Clare
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I can’t overstate that nearly every good headline coming out of Minnesota has been followed up by retaliation by the Trump administration—which tends to get a lot less attention.
This is infuriating and devastating.
This is infuriating and devastating.
BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos
The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 3:13 AM
I can’t overstate that nearly every good headline coming out of Minnesota has been followed up by retaliation by the Trump administration—which tends to get a lot less attention.
This is infuriating and devastating.
This is infuriating and devastating.
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Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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In case you were unaware that GenAI software developers are also exploiting and abusing workers in the global South to support their plausible word-mulch vending machines.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:44 AM
In case you were unaware that GenAI software developers are also exploiting and abusing workers in the global South to support their plausible word-mulch vending machines.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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so for everyone who’s got an “I bought this before Elon was bad” bumper sticker, did you buy your Tesla in 2012
“What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?” Mr. Musk asked in a email to Mr. Epstein on Nov. 25, 2012. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
Musk and Epstein Exchanged Emails About Visiting One Another, Documents Show
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:05 PM
so for everyone who’s got an “I bought this before Elon was bad” bumper sticker, did you buy your Tesla in 2012
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Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
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When you cave, they push harder. When you fight back, *they* cave. Do not obey in advance. Repeat after me: "Fuck you--make me."
The Trump administration is no longer trying to get cash from Harvard as it seeks a settlement. At this point, the White House seems happy to get a signature on anything they can call a compact.
Trump Drops Demand for Cash From Harvard After Stiff Resistance
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:49 PM
When you cave, they push harder. When you fight back, *they* cave. Do not obey in advance. Repeat after me: "Fuck you--make me."
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Dozens of routinely updated CDC databases have gone quiet. Here’s what states and medical societies are doing to preserve U.S. public health
A ‘shadow CDC’ is scrambling to fill gaps in public health data
Dozens of routinely updated CDC databases have gone quiet. Here’s what states and medical societies are doing to preserve U.S. public health
www.scientificamerican.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Dozens of routinely updated CDC databases have gone quiet. Here’s what states and medical societies are doing to preserve U.S. public health
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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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we are going to need to prosecute all the people who paid bribes to Trump.
Amazon’s MGM studios spent tens of millions, but the documentary is projected to make just $1M in its first week.
This comes as a new report from Rolling Stone details serious labor issues and two-thirds of the film’s staff requesting not to be credited at the end of the film. trib.al/Clr03cD
This comes as a new report from Rolling Stone details serious labor issues and two-thirds of the film’s staff requesting not to be credited at the end of the film. trib.al/Clr03cD
Melania Documentary Flops as Crew Reveals Behind-the-Scenes Chaos
The first lady’s documentary was a mess in production—and now it’s struggling at the box office.
trib.al
January 28, 2026 at 4:28 AM
we are going to need to prosecute all the people who paid bribes to Trump.
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The aggregation of 22 separate federal agencies, most of which had nothing to do with each other, into DHS was the second most corrosive post-9/11 action taken (after the passing of the PATRIOT Act) and I will die on that hill
Amid growing calls for the abolition of ICE, Rep. Delia Ramirez is calling for the entire DHS to be dismantled. Highlighting how much experience the officers who killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti had, Ramirez said, “DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity.”
House Democrat Says Abolishing ICE Isn’t Enough — DHS Must Go, Too
“The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights,” said Rep. Delia C. Ramirez.
truthout.org
January 28, 2026 at 5:21 AM
The aggregation of 22 separate federal agencies, most of which had nothing to do with each other, into DHS was the second most corrosive post-9/11 action taken (after the passing of the PATRIOT Act) and I will die on that hill
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We had eradicated this disease.
And now because of targeted disinformation, children, immunocompromised people, elderly folks, and so many others become victims in this proxy war and we have a new avoidable pandemic.
And now because of targeted disinformation, children, immunocompromised people, elderly folks, and so many others become victims in this proxy war and we have a new avoidable pandemic.
Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
January 28, 2026 at 2:03 PM
We had eradicated this disease.
And now because of targeted disinformation, children, immunocompromised people, elderly folks, and so many others become victims in this proxy war and we have a new avoidable pandemic.
And now because of targeted disinformation, children, immunocompromised people, elderly folks, and so many others become victims in this proxy war and we have a new avoidable pandemic.
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approaching the problem of "roving death squads" from an incrementalist point of view is just a slow form of suicide
SCHUMER says Democrats are “united” behind three DHS reforms
1/ End roving patrols; tighten the rules on warrants and require ICE to coordinate with local authorities.
2/ Enforce accountability; a uniform code of conduct.
3/ Require masks off, body cameras on, agents carry ID.
1/ End roving patrols; tighten the rules on warrants and require ICE to coordinate with local authorities.
2/ Enforce accountability; a uniform code of conduct.
3/ Require masks off, body cameras on, agents carry ID.
January 28, 2026 at 8:27 PM
approaching the problem of "roving death squads" from an incrementalist point of view is just a slow form of suicide
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Bill Kristol sees this shit clearly. I don't know how so many elected Democrats don't.
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
January 25, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Bill Kristol sees this shit clearly. I don't know how so many elected Democrats don't.
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Much like democrats need to lie down in front of some SUVs before they beg for donations, religious leadership should be doing God's *actual* work like these folks 👇 if they're going to claim tax exempt status. To be clear, I would like to see both. Both are good. Both are helpful. Let's have both.
Arrests calmly ongoing.
This is going to take a while. There are a lot of clergy risking arrest.
This is going to take a while. There are a lot of clergy risking arrest.
January 23, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Much like democrats need to lie down in front of some SUVs before they beg for donations, religious leadership should be doing God's *actual* work like these folks 👇 if they're going to claim tax exempt status. To be clear, I would like to see both. Both are good. Both are helpful. Let's have both.
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I'll say yet again: Trump & his party do something virtually every day that constitutes a more violent & alarming suppression of speech than anything that happened during the entire alleged tyranny of woke. Every day. Yet the entire Free Spech army has just vanished into mist.
I wrote on the shameful situation re: the recession of a deanship to Emily Suski at the University of Arkansas Law. What was the reason? Prof. Suski signed an amicus brief supporting trans rights. The Arkansas legislators admitted that was it! Horrible outcome. ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
A Law School Dean Signed a Brief Defending Trans Rights. She Lost Her Job Because of It
The revocation of Emily Suski’s job offer at the University of Arkansas sends a chilling message to law professors everywhere.
ballsandstrikes.org
January 22, 2026 at 6:49 PM
I'll say yet again: Trump & his party do something virtually every day that constitutes a more violent & alarming suppression of speech than anything that happened during the entire alleged tyranny of woke. Every day. Yet the entire Free Spech army has just vanished into mist.
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For people asking “why isn’t there a general strike?” earnestly, and not just to be a judgmental prick
Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since.
That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.
That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.
National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
January 22, 2026 at 10:23 PM
For people asking “why isn’t there a general strike?” earnestly, and not just to be a judgmental prick
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The truth isn't in the middle. Sometimes someone is telling the truth and someone else is lying.
January 19, 2026 at 2:02 PM
The truth isn't in the middle. Sometimes someone is telling the truth and someone else is lying.
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The purpose of “So How Come College Students Aren’t Protesting Iran, Huh?” is not a sincere desire to direct attention to the Iranian struggle.
It is intended to shame college students for their recent protests against Israel and ICE.
It is intended to shame college students for their recent protests against Israel and ICE.
It is not "pedantic" to acknowledge that a college protest against Iran makes zero sense. Protests are typically against things, not in favor of rights movements in other countries!
January 16, 2026 at 4:48 PM
The purpose of “So How Come College Students Aren’t Protesting Iran, Huh?” is not a sincere desire to direct attention to the Iranian struggle.
It is intended to shame college students for their recent protests against Israel and ICE.
It is intended to shame college students for their recent protests against Israel and ICE.
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It’s also incredibly stupid because how many people in other countries are just randomly protesting what’s going on specifically in the US?
The idea that the Left has to come out and protest every conceivable geopolitical issue or they’re hypocrites is made in such bad faith
The idea that the Left has to come out and protest every conceivable geopolitical issue or they’re hypocrites is made in such bad faith
It is not "pedantic" to acknowledge that a college protest against Iran makes zero sense. Protests are typically against things, not in favor of rights movements in other countries!
January 16, 2026 at 5:37 PM
It’s also incredibly stupid because how many people in other countries are just randomly protesting what’s going on specifically in the US?
The idea that the Left has to come out and protest every conceivable geopolitical issue or they’re hypocrites is made in such bad faith
The idea that the Left has to come out and protest every conceivable geopolitical issue or they’re hypocrites is made in such bad faith
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this is very much not the core of the issue. we tolerate all sorts of biological advantages and disadvantages in sports. the real fundamental question here is: why is this one different than the others?
January 16, 2026 at 6:06 PM
this is very much not the core of the issue. we tolerate all sorts of biological advantages and disadvantages in sports. the real fundamental question here is: why is this one different than the others?
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Children of Owl is coming fall 2026, y'all.
January 16, 2026 at 6:50 AM
Children of Owl is coming fall 2026, y'all.
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No amount of bullshit I consume will ever convince me that people should be exploited and abused. Despite my many flaws, I'm not a piece of shit. It's not the Internet frying us. It's a refusal to acknowledge bigotry for what it is that's frying us.
January 17, 2026 at 12:35 PM
No amount of bullshit I consume will ever convince me that people should be exploited and abused. Despite my many flaws, I'm not a piece of shit. It's not the Internet frying us. It's a refusal to acknowledge bigotry for what it is that's frying us.
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Yes we are all having our brains cooked by being too online. Even people less online are cooked because the news media is too online. But you know what really fries people's brains? A willingness to believe their fellow humans don't deserve to live.
January 17, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Yes we are all having our brains cooked by being too online. Even people less online are cooked because the news media is too online. But you know what really fries people's brains? A willingness to believe their fellow humans don't deserve to live.
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“The Oglala Sioux Tribe is trying to locate four members detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis.”
“…leaders of Minneapolis’ American Indian community say their people are being stopped and harassed, profiled for the color of their skin.”
sahanjournal.com/news-partner...
“…leaders of Minneapolis’ American Indian community say their people are being stopped and harassed, profiled for the color of their skin.”
sahanjournal.com/news-partner...
Tribal leaders say ICE is detaining American Indians
Homeless people who have been trying to survive the winter in tents said that ICE apparently detained four Oglala Sioux men without looking for credentials.
sahanjournal.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:14 AM
“The Oglala Sioux Tribe is trying to locate four members detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis.”
“…leaders of Minneapolis’ American Indian community say their people are being stopped and harassed, profiled for the color of their skin.”
sahanjournal.com/news-partner...
“…leaders of Minneapolis’ American Indian community say their people are being stopped and harassed, profiled for the color of their skin.”
sahanjournal.com/news-partner...
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I’m not interested in any candidate for 2026 or 2028 who doesn’t have plans to put every ICE agent on trial for their crimes
ICE kidnap 17-year-old U.S. citizen working at Target then dump him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot… 🤬
January 12, 2026 at 11:49 PM
I’m not interested in any candidate for 2026 or 2028 who doesn’t have plans to put every ICE agent on trial for their crimes