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Vaguely recall Republicans absolutely losing their shit over the (misleading to false) claim that the IRS in the Obama era targeted conservative non-profits for audits based on their ideology.
I'm sure every one of those people is speaking out in support of Mischief Toy Store or...?
I'm sure every one of those people is speaking out in support of Mischief Toy Store or...?
Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol
January 21, 2026 at 5:40 AM
Vaguely recall Republicans absolutely losing their shit over the (misleading to false) claim that the IRS in the Obama era targeted conservative non-profits for audits based on their ideology.
I'm sure every one of those people is speaking out in support of Mischief Toy Store or...?
I'm sure every one of those people is speaking out in support of Mischief Toy Store or...?
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This MS NOW documentary from Houston shows 1.) federal officers appearing to ram an immigrant’s van with their vehicle, 2.) officers placing a high school student in a chokehold and 3.) confiscating the 16-year-old’s phone (which was later found to have been sold at a tech-for-cash pawn shop kiosk)
January 21, 2026 at 12:08 AM
This MS NOW documentary from Houston shows 1.) federal officers appearing to ram an immigrant’s van with their vehicle, 2.) officers placing a high school student in a chokehold and 3.) confiscating the 16-year-old’s phone (which was later found to have been sold at a tech-for-cash pawn shop kiosk)
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Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty: "What is this about? It certainly isn't about fraud. This isn't how you investigate fraud. This is about the administration's anger over Minnesota's leaders, our tradition of valuing our neighbors, our immigrant neighbors."
January 21, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty: "What is this about? It certainly isn't about fraud. This isn't how you investigate fraud. This is about the administration's anger over Minnesota's leaders, our tradition of valuing our neighbors, our immigrant neighbors."
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they gotta be trolling me
January 21, 2026 at 12:11 AM
they gotta be trolling me
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Fox News railing against participation trophies but make the footage Trump's fake Nobel Prize
January 20, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Fox News railing against participation trophies but make the footage Trump's fake Nobel Prize
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Over the last year, President Trump pardoned dozens of criminals.
Combined, they were ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in fines and restitution.
Trump let them off the hook.
Nothing says cracking down on crime like letting criminals run free.
Combined, they were ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in fines and restitution.
Trump let them off the hook.
Nothing says cracking down on crime like letting criminals run free.
January 20, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Over the last year, President Trump pardoned dozens of criminals.
Combined, they were ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in fines and restitution.
Trump let them off the hook.
Nothing says cracking down on crime like letting criminals run free.
Combined, they were ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in fines and restitution.
Trump let them off the hook.
Nothing says cracking down on crime like letting criminals run free.
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I grew up hearing stories from my father about how folks abducted by Franco’s secret police would routinely “escape” to the roof of police HQ and “commit suicide.” The obviousness of the lie was itself an intimidation tactic.
"agents told hospital staff that Castaneda Mondragon ... 'purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.'”
A Minnesota man received a life-threatening injury while in ICE custody. It's not clear how he got injured because his memory and ability to communicate are so severely impaired. Agents said "he got his shit rocked." Wild story from @katrinapross.bsky.social sahanjournal.com/health/ice-d...
January 20, 2026 at 10:58 PM
I grew up hearing stories from my father about how folks abducted by Franco’s secret police would routinely “escape” to the roof of police HQ and “commit suicide.” The obviousness of the lie was itself an intimidation tactic.
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MN Doctor: I learned that Renee Good still had a pulse 8 minutes after she was shot by an ICE agent. Yet the offer to administer aid from a physician on the scene was denied. I can't say how much that stirs the blood of everyone here as we try to fulfill our oath to care for the people of Minnesota
January 20, 2026 at 9:40 PM
MN Doctor: I learned that Renee Good still had a pulse 8 minutes after she was shot by an ICE agent. Yet the offer to administer aid from a physician on the scene was denied. I can't say how much that stirs the blood of everyone here as we try to fulfill our oath to care for the people of Minnesota
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This is Minneapolis:
I’m at a major healthcare clinic (just here for a friend) and overheard the front desk staff mention they’ve had 97 missed appointments today.
People aren’t getting medical care bc they’re afraid to leave home.
I’m at a major healthcare clinic (just here for a friend) and overheard the front desk staff mention they’ve had 97 missed appointments today.
People aren’t getting medical care bc they’re afraid to leave home.
January 20, 2026 at 9:23 PM
This is Minneapolis:
I’m at a major healthcare clinic (just here for a friend) and overheard the front desk staff mention they’ve had 97 missed appointments today.
People aren’t getting medical care bc they’re afraid to leave home.
I’m at a major healthcare clinic (just here for a friend) and overheard the front desk staff mention they’ve had 97 missed appointments today.
People aren’t getting medical care bc they’re afraid to leave home.
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friendly neighborhood barred attorney telling you to never put your ID on your phone
iPhone driver’s licenses: Here are all the states working on support
iPhone driver’s licenses: Here are all the states working on support
At WWDC 2021, Apple announced support for adding driver’s licenses and state IDs to Apple Wallet. Since then, over a dozen states in the United States have rolled out support for the platform.
As that number continues to grow, here’s where driver’s licenses and state IDs could come next …
more…
9to5mac.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:42 PM
friendly neighborhood barred attorney telling you to never put your ID on your phone
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Americans are realizing that unfettered federal power to detain and arrest is a very dangerous thing. I learned that lesson as a child when they put us into internment camps just for looking like the enemy. Don’t go further down this road.
January 20, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Americans are realizing that unfettered federal power to detain and arrest is a very dangerous thing. I learned that lesson as a child when they put us into internment camps just for looking like the enemy. Don’t go further down this road.
