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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Bingo. Do not believe them. ICE will still be around and abducting people. Just more quietly.
Signed,
A Cook County, IL resident where it’s STILL happening more than a year after it started.
Signed,
A Cook County, IL resident where it’s STILL happening more than a year after it started.
January 29, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Bingo. Do not believe them. ICE will still be around and abducting people. Just more quietly.
Signed,
A Cook County, IL resident where it’s STILL happening more than a year after it started.
Signed,
A Cook County, IL resident where it’s STILL happening more than a year after it started.
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I’ve tried to tell out-of-towners that one of the low-key traumas of living here is these psychos ignoring all traffic laws. I’ve actually reduced my driving further just to avoid their shittery, but they can cream you on a bike or roll up on sidewalk just as easily.
Just madness out in the streets where these guys throw on their sirens and lights flying through neighborhoods at high speeds. People don't even bother pulling over for them anymore because they just do this all the time.
"FUCK ICE" "NOT ICE"
"FUCK ICE" "NOT ICE"
January 29, 2026 at 4:16 AM
I’ve tried to tell out-of-towners that one of the low-key traumas of living here is these psychos ignoring all traffic laws. I’ve actually reduced my driving further just to avoid their shittery, but they can cream you on a bike or roll up on sidewalk just as easily.
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Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."
January 29, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."
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There really seems to be a lot of kayfabe happening right now. Trump is pretending to de-escalate to placate Dems so they don't demand reform, and Dems are making up fake reforms so they can pretend like they made changes while they vote to fund DHS.
January 29, 2026 at 1:26 PM
There really seems to be a lot of kayfabe happening right now. Trump is pretending to de-escalate to placate Dems so they don't demand reform, and Dems are making up fake reforms so they can pretend like they made changes while they vote to fund DHS.
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Feds have been ramming people with their cars. No one has murdered them in response.
If the suggestion here is that these officers killed Pretti because of this previous incident, that’s worse. Kicking a tail light is not a capital crime. And we don’t do delayed, extrajudicial executions here.
If the suggestion here is that these officers killed Pretti because of this previous incident, that’s worse. Kicking a tail light is not a capital crime. And we don’t do delayed, extrajudicial executions here.
Okay so I was actually at this encounter, filmed the aftermath, and am briefly visible in this video, and I would point out that what he does here is briefly kick a car twice. ICE beats him up, shoots pepper balls into the crowd, and launches tear gas at everyone else before leaving.
News Movement posted this video of Alex Pretti on Jan 13, showing him spitting at ICE agents and kicking their taillight.
Now conservatives are suggesting this changes things.
That would mean they are suggesting he deserved to be target of an extrajudicial execution.
The video changes nothing.
Now conservatives are suggesting this changes things.
That would mean they are suggesting he deserved to be target of an extrajudicial execution.
The video changes nothing.
January 29, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Feds have been ramming people with their cars. No one has murdered them in response.
If the suggestion here is that these officers killed Pretti because of this previous incident, that’s worse. Kicking a tail light is not a capital crime. And we don’t do delayed, extrajudicial executions here.
If the suggestion here is that these officers killed Pretti because of this previous incident, that’s worse. Kicking a tail light is not a capital crime. And we don’t do delayed, extrajudicial executions here.
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1/ Warner’s question goes to the heart of it: why is the DNI at a Fulton County ballot raid rooted in Trump’s 2020 grievances? Either there’s a foreign plot she’s hidden from congressional intelligence committees, or she’s putting the IC’s seal on a partisan stunt. Both are disqualifying.
January 29, 2026 at 12:05 PM
1/ Warner’s question goes to the heart of it: why is the DNI at a Fulton County ballot raid rooted in Trump’s 2020 grievances? Either there’s a foreign plot she’s hidden from congressional intelligence committees, or she’s putting the IC’s seal on a partisan stunt. Both are disqualifying.
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I spent the past week watching a few Facebook Groups Maine X Community and Maine Rising. It’s astonishing at the amount of blatantly false stories being shared and instantly believed. Anyone who tries to fact-check is assaulted with 6th-grade slurs and don’t get me started on the racism.
Inside the Maine Wire’s Disinformation Machine. #mepolitics open.substack.com/pub/amyfried...
