manul neko
@hechizante777.bsky.social
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GET YOUR POPUP LEFTIST SUPPLY DEPOT MERCH, designed by the very person who did the bubble letters spelling out "FREE" on that box! Proceeds go to MIRAC!
Okay, so I was at this table with my friend the bubble letterer, who wrote “Free” in their PROFESSIONAL-grade bubble letters. It made someone big mad. So bubble person and I made some #popupleftistsupplydepot merch. Proceeds to MIRAC MN. Popupsupplies.printful.me
January 26, 2026 at 5:07 PM
GET YOUR POPUP LEFTIST SUPPLY DEPOT MERCH, designed by the very person who did the bubble letters spelling out "FREE" on that box! Proceeds go to MIRAC!
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Two weeks ago this guy announced he was providing legal help to the agent who shot Renee Good. That's how quickly the winds are shifting.
pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor:
"Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."
"Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."
January 26, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Two weeks ago this guy announced he was providing legal help to the agent who shot Renee Good. That's how quickly the winds are shifting.
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I hope that’s the case, but Trump has a pattern of engaging in staff shake-ups to achieve the optics of change without its substance.
This has been accompanied in the past by him planting stories in the media about supposed WH staff conflict and drama.
This has been accompanied in the past by him planting stories in the media about supposed WH staff conflict and drama.
Am I correct in reading this as (improbably) a step back for Trump, as Homan has (somehow) been the moderate opposed to Bovino/Noem’s militant fascism?
Since Bovino has become so toxic in MN, they are bringing in the voice of reason.
January 26, 2026 at 3:52 PM
I hope that’s the case, but Trump has a pattern of engaging in staff shake-ups to achieve the optics of change without its substance.
This has been accompanied in the past by him planting stories in the media about supposed WH staff conflict and drama.
This has been accompanied in the past by him planting stories in the media about supposed WH staff conflict and drama.
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Tories withdraw ‘mental health’ briefing about Suella Braverman after former Tory home secretary joins Reform – UK politics live
Tories withdraw ‘mental health’ briefing about Suella Braverman after former Tory home secretary joins Reform – UK politics live
Her defection means there are now eight Reform MPs in the Commons
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Tories withdraw ‘mental health’ briefing about Suella Braverman after former Tory home secretary joins Reform – UK politics live
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"A competent autocrat selects his enemies with skill. Trump’s Achilles Heel is that he gets worse at this with experience." Me on his administration's darkly comical and profoundly inept depiction of Pretti and Good as terrorists. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/60a0a558-2...
ICE and America’s flailing autocrat
[FREE TO READ] Easily discredited propaganda is undermining Trump’s assault on the constitution
as.ft.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:49 PM
"A competent autocrat selects his enemies with skill. Trump’s Achilles Heel is that he gets worse at this with experience." Me on his administration's darkly comical and profoundly inept depiction of Pretti and Good as terrorists. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/60a0a558-2...
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In today's @nytimes.com, @barryfriedman1.bsky.social and I argue that, with no *other* means of pursuing accountability for lawlessness by ICE, local/state prosecutions become not just legally viable, but necessary—both to punish past abuses and to deter future ones:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...
Opinion | Local Prosecution Is the Answer to Federal Lawlessness
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:56 AM
In today's @nytimes.com, @barryfriedman1.bsky.social and I argue that, with no *other* means of pursuing accountability for lawlessness by ICE, local/state prosecutions become not just legally viable, but necessary—both to punish past abuses and to deter future ones:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...
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In the U.S., owning a handgun has always made it more likely you will be killed by one—yours or someone else’s.
January 26, 2026 at 4:00 PM
In the U.S., owning a handgun has always made it more likely you will be killed by one—yours or someone else’s.
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Letter to the Editor: In this national health care crisis, it is now up to the states to take action. Fortunately, Illinois has long treated health care inequity as a priority and has been proactively working for years on solutions.
