Hemry, Local Bartender
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People who say this are clearly speaking aspirationally about a shared American creed they hold dear. “Have you heard of the Trail of Tears?” is not a very helpful response, because they probably have and the priority right now is moral opposition to fascism and not fake-educating each other.
I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow
January 22, 2026 at 2:08 PM
People who say this are clearly speaking aspirationally about a shared American creed they hold dear. “Have you heard of the Trail of Tears?” is not a very helpful response, because they probably have and the priority right now is moral opposition to fascism and not fake-educating each other.
If I see another news article call violating the constitution "a break with tradition" I am going to twist my own head off
January 22, 2026 at 1:41 PM
If I see another news article call violating the constitution "a break with tradition" I am going to twist my own head off
Advantage for what. The election's not til november. I know it's hard to believe chris but life in america consists of more than poll-testing messages
People are waving around 50/50 polling on abolish ICE and in the same poll Trump’s is like 30 points under water on affordability. It’s not at all crazy for professional politicians to think there’s a bigger advantage in talking about the latter!
January 22, 2026 at 6:18 AM
Advantage for what. The election's not til november. I know it's hard to believe chris but life in america consists of more than poll-testing messages
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Could a Democrat, any Democrat, release a statement actually thanking the people that have been out there doing the fucking work instead of this constant scolding tone for the love of God
Respectfully, look at this fucking bullshit that we’re dealing with, not a single person here has “taken the bait.” We have born witness as little kids are used as bait and neighbors are kidnapped on our streets. A mad dipshit is going to invoke the Insurrection Act regardless and you are blaming us
Violence only helps Trump & may provide him an excuse to further trample our rights by invoking the Insurrection Act.
January 22, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Could a Democrat, any Democrat, release a statement actually thanking the people that have been out there doing the fucking work instead of this constant scolding tone for the love of God
Aww they were "simply trying to take bathroom breaks." Bet you all feel pretty bad now. They're just little guys, little peepee boys, and it's also their birthday
Border Patrol agents are very sad that everyone in Minnesota hates them.
“At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving…”
“At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving…”
January 22, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Aww they were "simply trying to take bathroom breaks." Bet you all feel pretty bad now. They're just little guys, little peepee boys, and it's also their birthday
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All I have ever heard about every news story from Bill Clinton to drag shows is “it’s awful, parents have to explain this to their children, why can’t we just let kids be kids?”
Now an entire classroom is going to go home to parents trying to explain why their five year friend was taken by the govt
Now an entire classroom is going to go home to parents trying to explain why their five year friend was taken by the govt
Liam is one of four Columbia Heights, MN school district students who have been taken by ICE in the last two weeks, the school district said. Liam's teacher: “He is so kind and loving, and his classmates miss him. He ... just brightens the room. All I want is for him to be back here and safe.”
January 22, 2026 at 3:41 AM
All I have ever heard about every news story from Bill Clinton to drag shows is “it’s awful, parents have to explain this to their children, why can’t we just let kids be kids?”
