minT_Tea_AF
@mint-tea-af.bsky.social
I'm 'weird'. I do art things. I hate money. Feel free to ask me for advice but don't expect it to be good. Pro-community, anti-society. Lungs full of coal dust.
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Just a lazy archive for future Minty.
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Just a lazy archive for future Minty.
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The Islamic regime has opened fire on anti-regime protesters in Fardis, Iran.
Dozens of people are reported to have been murdered.
There’s a video. I won’t post it.
Dozens of people are reported to have been murdered.
There’s a video. I won’t post it.
January 9, 2026 at 4:18 AM
The Islamic regime has opened fire on anti-regime protesters in Fardis, Iran.
Dozens of people are reported to have been murdered.
There’s a video. I won’t post it.
Dozens of people are reported to have been murdered.
There’s a video. I won’t post it.
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One reason I favor impeaching Noem is because it's a political process for a political problem. No, this will not stop ICE enforcement action but YES it would be an opportunity to educate the public about DHS & perhaps begin to lay a foundation for dismantling it.
January 8, 2026 at 10:38 PM
One reason I favor impeaching Noem is because it's a political process for a political problem. No, this will not stop ICE enforcement action but YES it would be an opportunity to educate the public about DHS & perhaps begin to lay a foundation for dismantling it.
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ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink.
Two Americas.
Two Americas.
January 8, 2026 at 8:06 PM
ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink.
Two Americas.
Two Americas.
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It’s unlikely that Good’s murderer is a particularly depraved or unhinged ICE officer. That’s just everybody who has the personality to be an ICE officer. That’s just ICE. Don’t exceptionalize him, he’s a systemic manifestation.
January 8, 2026 at 8:09 PM
It’s unlikely that Good’s murderer is a particularly depraved or unhinged ICE officer. That’s just everybody who has the personality to be an ICE officer. That’s just ICE. Don’t exceptionalize him, he’s a systemic manifestation.
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Some people, mostly Black, Brown and Indigenous, suffered, lived, and died working to expose and protect their communities from the violence of law enforcement in this country. Don't be jerks about the work of others and act like no one knew.
January 8, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Some people, mostly Black, Brown and Indigenous, suffered, lived, and died working to expose and protect their communities from the violence of law enforcement in this country. Don't be jerks about the work of others and act like no one knew.
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Here's the sort of thing Webloc can do:
- zoom in on specific phone, see where else that device has been locally or around country
- click a 'route' button to see the specific route
- click a nighttime button to see where at night; their likely home
No warrant www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
- zoom in on specific phone, see where else that device has been locally or around country
- click a 'route' button to see the specific route
- click a nighttime button to see where at night; their likely home
No warrant www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
January 8, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Here's the sort of thing Webloc can do:
- zoom in on specific phone, see where else that device has been locally or around country
- click a 'route' button to see the specific route
- click a nighttime button to see where at night; their likely home
No warrant www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
- zoom in on specific phone, see where else that device has been locally or around country
- click a 'route' button to see the specific route
- click a nighttime button to see where at night; their likely home
No warrant www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
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NEW in Bolts: In a small Alaska town, American Samoans face prosecution for voting in the only country they’ve ever known.
Read our new collaboration with High Country News:
Read our new collaboration with High Country News:
Americans by Name, Punished for Believing It
In a small Alaska town, American Samoans face prosecution for voting in the only country they’ve ever known. They live in a limbo, created by colonial expansion, that now confuses even public officials—and has made them a new target for policing voter fraud.
boltsmag.org
January 8, 2026 at 6:05 PM
NEW in Bolts: In a small Alaska town, American Samoans face prosecution for voting in the only country they’ve ever known.
Read our new collaboration with High Country News:
Read our new collaboration with High Country News:
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I keep emphasizing this point because I am worried that some US citizens who are doing rapid response may have the false belief that it is illegal for ICE/Border Patrol to arrest them, and out of this incorrect belief respond in ways that make it *more likely* they get arrested or brutalized.
Flatly wrong. No, it is not true that ICE only has jurisdiction over immigration issues and can’t arrest citizens. Immigration officers have authority to criminally arrest anyone for any “offense against the United States” (interfering with a federal officer would count) and any felony they witness.
I'm hearing a lot of talk that they did not have legal authority to compel a U.S. citizen to exit her car, what's your take on that?
January 8, 2026 at 2:36 PM
I keep emphasizing this point because I am worried that some US citizens who are doing rapid response may have the false belief that it is illegal for ICE/Border Patrol to arrest them, and out of this incorrect belief respond in ways that make it *more likely* they get arrested or brutalized.
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Congress has had *multiple* opportunities to ban government agencies from buying data like this - data that would require a warrant to get, under any other circumstances.
The Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale Act passed the House with a bipartisan majority in 2024. The Senate never took it up.
The Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale Act passed the House with a bipartisan majority in 2024. The Senate never took it up.
New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co
January 8, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Congress has had *multiple* opportunities to ban government agencies from buying data like this - data that would require a warrant to get, under any other circumstances.
The Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale Act passed the House with a bipartisan majority in 2024. The Senate never took it up.
The Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale Act passed the House with a bipartisan majority in 2024. The Senate never took it up.
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Everything happening now has a precedent. This is not new. Please understand that everything happening now is very American. The only change is that it is happening on camera to middle income white people. Ask BIPOC and low income white people about abuses by the state.
January 8, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Everything happening now has a precedent. This is not new. Please understand that everything happening now is very American. The only change is that it is happening on camera to middle income white people. Ask BIPOC and low income white people about abuses by the state.
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This is a big deal
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Senate trying to take its power back
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Senate trying to take its power back
January 8, 2026 at 5:26 PM
This is a big deal
51:47
Senate trying to take its power back
51:47
Senate trying to take its power back
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Ongoing and obvious reminder that firing chemical weapons directly at people's heads like this *is* deadly force.
January 8, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Ongoing and obvious reminder that firing chemical weapons directly at people's heads like this *is* deadly force.
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This is something else.
apologies to (and for) flaubert, but these people are so corrupt they'd pay to pimp themselves...
www.rawstory.com/karoline-lea...
www.rawstory.com/karoline-lea...
Leavitt's abrupt stage exit triggers 'insider trading' accusations in prediction markets
Gamblers who bet on the length of the White House's daily press briefings cried foul on Wednesday after Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made the curious decision to end her comments just seconds shy ...
www.rawstory.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
This is something else.
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This is literally what they do whenever a Black person is killed by police. No matter how solid the evidence is, they will keep pushing that lie, not just to poison the conversation and make sure the killer walks free, but to reassert the political idea that these people deserve to be killed.
The shooting is shocking enough but the government's response is off the charts when you consider that this incident is forensically documented on video.
January 8, 2026 at 1:41 PM
This is literally what they do whenever a Black person is killed by police. No matter how solid the evidence is, they will keep pushing that lie, not just to poison the conversation and make sure the killer walks free, but to reassert the political idea that these people deserve to be killed.
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Bovino is not in Chicago.
We did not see visual evidence yesterday of him w/ other feds. This is one reason we never reported it!
Breaking reports indicate that feds just shot and injured someone in Minneapolis. We'll all know more soon. Wait for local sources to confirm verifiable info.
We did not see visual evidence yesterday of him w/ other feds. This is one reason we never reported it!
Breaking reports indicate that feds just shot and injured someone in Minneapolis. We'll all know more soon. Wait for local sources to confirm verifiable info.
Bolvino has arrived to Minneapolis. On the scene at 33rd and Portland. Being an observer is not a crime.
January 7, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Bovino is not in Chicago.
We did not see visual evidence yesterday of him w/ other feds. This is one reason we never reported it!
Breaking reports indicate that feds just shot and injured someone in Minneapolis. We'll all know more soon. Wait for local sources to confirm verifiable info.
We did not see visual evidence yesterday of him w/ other feds. This is one reason we never reported it!
Breaking reports indicate that feds just shot and injured someone in Minneapolis. We'll all know more soon. Wait for local sources to confirm verifiable info.
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"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:36 AM
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
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People are skeptical about the decline in numbers of people who read books in the U.S. but you only need to talk with high schoolers to see that it's not overblown. It's part of the reason that the revival of zines is important IMO because they make reading and writing less daunting.
January 6, 2026 at 11:33 PM
People are skeptical about the decline in numbers of people who read books in the U.S. but you only need to talk with high schoolers to see that it's not overblown. It's part of the reason that the revival of zines is important IMO because they make reading and writing less daunting.
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The justices on Wyoming's Supreme Court sided with the state's only abortion clinic and others who had sued over the bans passed since 2022, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. https://to.pbs.org/4bkD2ig
Abortion remains legal in Wyoming as state Supreme Court strikes down ban
Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court struck down laws that include the nation’s first explicit ban on pill abortions.
to.pbs.org
January 6, 2026 at 8:35 PM
The justices on Wyoming's Supreme Court sided with the state's only abortion clinic and others who had sued over the bans passed since 2022, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. https://to.pbs.org/4bkD2ig
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Someone asked me to comment on the anniversary of Jan 6. I will consider having comments on it….should it ever end. We are very much still reaching for the nadir of this reclamation. No time yet for historicizing it. Still trying to survive it.
January 6, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Someone asked me to comment on the anniversary of Jan 6. I will consider having comments on it….should it ever end. We are very much still reaching for the nadir of this reclamation. No time yet for historicizing it. Still trying to survive it.
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There’s Compelling Evidence That Someone Connected to the Trump Administration Profited Off the Invasion of Venezuela by Placing Large Bets on Polymarket
"Pete Hegseth making some beer money on the side?"
futurism.com/future-socie...
"Pete Hegseth making some beer money on the side?"
futurism.com/future-socie...
There's Compelling Evidence That Someone Connected to the Trump Administration Profited Off the Invasion of Venezuela by Placing Large Bets on Polymarket
There's evidence that someone who knew about the Trump administration's regime change plans in Venezuela profited on Polymarket.
futurism.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:43 PM
There’s Compelling Evidence That Someone Connected to the Trump Administration Profited Off the Invasion of Venezuela by Placing Large Bets on Polymarket
"Pete Hegseth making some beer money on the side?"
futurism.com/future-socie...
"Pete Hegseth making some beer money on the side?"
futurism.com/future-socie...
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President of Mexico Sheinbaum: "America does not belong to a doctrine or a power. The American continent belongs to the peoples of each of the countries that make it up. Let it be clear: Mexico defends the sovereignty of the countries of Latin America.”
January 5, 2026 at 5:09 PM
President of Mexico Sheinbaum: "America does not belong to a doctrine or a power. The American continent belongs to the peoples of each of the countries that make it up. Let it be clear: Mexico defends the sovereignty of the countries of Latin America.”
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Politicians love to ban Chinese farmland until it impacts the hog market. Oklahoma’s new law restricts foreign ownership but explicitly protects Smithfield Foods, a Chinese-owned behemoth. National security is paramount, provided it doesn’t inconvenience corporate agriculture or interrupt profits.
Oklahoma’s Ban on Chinese-Owned Farmland Made an Exception for Smithfield Foods
While approximately 4.3% of Oklahoma farmland is foreign-owned, according to the USDA’s most recent filings, most of that is held by Canadian and European companies for renewable energy projects. Less than 1% of that share is Chinese.
www.agriculture.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Politicians love to ban Chinese farmland until it impacts the hog market. Oklahoma’s new law restricts foreign ownership but explicitly protects Smithfield Foods, a Chinese-owned behemoth. National security is paramount, provided it doesn’t inconvenience corporate agriculture or interrupt profits.
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TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
January 5, 2026 at 11:26 PM
TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland