River_Tam
@rivertam.bsky.social
Managing Director of Single Family Housing Inventory at BlackRock #DarkBlueSky
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A few weeks back ICE agents ate at a Mexican restaurant and then *detained the restaurant's workers* and they're complaining about how they can't eat out anymore?
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 29, 2026 at 2:59 PM
A few weeks back ICE agents ate at a Mexican restaurant and then *detained the restaurant's workers* and they're complaining about how they can't eat out anymore?
Chess is the perfect board game
I know I need to be the change and everything but we need more board game discourse on here. It could mostly be the same cast!
January 29, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Chess is the perfect board game
If men want to marry early they should move out of the city with the worst gender ratio this side of Alaska
January 29, 2026 at 1:17 PM
If men want to marry early they should move out of the city with the worst gender ratio this side of Alaska
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This is all stupid bullshit but I remain pretty disgusted at how things like marriage and having children are treated like Xbox achievements instead of actually loving and caring for someone else. Yeah I’m going to work 70 hours a week but definitely need a spouse, her name is Beth or something idk
January 29, 2026 at 1:07 PM
This is all stupid bullshit but I remain pretty disgusted at how things like marriage and having children are treated like Xbox achievements instead of actually loving and caring for someone else. Yeah I’m going to work 70 hours a week but definitely need a spouse, her name is Beth or something idk
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January 29, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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i am wondering how many people really get what exactly these agents are experiencing from us. like - they're all being told to kill themselves quite regularly. they're getting pelted with snowballs outside mcdonalds. way, way more than just Alex pretti has spit on them.
I know Stancil doesn't want to encourage the idea that Pretti was targeted but can you rule it out?
January 29, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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We're deep into Blue Tea Party territory where voters will follow the most problematic people simply because they will say the most cathartic things.
January 29, 2026 at 11:30 AM
We're deep into Blue Tea Party territory where voters will follow the most problematic people simply because they will say the most cathartic things.
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"If we have to hunt you down, the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice. And we will do so under the Constitution and laws of the United States."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...
Philly DA vows to prosecute ‘wannabe Nazi' ICE agents who violate the law
YouTube video by NBC10 Philadelphia
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January 29, 2026 at 3:50 AM
"If we have to hunt you down, the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice. And we will do so under the Constitution and laws of the United States."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...
I know Stancil doesn't want to encourage the idea that Pretti was targeted but can you rule it out?
News Movement posted this video of Alex Pretti on Jan 13, showing him spitting at ICE agents and kicking their taillight.
Now conservatives are suggesting this changes things.
That would mean they are suggesting he deserved to be target of an extrajudicial execution.
The video changes nothing.
Now conservatives are suggesting this changes things.
That would mean they are suggesting he deserved to be target of an extrajudicial execution.
The video changes nothing.
January 29, 2026 at 10:29 AM
I know Stancil doesn't want to encourage the idea that Pretti was targeted but can you rule it out?
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this is a straightforward impeachable offense for trump, vance, rubio and every other person down the line who enabled it and the framers would have thought impeachment for it did not go nearly far enough
Marco Rubio: "The oil proceeds are being deposited into an account that ultimately will become a US Treasury blocked account here in the US. We will say 'this is what this money can be spent on.' They will submit to us a budget request -- 'we want to use the money on these things.'"
January 29, 2026 at 12:44 AM
this is a straightforward impeachable offense for trump, vance, rubio and every other person down the line who enabled it and the framers would have thought impeachment for it did not go nearly far enough
To rephrase this slightly to make it correct - grading of assignments in courses for math and physics courses tends to be more objective than grading of assignments in the arts and humanities. That's not the same as the discipline itself being objective but it's also not nothing.
Maths and physics are objective and humanities is subjective.
That's the difference.
That's the difference.
January 29, 2026 at 1:49 AM
To rephrase this slightly to make it correct - grading of assignments in courses for math and physics courses tends to be more objective than grading of assignments in the arts and humanities. That's not the same as the discipline itself being objective but it's also not nothing.
Heckuva job Bari
Below is the buyout offer all CBS Evening News staff received today.
"We hope you are excited about this vision, but we understand that some of you may not be, and we want to provide support. As such, we are offering an extraordinary chance to leave CBS News with an enhanced separation payment."
