Upstate Dem
@upstatedem.bsky.social
“Good Government” Democrat. Proud FDR-LBJ liberal. Former Hill staffer, writer, public affairs pro, JD. Francophile. Dog lover. History buff (WW I, medieval, France, US). Deeply, madly in love.
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Catherine O’Hara, ‘Home Alone’ and ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Actress, Dies at 71
www.nytimes.com
Brilliant. Such a loss. Catherine O’Hara, ‘Home Alone’ and ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Actress, Dies at 71 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/a...
MAGA are okay with discussions of revolution and insurgency when it relates to theirs grievances. They push for weak 2A laws to better arm themselves: they fly “Don’t tread on me” flags.
Politicians Are Calling the Protests in Minnesota an Insurgency www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
Politicians Are Calling the Protests in Minnesota an Insurgency www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
Politicians Are Calling the Protests in Minnesota an Insurgency
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 6:26 PM
MAGA are okay with discussions of revolution and insurgency when it relates to theirs grievances. They push for weak 2A laws to better arm themselves: they fly “Don’t tread on me” flags.
Politicians Are Calling the Protests in Minnesota an Insurgency www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
Politicians Are Calling the Protests in Minnesota an Insurgency www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
This is how you do it. These people are monsters, with all due respect.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident
The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to be the first time local police...
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January 31, 2026 at 6:11 PM
This is how you do it. These people are monsters, with all due respect.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Attia’s hand is in the cookie jar
And Peter Attia MD telling Epstein the biggest problem with being his friend is he can’t tell anyone about the life he lives. Nice.
January 31, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Attia’s hand is in the cookie jar
Brilliant. Such a loss. Catherine O’Hara, ‘Home Alone’ and ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Actress, Dies at 71 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/a...
Catherine O’Hara, ‘Home Alone’ and ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Actress, Dies at 71
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Brilliant. Such a loss. Catherine O’Hara, ‘Home Alone’ and ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Actress, Dies at 71 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/a...
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The biggest operations have been in California, Chicago, and Minneapolis. Tell me what those things have in common.
It's not about immigration.
It's about stamping out dissent and retribution.
It's not about immigration.
It's about stamping out dissent and retribution.
January 29, 2026 at 2:15 PM
The biggest operations have been in California, Chicago, and Minneapolis. Tell me what those things have in common.
It's not about immigration.
It's about stamping out dissent and retribution.
It's not about immigration.
It's about stamping out dissent and retribution.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
This
🗣️ @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “The idea we’re just going to move past this… since Trump ‘took down the temperature’ an ICE agent said ‘you raise your voice, I erase your voice’, they tried to go into the Ecuadorian embassy… 2300x since July a judge ruled ICE illegally detained someone.”
January 29, 2026 at 1:59 PM
This
I don’t care, do you.
January 29, 2026 at 3:53 AM
I don’t care, do you.
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The US Ambasador to Denmark is one of Peter Thiel's "PayPal Mafia" douchebags. Naturally, service and sacrifice are alien concepts for him.
The U.S. Embassy in Denmark removed 44 Danish flags honoring Danish soldiers killed in Afghanistan outside the building, drawing outrage from the country’s veterans amid heightened tensions between Copenhagen and Washington.
https://wapo.st/4rfbSOz
https://wapo.st/4rfbSOz
Removal of flags for fallen Danish soldiers at U.S. Embassy sparks backlash
There was no malicious intent in removing the flags, said a State Department spokesperson, who added that the flags had been replaced.
wapo.st
January 29, 2026 at 2:59 AM
The US Ambasador to Denmark is one of Peter Thiel's "PayPal Mafia" douchebags. Naturally, service and sacrifice are alien concepts for him.
Song for the ages
🎵 If you're lackin' control & authority
Come with me & hunt down minorities
Join ICE
I got picked on at school, I never felt that cool
There's a hole in my soul that just a-rages
All the ladies turned me down, & I felt like a clown
But will you look at me now, I'm puttin' folks in cages
Join ICE 🎵
Come with me & hunt down minorities
Join ICE
I got picked on at school, I never felt that cool
There's a hole in my soul that just a-rages
All the ladies turned me down, & I felt like a clown
But will you look at me now, I'm puttin' folks in cages
Join ICE 🎵
January 29, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Song for the ages
Patriots
To Gregory Bovino: This is what brandishing a firearm at a protest looks like.
January 26, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Patriots
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AND IMPEACH AND REMOVE.
We need to clamor for that even if the votes aren't there—yet.
We need to clamor for that even if the votes aren't there—yet.
January 25, 2026 at 3:59 PM
AND IMPEACH AND REMOVE.
We need to clamor for that even if the votes aren't there—yet.
We need to clamor for that even if the votes aren't there—yet.
Right here
Trump needs to go. He needs to be impeached and removed. Now.
