Greggles
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Virtue signaler. Man who stares at cats. Occasional rider of bicycles. Pro scientist. Mostly rated correctly. Views represent no one except my own foolish self.
Just having my attention drawn to how dysfunctional Shimano’s marketing is, around cyclocross in particular. Like, Puck running a GRX (or is it Dura-Ace?)/XTR mullet is a big news item precisely cause Shimano doesn’t let sponsored teams do this. To which… what??
January 29, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Just having my attention drawn to how dysfunctional Shimano’s marketing is, around cyclocross in particular. Like, Puck running a GRX (or is it Dura-Ace?)/XTR mullet is a big news item precisely cause Shimano doesn’t let sponsored teams do this. To which… what??
Finally have a bike with studded tires and disc brakes for the ride to the subway station, THANK GOODNESS.
January 29, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Finally have a bike with studded tires and disc brakes for the ride to the subway station, THANK GOODNESS.
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Protected speech made my agents murder these people, says federal official
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Protected speech made my agents murder these people, says federal official
Finally tried out Bar Mitts (pogies) riding to the subway station this morning. They do feel awkward. With normal gloves, at 13 F, they weren’t adequate. Swapped to lobster claw gloves and that was good.
January 28, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Finally tried out Bar Mitts (pogies) riding to the subway station this morning. They do feel awkward. With normal gloves, at 13 F, they weren’t adequate. Swapped to lobster claw gloves and that was good.
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Maher Tarabishi, who has been detained by ICE since October, was the primary caretaker of his disabled adult child, Wael.
On Jan. 23, Wael died from complications related to Pompe disease, a rare genetic condition.
ICE has now denied Maher’s request to attend his funeral, his attorney says.
On Jan. 23, Wael died from complications related to Pompe disease, a rare genetic condition.
ICE has now denied Maher’s request to attend his funeral, his attorney says.
ICE Denies Detainee's Request to Attend His Son's Funeral, Attorney Says
Maher Tarabishi was the primary caretaker of his son, Wael Tarabishi, 30, who died on Friday, Jan. 23, from complications related to Pompe disease.
people.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Maher Tarabishi, who has been detained by ICE since October, was the primary caretaker of his disabled adult child, Wael.
On Jan. 23, Wael died from complications related to Pompe disease, a rare genetic condition.
ICE has now denied Maher’s request to attend his funeral, his attorney says.
On Jan. 23, Wael died from complications related to Pompe disease, a rare genetic condition.
ICE has now denied Maher’s request to attend his funeral, his attorney says.
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One thing I hope people take the time to acknowledge: The sea change in public opinion has been achieved because violence, though encourage by a lot of people here online, was never once employed by the movement. Violence was solely the purview of the state and that is why the state is losing.
January 26, 2026 at 7:48 PM
One thing I hope people take the time to acknowledge: The sea change in public opinion has been achieved because violence, though encourage by a lot of people here online, was never once employed by the movement. Violence was solely the purview of the state and that is why the state is losing.
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Still can't believe they immediately put the officers who killed Pretti back in the field. Even if the shooting had been justified (it wasn't), it's just incredibly callous and reckless -- to the public, but also to the officers themselves. Just a sociopathic dearth of humanity.
January 26, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Still can't believe they immediately put the officers who killed Pretti back in the field. Even if the shooting had been justified (it wasn't), it's just incredibly callous and reckless -- to the public, but also to the officers themselves. Just a sociopathic dearth of humanity.
Of a piece with the ideology of this administration that violence is awesome, that they just think the people who do violence are Awesome McBaddasses who can’t have been themselves psychologically harmed by their actions. Not even evaluating these guys is dangerous and, obviously, irresponsible.
CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
January 25, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Of a piece with the ideology of this administration that violence is awesome, that they just think the people who do violence are Awesome McBaddasses who can’t have been themselves psychologically harmed by their actions. Not even evaluating these guys is dangerous and, obviously, irresponsible.
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It's hard to know where to start with this degenerate hogwash. But that last line "ICE > MN" captures it. The ICE agents are superior to the whole state. That's their mentalty and model.
This is an actual post from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: Praising ICE after Alex Pretti was killed, blaming the Democratic leadership of Minnesota, and writing that ICE is greater/better than Minnesota.
He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.
He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.
January 25, 2026 at 1:30 AM
It's hard to know where to start with this degenerate hogwash. But that last line "ICE > MN" captures it. The ICE agents are superior to the whole state. That's their mentalty and model.
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As I explained earlier this month, we're too literal abt what amounts to military occupation. The ICE/CPB operations in Blue cities are the kinds of garrisoning of civilian towns that the founding documents opposed. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...
Don’t Be So Literal About What Counts as a Military Occupation
I want to return to a topic I’ve alluded to in several...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:35 AM
As I explained earlier this month, we're too literal abt what amounts to military occupation. The ICE/CPB operations in Blue cities are the kinds of garrisoning of civilian towns that the founding documents opposed. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...
“[A Federal agency] is better than/superior to/worthier than the people of a state of the Federal Union is a monstrously depraved thing for an official of that federal government to say.
This is an actual post from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: Praising ICE after Alex Pretti was killed, blaming the Democratic leadership of Minnesota, and writing that ICE is greater/better than Minnesota.
He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.
He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.
January 25, 2026 at 12:27 AM
“[A Federal agency] is better than/superior to/worthier than the people of a state of the Federal Union is a monstrously depraved thing for an official of that federal government to say.
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Public executions at the hands of the government should never happen in “the land of the free.”
Not one more taxpayer dollar for Trump’s DHS, CBP or ICE.
Not one more taxpayer dollar for Trump’s DHS, CBP or ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Public executions at the hands of the government should never happen in “the land of the free.”
Not one more taxpayer dollar for Trump’s DHS, CBP or ICE.
Not one more taxpayer dollar for Trump’s DHS, CBP or ICE.
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January 24, 2026 at 8:52 PM
They have been itching to kill liberals for decades, they’re excited now to finally get to do it, they have this fantasy that it will grant them total victory, but it’s going to be what destroys them.
The conservative intelligentsia and media-industrial complex has been publicly masturbating about getting to kill people for years now, they are orders of magnitude worse than even the MAGA base. Everybody knows this, it's just politically incorrect to say it.
miller is regularly blamed but vance is not held to any account at all for having started the chain of events that got us here
January 24, 2026 at 8:29 PM
They have been itching to kill liberals for decades, they’re excited now to finally get to do it, they have this fantasy that it will grant them total victory, but it’s going to be what destroys them.
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The conservative intelligentsia and media-industrial complex has been publicly masturbating about getting to kill people for years now, they are orders of magnitude worse than even the MAGA base. Everybody knows this, it's just politically incorrect to say it.
miller is regularly blamed but vance is not held to any account at all for having started the chain of events that got us here
As JD Vance starts trying to play "nice Gestapo" to Steven Miller's "mean Gestapo," it's worth emphasizing that what's happening in Minnesota is a direct descendant of Vance's knowingly false racist demagoguery during the campaign. "Somalis are low-IQ thieves" is "Haitians are eating your pets."
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January 24, 2026 at 8:20 PM
The conservative intelligentsia and media-industrial complex has been publicly masturbating about getting to kill people for years now, they are orders of magnitude worse than even the MAGA base. Everybody knows this, it's just politically incorrect to say it.
References to “1984” are appropriate and apt but do remember that this admin doesn’t actually have the ability of The Party to cow the public into accepting the obvious lies. It didn’t work with Renee Good and it really isn’t going to fucking work with Alex Pretti.
January 24, 2026 at 8:23 PM
References to “1984” are appropriate and apt but do remember that this admin doesn’t actually have the ability of The Party to cow the public into accepting the obvious lies. It didn’t work with Renee Good and it really isn’t going to fucking work with Alex Pretti.
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This is Alex Pretti.
This morning he was murdered by ICE. Six ICE agents held him down and shot him at point blank range. Alex was a nurse and researcher at the VA.
Our thoughts are with his loved ones and we stand united in action calling for the abolishment of ICE.
#ScientistsAgainstICE
This morning he was murdered by ICE. Six ICE agents held him down and shot him at point blank range. Alex was a nurse and researcher at the VA.
Our thoughts are with his loved ones and we stand united in action calling for the abolishment of ICE.
#ScientistsAgainstICE
January 24, 2026 at 8:03 PM
This is Alex Pretti.
This morning he was murdered by ICE. Six ICE agents held him down and shot him at point blank range. Alex was a nurse and researcher at the VA.
Our thoughts are with his loved ones and we stand united in action calling for the abolishment of ICE.
#ScientistsAgainstICE
This morning he was murdered by ICE. Six ICE agents held him down and shot him at point blank range. Alex was a nurse and researcher at the VA.
Our thoughts are with his loved ones and we stand united in action calling for the abolishment of ICE.
#ScientistsAgainstICE
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
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i'll say it again -- even if there's nothing formal dem leaders can do* they should show up to the protests themselves
put their bodies between ice thugs and their victims**
put their bodies between ice thugs and their victims**
There has been an increasing sense in Minneapolis that we are on our own, that our elected representatives are unwilling and/or unable to take action to get these murderous Nazi thugs out of our community. I really hope that changes today. The time for pleading TV hits ended weeks ago.
January 24, 2026 at 5:19 PM
i'll say it again -- even if there's nothing formal dem leaders can do* they should show up to the protests themselves
put their bodies between ice thugs and their victims**
put their bodies between ice thugs and their victims**
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I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.
January 24, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
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This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.
January 24, 2026 at 5:02 PM
This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.
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i do genuinely think we need to jail every single person currently working for ICE
January 24, 2026 at 5:50 PM
i do genuinely think we need to jail every single person currently working for ICE
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Trials for every ICE member.
January 24, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Trials for every ICE member.
Ok, well,
1. Coercion of individuals for the broader public good is sort of a definitional aspect of the state, with allowances for individual liberties, but also
2. That isn’t even operational in this case, because kids aren’t the property of their parents and vaccination is for their protection.
1. Coercion of individuals for the broader public good is sort of a definitional aspect of the state, with allowances for individual liberties, but also
2. That isn’t even operational in this case, because kids aren’t the property of their parents and vaccination is for their protection.
So you think kids should be vaccinated at gunpoint against their parents’ wishes or removed from the home?
January 23, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Ok, well,
1. Coercion of individuals for the broader public good is sort of a definitional aspect of the state, with allowances for individual liberties, but also
2. That isn’t even operational in this case, because kids aren’t the property of their parents and vaccination is for their protection.
1. Coercion of individuals for the broader public good is sort of a definitional aspect of the state, with allowances for individual liberties, but also
2. That isn’t even operational in this case, because kids aren’t the property of their parents and vaccination is for their protection.