Katiesaurus
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Never read the writers who signed the Harper's letter. Substack supports Nazis, so don't read those either.
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Nothing gold can stay, Ponyboy.
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Nothing gold can stay, Ponyboy.
BTS ARMY 💜⁷
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In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi.
He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael.
At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk.
Wael died on Friday at age 30.
ICE caused his death.
They didn’t get to say goodbye.
He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael.
At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk.
Wael died on Friday at age 30.
ICE caused his death.
They didn’t get to say goodbye.
Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization
It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral.
www.wfaa.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:01 AM
In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi.
He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael.
At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk.
Wael died on Friday at age 30.
ICE caused his death.
They didn’t get to say goodbye.
He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael.
At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk.
Wael died on Friday at age 30.
ICE caused his death.
They didn’t get to say goodbye.
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This is so fucking haunting.
January 24, 2026 at 3:11 AM
This is so fucking haunting.
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You may think this Board of Peace thing is a way to pay Trump bribes, and it is, but because that’s not maximally stupid I think the actual purpose is to give Trump a Board of Peace Prize.
January 24, 2026 at 1:46 AM
You may think this Board of Peace thing is a way to pay Trump bribes, and it is, but because that’s not maximally stupid I think the actual purpose is to give Trump a Board of Peace Prize.
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I have been assuming there was some serious discontent at Target right now, so I'm really only surprised it took this long to come out.
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January 24, 2026 at 12:26 AM
I have been assuming there was some serious discontent at Target right now, so I'm really only surprised it took this long to come out.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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According to an internal email to Washington Post sports staff, the paper isn't sending any reporters to cover the winter Olympics next month. The decision comes as major layoffs are expected in the coming weeks.
January 23, 2026 at 11:20 PM
According to an internal email to Washington Post sports staff, the paper isn't sending any reporters to cover the winter Olympics next month. The decision comes as major layoffs are expected in the coming weeks.
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Hardly the most significant of many depraved details, but who tf at DoJ thought they could get a search warrant granted to search the effects of a dead person?
"...from a civil rights probe to an investigation into a suspected assault on an officer, the people said. A federal magistrate judge rejected that warrant, noting that Good was already dead and could not be considered a suspect for a warrant."
January 24, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Hardly the most significant of many depraved details, but who tf at DoJ thought they could get a search warrant granted to search the effects of a dead person?
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One internal November 2020 presentation slide said acclimating children to Google’s ecosystem in school would hopefully lead them to use its products as adults: “You get that loyalty early, and potentially for life.”
Google’s work in schools aims to create a ‘pipeline of future users,’ internal documents say
A major lawsuit revealed details of Google's business motivations to get its products into schools. A Google spokesperson said the documents "mischaracterize our work."
www.nbcnews.com
January 24, 2026 at 1:05 AM
One internal November 2020 presentation slide said acclimating children to Google’s ecosystem in school would hopefully lead them to use its products as adults: “You get that loyalty early, and potentially for life.”
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I'm not one for false optimism. But what I witnessed today in Minneapolis was tremendous, both in scale and exuberance. It was a stunning answer to the federal assault on Minnesota, a show of solidarity that gives us something to hold on to during times that are unforgiving.
“Everybody Showed Up”: Stunning Crowds at Minnesota Day of Strike and Shutdown Against ICE
Extreme cold didn't stop the shutdown on Friday as some 100 faith leaders were arrested, residents stayed home from work, and an estimated 50,000 or more marched through downtown Minneapolis.
inthesetimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 12:42 AM
I'm not one for false optimism. But what I witnessed today in Minneapolis was tremendous, both in scale and exuberance. It was a stunning answer to the federal assault on Minnesota, a show of solidarity that gives us something to hold on to during times that are unforgiving.
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The Washington Post obtained 911 calls from the migrant concentration camp in Texas where an autopsy recently ruled a detainee’s death a homicide.
The concentration camp guards told 911 the man died by suicide while “guards were trying to save him.”
The concentration camp guards told 911 the man died by suicide while “guards were trying to save him.”
ICE detention staff reported death of restrained man as a suicide
The statements to 911 operators the night Geraldo Lunas Campos died appear to conflict with autopsy’s later finding of ‘homicide.’
wapo.st
January 24, 2026 at 12:08 AM
The Washington Post obtained 911 calls from the migrant concentration camp in Texas where an autopsy recently ruled a detainee’s death a homicide.
