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Bipartisan is a good thing when we’re talking about something like an infrastructure bill. But more funding for ICE abuse with our tax dollars shouldn’t have a single Democrat’s name on it.
THIS IS WHAT PLAYING “BOTH SIDES” LOOKS LIKE.
THIS IS WHAT PLAYING “BOTH SIDES” LOOKS LIKE.
January 26, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Bipartisan is a good thing when we’re talking about something like an infrastructure bill. But more funding for ICE abuse with our tax dollars shouldn’t have a single Democrat’s name on it.
THIS IS WHAT PLAYING “BOTH SIDES” LOOKS LIKE.
THIS IS WHAT PLAYING “BOTH SIDES” LOOKS LIKE.
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Frank Figluizzi slams Trump regime for putting the DHS agents who murdered Alex Pretti right back on the streets instead of administrative leave. The lack of consequences for killing Americans by ICE and CBP will lead to them killing more Americans.
January 26, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Frank Figluizzi slams Trump regime for putting the DHS agents who murdered Alex Pretti right back on the streets instead of administrative leave. The lack of consequences for killing Americans by ICE and CBP will lead to them killing more Americans.
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I spoke to the President earlier. We had a productive conversation and I explained to him that his staff doesn’t have their facts straight about Minnesota. My thoughts in the Wall Street Journal:
www.wsj.com/opinion/tim-...
www.wsj.com/opinion/tim-...
Opinion | Tim Walz: The Un-American Assault on Minnesota
Federal officials are lying. My state’s Corrections Department honors all immigration detainers.
www.wsj.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:24 PM
I spoke to the President earlier. We had a productive conversation and I explained to him that his staff doesn’t have their facts straight about Minnesota. My thoughts in the Wall Street Journal:
www.wsj.com/opinion/tim-...
www.wsj.com/opinion/tim-...
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Immigration officers fear Trump just doomed their jobs: 'We lost all trust'
www.rawstory.com/immigration-...
www.rawstory.com/immigration-...
Immigration officers fear Trump just doomed their jobs: 'We lost all trust'
Current and former immigration officers spoke out against President Donald Trump's crackdown in Minnesota Monday.A Customs and Border Patrol agent shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti over the week...
www.rawstory.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Immigration officers fear Trump just doomed their jobs: 'We lost all trust'
www.rawstory.com/immigration-...
www.rawstory.com/immigration-...
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For a year they’ve been saying that we are paid. For a year they’ve said they are investigating it to prove it. They still have never produced any evidence of that but continue to go on TV every day with zero evidence and insist with great confidence that we’re paid. bsky.app/profile/deco...
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) The anti-ICE protesters are paid, people in Minnesota are really happy ICE is there. The protesters are liberal media, Nazis, anarchists, communists, people who hate the flag, God, veterans, capitalism and democracy! Woke-a-topia!
January 26, 2026 at 1:15 PM
For a year they’ve been saying that we are paid. For a year they’ve said they are investigating it to prove it. They still have never produced any evidence of that but continue to go on TV every day with zero evidence and insist with great confidence that we’re paid. bsky.app/profile/deco...
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House prices rising at the turn of the millennium drove rising wealth that has reduced social mobility and increased inequality.
How the house price boom at the turn of the century slashed social mobility
www.bigissue.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:12 AM
House prices rising at the turn of the millennium drove rising wealth that has reduced social mobility and increased inequality.
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Trump’s wrecking ball pushes US allies closer to China
Trump’s wrecking ball pushes US allies closer to China
In the search for stability, some western nations are turning to a country that many in Washington see as an existential threat
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:55 AM
Trump’s wrecking ball pushes US allies closer to China
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Solo diners and museumgoers write reviews rated as more helpful than those from people visiting with others.
Observers perceive solo visitors as more genuinely interested in the experience, making them influential customers that businesses should pay attention to. buff.ly/Vn5Uoyu
Observers perceive solo visitors as more genuinely interested in the experience, making them influential customers that businesses should pay attention to. buff.ly/Vn5Uoyu
Doing things alone is on the rise, and businesses should pay more attention to that – even on Valentine’s Day
With solo living on the rise, more consumers are dining, traveling and spending on their own. Yet most brands still design their offerings year-round for couples.
theconversation.com
January 25, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Solo diners and museumgoers write reviews rated as more helpful than those from people visiting with others.
Observers perceive solo visitors as more genuinely interested in the experience, making them influential customers that businesses should pay attention to. buff.ly/Vn5Uoyu
Observers perceive solo visitors as more genuinely interested in the experience, making them influential customers that businesses should pay attention to. buff.ly/Vn5Uoyu
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Jasmine Crockett told Newsweek an "unprecedented candidate is exactly what it's going to take" for Democrats to win in Texas.
Exclusive: Jasmine Crockett on Senate Run, ICE and Fighting Trump Admin
www.newsweek.com
January 25, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Jasmine Crockett told Newsweek an "unprecedented candidate is exactly what it's going to take" for Democrats to win in Texas.
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Barabak: There's one state in America with no voter registration. How does that work?
Commentary: There's one state in America with no voter registration. How does that work?
North Dakota eliminated voter registration more than 70 years ago, to encourage turnout. The state isn't particularly stellar when it comes to election participation. But it's no hotbed of fraud.
www.latimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Barabak: There's one state in America with no voter registration. How does that work?
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The Kremlin continues to isolate its own citizens from the outside world.
