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@mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social told a story in an interview about what is the Democratic hat. I think @aoc.bsky.social said it the other day to Idaho.

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I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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Happy pub day to @aliahanna.bsky.social—whose book, "Take it From Me: An Agent's Guide to Building a Nonfiction Writing Career from Scratch," is a witty, wonderful, and deeply accessible introduction to the field from someone who helped me do exactly that:

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734107...
January 20, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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Wow.
Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here

McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…
January 20, 2026 at 5:21 AM
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I am not exaggerating when I say ICE functions as a terrorist organization in the Twin Cities. The goal seems to be to harass and frighten people (the ones who are lucky enough to not be abducted, at least) and it's deeply unsettling when you learn they're in your neighborhood.
January 20, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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That's a lot of words to obscure the facts:

Dhillon and DOJ are 0-2.

Elias Law Group is 2-0.
January 20, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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🚨"It looks just like a cover up to me" -Minnesota AG @keithellison.bsky.social tells our @jtcestkowski.bsky.social on the Trump DOJ's "inexplicable" refusal to investigate the killing of Renee Good.

"Give us the file—we'll do it. It speaks to cover up and the whole world should denounce it."
January 20, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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Jessica: The WSJ is reporting that there are incentives for ICE Agents because they need to meet that insane 3,000 people per day quota—they are getting rewarded even if they bring in people who then get released…
January 20, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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The symbol stays the same. The context does not.

These are the photos leading up to when I was detained on January 15th. Protests continued as ICE activity brought people outside of Whipple Federal Building. Demonstrators gathered while agents forced their way in the crowd as tensions escalated.
January 20, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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I always thought MLK’s ‘Mountaintop’ speech was his best, which was given the day before he was killed. It is especially relevant given what is happening now in MN and elsewhere. He was getting many serious threats, which he references in his line “I may not get there with you.”
January 20, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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🚨Minnesota AG @keithellison.bsky.social on Trump DOJ investigating Minneapolis protesters. "This administration weaponizes the criminal justice system to punish people they don't like. At the same time they let 1,600 people go that tried to overturn a Democratic election." LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 19, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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I think a good strategy for your non-leftist social media presence (ie everywhere but here) is to give this photo - the remains of Danish soldiers returning in coffins after being killed in America's war in Afghanistan - as wide an audience as possible. Remind people who we're betraying
January 19, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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"The coffins with three Danish soldiers killed in Helmand, Afghanistan, arriving in Denmark in Dec. 2008."
""Krestine Havemann/Polfoto, via Associated Press"
archive.nytimes.com/rendezvous.b...
I think a good strategy for your non-leftist social media presence (ie everywhere but here) is to give this photo - the remains of Danish soldiers returning in coffins after being killed in America's war in Afghanistan - as wide an audience as possible. Remind people who we're betraying
January 19, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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"Why are Collins and Murkowski and Tillis in the...why are they Republicans? Like, why are they part of this right now?"

@timmiller.bsky.social calls out the GOP members sitting on the sidelines with @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast.
January 19, 2026 at 11:22 PM
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We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.

This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
Footage shows Danish troops arriving in Greenland as part of a new military deployment. Among the personnel who landed on the island is Major General Peter H. Boysen, Chief of the Danish Army Command. #Greenland
January 19, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 289. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Today in Politics, Bulletin 289. 1/19/26
… Trump sent this deranged letter to Norway PM Jonas Gahr:
open.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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🚨"I'm a nurse...my brown patients are choosing to stop chemo because they do not want to be abducted." -ICE protester tells JT Cestkowski about sick Minnesotans foregoing cancer treatment because of ICE terror. LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 19, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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MLK Jr. said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

Remember this.
January 19, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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Might do an entire series of Nazi photos side-by-side with contemporary ICE and CBP arrests
January 19, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Fascism always returns if it's not crushed.

Warsaw Ghetto 1943. Minneapolis 2026.
January 13, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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The other day I bitched that people always forget LaMonica McIver in their list of politicized prosecutions.

The New Yorker has a profile here, so hopefully we can change that.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Congresswoman Criminalized for Visiting ICE Detainees
LaMonica McIver went to tour an immigration jail in her district. Now she faces seventeen years in prison.
www.newyorker.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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One of the things I am more persuaded of is that you cannot understand the purpose of DOGE without understanding the purpose of its backers, which is state capture.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...
January 19, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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Ellison: This is the essence of dictatorship. It’s the essence of it. And we’ve got to get over the idea that this couldn’t happen here. Not only could it happen here—it’s happening here.
January 19, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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🚨"I'm one of them!"

During clashes between protesters & right-wingers Saturday, we captured Minneapolis cops rushing in to retrieve a man—who'd framed himself as an ICE protester—and placing him in their truck. Earlier that day, he was wearing a Border Patrol hat. FULL VIDEO⬇️
January 19, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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It's cool that these guys just use pepper spray casually now, against people who are wholly within their rights, without a moment's hesitation. Several shots of them using it as they climb into their cars and drive away, not even a pretense of urgency or need. Just a parting "fuck you" to them.
This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
January 19, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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"Every time CBS shows up it's total anarchy because that's what they want. They want to show that to the public."

@timmiller.bsky.social talks to Minnesota resident turned viral protester @mnangryman.bsky.social about what's happening on the ground.
January 19, 2026 at 4:31 PM