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Fucking Bitch Hat

@kenwhite.bsky.social

Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 5h

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Justice Dept. launches criminal investigation of Minnesota governor

The Justice Department has issued subpoenas for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey as part of an investigation into impeding law enforcement.

www.washingtonpost.com

January 16, 2026 at 11:44 PM

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Kevin Rothrock

@kevinrothrock.me

Federal officers in the Minneapolis-area participating in its largest recent U.S. immigration enforcement operation can’t detain or tear gas peaceful protesters, including people observing the agents, a judge in Minnesota ruled Friday.

apnews.com/article/minn...

Judge rules feds in Minneapolis immigration operation can’t detain or tear gas peaceful protesters

A U.S. judge has ruled federal officers in Minneapolis-area immigration operation can’t detain or tear gas peaceful protesters who aren’t obstructing authorities, including when these people are obser...

apnews.com

January 17, 2026 at 2:12 AM

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digitalprimate

@digitalprimate.bsky.social

Good morning from Haarlem.

#GoodMorningFromHaarlem

Pale blue dawn and streetlights illuminate the narrow cobblestone street. Plants rise from the houses on either side. A small cat walks toward the camera in the distance.

January 16, 2026 at 12:31 PM

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Jenny Cohn

@jennycohn.bsky.social

4/ Related thread. bsky.app/profile/jenn...

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 10h

😳 Isaiah Taylor of Valar Atomics—which somehow scored a DOE contract to build a nuclear reactor by July 4—claimed that “a person cld hold the spent nuclear fuel from [Valar’s] reactor in their hand & get the same amount of radiation as one would expect from a hospital CT scan.”

About that… 1/

January 17, 2026 at 1:42 AM

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Jenny Cohn

@jennycohn.bsky.social

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January 17, 2026 at 1:41 AM

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Jenny Cohn

@jennycohn.bsky.social

2/ You can read all about it in this incredible investigative report. utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/07/07/v...

Who is Valar Atomics? • Utah News Dispatch

Valar Atomics, a company exploring nuclear energy development for Utah, has been criticized by experts for its safety claims.

utahnewsdispatch.com

January 17, 2026 at 1:40 AM

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Jenny Cohn

@jennycohn.bsky.social

🤔 In 2021, Kip Mock of Moscow ID accidentally set his pal, Elijah Froh, on fire by pouring diesel on a fire. Mock & Froh were later were hired by Valar Atomics—founded by their pal, Isaiah Taylor, a high school dropout from Moscow, ID who somehow landed a DOE contract to build a nuclear reactor. 1/

January 17, 2026 at 1:39 AM

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bmaz

@bmaz.bsky.social

Says it all

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

REPORTER: Do you commit to not militarily engaging NATO partners?

TRUMP: I don't talk about that

REPORTER: You're not willing to commit to not attacking a NATO partner?

January 16, 2026 at 10:29 PM

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Kevin M. Kruse

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

He’s turned the presidency into the world’s largest ATM machine.

January 17, 2026 at 1:26 AM

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Governor Tim Walz

@governorwalz.mn.gov

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic.

The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 6h

Breaking news: The Justice Department has issued subpoenas for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey as part of an investigation alleging that they are impeding federal law enforcement officers’ abilities to do their jobs in the state.

Justice Dept. launches criminal investigation of Minnesota governor

The Justice Department has issued subpoenas for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey as part of an investigation into impeding law enforcement.

www.washingtonpost.com

January 16, 2026 at 11:46 PM

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emptywheel

@emptywheel.bsky.social

FBI's initial test (the report is dated Jan 13, 2021) resulted in negative flame test.

xplosive Main Charge (Device 1): Powder from Device 1, Item 2 contained the oxidizer potassium nitrate, the fuel sulfur, and a fuel consistent with charcoal. The powder was tested for thermal susceptibility (flame test) with negative results. In the proper proportions, these chemicals can form the low explosive black powder.