Putin Is Disrupting 'Everyday Communications' For Ordinary Russians In Fresh Crackdown, UK Says
The Kremlin continues to isolate its own citizens from the outside world.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
January 25, 2026 at 11:27 AM
The Kremlin continues to isolate its own citizens from the outside world.
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Recommended read: @insideclimatenews.org profiled Californian climate policy expert Neil Matouka, who built a plugin to display climate risk data that real-estate site Zillow removed from home listings.
📝 @cclairebarber.bsky.social
📝 @cclairebarber.bsky.social
A California Climate Expert Is Working to Restore Climate Risk Scores Deleted by Zillow - Inside Climate News
The real estate website scrubbed the data under pressure from California’s real estate brokers and agents who were concerned about its impact on home prices. Neil Matouka thinks prospective buyers…
insideclimatenews.org
January 25, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Recommended read: @insideclimatenews.org profiled Californian climate policy expert Neil Matouka, who built a plugin to display climate risk data that real-estate site Zillow removed from home listings.
📝 @cclairebarber.bsky.social
📝 @cclairebarber.bsky.social
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‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war
‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war
Alex Pretti’s death could be a moment of reckoning for Democrats to call time on Trump waging war on his people
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 11:48 AM
‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war
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How one year of ‘America First’ left workers behind ft.trib.al/YeRLrmR | opinion
How one year of ‘America First’ left workers behind
The Trump administration’s rhetoric on blue-collar jobs has not matched reality
ft.trib.al
January 25, 2026 at 12:06 PM
How one year of ‘America First’ left workers behind ft.trib.al/YeRLrmR | opinion
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A phrase for why so much AI art looks the same: cultural stagnation.
Creativity gets flattened into polished sameness when machines optimize for what’s familiar.
buff.ly/JkvxYJF
Creativity gets flattened into polished sameness when machines optimize for what’s familiar.
buff.ly/JkvxYJF
AI-induced cultural stagnation is no longer speculation − it’s already happening
AI-mediated culture is already being filtered in ways that favor the familiar, the describable and the conventional.
theconversation.com
January 25, 2026 at 12:14 PM
A phrase for why so much AI art looks the same: cultural stagnation.
Creativity gets flattened into polished sameness when machines optimize for what’s familiar.
buff.ly/JkvxYJF
Creativity gets flattened into polished sameness when machines optimize for what’s familiar.
buff.ly/JkvxYJF
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Lawyer Jordan Kushner, who is representing activist and civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, says her arrest by the Trump administration "is frankly, just about fascism."
Nekima Levy Armstrong Jailed After Protesting ICE Official Who Also Serves as Pastor in St. Paul
The Justice Department said Thursday that it had arrested three people in Minnesota who interrupted a church service in St. Paul to protest a pastor’s role as a local ICE official. The activists invol...
www.democracynow.org
January 25, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Lawyer Jordan Kushner, who is representing activist and civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, says her arrest by the Trump administration "is frankly, just about fascism."
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Cheers erupted from a street-level crowd as Alex Honnold reached the top of the spire of the 508-meter (1,667-foot) tower, about 90 minutes after he started. n.pr/46ajWrK
U.S. rock climber Alex Honnold reaches top of Taipei 101 skyscraper without ropes
Cheers erupted from a street-level crowd as Alex Honnold reached the top of the spire of the 508-meter (1,667-foot) tower, about 90 minutes after he started.
n.pr
January 25, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Cheers erupted from a street-level crowd as Alex Honnold reached the top of the spire of the 508-meter (1,667-foot) tower, about 90 minutes after he started. n.pr/46ajWrK
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Attorney General Pam Bondi said that ICE could be pulled out of Minneapolis if demands are met, in a letter to Governor Tim Walz.
Pam Bondi Offers to Pull ICE Out of Minneapolis if Voter Files Handed Over
www.newsweek.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Attorney General Pam Bondi said that ICE could be pulled out of Minneapolis if demands are met, in a letter to Governor Tim Walz.
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Only a future of general strikes involving large-scale disruptions has the chance of stopping Trump’s forces.
We Can Fight This: Minnesota’s General Strike Shows How
A day before Alex Pretti’s brutal killing by federal agents in the Minneapolis steets, Minnesota showed us a way forward: the general strike.
interc.pt
January 25, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Only a future of general strikes involving large-scale disruptions has the chance of stopping Trump’s forces.
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“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”
January 25, 2026 at 2:56 AM
“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”
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Why isn't corporate media pressing Trump regime officials on why ICE agents were assaulting a woman in the street before Alex Pretti intervened to protect her? Ask the question even if it means loss of access! Below is footage of Alex stepping to protect the woman-I ended footage before shooting
January 25, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Why isn't corporate media pressing Trump regime officials on why ICE agents were assaulting a woman in the street before Alex Pretti intervened to protect her? Ask the question even if it means loss of access! Below is footage of Alex stepping to protect the woman-I ended footage before shooting
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Investigate and prosecute political opponents, sell pardons to your rich friends so they can commit crimes with impunity. Authoritarianism isn’t coming, it’s here, whether people realize it or not.
January 16, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Investigate and prosecute political opponents, sell pardons to your rich friends so they can commit crimes with impunity. Authoritarianism isn’t coming, it’s here, whether people realize it or not.
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Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.
Immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota
Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.
bit.ly
January 25, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.
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Are there any maga morons out there who can explain how this works? Asking for hundreds of millions of sane people.
January 25, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Are there any maga morons out there who can explain how this works? Asking for hundreds of millions of sane people.