Inside the Maine Wire’s Disinformation Machine
MAGA propagandists claim Soviet-level support for ICE in a state that rejects Trump
open.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:38 PM
I spent the past week watching a few Facebook Groups Maine X Community and Maine Rising. It’s astonishing at the amount of blatantly false stories being shared and instantly believed. Anyone who tries to fact-check is assaulted with 6th-grade slurs and don’t get me started on the racism.
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this is the same principle through which Supreme Court forbid Democrats from requiring states to adopt the ACA Medicaid expansion, except the lever is “lawless paramilitary violence” instead of “financial penalties”
Just, you know, going out on a limb, but if states constitutionally don’t have to act as instruments of federal law enforcement, seems like a campaign of terror against the civilian population to coerce them to do so ought also to be unconstitutional.
Homan: "The withdrawal of law enforcement resources here is dependent upon cooperation ... as we see that cooperation happen, then the redeployment will happen"
January 29, 2026 at 1:50 PM
this is the same principle through which Supreme Court forbid Democrats from requiring states to adopt the ACA Medicaid expansion, except the lever is “lawless paramilitary violence” instead of “financial penalties”
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In a dense part of south Minneapolis as Homan's "draw down" news conference was occurring: "They took a guy in a red car infront and they stopped traffic and try to take another guy and they hit his car"
January 29, 2026 at 1:58 PM
In a dense part of south Minneapolis as Homan's "draw down" news conference was occurring: "They took a guy in a red car infront and they stopped traffic and try to take another guy and they hit his car"
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Thanks for having me PBS!
It was great to talk about the bi-partisan need to protect our elections from DOJ interference and the importance of data security.
It was great to talk about the bi-partisan need to protect our elections from DOJ interference and the importance of data security.
The FBI searched an elections center in Georgia seeking records related to the 2020 election. It comes as the Trump administration has requested voter data from states. https://to.pbs.org/3ZCV8oD
FBI raids Georgia elections office as Trump administration seeks voter data from states
The FBI searched an elections center in Georgia seeking records related to the 2020 election. Baseless claims of voter fraud have been a focus of President Trump since he lost that race, and the raid ...
to.pbs.org
January 29, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Thanks for having me PBS!
It was great to talk about the bi-partisan need to protect our elections from DOJ interference and the importance of data security.
It was great to talk about the bi-partisan need to protect our elections from DOJ interference and the importance of data security.
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the demands schumer laid out, in light of existing rules and current ICE practices, are not a serious effort at modifying ICE’s behavior in any meaningful sense. they’re an attempt to mollify the base with meaningless bullshit without actually changing anything so they can move on to affordability
January 29, 2026 at 12:50 PM
the demands schumer laid out, in light of existing rules and current ICE practices, are not a serious effort at modifying ICE’s behavior in any meaningful sense. they’re an attempt to mollify the base with meaningless bullshit without actually changing anything so they can move on to affordability
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Sometimes the analysis is good enough that I’m disappointed that it’s on Substack and I therefore can’t link to it and am too exhausted to explain why. Let alone in the context of a piece about the purpose of tech platforms in power structures.
Lots of interesting stuff in this analysis but I especially liked this part on the appeal of AI to the boss class, which goes beyond the (also true) “it allows them to fire more people” bit
January 29, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Sometimes the analysis is good enough that I’m disappointed that it’s on Substack and I therefore can’t link to it and am too exhausted to explain why. Let alone in the context of a piece about the purpose of tech platforms in power structures.
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"I'm against criminality and sexual assault and that's why I voted for Donald Trump"
these people get off on being deliberately stupid, they are irredeemable at this point.
January 29, 2026 at 2:15 PM
"I'm against criminality and sexual assault and that's why I voted for Donald Trump"
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Even under SCOTUS's dubious reasoning in Trump v. U.S., there is no scenario in which maneuvering billions of dollars to an offshore account to keep it out of reach from Congress and courts is an "official act." This is all criminal and impeachable.
Marco Rubio: "The oil proceeds are being deposited into an account that ultimately will become a US Treasury blocked account here in the US. We will say 'this is what this money can be spent on.' They will submit to us a budget request -- 'we want to use the money on these things.'"
