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Chris Markiewicz
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Research Scholar @ Stanford

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djamiempls.meatjacker.social
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My husband was kidnapped tonight by ICE. He is a born and raised Willmar, Minnesotan. Officers rushed his car. He gave his ID and complied. Without running his license, he was thrown in a vehicle and taken. They must have finally ran his ID 1/4 mile down the road, because they pulled in a parking lot, uncuffed him, threw him out of the car and threw his ID at him and took off. He then had to walk back to his car to drive back to work. This is wrong. This is terrifying. This is completely unjust. I am full of rage and terror. This must stop. ICE does not care what you look like. They are taking everyone and asking questions after kidnapping. Stay safe people. Protect your loved ones to the best of your abilities.
January 16, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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claesdevreese.bsky.social
Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now.

Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations.

Source: dr.dk
January 17, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
If this be terrorism, make the most of it.
publius24.bsky.social John Q. Public @publius24.bsky.social · 2d
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche calls what is happening in Minneapolis an “insurrection” and threatens to go after Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey over their “terrorism.”
January 15, 2026 at 6:17 AM
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lauragmitchell.com
This is Minneapolis elementary school pick up:

The alert also recommends: "Bring your whistle & wear your hat. If you have a respirator or goggles bring them in a small backpack. We don't want to show up looking alarming for the kids but chemical weapons are being used widely in the area."

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January 14, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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lauragmitchell.com
This is Minneapolis:

"Due to escalated federal agent action in S Minneapolis today, we are recommending to add more patrol support to pick-up times at the following schools..."

The list includes your kids' elementary (& the other 2 closest elementary schools).

Folks jump in to help.

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January 14, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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ziibiing.com
just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday
Eyewitness account: Good morning, My name is Brandon Siguenza, and l am a US citizen from Minneapolis. Yesterday, while doing legal observation, ICE stopped their cars to harass my friend and me. They sprayed pepper spray into the vent of our vehicle. We held our hands in the air and told them we were not obstructing, that the car was in park and they were free to drive forward and away. There was no active immigration raid. They returned to their cars, and drove forward a bit, then decided to stop again. They surrounded us, smashed the windows of our car, opened the doors (they were unlocked), ripped my friend and I out of the car and arrested us on charges of obstruction. I was put in an unmarked SUV, separated from my friend. As I was put in the back seat an ICE agent tore the whistle off my neck and said "I'll be taking this, I might need it later." My phone was knocked out of my hand while being arrested. As we drove away I asked the driver and the passenger if they wouldn't mind buckling my seatbelt, as they were driving erratically. I was ignored. I asked them if I could have the handcuffs loosened, as I was losing circulation, and was told no. At one point the passenger realized his own driver's license was in the backseat next to mine, and tried to surreptitiously grab it without me seeing it. We were taken to the Whipple federal building, where I saw dozens of brown people being processed in an unheated garage. I was frisked, told of my charges, and saw buses and vans being prepped. I later learned that these were being filled with detainees and driven to the airport for deportation. As we were led in, I noticed that the building was very busy. I got the impression that one of the 2 agents bringing me around was being trained. At multiple points throughout my stay, government agents were unable to open doors, not sure where they were meant to be going, and overall confused and overwhelmed. They couldn't figure out how to use the building phones, or complai…
January 13, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This approach, of course, is quite familiar to communities that have been dealing with police abuses for as long as there have been professional police forces. In 2000, then–New York City Mayor and future Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani justified the killing of the Haitian American Patrick Dorismond by police by quipping that he was “no altar boy.” Embarrassingly for Giuliani, whose capacity for shame was overestimated even then, it turned out that Dorismond had literally been an altar boy. Dorismond’s mother responded to the campaign to justify her son’s killing with an observation that continues to haunt me decades later. “They kill,” Dorismond said, “and after that, they kill him the other way—with the mouth.” Taking Good’s life wasn’t enough. The moment she died, it became imperative for the administration to also destroy her memory.
January 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“Emerson does not have a mother today because one of you murdered a woman in cold blood yesterday.”
January 8, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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January 8, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Whether it’s Democrats putting their pronouns in email signatures or Republicans shooting and killing unarmed drivers, both sides have taken actions that the other side finds threatening.
January 8, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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pbump.com
fuck outta here
January 6, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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mikecaulfield.bsky.social
I just want people to remember that what this was was transparently obvious at the time and universally condemned. Hold on to that fact and don't let people change it under you.
walterolson.bsky.social Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 11d
Five years ago.
Front pages of American newspapers after Jan. 6, 2021, with headlines like "Capitol Chaos," "Assault on Democracy," "Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol."
January 6, 2026 at 7:17 AM
markiewicz.bsky.social
Apropos of nothing, here are the CDC's vaccine schedules, timestamped on January 17, 2025.

web.archive.org/web/20250117... web.archive.org/web/20250117...
web.archive.org
January 5, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
One of most remarkable US presentations at UN Security Council I've ever seen.

- No reference to UN Charter legal justification
- Claims Panama as precedent (which the UN condemned)
- Energy reserves ⤵️ as justification is illegal
- Sharp contrast with US Ambassador Pickering presentation in 1989
January 5, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
“What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today. Not in the sense of being charming rogues or alluring antiheroes. We are the bad guys.”
We Are the Bad Guys
The swaggering threat to global stability is us.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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ichotiner.bsky.social
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
January 3, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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neurosynth.bsky.social
As the year comes to a close, we are taking stock of what we've done and what we are looking forward to in 2026.
(One thing we are looking forward to is our January 22nd TownHall! Register here: bit.ly/ns-townhall).

Keep reading for some fun stats!
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December 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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bthirion.bsky.social
Happy to announce the 0.1.5 release of sanssouci. This lightweight library is the basis for tight post-hoc control of the false discovery proportion in high-dimensional (e.g. mass univariate) seetings.

github.com/sanssouci-or...

pip install sanssouci
December 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Trump’s foreign policy isn’t “noninterventionism,” it is a kind of neo neo conservatism devoted to imposing authoritarian ethnonationalism abroad instead of democracy (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Although the pretense of adhering to democratic values has been abandoned by an administration that disdains democracy, free speech, and the rule of law, the theory is nonetheless the same: Unless America defends ethno-nationalism against the forces of multiracial democracy elsewhere, ethno-nationalism will not be safe here. The Trump administration’s rabid hostility toward the “Rainbow Nation” of South Africa, with its history all Americans can recognize, makes more sense in this context.
December 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
markiewicz.bsky.social
Extremely demotivating. I dread the whole process, so even a PR that turns out to be okay is draining.
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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danlearnsstuff.com
Have I got the mug for this guy

CC: @zachweinersmith.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
markiewicz.bsky.social
Incredible. Something shitty the NH reps haven't signed onto.
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
Mafia governance in action

"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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bidsstandard.bsky.social
We are pleased to announce that BIDS Extension Proposal 038 - Atlases is open for community review!

github.com/bids-standar...

The review period is open from November 10 - November 21.
#bids #neuroimaging
Community Review: BEP038 - Atlases and Templates · bids-standard bids-specification · Discussion #2250
We are pleased to announce the community review period for BIDS Extension Proposal (BEP) 038! BEP038 extends the BIDS standard to describe BIDS Derivatives datasets that are intended to be distribu...
github.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM