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This is Minneapolis:
-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you
-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you
January 10, 2026 at 8:20 PM
This is Minneapolis:
-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you
-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you
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Worth remembering, as Trump tries to brutalize blue states over alleged TANF fraud: Mississippi's former welfare director ran TANF as a private slush fund, routing tens of millions to churches, wrestlers, and celebrity pet projects (including Brett Favre's)—while rejecting over 90% of poor families.
NEW: Text messages reveal the strange relationship that John Davis, the former Mississippi official who directed millions in welfare dollars to sports celebrities, shared with WWE wrestlers Ted DiBiase Jr. and Brett DiBiase.
"It is me who tried to buy your love," he wrote in one text read in court.
"It is me who tried to buy your love," he wrote in one text read in court.
DiBiase Trial Spotlights Wrestlers' Odd Bond With Mississippi Welfare Scandal Mastermind
The odd relationship between the mastermind of the Mississippi welfare scandal and two ex-wrestlers was on display in Ted DiBiase Jr.’s trial.
www.mississippifreepress.org
January 10, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Worth remembering, as Trump tries to brutalize blue states over alleged TANF fraud: Mississippi's former welfare director ran TANF as a private slush fund, routing tens of millions to churches, wrestlers, and celebrity pet projects (including Brett Favre's)—while rejecting over 90% of poor families.
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Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
From the minnesota community on Reddit: ST. PAUL, MN: A sobbing resident calls 911 as federal agents force their way into her home to chase down a DoorDash driver who was just trying to deliver food.
Explore this post and more from the minnesota community
www.reddit.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
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the road to this was paved with columnists scoffing at us
January 10, 2026 at 7:31 PM
the road to this was paved with columnists scoffing at us
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If I leave this sewer the turds win
If women quit X because of Grok’s deepfake nudes, the predators win – so I’m staying
If women quit X because of Grok’s deepfake nudes, the predators win – so I’m staying
If women quit X because of Grok’s deepfake nudes, the predators win – so I’m staying
www.independent.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 4:52 PM
If I leave this sewer the turds win
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Keep filming these assholes. Keep making them famous.
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Keep filming these assholes. Keep making them famous.
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It’s true they want a kingly president who guarantees the vast holdings of a court of billionaire lords
January 10, 2026 at 1:46 PM
It’s true they want a kingly president who guarantees the vast holdings of a court of billionaire lords
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They spent years close-reading every left-wing message from college activist groups for hints of anti-semitism and now the most heavily armed domestic agency does a new Nazi meme post every week and they’re like “Odd but not really front-page news, you know? Doesn’t look like anything to me.”
January 10, 2026 at 3:32 PM
They spent years close-reading every left-wing message from college activist groups for hints of anti-semitism and now the most heavily armed domestic agency does a new Nazi meme post every week and they’re like “Odd but not really front-page news, you know? Doesn’t look like anything to me.”
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It’s beyond insane that our overarching internal security agency has spent months tweeting barely-coded messages of support for neo-Nazi groups and the entire media apparatus looks at it and says “That’s odd but certainly not part a major story that is relevant to current events, I’m sure”
January 10, 2026 at 3:28 PM
It’s beyond insane that our overarching internal security agency has spent months tweeting barely-coded messages of support for neo-Nazi groups and the entire media apparatus looks at it and says “That’s odd but certainly not part a major story that is relevant to current events, I’m sure”
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These 75 Democrats joined Republicans to "express gratitude" to ICE agents and call for greater local and state collaboration with ICE.
jonathancohn.medium.com/a-tale-of-tw...
jonathancohn.medium.com/a-tale-of-tw...
June 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
These 75 Democrats joined Republicans to "express gratitude" to ICE agents and call for greater local and state collaboration with ICE.
jonathancohn.medium.com/a-tale-of-tw...
jonathancohn.medium.com/a-tale-of-tw...
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We need to talk about this.
Sec Kennedy took action this week to make it harder for children to get vaccinated for the flu.
I think that’s completely insane and unacceptable.
Sec Kennedy took action this week to make it harder for children to get vaccinated for the flu.
I think that’s completely insane and unacceptable.
January 10, 2026 at 4:11 PM
We need to talk about this.
Sec Kennedy took action this week to make it harder for children to get vaccinated for the flu.
I think that’s completely insane and unacceptable.
Sec Kennedy took action this week to make it harder for children to get vaccinated for the flu.
I think that’s completely insane and unacceptable.
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Been thinking about the academic who told me last year that we can't prosecute Stephen Miller for his crimes because carceral liberalism will only push more economically anxious, disaffected young men into the arms of the right. I wonder how his week's been going.
January 10, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Been thinking about the academic who told me last year that we can't prosecute Stephen Miller for his crimes because carceral liberalism will only push more economically anxious, disaffected young men into the arms of the right. I wonder how his week's been going.
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Frey: "An individual from a car that was in the middle of a street was detained. ICE left the car in the middle of the street. The car wasn't even in park, so you got it just rolling down the street w/nobody in it. It could've hit anybody, including my own family. This is not about safety"
January 10, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Frey: "An individual from a car that was in the middle of a street was detained. ICE left the car in the middle of the street. The car wasn't even in park, so you got it just rolling down the street w/nobody in it. It could've hit anybody, including my own family. This is not about safety"
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"I would love to go shopping tomorrow with my DOGE dividends. I'm going shopping with my tariff dividend... I love this new health care plan, which costs nothing."
Point is, there are two Trumps.
What he says: Populist giveaways
What he does: Tax cuts straight from the Republican country club.
