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Alison Smaalders
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Archaeology major, currently working in P&C insurance. Gamer, LARPer, general nerd, cat lover. Occasionally known as Fun Fact. She/her.
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bordergroves.bsky.social
Free family planning is vital to liberty
faineg.bsky.social Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2h
personally I think that in a world with reproductive freedom, there will always be a majority of people who are deeply genuinely drawn to have kids and who love children, and there will also always be a large minority of people who go “nah, no thanks, I would prefer to do other things”
January 13, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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ziibiing.com
just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday
Eyewitness account: Good morning, My name is Brandon Siguenza, and l am a US citizen from Minneapolis. Yesterday, while doing legal observation, ICE stopped their cars to harass my friend and me. They sprayed pepper spray into the vent of our vehicle. We held our hands in the air and told them we were not obstructing, that the car was in park and they were free to drive forward and away. There was no active immigration raid. They returned to their cars, and drove forward a bit, then decided to stop again. They surrounded us, smashed the windows of our car, opened the doors (they were unlocked), ripped my friend and I out of the car and arrested us on charges of obstruction. I was put in an unmarked SUV, separated from my friend. As I was put in the back seat an ICE agent tore the whistle off my neck and said "I'll be taking this, I might need it later." My phone was knocked out of my hand while being arrested. As we drove away I asked the driver and the passenger if they wouldn't mind buckling my seatbelt, as they were driving erratically. I was ignored. I asked them if I could have the handcuffs loosened, as I was losing circulation, and was told no. At one point the passenger realized his own driver's license was in the backseat next to mine, and tried to surreptitiously grab it without me seeing it. We were taken to the Whipple federal building, where I saw dozens of brown people being processed in an unheated garage. I was frisked, told of my charges, and saw buses and vans being prepped. I later learned that these were being filled with detainees and driven to the airport for deportation. As we were led in, I noticed that the building was very busy. I got the impression that one of the 2 agents bringing me around was being trained. At multiple points throughout my stay, government agents were unable to open doors, not sure where they were meant to be going, and overall confused and overwhelmed. They couldn't figure out how to use the building phones, or complai…
January 13, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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ellamennopie.meatjacker.social
Sample contextual 🧊 epithets, for you to freely use and share :

• Failed mall cop
• Coward
• Thumb
• Traitor
• Baby
• G.I. Joker
• Clown (see also: assclown)
• Buffoon
• Tweedle Dee, particularly together with his brother Tweedle Dum
• Assface (see also: fuckface)
• Shithead
• Nutsack
• Paul Blart
ellamennopie.meatjacker.social seasonally appropriate el ❄️ @ellamennopie.meatjacker.social · 1d
Heckling feedback:
Consider focusing on debasing 🧊 oafs and their colleagues rather than their imitation of Nazis/gestapo. Some — most? all? — get off on that shit and think it’s cool.

Just make clear to them that they’re complete fucking losers, for whom you have no respect and harbor no fear 🔥
January 13, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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bagofmoons.bsky.social
PAUL BLART MALL COP works well the the clap clap clapclapclap rhythm
January 13, 2026 at 2:59 AM
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alexsaysstuff.bsky.social
The median American voter wants all the immigrants deported except for every one they've ever met or heard about.
merovingians.bsky.social the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 23h
what they *aren't* is particularly ideologically moderate, that's a self-serving lie from centrists. they much worse than that: ideologically incoherent, against bad stuff and in favor of good stuff hypothetically but with no underlying principles to guide them
January 13, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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gwensnyder.bsky.social
This is honest to god so inspiring.