January 16, 2026 at 11:30 PM

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emptywheel

@emptywheel.bsky.social

This is part of a bid to revoke the detention order. They also say that Magistrate Judge Matthew Sharbaugh mixed up Cole's chemistry experiments.

legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

The allegation relied on by the Magistrate Judge that Cole tried to make
“blackpowder” sometime after January 5, 2021, is entirely unsupported and false.
(Order, at 14-15). The government’s proffer actually referred to a failed chemistry
experiment by Cole to create potassium chlorate, not black powder. The
experiment occurred more than a year before January 5, 2021. No evidence exists
that Cole was attempting to create potassium chlorate for purposes of an explosive
device. The experiment failed and was never repeated. And, again, absolutely no
evidence was proffered by the government that Cole purchased the ingredients
needed to produce black powder following January 5, 2021, or that he possessed
any such ingredients at the time of his arrest.

January 16, 2026 at 11:21 PM

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emptywheel

@emptywheel.bsky.social

The expert witness for accused pipe bomber Brian Cole says they weren't viable pipe bombs: He didn't mix his black powder ingredients sufficiently.

legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Based on my review of the materials provided, the two suspected pipe bombs in question do not
contain an explosive filler capable of causing an explosion. According to the reviewed FBI
Laboratory reports, the two pipes contained the chemicals potassium nitrate (an oxidizer),
charcoal (a fuel), and sulfur (a tinder/fuel). These chemicals are the three classic ingredients
used to make Black Powder, the oldest explosive and propellant known. However, their mere
presence does not make Black Powder. These chemicals need to be apportioned into a workable
fuel-to-oxidizer ratio: 75% potassium nitrate (also known as saltpeter), 15% charcoal, and 10%
sulfur is the most widely cited Black Powder ratio. The three chemicals must then be sufficiently
incorporated into a homogeneous mixture capable of sustaining a deflagration ( type of
explosion) (Conkling, 2010). According to the Government's detention memorandum, the
chemicals placed in the two pipes were mixed in a Pyrex bowl. The photos of the lab samples
taken from the powders recovered from the two pipes show mostly large white particles with
some flecks of dark material, which is not visually consistent with Black Powder but is
consistent with inadequate mixing in a bowl.

January 16, 2026 at 11:15 PM

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emptywheel

@emptywheel.bsky.social

I assume it'll go like this:

You said mean things about that murder we caused.

Yeah. And?

January 16, 2026 at 11:36 PM

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emptywheel

@emptywheel.bsky.social

I can't count how many times I've written that Donald Trump has picked his political martyrs poorly.

Thus far I have not been wrong.

Holy hell this time last Friday DOJ was subpoenaing Jerome Powell and thus far all that did was save us from Kevin Hassett.

January 16, 2026 at 11:35 PM

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Daryl Feehely

@darylfeehely.com

3 hours ago, The Taoiseach posted photos on X of school children from a visit he made to Gorey.

How is that not a severe safeguarding issue, given what can be done with any photo on X now?

#IrishPol

Daryl Feehely @darylfeehely.com · 13h

The Taoiseach can't decide if the gov should stop posting pictures on X which can be turned into CSAM or other illegal content by anyone.

And what other issues on other platforms are as illegal as being a CSAM generator?

Well done Richard for being the voice of the sane here.

#IrishPol

Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 15h

He did say Apple & Google should remove it from app stores.

He also said the Govt wouldn’t give “kneejerk” response by immediately coming off X, saying other platforms have issues too.

I interjected to say those other platforms don’t generate CSAM.

He accepts that but said other issues exist.

January 16, 2026 at 4:18 PM

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emptywheel

@emptywheel.bsky.social

I think @ag.state.mn.us is too kind here.

DHS ALWAYS lies first, then investigates. This may be the first time they've been ashamed enough to take shit down--normally it takes court orders.

But the MO is exactly the same. Every. Single. Time. They lie immediately, then check their own lies.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Ellison: "This was a family taking their kids from an athletic event and they ended up getting caught in the middle of the ICE behavior & protesters, & then, inexplicably, they shot tear gas too close to the car & that caused the infant to have some respiratory problems. CPR had to be administered."

January 17, 2026 at 12:00 AM

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Marc Elias

@marcelias.bsky.social

According to a Missouri Ethics Commission report released on Jan. 15, Put Missouri First — a GOP political action committee (PAC) — paid virtually all of that money to Patriot Grassroots, a political campaign company that has been promoted online by Donald Trump Jr.

GOP spent $2.9 million to stop Missourians from voting on gerrymander

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