barnbaby
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Minnesota is my country. Feds out now.
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In a letter to the editor, the chair of the Minnesota Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board (the entity responsible for investigating unethical conduct by attorneys) sounds a warning clearly aimed at government lawyers supporting the ICE occupation.
www.startribune.com/readers-writ...
www.startribune.com/readers-writ...
February 11, 2026 at 4:06 PM
In a letter to the editor, the chair of the Minnesota Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board (the entity responsible for investigating unethical conduct by attorneys) sounds a warning clearly aimed at government lawyers supporting the ICE occupation.
www.startribune.com/readers-writ...
www.startribune.com/readers-writ...
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when unknown men come into our government center to grab teenagers, is there anyone that verifies somehow that they are actually federal agents?
These assholes look like the psychotically violent henchmen in a mediocre movie
February 11, 2026 at 5:20 AM
when unknown men come into our government center to grab teenagers, is there anyone that verifies somehow that they are actually federal agents?
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Lucy says she's gonna hold the football still this time
I have never Admiral Ackbarred harder www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Walz expects big drawdown in federal agents within days
At an event Tuesday to highlight business hardships, Walz said he believes a bigger drawdown could be just days away. He said it shouldn't be weeks or months. "We're very much in a trust but verify mo...
www.mprnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Lucy says she's gonna hold the football still this time
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ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
February 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
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This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
February 3, 2026 at 8:46 PM
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
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Jonathan Ross, wanting a camera so bad he used his own phone to record himself killing Renee Good, should have put this argument to bed before it even woke up.
This should have been the case long before they killed two Americans.
Border patrol agents should never have been sent in masks and camo to wreak havoc and aimlessly run around a state 1,500 miles from the Southern border.
apnews.com/article/immi...
Border patrol agents should never have been sent in masks and camo to wreak havoc and aimlessly run around a state 1,500 miles from the Southern border.
apnews.com/article/immi...
Every Homeland Security officer in Minneapolis is now being issued a body-worn camera, Noem says
The secretary of Homeland Security is requiring that all officers on the ground in Minneapolis wear body cameras.
apnews.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Jonathan Ross, wanting a camera so bad he used his own phone to record himself killing Renee Good, should have put this argument to bed before it even woke up.
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The ICE agent who killed Renee Good was proudly recording it and the CBP agents who killed Alex Pretti were captured from half a dozen angles and they still called Pretti a terrorist.
Bodycams aren’t going to do shit to stop them from executing people in the streets.
Bodycams aren’t going to do shit to stop them from executing people in the streets.
February 2, 2026 at 9:49 PM
The ICE agent who killed Renee Good was proudly recording it and the CBP agents who killed Alex Pretti were captured from half a dozen angles and they still called Pretti a terrorist.
Bodycams aren’t going to do shit to stop them from executing people in the streets.
Bodycams aren’t going to do shit to stop them from executing people in the streets.
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The pacification stage of counter insurgency on full display. Body cams mean nothing. We say you murder two people on camera and you have done nothing to arrest them. This is theater nothing else.
Kristi Noem: “Effective immediately we are deploying body cameras to every officer in the field in Minneapolis.”
February 2, 2026 at 10:09 PM
The pacification stage of counter insurgency on full display. Body cams mean nothing. We say you murder two people on camera and you have done nothing to arrest them. This is theater nothing else.
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We are on the verge of a new Cold War, defined not by an ideological contest over the proper relationship between politics and the economy, but over the metabolic basis of modernity. Call it the Green Entente vs. the Axis of Petrostates. My latest: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...
The Coming Ecological Cold War
Decarbonization isn’t just about technology and markets—it’s a geopolitical revolution.
foreignpolicy.com
September 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
We are on the verge of a new Cold War, defined not by an ideological contest over the proper relationship between politics and the economy, but over the metabolic basis of modernity. Call it the Green Entente vs. the Axis of Petrostates. My latest: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...
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Renee Good and Alex Pretti are dead, in part, because of Lisa Demuth.
I'm going to need this to be talked about daily, local news needs to bring this up any time they talk about Demuth.
Let's put it on billboards, make some ads.
"Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth said Monday that her caucus steered YouTube creator Nick Shirley to day care sites in Minnesota"
Let's put it on billboards, make some ads.
"Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth said Monday that her caucus steered YouTube creator Nick Shirley to day care sites in Minnesota"
Demuth: GOP caucus directed YouTuber to Minnesota. A professor explains why it went viral
University of Minnesota media law professor Jane Kirtley says the new viral video is flashy but absent of facts to back up its claims.
www.mprnews.org
January 31, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Renee Good and Alex Pretti are dead, in part, because of Lisa Demuth.
From the sound of this opinion any TRO or preliminary injunction in the state's case was doomed as soon as the 8th issued the stay in Tincher
BREAKING: Judge Katherine Menendez denies Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul’s request for a TRO or preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge on Tenth Amendment grounds.
Background at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/challengin...
Background at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/challengin...
January 31, 2026 at 6:21 PM
From the sound of this opinion any TRO or preliminary injunction in the state's case was doomed as soon as the 8th issued the stay in Tincher
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Minnesotans will just do this indefinitely. We have the numbers, we’re well-resourced, almost unbelievably well organized, and on home turf. We’ve got a stubborn reputation to protect. And few will admit it, but it’s even kind of darkly exciting.
There is absolutely no outlasting us on this.
There is absolutely no outlasting us on this.
Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
January 30, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Minnesotans will just do this indefinitely. We have the numbers, we’re well-resourced, almost unbelievably well organized, and on home turf. We’ve got a stubborn reputation to protect. And few will admit it, but it’s even kind of darkly exciting.
There is absolutely no outlasting us on this.
There is absolutely no outlasting us on this.
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i fucking love my country minneapolis
Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
January 30, 2026 at 10:06 PM
i fucking love my country minneapolis
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Night raids are what killed Amir Locke.
"I'm gonna give Homan the benefit of the doubt"
"They should coordinate with local law enforcement, pick these people up in the middle of the night when they're not suspecting it"
Walz is capitulating to fascists and encouraging night raids. Genuinely disgusting. Why would anyone settle for this?
"They should coordinate with local law enforcement, pick these people up in the middle of the night when they're not suspecting it"
Walz is capitulating to fascists and encouraging night raids. Genuinely disgusting. Why would anyone settle for this?
January 28, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Night raids are what killed Amir Locke.
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I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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Federal deployment to Minneapolis "is steady state and expected to continue as planned," per Border Patrol memo leaked to me
January 27, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Federal deployment to Minneapolis "is steady state and expected to continue as planned," per Border Patrol memo leaked to me
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My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib.
He thought he was going to die.
Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.
And a mob of agents killed him.
He thought he was going to die.
Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.
And a mob of agents killed him.
January 27, 2026 at 6:48 PM
My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib.
He thought he was going to die.
Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.
And a mob of agents killed him.
He thought he was going to die.
Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.
And a mob of agents killed him.
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Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking.
Warning: video is hard to watch
Warning: video is hard to watch
January 27, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking.
Warning: video is hard to watch
Warning: video is hard to watch
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Given what happens with phone cameras recording, trying to imagine what happens inside the walls of these camps is terrifying
January 26, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Given what happens with phone cameras recording, trying to imagine what happens inside the walls of these camps is terrifying
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As I wrote today, this has been a consistent pattern, strategic retreat when things get too hot, return when it fades.
It's how grab 'em by the pussy and Jan 6 was handled. They're counting on memories being short.
prospect.org/2026/01/26/i...
It's how grab 'em by the pussy and Jan 6 was handled. They're counting on memories being short.
prospect.org/2026/01/26/i...
January 26, 2026 at 11:01 PM
As I wrote today, this has been a consistent pattern, strategic retreat when things get too hot, return when it fades.
It's how grab 'em by the pussy and Jan 6 was handled. They're counting on memories being short.
prospect.org/2026/01/26/i...
It's how grab 'em by the pussy and Jan 6 was handled. They're counting on memories being short.
prospect.org/2026/01/26/i...
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i know this is about ai but i once again say it's teaching us a valuable lesson on the psychological effects of sycophancy
One woman, who had no history of mental illness, asked ChatGPT for advice on a major purchase. It convinced her that businesses were colluding to have her investigated by the government.
How Bad Are A.I. Delusions? We Asked People Treating Them.
Dozens of doctors and therapists said chatbots had led their patients to psychosis, isolation and unhealthy habits.
nyti.ms
January 26, 2026 at 10:32 PM
i know this is about ai but i once again say it's teaching us a valuable lesson on the psychological effects of sycophancy
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Imagine being a congressman from Minnesota and caring so little about what’s happening here that you just copy and paste talking points.
If you’re not writing your own statements and you’re not holding town halls, what exactly are we paying you for?
If you’re not writing your own statements and you’re not holding town halls, what exactly are we paying you for?
January 26, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Imagine being a congressman from Minnesota and caring so little about what’s happening here that you just copy and paste talking points.
If you’re not writing your own statements and you’re not holding town halls, what exactly are we paying you for?
If you’re not writing your own statements and you’re not holding town halls, what exactly are we paying you for?
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Gift link www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
January 26, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Gift link www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The thing that they fear more than anything is our recognition of a shared humanity in the face of their evil
James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.
January 25, 2026 at 5:04 AM
The thing that they fear more than anything is our recognition of a shared humanity in the face of their evil
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One of the best organizers I know in the Twin Cities has a great line, "We can't always take away the hurt, but we can take away the alone."
January 25, 2026 at 4:49 AM
One of the best organizers I know in the Twin Cities has a great line, "We can't always take away the hurt, but we can take away the alone."