The concentration camp guards told 911 the man died by suicide while “guards were trying to save him.”
The concentration camp guards told 911 the man died by suicide while “guards were trying to save him.”
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Please know that when JD Vance says "Americans" here, he means "women."
"To our fellow Americans, we say you’re never going to find great meaning in a cubicle or in front of a computer screen. But you will find great meaning if you dedicate yourself to the creation and sustenance of human life."
"To our fellow Americans, we say you’re never going to find great meaning in a cubicle or in front of a computer screen. But you will find great meaning if you dedicate yourself to the creation and sustenance of human life."
January 24, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Please know that when JD Vance says "Americans" here, he means "women."
"To our fellow Americans, we say you’re never going to find great meaning in a cubicle or in front of a computer screen. But you will find great meaning if you dedicate yourself to the creation and sustenance of human life."
"To our fellow Americans, we say you’re never going to find great meaning in a cubicle or in front of a computer screen. But you will find great meaning if you dedicate yourself to the creation and sustenance of human life."
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And here’s an Omni jet landing in Equatorial Guinea yesterday. This is very likely a third-country removal to a torture prison, the second in a week and the third there overall.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
January 23, 2026 at 11:50 PM
And here’s an Omni jet landing in Equatorial Guinea yesterday. This is very likely a third-country removal to a torture prison, the second in a week and the third there overall.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
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Our new paper on the Trump Admin’s unlawful, unsupported-by-evidence, and harmful efforts to freeze ~$10B in funding for child care & other essential needs in 5 Dem-led states, a fundamental threat to everyone's access to public services. www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
January 23, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Our new paper on the Trump Admin’s unlawful, unsupported-by-evidence, and harmful efforts to freeze ~$10B in funding for child care & other essential needs in 5 Dem-led states, a fundamental threat to everyone's access to public services. www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
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I feel like this article is really of a piece with the story of the biracial trans woman who let noted piece of shit Jake Lang into her car because in the moment he approached, she saw a scared human being desperate for help and not a white supremacist.
You need to read this one. ICE detained two observers. The agent driving the vehicle started having seizures. The women asked to be uncuffed and gave him aid. After EMS arrived, the women were still taken to Whipple. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure
The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.
www.startribune.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:17 PM
I feel like this article is really of a piece with the story of the biracial trans woman who let noted piece of shit Jake Lang into her car because in the moment he approached, she saw a scared human being desperate for help and not a white supremacist.
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But yeah, I live 3.5 miles from the park it started at and just couldn’t get there. So many others wanted to be here and couldn’t. We all want these mfs out, you’re only seeing a fraction of support that is here ❤️
January 23, 2026 at 10:54 PM
But yeah, I live 3.5 miles from the park it started at and just couldn’t get there. So many others wanted to be here and couldn’t. We all want these mfs out, you’re only seeing a fraction of support that is here ❤️
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I just want people who are seeing the crowd pics to know, every single piece of Mpls infrastructure was strained to the limit today to get people there. I’m able bodied and prepared, was outside for 2 hours and still never made it bc our trains downtown were never meant to be packed like they were.
January 23, 2026 at 10:45 PM
I just want people who are seeing the crowd pics to know, every single piece of Mpls infrastructure was strained to the limit today to get people there. I’m able bodied and prepared, was outside for 2 hours and still never made it bc our trains downtown were never meant to be packed like they were.
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FBI leadership coverup of Renee Good killing.
A supervisor in FBI’s Minneapolis field office resigned "after bureau leadership in Washington pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into" ICE agent Jonathan Ross. "Such inquiries are a common investigative step in similar shootings."
A supervisor in FBI’s Minneapolis field office resigned "after bureau leadership in Washington pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into" ICE agent Jonathan Ross. "Such inquiries are a common investigative step in similar shootings."
F.B.I. Agent Who Tried to Investigate ICE Officer in Shooting Resigns
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:30 PM
FBI leadership coverup of Renee Good killing.
A supervisor in FBI’s Minneapolis field office resigned "after bureau leadership in Washington pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into" ICE agent Jonathan Ross. "Such inquiries are a common investigative step in similar shootings."
A supervisor in FBI’s Minneapolis field office resigned "after bureau leadership in Washington pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into" ICE agent Jonathan Ross. "Such inquiries are a common investigative step in similar shootings."
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Reporters, if you wrote about learning loss due to covid school closures, you can write about learning loss due to state terror.
I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."
January 23, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Reporters, if you wrote about learning loss due to covid school closures, you can write about learning loss due to state terror.
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There are many serious governments in the world.
The US is not one of them.
(There are no penguins in Greenland.)
The US is not one of them.
(There are no penguins in Greenland.)
January 23, 2026 at 11:12 PM
There are many serious governments in the world.
The US is not one of them.
(There are no penguins in Greenland.)
The US is not one of them.
(There are no penguins in Greenland.)
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"Millionaire's Tax" Will Be Offset by Cuts to Sales and Business Taxes, Could Be Out Next Week
Many hurdles still await a statewide high-earners' income tax, but it's moving forward, senate and house proponents say.
publicola.com/2026/01/23/m...
Many hurdles still await a statewide high-earners' income tax, but it's moving forward, senate and house proponents say.
publicola.com/2026/01/23/m...
"Millionaire's Tax" Will Be Offset by Cuts to Sales and Business Taxes, Could Be Out Next Week - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett State house and senate leaders say their proposal to pass an income tax in Washington state…
publicola.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:48 PM
"Millionaire's Tax" Will Be Offset by Cuts to Sales and Business Taxes, Could Be Out Next Week
Many hurdles still await a statewide high-earners' income tax, but it's moving forward, senate and house proponents say.
publicola.com/2026/01/23/m...
Many hurdles still await a statewide high-earners' income tax, but it's moving forward, senate and house proponents say.
publicola.com/2026/01/23/m...
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Breaking MS NOW:
Aides to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Attorney's office and FBI agents in Minnesota to shut down the civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability.
Aides to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Attorney's office and FBI agents in Minnesota to shut down the civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability.
DOJ sought to probe Renee Good for criminal liability, even after her death: Sources
A judge refused an FBI warrant that proposed investigating dead Minnesota mom for suspected assault on an officer.
www.ms.now
January 23, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Breaking MS NOW:
Aides to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Attorney's office and FBI agents in Minnesota to shut down the civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability.
Aides to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Attorney's office and FBI agents in Minnesota to shut down the civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability.
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5. Is Stuart Levenbach continuing to serve in other roles in the administration, and if so, how will Levenbach be able to carry out the responsibilities of the U.S. chief statistician?
January 23, 2026 at 11:39 PM
5. Is Stuart Levenbach continuing to serve in other roles in the administration, and if so, how will Levenbach be able to carry out the responsibilities of the U.S. chief statistician?
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4. My additional questions to OMB’s press office:
How does Stuart Levenbach meet the statutory requirement for the U.S. chief statistician to be a “trained and experienced professional statistician,” according to Section 3504(e)(7) of Title 44?
How does Stuart Levenbach meet the statutory requirement for the U.S. chief statistician to be a “trained and experienced professional statistician,” according to Section 3504(e)(7) of Title 44?
January 23, 2026 at 11:39 PM
4. My additional questions to OMB’s press office:
How does Stuart Levenbach meet the statutory requirement for the U.S. chief statistician to be a “trained and experienced professional statistician,” according to Section 3504(e)(7) of Title 44?
How does Stuart Levenbach meet the statutory requirement for the U.S. chief statistician to be a “trained and experienced professional statistician,” according to Section 3504(e)(7) of Title 44?
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NEW: The White House's Office of Management and Budget has a new chief statistician overseeing the Census Bureau & other federal statistical agencies, according to StatsPolicy.gov. Stuart Levenbach has replaced Mark Calabria, according to the website's "About Us" page
statspolicy.gov/about/#members
statspolicy.gov/about/#members
January 23, 2026 at 11:16 PM
NEW: The White House's Office of Management and Budget has a new chief statistician overseeing the Census Bureau & other federal statistical agencies, according to StatsPolicy.gov. Stuart Levenbach has replaced Mark Calabria, according to the website's "About Us" page
statspolicy.gov/about/#members
statspolicy.gov/about/#members
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Just a reminder that Bluesky is not your political ally. It's a platform with its own interests and we'd all do well to diversify.
As this civil conflict escalates, you don't want to get shut down completely (as I'm apparently on the verge of).
As this civil conflict escalates, you don't want to get shut down completely (as I'm apparently on the verge of).
January 23, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Just a reminder that Bluesky is not your political ally. It's a platform with its own interests and we'd all do well to diversify.
As this civil conflict escalates, you don't want to get shut down completely (as I'm apparently on the verge of).
As this civil conflict escalates, you don't want to get shut down completely (as I'm apparently on the verge of).