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Dysheki

@dysheki.bsky.social

Instance #5372662 that Trump only cares about himself and not about the average citizen.

Rules to prevent nursing home neglect? Sounds good. Oh, you want to give me money? Okay, it's bad now.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9h

Nursing home executives who donated to the President Trump’s super PAC met privately with him and urged a repeal of a rule that would require them to increase staffing levels, which was intended to prevent neglect of patients.

After Donations, Trump Administration Revoked Rule Requiring More Nursing Home Staff

Executives who donated to the president’s super PAC met privately with him and urged a repeal of the rule, which was intended to prevent neglect of patients.

nyti.ms

January 27, 2026 at 6:44 PM

Dysheki

@dysheki.bsky.social

Cue the Tobias and Lindsay meme. Because adding these "personalities" worked so well for CNN.

Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 14h

Turns out that Bari Weiss's all hands at CBS today is to announce she's bringing on some anti-vax guys and Niall Ferguson. www.axios.com/2026/01/27/b...

Zoom in: The new list of contributors includes mostly podcasters and independent writers who will now have access to a large audience across CBS News' platforms, including television.

Some of those personalities are existing columnists and contributors for The Free Press, including conservative historian Niall Ferguson and Patrick McGee, who covers the tech industry and China.
The new lineup of contributors also features popular science podcasters Andrew Huberman and Peter Attia, prominent New York chef Clare de Boer, best-selling cookbook author Caroline Chambers and journalist Casey Lewis, who writes a Substack focused on Gen-Z and Gen Alpha trends.

Huberman — a Stanford neurobiology professor who hosts a massively popular health podcast and has nearly 8 million followers on Instagram — has faced criticism for oversimplifying and sometimes misrepresenting complex research.
Dr. Mark Hyman, another new CBS News contributor, is closely aligned with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the MAHA movement.

January 27, 2026 at 5:06 PM

Dysheki

@dysheki.bsky.social

Again, they do not care about the average American. They only care that they can continue to not pay taxes because they're that fucking greedy.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

A Booz Allen contractor had leaked confidential tax information that showed how wealthy people like Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos manage to minimize their tax obligations. n.pr/3NHgQVZ

Treasury cancels Booz Allen contracts over leaks about wealthy taxpayers

A Booz Allen contractor had leaked confidential tax information that showed how wealthy people like Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos manage to minimize their tax obligations.

n.pr

January 27, 2026 at 5:02 PM

Dysheki

@dysheki.bsky.social

They were thinking of adding a Whiskey Friday segment with Tony. I think I'm old enough now to prefer a Metamucil Monday. #Im43Jokes

www.theringer.com/2026/01/21/m...

The Five Farcical Principles of the ‘CBS Evening News’

Tony Dokoupil and Bari Weiss’s new broadcast has been one debacle after another. Let's try to make sense of it all, with or without whiskey.

www.theringer.com

January 27, 2026 at 3:01 PM

Dysheki

@dysheki.bsky.social

Hottest nation in the world. But don't be mean to Trump, he was right. He just didn't clarify it's hot because it's a dumpster fire.

January 27, 2026 at 2:11 PM

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Zach Buchanan

@zhbuchanan.bsky.social

I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea.

It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road.

Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable.

January 27, 2026 at 6:07 AM

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Ryan Grim

@ryangrim.bsky.social

Crushing

Josh Rogin
@joshrogin
Maher Tarabishi, age 62, was taken by ICE last October when he exited his immigration check-in appointment in Texas. He was the primary caregiver for his 30 year old son Wael, who suffers from a chronic muscular condition called Pompe disease. His father provided 24 hour care for many years.

Wael died today, his family told me. Wael’s heath had been declining ever since his father’s detention. He never got to say goodbye to his father. Maher will never see his son again.

Maher came to the United States in 1994. He is not a criminal. He paid taxes. He raised a family. He was attending his immigration check ins reliably. Now that family is destroyed. For what?

If our government has any compassion, Maher Tarabishi should be released from detention now. He should be allowed to attend his son’s funeral. May Wael rest in peace.

Is this what America has become? Is this what we want America to be? Spread the word: #FreeMaherTarabishi

January 26, 2026 at 9:54 PM

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Greg Folkers

@gregfolkers.bsky.social

Science: U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office

By Jeffrey Mervis, Monica Hersher @science.org @policyhound.bsky.social @mghersher.bsky.social

bit.ly/3M8yf9B

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office

A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

bit.ly

January 26, 2026 at 11:03 PM

Dysheki

@dysheki.bsky.social

(I think this is my new favorite gif, thank you @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social)

January 26, 2026 at 8:33 PM

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Maria Langholz

@marialangholz.bsky.social

pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor:

"Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."

January 26, 2026 at 2:14 PM

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Barack Obama

@barackobama.bsky.social

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

January 25, 2026 at 5:39 PM

Dysheki

@dysheki.bsky.social

Me, after eating leftover birthday cake for the second straight night.

Mike Golic Jr @mikegolicjr.bsky.social · 2d

“You gotta catch that!!”- me full of pot roast, holding a donut on my couch

January 26, 2026 at 2:46 AM

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Eric Topol

@erictopol.bsky.social

One newspaper got it right

January 25, 2026 at 3:38 PM

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Radley Balko

@radleybalko.bsky.social

This was murder. Pretti did not initiate the confrontation. He didn’t strike them. He didn’t brandish his gun. They tackled him, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him.

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 3d

Holy crap.

This is the most damning video yet.

It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face.

Murder.

January 24, 2026 at 9:46 PM

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Sharon

@sharonk.bsky.social

(this isn't an exaggeration)

The desire on the part of Trump and his loyalists to utilize the Insurrection Act was unabating. Stephen Miller, the Trump adviser whom Milley is said to have called “Rasputin,” was vociferous on this point. Less than a week after George Floyd was murdered, Miller told Trump in an Oval Office meeting, “Mr. President, they are burning America down. Antifa, Black Lives Matter—they’re burning it down. You have an insurrection on your hands. Barbarians are at the gate.”

According to Woodward and Costa in Peril, Milley responded, “Shut the fuck up, Steve.” Then he turned to Trump. “Mr. President, they are not burning it down.”

January 24, 2026 at 9:47 PM

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn

@badideas.bsky.social

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM

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Sherrilyn Ifill

@sifill.bsky.social

I cannot imagine the devastation this family is experiencing today. This statement is powerful and must be read.

January 25, 2026 at 1:52 AM

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Micah

@rincewind.run

the extent to which this administration is out of control is really summed up by the fact that they immediately went with “this was an armed terrorist there to kill law enforcement” knowing that video from multiple angles completely disproving them was out there and would be seen by everyone

January 24, 2026 at 8:03 PM

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Matt McDermott

@mattmfm.bsky.social

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

January 24, 2026 at 5:18 PM

Dysheki

@dysheki.bsky.social

Dark times, but we can't control that. All we can do is control who we spend our time with. Love you.

Jhodee @jod-33.bsky.social · 3d

Happy birthday @dysheki.bsky.social At least the impending storm will force us inside and you can play endless hours of Nintendo 64 games. I love you endlessly. 💗