Puff the Magic Hater
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Minneapolis Community Defense Is “Riding on the Learning Edge of a Whirlwind”
“We are becoming the people that we always knew that we needed to be,” says Minneapolis organizer Andrew Fahlstrom.
truthout.org
I talked with three Minneapolis organizers, including Andrew Fahlstrom and Susan Raffo, about community defense in Minneapolis, the social fabric of collective care under federal occupation, and how people around the country should be gearing up for the long struggle ahead. Audio + transcript:
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“Gregory Bovino was reportedly asked to leave a Las Vegas bar out of safety concerns for the venue’s customers”
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Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino tossed from Las Vegas bar
Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino was reportedly asked to leave a Las Vegas bar out of safety concerns for the venue’s customers.
lasvegassun.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:58 AM
“Gregory Bovino was reportedly asked to leave a Las Vegas bar out of safety concerns for the venue’s customers”
lasvegassun.com/news/2026/fe...
lasvegassun.com/news/2026/fe...
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went hunting for dinosaur bones in the Dakotas with child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
RFK Jr.’s Bizarre Trip With Epstein and Ghislaine Exposed in Files
The trip took place on a Native reservation where collecting fossils without explicit tribal permission is considered looting.
trib.al
February 7, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went hunting for dinosaur bones in the Dakotas with child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
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this is why you should *never* hit someone with an rpg. it’s dangerous, it’s shitty, and it’s wrong
Physics of a direct hit from an RPG type projectile
February 7, 2026 at 1:53 AM
this is why you should *never* hit someone with an rpg. it’s dangerous, it’s shitty, and it’s wrong
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"DHS might be more than happy to wear cameras because they know video won't actually bring [DHS victims] justice ... [DHS] is going to distribute any potential footage it finds exculpatory and withhold any footage that may be damaging. That's a problem that some minor policy adjustments can't fix."
Cops were frequently getting caught planting drugs in 2017 because body cameras were new and many of them didn't understand how the technology worked.
When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.
When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.
Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017
Look. All technology comes with a learning curve.
gizmodo.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:05 PM
"DHS might be more than happy to wear cameras because they know video won't actually bring [DHS victims] justice ... [DHS] is going to distribute any potential footage it finds exculpatory and withhold any footage that may be damaging. That's a problem that some minor policy adjustments can't fix."
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Judge DOUGLAS' dissent says the result from the 5th circuit could not possibly be what Congress intended when it passed the 1996 law the administration is now using for its mass detention strategy. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
February 7, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Judge DOUGLAS' dissent says the result from the 5th circuit could not possibly be what Congress intended when it passed the 1996 law the administration is now using for its mass detention strategy. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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NEW: A huge win for ICE in the 5th Circuit tonight clears the way for the agency to mass detain people facing (and fighting) deportation proceedings. District judges all over the country — including dozens of Trump appointees — had rejected this policy.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
February 7, 2026 at 2:34 AM
NEW: A huge win for ICE in the 5th Circuit tonight clears the way for the agency to mass detain people facing (and fighting) deportation proceedings. District judges all over the country — including dozens of Trump appointees — had rejected this policy.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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BREAKING: A 5th Circuit panel has backed ICE's mass detention policy, a decision that clears the way for the administration to lock up people who are in immigration proceedings
It's a 2-1 ruling
Majority: Jones (Reagan), Duncan (Trump)
Minority: Douglas (Obama)
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
It's a 2-1 ruling
Majority: Jones (Reagan), Duncan (Trump)
Minority: Douglas (Obama)
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
February 7, 2026 at 1:56 AM
BREAKING: A 5th Circuit panel has backed ICE's mass detention policy, a decision that clears the way for the administration to lock up people who are in immigration proceedings
It's a 2-1 ruling
Majority: Jones (Reagan), Duncan (Trump)
Minority: Douglas (Obama)
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
It's a 2-1 ruling
Majority: Jones (Reagan), Duncan (Trump)
Minority: Douglas (Obama)
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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lmao NBC is doing takedown requests for videos of JD Vance Getting boo'd at the Olympics
February 6, 2026 at 10:37 PM
lmao NBC is doing takedown requests for videos of JD Vance Getting boo'd at the Olympics
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"When I don't want to impose on [friends], I go to the subway stations ... Because when I'm on the train overnight I feel like I'm imposing on the other passengers and whatnot."
it's gonna get reeeeeally cold outside again this weekend, and i'm thinking again about the four unsheltered new yorkers who so generously shared with me what it's been like to navigate this cold spell. so ICYMI: www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/30/c...
How Unsheltered New Yorkers Face Down the Cold: ‘It’s Survive or Die’
Some unsheltered New Yorkers say they prefer the freedom of the streets. Others say they have not been asked in.
www.thecity.nyc
February 7, 2026 at 1:11 AM
"When I don't want to impose on [friends], I go to the subway stations ... Because when I'm on the train overnight I feel like I'm imposing on the other passengers and whatnot."
