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Our christian, pro-life, All Lives Matter administration, folks. 😡
"Liam’s teacher, Ella Sullivan, teared up when thinking about Liam. 'He’s a bright young student,' she said, 'and he’s so kind and loving. His classmates miss him.'"
www.startribune.com/preschooler-...
www.startribune.com/preschooler-...
Preschooler and three other students detained by ICE, school district leader says
The detentions of Columbia Heights students come after weeks of heightened concern and enforcement presence near and on Twin Cities school property.
www.startribune.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Our christian, pro-life, All Lives Matter administration, folks. 😡
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After illegally abducting Maduro, Trump has just sold $250M of Venezuela's oil to Vitol.
John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign.
Pay-to-play imperialism.
John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign.
Pay-to-play imperialism.
January 22, 2026 at 1:00 AM
After illegally abducting Maduro, Trump has just sold $250M of Venezuela's oil to Vitol.
John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign.
Pay-to-play imperialism.
John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign.
Pay-to-play imperialism.
I was so tired this morning, I did not do my upper body strength training when I got up. And of course I was tired after working all day, BUT I did the routine this evening anyway. Please clap. 😏 Five months in, progress is slow, but slow progress is still progress. 🏆 #BodyRecomp #StrengthTraining
January 21, 2026 at 11:05 PM
I was so tired this morning, I did not do my upper body strength training when I got up. And of course I was tired after working all day, BUT I did the routine this evening anyway. Please clap. 😏 Five months in, progress is slow, but slow progress is still progress. 🏆 #BodyRecomp #StrengthTraining
This is not peak side-eye, but in my history of having side-eying dogs, this is the side-eyeingest dog of the bunch. 😏
January 21, 2026 at 10:09 PM
This is not peak side-eye, but in my history of having side-eying dogs, this is the side-eyeingest dog of the bunch. 😏
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GLOBALLY people have been told lies about Black Americans. Those same people acknowledge that the USA is a propaganda machine that spins EVERYTHING but when it comes to what the US says about Black people, they buy it...BECAUSE THEY ALREADY BELIEVED IT.
January 21, 2026 at 3:26 PM
GLOBALLY people have been told lies about Black Americans. Those same people acknowledge that the USA is a propaganda machine that spins EVERYTHING but when it comes to what the US says about Black people, they buy it...BECAUSE THEY ALREADY BELIEVED IT.
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It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.
Trump: "They're paid agitators and insurrectionists. Nobody talks about the fact that $19 billion at a minimum is missing in Minnesota, given to a large degree by Somalians. They've taken it. Somalians. A lot of very low IQ people."
January 20, 2026 at 11:50 PM
It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.
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Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin.
This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.
This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.
January 20, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin.
This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.
This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.
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Federal prosecutors have targeted at least five Minnesota Democrats — including Gov. Tim Walz — with grand jury subpoenas, escalating the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) highly political investigation into state officials over their opposition to President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration raids.
DOJ subpoenas Minnesota Democrats who opposed federal immigration raids
It's seeking documents related to the officials’ policies on immigration enforcement efforts in the state.
www.democracydocket.com
January 20, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Federal prosecutors have targeted at least five Minnesota Democrats — including Gov. Tim Walz — with grand jury subpoenas, escalating the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) highly political investigation into state officials over their opposition to President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration raids.
If you come onto one of my posts still insisting on talking sh*t about Kamala Harris in the midst of all this worldwide chaos the alternative has caused, I'm blocking you. Imagine being on fire & complaining that you didn't like some things about the firefighter who could have put out the flames. 🙄
January 20, 2026 at 10:41 PM
If you come onto one of my posts still insisting on talking sh*t about Kamala Harris in the midst of all this worldwide chaos the alternative has caused, I'm blocking you. Imagine being on fire & complaining that you didn't like some things about the firefighter who could have put out the flames. 🙄
Sigh.
I guess they thought they were special since the Cuban-American community largely supports Trump.
January 20, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Sigh.
ICE is not Gestapo, but slave patrols.
It's not foreign, but deeply American, categorical brutalization of non-white people (& now those who stand up for them).
They do not need to have warrants, and people facing deportation are not entitled to lawyers, or what we imagine as due process.
It's not foreign, but deeply American, categorical brutalization of non-white people (& now those who stand up for them).
They do not need to have warrants, and people facing deportation are not entitled to lawyers, or what we imagine as due process.
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
January 20, 2026 at 10:14 PM
I'm so sorry to the people whose entire communities are being ravaged right now because other people believed that Trump would only ravage members of *other* communities. Lesson: Listen to Black Americans and Indigenous people when they tell you what it's like to be targeted by your own country.
Incredible quote here from a Somali small business owner in Minneapolis who voted for Trump. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...
January 20, 2026 at 10:09 PM
I'm so sorry to the people whose entire communities are being ravaged right now because other people believed that Trump would only ravage members of *other* communities. Lesson: Listen to Black Americans and Indigenous people when they tell you what it's like to be targeted by your own country.
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“Trump is the first president not to issue an official proclamation recognizing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day since President Reagan made it a holiday.”
January 19, 2026 at 9:30 PM
“Trump is the first president not to issue an official proclamation recognizing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day since President Reagan made it a holiday.”
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That a handful of Republicans could end this madness right now yet choose not to, is mind boggling on so many levels. Imagine how history will report this a generation from now. 😫
Also, a bunch of us still don't know if we'll have healthcare in a few weeks. 🤷🏾♀️
Also, a bunch of us still don't know if we'll have healthcare in a few weeks. 🤷🏾♀️
January 20, 2026 at 2:56 AM
That a handful of Republicans could end this madness right now yet choose not to, is mind boggling on so many levels. Imagine how history will report this a generation from now. 😫
Also, a bunch of us still don't know if we'll have healthcare in a few weeks. 🤷🏾♀️
Also, a bunch of us still don't know if we'll have healthcare in a few weeks. 🤷🏾♀️
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I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 1:57 AM
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
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True.
All it would take is for a bunch of these CEOs to confront Trump in front of the world and tell him he's unfit to run a hot-dog stand, and his presidency would be over. Seriously.
But none of them has the balls to do it.
But none of them has the balls to do it.
January 20, 2026 at 2:40 AM
True.
Sickening. Malignant narcissists gonna malignant narcissist.
January 19, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Sickening. Malignant narcissists gonna malignant narcissist.
Some of the so-called Hollywood elite sure don't have a problem cozying up to vaccine deniers and racists when it's time to promote their projects. Reminding us once again that the super wealthy just aren't like us. Thank god for folks like Ava D and Mark Ruffalo who keep their conscience. 😔
January 19, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Some of the so-called Hollywood elite sure don't have a problem cozying up to vaccine deniers and racists when it's time to promote their projects. Reminding us once again that the super wealthy just aren't like us. Thank god for folks like Ava D and Mark Ruffalo who keep their conscience. 😔
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A lot of people were extremely angry about the accolades, the best sellers, the awards and especially jobs that went to people who in their view were only meant to be subjects of journalism not its authors. The genesis is closer to 2008 though bsky.app/profile/juda...
There was a similar flowering of Black American public intellectuals culminating in the 2016-2024 period, and I'd argue the anti-Woke backlash was in many ways a reaction to the threat this posed to the outclassed white punditocracy, for whom meritocracy and DEI hire was a way to disqualify them.
Just finished this right after having read @hofrench.bsky.social's Second Emancipation, and it convinced me that the African & African diaspora anti-colonial thinkers of the 1940-1975 period constituted one of the great intellectual movements in the history of humankind.
Second Enlightenment level.
Second Enlightenment level.
January 18, 2026 at 2:48 PM
A lot of people were extremely angry about the accolades, the best sellers, the awards and especially jobs that went to people who in their view were only meant to be subjects of journalism not its authors. The genesis is closer to 2008 though bsky.app/profile/juda...
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This is how New Jersey does it: Bruce Springsteen tells ICE "Get the F out" as he urges people to "stand against heavily armed mass federal troops invading an American city using Gestapo tactics against our fellow citizens." He then dedicated the song “The Promised Land” to Renee Good.
January 19, 2026 at 12:48 PM
This is how New Jersey does it: Bruce Springsteen tells ICE "Get the F out" as he urges people to "stand against heavily armed mass federal troops invading an American city using Gestapo tactics against our fellow citizens." He then dedicated the song “The Promised Land” to Renee Good.
It's that time of year again when openly racist politicians who are against everything MLK stood for & would have hated him while he was alive, quote him. This is always swiftly followed by Bernice King basically saying "Keep my father's name out your mouth."
January 19, 2026 at 3:35 AM
It's that time of year again when openly racist politicians who are against everything MLK stood for & would have hated him while he was alive, quote him. This is always swiftly followed by Bernice King basically saying "Keep my father's name out your mouth."
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January 18, 2026 at 8:45 PM