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Nick Shirley and others like him are reminiscent of yellow journalism of the 19th century, updated and turbocharged by social media algorithms.
Read more: www.theverge.com/news/869824/...
Read more: www.theverge.com/news/869824/...
January 29, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Nick Shirley and others like him are reminiscent of yellow journalism of the 19th century, updated and turbocharged by social media algorithms.
Read more: www.theverge.com/news/869824/...
Read more: www.theverge.com/news/869824/...
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We asked an expert to tell us what they thought of ICE's military moves. It was worse than I thought (but the writing is great) www.wired.com/story/ice-pr...
ICE Pretends It’s a Military Force. Its Tactics Would Get Real Soldiers Killed
WIRED asked an active military officer to break down immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis and elsewhere.
www.wired.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:11 PM
We asked an expert to tell us what they thought of ICE's military moves. It was worse than I thought (but the writing is great) www.wired.com/story/ice-pr...
Reposted by Frank Ciulla
Things aren’t getting more expensive by accident — corporations are rigging the game.
January 29, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Things aren’t getting more expensive by accident — corporations are rigging the game.
Reposted by Frank Ciulla
Trump didn’t hijack conservatism—he’s a product of it.
The question is whether the conservative movement will have a future or not.
The question is whether the conservative movement will have a future or not.
The American Conservative Movement Has Failed
Assuming the republic survives, we will have to pick up the pieces. But first we must understand who and what brought us
contrarian.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Trump didn’t hijack conservatism—he’s a product of it.
The question is whether the conservative movement will have a future or not.
The question is whether the conservative movement will have a future or not.
Reposted by Frank Ciulla
Minnesota prosecutors face uphill battle if they charge feds in fatal shootings
Virginia attempted to prosecute federal officers who killed a man in 2017. It didn’t work.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Virginia attempted to prosecute federal officers who killed a man in 2017. It didn’t work.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Minnesota prosecutors face uphill battle if they charge feds in fatal shootings
Virginia attempted to prosecute federal officers who killed a man in 2017. It didn’t work.
www.politico.com
January 28, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Minnesota prosecutors face uphill battle if they charge feds in fatal shootings
Virginia attempted to prosecute federal officers who killed a man in 2017. It didn’t work.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Virginia attempted to prosecute federal officers who killed a man in 2017. It didn’t work.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz, the top federal judge in Minneapolis, rips into ICE:
"ICE is not a law unto itself."
"ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence."
tinyurl.com/y4kujkzj
"ICE is not a law unto itself."
"ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence."
tinyurl.com/y4kujkzj
tinyurl.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz, the top federal judge in Minneapolis, rips into ICE:
"ICE is not a law unto itself."
"ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence."
tinyurl.com/y4kujkzj
"ICE is not a law unto itself."
"ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence."
tinyurl.com/y4kujkzj
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NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.
January 24, 2026 at 6:46 PM
NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.
Reposted by Frank Ciulla
ICE says it detains the "worst of the worst." Meet Liam Ramos, age 5.
January 22, 2026 at 5:11 PM
ICE says it detains the "worst of the worst." Meet Liam Ramos, age 5.
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SEEING IS BELIEVING
DHS claims the car being chased rammed the ICE vehicle. The video shows the opposite.
📌 A father and son, a US citizen, are chased. The teen is beaten and seriously injured. The father is deported.
DHS lied. The video tells the truth. Excellent reporting by Antonia Hylton.
DHS claims the car being chased rammed the ICE vehicle. The video shows the opposite.
📌 A father and son, a US citizen, are chased. The teen is beaten and seriously injured. The father is deported.
DHS lied. The video tells the truth. Excellent reporting by Antonia Hylton.
January 22, 2026 at 4:44 AM
SEEING IS BELIEVING
DHS claims the car being chased rammed the ICE vehicle. The video shows the opposite.
📌 A father and son, a US citizen, are chased. The teen is beaten and seriously injured. The father is deported.
DHS lied. The video tells the truth. Excellent reporting by Antonia Hylton.
DHS claims the car being chased rammed the ICE vehicle. The video shows the opposite.
📌 A father and son, a US citizen, are chased. The teen is beaten and seriously injured. The father is deported.
DHS lied. The video tells the truth. Excellent reporting by Antonia Hylton.
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Stephen Miller's terror state is employing lawless violence against Americans to dissuade them from standing in the way of his ethnic cleansing project.
Excited that @theunpopulist.net has reprinted our piece on the roots of his white nationalism. Check it out:
www.theunpopulist.net/p/stephen-mi...
Excited that @theunpopulist.net has reprinted our piece on the roots of his white nationalism. Check it out:
www.theunpopulist.net/p/stephen-mi...
Stephen Miller’s Assault on America’s Immigrant Legacy: Part I
The man whose Russian Jewish ancestors fled persecution now oversees a sweeping deportation machine designed to terrorize immigrant families
www.theunpopulist.net
January 22, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Stephen Miller's terror state is employing lawless violence against Americans to dissuade them from standing in the way of his ethnic cleansing project.
Excited that @theunpopulist.net has reprinted our piece on the roots of his white nationalism. Check it out:
www.theunpopulist.net/p/stephen-mi...
Excited that @theunpopulist.net has reprinted our piece on the roots of his white nationalism. Check it out:
www.theunpopulist.net/p/stephen-mi...
Reposted by Frank Ciulla
January 20, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Reposted by Frank Ciulla
As Homeland Security’s siege on Minneapolis enters its third week, locals are volunteering for patrol shifts, protesting in the streets, and keeping one another up to date in group texts.
