TiminMN
@timwegenermn.bsky.social
My grandfather killed Nazis
"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope" - Martin Luther
Mainly Democratic politics and fighting the fascist president
WI born, MN transplant. Vote Blue. Speaking only for myself.
"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope" - Martin Luther
Mainly Democratic politics and fighting the fascist president
WI born, MN transplant. Vote Blue. Speaking only for myself.
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TiminMN
@timwegenermn.bsky.social
· Mar 1
Elon Musk and Donald Trump think they can rule this country like kings.
House Republicans think they can steal from working families to fund billionaire tax cuts.
They all think we'll sit back and let them get away with it.
They are dead wrong: indivisibleproject.formstack.com/forms/organi...
House Republicans think they can steal from working families to fund billionaire tax cuts.
They all think we'll sit back and let them get away with it.
They are dead wrong: indivisibleproject.formstack.com/forms/organi...
The only way through all of this is forward. Get involved, organize your friends, hold elected officials accountable. Don’t tell me all is lost. Only the end of the world is the end of the world. Until then, the future is ours to make what we want. How hard are you willing to work?
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January 23, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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"We Must Choose Freedom" - my advice to Democratic Party leaders about how to think about 2026 and the battles ahead 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/we-must-ch...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/we-must-ch...
We Must Choose Freedom
It is time now to "abandon caution" and do what Americans do - fight for freedom and democracy, here and everywhere
www.hopiumchronicles.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:23 PM
"We Must Choose Freedom" - my advice to Democratic Party leaders about how to think about 2026 and the battles ahead 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/we-must-ch...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/we-must-ch...
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As clergy pray, arrests begin
January 23, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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Compelling stuff from @gregsargent.bsky.social and @donmoyn.bsky.social.........
"Experts on the formation of internal security services in authoritarian regimes point to a sense of impunity as a warning sign. Regime officials abuse their power when they know they will be protected, and even praised, for doing so."
Very clarifying.
Very clarifying.
New, from me: Defenders of police abuses will sometimes talk about “bad apples” spoiling the barrel.
This is the wrong metaphor for ICE and CBP. The barrel itself is rotten. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
This is the wrong metaphor for ICE and CBP. The barrel itself is rotten. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
January 23, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Compelling stuff from @gregsargent.bsky.social and @donmoyn.bsky.social.........
We are embarking on an uncontrolled, worldwide economic experiment because a madman was elected president. This will not end well for the US or the world. If anyone tries to tell you that this will all work out just fine is either lying or ignorant of global economics.
If the world is truly “de-risking” and moving away from investing in Trump’s America we are headed towards an economic calamity in the US. 4/
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India’s holdings of US Treasury bonds have fallen to a 5-year low as the nation pushes to support its currency and diversify its reserves.
People “are looking to diversify away from US assets, and I would kind of describe it as quiet-quitting of US bonds" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
People “are looking to diversify away from US assets, and I would kind of describe it as quiet-quitting of US bonds" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
January 23, 2026 at 5:04 PM
We are embarking on an uncontrolled, worldwide economic experiment because a madman was elected president. This will not end well for the US or the world. If anyone tries to tell you that this will all work out just fine is either lying or ignorant of global economics.
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If you've never flown in and out of Lindbergh, you probably don't appreciate how big of a terminal it is: A major delta hub and a fairly significant international port. This is a LOT of people covering a LOT of ground.
There is a picket line the entire length of the departures terminal.
January 23, 2026 at 4:57 PM
If you've never flown in and out of Lindbergh, you probably don't appreciate how big of a terminal it is: A major delta hub and a fairly significant international port. This is a LOT of people covering a LOT of ground.
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NEW: MN judges continue to reject arrest warrants in ICE protests. Sources tell @ms.now feds aren’t providing evidence that protestors are committing the crimes of which they’re accused. First byline with the great @carolleonnig.bsky.social and Alex Tabet. www.ms.now/news/minneso...
