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This is appalling. I can say with certainty that Steve Jobs would be ashamed of Tim Cook at this terrible moment, one of many these days, and he has sullied the last year of his tenure and the Apple brand by his craven need to please shareholders over holding onto some basic values of decency.
January 25, 2026 at 5:25 AM
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A lot of self described Christians seem to be banking on there not actually being a hell.
January 25, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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But they got their filthy lucre, so all good, right? (Pro tip: Fascists will inevitably come for them too, most of all.)
a man in a blue suit and red tie is standing in a crowd
ALT: a man in a blue suit and red tie is standing in a crowd
media.tenor.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.
January 24, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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Filming ICE is an act of journalism. Cell phone footage is vital source material for reporters who can’t be everywhere at once.

Shooting, killing and other targeting of those documenting news is an attack on press freedom and all else that's good in the world.
Videos show federal agents killing Minneapolis man
Some details of federal government’s account of the shooting aren’t supported by footage captured by bystanders.
www.startribune.com
January 25, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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On tonight’s White House agenda:

Trump and guests will get a private screening of MELANIA, the documentary about the First Lady, @thr.com reports.

Attendees include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Mike Tyson, per the article.
January 25, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.
January 24, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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wrote about the camps for my newsletter this weekend www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
January 25, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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A man acquitted by a jury of a plot threatening Bovino was captured by ICE anyway after his acquittal, with DHS saying, in part: “this verdict does not change the facts: Espinoza targeted federal law enforcement with violence via Snapchat.” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Man acquitted of Bovino murder plot taken into ICE custody
Juan Espinoza Martinez now faces deportation despite the courtroom victory Thursday by his attorneys.
chicago.suntimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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He was trying to help someone else they'd knocked to the ground. And for that they started pepper spraying him. And then the pistol whipped him and murdered him.

He was a nurse. Alex Jeffrey Pretti.
January 24, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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Multiple officials of the US federal government are spending their day rather blatantly obstructing Minnesota law enforcement and covering up a murder.
January 24, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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How regimes behave
“Federal agents briefly detained our reporter at the scene, who says he was tackled to the ground and had a gun put in his face.”
BREAKING: Federal agent shoots man in south Minneapolis
A Bring Me The News reporter was near the scene, and recorded multiple gunshots.
bringmethenews.com
January 24, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
January 24, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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As you encounter Trump regime defenses of summarily executing a man on the streets of America because he was (supposedly) armed, I invite you to recall the Bundy Ranch standoff, and the Right’s celebration of a man who aimed a rifle at law enforcement.

www.findinggravity.net/the-next-tim...
The Next Time Will Be Worse
If we don't disincentivize right-wing political violence, we will get more of it.
www.findinggravity.net
January 24, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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CNN’s anchor seems determined to keep parroting Bovino’s line that the victim was a “suspect” who “approached agents” with a gun intending to massacre them. Even after showing a video demonstrating nothing of the sort
January 24, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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The Italian Years of Lead lasted for two decades.
A society can stay in a really bad place for quite some time
January 24, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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I’m so sick of people throwing their hands up and saying abolishing ICE isn’t possible right now. Abolishing ICE is extremely popular and calls to do so will only continue to grow, meanwhile conservatives manage to do incredibly unpopular things all the time because nobody stops them
January 24, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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One federal conspiracy to cover up a murder begets another.
Witnesses are being taken to Whipple.

From a lawyer friend: “They’re trying to keep local PD and BCA from getting statements and confiscating any phones with video.”
January 24, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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If you’re not from here, I need to explain this execution was on Eat Street, a commercial corridor of restaurants and coffee shops that literally everyone goes to. Normies, queermos, weirdos, neighborhood folks. Whatever that place is in your city, imagine ICE executing someone in cold blood there.
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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On top of some obvious things, it's clear the dems in congress don't game anything out. What are you going to do when the murder the next person? And then the next one? and then a member of congress? It's just "vote for this and pray it goes away"
January 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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DOJ lies.
DHS lies.
ICE lies.

That has been established. Do not repeat their claims as fact. Their claims are arguments or, often, misleading propaganda — when not outright lies.

They are seeking to make a case for their lawlessness (and to please Trump), not seeking to inform.
January 24, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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#Maine Sheriff #KevinJoyce just slammed #ICE for lying to the American people.

Everyone needs to see this‼️
January 24, 2026 at 8:09 AM
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History has taught us of this and how it ends - and it doesn't end well. Trump and ICE must be stopped.
January 24, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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You can see this in Los Angeles as well.

Street taqueros with the el pastor spit still spinning and tip jar full. An ice cream cart just sitting in the middle of the sidewalk.

It is fucking haunting.
January 24, 2026 at 4:50 AM