Matthew L Reznicek
@drreznicek.bsky.social
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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Consistently useless.
January 27, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Consistently useless.
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Make Article I great again
BREAKING: Two Republican senators, Thom Tillis and Lisa Murkowski, call for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to resign.
Two Republican senators call for Kristi Noem to resign as DHS secretary
Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Thom Tillis are the first GOP members of Congress to call for Noem to step down as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
www.nbcnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Make Article I great again
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Since colonial times, we have had legal migration restrictions. States ran international + interstate migration until the feds took over in the late 19th c. Yes, states deported people & could tax, ban them from entry. There's a book for that, due out March 10. 👇1/
January 27, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Since colonial times, we have had legal migration restrictions. States ran international + interstate migration until the feds took over in the late 19th c. Yes, states deported people & could tax, ban them from entry. There's a book for that, due out March 10. 👇1/
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From "Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong" by Adam Serwer.
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January 27, 2026 at 11:44 PM
From "Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong" by Adam Serwer.
Recommended. [gift link]
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Recommended. [gift link]
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Minneapolis has seen a stunning 1,646% spike in calls from families who can't pay rent because they're afraid to leave their homes to work.
This is state violence manufacturing housing precarity in real time.
People should not be facing eviction when their city is under occupation.
This is state violence manufacturing housing precarity in real time.
People should not be facing eviction when their city is under occupation.
Hotline operators report flood of calls for rental assistance as residents hide during ICE surge
211 calls from Spanish-speakers have increased more than 1,600 percent and requests for rental assistance have more than tripled, according to Greater Twin Cities United Way. Local officials are pushi...
www.mprnews.org
January 27, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Minneapolis has seen a stunning 1,646% spike in calls from families who can't pay rent because they're afraid to leave their homes to work.
This is state violence manufacturing housing precarity in real time.
People should not be facing eviction when their city is under occupation.
This is state violence manufacturing housing precarity in real time.
People should not be facing eviction when their city is under occupation.
Minnesota: we can't kick field goals, but we can kick ICE out of our state
January 27, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Minnesota: we can't kick field goals, but we can kick ICE out of our state
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This will have devastating effects on research & local economies. Public universities are drivers of state economies.
one of the least-appreciated own-goals happening right now is the deliberate sabotage of our knowledge/research sector www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Texas Halts Hiring of H-1B Workers at State Colleges, Agencies
Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered state agencies and public universities to immediately freeze new H-1B visa petitions, curtailing a program that has also been overhauled by President Donald Trump.
www.bloomberg.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:40 PM
This will have devastating effects on research & local economies. Public universities are drivers of state economies.
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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oh they are going to rip each other to shreds as it becomes clear that the country has decisively turned against them
Genuinely interesting. Kristi Noem is snitching that Stephen Miller is the one who made up the bullshit about Alex Pretti.
It would be genuinely useful if Congress can get her to admit that he has been dictating ALL OF THIS just like he dictated the murderboats.
www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...
It would be genuinely useful if Congress can get her to admit that he has been dictating ALL OF THIS just like he dictated the murderboats.
www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...
January 27, 2026 at 9:27 PM
oh they are going to rip each other to shreds as it becomes clear that the country has decisively turned against them
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1/27/2026 - Minneapolis
ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone
They did not have a warrant
ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone
They did not have a warrant
January 27, 2026 at 10:01 PM
1/27/2026 - Minneapolis
ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone
They did not have a warrant
ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone
They did not have a warrant
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A federal judge has blocked deportation, for now, of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, the PRE-SCHOOLER with the red Spider-Man backpack and blue hat with floppy bunny ears who ICE agents nabbed on the street and used as bait to nab his dad in Minneapolis. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ki...
Federal Judge Blocks Deportation Of 5-Year-Old Minneapolis Boy And Father For Now
www.huffpost.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:47 PM
A federal judge has blocked deportation, for now, of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, the PRE-SCHOOLER with the red Spider-Man backpack and blue hat with floppy bunny ears who ICE agents nabbed on the street and used as bait to nab his dad in Minneapolis. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ki...
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More than 10,000 PhDs in health and STEM have left the federal workforce, with more than 20% leaving from HHS. Together, this is more than 106,000 years of federal experience and leadership pushed out of public service. This is why our health agencies are no longer functioning.
January 27, 2026 at 9:04 PM
More than 10,000 PhDs in health and STEM have left the federal workforce, with more than 20% leaving from HHS. Together, this is more than 106,000 years of federal experience and leadership pushed out of public service. This is why our health agencies are no longer functioning.
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ICE detained hundreds of thousands of people last year, shuttling them between jails and detention centers around the country, limiting access to legal support.
