Mar Arnold
@maranold.bsky.social
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Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed.
www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure
The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.
www.startribune.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed.
www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
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"What unnerved Kiarash most, he said, was watching cemetery workers carelessly handling tiny body bags — for children, he guessed, no more than 10 or 12 years old."
"The families rooted frantically through the piles of corpses, so crammed together that the living had to take care not to step on the dead."
The Final Indignities Inflicted on Iran’s Protest Victims
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:53 PM
"What unnerved Kiarash most, he said, was watching cemetery workers carelessly handling tiny body bags — for children, he guessed, no more than 10 or 12 years old."
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The narrative of exceptional Ukrainian resilience is one of the most harmful tropes I’ve seen during this war.
Yes, we refuse to give up. Yes, we have picnics in -15°C. Yes, we keep living, drinking coffee, and even laughing occasionally, but all of this stems from a lack of choice.
Yes, we refuse to give up. Yes, we have picnics in -15°C. Yes, we keep living, drinking coffee, and even laughing occasionally, but all of this stems from a lack of choice.
January 17, 2026 at 4:02 PM
The narrative of exceptional Ukrainian resilience is one of the most harmful tropes I’ve seen during this war.
Yes, we refuse to give up. Yes, we have picnics in -15°C. Yes, we keep living, drinking coffee, and even laughing occasionally, but all of this stems from a lack of choice.
Yes, we refuse to give up. Yes, we have picnics in -15°C. Yes, we keep living, drinking coffee, and even laughing occasionally, but all of this stems from a lack of choice.
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Existing US trade deals with the UK and EU are obviously now null and void just to add to the confusion.
Manfred Weber, the leader of the EPP, says the approval of the EU-US trade deal should be "put on hold" in response to Trump's 10% tariff threat.
Until today, the EPP, the largest group in the European Parliament, wanted to move forward with ratification despite the Greenland tensions.
Until today, the EPP, the largest group in the European Parliament, wanted to move forward with ratification despite the Greenland tensions.
January 17, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Existing US trade deals with the UK and EU are obviously now null and void just to add to the confusion.
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Holy shit.
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Live Updates: Newly Released Records Detail Chaos During Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Holy shit.
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
That is what was relayed
January 15, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
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DEFEATED! Democrats joined by 6 Republicans just took down this anti-worker bill, the final vote was unchanged from below.
Mike Johnson spent nearly an hour trying to flip Republican holdouts but ultimately gave up, his first floor defeat of the year and likely not the last.
Mike Johnson spent nearly an hour trying to flip Republican holdouts but ultimately gave up, his first floor defeat of the year and likely not the last.
Some House floor drama as Republicans are currently losing a vote on a bill to let employers to exclude workforce education and development training from minimum wage and overtime calculations. Labor-friendly R's (there are a few, sometimes) voting no, Johnson huddling with them for ~30 mins now
January 13, 2026 at 11:00 PM
DEFEATED! Democrats joined by 6 Republicans just took down this anti-worker bill, the final vote was unchanged from below.
Mike Johnson spent nearly an hour trying to flip Republican holdouts but ultimately gave up, his first floor defeat of the year and likely not the last.
Mike Johnson spent nearly an hour trying to flip Republican holdouts but ultimately gave up, his first floor defeat of the year and likely not the last.
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Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's Saturday.
Rep. Angie Craig: "We were told because this facility is being funding by the 'Big Beautiful Bill,' not the congressional appropriations act, that we would not be allowed to enter the facility. That's complete nonsense ... I informed them they were violating the law. They said they didn't care."
January 10, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's Saturday.
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I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 10, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
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In a few months, we've progressed from snuff films of the US military killing civilians at sea to a snuff film of paramilitary secret police killing a mom in Minnesota—in both situations bogusly invoking "terrorism."
One of the obvious concerns about the administration's killing spree at sea was that if the US government would lawlessly kill people on the high seas just because the administration spuriously labeled them as "terrorists", it might do so elsewhere—including in the United States.
January 9, 2026 at 7:14 PM
In a few months, we've progressed from snuff films of the US military killing civilians at sea to a snuff film of paramilitary secret police killing a mom in Minnesota—in both situations bogusly invoking "terrorism."
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Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good
After the tragic shooting of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, the Catholic vice president of the United States took to social media to justify the killing.
www.ncronline.org
January 8, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
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There is no amount of 'Being Right on the Internet' that is worth that future. There is no amount of domestic political clarity that is worth that future.
Touch the stove if you must. Please do not use the gas stove to blow up the house with me still in it.
You do not want that future. /end
Touch the stove if you must. Please do not use the gas stove to blow up the house with me still in it.
