D Granke
@dgranke.bsky.social
Theatre Educator, Director, Fight Director, and Intimacy Director. Spouse, Dog Human, Insufferable Amateur Cook, and Camping and National Park Enthusiast. They all the way.
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The decent people got lazy and distracted. The hateful and greedy people got busy.
That's my history of early 21st century America. Maybe it's not too late to recover. Get active now, while you can.
That's my history of early 21st century America. Maybe it's not too late to recover. Get active now, while you can.
January 27, 2026 at 10:40 PM
The decent people got lazy and distracted. The hateful and greedy people got busy.
That's my history of early 21st century America. Maybe it's not too late to recover. Get active now, while you can.
That's my history of early 21st century America. Maybe it's not too late to recover. Get active now, while you can.
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Donald Trump's secretary of homeland security makes some excellent points about Donald Trump's extreme guilt
"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"
www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...
www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...
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
www.axios.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Donald Trump's secretary of homeland security makes some excellent points about Donald Trump's extreme guilt
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it's also a demand never made of, say, rural people who won't go into the city because they think they'll be murdered.
"getting outside your bubble" is an admirable thing when it means trying a new hobby or introducing yourself to your neighbor or watching an art film but people only want to apply it to "being a little more racist just to see how it feels"
these people seem like idiots
January 27, 2026 at 6:30 PM
it's also a demand never made of, say, rural people who won't go into the city because they think they'll be murdered.
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Read the story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How a violent, warrantless ICE raid devastated a Memphis family
"I hope they all go to hell and burn."
www.motherjones.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Read the story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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ICE has been authorizing officers to forcibly enter homes without judicial warrants—a reversal of longstanding guidance to protect people's constitutional rights.
Senior reporter @samanthamichaels.bsky.social spoke with a family in Memphis that experienced this.
Senior reporter @samanthamichaels.bsky.social spoke with a family in Memphis that experienced this.
January 27, 2026 at 9:24 PM
ICE has been authorizing officers to forcibly enter homes without judicial warrants—a reversal of longstanding guidance to protect people's constitutional rights.
Senior reporter @samanthamichaels.bsky.social spoke with a family in Memphis that experienced this.
Senior reporter @samanthamichaels.bsky.social spoke with a family in Memphis that experienced this.
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CNN airs compilation of federal agents acting with extreme aggression towards peaceful observers.
January 27, 2026 at 3:52 PM
CNN airs compilation of federal agents acting with extreme aggression towards peaceful observers.
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Not holding town halls isn’t enough for Susan Collins and her staff. She also seems to feel the need to arrest those that try to peacefully voice their concerns directly. You can’t represent the people of Maine if you won’t even listen to them. #mepolitics
Live updates: Portland police arrest 9 faith leaders at protest at Sen. Collins’ office
A Homeland Security spokesperson said Monday that federal agents have arrested more than 200 people in Maine since the ongoing operation began last week.
www.pressherald.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Not holding town halls isn’t enough for Susan Collins and her staff. She also seems to feel the need to arrest those that try to peacefully voice their concerns directly. You can’t represent the people of Maine if you won’t even listen to them. #mepolitics
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This is embarrassingly on-the-nose textbook “psychology of fascism” stuff. Bitter, impotent tools getting to feel powerful by proxy watching brutality done on their behalf.
Tim Pool: “I’m not licking the boot. It’s my boot. I voted for it. I’m the one stomping…”
This mindset is genuinely pathetic.
It’s an alpha fantasy: watching state violence and imagining you’re exercising power rather than the one submitting to it.
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This mindset is genuinely pathetic.
It’s an alpha fantasy: watching state violence and imagining you’re exercising power rather than the one submitting to it.
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January 27, 2026 at 1:00 PM
This is embarrassingly on-the-nose textbook “psychology of fascism” stuff. Bitter, impotent tools getting to feel powerful by proxy watching brutality done on their behalf.
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Definitely a concern for me with all the censorship for children going around these days. The internet helped me figure myself out when no one around me would have. I have bigoted family and was forced into bigoted private religious schools. The internet is the only place for kids who were like me.
January 27, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Definitely a concern for me with all the censorship for children going around these days. The internet helped me figure myself out when no one around me would have. I have bigoted family and was forced into bigoted private religious schools. The internet is the only place for kids who were like me.
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They lie to courts. They lie to mainstream media. They lie to Congress. They just lie.
Over and over
#MePolitics
Lawyer for immigrant removed from Maine jail accuses ICE of lying in court www.bangordailynews.com/2026/01/27/m...