January 29, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Even under SCOTUS's dubious reasoning in Trump v. U.S., there is no scenario in which maneuvering billions of dollars to an offshore account to keep it out of reach from Congress and courts is an "official act." This is all criminal and impeachable.
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OOOF
reminds me of a friend who explained why recent years have felt so weird to so many millennials here and it’s because “we went into the pandemic young people and came out of it old”
I spoke to a woman at the protest in minneapolis and she explained she wanted to be there in part because "i was a kid when george floyd got killed" and i nearly dropped my recorder
January 29, 2026 at 4:37 AM
OOOF
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There is no legitimate reason for DNI Tulsi Gabbard to have been at the seizure of all Fulton County 2020 ballots by the FBI. But she was. Gift article: wapo.st/4a3BqYf
FBI executes search warrant seeking ballots from Fulton County’s 2020 election
The FBI executed a search warrant in Fulton County, Georgia, for 2020 election ballots, as President Donald Trump seeks to find already debunked voter fraud.
wapo.st
January 29, 2026 at 4:13 AM
There is no legitimate reason for DNI Tulsi Gabbard to have been at the seizure of all Fulton County 2020 ballots by the FBI. But she was. Gift article: wapo.st/4a3BqYf
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So fucking angry at all the emotionally disregulated assholes who believe they do this in my name.
Liam Ramos when ICE kidnapped him / Liam after 5 days in the concentration camp.
FREE HIM NOW. FREE THEM ALL.
FREE HIM NOW. FREE THEM ALL.
January 29, 2026 at 5:04 AM
So fucking angry at all the emotionally disregulated assholes who believe they do this in my name.
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Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban https://aje.news/ljjuww
January 29, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
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Of the biggest scandals in US history just this week, I think I’d rank them:
1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens
2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar
3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia
1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens
2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar
3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia
January 29, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Of the biggest scandals in US history just this week, I think I’d rank them:
1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens
2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar
3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia
1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens
2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar
3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia
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this is the other reason I trust Signal: @meredithmeredith.bsky.social is the CEO
January 29, 2026 at 5:12 AM
this is the other reason I trust Signal: @meredithmeredith.bsky.social is the CEO
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The good news is all the brazen, cartoonish corruption makes it easier to run on an anti-oligarchy, good government platform. The bad news is you still need candidates who want to do that
January 29, 2026 at 3:51 AM
The good news is all the brazen, cartoonish corruption makes it easier to run on an anti-oligarchy, good government platform. The bad news is you still need candidates who want to do that
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“What if your neighbor is Muslim”
They’re my neighbor
“What if your neighbor is Somali”
They’re my neighbor
“What if your neighbor speaks Spanish”
They’re my neighbor
“What if your neighbor is Hmong”
They’re my neighbors
They’re my neighbor
“What if your neighbor is Somali”
They’re my neighbor
“What if your neighbor speaks Spanish”
They’re my neighbor
“What if your neighbor is Hmong”
They’re my neighbors
January 29, 2026 at 12:54 AM
“What if your neighbor is Muslim”
They’re my neighbor
“What if your neighbor is Somali”
They’re my neighbor
“What if your neighbor speaks Spanish”
They’re my neighbor
“What if your neighbor is Hmong”
They’re my neighbors
They’re my neighbor
“What if your neighbor is Somali”
They’re my neighbor
“What if your neighbor speaks Spanish”
They’re my neighbor
“What if your neighbor is Hmong”
They’re my neighbors
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I’m not sure there’s an idea in the world I believe in more strongly than YOU SHOULD DEFEND THE HUMANS IN YOUR COMMUNITY, which seems to echo what moral abscesses like PEG keep telling me, but their “community” is this abominable racial caste, and my community is just the people who I know around me
January 29, 2026 at 12:59 AM
I’m not sure there’s an idea in the world I believe in more strongly than YOU SHOULD DEFEND THE HUMANS IN YOUR COMMUNITY, which seems to echo what moral abscesses like PEG keep telling me, but their “community” is this abominable racial caste, and my community is just the people who I know around me
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We’re just not a free country.
Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.
Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.
January 29, 2026 at 5:49 AM
We’re just not a free country.
Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.
Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.