Read more from @scottmeslow.bsky.social in Minneapolis:
Read more from @scottmeslow.bsky.social in Minneapolis:
It’s worse than it looks in Minneapolis
But locals are organizing to keep each other safe from ICE agents.
www.theverge.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:01 PM
As Homeland Security’s siege on Minneapolis enters its third week, locals are volunteering for patrol shifts, protesting in the streets, and keeping one another up to date in group texts.
Read more from @scottmeslow.bsky.social in Minneapolis:
Read more from @scottmeslow.bsky.social in Minneapolis:
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very good piece which confirms that weiss is both exceptionally arrogant and totally out of her depth. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Inside Bari Weiss’s Hostile Takeover of CBS News
The network’s new editor-in-chief has championed a press free from élite bias, while aligning herself with a billionaire class more willing than ever to indulge Donald Trump.
www.newyorker.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:26 PM
very good piece which confirms that weiss is both exceptionally arrogant and totally out of her depth. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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A joke for the history buffs.
January 20, 2026 at 12:39 AM
A joke for the history buffs.
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Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here
McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…
McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…
January 20, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here
McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…
McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…
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“Militant civil disobedience, aggressively confronting a phalanx of masked agents in riot gear, or blocking traffic is nonviolent, but these tactics are not considered by the political class to count as ‘peaceful protest.’”
Historian Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE:
Historian Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE:
Renee Good's Murder and Other Acts of Terror
An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence.
www.bostonreview.net
January 18, 2026 at 4:24 PM
“Militant civil disobedience, aggressively confronting a phalanx of masked agents in riot gear, or blocking traffic is nonviolent, but these tactics are not considered by the political class to count as ‘peaceful protest.’”
Historian Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE:
Historian Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE:
Reposted by Frank Ciulla
A special MLK day share of my piece about how MAGA was born from racial resentment. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
Opinion | Trump took the tea party’s racial resentment and made it MAGA
Philip Bump: President Trump said the civil rights movement led to white people being “very badly treated.” It is impossible to overstate how important this idea is to his politics.
www.ms.now
January 19, 2026 at 5:41 PM
A special MLK day share of my piece about how MAGA was born from racial resentment. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
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"Ordinary citizens are trying to legally observe, record, and minimize damage from the assault on our communities. They are trying to prevent our federal government from illegally abducting people based on the color of their skin."
Wrenching first-person account documenting the atrocities:
Wrenching first-person account documenting the atrocities:
New at Can We Still Govern?
"I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul...to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government."
Please read, share, help. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...
"I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul...to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government."
Please read, share, help. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...
Dispatch from the occupation
What life is like in Minneapolis now
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:37 PM
"Ordinary citizens are trying to legally observe, record, and minimize damage from the assault on our communities. They are trying to prevent our federal government from illegally abducting people based on the color of their skin."
Wrenching first-person account documenting the atrocities:
Wrenching first-person account documenting the atrocities:
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“.. foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.” 🤡
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
January 19, 2026 at 3:37 PM
“.. foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.” 🤡
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
Apparently Republicans have gone all in on protecting pedophiles.
‘No longer in my hands’: How Hill Republicans stopped caring about DOJ releasing the Epstein files
‘No longer in my hands’: How Hill Republicans stopped caring about DOJ releasing the Epstein files
On the one-month anniversary of the Justice Department missing the deadline to release all the Epstein materials in its possession, Republicans in Congress are largely shrugging their shoulders.
dlvr.it
January 19, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Apparently Republicans have gone all in on protecting pedophiles.
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This isn’t immigration policy. It’s a business model.
ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.
ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.
January 19, 2026 at 3:05 AM
This isn’t immigration policy. It’s a business model.
ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.
ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.
Reposted by Frank Ciulla
77 million people voted for this utter lunatic.
January 19, 2026 at 6:43 AM
77 million people voted for this utter lunatic.
Reposted by Frank Ciulla
American farmers once benefited from an 85-year partnership between agriculture and U.S. foreign policy.
In the first year of the Trump Administration, that all changed. buff.ly/t8yLXm7
In the first year of the Trump Administration, that all changed. buff.ly/t8yLXm7
American farmers, who once fed the world, face a volatile global market with diminishing federal backing
The US government used to have American farmers’ backs, but that support has been dwindling for decades. New subsidies signal big changes for farmers.
buff.ly
January 19, 2026 at 4:48 AM
American farmers once benefited from an 85-year partnership between agriculture and U.S. foreign policy.
In the first year of the Trump Administration, that all changed. buff.ly/t8yLXm7
In the first year of the Trump Administration, that all changed. buff.ly/t8yLXm7
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DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account.
Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.
Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.
January 17, 2026 at 6:57 PM
DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account.
Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.
Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.
Reposted by Frank Ciulla
A wide-ranging UC San Francisco study found that sky-high rents are forcing people into homeless.
Middle- and working-class tenants need urgent help.
They need rent control.
Middle- and working-class tenants need urgent help.
They need rent control.
People Are Working Hard, But They’re Still Homeless
A new book by Brian Goldstone shows that hard-working people still end up homeless, showing the need for serious changes to housing policy.
www.housingisahumanright.org
January 17, 2026 at 12:40 AM
A wide-ranging UC San Francisco study found that sky-high rents are forcing people into homeless.
Middle- and working-class tenants need urgent help.
They need rent control.
Middle- and working-class tenants need urgent help.
They need rent control.