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sifill.bsky.social
So she had a pulse. That’s what the doctor on the scene wanted to check. She wasn’t breathing, but she had a pulse. He could have started CPR right away.

Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.
January 16, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.
DHS: It is horrific to see radical agitators bring children to their violent riots. PLEASE STOP ENDANGERING YOUR CHILDREN. ABC News • @ABC• 7h Two children, including a 6-month-old, were hospitalized last night after federal agents deployed tear gas during Wednesday night's protests, according to the Minneapolis Office of Community Safety.... 7:32 AM • 1/16/26 • 145
January 16, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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arminsamii.bsky.social
Holy shit.

Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Live Updates: Newly Released Records Detail Chaos During Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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meidastouch.com
Pictured: Someone who actually won a Nobel Peace Prize
January 16, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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gnomecasserole.bsky.social
And for those not aware, this is an established pattern.
January 16, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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victorerikray.bsky.social
The anti-DEI bullshit has always been simple racism barely even repackaged. Erasing Dr. Kings legacy was always one of the goals.

We pretend that the segregationists lost. But any defeat was temporary and they currently control all three branches of government.
January 15, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Who can forget those January 6th substacks?
jordanuhl.com Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 1d
Republican on CNN: You peacefully protest with a letter to the editor. You peacefully protest by starting a Substack or a podcast.
January 15, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
It’s time to stop the influx of immigrants who take drugs, father children out of wedlock, and steal from the government.

by Elon Musk
January 15, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
The people protesting right now pretty obviously aren't being paid. But every time someone makes this dumb argument, it's also worth pointing out that it's isn't a crime to pay people to protest, nor is it a crime accept money to protest.

Which isn't to say they won't "investigate," anyway.
thebulwark.com The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d
Sen. Mullin on Renee Good killing investigation: “If they’re investigating anything, they need to be investigating the paid protesters.”
January 14, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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maxboot.bsky.social
This needs to pass ASAP. abc6onyourside.com/news/nation-...
Alaska Republican, New Hampshire Democrat try to stop Greenland takeover
Alaska Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski and New Hampshire Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen filed legislation to block the U.S. from taking Greenland by force.
abc6onyourside.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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ositanwanevu.com
I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives. Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil. It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago. It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”. It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing. The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States. Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all. As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.
January 14, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
“Tell us where the non whites are so we can kidnap them at gunpoint” sounds like a free country to the Roberts Court
January 14, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Congratulations to Brett Kavanaugh bsky.app/profile/ajco...
ajcousins.bsky.social Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 2d
"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"

"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
chicagotribune.com Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 3d
A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.
January 14, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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dbrauer.net
The great @usefulnoise.bsky.social made a request that we all write something about what life in Minnesota is like for folks who live elsewhere or might be outside our normal neighbothis-Bluesky footprint. So I went to cursed Facebook and wrote this. Maybe it will help you share your own thoughts.
From my post to Facebook: “A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal government doesn't act extrajudicially. Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …
January 13, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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dbrauer.net
This is a such a powerful interview between humans wanting to do the right thing for their communities. It’s worth every minute to hear from legal observers who were thrown into Whipple for no legal reason. Kudos to @janashortal.bsky.social. I’m inspired and fear diminished.
January 13, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
🙂
ICE slipping on ice
January 12, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
With Trump going full authoritarian on Venezuela-Greenland, ICE, and the Fed, the response has to be serious. Four Republican senators (Tillis, McConnell, Murkowski, Collins?) could announce they’ll caucus for now with the Dems to give them control of the Senate to check Trump.
January 12, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
I'm FOR the independence of the Fed.
I'm AGAINST the attack of Jerome Powell.
I HOPE business reacts strongly.

But it would be nice if business types, now bestirred, also condemned ICE's attacks on immigrants and Americans--not just Trump's attack on the Fed.
January 12, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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lastpositivist.bsky.social
If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.
January 11, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
here it is
www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-...
A Nobel Prize cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred - Nobel Peace Prize
www.nobelpeaceprize.org
January 10, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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coreyryung.bsky.social
If you buy a former NFL player's Super Bowl ring at a pawn shop, you retroactively become a Super Bowl champion and are automatically admitted into the Hall of Fame.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d
unspeakably pathetic stuff from Trump here as he says he'd be honored to accept María Corina Machado's Nobel Prize if she wants to give it up to him
January 9, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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stefanstern.bsky.social
A headline to sum up our times:
January 9, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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jamellebouie.net
if trump thought he had a winning hand here he would be the first person in front of the press. they know it’s bad so they send their little pig man out to gobble up the slop
January 8, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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number10cat.bsky.social
People fatally shot by UK police in 2024/25: 2
People fatally shot by US law enforcement in 2025: 1280
January 8, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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hillaryclinton.bsky.social
Five years ago today, Donald Trump urged his supporters to attack Congress and the Capitol over a proven lie. More than 140 police officers were injured.

Trump then pardoned the attackers.

He betrayed his oath and his country, and we won't ever forget it.
Front pages from January 6. Image: Walter Olson
January 6, 2026 at 1:51 PM