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That which is rotted must be rejected
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the biden border bill and choosing to run on a “border patrol endorsed” piece of legislation should go down as not only cowardly and backward thinking but one of the worst strategic political decisions by democrats in recent memory, everyone involved should be out of politics forever
New Quinnipiac poll:
63% of voters disapprove of ICE
60% want ICE out of Minneapolis
58% want Kristi Noem removed from office
63% of voters disapprove of ICE
60% want ICE out of Minneapolis
58% want Kristi Noem removed from office
February 5, 2026 at 3:57 PM
the biden border bill and choosing to run on a “border patrol endorsed” piece of legislation should go down as not only cowardly and backward thinking but one of the worst strategic political decisions by democrats in recent memory, everyone involved should be out of politics forever
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The demographic of People Willing to Hurt Others For Money includes people of all races and ethnicities. It is the Bizarro Rainbow Coalition
February 5, 2026 at 3:14 PM
The demographic of People Willing to Hurt Others For Money includes people of all races and ethnicities. It is the Bizarro Rainbow Coalition
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For the first time since Colorado began regulating drilling 75 years ago, state officials could force a company to leave oil and gas worth tens of millions of dollars in the ground.
From @capitalandmain.bsky.social
From @capitalandmain.bsky.social
Colorado may ask big oil to leave millions of dollars in the ground | Colorado Newsline
For the first time since Colorado began regulating drilling, state officials could force a firm to leave oil and gas in the ground.
coloradonewsline.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:53 PM
For the first time since Colorado began regulating drilling 75 years ago, state officials could force a company to leave oil and gas worth tens of millions of dollars in the ground.
From @capitalandmain.bsky.social
From @capitalandmain.bsky.social
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He’s negotiating down with himself. He’s bargaining against his own leverage.
Schumer: "There should be no masks, except in the most unusual of circumstances -- you know, some guy was put up by a terrorist group or something"
February 5, 2026 at 2:02 PM
He’s negotiating down with himself. He’s bargaining against his own leverage.
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1, 3, 5, 7, and 8 are already legally required and they have already backtracked on 2, but apparently it makes you a “nihilist” to point this out
February 5, 2026 at 1:14 PM
1, 3, 5, 7, and 8 are already legally required and they have already backtracked on 2, but apparently it makes you a “nihilist” to point this out
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This document is one of the great political failures of our time. It must be immediately denounced by all people of good will. And it will be a major scandal if any "civil rights" organization gives cover to this capitulation to fascism.
SENATE AND HOUSE DEMOCRATS ARE UNITED ON REINING IN THE ABUSES OF ICE
Americans have watched in horror as ICE has terrorized communities across the country
Federal agents can’t continue to cause chaos in our cities while more Americans are killed
We must rein in ICE
Here’s what we're demanding:
Americans have watched in horror as ICE has terrorized communities across the country
Federal agents can’t continue to cause chaos in our cities while more Americans are killed
We must rein in ICE
Here’s what we're demanding:
February 5, 2026 at 5:42 AM
This document is one of the great political failures of our time. It must be immediately denounced by all people of good will. And it will be a major scandal if any "civil rights" organization gives cover to this capitulation to fascism.
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‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
![…
25. This Cibola jail was horrible. It was cramped. I was chained up again.
The officers mocked
me and called me their enemy. They laughed at me. I was kept at the jail for what felt like around three hours. I wasn't given an explanation for why I was there.
26. Security
guards then put me on a bus. I think it was around January 27.
No one said
anything about where I was going. I was handcuffed. It felt like the middle of the night. It was freezing cold in the bus because the driver had the AC on. We had no jackets. The bus eventually took me back to El Paso in the carly morning of Tuesday, January 27th.
27. I was put in a cold cell where I had to sleep on the bare cement floor. Around 10 in the morning my cellmate asked to speak to an ICE officer. Three officers came into the cell so I had a chance to speak to them too. One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." She told me that if I fought my case, I would spend two to three more months here in El Paso. She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota. If I hadn't managed to talk to my attorney who told me a while back that I was ordered released. I might have given up at this point and signed the self-deportation forms because the conditions were so unbearable.
