Nicholas Hunt-Walker
@nhuntwalker.bsky.social
Software engineer, teacher, Pythonista, Astronomer, Black guy, Father. Always looking to build and maintain dope shit.
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I've said this before and I intend to say it many more times: you are what you regularly do. Wanna be a better version of yourself? Incorporate growth in that direction every day (or as often as possible while still being healthy). Identity is in the daily practice, friends.
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The Hagerstown and Surprise warehouse detention camps are set to be DWARFED by the purchase of a massive warehouse in El Paso (price currently unknown) where ICE wants to hold 8,500 people, making it instantly the second-largest jail in the entire United States (behind only Rikers Island in NYC).
January 30, 2026 at 4:58 PM
The Hagerstown and Surprise warehouse detention camps are set to be DWARFED by the purchase of a massive warehouse in El Paso (price currently unknown) where ICE wants to hold 8,500 people, making it instantly the second-largest jail in the entire United States (behind only Rikers Island in NYC).
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Eight hours after Homan's press conference, my kids' school went into code yellow and were held inside past release time because of ICE vehicles in the area. Maybe they were just looking to abduct children in a more professional, targeted manner, though.
January 30, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Eight hours after Homan's press conference, my kids' school went into code yellow and were held inside past release time because of ICE vehicles in the area. Maybe they were just looking to abduct children in a more professional, targeted manner, though.
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If you've always dreamed of having a village but feel disconnected from your community, try these five tips. Plus: We want to hear from you. Tell us how you cultivate community where you live. n.pr/4te3sJo
Want to be part of a village? You might need to get out of your comfort zone
If you've always dreamed of having a village but feel disconnected from your community, try these five tips. Plus: We want to hear from you. Tell us how you cultivate community where you live.
n.pr
January 30, 2026 at 1:55 PM
If you've always dreamed of having a village but feel disconnected from your community, try these five tips. Plus: We want to hear from you. Tell us how you cultivate community where you live. n.pr/4te3sJo
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To recap: in the last week they’ve raided the home of a Washington Post reporter who covers the federal government and arrested a journalist who covered a religious anti-ICE protest
January 30, 2026 at 1:09 PM
To recap: in the last week they’ve raided the home of a Washington Post reporter who covers the federal government and arrested a journalist who covered a religious anti-ICE protest
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I do. I hear it more and more from young and student journalists, especially international ones. I’d like to say we’re all unafraid, but I don’t think we should underestimate the damage done.
The thing about this is that I don’t know a single journalist who will be intimidated by Don Lemon being arrested?
But, then, that’s not why the administration is doing this. The founders couldn’t have imagined a president violating core freedoms for the purposes of social-media accolades.
But, then, that’s not why the administration is doing this. The founders couldn’t have imagined a president violating core freedoms for the purposes of social-media accolades.
January 30, 2026 at 1:47 PM
I do. I hear it more and more from young and student journalists, especially international ones. I’d like to say we’re all unafraid, but I don’t think we should underestimate the damage done.
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I very much appreciate my colleague Adrian Florido bearing witness to a terrible loss from his neighborhood. I did not want to listen to this, because I knew it would be heartbreaking, but I’m glad I did.
🔊 Listen Now: He sold me fresh fruit for years. I was there when immigration agents took him
All Things Considered on NPR One | 4:16
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January 30, 2026 at 1:37 PM
I very much appreciate my colleague Adrian Florido bearing witness to a terrible loss from his neighborhood. I did not want to listen to this, because I knew it would be heartbreaking, but I’m glad I did.
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Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.
January 30, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.
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DHS has a whole citizen detainment system set up in Minnesota. They snatch citizens off the street (often with proof they are citizens), detain them for a few hours, steal their phones, then release them into the cold.
It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.
It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.
‘Abolish ICE’ has become an increasingly popular position and people are being shot in the streets over it why the fuck would you dillweeds roll over like this. Especially given that citizenship is much more friable than people think it is this is not as protective as dems want it to look.
January 30, 2026 at 1:43 AM
DHS has a whole citizen detainment system set up in Minnesota. They snatch citizens off the street (often with proof they are citizens), detain them for a few hours, steal their phones, then release them into the cold.
It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.
It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.
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ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?
January 29, 2026 at 4:45 PM
ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?
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If the President is suing the IRS for $10 billion, why shouldn't the capos get a taste?
NO SENATE VOTE TONIGHT
Couldn’t get all senators to allow a speedy vote. Schumer tells reporters Lindsey Graham is blocking it. “That’s the holdup,” Schumer tells reporters. Graham wants to keep a provision letting him sue to pocket $500,000 over J6 phone records seized.
Couldn’t get all senators to allow a speedy vote. Schumer tells reporters Lindsey Graham is blocking it. “That’s the holdup,” Schumer tells reporters. Graham wants to keep a provision letting him sue to pocket $500,000 over J6 phone records seized.
January 30, 2026 at 4:35 AM
If the President is suing the IRS for $10 billion, why shouldn't the capos get a taste?
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Can you imagine trying to learn when your classmates and their parents are disappearing? All of these kids are going to carry trauma for life.
“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.
‘I don’t have words’: 2 more kids from Liam Ramos’ Columbia Heights school taken into ICE custody
The children were taken into ICE custody after their mother was detained at a court appointment. School leaders say the mother asked them to bring the kids to the detention center because there were n...
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January 30, 2026 at 4:12 AM
Can you imagine trying to learn when your classmates and their parents are disappearing? All of these kids are going to carry trauma for life.
