Tim Fitzsimons
@tfitzsimons.bsky.social
Erstwhile homosexual journalist whose content you probably once consumed through NBC News, NPR, Marketplace or Scruff. Currently working for myself, so I say what I want. 🤓
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so bari definitely got the heads up that noem is being shitcanned, right?
January 26, 2026 at 5:51 PM
so bari definitely got the heads up that noem is being shitcanned, right?
I honestly marvel at the JCrew-lesbian-coded cinematic evil that this “journalist” couple represents in this moment
The person who publishes the Free Press — where the words “Minneapolis” and “Minnesota” never appear tonight — also runs CBS News.
January 26, 2026 at 2:30 AM
I honestly marvel at the JCrew-lesbian-coded cinematic evil that this “journalist” couple represents in this moment
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If it is fascism now it was fascism then but if you were wrong no need to pause to make a special effort to admit your error -- we don't have that much time now, please act right away, get organized, and then tell your followers what you are doing to stop fascism and what they too can do.
January 25, 2026 at 8:33 PM
If it is fascism now it was fascism then but if you were wrong no need to pause to make a special effort to admit your error -- we don't have that much time now, please act right away, get organized, and then tell your followers what you are doing to stop fascism and what they too can do.
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At the Alex Pretti memorial this afternoon, people are unfurling four very large banners.
They read, "How many more will ICE murder? How many more funerals? How many more...how many more?"
They read, "How many more will ICE murder? How many more funerals? How many more...how many more?"
January 25, 2026 at 10:13 PM
At the Alex Pretti memorial this afternoon, people are unfurling four very large banners.
They read, "How many more will ICE murder? How many more funerals? How many more...how many more?"
They read, "How many more will ICE murder? How many more funerals? How many more...how many more?"
Is Phil Scott the first GOP governor to do this?
Powerful new statement on MN from GOP Vermont Governor Phil Scott (1/3):
“Enough…it’s not acceptable for American citizens to be killed by federal agents for exercising their God-given and constitutional rights to protest their government. At best, these federal immigration operations ...
“Enough…it’s not acceptable for American citizens to be killed by federal agents for exercising their God-given and constitutional rights to protest their government. At best, these federal immigration operations ...
January 25, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Is Phil Scott the first GOP governor to do this?
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ICE is murdering people in the street and the Times’ resident conservatives are droning on about the totalitarian threats to speech coming from the campuses and “managerial illiberalism.”
They’ve been stale for a while, but this focus is embarrassing as a tyrannical state kills people.
They’ve been stale for a while, but this focus is embarrassing as a tyrannical state kills people.
January 25, 2026 at 2:37 PM
ICE is murdering people in the street and the Times’ resident conservatives are droning on about the totalitarian threats to speech coming from the campuses and “managerial illiberalism.”
They’ve been stale for a while, but this focus is embarrassing as a tyrannical state kills people.
They’ve been stale for a while, but this focus is embarrassing as a tyrannical state kills people.
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From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.
January 25, 2026 at 1:53 PM
From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.
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Yeah I’m not going to read too far into this when these doofuses only ever know how to double down. This is just a sign they’re losing and they know it.
January 25, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Yeah I’m not going to read too far into this when these doofuses only ever know how to double down. This is just a sign they’re losing and they know it.
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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
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Clarissa explains it all to the DHS Instagram account
January 24, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Clarissa explains it all to the DHS Instagram account
As you watch Minnesotans mourn the dead consider learning more about the political force behind it:
January 24, 2026 at 11:10 PM
As you watch Minnesotans mourn the dead consider learning more about the political force behind it:
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I'm seeing people mistakenly claim the gun photo was posted before today, but its just how Google sometimes dates images based on the original date of the thread its posted in, not when it was posted. The photo was posted an hour ago in this 5 day old thread
www.reddit.com/r/fivethirty...
www.reddit.com/r/fivethirty...
