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Wrote about what it takes for grown men in tactical gear, working under the blessing of the federal government, to ambush a 5-year-old kid in a bunny hat and a Spidey backpack who only wanted to come home from school defector.com/how-do-you-j...
How Do You Justify Abducting A Child? | Defector
On Tuesday, some number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents camped out near Liam Conejo Ramos’s home in the Twin Cities suburb of Columbia Heights and waited for him to return with his fathe...
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January 23, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Wrote about what it takes for grown men in tactical gear, working under the blessing of the federal government, to ambush a 5-year-old kid in a bunny hat and a Spidey backpack who only wanted to come home from school defector.com/how-do-you-j...
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🧵This is hugely important & touches on a thing lots of folks haven't been faced with:
You
can't
trust
everyone
who
says
they're
on
your
side
It's hard to vet people on the fly but skepticism goes a long way.
In a case like this: Ask for a name & phone number & say you'll pass it along. That's IT.
You
can't
trust
everyone
who
says
they're
on
your
side
It's hard to vet people on the fly but skepticism goes a long way.
In a case like this: Ask for a name & phone number & say you'll pass it along. That's IT.
January 21, 2026 at 11:50 PM
🧵This is hugely important & touches on a thing lots of folks haven't been faced with:
You
can't
trust
everyone
who
says
they're
on
your
side
It's hard to vet people on the fly but skepticism goes a long way.
In a case like this: Ask for a name & phone number & say you'll pass it along. That's IT.
You
can't
trust
everyone
who
says
they're
on
your
side
It's hard to vet people on the fly but skepticism goes a long way.
In a case like this: Ask for a name & phone number & say you'll pass it along. That's IT.
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They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:39 PM
They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.
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I cannot tell you how absolutely infuriatingly this stuff comes across to Europeans.
When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.
When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.
Newsom: "It was remarkably boring. It was remarkably insignificant. He was never going invade Greenland. It was never real."
January 21, 2026 at 4:22 PM
I cannot tell you how absolutely infuriatingly this stuff comes across to Europeans.
When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.
When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.
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state-sponsored child trafficking
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:25 PM
state-sponsored child trafficking
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🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
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I've been thinking about this a lot, for months: Gaza was a breaking point between verifiable reality and liberal governance. "AI" sparks fears ppl will believe things that aren't true, but Gaza SHOWED things that WERE true—& western governments, universities & news outlets pretened they were not.
What did we think Trump was going to do, if Europe showed him we would fully collaborate on the total destruction of the Gaza Strip and ferociously repeat even the most absurd lies about it to our citizens? Did we think he would decide: best to not push the law breaking and war crimes, be sensible.
January 21, 2026 at 10:28 AM
I've been thinking about this a lot, for months: Gaza was a breaking point between verifiable reality and liberal governance. "AI" sparks fears ppl will believe things that aren't true, but Gaza SHOWED things that WERE true—& western governments, universities & news outlets pretened they were not.
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There's a small group of legal academics trying to create ahistorical comically bad "scholarship" to back-fill for the admin's lack of textual, historical, & doctrinal support for voiding birthright citizenship via EO. And there is a larger group of us, including Anthony, who are calling bullshit.
I’ve criticized Ilan for not doing source criticism. Now, he’s endorsing the Trump Administration’s bad historical methods. Not only are they just throwing random people’s opinions at the wall— long after the ratification of the 14th Amendment— but they’re citing white supremicist segregationists!
January 21, 2026 at 1:12 PM
There's a small group of legal academics trying to create ahistorical comically bad "scholarship" to back-fill for the admin's lack of textual, historical, & doctrinal support for voiding birthright citizenship via EO. And there is a larger group of us, including Anthony, who are calling bullshit.
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Immediate punishment for speaking out against the regime.
Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol
January 21, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Immediate punishment for speaking out against the regime.
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Amazing moment on French TV. A French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy basically trying to intimidate her during Le Pen's trial for embezzlement - something they've done to other judges around the world.
January 20, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Amazing moment on French TV. A French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy basically trying to intimidate her during Le Pen's trial for embezzlement - something they've done to other judges around the world.
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If nothing else, pretty amazing Canadian PM Carney said the quiet part out loud today: international law has never been real and the ‘rules’ of the international order have never applied to the US and its allies.
This may indeed be the actual death of neoliberalism.
globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
This may indeed be the actual death of neoliberalism.
globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
January 20, 2026 at 7:45 PM
If nothing else, pretty amazing Canadian PM Carney said the quiet part out loud today: international law has never been real and the ‘rules’ of the international order have never applied to the US and its allies.
This may indeed be the actual death of neoliberalism.
globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
This may indeed be the actual death of neoliberalism.
globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
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Jesus famously did not disrupt proceedings at a place of worship and call out religious hypocrisy
Rep. Keith Self on anti-ICE protesters who disrupted a church service in the Twin Cities: "I compare them to Hamas who live-streamed the attack in Israel that killed hundreds of people. They want to instill terror."
January 20, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Jesus famously did not disrupt proceedings at a place of worship and call out religious hypocrisy
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anyway, I did write about this last weekend and I'd love to not have to write about it again, but that's unfortunately never been the case in the nearly 15 years I've spent writing about sports (specifically the OTTAWA HOMOPHOBIC SENATORS) medium.com/@millvsSPQR/...