You do not want that future. /end
January 7, 2026 at 4:15 AM
There is no amount of 'Being Right on the Internet' that is worth that future. There is no amount of domestic political clarity that is worth that future.
Touch the stove if you must. Please do not use the gas stove to blow up the house with me still in it.
You do not want that future. /end
Touch the stove if you must. Please do not use the gas stove to blow up the house with me still in it.
You do not want that future. /end
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Bundesnetzagentur verhängt Strafzahlung gegen die Deutsche Bahn wegen "miserablen Baustellen-Management".
Im Sommer habe die Bahn den Wettbewerbern nur 62 Prozent der Baustellen rechtzeitig mitgeteilt, im Spätherbst seien es nur 55 Prozent gewesen.
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/u...
Im Sommer habe die Bahn den Wettbewerbern nur 62 Prozent der Baustellen rechtzeitig mitgeteilt, im Spätherbst seien es nur 55 Prozent gewesen.
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/u...
Deutsche Bahn: Bundesnetzagentur verhängt Zwangsgeld in Millionenhöhe
Der Präsident der Bundesnetzagentur wirft der Deutschen Bahn »miserables Baustellen-Management« vor. Pläne würden oft nicht rechtzeitig mitgeteilt, deshalb setzt die Behörde nun auf Strafzahlungen.
www.spiegel.de
December 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Bundesnetzagentur verhängt Strafzahlung gegen die Deutsche Bahn wegen "miserablen Baustellen-Management".
Im Sommer habe die Bahn den Wettbewerbern nur 62 Prozent der Baustellen rechtzeitig mitgeteilt, im Spätherbst seien es nur 55 Prozent gewesen.
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/u...
Im Sommer habe die Bahn den Wettbewerbern nur 62 Prozent der Baustellen rechtzeitig mitgeteilt, im Spätherbst seien es nur 55 Prozent gewesen.
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/u...
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“I am shocked, shocked to find that agriculture is subsidized” is one of those gags that works for countries/entities accounting for at least 75% of the world economy,
The commerce ministry said in a preliminary decision on Monday that it had found dairy imports from the EU were subsidised and that China’s domestic industry 'suffered material injury' as a result. ft.trib.al/WgyxlQ7
December 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“I am shocked, shocked to find that agriculture is subsidized” is one of those gags that works for countries/entities accounting for at least 75% of the world economy,
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The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent.
Adopting.
Babies.
What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?
Adopting.
Babies.
What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent.
Adopting.
Babies.
What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?
Adopting.
Babies.
What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?
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and they needed to do this because the intelligence being used to kill everyone on these "drug boats" is presumably pretty dodgy. Otherwise what would she have to worry about?
When the winner of the Nobel peace prize smuggled herself over the water and out of Venezuela to attend the ceremony in Oslo this week, her allies called the Pentagon to ask them not to arbitrarily murder her. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
December 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
and they needed to do this because the intelligence being used to kill everyone on these "drug boats" is presumably pretty dodgy. Otherwise what would she have to worry about?
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350.000 l Öl aus Pipeline-Leck ausgetreten - zu Risiken und Nebenwirkungen fossiler Energien fragen Sie Ihre Energieministerin #Reiche #endfossilfuels
An der havarierten Öl-Pipeline bei Gramzow in #Brandenburg ist das Leck geschlossen worden. Es sollen etwa 350.000 Liter Öl ausgetreten sein. Wie viel genau, ist noch unklar. Zu dem Vorfall kam es nach Arbeiten an der Pipeline: rbburl.de/pipelineleck
December 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
350.000 l Öl aus Pipeline-Leck ausgetreten - zu Risiken und Nebenwirkungen fossiler Energien fragen Sie Ihre Energieministerin #Reiche #endfossilfuels
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WaPo is reporting that Bradley told lawmakers that Hegseth DID give a kill order.
December 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
WaPo is reporting that Bradley told lawmakers that Hegseth DID give a kill order.
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SPLIT IN HALF?
The boat was capsized and SPLIT IN HALF?
I got nothing folks.
Trials. Prison. Everyone.
If you told me this was a psy-op to make me rethink my moral opposition to the death penalty, I would at least have to think hard about you being right.
The boat was capsized and SPLIT IN HALF?
I got nothing folks.
Trials. Prison. Everyone.
If you told me this was a psy-op to make me rethink my moral opposition to the death penalty, I would at least have to think hard about you being right.
I mean, this is an execution
December 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
SPLIT IN HALF?
The boat was capsized and SPLIT IN HALF?
I got nothing folks.
Trials. Prison. Everyone.
If you told me this was a psy-op to make me rethink my moral opposition to the death penalty, I would at least have to think hard about you being right.
The boat was capsized and SPLIT IN HALF?
I got nothing folks.
Trials. Prison. Everyone.
If you told me this was a psy-op to make me rethink my moral opposition to the death penalty, I would at least have to think hard about you being right.
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Admiral Frank M. Bradley is a guilty of accepting and passing on an illegal order, and should be tried as a common murderer.
The entire US Seals should be shut down and cleaned with fire, sword, bell, book and candle. They stain the uniform of those who actually keep the sea and obey its rules.
The entire US Seals should be shut down and cleaned with fire, sword, bell, book and candle. They stain the uniform of those who actually keep the sea and obey its rules.
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Admiral Frank M. Bradley is a guilty of accepting and passing on an illegal order, and should be tried as a common murderer.
The entire US Seals should be shut down and cleaned with fire, sword, bell, book and candle. They stain the uniform of those who actually keep the sea and obey its rules.
The entire US Seals should be shut down and cleaned with fire, sword, bell, book and candle. They stain the uniform of those who actually keep the sea and obey its rules.
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💯 this. Thatcher & Kinnock were probably no cleverer than most politicians today. But read their speeches: they made serious arguments about the nature of the state & the meaning of democracy.
No one wants philosophers in charge. But you do need a compass if you're going to steer in a straight line
No one wants philosophers in charge. But you do need a compass if you're going to steer in a straight line
We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:
![I confess that I always had difficulty with interpreting the Biblical precept to love our neighbours “as ourselves” until I read some of the words of C.S. Lewis. He pointed out that we don't exactly love ourselves when we fall below the standards and beliefs we have accepted. Indeed we might even hate ourselves for some unworthy deed.
None of this, of course, tells us exactly what kind of political and social institutions we should have. On this point, Christians will very often genuinely disagree, though it is a mark of Christian manners that they will do so with courtesy and mutual respect. [Applause] What is certain, however, is that any set of social and economic arrangements which is not founded on the acceptance of individual responsibility will do nothing but harm.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xbnsfdtxoothg654ujxe3p25/bafkreicrdgbtvm54qnmttwe6crhxwt4be5v3izjmqtnvlxmaljwg5wolai@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
💯 this. Thatcher & Kinnock were probably no cleverer than most politicians today. But read their speeches: they made serious arguments about the nature of the state & the meaning of democracy.
No one wants philosophers in charge. But you do need a compass if you're going to steer in a straight line
No one wants philosophers in charge. But you do need a compass if you're going to steer in a straight line
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Trump cares very little about the War on Drugs but he does care very much about corrupt former heads of state of countries not doing prison time.
in the midst of our supposed campaign against Venezuelan drug traffickers the President of the United States has chosen to pardon the Former President of Honduras, freeing him from his long prison sentence earned for trafficking more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States
November 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Trump cares very little about the War on Drugs but he does care very much about corrupt former heads of state of countries not doing prison time.
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My reach on socials doesn't = Ryan's, but I feel need to continue drumbeat. THESE WERE ALREADY ILLEGAL strikes. The doubletap makes it MORE OBVIOUS, not MORE ILLEGAL. (ok. it's a bit more illegal; since it opens a whole new category of illegal).
(we tried people at Nuremburg for crimes like this).
(we tried people at Nuremburg for crimes like this).
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
My reach on socials doesn't = Ryan's, but I feel need to continue drumbeat. THESE WERE ALREADY ILLEGAL strikes. The doubletap makes it MORE OBVIOUS, not MORE ILLEGAL. (ok. it's a bit more illegal; since it opens a whole new category of illegal).
(we tried people at Nuremburg for crimes like this).
(we tried people at Nuremburg for crimes like this).
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All impulse control gone. He’s now entirely erratic, acting out anything fleeting across what little brain he has left.
November 28, 2025 at 6:17 AM
All impulse control gone. He’s now entirely erratic, acting out anything fleeting across what little brain he has left.
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If Joe Biden had claimed that he redesigned the hulls of Coast Guard cutters, we'd be way over in 25th amendment territory.
With Trump, it's so common that most Americans don't even notice it now.
With Trump, it's so common that most Americans don't even notice it now.
Trump during his Thanksgiving call with service members: "We're ordered a lot of Coast Guard cutters. Brand new, beautiful, the best machines in the world. I'm a looks person. I wanted the hull to be perfect. You know, I sort of redesigned the hull a little bit. The hulls. But we ordered a lot."
November 28, 2025 at 1:56 AM
If Joe Biden had claimed that he redesigned the hulls of Coast Guard cutters, we'd be way over in 25th amendment territory.
With Trump, it's so common that most Americans don't even notice it now.
With Trump, it's so common that most Americans don't even notice it now.