John Nephew is Over-Empathizing
@johnnephew.bsky.social
Game publisher (www.atlas-games.com), plastic recycler (www.replayworkshop.com), woodworking hobbyist, parent, spouse, container of multitudes. He/him.
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Rand Paul to ICE officials on Pretti's killing: "Because people within the government made conclusions immediately that he was a terrorist and an assassin, people aren't believing that it's gonna be an honest investigation ... there has to ultimately be repercussions ... it's inexcusable."
February 12, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Rand Paul to ICE officials on Pretti's killing: "Because people within the government made conclusions immediately that he was a terrorist and an assassin, people aren't believing that it's gonna be an honest investigation ... there has to ultimately be repercussions ... it's inexcusable."
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No ICE in Minnesota.
Bring our neighbors back.
Close the camps.
Reparations for our communities.
Abolish ICE.
Bring our neighbors back.
Close the camps.
Reparations for our communities.
Abolish ICE.
February 12, 2026 at 3:12 PM
No ICE in Minnesota.
Bring our neighbors back.
Close the camps.
Reparations for our communities.
Abolish ICE.
Bring our neighbors back.
Close the camps.
Reparations for our communities.
Abolish ICE.
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under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime
February 12, 2026 at 4:47 PM
under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime
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Hmmm. Louder then.
Report: Warner Bros. Discovery Blocks Brody King From AEW Dynamite Following "F*ck ICE" Chants
Brody King was absent from Wednesday night's episode of AEW Dynamite, and it reportedly wasn't a Tony Khan decision not to have him on the show.
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February 12, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Hmmm. Louder then.
I wonder how much of this is just to appease Congress as they're trying to get a DHS funding bill.
Minnesota's resistance be praised, but the struggle goes on. These thugs will be terrorizing other communities, and ICE needs to be abolished and immigration policy and procedure rebuilt from scratch.
Minnesota's resistance be praised, but the struggle goes on. These thugs will be terrorizing other communities, and ICE needs to be abolished and immigration policy and procedure rebuilt from scratch.
Homan: "Operation Metro Surge is ending. In the next week, we're going to deploy the officers here on detail back to their home stations or to other areas of the country where they're needed."
February 12, 2026 at 2:29 PM
I wonder how much of this is just to appease Congress as they're trying to get a DHS funding bill.
Minnesota's resistance be praised, but the struggle goes on. These thugs will be terrorizing other communities, and ICE needs to be abolished and immigration policy and procedure rebuilt from scratch.
Minnesota's resistance be praised, but the struggle goes on. These thugs will be terrorizing other communities, and ICE needs to be abolished and immigration policy and procedure rebuilt from scratch.
Don't trust, and also verify. But I'll cautiously take the good news.
!!! BREAKING: Border czar Tom Homan announces ICE's surge in Minnesota will conclude.
February 12, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Don't trust, and also verify. But I'll cautiously take the good news.
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Which we will keep in a drawer out of view and refuse to return.
It ain’t over til Minnesota has ICE’s battle flag
February 12, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Which we will keep in a drawer out of view and refuse to return.
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less than 1$ a brother. at these prices, you can't afford not to buy
fyi mine & @lollardfish.bsky.social's newest book is 94% off -- only $1.99 -- as an ebook!!!! #medievalsky
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February 12, 2026 at 2:20 PM
less than 1$ a brother. at these prices, you can't afford not to buy
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It ain’t over til Minnesota has ICE’s battle flag
February 12, 2026 at 2:18 PM
It ain’t over til Minnesota has ICE’s battle flag
My daughter is off on a school trip to Italy that she worked and saved so hard for. She goes to a Catholic school and the itinerary includes an audience with the Pope. She is bringing a set of dice to get them blessed.
February 12, 2026 at 1:54 PM
My daughter is off on a school trip to Italy that she worked and saved so hard for. She goes to a Catholic school and the itinerary includes an audience with the Pope. She is bringing a set of dice to get them blessed.
Today's Fork ICE February special -- Furry Pirates -- may be of interest to some of the traditional Bluesky community...
Furries on the high seas! A TTRPG we published back in the last millennium, available as PDF.
Furries on the high seas! A TTRPG we published back in the last millennium, available as PDF.
Furry Pirates (Digital), 75% off Today Only! #FurryPirates #TTRPG
Furry Pirates (Digital), 75% off Today Only!
Today's Fork ICE February special is Furry Pirates, a swashbuckling TTRPG of anthropomorphic buccaneers roaming the high seas in the Age of Sail. Originally published in 1999, this game is hard to find as a printed book, but you can acquire it almost instantly in PDF form, at a price of only $3.74! Even better, as part of this month's series of fundraiser, your purchase price will be donated to a Minnesota charity helping our communities …
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February 12, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Today's Fork ICE February special -- Furry Pirates -- may be of interest to some of the traditional Bluesky community...
Furries on the high seas! A TTRPG we published back in the last millennium, available as PDF.
Furries on the high seas! A TTRPG we published back in the last millennium, available as PDF.
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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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$900/$1200 and I am going to bed
i’ll leave this up. maybe you guys will accidentally pay someone else’s rent too. we have six families on our list right now.
i’ll leave this up. maybe you guys will accidentally pay someone else’s rent too. we have six families on our list right now.
February 12, 2026 at 4:08 AM
$900/$1200 and I am going to bed
i’ll leave this up. maybe you guys will accidentally pay someone else’s rent too. we have six families on our list right now.
i’ll leave this up. maybe you guys will accidentally pay someone else’s rent too. we have six families on our list right now.
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I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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People can have different political opinions about immigration policy. Political differences are fine, healthy for a democracy.
But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing.
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But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing.
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February 11, 2026 at 9:57 PM
People can have different political opinions about immigration policy. Political differences are fine, healthy for a democracy.
But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing.
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But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing.
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My sense of Minnesota today is that there’s less tear gas and the same amount of unlawful detention, destruction of families, loss of livelihood, people in hiding.
There is less tear gas at places like Lake and Lyndale, so it’s not making news.
There is less tear gas at places like Lake and Lyndale, so it’s not making news.
February 11, 2026 at 1:25 PM
My sense of Minnesota today is that there’s less tear gas and the same amount of unlawful detention, destruction of families, loss of livelihood, people in hiding.
There is less tear gas at places like Lake and Lyndale, so it’s not making news.
There is less tear gas at places like Lake and Lyndale, so it’s not making news.
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NEWS: The House just voted to repeal Trump's Canadian tariffs that are raising prices for Americans. TIm Kaine and Rand Paul and I led the Senate effort to pass similar legislation—let's get it done!
February 12, 2026 at 12:39 AM
NEWS: The House just voted to repeal Trump's Canadian tariffs that are raising prices for Americans. TIm Kaine and Rand Paul and I led the Senate effort to pass similar legislation—let's get it done!
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The NO ICE IN MINNESOTA bundle is up. There's a lifetime's worth of good games in this! If you submitted something or just want to shout something out, reply here and let's reshare it and spread the word on this thing.
The NO ICE IN MINNESOTA bundle is up. There's a lifetime's worth of good games in this! If you submitted something or just want to shout something out, reply here and let's reshare it and spread the word on this thing.
February 10, 2026 at 1:34 AM
itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...
The NO ICE IN MINNESOTA bundle is up. There's a lifetime's worth of good games in this! If you submitted something or just want to shout something out, reply here and let's reshare it and spread the word on this thing.
The NO ICE IN MINNESOTA bundle is up. There's a lifetime's worth of good games in this! If you submitted something or just want to shout something out, reply here and let's reshare it and spread the word on this thing.
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Today only: Fast & Fhtagn is 65% off in our Fork Ice February fundraiser series, and that purchase price will be donated in full to an org that is helping Minnesotans recover from scenes like below.
Make your street violence fun and only a board game. atlas-games.com/news/post?s=...
Make your street violence fun and only a board game. atlas-games.com/news/post?s=...
February 11, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Today only: Fast & Fhtagn is 65% off in our Fork Ice February fundraiser series, and that purchase price will be donated in full to an org that is helping Minnesotans recover from scenes like below.
Make your street violence fun and only a board game. atlas-games.com/news/post?s=...
Make your street violence fun and only a board game. atlas-games.com/news/post?s=...
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Fast & Fhtagn, 65% Off Today Only! #FastAndFhtagn #Lovecraftian
Fast & Fhtagn, 65% Off Today Only!
If you prefer your horror in the streets to be Lovecraftian rather than authoritarian, have we got the game for you today! Fast & Fhtagn is the board game of Cthulhoid street racing, and it's today's Fork Ice February fundraising deal -- 65% off means you pay only $10.49, and the money goes to help Minnesotans in need as. Now watch out for ice on those roads!
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February 11, 2026 at 6:21 AM
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This morning's jobs numbers are ... not credible.
February 11, 2026 at 1:54 PM
This morning's jobs numbers are ... not credible.
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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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Everyone here has had to decide what they will and won’t do. Will you take someone in your house? Will you bring them groceries? Will you patrol streets with a whistle? Will you do some other kind of work, of which there are many. And how many of these types.
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 11, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Everyone here has had to decide what they will and won’t do. Will you take someone in your house? Will you bring them groceries? Will you patrol streets with a whistle? Will you do some other kind of work, of which there are many. And how many of these types.