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@nbrockmann.bsky.social
Once and future academic
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BREAKING: Judge enters TRO blocking feds from interfering with or arresting peaceful protesters in Minnesota. Judge Kate Menendez, Biden appointee. Order: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
January 17, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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A federal judge issued a nationwide (technically a national class) “declaratory” judgment that the Trump administration’s mandatory detention policy is unlawful. The Trump administration’s response has been to say that it is not bound by the ruling and the judge can go pound sand.
New: The nation's chief immigration judge told her colleagues this week that they are not bound by a federal court ruling that declared the Trump administration cannot place thousands of people in mandatory detention without an opportunity to be released on bond. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Top US immigration judge says bond hearings should be denied despite court rulings, documents show
The top U.S. immigration judge has told her colleagues that they are not bound by a federal court ruling that declared the Trump administration cannot place thousands of people in mandatory detention ...
www.reuters.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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A former federal agent after watching the New York Times breakdown of the ICE shooting:
January 16, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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After lying about this baby they gassed and almost killed in their own neighborhood, DHS deleted their post
January 16, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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 "unnerving"

"fruitless exercise"

"the craziest thing I've heard"

NYT obtained transcripts of secret grand jury testimony from the Georgia election interference case against Trump and his allies — show just how alarmed senior Republicans felt about Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
In Secret Testimony, Republicans Derided Trump’s Stolen Election Claims
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
January 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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"If you want to investigate fraud, bring an accountant,” Stancil, a Democratic activist and education policy adviser told me as we drove around ... The ICE agents in Minnesota don’t look like accountants. They look like soldiers. And you don’t bring soldiers unless you want to fight a war."
Richard Warnica: I spent the week in Minnesota. The only thing I’m sure of now is that more people are going to die
As confrontations between ICE and protestors and activists grow more common, the tension only rises.
www.thestar.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.

He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden.

(After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)
January 16, 2026 at 4:14 AM
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NEW: Jonathan Ross, the ICE thug who murdered Renee Good, was NOT TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL according to police reports. He was taken to the Federal Building. He was NOT INJURED. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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JENNINGS: “I do love Hollywood.”

@adamfriedlandshow.bsky.social : “Do you consider yourself in showbiz?”

JENNINGS: “Yeah. What I do is a mixture of showbiz and WWE.”🤔

Hey @abbydphillip @CNN is this how you see your show too? Pro Wrestling? Is that helpful to the country?
January 16, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Republican-Appointed Federal Judge Rules That Kristi Noem and Marco Rubio "Illegally Conspired" to Arrest and Cage People Exercising Their First Amendment Rights—and Notes Rubio As Highest-Ranking U.S. Official Ever to Run Such a Conspiracy
Trump cabinet secretaries conspired to violate Constitution, judge says
“The cabinet secretaries and ostensibly, the president of the United States, are not honoring the First Amendment,” U.S. District Judge William Young declared.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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January 16, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin on "acts of violence" against ICE agents in Minnesota: "Pouring water on the ground so that it would freeze the ground in front of our federal law enforcement vehicles so that they would potentially slide, crash, and potentially kill them"
January 16, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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Incredible things are happening. She traded her Nobel Peace Prize for some MAGA swag
"Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado carries a gift bag with President Donald Trump's signature on it outside the White House following a meeting with Trump on January 15, 2026 in Washington, DC."
January 16, 2026 at 1:23 AM
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The Nobel Prize museum in Oslo subtweeting the fuck out of Trump today.
January 16, 2026 at 12:53 AM
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January 15, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people are grooming them to be Nazis.
January 15, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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María Corina Machado on her meeting with Trump: “I presented the president of the United States with the Nobel Peace Prize”
January 15, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.
This dude is intense and correct
January 15, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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HHS Secretary RFK Jr: "This idea that you should trust the experts, a good mother doesn't do that"
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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Q: You said that Trump was joking about canceling the elections, but Americans for generations have fought and died for democracy. Are you saying that he finds the idea of canceling elections funny?

Leavitt: Were you in the room? No, you weren't. Only someone like you would take that so seriously.
January 15, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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Leavitt throws a fit after a reporter asks about ICE:

"Oh, okay, so you're a biased reporter with a left-wing opinion. You're a left-wing hack. You're not a reporter... You shouldn't even be sitting in that seat."
January 15, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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Are we?
January 15, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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ICE keeps saying the people protesting it are being paid without any evidence, but we have receipts showing that the people *defending* ICE are absolutely being paid.

And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.
relevant to the debate over whether we should keep funding DHS without reforms and accountability for how out of control their spending is
January 15, 2026 at 4:28 PM