Minnesota judges continue to reject arrest warrants in ICE protests
Sources say federal agents aren’t providing evidence that protestors are committing the crimes of which they’re accused.
www.ms.now
January 23, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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If the world is truly “de-risking” and moving away from investing in Trump’s America we are headed towards an economic calamity in the US. 4/
bsky.app/profile/cram...
bsky.app/profile/cram...
India’s holdings of US Treasury bonds have fallen to a 5-year low as the nation pushes to support its currency and diversify its reserves.
People “are looking to diversify away from US assets, and I would kind of describe it as quiet-quitting of US bonds" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
People “are looking to diversify away from US assets, and I would kind of describe it as quiet-quitting of US bonds" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
January 23, 2026 at 4:27 PM
If the world is truly “de-risking” and moving away from investing in Trump’s America we are headed towards an economic calamity in the US. 4/
bsky.app/profile/cram...
bsky.app/profile/cram...
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This is a 16-year old girl who was carrying documentation and was pulled over with her documented friend, also 16. This is what they did to both.
January 23, 2026 at 2:14 PM
This is a 16-year old girl who was carrying documentation and was pulled over with her documented friend, also 16. This is what they did to both.
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Today’s Minnesota Star Tribune front page will be hung in museums in future.
Every headline, every inch of it documenting a failed state; a descent into authoritarianism.
Every headline, every inch of it documenting a failed state; a descent into authoritarianism.
January 23, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Today’s Minnesota Star Tribune front page will be hung in museums in future.
Every headline, every inch of it documenting a failed state; a descent into authoritarianism.
Every headline, every inch of it documenting a failed state; a descent into authoritarianism.
What Trump, Vance and ICE are doing will be long remembered as evil incarnate.
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 23, 2026 at 2:59 AM
What Trump, Vance and ICE are doing will be long remembered as evil incarnate.
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Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's Thursday
Profiles in Cowardice: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Profiles in Cowardice: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
The war powers resolution to block further military action in Venezuela by Trump is currently winning by 1, with all Dems + Massie and Bacon supporting, but the Rs have flown Wesley Hunt back to DC and are holding the vote open as he makes his way to the Hill from Dulles airport
January 22, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's Thursday
Profiles in Cowardice: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Profiles in Cowardice: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Vance is going to the Northern Front to give encouragement to Bovino's stormtroopers as they continue their derided and reviled special military operation to pacify the Twin Cities. But like the Wehrmacht in Russia and the Russian Army in Ukraine, they are doomed to fail.
JD Vance: "I'm headed to Minneapolis where we're gonna talk with ICE agents and local officials about how we turn down the chaos. My simple piece of advice to them is going to be if you want to turn down the chaos in Minneapolis, stop fighting immigration enforcement."
January 22, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Vance is going to the Northern Front to give encouragement to Bovino's stormtroopers as they continue their derided and reviled special military operation to pacify the Twin Cities. But like the Wehrmacht in Russia and the Russian Army in Ukraine, they are doomed to fail.
We Minnesotans are not going to back down to the fascist and his personal SS troops on the ground here. It's going to be a high tomorrow of -10 and we will see a lot of people marching to the rally (which will be indoors).
Minnesota is on the eve of a general strike in rejection of ICE. Hundreds of businesses are closing and 80+ solidarity actions are being held across the country. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social talked to some of the strikers.
prospect.org/2026/01/22/i...
prospect.org/2026/01/22/i...
Minnesota On Strike - The American Prospect
Minnesota labor unions, faith leaders, community organizations, and businesses of all kinds are calling for what amounts to a statewide general strike tomorrow, in response to the ongoing federal immi...
prospect.org
January 22, 2026 at 2:49 PM
We Minnesotans are not going to back down to the fascist and his personal SS troops on the ground here. It's going to be a high tomorrow of -10 and we will see a lot of people marching to the rally (which will be indoors).
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Brutal new NYT/Siena poll for Trump: -16 net approval and only 32% of voters say the country is better off than it was a year ago.
