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Previously of the South Florida Daily Blog & Stuck on the Palmetto. Politics, cars, craft beer crusader, the outdoors & life. Pro gun sense. Sharer of interesting news. NY Times famous. Most photos shared here are not mine and are properly sourced.
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"He is not an American president but a MAGA president, someone who leads red states with magnanimity and leads blue states like the head of an occupying force."

- @pbump.com
Everybody quiet down now and get some sleep...

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The Waltons say goodnight
YouTube video by timschub
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January 26, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Great read from Robert F. Worth at The Atlantic about how the Minneapolis community has come together to battle ICE.

"Again and again, I heard people say they were not protesters but protectors—of their communities, of their values, of the Constitution."
Welcome to the American Winter
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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Just a reminder that the paper is owned by one of the wealthiest men in the world who recently paid $40 million to distribute a documentary about the first lady.
News: The Washington Post is preparing to slash upwards of 300 staffers, incl sports, metro and foreign desks @nataliekorach.bsky.social reports.

“The newsroom is being punished for absolute incompetence from the owner and publisher,” one staffer told @status.news
www.status.news/p/washington...
Post Parting Depression
Looming cuts at The Washington Post threaten to decimate key coverage areas as staffers question the motives and commitment of billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.
www.status.news
January 26, 2026 at 2:14 AM
On January 25, 1947: Gangster Al Capone dies at his Palm Island home in Miami Beach.

"Al Capone is dead."

[Miami Herald - January 26, 1947]
January 26, 2026 at 2:19 AM
January 26, 2026 at 1:46 AM
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BILL CLINTON: "Over the course of a lifetime, we face only a few moments where the decisions we make and the actions we take will shape our history for years to come. This is one of them. If we give our freedoms away after 250 years, we might never get them back."
Statement by President Clinton
January 26, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.
January 25, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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How badly did I need to leave Florida forever? This badly, baby
January 26, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
"The behavior of ICE and CBP agents reminds me of the Fascist blackshirts who arrived in trucks, armed with clubs, knives, guns, and castor oil, to subjugate towns in early 1920s Italy, before Benito Mussolini declared dictatorship."

The latest from @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social...
The Language of Public Violence; My Conversation with the Anti-Authoritarian Experts of STROIKA
US government agents behave like Fascist blackshirts and state security forces in Turkey, Iran, and other autocracies.
lucid.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 10:55 PM
If your first inclination after an American citizen is executed in broad daylight by federal agents is to hurriedly compose a letter that uses the execution for your extremist politics, you deserve the largest, harshest and cruelest dose of karma to descend upon you.
Bondi outlines terms for Walz to ‘restore the rule of law’ in Minnesota after fatal shooting: Reports
Attorney General Pam Bondi on Saturday outlined terms to “restore the rule of law” in Minnesota, just hours after a second person was fatally shot by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis. “You ...
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January 25, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Excellent discussion here by @adamkinzinger.substack.com about the 2nd Amendment and the execution of Alex Pretti...

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Emergency Video: The Second Amendment Doesn't Care About Your Pro-Fascist Agenda
I have seen, as all of you have, fake arguments put out by so called “second amendment” proponents.
open.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 10:17 PM
It's in the upper teens in Chicago...and snowing.
Crowd is massive, now overflowing Congress Plaza and taking up a block-long stretch of Michigan Avenue.

Reminder: this event was only announced yesterday.
January 25, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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January 25, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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January 25, 2026 at 6:08 PM
"If you object to or impede their politics, they will hurt you. That is the consistency and it is why off-duty police were in the mob on Jan. 6 and why Trump supporters defend ICE today. It’s not the badge that matters. It’s the red cap."

The latest from @pbump.com...

👉 www.ms.now/opinion/minn...
January 25, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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Powerful words from Gov. Walz today: “Sitting behind a keyboard at 2am and besmirching a VA nurse and a son and a co-worker and a friend is despicable beyond all description. This is not ‘we need to see both sides’. This is not ‘we need to wait for this’. This is basic human decency.”
January 25, 2026 at 8:27 PM
The NWS Snowfall Accumulation Map...

👉 www.weather.gov/source/crh/s...
January 25, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Reminds me of Tiananmen Square...
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 7:49 PM
You've probably seen clips but here's the entire interview of Greg Bovino from this morning. You'll see that Dana Bash actually does a pretty good job of hitting Bovino with critical questions and questioning his inconsistencies.

Bovino comes off spectacularly erratic & deceptive in his responses.
Minneapolis: Bash presses Gregory Bovino on Alex Pretti shooting
YouTube video by CNN
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January 25, 2026 at 7:43 PM
When federal agents execute a disarmed man who is on his knees, the victims are the guys pulling the trigger and pumping lead into the "suspect's" body.

This is psychopath talk.
BASH: It feels as though you're blaming the victim here

BOVINO: The victims are the Border Patrol agents. I'm not blaming the Border Patrol agents. The victims are the Border Patrol agents.
January 25, 2026 at 7:06 PM
I mean, I've never seen Republicans so angry about Americans exercising their 2A.
KARL: He was an ICU use who worked for the VA and there's no evidence he brandished the gun whatsoever

BESSENT: But he brought a gun

KARL: I mean, we do have a Second Amendment

BESSENT: I've been to a protest -- guess what? I didn't bring a gun. I brought a billboard
January 25, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Legally carrying a firearm to a protest and having no ID on your person are now being used to justify the execution of American citizens by federal agents.

It only took a year, folks.
FOX: "What is the line? Where does it go from peaceful protest, I have a First Amendment right to do that, to I'm going to get arrested protesting, to I'm going to get shot to death?"

Noem: "You should comply. And you shouldn't show up with weapons…"
January 25, 2026 at 6:54 PM
"We leave you this Sunday along the rugged coast of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. Videographer: Lance Milbrand."

via CBS Sunday Morning
Nature: Olympic Peninsula in Washington State
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning
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January 25, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Kash Patel creating gun-free zones out of thin air.

The 2A guys have to be breaking out in cold sweats, right?
Kash Patel: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have a right to break the law." (Pretti was carrying a gun legally.)
January 25, 2026 at 4:27 PM