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Jonathan Feingold
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law professor, critical race theory, co-host #RaceClass Podcast, critical legal collective

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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · Feb 21
We urge university leaders to respond confidently, with law and moral principle on your side, and not to sacrifice essential and legally defensible DEI initiatives that help universities fulfill their most basic mission to pursue truth and knowledge for the common good.

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WNBA is light years ahead.
alexaphilippou.bsky.social Alexa Philippou @alexaphilippou.bsky.social · 17h
Unrivaled co-founder and WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart held up an “Abolish ICE” sign during player intros ahead of Mist’s game this afternoon.

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January 26, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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juddlegum.bsky.social
Jeff Bezos has more money than any person could possible spend in a lifetime, bought the Washington Post, made the editorial board his personal mouth piece, and is now gutting the rest of the paper.
January 26, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
The National Basketball Players Association has released a statement on the killings in Minneapolis:

“Following the news of yet another fatal shooting in Minneapolis, a city that has been on the forefront of fight against injustices, NBA players can no longer remain silent”
FOLLOWING THE NEWS OF YET ANOTHER FATAL SHOOTING IN MINNEAPOLIS, A CITY THAT HAS BEEN ON THE FOREFRONT OF THE FIGHT AGAINST INJUSTICES, NBA PLAYERS CAN NO LONGER REMAIN SILENT. NOW MORE THAN EVER, WE MUST DEFEND THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE IN MINNESOTA PROTESTING AND RISKING THEIR LIVES TO DEMAND JUSTICE. THE FRATERNITY OF NBA PLAYERS, LIKE THE UNITED STATES ITSELF, IS A COMMUNITY ENRICHED BY ITS GLOBAL CITIZENS, AND WE REFUSE TO LET THE FLAMES OF DIVISION THREATEN THE CIVIL LIBERTIES THAT ARE MEANT TO PROTECT US ALL. THE NBPA AND ITS MEMBERS EXTEND OUR DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILIES OF ALEX PRETTI AND RENEE GOOD, JUST AS OUR THOUGHTS REMAIN FOCUSED ON THE SAFETY AND WELL-BEING OF ALL MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY. NBPA
January 25, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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ilhanmn.bsky.social
Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.

Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.

Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.

ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
January 25, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social
ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.
January 25, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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The AAUP continues to fight to protect noncitizen speech on campuses nationwide.

“Our chapter sued to protect the rights of everyone on our campus to speak their mind, even when their speech is unpopular. We will never stop standing up for our community.”

— Kirsten Weld, AAUP Harvard President
Judge Rejects Nationwide Relief in AAUP, MESA Lawsuit Over Noncitizen Speech, Issues Narrower Protections | News | The Harvard Crimson
A federal judge rebuffed a Harvard faculty group’s request to extend speech protections to noncitizens nationwide after it won a lawsuit against the Trump administration — instead issuing a special…
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January 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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froomkin.bsky.social
Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)
NYT lead headline: Videos Contradict Federal Accounts of Fatal Shooting
January 25, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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owillis.bsky.social
You all know I’m their biggest critic. Credit to @nytimes.com for reporting the truth and not the criminal regime’s lies this time. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...
Minneapolis Live Updates: Man Killed by Federal Agents Was Holding a Phone, Not a Gun Videos analyzed by The New York Times appear to contradict federal accounts of the shooting. The man, an I.C.U. nurse, was an American citizen with no criminal record, the city police chief said.
January 25, 2026 at 2:42 AM
jpygold.bsky.social
This is real. Athletes have so much power if they choose to use it.

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nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 20h
I hope the athletes follow their lead today. We need them too.
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 23h
Steph Curry, Draymond Green, Anthony Edwards, Steve Kerr.

They have the ability to significantly intervene in US history today, when they are needed most, by refusing to play and saying exactly why: ICE must be driven out of Minnesota and everywhere else.

Strike against ICE murders and abductions.
January 25, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 AM
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1500-2000 DC residents gathered at ICE HQ to mourn and protest last night. Speakers mentioned George Floyd and the struggle for racial justice and then asked those assembled to call out other names: Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile (also a Minnesotan), and others.
We will not forget.
January 25, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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The ICE Seven
Seven House democrats that voted for ICE funding
January 25, 2026 at 9:32 AM
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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting. 2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value. 3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE. 4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on. 5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle." 6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground. 7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack. 8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video. 9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk. 10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun. 11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him. 12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes. 13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times. 14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him. 15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1. 16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground. 17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building. 18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values. I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct. Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
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
jpygold.bsky.social
The daylight execution is an escalation. But it’s inseparable from the regime’s nostalgia for a mythological world where white Christian men dominated without apology. That’s why Critical Race Theory and the cross racial solidarity it emboldens scares them so much.
January 25, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
"A regime based on terror, on the other hand, deploys violence precisely to reinforce the message that anyone can be subjected to it." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
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January 25, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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On Monday I’m going to call my two Democratic senators and ask them not to fund any spending package that includes ICE funding. I’m also going to call my Republican representative and tell his office that I will blame the shutdown on him and his support for ICE.
January 25, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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lawrencehurley.bsky.social
This bill was introduced in House and Senate a couple of months back:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
January 25, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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victorerikray.bsky.social
What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.
January 24, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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msignorile.bsky.social
Now Noem says:

“This individual went and impeded their law enforcement operations...had a weapon on him, and multiple dozens of rounds of ammunition, wishing to inflict harm on these officers.”

So “had a weapon on him”, not brandishing.

Last time i checked they worked hard to make that a right.
January 24, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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wrote about the camps for my newsletter this weekend www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
January 25, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
We have video of Renee Good and Alex Pretti being executed by ICE

We don’t have video of the torture in the ICE camps

We know Geraldo Campos was choked to death

We know Randall Gamboa was put in a persistent vegetative state and deported

We know 2025 was the deadliest year on record

Abolish ICE
January 25, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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andycraig.bsky.social
There is a template for this. You can call it a conference, a congress, a convention, an assembly, but they all amount to the same thing. It needs to be convened promptly, and Illinois would be a good choice for hosting it.
govpritzker.illinois.gov Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d
I am asking my fellow Republican and Democratic Governors across the nation to have a unified response.

We must all stand against the lawlessness being inflicted in our states.
January 24, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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jamellebouie.net
an administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Noem lies shamelessly: "An individual approached order Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic gun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. This looks like a situation where an individual arrived to inflict maximum damage and kill law enforcement"
January 24, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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Keep calling to make sure it stays dead!!
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January 24, 2026 at 11:43 PM