gal beyond the pal
@giveemhellery.bsky.social
98% reposts. Air filtration enjoyer / millennial with grandma hobbies / "voracious reader". Largely opposed.
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You are not imagining it!!! Agents have been more aggressive and more emboldened, quicker to fly into a rage. And the community being more organized/prepared to confront them bc they've seen this play out in other cities = feds know they have even less time to execute a kidnapping
considering unraveled is based out of chicago & were on the ground covering things during the chicago ICE raids, that's been their observation as well. which is validating to people here in a sense because shit always feels more intense while it's happening & no, we're not imagining this up here.
January 19, 2026 at 1:53 AM
You are not imagining it!!! Agents have been more aggressive and more emboldened, quicker to fly into a rage. And the community being more organized/prepared to confront them bc they've seen this play out in other cities = feds know they have even less time to execute a kidnapping
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look he's seen the polling, this is not a statement about what's effective, it's a statement about what they want to be committed to doing with power should they win. if they run on opposing ICE then they'll have to actually oppose ICE. this is ideology masquerading as electoral strategy
NEW: In this interview, Chuck Schumer describes the "five buckets" Dems think are key to their possibly winning a Senate majority in 2026: housing, "the high price of food [and] food monopolies playing a major role there," electricity, "the high cost of childcare," and health care.
Zero Chucks Left to Give
Chuck Schumer now sees a path back to the majority. Can he manage his way through it?
www.thebulwark.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:18 AM
look he's seen the polling, this is not a statement about what's effective, it's a statement about what they want to be committed to doing with power should they win. if they run on opposing ICE then they'll have to actually oppose ICE. this is ideology masquerading as electoral strategy
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Hmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota.
(Photo via Reuters)
(Photo via Reuters)
January 19, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Hmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota.
(Photo via Reuters)
(Photo via Reuters)
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Not just Mexican restaurants. Many places are doing this, including some McDonald’s and supermarkets.
this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities
January 19, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Not just Mexican restaurants. Many places are doing this, including some McDonald’s and supermarkets.
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I think you could do a comparison like this for a lot of the men too. The intense and widespread body dysmorphia in the right is under-discussed.
They've changed their faces to please the patriarchy. It's not about what types of women those patriarchal men personally prefer; it's about showing those men that they are willing to submit. And it's a specific kind of look. It shows their willingness to be controlled.
January 19, 2026 at 2:23 AM
I think you could do a comparison like this for a lot of the men too. The intense and widespread body dysmorphia in the right is under-discussed.
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I... wow.
I'm late, but this is the first confirmation I've seen of Waymo using foreign-based remote operators. Prior, there was only a rumored podcast ep, immediately cease-and-desisted.
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
January 19, 2026 at 12:58 AM
I... wow.
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Surprise! They lied out their asses again
Videos add new detail to 2nd Minneapolis ICE shooting in a week minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/16/v...
Videos add new detail to 2nd Minneapolis ICE shooting in a week • Minnesota Reformer
Two videos add new details to what happened before and after an immigration agent shot a man in the leg in the Hawthorne neighborhood in north Minneapolis Wednesday night. One video, a livestream of a...
minnesotareformer.com
January 18, 2026 at 4:28 AM
Surprise! They lied out their asses again
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Judge Kacsmaryk writes to say that the First Amendment only protects "public discourse necessary to self-government," as he slurs drag and holds it not protected.
January 18, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Judge Kacsmaryk writes to say that the First Amendment only protects "public discourse necessary to self-government," as he slurs drag and holds it not protected.
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This idea is absolutely brain-dead and absolutely everywhere.
January 17, 2026 at 10:04 PM
This idea is absolutely brain-dead and absolutely everywhere.
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I keep thinking about them saying "haven't you learned [from Renee Good's murder]" and... they don't understand why people are still coming out after they've shown they can and will kill us, because they're cowards, and they don't understand what it's like not to be a coward
January 17, 2026 at 10:22 PM
I keep thinking about them saying "haven't you learned [from Renee Good's murder]" and... they don't understand why people are still coming out after they've shown they can and will kill us, because they're cowards, and they don't understand what it's like not to be a coward
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Forced face scanning of a U.S. citizen with zero cause, just bald racial profiling. This is tech fascism.
Mubashir and his family came to the United States as refugees from Ethiopia when he was a child, and they all became naturalized citizens in 2019.
Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:
Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:
January 18, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Forced face scanning of a U.S. citizen with zero cause, just bald racial profiling. This is tech fascism.
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There have been confirmed reports from local organizers in Portland ME that ICE is knocking on doors claiming to be from MaineCare and “offering help“
January 18, 2026 at 12:22 AM
There have been confirmed reports from local organizers in Portland ME that ICE is knocking on doors claiming to be from MaineCare and “offering help“
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Here's how my sister is advertising my niece's Girl Scout cookie sales on Instagram (yes, she's proud of herself)
January 18, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Here's how my sister is advertising my niece's Girl Scout cookie sales on Instagram (yes, she's proud of herself)
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These are DHS agents not MPD according to their uniforms. What federal crime was the dancing fox reasonably suspected of?
