Colin Durant
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This much is clear: Stephen Miller is in charge. They've shipped off Bovino, they're hanging Noem out to dry, Trump is using slightly conciliatory language...and Miller is still running a blitzkrieg in Minnesota. He, not Trump, is in charge. And he is the one Democrats should fight to remove.
here's a video from this afternoon in Eden Prairie MN of ICE agents camping out as a bus stop.
Again, this is terrorism.
Again, this is terrorism.
January 27, 2026 at 11:14 PM
This much is clear: Stephen Miller is in charge. They've shipped off Bovino, they're hanging Noem out to dry, Trump is using slightly conciliatory language...and Miller is still running a blitzkrieg in Minnesota. He, not Trump, is in charge. And he is the one Democrats should fight to remove.
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They should just take the presentation down and should not have allowed it in the first place. And the language in the presentation is, on its own, torture porn—describing gruesome acts of sexual abuse in brutalizing, exploitative detail.
January 27, 2026 at 11:14 PM
They should just take the presentation down and should not have allowed it in the first place. And the language in the presentation is, on its own, torture porn—describing gruesome acts of sexual abuse in brutalizing, exploitative detail.
it's so revealing how the ethics of displaying graphic images of SA victims and saying the slurs hurled at them are "something to be considered to" rather than a primay concern
Kettle notes that @alexis4seattle.bsky.social raised issues with the exploitative presentation and says "the ethical piece is something to be considered to" and says "I do apologize for the concern with the ethical piece of that."
January 27, 2026 at 11:13 PM
it's so revealing how the ethics of displaying graphic images of SA victims and saying the slurs hurled at them are "something to be considered to" rather than a primay concern
it's totally dumb that he's not first ballot and I bet it's highly Barry-Bonds-like because he's a jerk to the media (and they prob don't like his girlfriend)
A stunner from @dvnjr.bsky.social and me: Bill Belichick is not a first ballot Hall of Famer. He didn't get elected this year. The 8-time champion failed to 40 out of the 50 votes required for induction.
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Sources: Bill Belichick will not be a first-ballot Hall of Famer
Bill Belichick, the eight-time Super Bowl-winning coach, will not a first-ballot Hall of Famer, sources told ESPN.
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January 27, 2026 at 10:28 PM
it's totally dumb that he's not first ballot and I bet it's highly Barry-Bonds-like because he's a jerk to the media (and they prob don't like his girlfriend)
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The professionalism is indisputable, no? An undisciplined and untrained policing agency steeped in this much contempt and disregard of the citizenry can't actually be reformed. Abolish -- before more of us are beaten, killed or detained indefinitely and without legal cause.
January 27, 2026 at 9:05 PM
The professionalism is indisputable, no? An undisciplined and untrained policing agency steeped in this much contempt and disregard of the citizenry can't actually be reformed. Abolish -- before more of us are beaten, killed or detained indefinitely and without legal cause.
to borrow from @golikehellmachine.com , the viziers are squabbling over who takes the fall
(the answer should be "all of them")
(the answer should be "all of them")
"Noem has complained to others that she feels she's being hung out to dry over the episode and has made sure to emphasize she took direction from Miller and the president"
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Scoop: Stephen Miller behind misleading claim that Alex Pretti wanted to "massacre" agents
The episode illustrates the sheer power of Miller, Trump's close and longest-serving political adviser
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January 27, 2026 at 9:02 PM
to borrow from @golikehellmachine.com , the viziers are squabbling over who takes the fall
(the answer should be "all of them")
(the answer should be "all of them")
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Sesame Street has uploaded a bunch of classic episodes to YouTube that are free to watch, including the very first episode from 1969, the one where Mister Rogers visits, and the episode where Mr. Snuffulupagus is finally revealed. [kottke.org]
Watch Classic Episodes of Sesame Street for Free on YouTube
Sesame Street has uploaded a bunch of classic episodes to YouTube that are free to watch, including the very first episode from 1969, the one where Mister Rogers visits, and the episode where Mr. Snuffulupagus is fin
kottke.org
January 27, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Sesame Street has uploaded a bunch of classic episodes to YouTube that are free to watch, including the very first episode from 1969, the one where Mister Rogers visits, and the episode where Mr. Snuffulupagus is finally revealed. [kottke.org]
this entire thread is galling to read. I'm not surprised at county prosecutors advocating for the most punitive approach to sex work, but it is appalling to read what they're entering into the record for what seems like little more than shock value. A severe lack of morals or ethics on display.
The King County Prosecutor's Office is currently doing an exceptionally exploitative presentation about sex trafficking to the Seattle City Council that includes slides of identifiable bloodied, brutalized women and identifiable women who are nude or nearly nude.
