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I just want to play my drums

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look at my mayor dawg, i’m gonna get gunned down in the street
January 14, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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You do not hate Congress enough
"I asked a number of Senate Democrats if increasing ICE funding is a red line for them in the upcoming budget negotiations. Most of the lawmakers I spoke with refrained from describing it in that way"
www.thebulwark.com/p/senate-dem...
Democrats Appear Ready to Duck a Key Fight on ICE
Top Senate Democrats are focused on other priorities in the government funding fight.
www.thebulwark.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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somehow this kind of shit is even more alarming and saddening to me than what the outright fascists are saying
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 6h
The woman killed by an ICE 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. https://cnn.it/49yoNEa
January 14, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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THREAD. This can be an important educational moment for progressive people who don't work in or study the punishment bureaucracy. Having spent 20 years in it--and just publishing a book on exactly this topic--I can say that reality works in the opposite way that Jamelle assumes.
maybe an unpopular position on this website but i think the moderate dem focus on ICE training can be, with political pressure, the pathway to more fundamental reforms. rhetorically it is not too hard to move from “more training” to “turns out they’re untrainable and we have to start all over.”
January 14, 2026 at 3:17 AM
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People don't want to accept that the primary reason that we have Trump today is that the previous administration completely failed. It should have never gotten to the point where it was in the so-called hands of the voters. It was already too late by then.
SEOUL, Jan 13 (Reuters) - South Korea's special prosecutor on Tuesday requested the death penalty for former president Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of insurrection over his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024.
January 13, 2026 at 6:58 PM
I have watched these dipshits try to park at the overfull Whipple lot and it’s giving St. Louis Park Costco energy, except 1000x angrier and dumber
January 13, 2026 at 3:45 AM
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NEW: It appears billionaire Bill Ackman has donated $10k to a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Good.

Ackman has reposted the fundraiser but hasn’t posted about his own donation.
January 11, 2026 at 1:02 PM
I’d like to walk back my past criticism of democrats for not doing enough to fight fascism; I had not seen this effort by HollywoodDemocrats.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Not Knowing What Else To Do, Man Posts Picture of Daughter and Cats
January 11, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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When the world goes to shit, people do step up. When that happens and you've been busting your ass for years you can either be mad they didn't do it earlier, or you can be proud that you helped lay out a path and recognize that your role is to guide a new leader into their role.
January 11, 2026 at 4:24 AM
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I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building.

Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained.

The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.
JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.

@zeteo.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis or we WILL lock up our own citizens
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says 29 people were arrested in downtown last night during a noise demonstration at a hotel reportedly housing ICE agents: "For those that are taking the bait and causing property damage or otherwise, there are consequences. We're holding the line here all the way."
January 10, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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im really on some damn I’ll never leave this city shit. Never felt this way about a place ❤️‍🩹 I love you minneapolis
January 10, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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DAVE MATTHEWS: “I don’t want my taxes to pay for masked thugs to roam our streets & terrorize our communities... She was trying to get away. He shot her 3x in the head. Murdered in cold blood. They’re trying to tell us not to believe what we see. FUCK ICE.”

(H/T @marcofoster.bsky.social )
January 10, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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[Marge Gunderson voice]:
They hate us 'cuz of our quality of life
January 10, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Hey Jacob is this GettingICEthe FUCKouttaMinneapolis
The Minneapolis Police Department has declared tonight’s protest outside a downtown hotel an unlawful assembly, calling it a public nuisance, and ordered the crowd to disperse. bit.ly/3Yu1KW3
January 10, 2026 at 5:42 AM
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watching aaron rupar go from posting crack for shitlibs to this should say everything
We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.
January 10, 2026 at 3:17 AM
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it might be the chinese century but this shit has definitively been the minneapolis decade
January 10, 2026 at 3:43 AM
"I heard that everyone evacuated Minneapolis even though all the highway exits were closed because everyone moved away after the city burned down in 2020 and they were making babies and one of the babies looked at me" —Sked Botley, Terre Haute IN
January 10, 2026 at 5:16 AM
If you're one of my colleagues who fought our unionization effort so fiercely and are now wringing your white liberal hands about our city's tragic plight, no you're not
January 10, 2026 at 4:53 AM
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all these people saying a car is a deadly weapon but won't do shit about cars as deadly weapons when it comes to actual safe roads
January 8, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car
January 8, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Why are we always the ones who have to remain calm
January 9, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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2026 Dem Primaries
January 8, 2026 at 10:12 PM