Matthew L Reznicek
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Matthew L Reznicek
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Health Humanities and c18/19 British and Irish Literature. Must love dogs.
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To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing—Raymond Williams
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OpenAI exec James Dyett calling out the cowardice
January 25, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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Addition: I stumbled across this photo of a suffrage protest in front of the White House. You can see a suffragist way over on the right. Feels super scary.
January 25, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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Good afternoon from downtown Chicago, where despite heavy snowfall, thousands have gathered for an anti-ICE/CBP demonstration in solidarity with the Twin Cities. More are still streaming in.

Lt. Illinois Gov. Juliana Stratton just addressed the crowd, and called for ICE to be abolished.
January 25, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands….

Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those
January 25, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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Just thinking how embarrassing Time magazines 2025 person of the year being the AI tech Bros and then less than a month later you have the people of Minneapolis doing this.

These are the kind of people who can save America from itself
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 7:45 PM
One of the central aspects of an infrapolitical ethics of care is to…witness, hold space for, and, when appropriate, amplify and intensify their anger, especially if this amplification serves the greater purpose of keeping one another alive—Hil Malatino
January 25, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Whatever the very least you can do is exactly what these CEOs did. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/b...
Minnesota’s Biggest Companies Call for ‘De-escalation’ of Tensions
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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WSJ says ICE is lying.

Read that again…. The Wall Street Journal is calling out the lies
January 25, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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This piece is not just incredible and moving stories from Minneapolis health care workers, it offers a blueprint on how to start organizing and strengthening policies in hospitals nationwide. Share it with the health care workers in your life.
"Several high-profile cases of ICE agents violating patient rights in Minneapolis."

"We're health care workers with moral and ethical obligations to our patients."

"We have to push for better rights, care, protections."
#Minnesota #USA #Healthcare #Labour #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
Minneapolis Health Care Workers Are Organizing to Defend Their Patients From ICE
Organizing and rights trainings have helped health care workers protect their colleagues and their patients.
truthout.org
January 25, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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“Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man.”
A statement from the family of Alex Pretti.
January 25, 2026 at 2:56 AM
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My Son, these maxims make a rule,
An’ lump them aye thegither;
The Rigid Righteous is a fool,
The Rigid Wise anither…

—Robert Burns, “Address to the Unco Guid, or the Ridgidly Righteous”
#BurnsNight #poem #poetry #C18
January 25, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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The United States Government’s position is that it is unlawful to watch law enforcement and you will be assaulted, it is treasonous to oppose their work and you will be executed for it, the President of the United States will defame you in death, and they will say “good job, law enforcement” on CNN.
January 25, 2026 at 2:10 PM
@podsaveamerica.crooked.com yesterday: Stephen Miller wants to kill you and then call you a domestic terrorist.
January 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
From HCR today:

“All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dem[ocrat]s to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump…). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.”
January 25, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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he was murdered for doing public health
It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
January 25, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.
January 25, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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Yes, the GOP controls Congress. That's why it's key to show Congress COULD stop the madness. And it's not just the DHS bill. Congress could repeal the prior multi-year $75b for DHS; set up a special investigative committee (cf. Watergate); amend the Insurrection Act; etc.
January 25, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Kristol for Senate Majority Leader.
Yes, the GOP controls Congress. That's why it's key to show Congress COULD stop the madness. And it's not just the DHS bill. Congress could repeal the prior multi-year $75b for DHS; set up a special investigative committee (cf. Watergate); amend the Insurrection Act; etc.
January 25, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”

Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
January 25, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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I have never seen a case where state law enforcement had to file a lawsuit to obtain evidence of a police shooting within its jurisdiction. Until now.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Complaint – #1 in Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension v. Noem (D. Minnesota, 0:26-cv-00628) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against All Defendants (filing fee $ 405, receipt number AMNDC-12575332) filed by Hennepin County Attorney's Office, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Filer requests summons issued....
storage.courtlistener.com
January 25, 2026 at 3:08 PM
After the past three weeks of brutality in Minneapolis, it should no longer be possible to say that the Trump administration seeks merely to govern this nation. It seeks to reduce us all to a state of constant fear…State terror has arrived.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:57 PM
ICE are still Nazi thugs. Dogs are still good.
January 25, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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Let’s.
BOVINO: He was in the scene actively impeding and assaulting law enforceme--

BASH: But he wasn't impeding. He was filming, which is a legal thing to do in the United States

BOVINO: Dana, let's not free frame adjudicate this now
January 25, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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ICE killed another person.

Pam Bondi said ICE would pull out if the MN Gov released their voting files.

"Any shred of doubt that this had nothing to do with immigration or safety vanished in this shameful act of what amounts to extortion."
Execution in Minneapolis
The ugly face of fascism cannot be ignored any longer.
contrarian.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:36 PM