Clare CL
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Clare CL
@waltsmom.bsky.social
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A U.S. citizen legally observed ICE activity from a distance. He didn’t interfere, block agents, or make contact. An ICE agent still threatened lethal force and referenced a recent killing. That’s retaliation for protected speech—and it’s illegal. Caught on video. #sheshed
January 13, 2026 at 5:29 AM
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“And it was not Hitler who arrested me, not Goering, not Goebbels. The grocer, the janitor, the tailor, the shoemaker, the baker, they suddenly got a uniform, a swastika armband, and there they were, the master race...” -Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor
ICE just indiscriminately stopped a citizen at a bus stop in front of the co-op. If this is how they treat the President of the Minneapolis City Council who is legally observing, just think of what they’re doing to everyone else in our City.
January 13, 2026 at 5:03 AM
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The Senate is considering legislation to fund the government in 2026

But we are seeing-in real time-the monster Republicans created when they tripled the ICE budget in Trump’s Big Ugly Bill

Renee Good dead
Dozens assaulted
So many lives destroyed

Democrats cannot continue to support this atrocity
January 13, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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Trying to convince my editot to send me; direct flights are currently $1000!
I can’t emphasize enough how shocked my out of state friends and family are when I tell them what has happened in Minneapolis since Renee Good’s murder.

Without reliable media, most not-chronically-online people are completely in the dark. If you want to help Minnesota, tell people what you know.
January 13, 2026 at 5:31 AM
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Greg Bovino is a lying thug who fabricates claims of crowd violence as a pretext for unlawful use of force:
www.fox32chicago.com/news/border-...
January 13, 2026 at 5:18 AM
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Plans from ACA no longer feel very affordable to many people without expired subsidies
Hospitals and clinics are bracing for the influx of newly uninsured patients. They’re also concerned that people won’t know about alternative ways to get medical care.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Millions of Americans Are Expected To Drop Their Affordable Care Act Plans. They’re Looking for a Plan B. - KFF Health News
An estimated 4.8 million people are expected to go without health coverage because Congress did not extend enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act plans. But even without a health plan, people will...
kffhealthnews.org
January 12, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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NEW: Why do ICE goons keep citing Title 18 U.S.C. § 111 when they threaten peaceful observers? Our latest: youtu.be/y_kFMNLGXjc?...
BeansTalk | ICE is Out of Control
YouTube video by MSW Media
youtu.be
January 12, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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The nonprofit Trevor Project received a $45 million gift from billionaire MacKenzie Scott at the end of 2025.
The Trevor Project receives $45M from MacKenzie Scott after difficult years and federal funding cuts
The nonprofit Trevor Project received a $45 million gift from billionaire MacKenzie Scott at the end of 2025.
bit.ly
January 12, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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Gets at one of the dynamics rotting away at everything: People are inclined to trust "influencers" more than "the media." But influencers have no ethics rules and can take payouts for coverage. Outside the media, how many people know that we can't even let a source buy us dinner?
Detailing many of the right-wing social media influencers who are being paid big bucks by foreign governments and corporations to push issues that they suddenly care very passionately about. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Washington’s New Lobbyists: Paid Online Influencers With Few Rules
Corporate and foreign interests pour money into getting pro-Trump social-media stars to push their causes.
www.wsj.com
January 12, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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In Germany, a lot of houses have these Stolpersteines on their sidewalks or stoops. They’re a memorial to victims of the Holocaust who were ripped from that home. Some houses have a few. Other houses have many.

ICE has started going door to door in America.
January 11, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Its not that the media is not covering what is happening, but it does feel like the military occupation of an American city should be treated as a national crisis.
A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis

The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway

They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
January 12, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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Powell said the investigation is a result of the Federal Reserve refusing to adhere to the President’s preferences on sharply slashing interest rates.
DOJ Opens Criminal Investigation Into Fed Chair Powell—He Vows To Stand Firm In ‘Face Of Threats’
Powell said the investigation is a result of the Federal Reserve refusing to adhere to the President’s preferences on sharply slashing interest rates.
www.forbes.com
January 12, 2026 at 4:35 AM
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JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $12 million in grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics, saying the terminations appear to be retaliation for the group's view points re: vaccine safety/efficacy. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
January 12, 2026 at 4:29 AM
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Trump’s line is that disrespect to law enforcement is punishable by death. Impeach and remove. This is not tolerable.
Q: "Do you believe that deadly force was necessary?"

Trump: "It was highly disrespectful of law enforcement. The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement…Law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff."
January 12, 2026 at 4:52 AM
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ICE = Immigrant and Citizen Executions
Just a reminder: these photos federal agents are taking are part of a growing surveillance state w no oversight. Agents use facial recognition, phone tracking, license plate readers, fused government databases built by contractors like Palantir. What was tested on immigrants is expanding to citizens
January 12, 2026 at 5:02 AM
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I thought this was a joke but it’s an actual post from the White House: “we are ending the war on protein”

How about ending the war on the health of this country?
January 12, 2026 at 5:02 AM
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Donald Trump wants the Fed to cut interest rates

So he directed Pam Bondi to file subpoenas so they could threaten Jerome Powell with possible criminal charges unless he does what Trump wants

Government by extortion to force policy decisions that will hurt the US

MAGA-is this what you voted for
January 12, 2026 at 2:45 AM
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A 2013 report by the Police Executive Research Forum identified a pattern of misbehavior involving CBP agents intentionally putting themselves in a vehicle’s exit path, “creating justification for the use of deadly force.”

More context in this video from Ryan Goodman.

youtu.be/izonttr5Tp4?...
Initially-Secret Report: Customs&Border Patrol Agents Got in Way of Vehicles, Then Used Deadly Force
YouTube video by Ryan Goodman
youtu.be
January 11, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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This reporting from Mother Jones is excellent.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Cops are taught not to shoot into cars. ICE keeps doing it anyway.
Immigration agents have shot at least nine people since September. All of them have been in cars.
www.motherjones.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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THE LEFT HOOK MONDAY LINE UP

12 PM: The dynamic @daniellemoodie.bsky.social

1 pm: ECON 101 with Professor @justinwolfers.bsky.social and Trump threatening the Fed Reserve

2 pm: Ellie Leonard on the Epstein Files, Ghislaine Maxwell and Leslie Wexner

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No paywalls.
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January 12, 2026 at 5:03 AM
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Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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Putin’s hand in this is clear
They want it formally dead, but NATO is already functionally dead as a geopolitical reality. Even if he backs down (wouldn't bet on it), there's no going back from sending European capitals into a spiraling panic that the US is seriously about to invade one of them. You can't unring that bell.
January 11, 2026 at 4:12 AM
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Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June 2025)
Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...
www.propublica.org
January 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Fuck ICE
Another US citizen being abducted.

She then escapes, and they nab her again.

How many more of these scenes can we watch?

This isn't immigration control.

It is state-sponsored kidnapping.
January 11, 2026 at 12:08 AM