Now an entire classroom is going to go home to parents trying to explain why their five year friend was taken by the govt
Now an entire classroom is going to go home to parents trying to explain why their five year friend was taken by the govt
Beat a russian dude at a videogame and instead of saying "gg" I hit him with the "slava ukraini" so there's that at least
January 22, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Beat a russian dude at a videogame and instead of saying "gg" I hit him with the "slava ukraini" so there's that at least
Maybe now the media has permission to treat it as a scandal, since they tried to cover it up
This is insane not just the explicit "go break the 4A" substance but how they knew how bad it was, acting in guilty paranoia to cover it up and suppress the written evidence.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 22, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Maybe now the media has permission to treat it as a scandal, since they tried to cover it up
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This is insane not just the explicit "go break the 4A" substance but how they knew how bad it was, acting in guilty paranoia to cover it up and suppress the written evidence.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 11:03 PM
This is insane not just the explicit "go break the 4A" substance but how they knew how bad it was, acting in guilty paranoia to cover it up and suppress the written evidence.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
TIL donald trump's polish translator at davos is on bluesky and a resist lib
January 21, 2026 at 7:01 PM
TIL donald trump's polish translator at davos is on bluesky and a resist lib
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lmao listen to Trump's Polish interpreter at Davos (Magda Fitas-Czuchnowska apparently) mimicking his voice
January 21, 2026 at 6:40 PM
lmao listen to Trump's Polish interpreter at Davos (Magda Fitas-Czuchnowska apparently) mimicking his voice
The thing about trump confusing greenland and iceland is that now he's going to claim that they also had a secret plan for taking over iceland all along, which he can now reveal because in his infinite magnanimity & benevolence he's decided not to invade so it doesn't matter
January 21, 2026 at 6:03 PM
The thing about trump confusing greenland and iceland is that now he's going to claim that they also had a secret plan for taking over iceland all along, which he can now reveal because in his infinite magnanimity & benevolence he's decided not to invade so it doesn't matter
He said he needed greenland for psychological reasons, no one gave it to him, and now he's dead. I hope you're all proud of yourselves
January 21, 2026 at 6:09 AM
He said he needed greenland for psychological reasons, no one gave it to him, and now he's dead. I hope you're all proud of yourselves
Oh so that's why machado gave him the nobel peace prize, it was cursed
January 21, 2026 at 6:05 AM
Oh so that's why machado gave him the nobel peace prize, it was cursed
Made some thai red curry and used up all my fridge scraps, please clap
January 21, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Made some thai red curry and used up all my fridge scraps, please clap
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I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
January 20, 2026 at 10:02 PM
I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
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Great feedback, team. Keep it up.
Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino said well-organized protesters in Minnseota make the ICE operation harder.
"They've got some excellent communications," Bovino said.
"They've got some excellent communications," Bovino said.
Live: Minnesota officials subpoenaed in federal probe of state’s response to ICE surge
The federal investigation marks an escalation in tensions between federal and state officials.
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January 20, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Great feedback, team. Keep it up.
Fascinated how basically in every country now rightwingers complain about "woke," using the english word or similar (e.g. "le wokisme"). When you think about it as a specifically anti-African American reactionary movement, you could say facebook's big accomplishment is globalizing the confederacy
It’s really hard to overstate the extent to which conservatives are now just the same type of facebook ogre in every single country with few or no other defining affiliations
January 20, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Fascinated how basically in every country now rightwingers complain about "woke," using the english word or similar (e.g. "le wokisme"). When you think about it as a specifically anti-African American reactionary movement, you could say facebook's big accomplishment is globalizing the confederacy
Once again everything tricia mclaughlin said (that he lived with sex offenders, that he refused to show ID) was a complete lie, and when called out on it, DHS just goes dark. Ridiculous to print anything she says without an enormous disclaimer up front
January 20, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Once again everything tricia mclaughlin said (that he lived with sex offenders, that he refused to show ID) was a complete lie, and when called out on it, DHS just goes dark. Ridiculous to print anything she says without an enormous disclaimer up front
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these heated rivalry promos are getting wild
January 20, 2026 at 5:37 PM
these heated rivalry promos are getting wild
Wenn das der Führer wüsste
Tillis: "To be clear -- I'm not critical of the president. I'm critical of the bad advice he's getting on Greenland."
January 20, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Wenn das der Führer wüsste
When this is all over we're gonna have to do the Obama Global Apology Tour for real
January 20, 2026 at 4:09 PM
When this is all over we're gonna have to do the Obama Global Apology Tour for real
Congratulations to the representative for a statement that's somehow offensive to everyone
Rep. Keith Self on anti-ICE protesters who disrupted a church service in the Twin Cities: "I compare them to Hamas who live-streamed the attack in Israel that killed hundreds of people. They want to instill terror."
January 20, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Congratulations to the representative for a statement that's somehow offensive to everyone