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Major protest turnout in St. Augustine, Florida!
#3E #HandsOff #StAugustine #Florida #3E
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Seems almost quaint at this point, but Patel and Bondi both testified under oath at their confirmation hearings that this would not happen.
Breaking MS NOW:

FBI Director Kash Patel has carried out another purge of the bureau's senior ranks — forcing out field office leaders and other senior agents connected to the two criminal investigations of Trump.
Patel ousts senior FBI agents linked to Trump probes, say sources
As many as six agents in Miami were forced out over their connection to the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. Special agents in charge in Atlanta and New Orleans were removed, as well as the acting assistant ...
www.ms.now
January 23, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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💯 Every. Fucking. Word.
January 22, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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Special Counsel Jack Smith in his Opening Remarks:
January 22, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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X's product head has multiple brushes with death from failing to chew
January 22, 2026 at 4:29 AM
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Liam is one of four Columbia Heights, MN school district students who have been taken by ICE in the last two weeks, the school district said. Liam's teacher: “He is so kind and loving, and his classmates miss him. He ... just brightens the room. All I want is for him to be back here and safe.”
January 22, 2026 at 3:25 AM
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we will greet them as liberators
January 22, 2026 at 2:41 AM
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Child Trafficking Tuesdays with Tony Dokoupil
January 22, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino is seen deploying a gas canister at Mueller Park in south Minneapolis this afternoon.

Video by Ben Luhmann.
January 21, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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Saturday night show of Melania at the closest theater to Mar-A-Lago.

There’s still time to get… the entire theater.
January 21, 2026 at 4:22 AM
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Immediate punishment for speaking out against the regime.
Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol
January 21, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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Minnesota's Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth made a Facebook post critical of an anti-ICE protest at a church, and got ratioed by her own daughter in the comments www.facebook.com/LisaforMN/po...
January 21, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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January 20, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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"It's not even 10am in Europe."
The Guardian had a rundown of Trump's late night Truth Social binge, which included "an AI generated visual of himself planting the US flag on Greenland."
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
January 20, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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Kinda funny that Trump thinks "asylum" means other countries send people from insane asylums, and a) this is real life, not a ham-handed Idiocracy-type satire, b) he has surely been corrected several times but is incapable of updating his priors, & c) most media politely agree not to mention it.
January 19, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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January 19, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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The president
-Is occupying a major city with armed paramilitiaries
-Is blackmailing treaty allies to hand over their sovereign territory
-Is trying to set himself up as chairman for life of a UN rival with $1B fees for permanent membership
-Is talking about canceling elections
January 18, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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June 2024: "Arkansas Congressman Steve Womack‘s [(R)] son James Phillip Womack was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to distributing methamphetamine."

Jan. 2026: Trump pardons James Phillip Womack.

arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

www.justice.gov/pardon/media...
January 17, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
Vehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE detention and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost.

Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746
January 16, 2026 at 11:42 PM
@kenjennings.bsky.social amazing category selection on Jeopardy! last night!
January 16, 2026 at 11:05 PM
nothing pisses me off more than seeing whatever the fuck grokipedia is on page 1 of google search results
January 16, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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Screw the 2016 nostalgia. I'm here for the 2014 throwback #Survivor #TheTraitors
January 16, 2026 at 3:52 AM
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Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
January 15, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.

If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
That is what was relayed
January 15, 2026 at 4:27 AM
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Mob Boss Nurse Cirie having soldiers delivering pregame info 😂✨ #survivor50
January 13, 2026 at 6:16 PM