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nkalamb.bsky.social
Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.

workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
Only a few hours after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Minneapolis resident and mother Renee Good on January 7, federal immigration enforcement agents descended onto Roosevelt High School property during school dismissal as students were exiting the building. MFE members say that ICE agents tackled and detained a school staff member and union member who was working at the time. The MFE member was since released, according to a union spokesperson. The agents also deployed a chemical irritant against students and staff on school grounds, MFE says. A school official, speaking to MPR News on condition of anonymity, said many students sheltered in a nearby library.
January 10, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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evanbernick.bsky.social
this really is quite something. This is a mayor of a major U.S. city saying that he cannot do what he is legally empowered to do because he doesn’t have enough guns to do it. The thing is arresting agents of the federal government who are breaking laws.
thebulwark.com The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d
"The question that you're basically asking is, can our cops arrest them? From a legal perspective, yes. From a practical perspective...they have bigger guns than we do." That's where we're at.

Look out for @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast with @timmiller.bsky.social!
January 10, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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cweiss-smith.bsky.social
7year old this morning: Mama can I look up where brain rot came from?

Me: Oh, sure—I think it’s an internet thing but look it up…

7: It says here it’s from some author, Henry David Thoreau?!

Me: ?!?!?!

Dying laughing—but the OED also cites Walden for the first usage of the word…
January 9, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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kawulf.bsky.social
“He reads it. He cites it. And he makes it accessible to a national audience.” Very cool moment @historians.org #AHA26 recognizing @jamellebouie.net’s exceptional engagement w history and historians in his brilliant opinion writing.
Aha awards citation for Jamelle Bouie for “promoting public historical literacy.”
January 9, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
What. The. Fuck.
January 7, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
I've got a zine coming about the failed attempts to suppress David Walker's Appeal in the 19th century. The current fascists won't succeed in suppressing information that wants to be shared. It is even harder for them to do than their predecessors. #Onwards
January 7, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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joegross.bsky.social
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
January 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
The White House would like us to forget this, but we will not.
Screenshot of a post by Acyn on X summarizing comments by Representative Dan Goldman. The post states that Goldman criticized the justification for pursuing Nicolás Maduro on drug trafficking charges, calling it bogus and noting that the Honduran president was recently pardoned for similar offenses. Below the text is a television news still from MSNBC’s The Briefing with Jen Psaki. Dan Goldman appears on screen in a studio or remote setup, wearing a dark jacket and light shirt, speaking directly to the camera. A nighttime city skyline with illuminated buildings is visible behind him. On-screen graphics include a red “Breaking News” banner reading “Maduro arrives in NY to face drugs and weapons charges,” along with Goldman’s name, title, and MSNBC branding.
January 4, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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leftistwonk.bsky.social
12+ hours later we finally get an estimate of how many Venezuelans were killed
January 3, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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indigenia.bsky.social
Absolutely.
becaswell.bsky.social Becky Caswell @becaswell.bsky.social · 7d
The US also did this repeatedly in Central and South America during the Cold War. It's very on-brand.
January 4, 2026 at 12:52 AM
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ericcolumbus.bsky.social
LEFT: @asharangappa.bsky.social four weeks ago

RIGHT: new NYT report

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...
Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special. 11:38 AM • Nov 29, 2025 © Everybody can reply Mr. Miller told officials that if the United States and Venezuela were at war, the Trump administration could again invoke the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century law, to expedite deportations of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans the administration stripped of temporary protected status. He and Mr. Rubio had used it earlier in the year to summarily deport hundreds of Venezuelans to a notorious prison in El Salvador, only to be stopped by court rulings.
December 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
To watch a “It’s a Wonderful Life” for the 50th time is to confirm that MAGA is totally bogus.
Even in 1946 nobody was rooting for Mr. Potter.
#MerryChristmas
December 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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austinkocher.com
Catholics represent fewer than 20% of U.S. adults, however, they make up 61% of the population at risk of deportation. Trump’s immigration crackdown is disproportionately hitting Catholic communities.

chico.newsreview.com/2025/12/24/t...
Trump’s War on ICE-Fearing Catholics • Chico News & Review
We are a group of award-winning free alternative weekly newspapers published by Chico Community Publishing, Inc. We publish the Chico News & Review in Chico, California, the Sacramento News & Review…
chico.newsreview.com
December 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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davidjbier.bsky.social
The DHS data also confirms my reporting from May, showing that over 50 Venezuelans sent to El Salvador were not illegal immigrants and entered the country legally. www.cato.org/blog/dhs-doe...
DHS Doesn’t List CECOT Prison Deportees in Its Worst of the Worst Data
The United States should have allowed most of these immigrants to reside and work in the country legally. They could have been economic assets to the United States, and it serves no legitimate purpose...
www.cato.org
December 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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premthakker.bsky.social
“It’s the new Jeffrey Epstein jet.”

Kristi Noem “posting a fun video in front of caged, tatted men.”

Look how Bari Weiss’ The Free Press wrote about CECOT — the El Salvador megaprison Trump shipped people to — just months before she stopped the 60 Minutes segment on it:

zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
December 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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justinhendrix.bsky.social
"Each dot here represents the movement of someone arrested or deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement this year."

• 67,000 transfers per month

• 23,000 removals per month

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Each dot here represents the movement of someone arrested or deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement this year. 67,000 transfers per month 23,000 removals per month
December 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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samthielman.com
Update: link above no longer works but the full segment has been uploaded to the Internet Archive with torrent link.
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
archive.org
December 23, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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muellershewrote.com
They're so transparent they're removing photos of Donald Trump. And now I'm getting an "access denied" message when I go back to look.
December 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social
This is incredibly important. If you read one thing this week: marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
marcusolang.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
We are selecting diplomats to reduce US influence, which is sort of contrary to how it is usually done
December 19, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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victorerikray.bsky.social
ICYMI, I wrote about Yglesias making common cause with the right-wing moral panic over critical race theory. His supposed defense of liberalism is deeply illiberal. @liberalcurrents.com
A Tent Big Enough for Bigots but Too Small for Critical Race Theory
Like so many of critical race theory's detractors, Matthew Yglesias fails to engage with the actual scholarship.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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joshisimmigration.bsky.social
One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM