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parkermolloy.com
I don't think @reuters.com posted it here, but I'm just kind of shocked that anyone working in media could have gone into the second Trump administration thinking, "I don't think in those first few days we understood what an organized agenda they had."

They made a 900-page playbook, Sally!
Tweet from Reuters: Reuters North America editor Sally Buzbee on covering Trump's return: 'I don't think in those first few days we understood what an organized agenda they had.'
January 26, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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leyawn.bsky.social
according to bluesky, working for ice is a protected class against discrimination lol
email from bluesky Hi, We've reviewed a Post on your account @leyawn.bsky.social and found it violates Bluesky's Community Guidelines on Anti-Discrimination. We protect people's fundamental rights by prohibiting identity-based harm and hatred. For example: Do not attack, harass, or incite hatred or discrimination against individuals or groups based on protected characteristics such as age, asylum-seeker/refugee status, caste, disability, disease, ethnicity, gender identity, immigrant status, race, religious affiliation, sex, or sexual orientation. This includes hate speech, slurs, dehumanizing comparisons, supremacist content, conspiracy theories targeting protected groups, and coordinated harassment campaigns. The following Post was removed: imagine showing up to your office job and there's a crowd of people in the lobby heckling you every morning. "no one likes your emails" "your tie is ugly" lol. anyways i think everyone who works for ice should kill themselves Your post was classified as a Moderate Violation, adding 2 strikes to your account. You now have 2 total strikes. If you believe this action was taken in error, you can appeal within 14 days by emailing moderation@blueskyweb.xyz. Please include context about why you believe this decision was incorrect. Bluesky Moderation Team
January 26, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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philplait.bsky.social
Congratulations, Andrew Wakefield! You did it, you fraudulent quack!
krutikakuppalli.bsky.social Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 4h
🚨 This should alarm everyone.

The #UK has lost measles elimination status — not because vaccines failed, but because vaccination rates fell.

The US is on track to lose it too.

#Measles is highly contagious, dangerous, and vaccine-preventable.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK loses measles elimination status
Decision made after outbreaks in 2024, when there were nearly 3,000 cases in England and Wales.
www.bbc.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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maxberger.bsky.social
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:

- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
January 26, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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amandamarcotte.bsky.social
Last week, MAGA was claiming they're the *real* victims because some protesters called out a church who has an ICE agent pastor.

They're both babies and liars. But I also dug into the church.

It's the church that declared empathy is a "sin." Analysis.

www.salon.com/2026/01/26/p...
Pro-ICE churches should be shamed
Cities Church in St. Paul are the persecutors, not the persecuted
www.salon.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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urbanaudacity.blacksky.app
This guy wrote an article called, “Where Woke Went Wrong,” in which he claims modern movements lack the respectability of the Civil Rights Movement, among other bad takes.

I’ll provide a couple highlights that show why he’s posting this.
Screenshot from his article FINANCIAL REVIEW “Where woke went wrong” If progressive social movements are to rise again after the Trump-led backlash, they need to overcome not just their opponents but also their own limitations. [an image of demonstrators around a statue is shown] “In September 2020, demonstrators defaced the statue of former prime minister Winston Churchill in Parliament Square in London as part of a Black Lives Matter protest.” Article excerpt: The problem, as writer Yascha Mounk argues in his book The Identity Trap, is that the new activism was built on a rejection of the civil rights movement's optimistic pursuit of equality and racial integration. Its foundations lay in the post-structuralism of Michel Foucault, in postcolonial studies and in critical race theory. Derrick Bell, founder of critical race theory, argued in 1991 that black people in the US had in effect seen no progress since slavery, and that yearning for racial equality was a "fantasy". Bell's precise words may not have spread widely, but examples of woke over-reach did. In 2020-21, Black Lives Matter activists occupied the city of Portland for months, causing millions of dollars of damage. Calls to "defund the police" complicated law enforcement in many US cities, allowing critics to question if it was inadvertently making life more dangerous, not less. Less grave, but equally eye-catching, was some counterintuitive theorising. Some descriptions of racial equity suggested that punctuality was a trait of "whiteness". Some trans rights activists adopted the terms "Latinx" and "people who menstruate" - terms that most of the people they were referring to would reject. In the 1990s, political correctness meant saying "chair" instead of "chairman", and "sex worker" instead of "prostitute" (the idea of calling short people "vertically challenged" came from critics). Recent conceptual and linguistic shifts were arguably much sharper. "White privilege", "toxic masculinity" and "cisgender" entered the lexicon. Even away from these extremes, "wokeness" clashed with some tenets of liberal society. It defined people as being part of a group, not as individuals. It encouraged people to identify as black, queer or whatever else. For Robin DiAngelo, the white author of the bestselling book White Fragility, white people were inherently racist. Article excerpt: All this ran counter to the civil rights era's focus on equality and to how many citizens wished to see themselves. As early as 2015, veteran civil rights activist Barbara Reynolds argued that Black Lives Matter was mistaken in not claiming the slogan "all lives matter" for its own (and for not adopting the church-inspired respectability of 1960s protesters).
January 26, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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atrupar.com
Scalise lies: "The want to defund ICE. They defunded police. The police chief of Mpls said yesterday multiple times how stretched thin his department is. They don't have enough people because Mpls defunded the police." (Police were not defunded and MPD is stretched thin bc of unrest caused by ICE)
January 26, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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len.bsky.social
imgaine getting sent packing with your ass in your own two hands by some of the nicest people in the world and then showing up in a city that is famous for booing santa claus
From the Independent: "ICE is rumored to be heading for Philadelphia. Everyone is saying the same thing' Reaction from ben doyle (@thewheatgerm): "this is the equivalent of hitler sending you to stalingrad"
January 26, 2026 at 3:36 AM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment

"I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to
assess the victim.

At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."
January 25, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.
January 26, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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garethwatkins.bsky.social
January 26, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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azalben.bsky.social
Tomorrow morning is a great time to call your reps and tell them to abolish ICE. I wrote a script you can use. And no, this is not a joke, it really is that simple.

Find Your Senators: www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

Find Your Representatives: www.house.gov/representati...
As one of your constituents, I am telling you to publicly state, in no uncertain terms, that we must abolish ICE, and then follow through by abolishing ICE. Thanks!
January 25, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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protecttruth.bsky.social
This kind of rightwing pundit stupidity is why Democratic leaders should be out saying that the Second Amendment is a dead letter and it confers zero individual rights.
jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 22h
Pure libertarian wishcasting to write this when “gun enthusiasts” are reacting to ICE killings with “FAFO 🤣”

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
It is not yet clear what exactly Pretti's own views were, or what motivated him to be on that Minneapolis street. But he knew what the Second Amendment is for: to affirm that Americans are a free people, and free people will not be cowed by masked federal agents. As this country's gun enthusiasts have long known, freedom means little if you lack the means to keep it. Without the Second Amendment, the Constitution is a bit of parchment. With the Second Amendment, the Constitution is a demand. These rights shall not be infringed.
January 25, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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gregolear.bsky.social
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands….

Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those
January 25, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
It’s not just that they are murdering people who are peacefully protesting, it’s that they then stand in front of the cameras and slander the victims by telling us that what we see on the videos didn’t happen.
January 25, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social
ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.
January 25, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Whether they will say it or not, surely there must be some people in the MAGA movement who are able to see that Stephen Miller is a psychopath.
January 25, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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January 25, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Bookmark that Vice President and future presidential candidate JD Vance retweeted a post that said Alex Pretti was “an assassin who tried to murder federal agents.”
January 25, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
When Mamie Till was on the stand during the trial of her son's murderers in 1955, the defense argued she had misidentified her son's body, was lying in order to claim insurance money for her son, & had staged the whole affair with the aid of Communists & the NAACP. Tills murderers walked free.
adamkeiper.com Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 1d
NEW: "The government didn’t just use masked, armed, unidentified agents of the state to execute a citizen on the street, in broad daylight and in front of dozens of witnesses—it lied about the victim and what happened in the most brazen manner possible."
www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...
Emergency Triad: Another American Has Been Murdered by Our Government
It’s worse than it looks and it looks plenty bad.
www.thebulwark.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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atrupar.com
Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."
January 25, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
TincherSealedWitnessDec012426.PDF
www.documentcloud.org
January 25, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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atrupar.com
There has been an increasing sense in Minneapolis that we are on our own, that our elected representatives are unwilling and/or unable to take action to get these murderous Nazi thugs out of our community. I really hope that changes today. The time for pleading TV hits ended weeks ago.
January 24, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
January 24, 2026 at 9:41 PM