…
30. When I was taken back to the detention center from the airport, after missing the flight, I overheard an ICE officer saying in English, "the judge in Minnesota wants this one back." I was put in a cold jail cell again until early next morning (January 28). But again no one had told me directly that a judge had ordered my release
…
32. When I arrived in Minneapolis, I was handed off to ICE
… I had to sign lots of papers saying that I wasn't going to be a part of any "groups." I didn't know what they meant by "groups." They never told me why I was detained](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5cn3kbi4g5blrtahon34xbu4/bafkreiccqxmfncofjqinoveiqscwale2ox5xpiqt46veqjdh3jmimkrxhq@jpeg)
February 5, 2026 at 6:04 AM
‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
Colorado Dems, why have you not introduced this bill yet? They’re going to build another one in Hudson if you don’t get to it this session.
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
New Mexico Senate approves bill to ban ICE detention centers
The New Mexico Legislature approved the Immigration Safety Act. House bill 9 bars the state from allowing ICE detention centers.
www.elpasotimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Colorado Dems, why have you not introduced this bill yet? They’re going to build another one in Hudson if you don’t get to it this session.
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
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A judge orders ICE to release two men, only for ICE to immediately re-arrest them after the court hearing. Brazen lawlessness. www.startribune.com/mn-venezuela...
Two men, charged with assaulting agents in ICE shooting, re-detained after judge orders release
Defense attorneys cited photos in challenging the government’s account of when the agent fired a shot that wounded the fleeing suspect.
www.startribune.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:52 PM
A judge orders ICE to release two men, only for ICE to immediately re-arrest them after the court hearing. Brazen lawlessness. www.startribune.com/mn-venezuela...
Use of warrants is already the law, filming doesn’t address misconduct, and you left an exception for the masking which I’m sure won’t swallow the rule — tremendous stuff
Sen and House Dems lay out their “common sense” demands for DHS funding, including:
1) no roving patrols
2) use of body cameras
3) use of judicial warrants
4) IDs & no masks “except in extraordinary and unusual circumstances.”
1) no roving patrols
2) use of body cameras
3) use of judicial warrants
4) IDs & no masks “except in extraordinary and unusual circumstances.”
February 4, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Use of warrants is already the law, filming doesn’t address misconduct, and you left an exception for the masking which I’m sure won’t swallow the rule — tremendous stuff
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Pivoting my national newspaper to fash opinion sludge and some AI-related handwaving, on account of economic headwinds and also because neither I nor anyone in my cohort of elites knows how to read.
February 4, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Pivoting my national newspaper to fash opinion sludge and some AI-related handwaving, on account of economic headwinds and also because neither I nor anyone in my cohort of elites knows how to read.
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Damn you’re telling me the technology that was very obviously intended for unregulated speculation and criminal enterprises was used to do awful things
"We've basically funded an elite global pedophile ring since 2015. I feel sick."
Crypto Bros Nauseated After Realizing Bitcoin Itself Was Funded by Jeffrey Epstein
The crypto community is reeling from the discovery that Epstein was a huge backer of early Bitcoin efforts.
trib.al
February 4, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Damn you’re telling me the technology that was very obviously intended for unregulated speculation and criminal enterprises was used to do awful things
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Here are the progressives who are most important to me in this race:
* David Seligman for attorney general, who has spent his life standing up for people against corporations and wants to prosecute ICE
* Julie Gonzales for Senator, who wants to abolish ICE and get Medicare for All.
* David Seligman for attorney general, who has spent his life standing up for people against corporations and wants to prosecute ICE
* Julie Gonzales for Senator, who wants to abolish ICE and get Medicare for All.
February 3, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Here are the progressives who are most important to me in this race:
* David Seligman for attorney general, who has spent his life standing up for people against corporations and wants to prosecute ICE
* Julie Gonzales for Senator, who wants to abolish ICE and get Medicare for All.
* David Seligman for attorney general, who has spent his life standing up for people against corporations and wants to prosecute ICE
* Julie Gonzales for Senator, who wants to abolish ICE and get Medicare for All.
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Counterpoint: Democrats want ICE razed more thoroughly than Carthage in 146 BC, the ideological territory in which it operates salted so thoroughly it never grows again, and every single one of these goons in front of a judge to face justice for their crimes.
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 3, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Counterpoint: Democrats want ICE razed more thoroughly than Carthage in 146 BC, the ideological territory in which it operates salted so thoroughly it never grows again, and every single one of these goons in front of a judge to face justice for their crimes.
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Luke Ganger, Renee Good’s brother: “In the last few weeks, our family took some consolation thinking that perhaps ‘Nee’s death would bring about change in our country. It has not.”
February 3, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Luke Ganger, Renee Good’s brother: “In the last few weeks, our family took some consolation thinking that perhaps ‘Nee’s death would bring about change in our country. It has not.”
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im building machines that i keep saying will both throw you out of work and allow masked special police forces in service to a lunatic i bought and paid for to recognize your face and check if i agree with your beliefs. im part of a pedophile ring that put this into motion. why are you rude to me
February 3, 2026 at 3:59 PM
im building machines that i keep saying will both throw you out of work and allow masked special police forces in service to a lunatic i bought and paid for to recognize your face and check if i agree with your beliefs. im part of a pedophile ring that put this into motion. why are you rude to me
I encourage folks to listen to this podcast episode with three longtime MN organizers who can speak to the incredible effort and preparation that has enabled the movement we are seeing.
thedigradio.com/podcast/minn...
thedigradio.com/podcast/minn...
February 3, 2026 at 3:38 PM
I encourage folks to listen to this podcast episode with three longtime MN organizers who can speak to the incredible effort and preparation that has enabled the movement we are seeing.
thedigradio.com/podcast/minn...
thedigradio.com/podcast/minn...
Fuck me up good, I yearn for a particular catharsis
February 3, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Fuck me up good, I yearn for a particular catharsis
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the Bring Back Shame Popular Front is expanding
"Since prison for Epstein’s fellow abusers gets unlikelier over time, America’s deeper question is whether it can restore a culture of shame." - marvellous, marvellous column by @edwardluce.bsky.social:
The Epstein rot goes deep
America must now ask itself if it can restore a culture of shame
www.ft.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:23 PM
the Bring Back Shame Popular Front is expanding
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I’m sorry, she named a superyacht after the cycle of suffering and material attachment to which the unenlightened are condemned? Bit on the nose.
Following the release of the Epstein files Jk Rowling has deleted a decade of port logs belonging to the Super yacht Samsara.
What is she hiding?
What is she hiding?
February 3, 2026 at 2:42 PM
I’m sorry, she named a superyacht after the cycle of suffering and material attachment to which the unenlightened are condemned? Bit on the nose.
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And they're building more concentration camps. They're doing ethnic cleansing.
The number of people currently in ICE custody is now over 73,000, the most in history.
February 3, 2026 at 1:19 PM
And they're building more concentration camps. They're doing ethnic cleansing.
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49-40 vote with 5 Dems voting yes, they flip to no and the vote fails! This is a lifetime judicial appointment
Dems voting YEA: Durbin, Hassan, Kaine, Shaheen, and Whitehouse
Not voting: Blackburn, Cramer, Fetterman, Graham, Hagerty, Lujan, McConnell, Paul, Risch, Scott (SC), and Tillis.
Not voting: Blackburn, Cramer, Fetterman, Graham, Hagerty, Lujan, McConnell, Paul, Risch, Scott (SC), and Tillis.
February 3, 2026 at 12:01 AM
49-40 vote with 5 Dems voting yes, they flip to no and the vote fails! This is a lifetime judicial appointment
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Gov. Josh Shapiro called District Attorney Larry Krasner's comparison of ICE agents to Nazis "abhorrent." Krasner responded that Shapiro is "not meeting the moment."
Philly DA Larry Krasner says ‘don’t be a wimp’ after Gov. Josh Shapiro decried his comparison of ICE agents to Nazis
www.inquirer.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Gov. Josh Shapiro called District Attorney Larry Krasner's comparison of ICE agents to Nazis "abhorrent." Krasner responded that Shapiro is "not meeting the moment."
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A related article (for those with access, but the abstract alone is a good 'un), but Bill Black and June Carbone. digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sulr/vol43/i...
February 2, 2026 at 10:19 PM
A related article (for those with access, but the abstract alone is a good 'un), but Bill Black and June Carbone. digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sulr/vol43/i...
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They're fucked and they know it. Would be nice if Congressional Dem leadership realized this too.
Breaking:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Homeland Security Secretary Noem says every DHS officer deployed to Minneapolis is now being issued a body-worn camera.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Homeland Security Secretary Noem says every DHS officer deployed to Minneapolis is now being issued a body-worn camera.
February 2, 2026 at 10:06 PM
They're fucked and they know it. Would be nice if Congressional Dem leadership realized this too.