How immigration detainees move around Minnesota and the nation
ICE detained hundreds of thousands of people last year, shuttling them between jails and detention centers around the country, limiting access to legal support.
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January 27, 2026 at 4:12 PM
ICE detained hundreds of thousands of people last year, shuttling them between jails and detention centers around the country, limiting access to legal support.
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Good, but also NYT *still* can't bring themselves to speak the truth directly. They always dodge & dissemble.
January 27, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Good, but also NYT *still* can't bring themselves to speak the truth directly. They always dodge & dissemble.
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Visit the student-curated exhibit “Revolutionary Paine” weekdays from 12-4 pm to view this and other materials relating to the impact of Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense,” or check out the extended online exhibit: myumi.ch/jJA29
Revolutionary Paine - UM Clements Library
The William L. Clements Library holds 58 editions of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America. Upon the 250th anniversary of its January 1776 publication, one might ask: Wh...
myumi.ch
January 27, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Visit the student-curated exhibit “Revolutionary Paine” weekdays from 12-4 pm to view this and other materials relating to the impact of Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense,” or check out the extended online exhibit: myumi.ch/jJA29
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I for one didn’t expect the Trump regime to prove that race is a social construct that transmits power, just like they taught me at a selective liberal arts college, but
one kind of weird aspect of this is that a relatively diverse federal agency has been sent to a very white city by white nationalists to do ethnic cleansing, where they're executing white people in the street
January 27, 2026 at 3:27 PM
I for one didn’t expect the Trump regime to prove that race is a social construct that transmits power, just like they taught me at a selective liberal arts college, but
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This admin really leans into both the Confederacy and the Dunces portion.
January 27, 2026 at 3:43 PM
This admin really leans into both the Confederacy and the Dunces portion.
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NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Configurations
34.1, Winter 2026
tinyurl.com/3jca2vrn
CONTRIBUTORS
Sarah Bezan
Peter Sands
Tobias Menely
Anna-Katharina Laboissière
Jennifer Schell
Joshua Schuster
Susan McHugh
Phoebe Chetwynd
Daniel Bowman
Joanna Clare Dobson
Vanessa Badagliacca
and more
Configurations
34.1, Winter 2026
tinyurl.com/3jca2vrn
CONTRIBUTORS
Sarah Bezan
Peter Sands
Tobias Menely
Anna-Katharina Laboissière
Jennifer Schell
Joshua Schuster
Susan McHugh
Phoebe Chetwynd
Daniel Bowman
Joanna Clare Dobson
Vanessa Badagliacca
and more
January 27, 2026 at 3:36 PM
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Configurations
34.1, Winter 2026
tinyurl.com/3jca2vrn
CONTRIBUTORS
Sarah Bezan
Peter Sands
Tobias Menely
Anna-Katharina Laboissière
Jennifer Schell
Joshua Schuster
Susan McHugh
Phoebe Chetwynd
Daniel Bowman
Joanna Clare Dobson
Vanessa Badagliacca
and more
Configurations
34.1, Winter 2026
tinyurl.com/3jca2vrn
CONTRIBUTORS
Sarah Bezan
Peter Sands
Tobias Menely
Anna-Katharina Laboissière
Jennifer Schell
Joshua Schuster
Susan McHugh
Phoebe Chetwynd
Daniel Bowman
Joanna Clare Dobson
Vanessa Badagliacca
and more
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What the fuck? Why would ICE be at the Winter Olympics? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘A militia that kills’: uproar in Italy over ICE security role at Winter Olympics
Milan’s mayor says agents ‘clearly not welcome’ in co-host city and that Italy can take care of security itself
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:13 PM
What the fuck? Why would ICE be at the Winter Olympics? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Now that Tom Homan is in charge, if we just come up with $50,000 we can be ok
January 27, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Now that Tom Homan is in charge, if we just come up with $50,000 we can be ok
Cuz it ain’t no lie; baby, bye bye, ICE.
a group of men are standing in a blue hallway with the letter n on the bottom left
Alt: a group of men are standing in a blue hallway with the letter n on the bottom left
media.tenor.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Cuz it ain’t no lie; baby, bye bye, ICE.
“So the question isn’t why Democrats are shutting down the government. The question is why Republicans are so supportive of what ICE is doing that they would rather shut down the government than change ICE’s behavior.”
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Stop Letting Republicans Off the Hook for the ICE Killings
The GOP has a choice: use their power to force change or own the chaos and the killings.
open.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:02 PM
“So the question isn’t why Democrats are shutting down the government. The question is why Republicans are so supportive of what ICE is doing that they would rather shut down the government than change ICE’s behavior.”
open.substack.com/pub/messageb...
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