Letters: With Affordable Care Act premiums skyrocketing, states such as Illinois are stepping up
In this national health care crisis, it is now up to the states to take action.
trib.al
January 26, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Letter to the Editor: In this national health care crisis, it is now up to the states to take action. Fortunately, Illinois has long treated health care inequity as a priority and has been proactively working for years on solutions.
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Freezing rain from a severe winter storm led to tens of thousands of power outages in Mississippi's Lafayette County over the weekend, officials said. The mayor of Oxford said trees had fallen under the weight of ice and that power lines were down across the city.
Ice Storm Leaves Thousands Without Power in a Mississippi County
More than 20,000 households had no power late Sunday in Lafayette County, a day after freezing rain hit the Oxford area.
nyti.ms
January 26, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Freezing rain from a severe winter storm led to tens of thousands of power outages in Mississippi's Lafayette County over the weekend, officials said. The mayor of Oxford said trees had fallen under the weight of ice and that power lines were down across the city.
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In the early 1900s, nativists claimed people like Miller's ancestors suffered from "social degeneracy" that threatened American civilization. Miller now makes identical claims about today's immigrants.
Stephen Miller’s Assault on America’s Immigrant Legacy: Part I
The man whose Russian Jewish ancestors fled persecution now oversees a sweeping deportation machine designed to terrorize immigrant families
www.theunpopulist.net
January 26, 2026 at 4:00 PM
In the early 1900s, nativists claimed people like Miller's ancestors suffered from "social degeneracy" that threatened American civilization. Miller now makes identical claims about today's immigrants.
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The senseless murder of Alex Pretti is finally showing everyday folks that the Trump regime is beyond any redemption. And in an anti-religious age, it's sparked a quest for a new American morality
It's beyond politics now. This is about good vs. evil
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/minn...
It's beyond politics now. This is about good vs. evil
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/minn...
Alex Pretti’s ICE murder is beyond politics. This is about good vs. evil | Will Bunch
Trump's inhumane immigration raids and two ICE murders has triggered an American yearning for a return to morality.
www.inquirer.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:47 PM
The senseless murder of Alex Pretti is finally showing everyday folks that the Trump regime is beyond any redemption. And in an anti-religious age, it's sparked a quest for a new American morality
It's beyond politics now. This is about good vs. evil
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/minn...
It's beyond politics now. This is about good vs. evil
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/minn...
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Memo to the government and all public relations professionals: Killing a man and lying about what happened tends to cause “reputational harm.” www.cbsnews.com/news/alex-pr...
"A terrible miscalculation:" Officials' response to fatal Minneapolis shooting causes anger among some at DHS
"When we gaslight and contradict what the public can plainly see with their own eyes, we lose all credibility," one DHS official said.
www.cbsnews.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Memo to the government and all public relations professionals: Killing a man and lying about what happened tends to cause “reputational harm.” www.cbsnews.com/news/alex-pr...
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New: Amid the escalating situation in Minneapolis, ICE posted in the Federal Register asking companies to provide info about “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech” products that would “directly support investigations activities”
www.wired.com/story/ice-as...
www.wired.com/story/ice-as...
ICE Asks Companies About ‘Ad Tech and Big Data’ Tools It Could Use in Investigations
A new federal filing from ICE demonstrates how commercial tools are increasingly being considered by the government for law enforcement and surveillance.
www.wired.com
January 24, 2026 at 10:42 PM
New: Amid the escalating situation in Minneapolis, ICE posted in the Federal Register asking companies to provide info about “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech” products that would “directly support investigations activities”
www.wired.com/story/ice-as...
www.wired.com/story/ice-as...
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This book is a tough read, but I think it is essential as we face down the current state of this country.
"You may think you are inured to shock, but this book is an exploding bomb that will damage you anew, making you wiser as it does so." - Andrew Solomon
"You may think you are inured to shock, but this book is an exploding bomb that will damage you anew, making you wiser as it does so." - Andrew Solomon
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
A Memoir of Murder in My Country
bookshop.org
January 26, 2026 at 4:01 PM
This book is a tough read, but I think it is essential as we face down the current state of this country.
"You may think you are inured to shock, but this book is an exploding bomb that will damage you anew, making you wiser as it does so." - Andrew Solomon
"You may think you are inured to shock, but this book is an exploding bomb that will damage you anew, making you wiser as it does so." - Andrew Solomon
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Homeland Security doesn’t like it when we call ICE and Border Patrol “the Gestapo.”
So let’s set the Gestapo aside. Instead I’ll use this thread to compare Trump’s thugs to other secret police and terror squads from different times and places. It’s tyranny, no matter where it comes from. 1/10🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵
So let’s set the Gestapo aside. Instead I’ll use this thread to compare Trump’s thugs to other secret police and terror squads from different times and places. It’s tyranny, no matter where it comes from. 1/10🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵
January 26, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Homeland Security doesn’t like it when we call ICE and Border Patrol “the Gestapo.”
So let’s set the Gestapo aside. Instead I’ll use this thread to compare Trump’s thugs to other secret police and terror squads from different times and places. It’s tyranny, no matter where it comes from. 1/10🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵
So let’s set the Gestapo aside. Instead I’ll use this thread to compare Trump’s thugs to other secret police and terror squads from different times and places. It’s tyranny, no matter where it comes from. 1/10🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵
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Over the last 48 hours, the talking point on the right has solidified; the only reason that we are seeing violent clashes against ICE is because of sanctuary policies and failure to cooperate from city officials who are fanning the flames.
Take a look; it's wild how quickly they're all adopting it.
Take a look; it's wild how quickly they're all adopting it.
![Kevin Bass
@kevinnbass
I am horrified. I cannot believe it.
I analyzed public databases and media reporting on violent confrontations with ICE over the past year.
Just 9 counties accounted for TWO-THIRDS of violent confrontations with ICE in America.
This is twice all violent confrontations in the remaining 3,134 counties COMBINED.
A violent confrontation in these 9 counties was 590 TIMES more likely than any of these other 3,134 counties.
590 times.
I plotted these 9 counties, and I found that all 9 counties are sanctuary jurisdictions run by Democrat politicians that resist immigration law enforcement.
These violent confrontations are RARE in states and cities where local officials cooperate with law enforcement.
[Underneath is a chart claiming to prove his point]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreih447kj7ureou7fzaooxxes6o4hrxdepmijsxoz5tadyvefalf5e4@jpeg)
January 26, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Over the last 48 hours, the talking point on the right has solidified; the only reason that we are seeing violent clashes against ICE is because of sanctuary policies and failure to cooperate from city officials who are fanning the flames.
Take a look; it's wild how quickly they're all adopting it.
Take a look; it's wild how quickly they're all adopting it.
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The actual chain of the events that led to the death are indefensible, so they are withdrawing to the broader claim: Dems caused this by not working with us. Of course, such paramiltary surges are only occurring in cities run by Democrats.
Over the last 48 hours, the talking point on the right has solidified; the only reason that we are seeing violent clashes against ICE is because of sanctuary policies and failure to cooperate from city officials who are fanning the flames.
Take a look; it's wild how quickly they're all adopting it.
Take a look; it's wild how quickly they're all adopting it.
January 26, 2026 at 4:01 PM
The actual chain of the events that led to the death are indefensible, so they are withdrawing to the broader claim: Dems caused this by not working with us. Of course, such paramiltary surges are only occurring in cities run by Democrats.
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‘When history looks back at all the cowards, sycophants, apologists, enablers, henchmen and other miscreants that made Trump possible, the bootlickers will have a starring role.’
Via @gustavoarellano.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Via @gustavoarellano.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: Under Trump, the bootlickers have come out in force. Minneapolis cements it
On social media and beyond, supporters -- and bots -- twist themselves like pretzels to support a president with autocratic aspirations.
www.latimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:20 PM
‘When history looks back at all the cowards, sycophants, apologists, enablers, henchmen and other miscreants that made Trump possible, the bootlickers will have a starring role.’
Via @gustavoarellano.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Via @gustavoarellano.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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They think the American people are stupid.
It's been 2 days since the killing of Alex Pretti & this Admin continues to lie about what we all saw on video.
Americans are horrified & don't want their tax dollars funding this brutality.
Not another dime to this lawless operation.
It's been 2 days since the killing of Alex Pretti & this Admin continues to lie about what we all saw on video.
Americans are horrified & don't want their tax dollars funding this brutality.
Not another dime to this lawless operation.
January 26, 2026 at 3:54 PM
They think the American people are stupid.
It's been 2 days since the killing of Alex Pretti & this Admin continues to lie about what we all saw on video.
Americans are horrified & don't want their tax dollars funding this brutality.
Not another dime to this lawless operation.
It's been 2 days since the killing of Alex Pretti & this Admin continues to lie about what we all saw on video.
Americans are horrified & don't want their tax dollars funding this brutality.
Not another dime to this lawless operation.
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A hearing is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. CT (10 a.m. ET) on the state of Minnesota's request to halt the ICE surge in the Twin Cities.
I'm covering the proceedings remotely.
From the state's memo:
buff.ly/ub2bHso
I'm covering the proceedings remotely.
From the state's memo:
buff.ly/ub2bHso
January 26, 2026 at 2:52 PM
A hearing is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. CT (10 a.m. ET) on the state of Minnesota's request to halt the ICE surge in the Twin Cities.
I'm covering the proceedings remotely.
From the state's memo:
buff.ly/ub2bHso
I'm covering the proceedings remotely.
From the state's memo:
buff.ly/ub2bHso
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Star Tribune: “Republican Chris Madel made a stunning exit from the Minnesota governor’s race on Jan. 26, saying he cannot support the national GOP’s ‘stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.’”
Chris Madel ends GOP bid for governor, says he can’t support federal ‘retribution’ against Minnesota
His exit comes as some other Republicans have started to distance themselves from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the state.
www.startribune.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Star Tribune: “Republican Chris Madel made a stunning exit from the Minnesota governor’s race on Jan. 26, saying he cannot support the national GOP’s ‘stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.’”
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OPINION: "[Environmental] laws are taking a beating at the moment, including from the Environmental Protection Agency—the federal government agency created in 1970 to protect the environment," James Salzman writes.
Opinion | Environmental Cleanup Laws Have Made a Huge Difference
James Salzman writes about how far the U.S. has come since the days of little-to-no environmental regulation.
buff.ly
January 26, 2026 at 4:02 PM
OPINION: "[Environmental] laws are taking a beating at the moment, including from the Environmental Protection Agency—the federal government agency created in 1970 to protect the environment," James Salzman writes.
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Happy to help, sir.
From Judge Ellis:
"Bovino admitted in his deposition that he lied multiple times about the events that occurred in Little Village that prompted him to throw tear gas at protesters."
From Judge Ellis:
"Bovino admitted in his deposition that he lied multiple times about the events that occurred in Little Village that prompted him to throw tear gas at protesters."
January 26, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Happy to help, sir.
From Judge Ellis:
"Bovino admitted in his deposition that he lied multiple times about the events that occurred in Little Village that prompted him to throw tear gas at protesters."
From Judge Ellis:
"Bovino admitted in his deposition that he lied multiple times about the events that occurred in Little Village that prompted him to throw tear gas at protesters."
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good to see more folks calling this what it really is—ethnic cleansing. not an immigration crackdown.
We need to get it broadly understood that Stephen Miller's ethnic cleansing will result in a permanent metastasized immigrant carceral state and paramilitary warfare on US streets that goes on *for years.*
The internal logic of his agenda dictates this of necessity.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
The internal logic of his agenda dictates this of necessity.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
January 26, 2026 at 3:47 PM
good to see more folks calling this what it really is—ethnic cleansing. not an immigration crackdown.