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Reglar Wigler
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wesburdine.bsky.social
This guy’s awesome
statuscoupnews.bsky.social Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 2d
🚨Hours after ICE murdered Renee Good, Border Patrol swarmed an Uber driver demanding ID:

UD: What do you mean if I’m from this country?

BP: You don’t have the same accent as me

UD: You’re going by accents now?

BP: Where were you born?

UD: You guys need psychiatric checkups
January 14, 2026 at 4:39 AM
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propublica.org
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.

(Published Oct. 2024 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)
Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Treatments
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
www.propublica.org
January 14, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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cooperlund.online
Yeah man all my friends in Minnesota are buying high viz vests and forming human chains at class dismissals because ICE is targeting and tear gassing schools. I wonder why parents would want information about that.
jamisonfoser.bsky.social Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 10h
what the fuck are we doing here, @cnn.com?
The woman killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis last week served on the board of her son's school, which linked to documents encouraging parents to monitor ICE and directing them to training
January 14, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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helenbennett.bsky.social
An unusual and special beauty today, a leucistic female Mallard duck for #MallardMonday and #BirdsSeenIn2026 ... isn't she gorgeous! 📷 🪶 🌿

Happy new week everyone! 🕊️👋

#Birds #Photography #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin
A photograph of a female leucistic Mallard duck she is in side profile gently floating on a pond looking to the left as viewed. Her leucism has caused partial loss of pigmentation, resulting in white and pale feathers mixed with her usual darker brown markings. Taken on a sunny day with the evergreen foliage at the waters edge reflecting on the water behind her.
January 12, 2026 at 1:18 PM
daphsci.bsky.social
Folks outside of Mpls/St Paul/Twin Cities, someone I really admire on here wrote this summary of what is going on here. David Brauer wrote this. Please read.
David Brauer 5m • 6 ••. A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal government doesn't act extrajudicially. Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and pulling observ…
January 14, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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billcorbett.bsky.social
People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .
Text: “A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal government doesn't act extrajudicially. Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …”
January 13, 2026 at 10:38 PM
daphsci.bsky.social
Why can’t city of Mpls do some
strategic “street work” right now. @mayorfrey.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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nytimes.com
As the Trump administration escalates its immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, arrests and aggressive tactics by ICE and the Border Patrol, many seen on viral videos, have intensified the frustration and fear among residents, business owners and immigrant workers. trib.al/zVm2mk5
January 13, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America
January 13, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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harrylitman.bsky.social
The Minnesota shooting case is now metastasizing unlike any i've ever seen. The successive resignations of heads of the crim section at CRD and 3 top career prosecutors in Minn -- who had hung in all this year n/w/stg multiple outrages-- means the Department is in open revolt in DC and the field.
January 13, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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wiredferret.bsky.social
Just so we're clear about this: the people actually prosecuting social services fraud in Minnesota have now resigned rather than be coerced into "investigating" Reneé Good's widow.

Joe Thompson, Minnesota's top federal fraud prosecutor, quits over ICE shooting probe | MPR News
Joe Thompson, Minnesota's top federal fraud prosecutor, quits over ICE shooting probe
Thompson’s resignation comes after top Justice Department officials pushed the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office to investigate the widow of Renee Macklin Good, who was shot and killed by ICE agent Jon...
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January 13, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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liaswopemitchell.bsky.social
As I was being tailgated down W. River Parkway by a large SUV with tinted windows, the thought occurred to me that it might help if everyone drives a bit slower. Gives observers more time to identify feds.

We have a 20 MPH speed limit on residential streets, let’s weaponize it
January 13, 2026 at 8:36 PM
daphsci.bsky.social
Angie Craig emasculated this 4th generation farmer who is one of the least effective members of Congress. She holds a more powerful seat on the House Ag Committee. The degree to which he lacks humanity and compassion is stunning. This is a deep form of moral rot. He must be voted out in 2026!
dmbmeg.bsky.social Dumb Meg @dmbmeg.bsky.social · 14h
This is what my representative in Minnesota said about all this after his office hung up on me. Twice.
January 13, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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nbedera.bsky.social
I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch.

It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵
January 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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rawstory.com
A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.
Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw'
A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.The killing of 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross last...
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January 13, 2026 at 6:31 PM
daphsci.bsky.social
US Flag Code violation by BORTAC on their uniform. Minor point, but it's clear they are not acting as agents of the USA, but rather, another nation they are seeking to establish.
An adulterated US flag being worn by a BORTAC agent in Minneapolis, MN. This is a direct violation of the US Flag Code. It is the US flag with a winged-like symbol over the stars and stripes.
January 13, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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ilhanmn.bsky.social
Kristi Noem must be impeached.
January 13, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
HAPPENING NOW: In federal court in MN, DOJ is struggling to articulate why a person following an ICE vehicle — so long as they are obeying traffic laws — can be stopped for "reasonable suspicion" of a crime.

Judge Menendez sharply questioning that contention.
January 13, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
The Trump era in a nutshell:

Ordinary citizens are holding ICE accountable, while large law firms are doing nothing.

Small businesses are speaking out, while large corporations remain silent.

Independent media show moral urgency, while legacy media reports "both sides."
January 13, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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katie-drummond.bsky.social
NEW: At least two dozen ICE vehicles being used to patrol Minneapolis-St. Paul "currently lack the necessary emergency lights and sirens” required to be “compliant with law enforcement requirements.”

Scoop from @carolinehaskins.bsky.social
Dozens of ICE Vehicles in Minnesota Lack ‘Necessary’ Lights and Sirens
A contract justification published in a federal register on Tuesday says that 31 ICE vehicles operating in the Twin Cities area “lack the necessary emergency lights and sirens” to be “compliant.”
www.wired.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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cwebbonline.com
They refused to probe a murder. The people with consciences walked out.

🚨 NEW: At least four leaders of the DOJ Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
January 13, 2026 at 4:31 AM
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jcollins.bsky.social
People who aren't in Minnesota might not know that if you drive or walk past pretty much any school, there's going to be a group of people, parents and childless, standing guard to make sure the kids are safe from feds. It's pretty remarkable. And very disturbing. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Twin Cities students walk out, decry ICE as surge continues
Hundreds of Twin Cities high school students walked out of school Monday to protest federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota. Officials are increasingly concerned about high absenteeism in some sc...
www.mprnews.org
January 13, 2026 at 2:41 PM
daphsci.bsky.social
The @democrats.org should pump some money into Minnesota. The GOP in this state fought the Real ID for over a decade due to concerns about government surveillance. The government is now actively violating the law and stalking Minnesotans. The billboards need to go up--ICE IS STALKING YOU!
January 13, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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parkermolloy.com
Pretty willd how the DOJ just straight up stopped releasing the Epstein files even though they're legally obligated to do so.
January 12, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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premthakker.bsky.social
Sorry, what? The federal “investigation” into ICE’s killing of an American is investigating the *victim*?
January 13, 2026 at 2:48 AM