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Jack Jenkins

@jackjenkins.me

“Children were in the crowd screaming.”

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 2d

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

February 1, 2026 at 2:15 AM

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Dumb Runner

@dumbrunner.bsky.social

I saw it too:

February 1, 2026 at 2:08 AM

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southpaw

@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social

Xbox LIVE was willing to do in 2013 what the entire US establishment was not.

To:
From:
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Thur 12/19/20139:36:08 PM
Subject: E-STOP: Message to Impacted Users
Title: Xbox LIVE - E-STOP: Message to Impacted Users
Xbox LIVE
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If you have an Xbox LIVE Gold subscription, or any unused Microsoft points, we are refunding the remaining value of those to you within 30 days.
If you do not receive a refund within 30 days, or if you feel that you have been banned incorrectly, please send Microsoft a notice using the process at www.xbox.com/notice.
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January 31, 2026 at 1:34 AM

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Halibut

@halibut.bsky.social

lol what a goddam loser

Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 3d

POILIEVRE: "I love seeing so many Conservatives in one place, but it must freak the Liberals out enough to invoke the Emergencies Act."

January 31, 2026 at 2:42 AM

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Bruce Arthur

@brucearthur.bsky.social

David Evy called this treason today, and he was right

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 4d

Exclusive: The Trump administration has held covert meetings with fringe separatists from the oil-rich Canadian province as a rift deepens between Washington and Ottawa. ft.trib.al/zYlleOJ

January 29, 2026 at 4:17 PM

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Alejandra Caraballo

@esqueer.net

This was Alex Pretti at work at the VA honoring a veteran who had passed.

This is who they're trying to falsely smear as a terrorist and assassin.

January 25, 2026 at 1:27 AM

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Michael Pina

@michaelvpina.bsky.social

the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens

January 24, 2026 at 7:51 PM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn

@badideas.bsky.social

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM

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Ben Silverstein ❌👑

@bensilverstein.bsky.social

I didn't say it. The Germans did.

Der Spiegel headline: Der ICE-Kommandant im Nazi-Look
Martialisch und effektheischend, so tritt ICE-Kommandant Gregory Bovino gern auf.

January 23, 2026 at 8:42 PM

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Laura Bassett

@lebassett.bsky.social

I can’t believe their defense for kidnapping a 5-year-old was we fed him at McDonald’s

January 23, 2026 at 7:39 PM

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mojarbs

@mojarbs.bsky.social

The reporters they send here when the Yankees threaten annexation again are going to flash freeze the moment they leave the plane

January 22, 2026 at 7:50 PM

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Micah

@rincewind.run

if you’re posting in all caps about how you didn’t kidnap a child you’re losing and losing badly

also every one of you is pond scum, you absolute stains on humanity

✨[redacted]✨ @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 11d

“our brown shirts that say we did NOT target a child seem to be raising questions already answered by our brown shirts”

Homeland Security & @DHS... •3h
ICE did NOT target a child. The child was
ABANDONED.

January 22, 2026 at 4:34 PM

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Abigail Nussbaum

@abigailnussbaum.bsky.social

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · Nov 25

yeah, just out of interest, how many people choose the pen on the right for real work or art? See a lot of them in professional workplaces, do you?

Picture of two pens. The first is an ordinary ballpoint pen, with the caption “how work feels doing it alone”. The second is a picture of one of those novelty pens with ten colours that you had when you were thirteen, with the caption, “how work feels worh an AI employee”. At their bottom it says “hire an AI employee for $0.97/day”.

January 22, 2026 at 12:21 PM

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Robson Fletcher

@robsonfletcher.com

After the World Trade Center was attacked (just four miles from Trump Tower), more than 40,000 Canadians in uniform fought alongside their U.S. allies in Afghanistan.

More than 2,000 Canadians were wounded.

These 158 didn't make it home.

And now this guy is giving lectures on gratitude.

Portrait-style photos of the men and women of the Canadian military who were killed during the Afghanistan war of the early 21st century. Photos via afghanistanacanadianstory.ca

January 21, 2026 at 4:13 PM

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Brendel

@brendelbored.bsky.social

I dunno man. We’ve all seen plenty of horrific pictures but there’s something about what they did to this poor kid. Just fucking soulless.

January 22, 2026 at 3:46 AM

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Don Moynihan

@donmoyn.bsky.social

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child

January 22, 2026 at 2:13 AM

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Murshed Zaheed

@murshedz.bsky.social

Liam Conejo Ramos is 5 years old - a preschool student at Valley View Elementary in Columbia Heights - transported by Trump and Miller’s secret police to Texas with his father per @startribune.com

5 YEARS OLD.

How can any human with a heartbeat - a conscience- be ok with this?

Liam Conejo Ramos, a preschool student at Valley View Elementary in Columbia Heights, was transported by federal immigration agents to Texas with his father, according to his school district

January 22, 2026 at 2:21 AM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

state-sponsored child trafficking

Disco @discosaurus.bsky.social · 12d

This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.

Kid in a hat and backpack, maybe 5, getting detained

January 21, 2026 at 11:25 PM

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Gambled And Lost Hat

@kenwhite.bsky.social

We represent the Lollipop Guild
The Lollipop Guild, the Lollipop Guild
And in the name of the Lollipop Guild
We will kidnap your children, pepper spray your priests, and shoot your mothers in the face

January 22, 2026 at 12:27 AM

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Noel Casler Comedy

@noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social

If you’re a grown ass man in full tactical gear asking a child to show you ID or proof of citizenship you failed at life. Utterly & completely failed. Loser.

January 21, 2026 at 9:20 PM

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BeijingPalmer

@beijingpalmer.bsky.social

it took me two minutes to paste a copied address into an email on my phone yesterday because the stupid AI prompt kept getting in the way. active degradation of the user experience is becoming a Google norm

Paul Musgrave @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 12d

Gmail is now asking if I’d like to have two sentence emails summarized

Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 12d

Holy fuck I do not want an ai summary of my email thread at the top of the page by default. 1) I know how to read, and 2) I would rather spend my time READING THE ACTUAL FUCKING EMAIL

January 21, 2026 at 4:10 PM