Andrés Felipe Padilla
@brandeddev.bsky.social
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ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
February 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
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They deleted this when it turned out they read the poll wrong and it's 38% who said their finances are improving and 62% who said it's the same or they're worse off. 🙃
February 6, 2026 at 12:29 AM
They deleted this when it turned out they read the poll wrong and it's 38% who said their finances are improving and 62% who said it's the same or they're worse off. 🙃
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Remember when Elon Musk got mad at being disallowed from interfering with a rescue operation and called its head a "pedo guy" then excused the defamation as a euphemism? Turns out that it wasn't meant as an insult. It was an affirmation
February 2, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Remember when Elon Musk got mad at being disallowed from interfering with a rescue operation and called its head a "pedo guy" then excused the defamation as a euphemism? Turns out that it wasn't meant as an insult. It was an affirmation
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Our government has effectively deputized Big Tech to censor our new media landscape, all while the legacy media amplifies moral panics about misinformation and online harm in order to manufacture consent for mass surveillance. zeteo.com/p/trump-tikt...
The Disastrous Rollout of the Trump-Approved TikTok Serves as a Stark Warning for Us All
Big Tech platforms wield far too much power over our information landscape to continue operating without transparency.
zeteo.com
February 1, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Our government has effectively deputized Big Tech to censor our new media landscape, all while the legacy media amplifies moral panics about misinformation and online harm in order to manufacture consent for mass surveillance. zeteo.com/p/trump-tikt...
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They aren’t deescalating anything. They’re claiming new extra-constitutional powers.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 11:30 PM
They aren’t deescalating anything. They’re claiming new extra-constitutional powers.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
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straight up Gestapo shit
January 31, 2026 at 8:54 PM
straight up Gestapo shit
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every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
January 30, 2026 at 11:58 PM
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
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The execution of Alex Pretti is playing so badly because you can look at his actions and life story - his last act was helping, boy scout, athlete, health care worker to veterans - and compare those to the men who killed him and know which you would want to be your son, brother, father, uncle.
January 26, 2026 at 4:18 PM
The execution of Alex Pretti is playing so badly because you can look at his actions and life story - his last act was helping, boy scout, athlete, health care worker to veterans - and compare those to the men who killed him and know which you would want to be your son, brother, father, uncle.
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I would be very surprised if a full accounting in the future didn't reveal more than one mass grave at the detention centers. If they're behaving this way in public, what's happening out of sight must be many times more brutal.
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 11:43 PM
I would be very surprised if a full accounting in the future didn't reveal more than one mass grave at the detention centers. If they're behaving this way in public, what's happening out of sight must be many times more brutal.
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Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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I suspect 9 of 10 Americans are unaware that the Hmong are here because they aided the US in the Vietnam war, and then had to flee as refugees afterwards. Quite the “thank you” we’re giving them 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
ICE is allegedly hunting for Hmong people in Minneapolis and as I watched video of the incident lo and behold @whstancil.bsky.social was on the scene
January 20, 2026 at 12:35 AM
I suspect 9 of 10 Americans are unaware that the Hmong are here because they aided the US in the Vietnam war, and then had to flee as refugees afterwards. Quite the “thank you” we’re giving them 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
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America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.
President Trump will issue a plan next week for letting Americans tap their 401(k)s for a down payment on a home, a senior White House official said Friday.
Trump Plan Would Let Americans Use 401(k)s for Down Payments on Homes, Official Says
President Trump will issue a plan next week for letting Americans tap their 401(k)s for a down payment on a home, a senior White House official said Friday.
on.wsj.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:11 PM
America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.
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Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too
Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too
One more piece of bad news for VR.
buff.ly
January 16, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too
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January 16, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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This string is the spammiest possible email you can get.
A typical spam threshold triggers at a score of 5.
GTUBE (Generic Test for Unsolicited Bulk Email) tests at 1000.
It's so, unbelievably strong, putting it in your email can ruin your sender score permanently.
A typical spam threshold triggers at a score of 5.
GTUBE (Generic Test for Unsolicited Bulk Email) tests at 1000.
It's so, unbelievably strong, putting it in your email can ruin your sender score permanently.
January 13, 2026 at 6:10 PM
This string is the spammiest possible email you can get.
