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ABIV

@abiv.bsky.social

Who among us hasn’t stopped off at a private billionaire sex island to have lunch? It gets claustrophobic spending all that time on your yacht with all the kids and nannies, you gotta stretch your legs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

VAN HOLLEN: Did you in fact make the visit to Epstein's private island?

LUTNICK: I did have lunch w/ him as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife was with me as were my 4 children and nannies. We had lunch on the island. That's true. For an hour. We left with all of my children

February 10, 2026 at 5:16 PM

ABIV

@abiv.bsky.social

The ability to just quickly make exactly what I need, rather than settling for stuff out there that maybe kind of works has been pretty mind blowing. Half the apps on my Home Screen are now apps I've made.

February 3, 2026 at 4:01 PM

ABIV

@abiv.bsky.social

- I'm making an app for my MTN Bike team to track each other for a 24 hour race this summer.
- Of course I turned my trainman plan into an app. (I literally pointed a Ralph loop at a google sheet with the plan and some requirements and walked back 20 min later to a mostly working app)

February 3, 2026 at 4:01 PM

ABIV

@abiv.bsky.social

@davidpierce.xyz you asked for vibe code projects, I'm making a ton of things.
- I now have an app for tracking routes on my home climbing wall.
- I made an app for collecting my readings for MN's Citizens water monitoring program.

February 3, 2026 at 4:01 PM

ABIV

@abiv.bsky.social

Nice walk around Minneapolis with a few thousand of my closest friends. #fuckice

People in Minneapolis protesting ICE 1/30/26

January 31, 2026 at 1:56 AM

ABIV

@abiv.bsky.social

Fucking weak. Abolishing is the bare minimum at this point. This agency has lost any credibility and is staffed with “the worst of the worst” as they like to say. They literally recruit using white supremacist slogans. Abolish ice and start over.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 13d

SCHUMER says Democrats are “united” behind three DHS reforms

1/ End roving patrols; tighten the rules on warrants and require ICE to coordinate with local authorities.

2/ Enforce accountability; a uniform code of conduct.

3/ Require masks off, body cameras on, agents carry ID.

January 29, 2026 at 2:42 AM

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Anil Dash

@anildash.com

Show me the most depraved undocumented immigrant, who has committed the most heinous crime, causing harm to me directly. ICE should not shoot that person. EVER. The state should NEVER execute a person, period, and certainly not without due process, certainly not in the street. This is fundamental.

January 26, 2026 at 9:09 PM

ABIV

@abiv.bsky.social

To be fair, everyone’s first instinct is to say Fuck you Ted when he opens his mouth.

January 25, 2026 at 6:27 PM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM

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Anil Dash

@anildash.com

It's a death cult, and it's always been a death cult, and they've treated us like we've fucking crazy for saying this for more than a decade. Even as they've killed and killed and killed and celebrated the killing.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17d

remember when erick erickson was haha’ing about tossing his opponents out of helicopters?

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 17d

The conservative intelligentsia and media-industrial complex has been publicly masturbating about getting to kill people for years now, they are orders of magnitude worse than even the MAGA base. Everybody knows this, it's just politically incorrect to say it.

January 24, 2026 at 8:25 PM

ABIV

@abiv.bsky.social

See dems, it’s not that hard to communicate the ideas of abolishing ICE because they have lost their legitimacy, and humanely enforcing our immigration laws.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21d

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

January 21, 2026 at 12:16 PM

ABIV

@abiv.bsky.social

I am looking forward to Noem’s trial and imprisonment as much as I’m looking forward to Trump’s impending heart attack.

And Jonathan Ross is a murderer.

January 18, 2026 at 4:57 PM

ABIV

@abiv.bsky.social

What an absolute ghoul, selling out her own constituents and fellow Minnesotans for a cable news appearance, and the chance to loose the Gov nomination to a crack addict pillow salesman. The Republican Party is a sick fucking joke.

January 15, 2026 at 3:35 PM

ABIV

@abiv.bsky.social

Abolish ice, there is no other way forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27d

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

January 15, 2026 at 4:12 AM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

January 7, 2026 at 6:40 PM

ABIV

@abiv.bsky.social

A quick end of year post about my one product a month challenge for ABIV in 2025 and how it went. TLDR I did not make one product a month.

www.abiv.work/writing/2025...

2025 in the Rearview — ABIV

2025 has been a big year. I set out with a loose goal to produce a product of some kind each month. I absolutely did not hit that goal .

www.abiv.work

December 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM

ABIV

@abiv.bsky.social

Quick overview of my new #climbing wall app Probly www.abiv.work/writing/prob...

Probly is Out. Get It! — ABIV

After building (and rebuilding and reseting!) two climbing walls at my house and more versions of a climbing wall app than I can count, I'm excited to announce that Probly is now live in the App St...

www.abiv.work

December 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM

ABIV

@abiv.bsky.social

Snuck my app Probly, into the AppStore this morning. If you have a climbing wall you should check it out! #climbing
apps.apple.com/us/app/probl...

Probly App - App Store

Download Probly by Arthur Beisang on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Probly.

apps.apple.com

December 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM

ABIV

@abiv.bsky.social

"a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire "

December 7, 2025 at 12:37 AM

ABIV

@abiv.bsky.social

Made another thing. It's a fun little game for climbing, you can read a writeup here and signup to be notified when it's in the App Store www.abiv.work/writing/revi...
#climbing

Revisiting an App Idea — ABIV

A recent inquiry and a desire for a quick side quest prompted me to revisit an app. I budgeted 48 hours to dust it off and see what I could do.

www.abiv.work

December 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM

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Tina Smith

@smith.senate.gov

The only garbage here is what’s coming out of his mouth

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Dec 2

Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."

December 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM

ABIV

@abiv.bsky.social

Fuck this old racist piece of shit. We don’t want him or any of his ICE goons in our state. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ in Anti-Immigrant Tirade

www.nytimes.com

December 3, 2025 at 2:49 AM

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Sam

@samd.bsky.social

the most upsetting part about this is how it’s all obviously just for show because we are governed by the dumbest shitheads on earth who like seeing things blow up for fun

Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · Oct 30

Another illegal US maritime strike—again in the Pacific.

Against a vessel allegedly operated by an unspecified "designated terrorist organization."

Four reported fatalities—dubbed w/o ID or evidence "narco-terrorists."

There's a word for premeditated killings outside of armed conflict.