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Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."
January 21, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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A reminder how ICE treats priests.
January 20, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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Please enjoy this local news: “Lehigh County Executive Josh Siegel said he is evicting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit from a county-owned building where it has occupied an office for about three years but never paid rent…
“We’re going to deport ICE,” Pinsley said at the news conference”
Lehigh County exec says he’s evicting ICE agents from Allentown office, citing 3 years of unpaid rent
Lehigh County Executive Josh Siegel’s announcement to evict the ICE agents came shortly after the county’s financial watchdog revealed the agency owes more than $115,000 in rent.
www.mcall.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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He's only going to get worse. And faster.
January 20, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
January 20, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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Quite the statement from the Prime Minister of Poland
January 20, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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In honor of lasting one full year in office, @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom today awarded Donald Trump the California Peace Prize. Please join us in congratulating Daddy’s Little Helper!
January 20, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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Surely the bus is going to turn around
January 20, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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The American auto industry bet big on electric vehicles. Then Trump stabbed them in the back. Subsidies are gone, sales in Canada are down, and our share of global auto sales will continue to plummet. From @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/vhVhMgE
How Trump Doomed the American Auto Industry - The American Prospect
Ford and GM made a big bet on electrification. Then Trump plunged a knife into their backs.
trib.al
January 20, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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Which Republican politicians, wealthy fraudsters and drug dealers will Trump be pardoning this week for the minimum standard fee of $1 million?
January 20, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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ABC News: "here's a list of those targeted by his administration" with *50+* names

abcnews.go.com/US/list-indi...
In year since Trump's return to office, here's a list of those targeted by his administration
The DOJ's probe into Jerome Powell is the latest salvo in what critics call a campaign of retribution since Donald Trump returned to the presidency one year ago.
abcnews.go.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
January 20, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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1/ New Kiel Institute study on 2025 tariffs. The headline finding won't shock anyone who studied 2018-19 tariffs: near-complete pass-through to US importers. Foreign exporters absorbed ~4% of burden; Americans paid ~96%.

www.kielinstitut.de/publications...
America’s Own Goal: Who Pays the Tariffs? - Kiel Institute
www.kielinstitut.de
January 19, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…
January 19, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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January 19, 2026 at 1:55 AM
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If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status.

Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487
January 19, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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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.
January 19, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States….
gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...
January 19, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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Incredible report on how patriotic Americans in Minneapolis are dealing with the invasion of Miller’s Gestapo.
What Trump and ICE Are Doing in Minneapolis Is Obvious. They Don’t Seem to Grasp What’s Happening Instead. — Slate
Trump had a playbook after Renee Good’s ICE shooting. I saw up close what’s happening instead.
apple.news
January 18, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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PSA: If Bill Kristol can say this dems should be able to say it
January 18, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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My last two shots before my world went dark.
January 17, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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🤣🤣
January 18, 2026 at 12:25 AM