of 18 U.S.C. § 111? • Passive resistance alone is NOT conduct under 18 U.S.C. § 111 • Examples: •Noncompliance/refusal to cooperate with officer's commands •Disobeying commands without fighting back • Taking photographs or videotaping an officer or operation in public Legal refresher Protected Activity First Amendment protects freedom of religion, speech, press, right to assemble, and to petition the Government Protected Activities • Speech or expression • Non-verbal communications • Photos, recordings, media • Noncompliance • Peaceful protest, march, rally • Leaflets, signs, picketing NOT Protected • Incitement • Fighting words • Incites imminent violence or lawlessness • Threats of imminent violence against an officer Legal refresher What is NOT a Violation of 18 U.S.C. § 111? • Profanity or personal insults directed at officers • Rude gestures directed at officers • Arguing with officers • Challenging officers' authority •Talking back to officers during police
January 13, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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samperson.bsky.social
greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail
January 12, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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hunterub.bsky.social
I'm willing to accept 'abolish ICE' as a compromise, a middle-of-the-road position, but it really is the bare minimum at this point. We also need to put all these guys on lists that bar them from future employment anywhere, requiring them to forage for leaves and berries as basic sustenance.
editorialboard.bsky.social The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 3d
I don't have much disgust I can feel in one day after witnessing so called law enforcement officers putting a kid in a van without his parents' knowledge, then driving away.

Via Ford Fischer on X.

x.com/FordFischer/...
January 12, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis.
www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...
ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. According to The Atlantic, they receive 47 days of training — in honor of Trump, the 47th president, naturally. Many of them, also, can barely read or write, apparently. The ones I spent the weekend following around didn’t even have proper uniforms, with some wearing sneakers. In Minnesota. In January. These dipshits are also wearing camo in the snow. They clearly do not have any training when it comes to their own weapons either. Multiple times over the last few days, I watched officers fire pepper spray balls at the feet of protestors barely a few inches away from them. These weapons are basically paintball guns full of concentrated pepper spray. So when they hit a target, they explode into the air. Which meant ICE agents regularly ended up poisoning themselves with their own weapons. I also watched two agents ask each other if a canister they were about to fire at the crowd was tear gas or a stun grenade. (It ended up being a stun grenade that then ignited the tear gas they had already shot at us, which started a fire in the street that a protestor had to help them put out.)
January 12, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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imbernomics.bsky.social
Folks, is it a good sign of faith in your economy when you are instituting capital controls?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Bessent: "For individuals who want to wire money out of the country, they're gonna have to tick a box whether they are or are not on public assistance. Then we're going to start pushing over the coming days and weeks that if you're on public assistance, you cannot wire money out of the country."
January 12, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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lauragraceweldon.bsky.social
One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com
Man standing in field of sheep holding rainbow flag.
January 12, 2026 at 8:26 PM