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My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti

Absolutely heartbreaking
Photos of Alex Pretti with Sara’s caption: On August 16th at approximately 10:00 pm I received a call from the ICU at the VA saying my Dad had sepsis and needed to be intubated to stay alive so Josh and I headed in. We were greeted by the kindest, most calming and warm soul who helped us understand what was happening and showed deep care for us and my Dad. He continued to show utmost patience and kindness over the next few days as my Dad remained in the ICU and we were there continually. It was Alex Pretti, the man shot today by ICE. If you see this video and don't think it's murder, I don't understand your thinking and ask you to question your heart. He was out there trying to help and protect and from the little we knew of him, it doesn't surprise me he was not afraid to be on the front lines of this horrible scene in our Minneapolis. Weeping for his family and all those at the VA who no longer get to work with him or receive his care.
January 25, 2026 at 4:19 PM
At St. Pete recruitment event, Border Patrol rep touts qualified immunity and early retirement www.cltampa.com/news/at-st-p...
At St. Pete recruitment event, Border Patrol rep touts qualified immunity and early retirement
A DHS officer at The Hilton in St. Petersburg, Florida Jan. 13, 2026. Dubbed “The Green Monster” by some DHS officials, Border Patrol has a reputation as
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January 19, 2026 at 8:21 PM
How ‘Mr. Nobody’ in a Small-Town School Took on Putin www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/w...
How ‘Mr. Nobody’ in a Small-Town School Took on Putin
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January 17, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Potemkin Airwaves: The Hollow Resurrection of U.S. International Broadcasting open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/...
Potemkin Airwaves
The Hollow Resurrection of U.S. International Broadcasting
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January 16, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Trump administration sends letter wiping out $2 billion in addiction, mental health grants www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...
January 15, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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whstancil.bsky.social
Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
ajcousins.bsky.social Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 22d
"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"

"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
chicagotribune.com Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 22d
A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.
January 14, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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johncluverius.bsky.social
i'm not saying this as anyone who knows anything about health; i'm saying it as someone who is an alleged expert in interest group politics: the American beef industry is all over MAHA, wellness, and podcast spaces.

remember "bacon mania?" totally a marketing strategy by the pork industry.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25d
New federal dietary guidelines give federal approval to beef tallow, a fat that both cardiologists and the U.S. government told Americans to avoid for nearly half a century.
Beef Tallow Rises to the Top of the U.S. Food Pyramid
The new dietary guidelines give federal approval to a fat that has slowly caught on with consumers, even as doctors have warned against it.
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January 10, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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kairyssdal.bsky.social
This is…

A) …market-moving information. And, in fact, it appears there was action on Polymarket around the time of this post

B) …another attack on the (still reliable) work of the professionals at BLS.

C) …yet another example of him not believing the rules apply to him, and getting away w it
kenwhite.bsky.social Gambled And Lost Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26d
Kai, could you educate us with a few sentences why?
January 9, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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chadloder.bsky.social
Stephen Miller as Viceroy of the Venezuelan Territories is a nightmarish thought.
ericumansky.bsky.social Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · Jan 5
Don't worry, they're considering putting Stephen Miller in charge....

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January 5, 2026 at 3:33 AM
OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
SF tech exec gives $25M to super PAC for 'MAGA' causes
The super PAC will help fund Republicans' midterm election battle.
www.sfgate.com
January 3, 2026 at 7:01 PM
www.npr.org/2025/12/23/n...
Biden stopped the executions of 37 men. Trump's DOJ wants to punish them
Since Trump took office, officials have transferred ten of the 37 men Biden spared from execution to the "Alcatraz of the Rockies." One prisoner still awaiting transfer has attempted suicide.
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January 2, 2026 at 7:56 PM
www.propublica.org/article/nort...
Inside the North Carolina GOP’s Decade-Long Push to Seize Power From the State’s Democratic Governors
For almost a decade, North Carolina’s majority-Republican legislature tried six times to strip Democratic governors of control over the board overseeing the swing state’s elections. This year, it fina...
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January 2, 2026 at 1:55 AM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
December 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
How much of Project 2025 has actually been accomplished this year? 19thnews.org/2025/12/proj... via @19thnews.org
How much of Project 2025 has actually been accomplished this year?
As the year ends, The 19th takes a look at how the conservative policy wishlist for Trump’s second term impacted women and LGBTQ+ Americans.
19thnews.org
December 26, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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annamerlan.bsky.social
Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Every society that has ever existed has had views that are mainstream and views that are fringe. The free-speech frauds who captured the discourse over the past decade understood this, but their true objection was that they did not unilaterally have the power to define which was which. For example, in a 2018 Times column, Weiss complained that “leftists” were engaged in a “concerted attempt to significantly redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” This was meant to sound sinister, menacing. In fact, this is politics. Every faction is always trying to “redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” In a free society, the government allows people to have those arguments. Such disputes are not a threat to free speech; they are free speech. When I say that CBS News’s Bari Weiss understood this, you needn’t take my word for it. In November, shortly after being given the reins to one of the oldest broadcast-news organizations in the country, Weiss used identical language to describe her own project: “I think it’s about redrawing the lines of what falls in the 40-yard lines of acceptable debate and acceptable American politics and culture,” Weiss said at the Jewish Leadership Conference. “And I don’t mean that in, like, a censorious, gatekeeping way.” What’s the difference between her “redrawing the lines” of acceptable speech and other people doing it? What makes one “censorious” and “gatekeeping” and the other not? Well, because she gets to decide. That’s what so much of the free-speech panic was ever about: making sure the right people were in charge of what you see, hear, and read. Notably, this has very little to do with reporting the news, which is supposed to be what CBS News does. But if the point of installing Weiss was to ensure that she would gatekeep on behalf of right-wing interests, that is precisely what she appears to be doing.
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
How ‘Turn and Burn’ Immigration Operations Unleash Chaos — and Sweep up U.S. Citizens www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: How ‘Turn and Burn’ Immigration Operations Unleash Chaos — and Sweep up U.S. Citizens
A video analysis of one early morning raid in Los Angeles revealed the vast web of consequences brought by new aggressive Border Patrol tactics.
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.

Holy. Shit.

www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor? I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/07/w...
Washington tried to profit from Ukraine's ruins. Europe, what's your move? - Euromaidan Press
The Witkoff plan revealed the game. Time to use Russia's billions.
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December 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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allinwithchris.bsky.social
WATCH: A CDC panel voted to end the recommendation that newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine, despite a 99% drop in cases since in the 30 years since it was implemented. Chris Hayes and Brandy Zadrozny react. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6REM...
CDC Panel ends recommendation for newborn hepatitis B shot
YouTube video by MS NOW
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December 6, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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deonandan.bsky.social
In lieu of affordable universal health insurance, Texans will now be given better access to de-worming medication.
December 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
My comments with @ddiamond.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com more antivaccine MAHA pseudoscience headed our way www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths
Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
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Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or...
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November 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM