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Back of Beyond @ MAGFest prep @bbeyondcosplay.bsky.social · Nov 17
A super fun project I did with Chey several years ago was doing a duo of Sakizo's illustrations! It was so much fun going to rhinestone hell with all the detail work we got into 🥰

Angel- leviathan.costuming (insta)
📸 Happy Pause Photography (insta)

#cosplay #sakizo #fairy #angel
sakizo fairy standing in a field at sunset sakizo angel and fairy holding hands in a field sakizo angel and fairy fairy reaching down to help angel
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taniel.bsky.social
NEW: There are 2,400+ elections for DA & sheriff this year.

These matter hugely to criminal justice & policing—including: *these are often officials who decide ICE collaboration.*

So I took a dive into these 2,400+ races to identify early hotspots and battlegrounds.

Read, & check out our maps:
In Criminal Justice Elections This Year, ICE Contracts Are on the Hot Seat - Bolts
With roughly 2,400 elections for prosecutor and sheriff this year, Bolts reviews the map and early hotspots that will shape criminal punishment and law enforcement practices.
boltsmag.org
January 26, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
This hit so fucking hard today.
CHARLES RAFFERTY The Problem with Early Warnings People don't like to leave a party unless the house is actually on fire. Even then, if the flames are far enough away to be pretty, they'll finish their drink, take one more pass at the hors d'oeuvres. How things happen has always been unclear. Hurricanes begin in a place where no one lives. Agents of the government start to wear masks. Fascism is a word my neighbors won't use yet. They are following the law, they say, and the sirens are coming for someone else.
January 26, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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planetoffinks.bsky.social
A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line
January 27, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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slack2thefuture.bsky.social
The Democrats suggesting these milquetoast compromises are engaging in a huge mistake the union leaders call “negotiating with yourself.”

Any stance short of “Fuck you. Abolish ICE” leaves no room for meaningful change.

This move shows Democratic leaders are not just weak but also incompetent.
jessdkant.bsky.social Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20h
If Murphy et al are making a list of basic concessions upon which they’ll cave— which is what these “demands” really are: masks and visible badge numbers must be at the very top of the non-negotiable portion of that list and those state investigations? Must be *civilian* oversight boards.
January 27, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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kashana.blacksky.app
Looking forward to the day when we win hard enough to not need articles like “what are the paramilitaries spraying at you?: a helpful guide”
startribune.com Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 1d
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE

Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 8:49 PM
bbeyondcosplay.bsky.social
We are getting hit with the snow belt of the storm. In between shoveling I decided to try making bread with the kitchenaid mixer I got for Xmas. I *may* have misread the instructions and didn't seperate the dough into 2 loaves....so now I have a monster 5 lb challah 😅
The challah in question. It barely fits on the baking sheet. It probably weighs 5lbs 🫠 The snow totals so far. Backyard equipment covered in many inches of snow
January 25, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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astrokatie.com
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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andycraig.bsky.social
Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration.

Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction

It can be done.
January 25, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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ymi.bsky.social
yippie shop's open again! ☺️
come adopt your lil graha bby's and take them on adventures🥹

also yan fans are in stock for once! (sorry for the long wait friens-)

www.etsy.com/shop/oYMIo
January 24, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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chrisdeleon.bsky.social
hey everybody lifelong tech expert here

> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility

that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
404media.co 404 Media @404media.co · 2d
And what is happening inside ICE detention centers? 404 Media also learned that the federal government claimed that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
www.404media.co
January 25, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
January 24, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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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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jeffrueter.bsky.social
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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chanda.blacksky.app
YOUR PHONE CALLS TO THE SENATE ARE WORKING. KEEP CALLING.