A typical spam threshold triggers at a score of 5.
GTUBE (Generic Test for Unsolicited Bulk Email) tests at 1000.
It's so, unbelievably strong, putting it in your email can ruin your sender score permanently.
A typical spam threshold triggers at a score of 5.
GTUBE (Generic Test for Unsolicited Bulk Email) tests at 1000.
It's so, unbelievably strong, putting it in your email can ruin your sender score permanently.
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Trump on María Corina Machado: "I think it'd be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn't have the support or the respect within the country. She's a very nice woman but she doesn't have the respect."
January 3, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Trump on María Corina Machado: "I think it'd be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn't have the support or the respect within the country. She's a very nice woman but she doesn't have the respect."
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In questions from the press about opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, Trump said “It would be very tough for her to be the leader as she doesn’t have the respect within the country. She’s a very nice woman, but she doesn’t have the respect.”
US attacks Venezuelan capital, captures Maduro
An unknown number of civilian casualties as explosions rock Caracas
www.piratewireservices.com
January 3, 2026 at 6:51 PM
In questions from the press about opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, Trump said “It would be very tough for her to be the leader as she doesn’t have the respect within the country. She’s a very nice woman, but she doesn’t have the respect.”
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Donald Trump said the US would 'run' Venezuela until a transition of power takes place after American forces captured strongman leader Nicolás Maduro on Saturday.
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January 3, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Donald Trump said the US would 'run' Venezuela until a transition of power takes place after American forces captured strongman leader Nicolás Maduro on Saturday.
Follow live updates: ft.trib.al/MMK3imZ
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President Trump claims that the United States carried out airstrikes in Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro, following a series of explosions and fires reported around Caracas in the early hours of the morning.
n.pr/3Ymyqkg
n.pr/3Ymyqkg
Trump claims U.S. strikes, Maduro captured as explosions hit Caracas
President Donald Trump claimed overnight that the United States carried out airstrikes in Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro.
n.pr
January 3, 2026 at 10:37 AM
President Trump claims that the United States carried out airstrikes in Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro, following a series of explosions and fires reported around Caracas in the early hours of the morning.
n.pr/3Ymyqkg
n.pr/3Ymyqkg
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When her son died in utero, a venture capitalist went to extremes to punish her surrogate.
The Baby Died. Whose Fault Is It?
When her son died in utero, a venture capitalist went to extremes to punish her surrogate.
wrd.cm
December 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
When her son died in utero, a venture capitalist went to extremes to punish her surrogate.
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My dad died last May. More than anything else, history was what we shared in common. As we have the first Christmas without him, I reflected on what that meant. open.substack.com/pub/patrickw...
My Dad and History
Subscribers to the Past Lives Patreon have access to an audio version of this essay, along with tons of other great bonus content.
open.substack.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
My dad died last May. More than anything else, history was what we shared in common. As we have the first Christmas without him, I reflected on what that meant. open.substack.com/pub/patrickw...
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Ernst Röhm, Heinrich Himmler, and Josef Goebbels were all Gymnasium graduates who spoke Latin and Greek. Goebbels had a PhD in literature and wrote novels. Many extremely popular modern novelists are also massive nazis, including one who titled one of his books "my struggle".
I am beginning to develop a suspicion of national decline based in elevating STEM nerds to dangerously high social positions, because their tendency to believe that "anything that cannot be properly measured should not be argued for" is being more revealed by the day as an inherently reactionary one
December 23, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Ernst Röhm, Heinrich Himmler, and Josef Goebbels were all Gymnasium graduates who spoke Latin and Greek. Goebbels had a PhD in literature and wrote novels. Many extremely popular modern novelists are also massive nazis, including one who titled one of his books "my struggle".
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Wanna know Bari Weiss censored from 60 Minutes about El Salvador's concentration camp "CECOT?" Well I've got it and gonna react live to it on twitch.tv/cynicalhisto... in 15 minutes. Join me to see what our buffoonish autocrats do not want you to
December 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Wanna know Bari Weiss censored from 60 Minutes about El Salvador's concentration camp "CECOT?" Well I've got it and gonna react live to it on twitch.tv/cynicalhisto... in 15 minutes. Join me to see what our buffoonish autocrats do not want you to