"We hope you are excited about this vision, but we understand that some of you may not be, and we want to provide support. As such, we are offering an extraordinary chance to leave CBS News with an enhanced separation payment."
January 29, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Heckuva job Bari
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This is a response to Serwer’s article and it’s just completely divorced from any way a mentally well-adjusted person would think.
January 29, 2026 at 12:00 AM
This is a response to Serwer’s article and it’s just completely divorced from any way a mentally well-adjusted person would think.
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I've been listening to this English version of Bella Ciao on repeat all day while shoveling snow and it is a total banger.
"Someday the people who pick the flowers and they will remember my name."
Renee Good and Alex Pretti
"Someday the people who pick the flowers and they will remember my name."
Renee Good and Alex Pretti
January 29, 2026 at 1:02 AM
I've been listening to this English version of Bella Ciao on repeat all day while shoveling snow and it is a total banger.
"Someday the people who pick the flowers and they will remember my name."
Renee Good and Alex Pretti
"Someday the people who pick the flowers and they will remember my name."
Renee Good and Alex Pretti
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"I got divorced and my daughter hates me" is literally the most common mode of right wing radicalization in middle aged men
i love that rightwingers genuinely seem to believe that political ideology is a set genetic inheritable trait
January 28, 2026 at 10:54 PM
"I got divorced and my daughter hates me" is literally the most common mode of right wing radicalization in middle aged men
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Archbishop Paul Coakley, the head of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, denounces the killings of Renee Good & Alex Pretti by the Trump-Vance administration & the death of an ICE detainee due to their actions.
January 28, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Archbishop Paul Coakley, the head of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, denounces the killings of Renee Good & Alex Pretti by the Trump-Vance administration & the death of an ICE detainee due to their actions.
Millennials were the generation least impacted by the pandemic but on the other hand we have an enduring belief that no one has ever had it harder than us
reminds me of a friend who explained why recent years have felt so weird to so many millennials here and it’s because “we went into the pandemic young people and came out of it old”
I spoke to a woman at the protest in minneapolis and she explained she wanted to be there in part because "i was a kid when george floyd got killed" and i nearly dropped my recorder
January 28, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Millennials were the generation least impacted by the pandemic but on the other hand we have an enduring belief that no one has ever had it harder than us
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Being under 35 on this website is literally illegal!!!!
January 28, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Being under 35 on this website is literally illegal!!!!
jfc
i wasn't alive for Clinton! (but also, his tenure was bad for the Democratic party imo)
January 28, 2026 at 7:30 PM
jfc
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Ok people are misunderstanding what happened with Colin Wright. This isn't just a regular grift. What happened is Colin Wright's PhD advisor was Jonathan Pruitt who got caught perpetrating massive academic fraud. Pruitt was a coauthor on virtually everything Colin had published.
This guy *admits* he applied for "countless" tenure-track positions and ultimately had to leave academia because nobody would hire him. He claims, though, that Ivy League Cornell filled their position with a Black person who couldn't possibly be more qualified than him.
www.wsj.com/opinion/corn...
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Opinion | Cornell University Discriminated Against Me
I was excluded from a candidate search on the basis of my race and have filed an EEOC complaint.
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August 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Ok people are misunderstanding what happened with Colin Wright. This isn't just a regular grift. What happened is Colin Wright's PhD advisor was Jonathan Pruitt who got caught perpetrating massive academic fraud. Pruitt was a coauthor on virtually everything Colin had published.
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If this was something that his base actually *wanted* then he would be doing these high-profile ICE raids in, say, Alabama. But he knows that this way of doing things is a punishment, so he will not inflict it on states that voted for it. /2
January 28, 2026 at 6:42 PM
If this was something that his base actually *wanted* then he would be doing these high-profile ICE raids in, say, Alabama. But he knows that this way of doing things is a punishment, so he will not inflict it on states that voted for it. /2
Hey MAGA did warn us about importing petty old-world ethnic hatred
Absolutely crazy that Mehmet Oz is calling Armenian a "dialect" while trying to gin up a crackdown on alleged systemic fraud (which he blames on ethnic organized crime)
January 28, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Hey MAGA did warn us about importing petty old-world ethnic hatred