Point is, there are two Trumps.
What he says: Populist giveaways
What he does: Tax cuts straight from the Republican country club.
January 10, 2026 at 1:51 PM
"I would love to go shopping tomorrow with my DOGE dividends. I'm going shopping with my tariff dividend... I love this new health care plan, which costs nothing."
Point is, there are two Trumps.
What he says: Populist giveaways
What he does: Tax cuts straight from the Republican country club.
Point is, there are two Trumps.
What he says: Populist giveaways
What he does: Tax cuts straight from the Republican country club.
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I also previously thought amoral but rational capitalists used rubes by cynically deploying vicious / silly right wing ideologies. But I now think I underestimated how many true believers there are, some of the previously rational got internet brain poison, and there's been change in who's in power.
i had sincerely thought that sexism was a dying prejudice because, in all honesty, up until 2025 i also sincerely believed on at least some level that powerful capitalists with rational but amoral priorities controlled everything and understood the value women bring to the workforce
January 10, 2026 at 8:10 AM
I also previously thought amoral but rational capitalists used rubes by cynically deploying vicious / silly right wing ideologies. But I now think I underestimated how many true believers there are, some of the previously rational got internet brain poison, and there's been change in who's in power.
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Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum, who shot Marimar Martinez five times (she survived) as she drove her car in Chicago on Oct. 4, is also a firearm instructor.
ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, per Testimony
Jonathan Ross told a federal court in December about his professional background, including “hundreds” of encounters with drivers during enforcement actions, according to testimony obtained by WIRED.
www.wired.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum, who shot Marimar Martinez five times (she survived) as she drove her car in Chicago on Oct. 4, is also a firearm instructor.
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We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.
January 10, 2026 at 1:47 AM
We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.
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Of course, conversely, you can only unleash an agency staffed by reactionary and violent thugs on the people if you apply a Schmittian friend/enemy framework
January 8, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Of course, conversely, you can only unleash an agency staffed by reactionary and violent thugs on the people if you apply a Schmittian friend/enemy framework
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News quiz: What country is this NYT paragraph about?
January 10, 2026 at 3:35 AM
News quiz: What country is this NYT paragraph about?
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if a Democrat had said “I can’t wait to host the oil companies at my 90,000 square foot golden self-commemorative ballroom that I tore down the White House and solicited $300 million in bribes to build” it would literally be considered the worst scandal and gaffe in human history
REPORTER: The Capital Planning Commission is concerned the 89,000 square foot ballroom is going to dwarf the rest of the rest of the WH. Do you worry about that?
TRUMP: No no. People love the ballroom. We need it. If we would've had the ballroom today, we could've had all the oil companies there.
TRUMP: No no. People love the ballroom. We need it. If we would've had the ballroom today, we could've had all the oil companies there.
January 9, 2026 at 11:44 PM
if a Democrat had said “I can’t wait to host the oil companies at my 90,000 square foot golden self-commemorative ballroom that I tore down the White House and solicited $300 million in bribes to build” it would literally be considered the worst scandal and gaffe in human history
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Looks more like an occupying army attempting subjugation than a law enforcement operation, yes.
I mean that objectively. Someone can have a positive opinion of it, I suppose, but that doesn’t change the ICE/BP actions and what they resemble.
I mean that objectively. Someone can have a positive opinion of it, I suppose, but that doesn’t change the ICE/BP actions and what they resemble.
Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.
January 10, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Looks more like an occupying army attempting subjugation than a law enforcement operation, yes.
I mean that objectively. Someone can have a positive opinion of it, I suppose, but that doesn’t change the ICE/BP actions and what they resemble.
I mean that objectively. Someone can have a positive opinion of it, I suppose, but that doesn’t change the ICE/BP actions and what they resemble.
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Trump's talk of Greenland's strategic value, Ru and Chinese ships, and insufficient US bases is a flimsy pretext, just like Pu's NATO security concerns have always been. In both cases, the imperialist conquest intent is transparent and no one should be falling for the lazy pretexts.
January 10, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Trump's talk of Greenland's strategic value, Ru and Chinese ships, and insufficient US bases is a flimsy pretext, just like Pu's NATO security concerns have always been. In both cases, the imperialist conquest intent is transparent and no one should be falling for the lazy pretexts.
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So an officer has his phone out recording obviously distracted, shoots a woman and calls her a “f’ing Bitch” and they think that HELPS the case?!?
January 9, 2026 at 8:20 PM
So an officer has his phone out recording obviously distracted, shoots a woman and calls her a “f’ing Bitch” and they think that HELPS the case?!?
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This is a powerful, loving, heartbreaking statement from the wife of Renee Macklin Good, who was murdered by our government. It amazingly seeks to rise above the hate to honor Renee and calls us to our best selves. Read and share. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Renee Macklin Good’s wife says she nurtured kindness
On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.
www.mprnews.org
January 9, 2026 at 5:21 PM
This is a powerful, loving, heartbreaking statement from the wife of Renee Macklin Good, who was murdered by our government. It amazingly seeks to rise above the hate to honor Renee and calls us to our best selves. Read and share. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Democrats should demand the dismantling of ICE, congressional hearings into its operations and prosecution of its worst offenders, but at the VERY least they must refuse to spend our tax money to fund these masked goons who are terrorizing our communities.
I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
January 9, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Democrats should demand the dismantling of ICE, congressional hearings into its operations and prosecution of its worst offenders, but at the VERY least they must refuse to spend our tax money to fund these masked goons who are terrorizing our communities.