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There’s not denying it and there’s whatever this is.
February 7, 2026 at 3:20 AM
There’s not denying it and there’s whatever this is.
Nope. In Keanu I trust.
February 7, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Nope. In Keanu I trust.
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Writer's parents own 200 units in the city and have racked up many, many violations.
In a city packed with mighty real estate titans, they are the small ones.
New York landlords say they are at their breaking point as Mayor Zohran Mamdani begins to implement even more aggressive tenant-friendly policies.
New York landlords say they are at their breaking point as Mayor Zohran Mamdani begins to implement even more aggressive tenant-friendly policies.
NYC’s small landlords say they won’t survive Mamdani plan to freeze rent
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has criticized landlords and vowed to freeze what tenants in rent-stabilized apartments pay monthly.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Writer's parents own 200 units in the city and have racked up many, many violations.
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Just unspeakably cruel
Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved.
DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.
DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.
EXCLUSIVE: Terez Metry was 13 when her family fled to Tennessee from Egypt in 2011. Then, they left her behind. She only recently discovered she had an order of removal from 2011. But she was following the legal path to citizenship. On Monday, at a routine DHS meeting, Metry was detained.
February 6, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Just unspeakably cruel
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if everyone could take on the “what if we just did the thing instead of waiting for it to happen” energy that much of minneapolis has right now, the world could be pretty good
February 6, 2026 at 10:51 PM
if everyone could take on the “what if we just did the thing instead of waiting for it to happen” energy that much of minneapolis has right now, the world could be pretty good
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Update: They succeeded: www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-...
February 7, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Update: They succeeded: www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-...
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We updated our Truthout Folks starter pack! This is a great way to follow Truthout staff and contributing writers on Bluesky!
October 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
We updated our Truthout Folks starter pack! This is a great way to follow Truthout staff and contributing writers on Bluesky!
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HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today.
Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Five-Year-Old Liam Ramos Is In His Asylum Hearing Right Now
www.huffpost.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:05 PM
HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today.
Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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fantastic listen
I talked with three Minneapolis organizers, including Andrew Fahlstrom and Susan Raffo, about community defense in Minneapolis, the social fabric of collective care under federal occupation, and how people around the country should be gearing up for the long struggle ahead. Audio + transcript:
Minneapolis Community Defense Is “Riding on the Learning Edge of a Whirlwind”
“We are becoming the people that we always knew that we needed to be,” says Minneapolis organizer Andrew Fahlstrom.
truthout.org
February 5, 2026 at 9:29 PM
fantastic listen
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again: you can openly pursue a policy of ethnic cleansing and be received as engaging in "racially charged rhetoric" so long as you are not sufficiently rude about it. and yet the present administration cannot manage even this
February 6, 2026 at 5:20 PM
again: you can openly pursue a policy of ethnic cleansing and be received as engaging in "racially charged rhetoric" so long as you are not sufficiently rude about it. and yet the present administration cannot manage even this
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in the elite circles of the US, racism is treated less as a matter of social stratification with direct implications for political stakes and more as a matter of moral etiquette. it is even more notable, then, that this administration can't constrain themselves to the meager associated standards
POLITICO reporting that the White House has now claimed the ape video was an accident and removed it.
February 6, 2026 at 5:18 PM
in the elite circles of the US, racism is treated less as a matter of social stratification with direct implications for political stakes and more as a matter of moral etiquette. it is even more notable, then, that this administration can't constrain themselves to the meager associated standards
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All three are saying it now, or so it seems to me.
February 6, 2026 at 5:01 PM
All three are saying it now, or so it seems to me.
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From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
February 6, 2026 at 3:47 PM
From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Jane Addams worked together. They differed on topic of lynching. Both condemned it but Addams considered it an excessive punishment. Like many other critics, Addams did not challenge the racist-sexist explanation for why lynchings were being carried out. Wells-Barnett did.
February 6, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Jane Addams worked together. They differed on topic of lynching. Both condemned it but Addams considered it an excessive punishment. Like many other critics, Addams did not challenge the racist-sexist explanation for why lynchings were being carried out. Wells-Barnett did.
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Wait so they're asking JAG lawyers to do this shit? Is that because they can't just walk off the job? I know shit about shit here. Lawyer types, what's the play here for the DOJ? Why do this?
JUST IN: Despite moves by Trump to ease the surge in Minnesota, military lawyers have started taking over for civilian prosecutors in federal court there. More in POLITICO Playbook
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
February 6, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Wait so they're asking JAG lawyers to do this shit? Is that because they can't just walk off the job? I know shit about shit here. Lawyer types, what's the play here for the DOJ? Why do this?