Krisanne Combs
@ennasirk.bsky.social
Virginian turned Washingtonian turned Californian come full circle to Virginian again. Getting reacquainted with southern accents and being called ma'am a lot.
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Krisanne Combs
@ennasirk.bsky.social
· Jul 1
Who I am:
-Retired corporate cat herder
-Volunteer
-Cat mom to the old gent in my cover pic
-Defender of the Oxford comma
-Avid reader and library fangirl
-Recovering institutionalist
-UVa and Duke alum
-Still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up
-Retired corporate cat herder
-Volunteer
-Cat mom to the old gent in my cover pic
-Defender of the Oxford comma
-Avid reader and library fangirl
-Recovering institutionalist
-UVa and Duke alum
-Still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up
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Even if Bovino gets fired, ICE has to go.
Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go.
Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go.
As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go.
Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go.
As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
Live updates: Top Border Patrol official Bovino expected to leave Minneapolis as Trump sends Homan to the state | CNN
Tom Homan is headed to Minnesota after the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in an encounter Saturday with federal agents deepened outrage over the Trump administration’s surge, part of its nati...
www.cnn.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Even if Bovino gets fired, ICE has to go.
Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go.
Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go.
As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go.
Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go.
As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
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This isn't about "training issues." The murderer who executed Renee Good has been with ICE for 10 years, and according to DHS, the murderer who executed Alex Pretti has been there for 8 years.
These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.
These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.
January 26, 2026 at 11:04 PM
This isn't about "training issues." The murderer who executed Renee Good has been with ICE for 10 years, and according to DHS, the murderer who executed Alex Pretti has been there for 8 years.
These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.
These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.
This feels like Yale, which has somehow avoided the administration's attacks thus far, is actively baiting them. 🤔
In @yaledailynews.bsky.social - School of Management to honor university leaders at odds with Trump - Harvard Pres. Alan Garber and former UVA Pres. James Ryan will be honored with the award following their public resistance to White House attacks on universities
yaledailynews.com/articles/sch...
yaledailynews.com/articles/sch...
yaledailynews.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:06 PM
This feels like Yale, which has somehow avoided the administration's attacks thus far, is actively baiting them. 🤔
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There are few things more disturbing than witnessing the government gun down your fellow citizen on a city street. The more Democrats share video of this, the more they alienate reasonable centrists.
by Editorial Board of the Free Press
by Editorial Board of the Free Press
January 26, 2026 at 4:33 PM
There are few things more disturbing than witnessing the government gun down your fellow citizen on a city street. The more Democrats share video of this, the more they alienate reasonable centrists.
by Editorial Board of the Free Press
by Editorial Board of the Free Press
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“We’re going to have to live with our discomfort in making other people uncomfortable.”
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Welcome to the American Winter
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:29 PM
“We’re going to have to live with our discomfort in making other people uncomfortable.”
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Good stuff here.
Other folks have already noted much of this, but I think the MAGA 'theory of victory' here is:
1) DHS provocations trigger a riot or attack on agents which
2) Leads to widespread civil unrest in many 'blue' cities so that
3) Trump can invoke the insurrection act and send in the troops...
1) DHS provocations trigger a riot or attack on agents which
2) Leads to widespread civil unrest in many 'blue' cities so that
3) Trump can invoke the insurrection act and send in the troops...
Curious if anyone has a plausible theory of victory for the administration if it were to invoke the Insurrection Act.
How does the administration "win" in such a scenario?
Best I can tell, it is magical thinking by a certain somebody at the White House, but maybe I'm missing something.
How does the administration "win" in such a scenario?
Best I can tell, it is magical thinking by a certain somebody at the White House, but maybe I'm missing something.
January 26, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Good stuff here.
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Let's reset the terms of the debate. theracket.news/p/when-will-...
When will he resign?
The only question worth asking
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January 25, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Let's reset the terms of the debate. theracket.news/p/when-will-...
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The people who are going to demand that we give them a round of applause for figuring it out 10-15 years too late is already annoying and it’s about to escalate from a trickle to a torrent.
Glad you made it; you could apologize to everyone you scolded or just take a seat instead of writing this.
Glad you made it; you could apologize to everyone you scolded or just take a seat instead of writing this.
January 25, 2026 at 8:28 PM
The people who are going to demand that we give them a round of applause for figuring it out 10-15 years too late is already annoying and it’s about to escalate from a trickle to a torrent.
Glad you made it; you could apologize to everyone you scolded or just take a seat instead of writing this.
Glad you made it; you could apologize to everyone you scolded or just take a seat instead of writing this.