Time for Men’s Hockey to Actually Go to the Cottage
One of the clearest takeaways for me from the first season of Heated Rivalry is that the relationship between Shane Hollander and Ilya…
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January 20, 2026 at 4:07 AM
anyway, I did write about this last weekend and I'd love to not have to write about it again, but that's unfortunately never been the case in the nearly 15 years I've spent writing about sports (specifically the OTTAWA HOMOPHOBIC SENATORS) medium.com/@millvsSPQR/...
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I dismissed this OP outright as clear misinfo (this image is from 2020 and those are not Black Panthers), but scrolling the replies?
It's definitely disinfo that found fertile breeding ground in the only place on the internet that WOULD self-righteously All Lives Matter a Black liberation group.
It's definitely disinfo that found fertile breeding ground in the only place on the internet that WOULD self-righteously All Lives Matter a Black liberation group.
January 20, 2026 at 11:08 AM
I dismissed this OP outright as clear misinfo (this image is from 2020 and those are not Black Panthers), but scrolling the replies?
It's definitely disinfo that found fertile breeding ground in the only place on the internet that WOULD self-righteously All Lives Matter a Black liberation group.
It's definitely disinfo that found fertile breeding ground in the only place on the internet that WOULD self-righteously All Lives Matter a Black liberation group.
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I am begging people to just imagine for a second talking as if the lives of the people in Greenland are an important part of what is happening in Greenland.
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.
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 11:21 PM
I am begging people to just imagine for a second talking as if the lives of the people in Greenland are an important part of what is happening in Greenland.
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So Josh Shapiro is launching his presidential bid by attacking his Black and Asian predecessor who is married to a Jew for … vetting his publicly known statements and activities on behalf of Israel? That should make him very popular in 2028
LMAOOOOOO
LMAOOOOOO
January 19, 2026 at 6:51 PM
So Josh Shapiro is launching his presidential bid by attacking his Black and Asian predecessor who is married to a Jew for … vetting his publicly known statements and activities on behalf of Israel? That should make him very popular in 2028
LMAOOOOOO
LMAOOOOOO
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Normie: Abolish ICE
DNC consultant: That's not a winning message. Chip in $5 to find out what is
Random guy from Minneapolis: Brothers and sisters of the resistance, know that the only thing stronger than our bond is our moral clarity. And we will dampen the soil with the blood of our enemies...
DNC consultant: That's not a winning message. Chip in $5 to find out what is
Random guy from Minneapolis: Brothers and sisters of the resistance, know that the only thing stronger than our bond is our moral clarity. And we will dampen the soil with the blood of our enemies...
January 19, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Normie: Abolish ICE
DNC consultant: That's not a winning message. Chip in $5 to find out what is
Random guy from Minneapolis: Brothers and sisters of the resistance, know that the only thing stronger than our bond is our moral clarity. And we will dampen the soil with the blood of our enemies...
DNC consultant: That's not a winning message. Chip in $5 to find out what is
Random guy from Minneapolis: Brothers and sisters of the resistance, know that the only thing stronger than our bond is our moral clarity. And we will dampen the soil with the blood of our enemies...
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These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.
January 18, 2026 at 7:39 PM
These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.
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americans, please: do not take the bait by resisting ICE yourselves. just give the democrats $20. they will give it to ICE so they can train more guys
January 18, 2026 at 9:15 PM
americans, please: do not take the bait by resisting ICE yourselves. just give the democrats $20. they will give it to ICE so they can train more guys
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Let this radicalize you.
January 19, 2026 at 5:53 AM
Let this radicalize you.
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Leaking this in bad faith after the fact proves that they were correct not to pick him.
What a pathetic whiner. This is not an "all Jews have dual loyalty" bias, it's a "this specific dude was so into Israel that he implied he was in the IDF when he wasn't."
Josh Shapiro Writes That Harris Team Asked if He Had Ever Been an Israeli Agent
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Leaking this in bad faith after the fact proves that they were correct not to pick him.
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DOES EVERY ELECTED DEMOCRAT HAVE A FUCKING BRAIN PARASITE THAT FORCES THEM TO TALK SOLELY ABOUT AFFORDABILITY. FUCK.
NEW: In this interview, Chuck Schumer describes the "five buckets" Dems think are key to their possibly winning a Senate majority in 2026: housing, "the high price of food [and] food monopolies playing a major role there," electricity, "the high cost of childcare," and health care.
Zero Chucks Left to Give
Chuck Schumer now sees a path back to the majority. Can he manage his way through it?
www.thebulwark.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:12 AM
DOES EVERY ELECTED DEMOCRAT HAVE A FUCKING BRAIN PARASITE THAT FORCES THEM TO TALK SOLELY ABOUT AFFORDABILITY. FUCK.
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Genocide Josh is pissed off that someone read what he wrote
Josh Shapiro writes in his new book that he was being grilled by the Kamala Harris team about his views on Israel because he's a Jew.
In college, Josh Shapiro wrote that Palestinians as a collective "are too battle-minded" and that peace can only happen if Arabs don't "ruin it".
In college, Josh Shapiro wrote that Palestinians as a collective "are too battle-minded" and that peace can only happen if Arabs don't "ruin it".
January 19, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Genocide Josh is pissed off that someone read what he wrote
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