Ben Zipperer
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A recent Department of Labor post uses a slogan similar to the Nazi propaganda slogan "One People, One Empire, One Leader”
January 12, 2026 at 8:34 PM
A recent Department of Labor post uses a slogan similar to the Nazi propaganda slogan "One People, One Empire, One Leader”
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A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
January 12, 2026 at 1:42 AM
A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
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I see this take around from time to time and totally disagree. ICE just murdered a woman standing up to them. No Kings is among the largest protests in history.
The complacency is coming from elites in media, business, universities, and the Democratic leadership
The complacency is coming from elites in media, business, universities, and the Democratic leadership
January 11, 2026 at 8:00 PM
I see this take around from time to time and totally disagree. ICE just murdered a woman standing up to them. No Kings is among the largest protests in history.
The complacency is coming from elites in media, business, universities, and the Democratic leadership
The complacency is coming from elites in media, business, universities, and the Democratic leadership
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ICE goon pushes man in front of a moving bus.
January 11, 2026 at 9:26 PM
ICE goon pushes man in front of a moving bus.
Trump's racist immigration raids are making it harder for Black workers to keep jobs and harder to find new ones that don't put their families at risk.
Perhaps not coincidentally, Black employment fell in 2025.
Perhaps not coincidentally, Black employment fell in 2025.
January 11, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Trump's racist immigration raids are making it harder for Black workers to keep jobs and harder to find new ones that don't put their families at risk.
Perhaps not coincidentally, Black employment fell in 2025.
Perhaps not coincidentally, Black employment fell in 2025.
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ICE and CBP agents arrested 2 U.S. citizens working at a Target.
Can you guess their ethnicity?
You can unfortunately because ICE is discriminating on skin color.
Working legally while brown gets you this in Trump's America.
bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...
Can you guess their ethnicity?
You can unfortunately because ICE is discriminating on skin color.
Working legally while brown gets you this in Trump's America.
bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...
January 11, 2026 at 7:28 PM
ICE and CBP agents arrested 2 U.S. citizens working at a Target.
Can you guess their ethnicity?
You can unfortunately because ICE is discriminating on skin color.
Working legally while brown gets you this in Trump's America.
bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...
Can you guess their ethnicity?
You can unfortunately because ICE is discriminating on skin color.
Working legally while brown gets you this in Trump's America.
bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...
Nice thread showing how much planning goes into using LLMs effectively for larger projects
Very tempting to start with a quick prompt and see where it goes, and sometimes that works. But you'll often get better results with more back-and-forth during planning, then breaking work into smaller steps.
Very tempting to start with a quick prompt and see where it goes, and sometimes that works. But you'll often get better results with more back-and-forth during planning, then breaking work into smaller steps.
Today Claude is building a command-line app to convert sheet music to a music grid format I use personally to memorize tunes. Screenshots of the Claude Code session follow.
January 11, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Nice thread showing how much planning goes into using LLMs effectively for larger projects
Very tempting to start with a quick prompt and see where it goes, and sometimes that works. But you'll often get better results with more back-and-forth during planning, then breaking work into smaller steps.
Very tempting to start with a quick prompt and see where it goes, and sometimes that works. But you'll often get better results with more back-and-forth during planning, then breaking work into smaller steps.
grant me the optimism of my dog when I do the dishes
January 11, 2026 at 12:54 AM
grant me the optimism of my dog when I do the dishes
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This is Minneapolis:
-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you
-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you
January 10, 2026 at 8:20 PM
This is Minneapolis:
-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you
-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you
We wouldn't have these useful correctives without high-quality federal data. Would be nice if we funded this public good instead of actively destroying the infrastructure that creates it.
Look, I too fought in the "People who make 150-400k in expensive cities are not rich" wars of the 2010s, but these takes need to be updated:
150k in 2010 was at the 90th percentile of HH income, but is at the 67th now.
200k in 2010 was at the 95th percentile of income, but is at the 79th now.
150k in 2010 was at the 90th percentile of HH income, but is at the 67th now.
200k in 2010 was at the 95th percentile of income, but is at the 79th now.
January 10, 2026 at 3:41 PM
We wouldn't have these useful correctives without high-quality federal data. Would be nice if we funded this public good instead of actively destroying the infrastructure that creates it.
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A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.
January 10, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.
