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We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September.

They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police.

If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66
Mustached man in green t shirt Mustached man in teal T shirt Mustached man in teal t shirt Two federal agents in t shirts and vests
January 25, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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Benito and friends at the gas station, their feet in the air
The Tamarian guy from Star Trek
January 25, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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aklingus.bsky.social
He was just a regular person, and that’s fine! So am I. So are you. So are most people. We do not deserve to be murdered by the state and our reputations slandered by fucking idiots, and that’s something most of us can agree on
January 24, 2026 at 11:31 PM
zonecharlie.bsky.social
I can‘t goon. I’ll goon.
carlyellefsen.com Carly Ellefsen @carlyellefsen.com · 1d
“I Can’t Go On. I’ll Go On.”
Alfredo Jaar, 2016
Sculpture made of neon sign, text saying “I can’t go on” in red, “I’ll go on” in white
January 25, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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#artchallenge #Januarty #long #tunnel #JanuArty2026 #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #BlueSkyphotography #PhotographersofBluesky
January 22, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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Star Trek The Original Series scene. We're on an away mission but did not dress appropriately. In Picture 1, Bones and Spock are standing outside against a frozen rock wall, huddled and appearing very cold, hands wriggling and arms crossed. It's snowing and they're squinting as if its blizzardy. Spock is shouting. Closed caption reads, "We're in a wilderness of artic characteristics." Picture 2, only now with Bones yelling. Closed caption reads, "He means it's cold!" Alt in pic 1!
January 23, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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britculpsapp.bsky.social
loon beats snek
the yellow gadsden flag saying don’t tread on me but a loon is biting off the snake’s head
January 19, 2026 at 3:18 AM
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xodarlin.bsky.social
Real eyes realize real lies
yahootoolbar 2h THE SECRETS OF McNugget Shapes For decades, the McDonald's corporation has obfuscated the truth with four simple words: BALL BELL BONE BOOT It all seems so harmless and fun, but behind the red and yellow curtain is a much more sinister reality. The FREAKBAIT Investigative Unit' decided to unearth these mysteries and deep dive into the forbidden knowledge of the nugget. This examination followed a rabbithole that probed far into the dark heart of the nugget network, dredging up unspoken histories and revealing what malevolent multitudes lurk behind happy painted faces. The origins snake all the way back to the late 1970s, when Chef René Arend found himself facing a Faustian predicament. The clown, or at least the pernicious archfiend that wore the clown makeup, had made him a deal: a lifetime of fame and fortune in exchange for one simple recipe. His life's work, the McNugget, was to be reshaped into a sacred ritual object and mass conduit for dark energies. He shakily signed the dotted line and the rest of his life began that day. The recipe initially contained standard ingredients and regular ovular nugget shapes. The clown's revision introduced the flavors and shapes you know and love, but with entirely different machinations behind them. The nugget is a dark eucharist to infernal forces, hidden in plain sight. Each shape is associated with a representative occultist symbol: BALL Baphomet BELL Leviathan BONE Lucifer BOOT Moloch Upon further investigation, several sources pointed toward the headquarters of Flavor Reddy Foods in Downers Grove, IL. Anonymous authorities' allowed access to the sprawling underground production facility hidden under the banal looking corporate office building. Exploring the subterranean sauce factory revealed secret after secret; every new room was another mindfuck in a parade of insanity. Food engineers @xcilisociety
January 18, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
January 19, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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sarahlazare.bsky.social
Updated list of Minnesota unions and labor federations endorsing the Jan. 23 shutdown to protest the federal assault on the state, under the banner of “no work, no school, no shopping”: Amalgamated Transit Union 1005, CWA Local 7250, St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28...
January 18, 2026 at 9:00 PM
zonecharlie.bsky.social
OMFG
beijingpalmer.bsky.social BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8d
“You dabble only in David Brooks,” says the sage, stroking his mustache. “But tarry too long and you may find yourself in David Rivers.”
January 18, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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Pullman Company promo booklet for the World's Fair (1939)
Image: The Pullman Company / Illinois State Library
Art deco design featuring a ship, train, building, sign with "Pullman" and orb and pyramid shapes perhaps forming some sort of symbol.
January 17, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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What is a podcast if not losing persisting?
January 17, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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Waiting for laundry to dry, thought I'd recount a tale in a style of American Splendor while waiting. @pkmonaghan.bsky.social you might like this.
In the early '90s, I lived near the intersection of Fullerton/Lincoln/Halsted. It was a complete world for me, especially on Lincoln centered near the Biograph (Wax Trax, Lounge Ax, Threepenny, etc). One of the best places was the liquor store just south of the Biograph that stocked all types of imported sodas/snacks (I didn't drink alcohol yet. They had Virgil's Root Beer years before I saw it anywhere else in town). Immediately adjacent to the liquor store was the alley where John Dillinger was killed by the FBI. The alley side of the sore had no windows and was mostly covered with old asphalt shingles that looked like brick. There was one boarded-up window opening in the middle of the wall, on which someone had spray-painted..>CLOWN FUCK If you know me, you know how absurdly hilarious I thought it was. I walked through that alley constantly - I would bring my friends just to point and laugh at CLOWN FUCK - the only graffiti on the entire wall. It was there for years, until one day the city came by and painted it over with that sickly brown paint they used on all the cover ups. We were devastated! After some time, I got used to not seeing it there, until one day what should I see while walking down the alley? Could it be possible? Balance and order restored to the cosmos? [CLOWN FUCK PART II] And thus it remained until the building was demolished.
January 17, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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Few people have heard of Patsy Morris. When the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976, she kept track of Georgia citizens condemned to death row who desperately needed a lawyer. She called lawyers around the country begging them to take a case. #DemandTheImpossible
January 16, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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rmartincole.bsky.social
Cover of US DOT report "Transportation management associations in the United States" from May 1992, with a photo of two men posing next to the back of a van.
January 15, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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sarahlazare.bsky.social
When one group of workers is terrorized or disappeared, it threatens all workers’ ability to fight for their rights. I wrote about how federal raids and ICE occupations are chilling organizing and eroding conditions for all workers.
How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Chills Organizing and Erodes Conditions for All Workers
When one group of workers is terrorized or disappeared, it threatens all workers’ ability to fight for their labor rights.
www.thenation.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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ositanwanevu.com
If Trump invades Greenland, the Europeans won't fight back, Republicans will defend it, Democrats will issue statements, there will be protests, and most Americans will disapprove of it enough to earn Democrats a bit more of the vote in November. Then on to the next thing.
ositanwanevu.com Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 11d
More than an attempted coup, where a mob tried to seize Congress on live television did? There's not going to be an implosion about anything. It's either a slow slide towards oblivion where everything gets incrementally worse as people try to live normally, or a slow grind in the opposite direction.
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 11d
i feel like if the president actually went through with invading greenland, it would implode America
January 14, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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I had the dark thought on the walk back from dropping my daughter off at school in -5 degree weather that they're eventually gonna make a shoot and cry movie about ICE
January 14, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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thatpetewoods.bsky.social
Comic artist LeBeau Underwood’s daughter has been missing in Chicago since yesterday morning. Please share in the hopes we can bring the family a happy conclusion to this.
January 13, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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Damn.
peterpaulrubens.bsky.social Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 15d
2/2 She has a lovely face. But please spend a moment with her gloves. You must. Because it's Pickenoy.
January 10, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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Liz Lemon: "What a world, huh?" Jack Donaghy: "Lemon, it's still struggling to be born."
January 10, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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Today, this artist, Noval Noir, was painting a stunning portrait of Renee Good at the site of where she was killed
January 10, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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Fun fact #2: Most state constitutuons grant the state the authority to impose and enforce exorbitant sales taxes and use taxes on private contractors doing work for the federal government (such as federal prison contractors, car rental agencies, and private airlines who contract with ICE).
January 10, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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DID YOU KNOW: USDA Sec Brooke Rollins can be impeached