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there is not a single founding father who would have believed that a court would ever rule that presidential pardons made in furtherance of a conspiracy against the republic were presumptively valid
January 20, 2026 at 8:33 PM
there is not a single founding father who would have believed that a court would ever rule that presidential pardons made in furtherance of a conspiracy against the republic were presumptively valid
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Our democracy is rigged for the billionaire class.
If you want to know why your wages are shitty and health care is too expensive and your kids’ school is falling apart - that’s why.
If you want to know why your wages are shitty and health care is too expensive and your kids’ school is falling apart - that’s why.
SCOOP: Elon Musk has cut a massive $10 million check to bolster an outsider, pro-Trump candidate running to succeed Sen. Mitch McConnell.
The stunning gift is the biggest sign yet that Musk plans to spend big in the 2026 midterms.
The stunning gift is the biggest sign yet that Musk plans to spend big in the 2026 midterms.
Scoop: Musk shocks with $10 million donation in Ky. Senate race
It's the biggest sign yet that Musk plans to spend big for Republicans in the 2026 midterms.
www.axios.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Our democracy is rigged for the billionaire class.
If you want to know why your wages are shitty and health care is too expensive and your kids’ school is falling apart - that’s why.
If you want to know why your wages are shitty and health care is too expensive and your kids’ school is falling apart - that’s why.
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Nation Yearns For Relative Calm Of ‘President A Giant Pedophile’ News Cycle https://theonion.com/nation-yearns-for-relative-calm-of-president-a-giant-pedophile-news-cycle/
January 20, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Nation Yearns For Relative Calm Of ‘President A Giant Pedophile’ News Cycle https://theonion.com/nation-yearns-for-relative-calm-of-president-a-giant-pedophile-news-cycle/
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Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.
US citizen says ICE removed him from his Minnesota home in his underwear after warrantless search
The detention is part of a larger surge of federal agents in Minnesota, leading to backlash over warrantless arrests and aggressive tactics.
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January 20, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.
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I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
January 20, 2026 at 10:02 PM
I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
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I have one request for everyone outside the United States. Stop being polite to us Americans. Tell us what you really think.
"The most corrupt president The United States have ever seen."
UK Member of Parliament Ed Davey does not mince words when characterizing Trump after his move to take Greenland.
UK Member of Parliament Ed Davey does not mince words when characterizing Trump after his move to take Greenland.
January 20, 2026 at 10:20 PM
I have one request for everyone outside the United States. Stop being polite to us Americans. Tell us what you really think.
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Lots of response to our coverage last night of the successful protest campaign to get Avelo Airlines to end its contract with ICE and stop flying deportation flights for the Trump Administration. Here's more on that:
truthout.org/articles/her...
truthout.org/articles/her...
Here’s How We Pressured an Airline to End Its Contract With ICE
ICE is not invulnerable. The Avelo Airlines win proves what happens when we refuse inevitability and fight together.
truthout.org
January 20, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Lots of response to our coverage last night of the successful protest campaign to get Avelo Airlines to end its contract with ICE and stop flying deportation flights for the Trump Administration. Here's more on that:
truthout.org/articles/her...
truthout.org/articles/her...
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“i feel as though the weapon i built is coming to kill me and my people” is about as straightforward an admission of what she *thought* she was doing as you’re going to get from the average trump voter
trying to imagine what kind of democratic party messaging would have resonated with this person and my brain just BSODs
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 9:20 PM
“i feel as though the weapon i built is coming to kill me and my people” is about as straightforward an admission of what she *thought* she was doing as you’re going to get from the average trump voter
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Two DOGE members working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with a group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls"
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data
Some DOGE personnel had more access to data than previously acknowledged, according to a court filing.
www.politico.com
January 20, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Two DOGE members working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with a group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls"
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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From Blaine: "Grandparents were about to go outside for a walk. They came into our home ... My brother asked for a warrant. They showed a “warrant”, it was on a phone. He asked to see if it was signed by a judge they ignored him. They then only took my father and shoved him in the car and drove off"
January 20, 2026 at 9:41 PM
From Blaine: "Grandparents were about to go outside for a walk. They came into our home ... My brother asked for a warrant. They showed a “warrant”, it was on a phone. He asked to see if it was signed by a judge they ignored him. They then only took my father and shoved him in the car and drove off"
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Nick Fuentes urging Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota: "Bro, do it. Do something. Just stop chickening out. I'm just tired of the idle threats... Please pull the trigger. Please kill them, Mr. President. Please just kill them."
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
Nick Fuentes: “Please pull the trigger. Please kill them, Mr. President. … I'm not actually wishing for violence, but please send in the military and restore order.”
www.mediamatters.org
January 20, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Nick Fuentes urging Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota: "Bro, do it. Do something. Just stop chickening out. I'm just tired of the idle threats... Please pull the trigger. Please kill them, Mr. President. Please just kill them."
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
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A reminder how ICE treats priests.
January 20, 2026 at 9:19 PM
A reminder how ICE treats priests.
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interesting that a single face-to-face contact turned this nonvoter into a voter
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 8:58 PM
interesting that a single face-to-face contact turned this nonvoter into a voter
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Ossoff: "There's a wickedness to the program. I don't know, pastor, where it is in scripture that it says deny care to the sick, take from those with the least to give to those with the most, violate the house of worship to hunt down the refugee. Where in the scripture are those lessons taught?"
January 20, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Ossoff: "There's a wickedness to the program. I don't know, pastor, where it is in scripture that it says deny care to the sick, take from those with the least to give to those with the most, violate the house of worship to hunt down the refugee. Where in the scripture are those lessons taught?"