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It's so true. I find that what has given me life more than anything else recently is when I either witness or participate in acts of solidarity with other people.
the best antidote to blackpilling is remembering that every video you see of an ICE thug abusing their power was recorded by an American who volunteered to put themselves in harm's way for the sake of people they've likely never met and never will
/2 In light of that, I am in awe and deep respect of the people who are still showing up to monitor the ICE Gestapo, protect and defend their neighbors, do whatever they can to hold ICE to account and call out their lawlessness. What incredible bravery.
January 9, 2026 at 5:45 PM
It's so true. I find that what has given me life more than anything else recently is when I either witness or participate in acts of solidarity with other people.
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Any staffer who did this would face up to 5 years in prison.
Last night, Donald Trump appeared to release confidential details of the BLS's upcoming December 2025 jobs report on social media. These are inputs that absolutely could have affect markets and impacted trading behavior... which is precisely why they're so closely guarded and NEVER leaked.
January 9, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Any staffer who did this would face up to 5 years in prison.
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they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
Trump take jobs
The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the early pandemic—year-on-year job losses have hit 145k as manufacturing, transportation, & mining industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out
January 9, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Trump take jobs
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/3 Think about it. Faced with lawless, violent thugs who feel entitled to murder and abuse, and faced with an unimaginably powerful government openly praising and endorsing murder and lying to justify it, these people are still showing up, often for people they don’t even know.
January 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
/3 Think about it. Faced with lawless, violent thugs who feel entitled to murder and abuse, and faced with an unimaginably powerful government openly praising and endorsing murder and lying to justify it, these people are still showing up, often for people they don’t even know.
Most of the drop in job growth is slower net immigration + workforce aging... but not entirely
Rising unemployment and cooling wage growth suggest demand is weakening, just slowly
Rising unemployment and cooling wage growth suggest demand is weakening, just slowly
Today's #JobsReport tells us the economy is decidedly weaker than a year ago:
-unemployment rate is 4.4%, up from 4.1% last Dec
-payroll employment up 50k; total gain this year only 585k compared to 2.0 million in 2024
-federal employment is down 277k since Jan, a loss of 9.2% federal jobs
#EconSky
-unemployment rate is 4.4%, up from 4.1% last Dec
-payroll employment up 50k; total gain this year only 585k compared to 2.0 million in 2024
-federal employment is down 277k since Jan, a loss of 9.2% federal jobs
#EconSky
January 9, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Most of the drop in job growth is slower net immigration + workforce aging... but not entirely
Rising unemployment and cooling wage growth suggest demand is weakening, just slowly
Rising unemployment and cooling wage growth suggest demand is weakening, just slowly
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Today's #JobsReport tells us the economy is decidedly weaker than a year ago:
-unemployment rate is 4.4%, up from 4.1% last Dec
-payroll employment up 50k; total gain this year only 585k compared to 2.0 million in 2024
-federal employment is down 277k since Jan, a loss of 9.2% federal jobs
#EconSky
-unemployment rate is 4.4%, up from 4.1% last Dec
-payroll employment up 50k; total gain this year only 585k compared to 2.0 million in 2024
-federal employment is down 277k since Jan, a loss of 9.2% federal jobs
#EconSky
January 9, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Today's #JobsReport tells us the economy is decidedly weaker than a year ago:
-unemployment rate is 4.4%, up from 4.1% last Dec
-payroll employment up 50k; total gain this year only 585k compared to 2.0 million in 2024
-federal employment is down 277k since Jan, a loss of 9.2% federal jobs
#EconSky
-unemployment rate is 4.4%, up from 4.1% last Dec
-payroll employment up 50k; total gain this year only 585k compared to 2.0 million in 2024
-federal employment is down 277k since Jan, a loss of 9.2% federal jobs
#EconSky
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Nearly 16,000 nurses in New York City are set to strike on Monday over safe staffing, workplace safety, health insurance benefits, and pay.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Thousands of New York City nurses set to strike amid contract disputes
Nearly 16,000 nurses to join union-led strike on Monday to demand large hospitals across NYC ‘put patients over profit’
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Nearly 16,000 nurses in New York City are set to strike on Monday over safe staffing, workplace safety, health insurance benefits, and pay.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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January 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the early pandemic—year-on-year job losses have hit 145k as manufacturing, transportation, & mining industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out
January 9, 2026 at 1:58 PM
The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the early pandemic—year-on-year job losses have hit 145k as manufacturing, transportation, & mining industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out
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Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
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Cartoon on ICE Agent Kills Woman During Minneapolis Immigration Raid
January 8, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Cartoon on ICE Agent Kills Woman During Minneapolis Immigration Raid