Ben Lev
@blevinger.bsky.social
Father, husband, liberal, MN sports fan
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Ben Lev
@blevinger.bsky.social
· Jul 31
I think conservatives made it clear that cake makers can't be forced to create a wedding cake for a gay wedding. You reap what you sow.
Kwesi was not perfect obviously, but I don't like people mis-remembering his record. It's fair to criticize his FA misses (Hargrave/Allen). But then also give credit for the hits: Greenard/Van Ginkel/Cashman. Someone said those were Flo's guys so he gets credit. Kwesi made it happen! That's his job!
February 2, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Kwesi was not perfect obviously, but I don't like people mis-remembering his record. It's fair to criticize his FA misses (Hargrave/Allen). But then also give credit for the hits: Greenard/Van Ginkel/Cashman. Someone said those were Flo's guys so he gets credit. Kwesi made it happen! That's his job!
I am now radicalized.
February 1, 2026 at 2:14 AM
I am now radicalized.
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Email from Jeffrey Epstein: "supposedly a girl said that donal= had sex with her at my house when she was underage.. =C2 . she said she has a witness. in 1993"
January 30, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Email from Jeffrey Epstein: "supposedly a girl said that donal= had sex with her at my house when she was underage.. =C2 . she said she has a witness. in 1993"
Catherine O'Hara as Moira Rose is one of the all-time great performances.
a woman in a long black dress is walking down a foggy street .
Alt: a woman in a long black dress is walking down a foggy street .
media.tenor.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Catherine O'Hara as Moira Rose is one of the all-time great performances.
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At least one of the newly released Epstein file is already down.
This link no longer appears to work (www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)
It contained an FBI email chain outlining an allegation against Trump involving sexual activities with a child.
This is a screenshot from that email chain.
This link no longer appears to work (www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)
It contained an FBI email chain outlining an allegation against Trump involving sexual activities with a child.
This is a screenshot from that email chain.
January 30, 2026 at 6:07 PM
At least one of the newly released Epstein file is already down.
This link no longer appears to work (www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)
It contained an FBI email chain outlining an allegation against Trump involving sexual activities with a child.
This is a screenshot from that email chain.
This link no longer appears to work (www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)
It contained an FBI email chain outlining an allegation against Trump involving sexual activities with a child.
This is a screenshot from that email chain.
(1/3) The thing I keep thinking about... One lesson I take from the Holocaust is that it doesn't happen overnight. It begins with dehumanization of the Other. Once people believe the Other is subhuman, then they don't care what is happening to them. They're being rounded up and shipped off?
January 29, 2026 at 6:11 PM
(1/3) The thing I keep thinking about... One lesson I take from the Holocaust is that it doesn't happen overnight. It begins with dehumanization of the Other. Once people believe the Other is subhuman, then they don't care what is happening to them. They're being rounded up and shipped off?
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Speaking of children not being able to walk to school, ICE agents are snatching kids off the streets of Minneapolis (and St. Paul!) and parents are having to form patrols to guard against kids getting abducted at pick-up and drop-off.
Gov. Landry: "I like to ask Democrats if they like their communities to be dangerous or safe. Do they want their children to be able to walk to school or do they want to worry if they send them on the sidewalks, that unfortunate violent things are going to happen to them?"
January 29, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Speaking of children not being able to walk to school, ICE agents are snatching kids off the streets of Minneapolis (and St. Paul!) and parents are having to form patrols to guard against kids getting abducted at pick-up and drop-off.
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
If you want to help affected families in Minneapolis, please consider donating here. My brother works at this school.
Donate to Help Olson Middle School Families, organized by jake virden
The Olson Middle School community in North Minneapolis is coming together to raise funds… jake virden needs your support for Help Olson Middle School Families
www.gofundme.com
January 25, 2026 at 10:25 PM
If you want to help affected families in Minneapolis, please consider donating here. My brother works at this school.
If anyone needs a light distraction from everything going on, here's my dog Sweetie sleeping like a person on the couch.
January 25, 2026 at 12:22 PM
If anyone needs a light distraction from everything going on, here's my dog Sweetie sleeping like a person on the couch.
I'm in tears after reading his parents' words.
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."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:56 AM
I'm in tears after reading his parents' words.
Just going to repost this thought from the other day. Evergreen.
They need to be arrested. They almost killed a baby. I don't care what the official jurisdiction rules are. Have a Minneapolis Police Officer walk up to this ICE agent and put handcuffs on him. Period. Let the courts figure out the rest later.
January 24, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Just going to repost this thought from the other day. Evergreen.
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This is an actual post from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: Praising ICE after Alex Pretti was killed, blaming the Democratic leadership of Minnesota, and writing that ICE is greater/better than Minnesota.
He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.
He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.
January 24, 2026 at 10:26 PM
This is an actual post from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: Praising ICE after Alex Pretti was killed, blaming the Democratic leadership of Minnesota, and writing that ICE is greater/better than Minnesota.
He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.
He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.