Outside of the Bishop Henry Whipple Building in Minneapolis a person dancing in a fox costume is arrested by the MPD. Protests have been consistent outside of this building since the ramped up ICE presence.
January 18, 2026 at 12:58 AM
These are DHS agents not MPD according to their uniforms. What federal crime was the dancing fox reasonably suspected of?
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Those of you who have followed my work for a few tears might recall how I say: Borders also keep you in.
It’s also worth noting that in Nazi Germany, closing down scientists and other intellectuals’ ability to travel for work was an early move to keep people from escaping.
Scientific conferences are where the exchange of important ideas happen. It’s where new collaborations come forth and innovation dreamed up. It’s really disheartening that NIH scientists and representatives are being banned from attending. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
January 18, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Those of you who have followed my work for a few tears might recall how I say: Borders also keep you in.
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This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality
A few days ago, Fox News was whining about ICE agents getting heckled at a Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
ICE agents ate at a Minnesota Mexican restaurant before arresting staff
Immigration law enforcement agents reportedly followed employees out of the restaurant after they closed for the evening
www.independent.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 2:14 AM
This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality
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I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My picture was used in child abuse images. AI is putting others through my nightmare | Mara Wilson
I was a child actor, exploited by strangers on the internet. Now millions of children face the same danger
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:20 AM
I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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For weeks, I was watching LibsofTikTok and the rest of the right-wing internet post some of the most insane shit I've ever seen about the Minnesota Somali community. "Inciting a pogrom" is the only way I can describe the tone of it. I really do feel like that propaganda has been rejected now
ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
January 18, 2026 at 2:50 AM
For weeks, I was watching LibsofTikTok and the rest of the right-wing internet post some of the most insane shit I've ever seen about the Minnesota Somali community. "Inciting a pogrom" is the only way I can describe the tone of it. I really do feel like that propaganda has been rejected now
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it’d be pretty cool if any of the people elected into positions of power that could possibly stop something like this would actually try to stop something like this
ABC News reporting 1,500 active duty soldiers are on standby to deploy to MINNESOTA.
The soldiers are from the 11th Airborne Division, based at Joint Base Elmendorf--Richardson, one of the Army's premier infantry formations.
The division is also the military's leading formation for Arctic warfare
The soldiers are from the 11th Airborne Division, based at Joint Base Elmendorf--Richardson, one of the Army's premier infantry formations.
The division is also the military's leading formation for Arctic warfare
Hundreds of active-duty soldiers on standby, 2 defense officials say
abcnews.go.com
January 18, 2026 at 4:02 AM
it’d be pretty cool if any of the people elected into positions of power that could possibly stop something like this would actually try to stop something like this
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If you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head
January 17, 2026 at 8:40 PM
If you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head
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and if you don't, you can still take pride in living your life in a way that would make your great grandpa spin in his grave.
Respectfully, I am going to whisper to some of our white comrades a truth that should be more widely known: You definitely have some ancestors to be proud of, ancestors who refused white supremacy, and poured out their lives in many of these struggles over time.
Time to claim your true history.
Time to claim your true history.
January 17, 2026 at 8:48 PM
and if you don't, you can still take pride in living your life in a way that would make your great grandpa spin in his grave.
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From an optics perspective... the protesters being the ones waving the US flag while Bovino et al looks like every awful nazi inspired movie we've ever seen... hats off to Minnesotans.
Greg Bovino was seen earlier today at the Minneapolis ICE facility dressed in a very nazi-inspired outfit. They don’t even hide anymore.
January 17, 2026 at 8:53 PM
From an optics perspective... the protesters being the ones waving the US flag while Bovino et al looks like every awful nazi inspired movie we've ever seen... hats off to Minnesotans.
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The fact that Gavin Newsom is even talking to the likes of Shapiro is a sign that he’s a non-starter. I’ve never forgotten how Shapiro said that Trayvon Martin deserved to die. Not fucking ever.
Ben Shapiro: "Israel did not commit a genocide in Gaza"
Gavin Newsom: "I agree with you."
Gavin Newsom: "I agree with you."
January 17, 2026 at 9:06 PM
The fact that Gavin Newsom is even talking to the likes of Shapiro is a sign that he’s a non-starter. I’ve never forgotten how Shapiro said that Trayvon Martin deserved to die. Not fucking ever.
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How much more in your face can it be?
"Why are you asking me for my paperwork?"
"Because of your accent."
"You have an accent too."
"Where were you born sir?"
"Where were you born at?"
"Put your hands behind your back."
"Why are you asking me for my paperwork?"
"Because of your accent."
"You have an accent too."
"Where were you born sir?"
"Where were you born at?"
"Put your hands behind your back."
January 17, 2026 at 9:16 PM
How much more in your face can it be?
"Why are you asking me for my paperwork?"
"Because of your accent."
"You have an accent too."
"Where were you born sir?"
"Where were you born at?"
"Put your hands behind your back."
"Why are you asking me for my paperwork?"
"Because of your accent."
"You have an accent too."
"Where were you born sir?"
"Where were you born at?"
"Put your hands behind your back."