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chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16d
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 9, 2026 THE HONORABLE TIM WALZ Governor of Minesota 130 State Capitol 75 Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bivd. St. Paul, MN 55155 THE HONORABLE JACOB FREY Mayor of the City of Minneapolis City Hail 350S. Fifth St., Room 330 Minneapolis, MN 55415 Dear Governor Walz and Mayor Frey, It is my responsibility as Secretary of Agriculture to ensure sound stewardship of taxpayer dollars by climinating fraud, waste and abuse in all programs funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The widespread and systemic fraud associated with federal benefit programs in the State of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis demonstrate an inability to handle federal resources without additional oversight and accountability measures in place. During your tenures as Governor of Minnesota and Mayor of Minneapolis, numerous non-profits and businesses have defrauded the federal government in what a federal prosecutor in Minnesota called "a staggering, industrial-scale fraud".! Most notably, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit— Feeding Our Future defrauded U.S. taxpayers of nearly $250 million in federal funds given to them by the Minnesota Department of Education.? This fraud scheme involved USDA funding provided to the State of Minnesota to feed hungry children under the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). As of late November, 78 defendants had been charged in what the Department of Justice characterized as the largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the country? Other recent examples of'alleged fraud in Minnesota include exploitation of the Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program", a scheme to defraud the Housing Stabilization 1-Whut te know about Minnesoca' "industrial-scale fraad" scandal, as more charges are fled and Trump weighs in, "CES Nows (Dic. 19, 3025) available at ht:/www.cbsnews.com/news/atas-do-know-alonesota-frawf-candal were-changes-fled- tump-water. /Federal Jury Finds Feeding Our Future Masternind and Co-D… Services Program", and alleged fraud in daycare centers*, Your Administrations have refused additional accountability and oversight, claiming that criticism of rampant fraud and abuse is "racist." While the full extent of fraud in Minnesota is not yet known, it is clear that, under your leadership- or lack thereof fraudsters can take advantage of federal funds and the American taxpayer with impunity. This necessitates federal action to protect taxpayer dollars until adequate safeguards can be established. Despite a staggering, wide-reaching fraud scandal, your Administrations refuse to provide basic information or take common sense mcasures to stop fraud. In fact, rather than conlin your SNAP rolls are accurate to prevent continuing fraud, you asked the courts to block USDA's directive to recertify the State's SNAP recipients. Recent news reports also emerged that the Minnesota Department of Human Services repeatedly reported incorrect information about SNAP to the federal government.? The Trump administration refuses to allow such fraud to continuc. Therefore, because of your failed Icadership and abysmal financial management oversight, 1 am notifying you that, effective immediately, I am suspending payments on all active awards and any future awards from USDA to the State of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis, currently totaling over $129.18 million. Within 30 days, you shall provide USDA with payment justifications for all federal dollar expenditures from January 20, 2025, to the present. Going forward, all transactions on awards to the State of Minnesota or the City of Minneapolis will require such payment justification. If those payment justifications are not received, awards will remain suspended. While your Administrations have turned a blind eye to documented fraud, the Trump Administration has made clear that fraud, waste, and abuse are unacceptable. The American people deserve to know that their taxpayer dollars are helping those in need-not criminals. …
January 10, 2026 at 12:16 AM