Look at this community absolutely and without hesitation say "NOPE, NOT TODAY" to these chuds
wedge.live Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 21h
Video of federal agents getting run out of Lyn Lake this afternoon. Agents drop a gas can at the end and someone kicks it back at them.
January 13, 2026 at 3:55 AM
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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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coreyryung.bsky.social
This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.
ndrew.bsky.social Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d
one of the most effective weapons we have against fascism is mockery, especially when its really funny
isibb.bsky.social Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 1d
It occurs to me all the yelling at ICE in MPLS isn't merely funny. Getting made fun of like this is awful for morale. ICE is losing field officers faster than it can wave them through training, and a big part of it is how little of this these little weasels can take.
January 12, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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proptermalone.bsky.social
somebody needs to run up miscarriage and fertility statistics for cities that get hit in this way, would be not at all surprised to find it's an observable hit in the time series (tear gas is an abortifacient)
royalpratt.bsky.social Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d
Border Patrol tear gassed eight neighborhoods in Chicago, including just before a children’s Halloween party. They’re tear gassing residential streets in Minneapolis now. Follow @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social and @startribune.com journalists for more
noturtlesoup17.bsky.social amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d
Big clash this afternoon between DHS agents and protesters in a residential street in Minneapolis, following a DHS agent hitting another vehicle. Tear gas was deployed in people’s yards and agents pepper prayed people.
January 12, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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verybadllama.bsky.social
this is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.
January 11, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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doctornerdlove.com
I think so many of people’s lack of media literacy and unwillingness to consider moral complexities that aren’t strict black/white dichotomies comes from parents not teaching kids how to read as God intended: with books kids are far too young to read kept within in easy reach of an 8 year old.
January 12, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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msemilyedwards.bsky.social
i’m sorry but the people who think literally everything is a distraction from the epstein files are sincerely not grasping how normalized the abuse of
teen girls actually is and it’s the same abuse that leads to ice agents shooting a woman in the face and calling her corpse a fucking bitch
January 12, 2026 at 3:26 AM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
If he wants to declare martial law, he will. It won't be based on reality. I don't know why some people continue to say: "be peaceful or he'll invoke martial law." Are you all living in this country in 2026???? Haven't you seen them make things up out of whole cloth???? Are you 10 years old?
January 12, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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thorbenson.bsky.social
Wine moms in 2026
"Each and every man under my command owes me one hundred Nazi scalps" from Inglourious Basterds
January 11, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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anildash.com
The Iron Front flag, but it’s wine bottles
January 12, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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justinwolfers.bsky.social
What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
January 12, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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gwensnyder.bsky.social
If there is any justice in this world, ICE won't exist long enough for it to be possible for them to *put in* five years of service
crobertcargill.bsky.social C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 2d
I just found out last night that the $50k enrollment bonus only pays out after 5 years of service, and reader, the laugh I let out when I read that woke the dog from across the house. These absolute fucking grapes aren't seeing a dime of that money. No way they can ride out 5 years of this job.
dennycarter.bsky.social Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 2d
ICE recruitment is going well.
January 12, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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apopularmonster.bsky.social
Okay, all together now:
January 12, 2026 at 2:56 AM
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rincewind.run
this is a five alarm Fucking With The Money fire and between this and the Greenland threats the rich assholes might want to wake up and realize this dude is going to cost them way more than any wealth tax will
January 12, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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evacide.bsky.social
This is your regular reminder that authoritarianism is just domestic abuse writ large.
wedge.live Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 1d
ICE agent screaming a threat: "Did you not learn from what just happened?"
www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...
January 12, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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50501movement.bsky.social
The brutality of state force is in the streets, it’s on video, and it’s being defended at the highest levels of government. If we do not act now with united, powerful resistance, the normalization of militarized state power will become irreversible.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 32 people who died in custody
The deaths came as the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement, detaining a record number of people
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
This is what I meant when I wrote that "we can overthrow them with a union of care."
maddow.bsky.social Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 2d
"At schools, volunteers are forming human chains as students and employees enter and leave, with whistles to blow if ICE shows up.

Volunteers—many of them moms already involved at their schools—divvy up tasks, such as delivering groceries to immigrant families..."

www.wsj.com/us-news/insi...
Inside Minneapolis’s Sprawling Network of ICE Watchers
Renee Nicole Good lived in a community where residents by the thousands are using text alerts, whistles and Google documents to shadow federal agents
www.wsj.com
January 11, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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ezralevin.bsky.social
I'm just back from the Ice Out for Good protest in Alexandria with @someonedosomething.bsky.social. Cold as hell, massive gusts of wind, and a fired up crowd. Told to organize beyond this moment, a throng of people head straight to the sign-up tables. Outrage today, organize tomorrow. We will win.
Photo of the Ice Out for Good protest in Alexandria Virginia
January 11, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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editorialboard.bsky.social
This is true and the right political move would be defending immigration as a universal good.
atherton.bsky.social Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · Feb 5
There is no amount of increasing border enforcement or deporting people that will ever make the American right wing believe the border is being properly handled by a democratic president. Any compromise on this is just a signal that they can demand more & keep the issue live. Immoral, bad politics.
January 11, 2026 at 7:04 PM