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attackerman.bsky.social
Bovino’s retirement needs to be a cage. His command environment yielded Renee Good’s death, Alex Pretti’s death & Julio Sosa-Celis’ shooting. Failure to prosecute Bovino & everyone else materially responsible for these atrocities will be understood by ICE, CBP, etc as a green light for the next ones
January 27, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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elienyc.bsky.social
A major newspaper publishing guide to help people identify the munitions their government is using against them is a real "Late Republic America" timepeice that future historians will comment on.
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 8:54 PM
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patrickwindrose.bsky.social
January 25, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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theshovel.bsky.social
“Our whole reason for lobbying for looser gun laws was so we could protect the people from an oppressive government. And then it actually happened, and the whole rising up against a tyrannical government thing just totally slipped our minds, which is a little embarrassing"
NRA Accidentally Forgets To Rise Up Against Tyrannical Government — The Shovel
An embarrassed National Rifle Association says it totally forgot to do the one thing it has been saying for years it is solely there to do.
theshovel.com.au
January 26, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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joelhs.bsky.social
Normal thing for a major urban American newspaper to have to post.
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 8:43 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Two things to learn from this.
1. The rightwing newspapers are lobby groups whose purpose is to advance the class interest of their proprietors.
2. Lobbyists for the rich and powerful lose their jobs if they are not prepared to lie.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...
Analysis: UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time - Carbon Brief
Nearly 100 UK newspaper editorials opposed climate action in 2025, a record figure that reveals the backlash against net-zero in the right-leaning press
www.carbonbrief.org
January 26, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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andrewkingclimate.bsky.social
With winter in full swing in the Northern Hemisphere, Australia really stands out as exceptionally hot looking at the forecast temperatures across the world. Possible record-breaking heat tomorrow in the southeast. www.bom.gov.au/australia/ch...

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Forecast temperatures across the world at 5pm AEDT on Tuesday 27th January (Source: Bureau of Meteorology)
January 26, 2026 at 7:38 AM
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brandonfriedman.bsky.social
ICE is leaving Vietnam-style death cards in the wake of their kidnappings because they are the saddest, most embarrassing military wannabes to ever live

coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...
Ace of Spades card that says: ICE Denver Field Office 3130 N. Oakland St. Aurora, CO 80012 303-361-6612
January 26, 2026 at 5:35 AM
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davemilbo.bsky.social
How embarrassing are libertarians right now?! Truly, this was meant to be your moment. We all knew it wasn't about tyranny; you're just racist dipshits that don't want to pay taxes. Your joke of an ideology is so convenient for the establishment, I'm half convinced it's a psyop.
January 26, 2026 at 7:22 AM
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matthaggis666.bsky.social
Tony Abbott says 26 January ‘always was, always will be’ Australia Day.
Reality:
#auspol
January 26, 2026 at 6:19 AM
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rowecartoon.bsky.social
then and now
January 26, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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leena.reuben.games
good time to re-read “Twitter and Tear Gas” i guess

Creative Commons copy is free here: www.twitterandteargas.org/downloads/tw...
January 26, 2026 at 6:39 AM
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roycerk2.bsky.social
Australian fossil fuel producers have expressed this exact view when going after climate groups, particularly in the courts. They talk with awe at the organisation and effectiveness of their "opponents" (direct quote) and, at the same time, remain utterly convinced shadowy forces are funding it all.
sarahjeong.bsky.social sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 2d
part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis
naomikritzer.bsky.social Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 2d
I mostly just stay off Twitter altogether but after double checking that the Walter Hudson post was still up I ran across this and just had to share so the Romancelandians who bought hand warmers could hear about the PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS.
January 26, 2026 at 7:07 AM
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davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
"Direct action means insisting on your right to act as if you’re already free. If someone is doing something bad, you try to stop them, in the way you’d hope anyone would act in a free and just society. If a bunch of cops intervene, you do not treat them like authorities, you act as if they were a bunch of guys in blue costumes with weapons — that is, basically, a violent street gang." . - David Graeber
January 26, 2026 at 4:19 AM
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wolvesclips.bsky.social
Target Center crowd erupts with “FUCK ICE” following the moment of silence for Alex Pretti
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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crikey.com.au
On the day we celebrate invasion by an imperial power, Anthony Albanese is celebrating the best way he knows how…
On this January 26, Australia deserves a real leader, not a craven vassal
www.crikey.com.au
January 26, 2026 at 2:31 AM
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nickfeik.bsky.social
If it’s officially a ceasefire these are all murders surely
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4d
Israel killed three journalists, including a CBS News contributor, the latest attacks in Gaza despite a U.S.-backed ceasefire that began in October.

Israel has killed about 220 journalists in Gaza since October 2023, according to Reporters Without Borders. https://wapo.st/4r5ZmRr
January 23, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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nathankhensley.bsky.social
the moment the second person comes into the frame to stand with his neighbor is so incredibly beautiful
dmbmeg.bsky.social Dumb Megan @dmbmeg.bsky.social · 2d
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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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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simonrosenberg.bsky.social
"You have to wonder, given the threatening Caligula-like ramblings emanating from the White House, what it would actually take for middle power Australia to ditch #AUKUS, dispense with its little America cloak and publicly countenance rethinking the alliance"

But sycophancy prevails. #auspol
australia.theguardian.com Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 2d
This 26 January, we should question Australia’s subservience to a different empire: Trump’s America | Paul Daley
This 26 January, we should question Australia’s subservience to a different empire: Trump’s America | Paul Daley
What would it actually take for Australia to ditch Aukus, dispense with the little America cloak and rethink the alliance? * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Once again on this divisive day of national celebration, Australia’s leaders can be expected to indulge in official monologues of self-congratulation based on assertions of who we supposedly are as a country and a people. Notwithstanding the perennial affront to many First Nations people’s sensibilities each 26 January, Australia will officially talk over the protests to cast itself as a tolerant, inclusive, egalitarian, self-sufficient, ruggedly individual nation of mates – always underpinned by a reverence for democracy and a hardy streak of anti-authoritarianism. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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peggysanders.bsky.social
Jillian Cribb: “Having achieved hottest 3 years in recorded history, humans are well on the way to returning the planet to the ice-free state it experienced when dinosaurs last ruled.”

johnmenaduecom/post/2026/01...
De-icing the Earth: a fatal decision
Global ice is melting fast, with major sea level rise and extreme heat locked in unless emissions fall sharply. The window to act is closing.
johnmenadue.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:25 AM
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socialistdogmom.bsky.social
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
January 24, 2026 at 7:48 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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thesaturdaypaper.com.au
On Christmas Eve, the minister for the environment, Murray Watt, quietly gave the go-ahead for Korea Zinc to kill a certain number of threatened and endangered species every year, writes Bob Brown.
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Murray Watt’s licence to kill endangered species in Tasmania
Murray Watt’s latest approval for Korea Zinc includes a table that explicitly permits the company to kill thousands of native animals a year, including critically endangered species such as the swift parrot.
satpa.pe
January 25, 2026 at 2:42 AM