Patrick Hruby
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some kid on my flight is reading shelby foote's civil war book and i want to tell him to throw that shit in the trash
January 23, 2026 at 7:00 PM
some kid on my flight is reading shelby foote's civil war book and i want to tell him to throw that shit in the trash
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The govt lying about the killing of a U.S. citizen at the hands of the state, is by itself, a front page a story, worthy of drumbeat coverage, resignations, and impeachments.
January 25, 2026 at 1:16 AM
The govt lying about the killing of a U.S. citizen at the hands of the state, is by itself, a front page a story, worthy of drumbeat coverage, resignations, and impeachments.
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i'm fucking screaming
in 1973, basque separatists killed spain’s fascist prime minister with a bomb so powerful it launched the car he was in clear over a five story building. he survived the initial attack but died in the hospital
January 25, 2026 at 1:14 AM
i'm fucking screaming
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I found this bit, by a journalist who has written about CBP and ICE for many years, to be really instructive on how shockingly and persistently lawless those agencies, and especially CBP, have been for their entire existence, for more or less the same reason. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...
"ICE 101" — How Trump changed ICE and CBP into a fascist secret police
ICE and CBP are fatally flawed products of the post-9/11 War on Terror — now Trump has weaponized those very flaws to occupy America.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
January 24, 2026 at 10:42 PM
I found this bit, by a journalist who has written about CBP and ICE for many years, to be really instructive on how shockingly and persistently lawless those agencies, and especially CBP, have been for their entire existence, for more or less the same reason. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...
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Multiple officials of the US federal government are spending their day rather blatantly obstructing Minnesota law enforcement and covering up a murder.
January 24, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Multiple officials of the US federal government are spending their day rather blatantly obstructing Minnesota law enforcement and covering up a murder.
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Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.
Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win
How's your non-violent working Mr Gandhi stancil? They will kill each and everyone of you right if they had the chance and you will still be writing Kumbaya.
January 24, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.
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Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
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I think our constitutional order collapsed the day the supreme court handed down their execrable, lawless immunity opinion. What we're seeing now is just the logical working out of the violent authoritarian state that the supreme court legalized.
January 24, 2026 at 8:15 PM
I think our constitutional order collapsed the day the supreme court handed down their execrable, lawless immunity opinion. What we're seeing now is just the logical working out of the violent authoritarian state that the supreme court legalized.
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They’re governing by ransom, trying to flip Minnesota red by force.
Fox News: "I've gotten my hands that AG Bondi said she sent to Gov. Tim Walz. It is strongly worded. The AG calls for the governor to support the men and women of ICE, to repeal the state's sanctuary policies, and to allow the DOJ to access state voter rolls."
January 24, 2026 at 8:28 PM
They’re governing by ransom, trying to flip Minnesota red by force.
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Kyle Rittenhouse was on Infowars the day after the Renee Good shooting saying he had heard on X that Renee was putting cigarettes out on her kids. This wasn't true. This is a government by and for school shooters and their apologists.
Remembering how cops tossed Kyle Rittenhouse - who was open carrying a semiautomatic rifle - a bottle of water and told him, “We appreciate you… we really do”
January 24, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Kyle Rittenhouse was on Infowars the day after the Renee Good shooting saying he had heard on X that Renee was putting cigarettes out on her kids. This wasn't true. This is a government by and for school shooters and their apologists.
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when we were in high school, Republicans weaponized xenophobia to build the police state that’s literally killing us now.
January 24, 2026 at 8:32 PM
when we were in high school, Republicans weaponized xenophobia to build the police state that’s literally killing us now.
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“Let’s do the fucking news”
This Sunday, Jan. 25, 60 Minutes presents “A Night at the Movies,” a special edition featuring profiles from our archives on:
• Timothée Chalamet
• Jamie Lee Curtis
• Kate Winslet
• Timothée Chalamet
• Jamie Lee Curtis
• Kate Winslet
January 24, 2026 at 6:30 PM
“Let’s do the fucking news”
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This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
January 24, 2026 at 5:42 PM
This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
This would basically be an inversion of what Republicans are already doing to everyone else
We’re going to have to systematically dismantle this cancerous movement.
- Strip the dark money groups and political churches of tax exempt status
- Target right-wing media with antitrust
- Oust right-wing bullshit from academia and law schools
- Root out fascists in government and law enforcement
- Strip the dark money groups and political churches of tax exempt status
- Target right-wing media with antitrust
- Oust right-wing bullshit from academia and law schools
- Root out fascists in government and law enforcement
“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
January 24, 2026 at 7:03 PM
This would basically be an inversion of what Republicans are already doing to everyone else
American death squads
January 24, 2026 at 6:59 PM
American death squads
This is so much worse, holy shit
a second angle of the killing in south Minneapolis today is even worse
warning: video is graphic
warning: video is graphic
[Mature Content] From the Minneapolis community on Reddit: Alternative angle of ICE-involved shooting from the lady in pink's perspective
Posted by Minute_Revolution951 - 662 votes and 110 comments
www.reddit.com
January 24, 2026 at 6:56 PM
This is so much worse, holy shit
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Time and again, ICE is the only violence at the scene of ICE’s violence.
ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
January 24, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Time and again, ICE is the only violence at the scene of ICE’s violence.
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Well, when you are the jackbooted government thugs…
The people who built their entire identities around worrying about jackbooted government thugs shooting people in the streets are weirdly silent now that jackbooted government thugs are shooting people in the streets.
January 24, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Well, when you are the jackbooted government thugs…
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Chicago Police operated black sites, LASD has deputy gangs, LAPD had its deadliest year of police shootings last year, LAPD got more crowd control training after 2020 and were the more efficient with their violence at last year’s protests, etc. Local/state police are less blatant w/ their misconduct
Jumping in here to point out that most police departments have training that is far more rigorous and rates of use of force that are far far lower than ICE and the CPB. This *isn’t* policing. IMO: It would behoove if folks didn’t conflate them.
January 24, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Chicago Police operated black sites, LASD has deputy gangs, LAPD had its deadliest year of police shootings last year, LAPD got more crowd control training after 2020 and were the more efficient with their violence at last year’s protests, etc. Local/state police are less blatant w/ their misconduct
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in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission
January 24, 2026 at 5:30 PM
in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission
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Honestly no one needs to report on anything Tricia McLaughlin says without also reporting on her history of never telling the truth in any situation.
January 24, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Honestly no one needs to report on anything Tricia McLaughlin says without also reporting on her history of never telling the truth in any situation.
Its Republican revenge for the George Floyd protests and what they wanted to see in 2020
All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.
January 24, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Its Republican revenge for the George Floyd protests and what they wanted to see in 2020
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It is genuinely insane to watch capital decide that allowing this shit to go on is better for them than having to allow the FTC to do mild monopoly investigations and require cancellation buttons on websites.
January 24, 2026 at 5:18 PM
It is genuinely insane to watch capital decide that allowing this shit to go on is better for them than having to allow the FTC to do mild monopoly investigations and require cancellation buttons on websites.
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ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
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ICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.
MS NOW news crew capturing ICE/DHS agents firing pepper balls, flash bangs, and tear gas at non violent protesters.
file:///C:/Users/Nikki/Downloads/Velshi-2026-01-24.mp4
file:///C:/Users/Nikki/Downloads/Velshi-2026-01-24.mp4
January 24, 2026 at 5:13 PM
ICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.