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“Explain it to me, in the simplest terms,” said the bewildered 79-year-old president of the United States
Trump Asks Nicki Minaj To Explain Eating Ass
WASHINGTON—Pulling her aside at a Treasury Department event Wednesday, President Donald Trump reportedly asked hip-hop artist Nicki Minaj to explain eating ass. “Explain it to me, in the simplest term...
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January 30, 2026 at 1:00 AM
“Explain it to me, in the simplest terms,” said the bewildered 79-year-old president of the United States
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The last year has done a great job naturally adjudicating the debate between “you can change public opinion on an issue by highlighting the negative parts of public policy and administrative action on said issue” vs “nuh uh”
January 28, 2026 at 1:00 PM
The last year has done a great job naturally adjudicating the debate between “you can change public opinion on an issue by highlighting the negative parts of public policy and administrative action on said issue” vs “nuh uh”
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It is literally false that the Jews being hunted by Nazis were citizens, because the first step toward genocide was stripping them of citizenship and making them stateless. As Arendt reminds us, citizenship is a legal category created to facilitate a machinery of exclusion of the out-group.
January 28, 2026 at 4:19 AM
It is literally false that the Jews being hunted by Nazis were citizens, because the first step toward genocide was stripping them of citizenship and making them stateless. As Arendt reminds us, citizenship is a legal category created to facilitate a machinery of exclusion of the out-group.
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Last night, in the wake of tragedy, Minnesota voters came together to end the Republican majority in the Minnesota House, electing Democrats Shelley Buck in District 47A and Meg Luger-Nikolai in District 64A.
January 28, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Last night, in the wake of tragedy, Minnesota voters came together to end the Republican majority in the Minnesota House, electing Democrats Shelley Buck in District 47A and Meg Luger-Nikolai in District 64A.
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Every communicator's worst nightmare: people learn of their imminent layoffs via a draft email sent out by mistake.
This, people, is why you need to do the dull governance stuff. When it works, it's invisible. When it doesn't, it's news.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
This, people, is why you need to do the dull governance stuff. When it works, it's invisible. When it doesn't, it's news.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Amazon confirms 16,000 job cuts after accidental email
The technology giant confirmed the redundancies hours after it told staff in an email sent in error.
www.bbc.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Every communicator's worst nightmare: people learn of their imminent layoffs via a draft email sent out by mistake.
This, people, is why you need to do the dull governance stuff. When it works, it's invisible. When it doesn't, it's news.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
This, people, is why you need to do the dull governance stuff. When it works, it's invisible. When it doesn't, it's news.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine
January 28, 2026 at 1:33 AM
i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine
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what a bizarre post. the episode literally ends with a reporter saying they have no clue “how much further” the administration’s efforts in minneapolis are “going to expand or if this is really going to be scaled back in a definitive way”. like they say nothing’s really changed on the ground
The intense fallout from the killing of Alex Pretti has forced President Trump to publicly change course in Minneapolis.
Listen to our White House reporters discuss the changes on today's episode of "The Daily."
Listen to our White House reporters discuss the changes on today's episode of "The Daily."
Trump Changes Course in Minneapolis
The White House has been met with broad outcry over the killing of Alex Pretti, as well as pushback from Congress.
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January 28, 2026 at 1:40 PM
what a bizarre post. the episode literally ends with a reporter saying they have no clue “how much further” the administration’s efforts in minneapolis are “going to expand or if this is really going to be scaled back in a definitive way”. like they say nothing’s really changed on the ground
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Owned by right wing billionaire fascist supporters and/or welcoming to fascists:
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Plan your exit strategies if you haven't already.
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January 28, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Owned by right wing billionaire fascist supporters and/or welcoming to fascists:
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Instagram
Facebook
Threads
WhatsApp
TikTok
Substack
Plan your exit strategies if you haven't already.
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Threads
TikTok
Substack
Plan your exit strategies if you haven't already.
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The scale of the loss is unimaginable.
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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
www.science.org
January 28, 2026 at 12:48 PM
The scale of the loss is unimaginable.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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"getting outside your bubble" is an admirable thing when it means trying a new hobby or introducing yourself to your neighbor or watching an art film but people only want to apply it to "being a little more racist just to see how it feels"
January 27, 2026 at 4:08 PM
"getting outside your bubble" is an admirable thing when it means trying a new hobby or introducing yourself to your neighbor or watching an art film but people only want to apply it to "being a little more racist just to see how it feels"
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Happening now*: Maine religious leaders are staging a protest at Sen. Susan Collins' office, demanding she "use her power to end funding to ICE and put an end to their campaign of terror."
*It may have just ended — the video cuts as police arrived. www.facebook.com/watch/live/?...
*It may have just ended — the video cuts as police arrived. www.facebook.com/watch/live/?...
January 27, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Happening now*: Maine religious leaders are staging a protest at Sen. Susan Collins' office, demanding she "use her power to end funding to ICE and put an end to their campaign of terror."
*It may have just ended — the video cuts as police arrived. www.facebook.com/watch/live/?...
*It may have just ended — the video cuts as police arrived. www.facebook.com/watch/live/?...
Crickets from the NRA and 2nd amendment enthusiasts
Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."
January 27, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Crickets from the NRA and 2nd amendment enthusiasts
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CNN reporting that a week before Alex Pretti was killed, 5 agents tackled him and he suffered a broken rib. CNN says he stopped his car after he saw ICE agents interacting with a family on foot and began to blow his whistle. Source tells CNN Pretti believed “That day he thought he was going to die”
January 27, 2026 at 5:19 PM
CNN reporting that a week before Alex Pretti was killed, 5 agents tackled him and he suffered a broken rib. CNN says he stopped his car after he saw ICE agents interacting with a family on foot and began to blow his whistle. Source tells CNN Pretti believed “That day he thought he was going to die”