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It's true that when a government becomes tyrannical it is the duty of the citizens to overthrow it and form a new one. It's just that the people who have been saying it in my lifetime have been saying it in response to stuff like the existence of Hannukah, and Black people, and the Spanish language.
January 25, 2026 at 11:35 AM
It's true that when a government becomes tyrannical it is the duty of the citizens to overthrow it and form a new one. It's just that the people who have been saying it in my lifetime have been saying it in response to stuff like the existence of Hannukah, and Black people, and the Spanish language.
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Our country was founded on independence — aspirational and clumsily attempted as it was — and has been sullied by this sort of servile, vapid Dick Wolfish law enforcement worship.
Attorney General Pam Bondi: "Our country was founded on law enforcement"
Bondi: "It's extremely organized. The signs they have are all matching, they're well written. And look at what's happening today. How did these people go out & get gas masks? These protesters. Would you know how to walk out on the street and buy a gas mask? Think about that. We're not gonna have it"
January 25, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Our country was founded on independence — aspirational and clumsily attempted as it was — and has been sullied by this sort of servile, vapid Dick Wolfish law enforcement worship.
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The NRA is a gun rights organization the way the Ku Klux Klan is a speech rights organization.
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 AM
The NRA is a gun rights organization the way the Ku Klux Klan is a speech rights organization.
Do I feel like showering and washing and drying my hair right now? Not at all, but since it's very possible it'll be my last chance for anything more than a baby wipe bath for a few days, off I go. 🚿🧖♀️
January 24, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Do I feel like showering and washing and drying my hair right now? Not at all, but since it's very possible it'll be my last chance for anything more than a baby wipe bath for a few days, off I go. 🚿🧖♀️
This is where we are.
The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect.
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January 24, 2026 at 8:16 PM
This is where we are.
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We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
January 24, 2026 at 6:02 PM
We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
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A write-up of yesterday's protest + general strike that'll make you feel something
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/hate-has-t...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/hate-has-t...
Hate Has to Scatter When Minneapolis Arises
At the general strike.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
January 24, 2026 at 5:28 PM
A write-up of yesterday's protest + general strike that'll make you feel something
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/hate-has-t...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/hate-has-t...
Arrest him and open a murder investigation. Anything less is just bloviating.
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
January 24, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Arrest him and open a murder investigation. Anything less is just bloviating.
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they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll empty a whole goddamn magazine into you while you’re lying on the ground if you don’t cheer them on while they’re fucking doing it.
they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.
January 24, 2026 at 3:52 PM
they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll empty a whole goddamn magazine into you while you’re lying on the ground if you don’t cheer them on while they’re fucking doing it.
Universal truth of working out at a university rec center: It can be 10 degrees outside and there will still be multiple student-age dudes who arrive wearing shorts. 🥶🧡💙
January 24, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Universal truth of working out at a university rec center: It can be 10 degrees outside and there will still be multiple student-age dudes who arrive wearing shorts. 🥶🧡💙
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I get so tired of seeing people be called communists.
Do you know, that not one country in this world has ever been communist. Never. They’ve been called it yes. But not one has ever lived the ideology. Many countries had “Communist”parties. But they weren’t actually communist.
Do you know, that not one country in this world has ever been communist. Never. They’ve been called it yes. But not one has ever lived the ideology. Many countries had “Communist”parties. But they weren’t actually communist.
January 24, 2026 at 8:38 AM
I get so tired of seeing people be called communists.
Do you know, that not one country in this world has ever been communist. Never. They’ve been called it yes. But not one has ever lived the ideology. Many countries had “Communist”parties. But they weren’t actually communist.
Do you know, that not one country in this world has ever been communist. Never. They’ve been called it yes. But not one has ever lived the ideology. Many countries had “Communist”parties. But they weren’t actually communist.
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It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
January 23, 2026 at 8:16 PM
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
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January 23, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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January 23, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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This is like where you hear there’s a party in the dorm lounge and you walk down there and it’s just three grad students and the dude from the third floor single who always smells like ham
lmfao this is who is on his board of peace right now btw
total flop
total flop
January 23, 2026 at 4:35 AM
This is like where you hear there’s a party in the dorm lounge and you walk down there and it’s just three grad students and the dude from the third floor single who always smells like ham
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social with the wisdom. Volunteer work has been grounding amidst the onslaught. Helping patients safely access care at Planned Parenthood, helping an Afghan refugee become a citizen, helping seniors stay independent, are small acts of resistance and community.
January 23, 2026 at 12:59 AM
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social with the wisdom. Volunteer work has been grounding amidst the onslaught. Helping patients safely access care at Planned Parenthood, helping an Afghan refugee become a citizen, helping seniors stay independent, are small acts of resistance and community.