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Tanya
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I Remain In Protest #Hold 🇺🇸

#SMBC #SCIENTIST #GARDENER
#USAF #VETERAN
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For the life of me I cannot find all the functions that are hidden behind special swipes. Just please let me have a button, a menu, a visual option.
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
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Liam’s mother shared his deteriorating health on MPR News: “Liam is getting sick bc the food they receive is not of good quality… He has stomach pain, he’s vomiting, he has a fever and he no longer wants to eat.”

Liam should be going home after preschool, not sleeping in detention.
#BringLiamHome
"Liam Conejo Ramos, the pre-school student who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is in poor health now, according to his school’s superintendent."
5-Year-Old in ICE Detention Is Sick, Says Top School Official
The 5-year-old who was taken by federal agents in Minneapolis is being held behind bars with his father in Texas.
www.huffpost.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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This is a hell of a way to wake up on Wednesday. Good morning @gbrumfiel.bsky.social!

For DOE, as the inheritors of the promotion side of the AEC equation, rulemaking for their orders has always been a little a little different and less subject to public comment than NRC. But, uhh, not like this.
The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules
The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise safety and public trust.
www.npr.org
January 28, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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Sometimes I think about this for no reason whatsoever

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Deaths of six men tied to Ferguson protests alarm activists
The six deaths drew attention on social media and speculation among activists that something sinister was at play.
www.nbcnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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“For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States” — some dude named Jefferson
January 8, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
January 27, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
January 27, 2026 at 5:36 AM
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It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.
January 27, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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250 Years In The Making
250 Years In The Making
A cartoon by RJ Matson
contrarian.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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Lmfao I am 💯 doing this. If they can give it to bloody Machado they can give it to Minnesotans who deserve it a hell of a lot more.
Some thoughts:

1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.

2. History professors are qualified nominators.

3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.

4. He would be so mad.
Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates - NobelPrize.org
A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria. A letter of invitation to submit is not required. The names of the nominees and other informati...
www.nobelprize.org
January 27, 2026 at 4:17 AM
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ICE know that they have passed the point of no return.

Either they will succeed in establishing a totalitarian police state or there will be no escaping the reckoning for what they've done.

We—too—are headed for one of those two futures.

Are you acting accordingly yet?

crimethinc.com/mercenaries
The worst members of our society are being paid enormous sums to inflict pain and death on anyone they choose. They think they have immunity so they are living out their sick fantasies without consequences.
January 25, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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Some Democrat is going to propose a truth and reconciliation commission but it’s gotta be truth and consequences. There’s no way to find out what happened, get transparency, and move on. We have to salt the earth under the DHS, dismantle the policing and surveillance infrastructure that allowed it.
January 24, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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I am past 'retrain ICE.' I am past 'reform ICE.' I am past 'abolish ICE.'

I am at 'imprison ICE.'
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
January 25, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.
January 24, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.
Attorney General Pam Bondi: "Our country was founded on law enforcement"
Bondi: "It's extremely organized. The signs they have are all matching, they're well written. And look at what's happening today. How did these people go out & get gas masks? These protesters. Would you know how to walk out on the street and buy a gas mask? Think about that. We're not gonna have it"
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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This is also murder.

Every single Republican member of Congress shares responsibility for this.

Never, ever, ever, ever vote for a Republican.
In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi.

He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael.

At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk.

Wael died on Friday at age 30.

ICE caused his death.

They didn’t get to say goodbye.
Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization
It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral.
www.wfaa.com
January 24, 2026 at 7:16 AM
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There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry
January 25, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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Microsoft: Do you want Word to write ideas for you? We're spending a ton of money and energy on an AI for that!

What the people actually want: the ability to search for symbols by keyword/description
January 24, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.
January 24, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
January 24, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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January 24, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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January 24, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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"What stayed with Amundson most, was not the adrenaline of the moment but the realization that came while she was holding the agent’s head in her hands and keeping his airway open.

“I was hit so hard with the fact that this man would not do this for me,”

Living the golden rule anyway 👏
January 24, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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ICE is a force of evil and must be defunded and abolished for democracy to survive.
nine years old
January 23, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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this photo. minneapolis. 💜

📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
January 23, 2026 at 10:04 PM