M L A
@thepapertyger.bsky.social
Museums, then publishing, now museums again. Reader, writer, art lover. Liberal, city mouse enthusiast, chimera of furies & petty qualms. Staunch character. MN expat in New England. She/her. #Lupus #LongCovid #GoHabsGo
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Some context… Bezos is killing the Post by choice, not by necessity…
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Some context… Bezos is killing the Post by choice, not by necessity…
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For those keeping score at home:
February 4, 2026 at 3:48 PM
For those keeping score at home:
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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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Luke Ganger, Renee Good’s brother: “In the last few weeks, our family took some consolation thinking that perhaps ‘Nee’s death would bring about change in our country. It has not.”
February 3, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Luke Ganger, Renee Good’s brother: “In the last few weeks, our family took some consolation thinking that perhaps ‘Nee’s death would bring about change in our country. It has not.”
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If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
Yes, Peter decided that the continued existence of our democracies isn't compatible with his desired level of personal freedom.
An absolute enemy of humanity.
An absolute enemy of humanity.
February 3, 2026 at 12:17 AM
If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
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BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 1, 2026 at 9:10 PM
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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Dems should demand a full ICE withdrawal from Minneapolis as a condition for any deal. Please, just give us this. Get them out
February 1, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Dems should demand a full ICE withdrawal from Minneapolis as a condition for any deal. Please, just give us this. Get them out
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“Minnesota's nickname is the North Star State due to its motto "L'Etoile du Nord," which was adopted in 1861.
Minnesota is the North Star State. ✨
Consider this fact whenever you're feeling despair at what's happening in our country right now. Follow our North Star.”
- Mari Talkin
Minnesota is the North Star State. ✨
Consider this fact whenever you're feeling despair at what's happening in our country right now. Follow our North Star.”
- Mari Talkin
February 1, 2026 at 5:15 AM
“Minnesota's nickname is the North Star State due to its motto "L'Etoile du Nord," which was adopted in 1861.
Minnesota is the North Star State. ✨
Consider this fact whenever you're feeling despair at what's happening in our country right now. Follow our North Star.”
- Mari Talkin
Minnesota is the North Star State. ✨
Consider this fact whenever you're feeling despair at what's happening in our country right now. Follow our North Star.”
- Mari Talkin
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Before you say, "this isn't the America I know," remember America took Native children from their families. Built its wealth on slavery. Locked up Japanese Americans. Now they're doing it to immigrants, and... everyone.
February 1, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Before you say, "this isn't the America I know," remember America took Native children from their families. Built its wealth on slavery. Locked up Japanese Americans. Now they're doing it to immigrants, and... everyone.
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SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods.
S1: archive.org/details/sctv...
S2: archive.org/details/sctv...
S3: archive.org/details/19-m...
S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s...
S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky
S1: archive.org/details/sctv...
S2: archive.org/details/sctv...
S3: archive.org/details/19-m...
S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s...
S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky
January 31, 2026 at 4:32 PM
SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods.
S1: archive.org/details/sctv...
S2: archive.org/details/sctv...
S3: archive.org/details/19-m...
S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s...
S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky
S1: archive.org/details/sctv...
S2: archive.org/details/sctv...
S3: archive.org/details/19-m...
S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s...
S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky
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$170B could have paid for meals for schoolkids for a full decade.
$170B could have helped end homelessness by providing housing for every unhoused American 17 times over.
$170B could have restored funding for clean drinking water programs for 60+ yrs.
Instead, we’re terrorizing our communities.
$170B could have helped end homelessness by providing housing for every unhoused American 17 times over.
$170B could have restored funding for clean drinking water programs for 60+ yrs.
Instead, we’re terrorizing our communities.
As we noted at @americasvoice.bsky.social last year, $170B in anti-immigrant funding could instead have built more than 7,000 new elementary schools, paid for more than 1.5 million young Americans to attend an in-state public college for four years, or funded Head Start for nearly 14 years 👇🏽
Stephen Miller Is Getting $170 Billion To Build His Own Army To Target Our Immigrant Neighbors. Here’s What That Funding Could Do Instead
This unprecedented allocation of taxpayer money could go to helping working families all across America, on everything from education, hunger, housing, healthcare, and the environment.
open.substack.com
January 31, 2026 at 2:29 AM
$170B could have paid for meals for schoolkids for a full decade.
$170B could have helped end homelessness by providing housing for every unhoused American 17 times over.
$170B could have restored funding for clean drinking water programs for 60+ yrs.
Instead, we’re terrorizing our communities.
$170B could have helped end homelessness by providing housing for every unhoused American 17 times over.
$170B could have restored funding for clean drinking water programs for 60+ yrs.
Instead, we’re terrorizing our communities.
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I understand it's hard for some to use the term concentration camp, even for those horrified by what's happening. And there are settings (e.g., court) where it may not be helpful today. The key thing to realize is that there's an arc of how detention regimes tend to go, and we're recognizably on it.