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We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun
January 24, 2026 at 9:35 PM
We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun
Here's the video from the woman on the other side. Shows the whole thing. Even worse than the original video. Guy is just recording the officers. He and a woman near him get gassed from point blank range. He's trying to help the woman up. They pull him off, beat him up, then shoot him 10+ times.
UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:
January 24, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Here's the video from the woman on the other side. Shows the whole thing. Even worse than the original video. Guy is just recording the officers. He and a woman near him get gassed from point blank range. He's trying to help the woman up. They pull him off, beat him up, then shoot him 10+ times.
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“.. After the shooting, an angry crowd gathered and screamed profanities at federal officers, calling them “cowards” and telling them to go home.
“.. One officer responded mockingly as he walked away, telling them: “Boo hoo.”
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/immi...
“.. One officer responded mockingly as he walked away, telling them: “Boo hoo.”
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/immi...
Man shot and killed during Minneapolis immigration crackdown
A 51-year-old man shot by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis has died, a hospital record obtained by The Associated Press shows. Gov.
apnews.com
January 24, 2026 at 5:58 PM
“.. After the shooting, an angry crowd gathered and screamed profanities at federal officers, calling them “cowards” and telling them to go home.
“.. One officer responded mockingly as he walked away, telling them: “Boo hoo.”
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/immi...
“.. One officer responded mockingly as he walked away, telling them: “Boo hoo.”
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/immi...
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Reminder: DHS legislation that funds ICE at current levels without policy restrictions is in the Senate and needs 60 votes to pass. Deadline is next Friday.
January 24, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Reminder: DHS legislation that funds ICE at current levels without policy restrictions is in the Senate and needs 60 votes to pass. Deadline is next Friday.
Fuck these guys.
ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement.
"I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish.
Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature.
Minneapolis, MN
"I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish.
Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature.
Minneapolis, MN
January 23, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Fuck these guys.
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“I’ve been telling them I’ve been having cramps and they told me I have to have a referral to see the doctor,” Cecil Elvir-Quinonez told me. “I’ve been telling them every day, and they just say I have to wait.”
She hasn’t seen her kids — a 5 year old and an infant — in weeks.
She hasn’t seen her kids — a 5 year old and an infant — in weeks.
A pregnant mother in ICE detention says she’s bleeding — and hasn’t seen a doctor in weeks
Cecil Elvir-Quinonez, who is still breastfeeding her youngest child, is awaiting deportation in a Louisiana ICE facility states away from her family and children.
19thnews.org
January 23, 2026 at 5:44 PM
“I’ve been telling them I’ve been having cramps and they told me I have to have a referral to see the doctor,” Cecil Elvir-Quinonez told me. “I’ve been telling them every day, and they just say I have to wait.”
She hasn’t seen her kids — a 5 year old and an infant — in weeks.
She hasn’t seen her kids — a 5 year old and an infant — in weeks.
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ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door.
It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!
It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!
![May 12, 2025
MEMORANDUM FOR: All ICE Personnel
FROM: Todd Lyons Acting Director
SUBJECT: Utilizing Form I-205, Warrant of Removal
On January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion, directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to "ensur[e] the successful enforcement of final orders of removal." 90 Fed. Reg. 8443, 8444 (Jan. 20, 2025) (E.O. 14159). Essential to the removal of aliens subject to final orders of removal is the ability to locate and arrest them. To this end, certain supervisory immigration officers within both Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are authorized to issue an administrative warrant, Form I-205, Warrant of Removal (Form 1-205), for the arrest of an alien with a final order of removal. 8 C.F.R. § 241.2(a)(1). All U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents and deportation officers are authorized to execute Forms 1-205. 8 C.F.R. § 287.5(e)(3)(iii) - (y)
Although the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has not historically relied on administrative warrants alone to arrest aliens subject to final orders of removal in their place of residence, the DHS Office of the General Counsel has recently determined that the U.S. Constitution, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the immigration regulations do not prohibit relying on administrative warrants for this purpose. Accordingly, in light of this legal determination, ICE immigration officers may arrest and detain aliens subject to a final under of removal issued by an immigration judge, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), or a U.S.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifrzrvaszfhj4bzhgtyvx3fm6ht4kc2zrwtvozijyxl3zxgp7vx6a@jpeg)
January 21, 2026 at 10:09 PM
ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door.
It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!
It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!
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Let this radicalize you.
January 19, 2026 at 5:53 AM
Let this radicalize you.
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January 19, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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When the racist meme becomes national policy
January 17, 2026 at 4:53 AM
When the racist meme becomes national policy
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She’s a U.S. citizen and was on her way to pick up seizure medication. ICE has detained her anyway for the past 50 hours at the Sherburne County Jail. www.twincities.com/2026/01/16/f... #NasraAhmed #StPaul
January 16, 2026 at 6:51 PM
She’s a U.S. citizen and was on her way to pick up seizure medication. ICE has detained her anyway for the past 50 hours at the Sherburne County Jail. www.twincities.com/2026/01/16/f... #NasraAhmed #StPaul
Well, that's terrifying.
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
January 16, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Well, that's terrifying.