January 24, 2026 at 6:35 PM
I'm seeing people mistakenly claim the gun photo was posted before today, but its just how Google sometimes dates images based on the original date of the thread its posted in, not when it was posted. The photo was posted an hour ago in this 5 day old thread
www.reddit.com/r/fivethirty...
www.reddit.com/r/fivethirty...
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A DHS statement claimed “an individual approached US Border Patrol officers” with “a handgun” in the Alex Pretti shooting incident. A Bellingcat analysis of the footage appears to show that a gun was taken away from where Pretti was situated by an agent just before the first shot was fired.
January 24, 2026 at 10:29 PM
A DHS statement claimed “an individual approached US Border Patrol officers” with “a handgun” in the Alex Pretti shooting incident. A Bellingcat analysis of the footage appears to show that a gun was taken away from where Pretti was situated by an agent just before the first shot was fired.
All you’re doing with a: “oh where are the second amendment folks now?!” is showing you took them out their word, despite all demonstrations of bad faith, and you’re just telling on yourself.
January 24, 2026 at 10:31 PM
All you’re doing with a: “oh where are the second amendment folks now?!” is showing you took them out their word, despite all demonstrations of bad faith, and you’re just telling on yourself.
My old employer @nbcnews.com and @mattlavietes.bsky.social here doing exactly what news should not do – lead with the easily reportable lie / government account – though I don’t entirely blame Matt, because I presume this was the final call of editors or legal/standards.
January 24, 2026 at 10:16 PM
My old employer @nbcnews.com and @mattlavietes.bsky.social here doing exactly what news should not do – lead with the easily reportable lie / government account – though I don’t entirely blame Matt, because I presume this was the final call of editors or legal/standards.
Now’s as good a time as ever to remind the apathetic people in your lives that if the government murders you in broad daylight, they’ll lie and say you were a terrorist.
January 24, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Now’s as good a time as ever to remind the apathetic people in your lives that if the government murders you in broad daylight, they’ll lie and say you were a terrorist.
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I didn't say it. The Germans did.
January 23, 2026 at 8:42 PM
I didn't say it. The Germans did.
Very Bashar Al-Assad of them
Breaking MS NOW:
Aides to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Attorney's office and FBI agents in Minnesota to shut down the civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability.
Aides to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Attorney's office and FBI agents in Minnesota to shut down the civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability.
DOJ sought to probe Renee Good for criminal liability, even after her death: Sources
A judge refused an FBI warrant that proposed investigating dead Minnesota mom for suspected assault on an officer.
www.ms.now
January 24, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Very Bashar Al-Assad of them
Shame
January 23, 2026 at 7:04 AM
Shame
Torture
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Torture
Just keep thinking about how Trump has established two exclaves where he may, of course, maintain an exiled claim to the throne: in Israel/Gaza, via the peace board; and in Venezuela, via its collaboration with the authoritarian government.
January 21, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Just keep thinking about how Trump has established two exclaves where he may, of course, maintain an exiled claim to the throne: in Israel/Gaza, via the peace board; and in Venezuela, via its collaboration with the authoritarian government.
Wait so lemme get this straight: did Trump counter program the Minnesota cop presser and hack news orgs’ broad rule to carry the president live, always, no matter what?!
January 21, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Wait so lemme get this straight: did Trump counter program the Minnesota cop presser and hack news orgs’ broad rule to carry the president live, always, no matter what?!
Thinking about all those years I spent doing “civilian-military relations” projects at #TuftsUniversity, and I also believe in this scenario, sadly.
If senior officers carry out what Trump is threatening against NATO, “the officers and enlisted people below them will likely obey the chain of command”—and “such an outcome would be a tragedy, and potentially a global catastrophe,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues.
The Military Is Being Forced to Plan for an Unthinkable Betrayal
Attacking an ally would be a perversion of everything the armed forces have been trained to do.
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January 20, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Thinking about all those years I spent doing “civilian-military relations” projects at #TuftsUniversity, and I also believe in this scenario, sadly.
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The absolute accuracy of this.
January 18, 2026 at 10:23 PM
The absolute accuracy of this.