January 30, 2026 at 8:13 PM
I understand it's hard for some to use the term concentration camp, even for those horrified by what's happening. And there are settings (e.g., court) where it may not be helpful today. The key thing to realize is that there's an arc of how detention regimes tend to go, and we're recognizably on it.
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ROLLING STONE: “The damage from Miller’s grand designs are plain for all to see. Americans’ mistrust and hyper-partisanship has grown only more poisonous. The country feels like a tinder box and Miller, and ICE are running around with lit matches.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
January 31, 2026 at 4:49 PM
ROLLING STONE: “The damage from Miller’s grand designs are plain for all to see. Americans’ mistrust and hyper-partisanship has grown only more poisonous. The country feels like a tinder box and Miller, and ICE are running around with lit matches.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...
Jeffrey Epstein sent a link to the white nationalist podcast The Right Stuff, whose core hosts played an active role in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally. He did so in February 2016. Before TRS made national news, really.
Genuinely bizarre.
Genuinely bizarre.
January 31, 2026 at 12:33 PM
btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...
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The GOP’s priorities in a nutshell.
January 30, 2026 at 7:30 PM
The GOP’s priorities in a nutshell.
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"The largest immigrant deportation and prison contractors in the US are expecting an epic payout this year: for every $1 that they donated to GOP campaigns in 2024, these private companies stand to reap more than $11,000 in increased annual revenue."
ICE Detention Contractors Are Reaping Massive Profits
The largest immigrant deportation and prison contractors in the US are expecting an epic payout this year: for every $1
jacobin.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:45 PM
"The largest immigrant deportation and prison contractors in the US are expecting an epic payout this year: for every $1 that they donated to GOP campaigns in 2024, these private companies stand to reap more than $11,000 in increased annual revenue."
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Arresting journalists.
Fatally shooting protestors.
Turning the military on citizens.
Attempting to rig elections.
Toying with the idea of declaring martial law.
If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
Fatally shooting protestors.
Turning the military on citizens.
Attempting to rig elections.
Toying with the idea of declaring martial law.
If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
January 30, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Arresting journalists.
Fatally shooting protestors.
Turning the military on citizens.
Attempting to rig elections.
Toying with the idea of declaring martial law.
If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
Fatally shooting protestors.
Turning the military on citizens.
Attempting to rig elections.
Toying with the idea of declaring martial law.
If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
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This is how authoritarian narratives work you smear the victim, praise the armed agent, and ignore the killing. No video justifies an execution. No insult erases due process. This is propaganda, not accountability.
January 30, 2026 at 12:14 PM
This is how authoritarian narratives work you smear the victim, praise the armed agent, and ignore the killing. No video justifies an execution. No insult erases due process. This is propaganda, not accountability.
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Exactly how much white supremacy, public executions, epic corruption, and overall incompetence do Republicans have to condone before Democrats stop running for office based on their ability to “work with them?”
January 30, 2026 at 4:12 AM
Exactly how much white supremacy, public executions, epic corruption, and overall incompetence do Republicans have to condone before Democrats stop running for office based on their ability to “work with them?”
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Minneapolis should press its momentum and demand not only withdrawal but start talking about the need for immediate reparations, loudly, with the total certainty that only winners have. "You have wronged us terribly and must pay recompense" and let them argue the second part.
January 30, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Minneapolis should press its momentum and demand not only withdrawal but start talking about the need for immediate reparations, loudly, with the total certainty that only winners have. "You have wronged us terribly and must pay recompense" and let them argue the second part.
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Kids taken yesterday
Journalists already arrested today
ICE patrolling around Falwell Hall and Dinkytown this week
Nothing has changed.
Journalists already arrested today
ICE patrolling around Falwell Hall and Dinkytown this week
Nothing has changed.
I would beseech the national media to stop writing sentences like one I just read that said basically "ICE's time in Minnesota is almost up." That is NOT an established fact. Please do not turn away. Please check the readily available information from people on the ground and local journalists.
From everything I’m hearing and reading, nothing in the ground in the Twin Cities has meaningfully changed.
January 30, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Kids taken yesterday
Journalists already arrested today
ICE patrolling around Falwell Hall and Dinkytown this week
Nothing has changed.
Journalists already arrested today
ICE patrolling around Falwell Hall and Dinkytown this week
Nothing has changed.
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A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:55 AM
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
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One THOUSAND per cent.
They won’t reveal who Alex Pretti’s murderer is because he’s probably a pardoned J6 proud boy.
January 29, 2026 at 10:50 PM
One THOUSAND per cent.
How beautiful—especially that sky.
Campbell Archibald Mellon captured the fleeting glories of the English seaside summer, the escape for many thousands to Gorleston in Norfolk. His paintings (this is c1930) often stressed a celebratory brightness or as here, a typically grey day on the coast.
January 29, 2026 at 4:27 PM
How beautiful—especially that sky.