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UK vs. The World 🤔
January 28, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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It's cuddle weather ⛄ #scs
January 24, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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Eternally accurate
January 28, 2026 at 4:57 AM
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Cool meaningless reforms, hope the Klansmen in the Republican Party agree to them 👍
Dems coalescing around 5 restrictions on ICE, I'm told:

DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big)
CBP stays at border
warrants for arrests
IDs, bodycams
ICE out of churches, schools

"That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
A Dem Senator’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Hits Home: “Breaking Point”
As Trump scrambles to contain the damage from the latest ICE horrors, Senator Chris Murphy offers a sharp indictment of Trump-ICE lawlessness—and explains how Dems can meet the urgency of the moment.
newrepublic.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:33 AM
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A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all.

Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.
January 27, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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before you take any of the "Trump is pivoting/lamenting/lowering the temperature after the Pretti murder" stories too seriously, absolutely nothing has changed in Minneapolis: "an absolutely brutal day of raids and abductions" says one friend
January 27, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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Honestly, Highguard was just off my radar immediately after the announcement. But I do appreciate the analysis on what happend after. Read Aftermath, it's good.
Highguard is yet another symptom – and victim – of a rapidly decaying internet

aftermath.site/highguard-rele...
January 27, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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‘The people are being charged with keeping the peace, asked to stand firm against the federal agents who are disrupting it. This is a sick form of double taxation — your paycheck gets docked so that a guy in a mask can beat you up while you try to calm him down.’
January 26, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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Tim Doyle a famous Marvel artist is making some of the most Metal Anti-ICE art right now! Ghost Rider, Wolverine and the Punisher taking ICE out!
January 25, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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Date idea
October 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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One last boost for the evening crowd. This has raised a truly staggering amount of money, thank you all!! Also a couple people have said this is one of their favorite videos of mine, which is very nice to hear.
January 25, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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Uprising in the Trump concentration camp in Dilley, TX
January 25, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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it's easy to blame rubes in flyover country for the nation's current predicament, but the fact of the matter is that a lot of it is down to years and years of elite moral and epistemic derangement, elite cowardice, and elite failure to overcome the collective action problem
it's cool that so many people in positions of power and influence were so negatively polarized by "wokeness" that they convinced themselves that there was an actual debate about who wanted to erase history and the "wokes" were on the wrong side bsky.app/profile/arch...
"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.
January 23, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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January 23, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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i'll bend to any shape you like

#feetsky
January 23, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.
National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.

Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
January 23, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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No fuck this AOC hasn't said Abolish ICE since the day Biden took power she didn't say shit while the Biden administration built the death machine Trump is now employing and EVEN NOW she STILL won't call for abolishing ICE!!!!

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
January 23, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come
January 23, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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January 22, 2026 at 7:55 AM
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www.gofundme.com/f/help-bring... His mom and siblings are still in MN and they need him back. The family is here legally, but dad and 5 yr old were kidnapped by ice and flown to texas. #liamramos
Donate to Help Bring 5-Year-Old Liam Home, organized by sarai Orquiz
Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos is just 5 years old and currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and h… sarai Orquiz needs your support for Help Bring 5-Year-Old Liam Home
www.gofundme.com
January 22, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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Living to witness the global disinvestment from human creativity by the capitalist class has been an absolutely depressing sight to behold.

Especially as someone who places art (yes, general 'art') among humanity's most divine aptitudes.
January 22, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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this screenshot will haunt me as i consider my goty list

store.steampowered.com/app/2088810/...
January 22, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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One of the reasons I am so insistent that everyone remember that only 22% of the US population voted for Trump is that the Christian Nationalists want the myth of a mandate in circulation.

We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.
The new NYT poll finds Trump 17 points underwater on immigration, and the nonwhite and young voters who went to Trump in 2024 have snapped back to Dems

It's almost as if 2024 might not have represented a seismic cultural realignment on immigration after all, despite 1,000 NYT op eds to the contrary
January 22, 2026 at 5:17 PM