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Tonk
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Only punch to the right.

gay! | leftist! | nerd! | lawyer 😑
nyc (optimistic) | he/him | 🍉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌻
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I'm Asian American. Nazi shit and racist shit and misogynist shit freaks me out because I stand in solidarity with everyone else who's a target of bigotry in this country. So yes, Platner alarms the hell out of me. I wish he alarmed the hell out of the New Republic.
February 15, 2026 at 6:18 AM
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"If one can get a nazi tattoo innocently,"

yeah, I'm gonna stop you right there, chief
February 13, 2026 at 2:48 PM
We need, as a society, to commit to only reposting the first post of a thread, no matter how fire the next twenty-seven entries are
February 12, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

1/
February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
BIG NEWS FROM NJ-11: former Rep. Tom Malinowski concedes, congratulates Analilia Mejia on a positive and well-run campaign, blames AIPAC for his loss, and promises to vigorously oppose anyone AIPAC backs against Mejia in June
February 10, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
February 10, 2026 at 9:55 AM
So much for @discord.com it was… fine, I guess
February 9, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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i need an emotional support perogi
February 7, 2026 at 7:55 PM
February 6, 2026 at 4:34 AM
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I know the lootbox Bobby kotick Epstein email is wild but microtransactions go all the way back to arcade machines which required quarters to continue playing. lootboxes were not invented by Activision gatcha mechanics preexisted that shit by years. Please believe in the existence of history
February 1, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Unless you are personally related to Schumer or Jeffries, THERE IS ZERO REASON for you to be in strangers' mentions getting into your feelings because they are being criticized. NO REASON. You need to regulate your feelings.
January 28, 2026 at 2:25 PM
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social NO.

NO. NO. NO.

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

STOP MAKING COMPROMISES WITH THE GESTAPO

cc: @schumer.senate.gov because it bears repeating

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
Dems coalescing around 5 restrictions on ICE, I'm told:

DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big)
CBP stays at border
warrants for arrests
IDs, bodycams
ICE out of churches, schools

"That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
A Dem Senator’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Hits Home: “Breaking Point”
As Trump scrambles to contain the damage from the latest ICE horrors, Senator Chris Murphy offers a sharp indictment of Trump-ICE lawlessness—and explains how Dems can meet the urgency of the moment.
newrepublic.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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Exactly right.

Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign.

Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE.

Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them.

Every possible angle.
They are wounded and flailing. Press the advantage.
January 27, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
January 27, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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At a rally in Union Square right now, Council member @chiosse.bsky.social tells the crowd, “We certainly need to abolish ICE, but that’s not enough—we need Nuremberg trials.”
January 24, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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If you're in New York, please take two minutes right now to call Governor Hochul and tell her to support and sign New York 4 All, which would prevent state and local agencies from collaborating with ICE.

518-474-8390.

This is important.
January 24, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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Why are they sending witnesses to Whipple?

WHY ARE THEY SENDING WITNESSES TO WHIPPLE?
ICE attempted to order local police from the scene of the Minneapolis shooting, but the police chief refused and instructed his officers to preserve the crime scene.

www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 24, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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I am a proud citizen of the best country on earth, New York City
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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we actually need to band together and let the dems know we will never donate another cent or vote for the party again if a single member of the party votes to give a single cent to ice ever again
January 24, 2026 at 4:05 PM
It’s weird you say that because it sure as hell resembles a lot of policing I’ve seen in my career
I think it's important to make the point that this is *not* policing.
January 24, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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I just responded to the scene at 26th and Nicollet shortly after the observer was shot. They teargassed and/or pepper sprayed Jana Shortal of KARE11 at the scene and she was being treated when I walked up. ICE have a fancy camera they are using to scan the faces of the crowd.
January 24, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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I’m sorry, I don’t care who this pisses off: yes, obviously this murder is on Trump and his ICE goons, but it is also on the feckless, cowardly authorities in the Minnesota government who didn’t do anything to arrest ICE agents the first time they murdered someone. This is the cost of inaction.
January 24, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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once again i am asking literally anyone in a position of power to do literally anything so that our neighbors stop getting fucking murdered in the street
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 PM