He's underwater on all the issues:
-17 on immigration
-18 on the economy
-19 on foreign relations
-29 on the cost of living
-44 on the Epstein files
He's underwater on all the issues:
-17 on immigration
-18 on the economy
-19 on foreign relations
-29 on the cost of living
-44 on the Epstein files
January 22, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Brutal new NYT/Siena poll for Trump: -16 net approval and only 32% of voters say the country is better off than it was a year ago.
He's underwater on all the issues:
-17 on immigration
-18 on the economy
-19 on foreign relations
-29 on the cost of living
-44 on the Epstein files
He's underwater on all the issues:
-17 on immigration
-18 on the economy
-19 on foreign relations
-29 on the cost of living
-44 on the Epstein files
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Trump is -18 on immigration in new @nytimes.com poll. Country is recoiling at what they are seeing in Minnesota.
January 22, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Trump is -18 on immigration in new @nytimes.com poll. Country is recoiling at what they are seeing in Minnesota.
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This is absolutely what struck me as a parent of young kids. There's so much love invested into each of these little things, and here it's just ripped away.
Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 22, 2026 at 4:00 AM
This is absolutely what struck me as a parent of young kids. There's so much love invested into each of these little things, and here it's just ripped away.
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Please share this video widely. Rule of law has broken down, dangerous dehumanization is now government policy.
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Please share this video widely. Rule of law has broken down, dangerous dehumanization is now government policy.
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Please share widely
This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.
Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
January 22, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Please share widely
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Special elections are happening Tuesday in Maplewood, Woodbury, and parts of St. Paul. If you're in the 47A or 64A areas, get involved at dfl.org/specials — and take your next steps toward Caucus Night at dfl.org/caucus.
January 22, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Special elections are happening Tuesday in Maplewood, Woodbury, and parts of St. Paul. If you're in the 47A or 64A areas, get involved at dfl.org/specials — and take your next steps toward Caucus Night at dfl.org/caucus.
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I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels.
Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.
Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.
ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door.
It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!
It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!
![May 12, 2025
MEMORANDUM FOR: All ICE Personnel
FROM: Todd Lyons Acting Director
SUBJECT: Utilizing Form I-205, Warrant of Removal
On January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion, directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to "ensur[e] the successful enforcement of final orders of removal." 90 Fed. Reg. 8443, 8444 (Jan. 20, 2025) (E.O. 14159). Essential to the removal of aliens subject to final orders of removal is the ability to locate and arrest them. To this end, certain supervisory immigration officers within both Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are authorized to issue an administrative warrant, Form I-205, Warrant of Removal (Form 1-205), for the arrest of an alien with a final order of removal. 8 C.F.R. § 241.2(a)(1). All U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents and deportation officers are authorized to execute Forms 1-205. 8 C.F.R. § 287.5(e)(3)(iii) - (y)
Although the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has not historically relied on administrative warrants alone to arrest aliens subject to final orders of removal in their place of residence, the DHS Office of the General Counsel has recently determined that the U.S. Constitution, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the immigration regulations do not prohibit relying on administrative warrants for this purpose. Accordingly, in light of this legal determination, ICE immigration officers may arrest and detain aliens subject to a final under of removal issued by an immigration judge, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), or a U.S.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifrzrvaszfhj4bzhgtyvx3fm6ht4kc2zrwtvozijyxl3zxgp7vx6a@jpeg)
January 21, 2026 at 10:28 PM
I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels.
Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.
Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.
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Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.
January 21, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.
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I have probably an hour of insane video but it's awful. they're destroying our city, trashing residential neighborhoods, menacing schools. completely out of control. ICE must be ended forever
January 21, 2026 at 9:34 PM
I have probably an hour of insane video but it's awful. they're destroying our city, trashing residential neighborhoods, menacing schools. completely out of control. ICE must be ended forever
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guys minneapolis is a living hell today. they've tear-gassed so many people, tear-gassed a park, beaten people up in front of me. greg bovino is rolling around to gas stations and posing in front of them, trying to cause a riot.
January 21, 2026 at 9:33 PM
guys minneapolis is a living hell today. they've tear-gassed so many people, tear-gassed a park, beaten people up in front of me. greg bovino is rolling around to gas stations and posing in front of them, trying to cause a riot.