January 27, 2026 at 8:00 PM
this entire thread is galling to read. I'm not surprised at county prosecutors advocating for the most punitive approach to sex work, but it is appalling to read what they're entering into the record for what seems like little more than shock value. A severe lack of morals or ethics on display.
it always goes well for fascists and wannabe fascists when they start making enemies lists.
part of this bluster by Homan is that the feds are hoping the people they arrest have neither built community nor resources, and a protest that has rattled DHS so much already took this into account
part of this bluster by Homan is that the feds are hoping the people they arrest have neither built community nor resources, and a protest that has rattled DHS so much already took this into account
TOM HOMAN: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.”
Story: www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
January 27, 2026 at 7:45 PM
it always goes well for fascists and wannabe fascists when they start making enemies lists.
part of this bluster by Homan is that the feds are hoping the people they arrest have neither built community nor resources, and a protest that has rattled DHS so much already took this into account
part of this bluster by Homan is that the feds are hoping the people they arrest have neither built community nor resources, and a protest that has rattled DHS so much already took this into account
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The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired
January 27, 2026 at 2:07 AM
The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired
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new alex pareene and ta-nehisi coates articles on the same day. the long 2016 finally throws us a bone
Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"
“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti
In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: the culture war is an actual war.
www.vanityfair.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:21 PM
new alex pareene and ta-nehisi coates articles on the same day. the long 2016 finally throws us a bone
basically I listened to @djjohnrichards.bsky.social play Explosions in the Sky this AM on KEXP and am now just streaming the heck out of them, Mogwai, and anything else instrumental yet heavy
January 26, 2026 at 7:43 PM
basically I listened to @djjohnrichards.bsky.social play Explosions in the Sky this AM on KEXP and am now just streaming the heck out of them, Mogwai, and anything else instrumental yet heavy
today's a good day to call my rep and senators' offices and demand they support the abolition of ICE and DHS
Push the Overton window. Shove it. Don't settle, don't stop bsky.app/profile/char...
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (!!!) is now publicly criticizing ICE. Oh, they're getting scared now. The backlash is being felt, and they don't want any part of this narrative.
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www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/2...
January 26, 2026 at 7:32 PM
today's a good day to call my rep and senators' offices and demand they support the abolition of ICE and DHS
it’s a bunch of dudes cosplaying as hard. It’s a serious matter that they are armed and can kill you, but they are still LARPers, and I acknowledge this is unfair to both cosplayers and LARPers.
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 8:38 PM
it’s a bunch of dudes cosplaying as hard. It’s a serious matter that they are armed and can kill you, but they are still LARPers, and I acknowledge this is unfair to both cosplayers and LARPers.
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I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.
January 24, 2026 at 8:21 PM
I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.
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Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.
January 24, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
The new bare minimum for any Democrat who dares to run for federal office is this: abolish the entire Department of Homeland Security and redistribute its responsibilities, then promise an immediate investigation of all ICE actions and prosecution all the way up to the president.
January 24, 2026 at 11:55 PM
The new bare minimum for any Democrat who dares to run for federal office is this: abolish the entire Department of Homeland Security and redistribute its responsibilities, then promise an immediate investigation of all ICE actions and prosecution all the way up to the president.
Remove the president, the vice president, and the speaker of the house, one after another.
Abolish ICE, prosecute and imprison its leaders, impeach and remove the President from office. This is the only sane reaction to a group of armed men kidnapping and gunning down our neighbors in the street.
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 11:52 PM
Remove the president, the vice president, and the speaker of the house, one after another.
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There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:
January 24, 2026 at 11:04 PM
There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:
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I'm not sure Democrats in D.C. are aware that their base's rage against ICE has reached a level of blinding white-hot intensity.
They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
January 24, 2026 at 9:03 PM
I'm not sure Democrats in D.C. are aware that their base's rage against ICE has reached a level of blinding white-hot intensity.
They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
The rabbi who leads my congregation in Seattle flew to Minneapolis yesterday to help support people in the Twin Cities. He is already doing more than any Democrat in Congress.
I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
January 24, 2026 at 11:49 PM
The rabbi who leads my congregation in Seattle flew to Minneapolis yesterday to help support people in the Twin Cities. He is already doing more than any Democrat in Congress.
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The last couple of weeks have really affirmed that video can’t work if authorities have decided they’re not bound by anything, least of all reality. Rodney King and Latasha Harlins really schooled me on this a long time ago but my problem is I kept believing people wouldn’t just lie like this.
January 24, 2026 at 11:45 PM
The last couple of weeks have really affirmed that video can’t work if authorities have decided they’re not bound by anything, least of all reality. Rodney King and Latasha Harlins really schooled me on this a long time ago but my problem is I kept believing people wouldn’t just lie like this.
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And he didn’t. He tried to help a woman who’d just been assaulted. There was nothing rash, stupid, or radical about what he did. He showed kindness. And they killed him for it.
January 24, 2026 at 10:36 PM
And he didn’t. He tried to help a woman who’d just been assaulted. There was nothing rash, stupid, or radical about what he did. He showed kindness. And they killed him for it.
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“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..”
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January 24, 2026 at 10:22 PM
“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..”
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