Andy Cliffhanger
acliffhanger.bsky.social
Andy Cliffhanger
@acliffhanger.bsky.social
Social climber. Dade County native.
Not a great judge for him

President Donald J. Trump; Donald J. Trump Jr.; Eric Trump; The Trump Organization LLC
v.
Internal Revenue Service; U.S. Department of the Treasury

01/29/2026
1:26cv20609
Kathleen M. Williams
January 31, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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“in theater” is a crazy way to describe minneapolis
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?

HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 29, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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BREAKING: In an extraordinarily uncommon development, the FBI carried out a court-authorized raid at Fulton County’s main election operations center.

The search is part of the Trump admin's probe of the 2020 election in Fulton Co., including a lawsuit demanding access to ballots.
FBI raids Fulton County, Georgia election hub, probing 2020
The FBI confirmed to news outlets it was carrying out a “lawful” search at the Fulton County Elections Hub and Operation Center but offered few details beyond saying the raid was authorized by a court...
www.democracydocket.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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Grassley has been in Congress for FIFTY-FIVE YEARS.

You might think he'd have picked up a thing or two about the US Constitution. You know, the thing he swore an oath to defend - TWENTY-SEVEN TIMES.
January 28, 2026 at 3:08 AM
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It’s 39 days beyond the statutory deadline.
JUST IN: DOJ says its attorneys have reviewed and redacted “millions” of pages of Epstein Files material and should complete their review in the “near term.” But they say there’s no specific date or ballpark for the release. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 28, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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Fox's Brian Kilmeade at 6:15am: "What I would do is just bring Tom Homan in" to Minnesota.

Kilmeade at 7:15am: Send Homan!

Kilmeade at 8:10am: Send Homan!

Trump at 8:30am: Sends Homan
Fox News said Tom Homan should be sent to Minnesota — 20 minutes later, Trump did exactly that | CNN Business
As MAGA media frets over the optics of the Alex Pretti shooting, Brian Kilmeade repeatedly floated a suggestion to the president over Fox’s airwaves on Monday.
www.cnn.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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dystopia
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE

Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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Things are so bad that the Minnesota prison system has had to launch a website specifically to combat DHS lies. The first major release from DOC officials suggests Gregory Bovino outright lied about the target of the Border Patrol operation during which agents shot and killed Alex Pretti.
January 25, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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Judge DAVIS wasn't done -- in yet another Sunday order, he upbraids the administration for "an undeniable move...to defy court orders or at least to stretch the legal process to the breaking point in an attempt to deny noncitizens their due process rights
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 26, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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Iranian security forces gunned down dozens of protesters trying to escape a devastating blaze in the Caspian Sea city of Rasht during a nationwide uprising earlier this month, according to witness accounts provided to The Post.
Iranian forces massacred protesters fleeing burning market, witnesses say
A rare detailed account of Iran’s crackdown, produced by The Post, reveals the brutality used by security forces in one of many such cities rocked by violence.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:00 AM
“THE SCRIPTURES YOU LOVE WEREN'T WRITTEN TO KEEP THINGS CALM.
THEY WERE WRITTEN TO SET THINGS RIGHT.”
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 25, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it...

Arizona, November 2020
January 25, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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Here’s TMZ with a headline every outlet that cares about the truth should have.

www.tmz.com/2026/01/24/n...
January 25, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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“.. Donald Trump deserves some of the credit. Without the American president’s nationalist adventurism, his predilection for tariffs and his habit of alienating allies, the two big democracies might not have found the courage to strike a deal.”

@economist.com 🇮🇳
www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
January 25, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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Wolfers: This is the most interventionist government of my lifetime. It’s the least conservative government of my lifetime. When you are the richest country in the world, maybe you are not the ones who should be tearing down your existing institutions. But that’s exactly what this president is doing
January 25, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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Our analysis at @bellingcat.com on the killing of Alex Pretti breaks down the video evidence.

He never reached for his gun.
Agents sprayed/tackled him while his hands were up.
He was disarmed before he was shot.
The first shot came from an agent firing at him.

www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...
Alex Pretti: Analysing Footage of Minneapolis CBP Shooting - bellingcat
Bellingcat has analysed video of the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. The footage appears to contradict statements made by the Department of Homeland Security.
www.bellingcat.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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Succinct, accurate, well done sentence in @bloomberg.com story today by @steventdennis.bsky.social & @elwasson.bsky.social
January 25, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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It’s no comfort, but the official DHS line being “he can be killed by masked agents of the state because he had a legal gun” is such an interesting new frontier in how Trump has made the conservative movement very publicly and embarrassingly abandon every principal it once claimed.
January 24, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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37 year old white male citizen with a lawful permit to carry a firearm, says the Minneapolis Police Department.
January 24, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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Breaking news: Federal agents in Minneapolis fatally shot a man believed to be U.S. citizen. The victim was a 37-year-old White male, a resident of the city and appeared to lawfully own a gun, the police chief said. https://wapo.st/3M62eyV
January 24, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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Apologies, wrong link in the first post (there are two letters).

Correct link here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I suggest reading in full…it’s really something. The judge, by the way, is a Bush appointee and two-time Scalia clerk.

bsky.app/profile/anna...
January 24, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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The FBI agent who tried to investigate the ICE officer who shot Renee Good to death has resigned after the bureau leadership in Washington pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the killing. @alanfeuer.bsky.social @glennthrush.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...
F.B.I. Agent Who Tried to Investigate ICE Officer in Shooting Resigns
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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Trump's "Board of Peace": Belarus, Morocco, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Hungary, Armenia, Egypt, Kosovo, Pakistan, Paraguay, Albania, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Qatar, Indonesia.

The US’s new sphere of influence.
January 22, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
January 22, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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🚨BREAKING: The Trump Administration is moving forward with the creation of a new anti-fraud division that Vice President JD Vance said would be, “run out of the White House” in a break with longstanding nonpartisan norms at the Department of Justice (DOJ). www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ congressional notice contradicts Vance on new anti-fraud division reporting directly to White House
Vance claimed having a DOJ official report directly to him was “actually constitutionally legitimate."
www.democracydocket.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:43 AM