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Clio2
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Observer of #polycrisis; excursions into history, nature, oddments. Degrees: philosophy, history of science. Former teacher, writer,
editor, spokesperson, contract researcher, journalist. Occasional fictioneer. NB. No LLMs/other AI need apply. :-)
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FLIPPERS UP!
Defend the flock!
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Here's the video of ICE beating a man and then shooting him while he was on the ground from a credible source. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say
A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.
www.startribune.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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I don't see anyone talking about this on Bluesky.

Vulcan Elements backed by Donald Trump Jr. is getting a $620 million loan from the Pentagon.

Our government is essentially a slush fund for Trump and everyone in his orbit.
December 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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This is so fucking haunting.
January 24, 2026 at 3:11 AM
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January 24, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Holy s*it
January 24, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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Russia's Useful Idiot confesses he doesn't know that Trump was charged with the same crime as Nekima Levy Armstrong and Chauntyll Allen were charged with, 18 USC 241, and no one even asked for him to be caged pre-trial.
January 24, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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A political protester in Minneapolis was captured by ICE. They removed her bra and cut off her wedding ring. They never returned her clothes to her. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...
January 22, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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Minneapolis this morning
Initial report is that two observers got into a shoving match with eight agents, one observer was wrestled to the ground, and then an ICE agent pulled out a sidearm and shot the man on the ground five times.
January 24, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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She is also out doing observing nearly every day since.
A political protester in Minneapolis was captured by ICE. They removed her bra and cut off her wedding ring. They never returned her clothes to her. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...
January 24, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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The shot that killed her was the _third_ shot. Shot in the head. Through the driver's side window.

The killer was in no danger when he murdered her.

Trump's "investigation" is NOTHING AT ALL but a COVERUP.

A thousand times worse than Watergate. THIS IS A COUP.

www.rawstory.com/renee-good-2...
Renee Good's autopsy blows the lid off lies from Trump's DHS: ex-prosecutor
The Trump administration has lied about the death of Renee Nicole Good at the hands of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis, former prosecutor Kristy Greenberg stated on the lat...
www.rawstory.com
January 24, 2026 at 1:16 AM
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Here's a tip. ICE has reportedly been faking and switching license plates on cars, so if you see ICE run their plate www.nhtsa.gov/recalls and if the year, make, and model don't match, report them to your local and state authorities.

Don’t forget to take a picture for evidence. PLEASE REPOST
www.nhtsa.gov
January 24, 2026 at 4:58 AM
Surprise

From a friend of child rapists and traffickers

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘Disheartening’: US justice department slashes funding to programs combating child sex trafficking
Prosecutors say cuts to funding and training limits their ability to bring child predators to justice
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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January 24, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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On news that Todd Blanche shut down civil rights investigation into killing of Renee Good--remember that Greg Bovino gets orders directly from White House. The rules of engagement that led to her killing came from someone in Stephen Miller's immediate vicinity.

www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/07/t...
Time to Ask if Stephen Miller Has Authorized Assault and Murder of Peaceful ICE Observers - emptywheel
Given how consistently Greg Bovino is at the scene of unjustified violence against ICE observers, including today's shooting, and given Bovino's refusal to answer whether Stephen Miller has given him ...
www.emptywheel.net
January 24, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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January 24, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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Also, as you think about this humiliation, remember that Bezos has never condemned Trump's seizure of a WaPo journalists' devices (including her Garmin watch).
January 24, 2026 at 5:29 AM
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Lmao I hope all that nothing you get for the $35 million bribe is worth it, Bezos

www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-...
January 24, 2026 at 4:56 AM
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Be great if the sadistic masked stormtroopers didn't shoot people, while we're on the subject
I think the president should stop sending sadists into our cities to violate people's rights and kidnap children. I think things would be better if he did not do that
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 AM
NEW: I was one of 3 reporters granted access to the convening of 600+ clergy in Minneapolis this week.

It was a striking show of solidarity with MN clergy resisting ICE, but heralded something else: the emergence of a vast, faith-based network trained to resist ICE. religionnews.com/2026/01/23/i...
Inside the effort to organize clergy nationwide to resist ICE
(RNS)— Hundreds of clergy from around the country gathered in Minneapolis to learn from Minnesota faith leaders how to protest against ICE enforcement. Then they took to the streets and helped block t...
religionnews.com
January 24, 2026 at 5:55 AM
"The...Namibian genocide was the extermination of the Herero and the Nama people in German South West Africa (now Namibia) by the German Empire between 1904 and 1908. Around 40,000 to 80,000 Hereros (80 percent of their prewar population) and 10,000 Nama (half of their prewar population) died."
I don't know who needs to hear this but the Holocaust was not Germany's first rodeo with genocide and ethnic discrimination

See any discussion about German antizyganism and also anything about the Herero and Nama genocide:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_...
Herero and Nama genocide - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 24, 2026 at 5:54 AM
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It's currently -10° in Minneapolis and they still got thousands of people to march and protest outside.

They picked the wrong city.
They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
January 23, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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this photo. minneapolis. 💜

📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
January 23, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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This is amazing.
Minnesota is the best of us.
January 23, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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I do actually think that the insistence that it’s *not* anything to do with the Nazis involves some antisemitism and Holocaust denial. then people saying oh the Nazis were just copying the US, which essentially denies another genocide (of Africans). It makes my Black Jewish head hurt.
January 23, 2026 at 11:37 PM