202–224-3121

Three Democrats who previously broke with the party and voted with the GOP are now saying they will not vote for the bill. That’s enough for the bill to be unpassable right now.
DHS funding bill faces new Senate hurdles after another person killed in Minneapolis
Some Democrats who voted for recent funding bills said they'll vote against any DHS bill without restrictions on enforcement operations. The deadline to avert a shutdown is Friday.
www.nbcnews.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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emilyrj.bsky.social
Midwest folks: ICE is building detention camps in North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota — centers for everyone targeted in the Midwest

Violence elsewhere always has a pathway to where we live now and what we vote for

Call your reps, ICE OUT MIDWEST

www.wired.com/story/ice-de...
ICE Details a New Minnesota-Based Detention Network That Spans 5 States
Internal ICE planning documents propose spending up to $50 million on a privately run network capable of shipping immigrants in custody hundreds of miles across the Upper Midwest.
www.wired.com
January 24, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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aerheart.bsky.social
If anybody was curious about what makes a pair of characters qualify as "Blowjob Brothers," I put together this handy checklist. Hope this helps!
Blowjob Brothers Checklist THE FIRST 1 CHECK IS NECESSARY FOR A PAIR OF CHARACTERS TO BE TRUE BLOWJOB BROTHERS - Two guys in any context whatsoever IF A PAIR OF CHARACTERS DOESN'T HAVE THE 1 PREVIOUS CHECK BUT SEVERAL OF THE FOLLOWING, THEY ARE STILL BLOWJOB BROTHERS -Complimentary color schemes -"Wholesome" -Get up to hijinks together -Have gay subtext, or are blatantly gay -Have any kind of combination technique -Are standing together on official art
January 24, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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pearlmania500.bsky.social
ICE JUST EXECUTED ANOTHER AMERICAN ON A SIDEWALK IN MINNESOTA.

THEY BEAT HIM AND THEN SHOT HIM MULTIPLE TIMES RIGHT IN FRONT OF OTHER PROTESTORS AND CAMERAS.
January 24, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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witchwei.bsky.social
~For those who come after~

Stay warm, safe, & informed as some parts will brace for snow! 💙

- Mask chain: matulasmercantile (ig)
- Lune tattoos + journal cutout @dangerousladies.ca
- Benisim model - VnBArt on Cults3d
📸: @rdpro.bsky.social (rd_pro ig)

#expedition33 #cosplay #lune #lunecosplay
Full body Photo by rd_pro. Witch Wei cosplaying as Lune from Clair Obscur Expedition 33. She is wearing a black Powecom KN95 respirator face mask from bonafide with a gold spiked mask chain. She is also wearing a premade cosplay of Lune's original game outfit with Chroma tattoos and holding Lune's Benisim prop in her left hand.
January 23, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
California just joined the World Health Organization.

I love it.
California joins WHO public health network following US exit, marking a first for any state
California joined WHO's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, countering federal withdrawal from the organization.
www.abc10.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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adamjst.bsky.social
If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.
It is the misfortune of Minnesota’s ICE contingent to have invaded the state with the second-highest levels of social trust, trailing only Utah. Many activist networks were formed in 2020; we are seeing, Petrus says, Minnesotans call upon the “muscle memory” of the George Floyd protests. In mid-January, a neighborhood organization for a part of town called Whittier put out a call for a meeting to organize a “Neighborhood ICE response”; more than 800 people showed up at the local elementary school and formed a tidy line extending well beyond the door. (“Why a line?” I ask someone later. “Because we are in Minnesota,” he says.) In the cafeteria, in their big coats, adults struggled to get their legs through benches attached to long lunch tables. Because there were too many Minnesotans to fit in a single room, officials and parents and teachers went room to room giving the same speeches about how to help neighbors in hiding. They then gridded out the rooms, dividing the neighborhood into smaller subdivisions. Close neighbors met one another (“Oh, you live on the other side of the museum”) and formed hyperlocal Signal groups. At the first sighting of an agent, someone could ping the group and draw them outside. Their favored tactic was noise. They would make it impossible for ICE to conduct raids in secret.
January 23, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
January 24, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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lorennacleary.bsky.social
You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer.

In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.
January 23, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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margaret.bsky.social
Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM