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Jon Ip
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I spread the canasta gospel. Mostly lurking but hoping to add more signal to the din. #nokings
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This is an October classic! Edman with the early error but two great throws in successive innings in the clutch. A Freeman walk-off would be a perfect capper. #Dodgers #WorldSeries
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On one side is a nurse and a poet dying while saying “Are you okay?” and “I'm not even mad at you dude"

And on the other side are armed officers of the state saying “Boo hoo” and “Fucking bitch.”

And they want you to believe the first side are the domestic terrorists.
Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
January 24, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
January 24, 2026 at 9:24 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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Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)
January 24, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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7 Democrats — with the blessing of Hakeem Jeffries and Democratic leadership — just voted with Republicans to give these agents even more money
January 24, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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Initial report is that two observers got into a shoving match with eight agents, one observer was wrestled to the ground, and then an ICE agent pulled out a sidearm and shot the man on the ground five times.
January 24, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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Don’t watch the video. It was a murder, an execution. You do not need to watch it, it won’t help anyone. Warrants should be issued today if the government up there is anything other than a dead letter.
January 24, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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Breaking MS NOW:

Aides to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Attorney's office and FBI agents in Minnesota to shut down the civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability.
DOJ sought to probe Renee Good for criminal liability, even after her death: Sources
A judge refused an FBI warrant that proposed investigating dead Minnesota mom for suspected assault on an officer.
www.ms.now
January 23, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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Monsters
January 23, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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The existence of this agency, staffed the way it is today, is just completely incompatible with a democratic society.
January 23, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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New court documents reveal even more ways DOGE improperly accessed and shared sensitive personal data last year — and how that data appears to have been used to advance dubious fraud claims. n.pr/4qDfABZ
Trump administration admits even more ways DOGE accessed sensitive personal data
New court documents reveal even more ways DOGE improperly accessed and shared sensitive personal data last year — and how that data appears to have been used to advance dubious fraud claims.
n.pr
January 23, 2026 at 10:12 AM
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For the love of God, we already have "real-world experience" of what it's like to lack herd immunity to dangerous infectious diseases. WE DID IT FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE VACCINES. Countless numbers of people suffered and died who would have been spared if they could have been vaccinated.
RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.
January 22, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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“The memes will continue.”

You paid for someone to write that.
The White House is just outright admitting that it's posting fake and misleading information about a defendant who has been criminally charged by the feds.
January 23, 2026 at 12:56 AM
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This is how you deal with people trying to overturn democracy

Not by allowing them to run a second time and destroy what is left of your institutions
SOUTH KOREAN COURT SENTENCES EX-PRIME MINISTER HAN DUCK-SOO TO 23 YEARS IN PRISON IN CASE RELATED TO MARTIAL LAW
January 21, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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A combat-wounded Army veteran says federal immigration agents detained him for about eight hours after he watched an ICE arrest from a public sidewalk in south Minneapolis. #FuckICE
www.kare11.com/article/news...
Army veteran says ICE agents detained him for hours without access to phone or his attorney
A combat-wounded veteran's eight-hour detention by federal agents in Minneapolis raises concerns about due process in ICE facilities.
www.kare11.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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An off-duty Brooklyn Park police officer was stopped by federal agents who demanded proof of her citizenship, the city’s police chief, Mark Bruley, said Tuesday.

Video: Allison Kite/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 20, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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Hmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota.

(Photo via Reuters)
January 19, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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Not just an influencer. He's a January 6th insurrectionist, made Nazi salutes and threw chocolate coins at AIPAC headquarters just two weeks ago, peddles Great Replacement Theory, and is running for Senate in Florida.
Right-wing influencer Jake Lang is stuck in a window recess against Minneapolis City Hall.

He’s soaked with freezing water after counterprotesters hurled water balloons at him. bit.ly/4baGhJn
January 17, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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this crystallizes why, despite truly heroic solidarity and activism, i can’t quite get in the “we’re going to win” mindset right now. the harm is so active and there’s so much violence we don’t even know about. people are being turned into ghosts.
January 17, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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The double pardon really gives away the game. Adriana Camberos started her second round of fraud just weeks after her first pardon. She was charged, convicted, imprisoned…and pardoned again. Trump supporters are permitted unlimited crimes, while the rest of us can get beaten by the secret police.
President Trump quietly issued clemency grants this week, including to a California woman he had pardoned once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC.
Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time
The president issued a raft of clemency grants this week, including pardoning a woman he had given relief to once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC.
nyti.ms
January 16, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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"Vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence. ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval."
www.ms.now/opinion/minn...
January 17, 2026 at 4:51 AM
Now do polls.

Amirite @hmeisler.bsky.social ?
Also new in v1.114 today: cashtags! Like hashtags, but for stocks.

Tag your posts with #$AAPL, #$NVDA, whatever, then tap to see everyone else's equally unqualified analysis!
January 17, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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More unaccountable thuggery, via the AP Twitter account. After being screamed at not to knee him in the face, the agent...knees him in the face again. See for yourself
January 16, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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January 16, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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BREAKING: Medical examiner says death of ICE detainee was a HOMICIDE - a witness says he was choked to death by GUARDS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:09 PM