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garrettschneider.bsky.social
@garrettschneider.bsky.social
Policy and politics. Here for good ideas. San Diego📍
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🚨"They've got guns and pepper spray but there's more of us out here; I admit we are scared—but we are not gonna back down! We will protect our city, we will protect our neighbors," -Minneapolis protester in Pickle Rick costume. WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 14, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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Horrified by the vile attack on the Beth Israel Congregation, and praying for Jackson, Mississippi’s Jewish community tonight.

Across the country, we are seeing a disturbing rise in antisemitic hate speech and violence. 🧵
Predawn fire reduces parts of Mississippi's largest synagogue to charred ruins - Mississippi Today
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights...
mississippitoday.org
January 12, 2026 at 1:39 AM
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This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.

Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”

Really listen to it.
January 11, 2026 at 4:55 AM
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We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.
January 10, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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I am begging Democratic leadership to recognize that funding and legitimizing your authoritarian opponent’s secret police is a bad idea.

This should not be a difficult concept.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Top Democrats decline to say if they would rein in ICE after Minnesota shooting
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries denounce the killing but offer no concrete pledges
www.independent.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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I invite all Americans to join Minnesota in a day of unity tomorrow.
January 9, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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All that right-wing talk since the 1990s about the danger of a violent and unaccountable federal government, whose agents would one day gun Americans down in the streets, I foolishly thought that was a warning, but it turns out it was more of a promise they were making
January 8, 2026 at 5:39 AM
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“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
lithub.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
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All of us from Dem states targeted by Trump, & who have the means & job flexibility to do it, need to commit to traveling to other states to canvass this fall. People in other states need to be persuaded how to vote in general, but they also need to hear from people from communities under attack
January 8, 2026 at 4:59 AM
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The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.

(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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January 8, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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“The Brazilian response reflects a hard-earned lesson from the comparative study of democratic collapse: early, forceful, and legally grounded intervention is often the only way to stop backsliding once elites signal a willingness to subvert electoral outcomes”
"Brazilian authorities refused to isolate January 8 as a spontaneous and feverish riot. Instead, they treated it as a conspiracy with identifiable authors. Days after the attack, police searched the home of Anderson Torres (...Brasília’s then–security chief)..."

jacobin.com/2026/01/janu...
What Brazil’s January 8 Can Teach Us About January 6
In 2021, the January 6 Capitol attack exposed deep connections between the US state and far-right groups. When something similar happened in Brazil in 2023, it prompted a national attempt to reform th...
jacobin.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:59 AM
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Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.
January 4, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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Minnesota just launched our statewide paid leave program.

Starting today new parents, small business owners, and people recovering from illness or injury will have the security to take needed time off work without risking their paycheck.
January 2, 2026 at 12:52 AM
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President Trump promised punishment for Colorado. And delivered.

Relocating Space Command
Denying disaster funding for wildfires and floods
Planning to dismantle NCAR
DOJ investigation of Colorado's prisons
Vetoing a clean drinking water project
👇👇👇
December 31, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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NEW: President Trump's first veto of his second term kills a unanimous bill to fund a major drinking water project in Colorado. Trump had threatened punishment for Colorado for imprisoning his ally Tina Peters. www.9news.com/article/news...
Trump vetoes bill to fund Arkansas Valley conduit in Colorado
President Trump vetoed a bill to fund a pipeline project to bring clean drinking water to communities on the Eastern Plains between Pueblo and Lamar.
www.9news.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Given my priors, I can't quite believe I'm here, but

The next administration needs to staff up the public corruption section of DOJ in such a way that the WPA looks like a neighborhood lemonade stand
New reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
December 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year.

Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
December 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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"this could have been slop, but it's not" is rapidly becoming a surefire signifier of premium-ness
Porsche reportedly created their new ad without using any AI.
December 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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After what we're seeing at CBS, if today is not the perfect day for everyone to find some independent journalism & nonprofit newsrooms to support... what day could be better?
December 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
December 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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HOPE WALZ: “What world are we f*cking living in? I draw the line at Gus. You people are f*cking disgraceful.”

She says MAGA loyalists are now driving by their home and yelling “R*tard!” at her family and her special needs brother after Trump called GovTimWalz the R word.
December 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°

Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM