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Jen Graham
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Books, dogs, birds, cooking, and gardening are my thing. Lots of silly pics of our two Biewer Terriers, Merlin & Sonny.
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Protesting government overreach is not insurrection.

They are not preventing ICE from doing immigration enforcement.

They are objecting to an out-of-control agency that continually lies to the public and does harm.
Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota in a post on Truth Social.
January 15, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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Can confirm: That was a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.
January 15, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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It is absolutely *wild* that feds abandoned multiple vehicles to protestors last night. What a bunch of amateurs.
Another vehicle opened. Back was full of license plates, gear, various fed patches.
January 15, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 15, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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Took que from @dbrauer.net to post to FB about what it's like in Minneapolis and Saint Paul Metro right now.
January 14, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it.

We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.

What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies
The agency used to warn of chelation, used by RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ally David Geier.
arstechnica.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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a piece of chicken
a piece of broccoli
(a) corn tortilla
one other thing

is that piece of chicken a wing? a leg?

how big is "a piece" of broccoli?

do you just eat your corn tortilla dry?

what's "one other thing"? a dollop of salsa? a rice kernel?

these are deeply unserious, wicked people.
Brooke Rollins: "We've run over 1,000 simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing. So there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money."
January 14, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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Shame on every member of Congress who won't make this stop
Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning.

I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.
January 15, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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In the last 4 days:

-- Elise Slotkin says she's being criminally investigated by DOJ
-- ICE illegally goes "door to door" in Minneapolis
-- FBI raids the home of a WP journalist
-- DHS illegally arrests, detains 100+ Somalians with legal refugee status
January 14, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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That incident at the Ford plant was horrible for him

So much of Trump's power rests on the idea that everyday people love him

When it becomes clear that they don't he's in huge trouble

Same alway "go fuck yourself Mr Cheney" was a big sign of trouble for the W Bush admin
January 13, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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This. What you’re seeing now is panic and weakness and chaos.
Trump is surfing the buzz of bombing and invading and threatening, but things are not going his way; he wants ICE to freak people out. (It is. But not the way he hopes.)
His escalations are due to his weakness and declining support. And they will only accelerate his decline.
Does anybody think his Minnesota Shitshow is going to swing things back his way and boost his approval ratings?
January 13, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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The president said "Fuck you" to a citizen and only the citizen will face any consequences
UPDATE: TJ Sabula, the worker who shouted "pedophile protector" at Trump, has been suspended - WaPo
WATCH: Trump shows his middle finger and appears to say "fuck you" after Ford worker yells "pedophile protector" - TMZ
January 14, 2026 at 2:59 AM
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Explain to me like I'm five what the 2nd Amendment is for if not for this. King George III never said anything this obnoxious or deliberately inflammatory.
January 14, 2026 at 5:20 AM
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This is a warband of lawless marauders, and it's stupid to think of them as an agency we are obligated to underwrite with taxes
Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center.

Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
January 14, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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What we could be getting for the money we’re spending on ICE.
Opinion | How the money in ICE’s ballooning budget could have been used to help Americans
Philip Bump: Had the Trump administration spent on assistance for Americans in need, rather than on a punitive effort to uproot immigrants — here’s how it might have looked.
www.ms.now
January 14, 2026 at 4:02 AM
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"They tried to make me feel powerless, and I left feeling powerful. They tried to make me feel hopeless, and I left feeling hopeful. I don't think that this can last." -- one of the observers detained by ICE
January 13, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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Taken by ICE & Detained | Breaking the News Plus
YouTube video by KARE 11
www.youtube.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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There it is. This is all 'great replacement' crap. Plenty of young, energetic people in the world if what one is actually worried about is sustaining a population that lives longer due to medical advances.

Also, we should address aging care because that falls on the shoulders of the young, too.
The U.S. is forcing massive deportations of working-age people with jobs who're contributing to the safety net, while conservatives drape themselves in concern for an aging population.

This is entirely about nativism.
January 13, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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Journalists often go on hand-fed ride-alongs with agents.

Seldom, though, do they get into the cars of everyday people protecting their communities from those same agents.

We just did exactly that, in ICE-occupied Minneapolis:
January 13, 2026 at 3:47 AM
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We are now 25 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files
January 13, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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A judge in Minnesota is going to see this post while deciding on the state and city's request for injunctive relief in the lawsuit they filed yesterday.
Trump just posted that the "day of reckoning & retribution is coming" in Minnesota.
January 13, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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A few months ago, ICE hired me

I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable

And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"

My latest for Slate
You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
slate.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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Wild reporting from Bloomberg. Jeanine Pirro apparently freelanced the subpoenas and criminal investigation of Jerome Powell.
January 13, 2026 at 1:55 AM
January 13, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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January 12, 2026 at 9:35 PM