Over and over
#MePolitics
Lawyer for immigrant removed from Maine jail accuses ICE of lying in court www.bangordailynews.com/2026/01/27/m...
Lawyer for immigrant removed from Maine jail accuses ICE of lying in court
Judges freed two immigrants who were held at the Cumberland County jail until Thursday, when they were abruptly removed following Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce's criticism of immigration agent...
www.bangordailynews.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:12 PM
They lie to courts. They lie to mainstream media. They lie to Congress. They just lie.
Over and over
#MePolitics
Lawyer for immigrant removed from Maine jail accuses ICE of lying in court www.bangordailynews.com/2026/01/27/m...
Over and over
#MePolitics
Lawyer for immigrant removed from Maine jail accuses ICE of lying in court www.bangordailynews.com/2026/01/27/m...
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UPDATE: After seeing this video, I informed ICE of my intent to visit the Baltimore facility today. I was told I would be denied entry.
It’s clear Trump's ICE would rather engage in a cover up. I will not stop pressing until we get answers. We need transparency & accountability.
It’s clear Trump's ICE would rather engage in a cover up. I will not stop pressing until we get answers. We need transparency & accountability.
Like many of you, I have seen this video, and I'm demanding answers.
My team has reached out to ICE repeatedly and have yet to get clear answers.
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My team has reached out to ICE repeatedly and have yet to get clear answers.
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January 27, 2026 at 4:42 PM
UPDATE: After seeing this video, I informed ICE of my intent to visit the Baltimore facility today. I was told I would be denied entry.
It’s clear Trump's ICE would rather engage in a cover up. I will not stop pressing until we get answers. We need transparency & accountability.
It’s clear Trump's ICE would rather engage in a cover up. I will not stop pressing until we get answers. We need transparency & accountability.
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Minnesota’s Dept of Corrections has a website that counters ICE’s false claims. It would be great for Maine to do the same. #mepolitics
This is pretty striking. If this piece is correct, even 13 arrests that ICE has publicized in Maine include a bunch of false claims and several people with no apparent record at all.
It should be incumbent on the feds to prove their allegations
It should be incumbent on the feds to prove their allegations
This is the kind of work that newspapers used to do. Now they're so overwhelmed just filling white space that there's no time for shit like this, so it's left to randos on the internet to prove DHS/ICE is lying about, well, just about everything:
themainesoapbox.substack.com/p/maine-dhs-...
themainesoapbox.substack.com/p/maine-dhs-...
January 27, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Minnesota’s Dept of Corrections has a website that counters ICE’s false claims. It would be great for Maine to do the same. #mepolitics
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good time for all of us to revisit this thread
It is hard to grasp but large masses of Americans are both racist/xenophobic AND not racist/xenophobic enough to applaud what Trump is doing. It's goldilocks shit, they want a level of racism/xenophobia calibrated exactly to their personal preferences, and you just can't make that policy. Don't try.
January 27, 2026 at 4:16 PM
good time for all of us to revisit this thread
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Gotta show that they're capable of acting like professionals who can control and deescalate by gassing a preschool like it's 2nd fucking Ypres.
Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
January 27, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Gotta show that they're capable of acting like professionals who can control and deescalate by gassing a preschool like it's 2nd fucking Ypres.
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Agreed -- force Trump and Republicans to defend targeting noncriminals, and make them defend diverting massive law enforcement resources away from serious crimes to do so:
While this is a good start, I think there needs to be something in the new law about ICE not targeting legal immigrants without criminal records, and making clear what the mission is.
We have to attack the outrageous fiction that Trump-Miller are targeting only criminal migrants.
We have to attack the outrageous fiction that Trump-Miller are targeting only criminal migrants.
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...
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...
January 27, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Agreed -- force Trump and Republicans to defend targeting noncriminals, and make them defend diverting massive law enforcement resources away from serious crimes to do so:
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This is about a protest in Bozeman, Montana.
Bozeman is home to one of just NINE sheriffs who are up for reelection in 2026 who've partnered with ICE's 287(g) program. boltsmag.org/criminal-jus...
Bozeman is home to one of just NINE sheriffs who are up for reelection in 2026 who've partnered with ICE's 287(g) program. boltsmag.org/criminal-jus...
This is huge.
Deep red Montana takes to the streets to protest ICE.
Montanans protest ICE, Trump’s immigration policies montanafreepress.org/2026/01/26/m...
Deep red Montana takes to the streets to protest ICE.