January 25, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Right here
National March for Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti
January 25, 2026 at 5:10 PM
National March for Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti
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They had him on the ground. Six agents pinned him down. They disarmed him. They removed his gun from its holster. And THEN they shot him. Ten times. To repeat. AFTER they pinned him to the ground, and AFTER they disarmed him, they shot him. Ten times.
They murdered him.
They murdered him.
January 25, 2026 at 4:32 PM
They had him on the ground. Six agents pinned him down. They disarmed him. They removed his gun from its holster. And THEN they shot him. Ten times. To repeat. AFTER they pinned him to the ground, and AFTER they disarmed him, they shot him. Ten times.
They murdered him.
They murdered him.
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I'm not sure Democrats in D.C. are aware that their base's rage against ICE has reached a level of blinding white-hot intensity.
They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
January 24, 2026 at 9:03 PM
I'm not sure Democrats in D.C. are aware that their base's rage against ICE has reached a level of blinding white-hot intensity.
They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
Moulton nails it
Seth Moulton is nobody's idea of a left-wing Dem.
(Four-tour USMC veteran of Iraq; multi-term Congressman from MA; now running against Ed Markey for Senate this year.)
The righteous fury in this message is how decent Americans should feel.
(Four-tour USMC veteran of Iraq; multi-term Congressman from MA; now running against Ed Markey for Senate this year.)
The righteous fury in this message is how decent Americans should feel.
January 24, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Moulton nails it
You must watch this. This was an execution.
There is no defending this. This is cold-blooded murder.
NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.
January 24, 2026 at 7:52 PM
You must watch this. This was an execution.
FOX NEWS ASSHOLE SAID IT’S A WAR ZONE. PEOPLE ARE YELLING “ICE OUT” AND “SHAME.”
Oh dear. “Shame”! The most dangerous, most deadly of words.
Oh dear. “Shame”! The most dangerous, most deadly of words.
January 24, 2026 at 6:03 PM
FOX NEWS ASSHOLE SAID IT’S A WAR ZONE. PEOPLE ARE YELLING “ICE OUT” AND “SHAME.”
Oh dear. “Shame”! The most dangerous, most deadly of words.
Oh dear. “Shame”! The most dangerous, most deadly of words.
ARREST THOSE ANIMALS.
Barring that, I don't see how anyone could argue that Minnesota residents wouldn't be justified in taking whatever measures they deem necessary to secure their communities.
January 24, 2026 at 4:59 PM
ARREST THOSE ANIMALS.
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I just watched the shooting video. It's a horrific beating and execution in the middle of the street.
If local and state officials don't move to arrest everyone involved for murder, they need to resign. Making arrests will de-escalate the situation. Do nothing and this is going to explode.
If local and state officials don't move to arrest everyone involved for murder, they need to resign. Making arrests will de-escalate the situation. Do nothing and this is going to explode.
January 24, 2026 at 3:56 PM
I just watched the shooting video. It's a horrific beating and execution in the middle of the street.
If local and state officials don't move to arrest everyone involved for murder, they need to resign. Making arrests will de-escalate the situation. Do nothing and this is going to explode.
If local and state officials don't move to arrest everyone involved for murder, they need to resign. Making arrests will de-escalate the situation. Do nothing and this is going to explode.
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Congress should pass legislation prohibiting DHS from calling these forms. “Warrants”
Congress should pass legislation prohibiting DHS from calling these forms. “Warrants”
A judge should order DHS to stop calling the Form-205 a “warrant”. It’ creates tremendous confusion among the public, intentionally one might argue.
There’s more or less one kind of Miranda warning. There ought to be one kind of warrant.
There’s more or less one kind of Miranda warning. There ought to be one kind of warrant.
January 23, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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Congress should pass legislation prohibiting DHS from calling these forms. “Warrants”
Congress should pass legislation prohibiting DHS from calling these forms. “Warrants”
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ICE is detaining a 5 year old boy.
If you get off on this, you’re a monster and don’t you dare pretend to worship God.
If you get off on this, you’re a monster and don’t you dare pretend to worship God.
January 22, 2026 at 11:18 PM
ICE is detaining a 5 year old boy.
If you get off on this, you’re a monster and don’t you dare pretend to worship God.
If you get off on this, you’re a monster and don’t you dare pretend to worship God.
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Tyler O'Ryan Gramlin, 32, of Borden, IN is a Border Patrol Agent who has traveled from state to state committing extreme violence. On Jan 21, 2026 Gramlin emptied a can of pepper spray directly in the face of a prone protester at point-blank range in Minneapolis #MPLS #OneOfOursAllOfYours #UnmaskICE
January 22, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Tyler O'Ryan Gramlin, 32, of Borden, IN is a Border Patrol Agent who has traveled from state to state committing extreme violence. On Jan 21, 2026 Gramlin emptied a can of pepper spray directly in the face of a prone protester at point-blank range in Minneapolis #MPLS #OneOfOursAllOfYours #UnmaskICE