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"The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." --Thomas Paine, The American Crisis.

Immigrant family from 1607.
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"What the rest of us are facing now, is what Aimé Césaire called imperial boomerang. Empires, when they decay, employ the savage forms of control on those they subjugate abroad, or those demonized by the wider society in the name of law and order, on the homeland."
Imperial Boomerang
The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing today of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans ...
chrishedges.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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There is no defending this. This is cold-blooded murder.
NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.
January 24, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Murder. All of these ICE fuckers need to go to jail.
Another ICE/CBP murder of a citizen in Minneapolis' Whittier neighborhood.
January 24, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Wow. These Dems voting for ICE. Shameful. Vote them out.
DHS spending bill passed 220-207

7 Democrats voted in favor:
Henry Cuellar
Don Davis
Laura Gilles
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Jared Golden
Vicente Gonzalez
Tom Suozzi

Massie voted No
Andy Harris didn't vote

Might not have passed if every Democrat voted No, but leadership wasn't whipping them to do so
January 23, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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Literally
January 22, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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This is 100% FALSE. Immigration judges do NOT play any role in issuing administrative warrants. They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves. ICE’s own training materials say they can’t be used for a search of a home!

Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.
January 22, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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There’s no reforming this
January 22, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Yep.
January 22, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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January 21, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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NATO & Denmark: We will give you the exact same security arrangements you have had for the past 40 years in Greenland.

Trump: Total surrender! Art of the deal!
January 21, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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January 22, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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Sixteen years ago, the Supreme Court decided that corporations are people under the First Amendment.

Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors.

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.
January 21, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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“she rubbed me the wrong way” says the rapist
January 21, 2026 at 3:13 PM
You can thank the GOP for their complete complicity in the unraveling of our democracy.
Trump on NATO: "Until the last few days when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me daddy."

(He means Greenland.)
January 21, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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Insane — a French judge says Trump’s goons tried to pressure her over Le Pen’s prosecution and she was so “taken aback” she told the French foreign office

“There’s a political project behind all this and we must be vigilant”
January 21, 2026 at 4:32 AM
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January 21, 2026 at 12:23 PM
January 20, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Yep.
January 19, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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January 19, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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(cartoon Pat Bagley) #trump #epstein #cover-up
January 19, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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January 19, 2026 at 3:49 PM
January 19, 2026 at 3:41 PM
"Flooding the public sphere with real footage, captured by real people, in real time, can help combat the lies our government amplifies to justify state violence."
Opinion | Why filming ICE is one of the most American things you can do right now
Renee Nicole Good was shot in Minneapolis on January 7. Her death proves filming ICE is one of the most American things you can do right now.
www.ms.now
January 19, 2026 at 3:40 PM
January 19, 2026 at 3:38 PM