Montanans protest ICE, Trump’s immigration policies montanafreepress.org/2026/01/26/m...
Montanans turn out en masse to protest Trump’s immigration policies
Members of Montana’s all-GOP federal delegation have called for an investigation into Alex Pretti’s death.
montanafreepress.org
January 27, 2026 at 7:40 PM
This is about a protest in Bozeman, Montana.
Bozeman is home to one of just NINE sheriffs who are up for reelection in 2026 who've partnered with ICE's 287(g) program. boltsmag.org/criminal-jus...
Bozeman is home to one of just NINE sheriffs who are up for reelection in 2026 who've partnered with ICE's 287(g) program. boltsmag.org/criminal-jus...
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I want people to remember... When police get more money for "training" This is the kind of courses they take:
www.thetrace.org/2020/06/warr...
www.thetrace.org/2020/06/warr...
January 27, 2026 at 8:00 PM
I want people to remember... When police get more money for "training" This is the kind of courses they take:
www.thetrace.org/2020/06/warr...
www.thetrace.org/2020/06/warr...
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We profiled refugees who:
Arrived in the country legally.
Applied for green cards.
Were arrested by ICE and detained.
One refugee who was arrested found out they got their green card after being released.
This is an unprecedented operation.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...
Arrived in the country legally.
Applied for green cards.
Were arrested by ICE and detained.
One refugee who was arrested found out they got their green card after being released.
This is an unprecedented operation.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...
They ‘Had Done Everything Right.’ ICE Detained Them Anyway.
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:25 PM
We profiled refugees who:
Arrived in the country legally.
Applied for green cards.
Were arrested by ICE and detained.
One refugee who was arrested found out they got their green card after being released.
This is an unprecedented operation.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...
Arrived in the country legally.
Applied for green cards.
Were arrested by ICE and detained.
One refugee who was arrested found out they got their green card after being released.
This is an unprecedented operation.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...
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We're not dismantling this immediately?
Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking.
Warning: video is hard to watch
Warning: video is hard to watch
January 27, 2026 at 8:09 PM
We're not dismantling this immediately?
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One armed goon loses his shit at an observer who's backing up, and then several more armed goons tackle the observer to the ground, and then even more armed goons form a protective shield around the armed goons handcuffing the observer for hurting an armed goon's feelings.
This can't be "reformed"
This can't be "reformed"
January 27, 2026 at 3:20 PM
One armed goon loses his shit at an observer who's backing up, and then several more armed goons tackle the observer to the ground, and then even more armed goons form a protective shield around the armed goons handcuffing the observer for hurting an armed goon's feelings.
This can't be "reformed"
This can't be "reformed"
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The National Park Service has already pushed out 1/4 of the agency's staff. Now they're firing more rangers while bringing in surveillance drones & self-driving shuttles.
This is the corporatization of our National Parks while the surveillance state creeps into our public lands.
This is the corporatization of our National Parks while the surveillance state creeps into our public lands.
January 27, 2026 at 8:21 PM
The National Park Service has already pushed out 1/4 of the agency's staff. Now they're firing more rangers while bringing in surveillance drones & self-driving shuttles.
This is the corporatization of our National Parks while the surveillance state creeps into our public lands.
This is the corporatization of our National Parks while the surveillance state creeps into our public lands.
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Oh look, it's the worst of the worst: a high school student working construction to pay his dad's cancer bills. Now they get to pay DHS $1500 for the privilege of getting kicked out of the country. And we're doing this to hundreds of thousands of people, for some reason
January 27, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Oh look, it's the worst of the worst: a high school student working construction to pay his dad's cancer bills. Now they get to pay DHS $1500 for the privilege of getting kicked out of the country. And we're doing this to hundreds of thousands of people, for some reason
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Yooo look who grew some nuts
Donald Trump must fire Kristi Noem immediately.
Or Democrats will initiate impeachment proceedings against her in the House.
We can do this the easy way or the hard way.
Or Democrats will initiate impeachment proceedings against her in the House.
We can do this the easy way or the hard way.
January 27, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Yooo look who grew some nuts
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My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib.
He thought he was going to die.
Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.
And a mob of agents killed him.
He thought he was going to die.
Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.
And a mob of agents killed him.
January 27, 2026 at 6:48 PM
My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib.
He thought he was going to die.
Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.
And a mob of agents killed him.
He thought he was going to die.
Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.
And a mob of agents killed him.
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getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys
"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
January 27, 2026 at 6:10 PM
getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys