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"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight." Albert Schweitzer;..."And then do what you can to do something about it."Me.
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Welcome to America circa 2026
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE

Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 27, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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January 27, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."
January 27, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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We finally got gun-control.
Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."
January 27, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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Alexander Vindman, who became a key player along with his twin brother in President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, announced that he is running for the US Senate as a Democrat in Florida. https://cnn.it/4ag319M
January 27, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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Echoing the cowardly white moderates who inspired MLK to write Letter from Birmingham Jail, 60 Minnesota CEOs made no mention of ICE, Alex Pretti or Renee Good in a bloodless plea for MN's problems to disappear

Craven corporations will pay a price

My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
What gutless corporations don’t get about ICE | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, a Fetterman shows moral leadership on Minnesota.
www.inquirer.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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Weiss is about a year behind The Washington Post, if you're curious where this is headed.
This does not sound good: "Bari Weiss to cut staff, add commentators at CBS News." By @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social
January 27, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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“What we’re really seeing here is an effort to twist a handful of old cases that have recognized circumstances in which the government doesn’t need a judicial warrant to enter a home.”
Can ICE Forcibly Enter Homes Without a Warrant? Inside Trump’s Attack on the 4th Amendment
ICE is asserting federal immigration officers have the power to forcibly enter homes without a judicial warrant. “That’s just not true,” says legal scholar Stephen Vladeck, who says the claim directly...
www.democracynow.org
January 27, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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I'm hearing from multiple sources that ICE will be raiding Food City locations in Phoenix today. Don't shop there, and stay TF away unless you're able to film. If you work there, call in sick. They're big mad at Senator Kelly, so this is retribution. #FuckICE #ICEOut #Phoenix #AZ
January 27, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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Startling fact of the day: “Experts estimate that people who drink only bottled water may be ingesting an additional 90,000 microplastics every year compared to around 4,000 extra particles for people who rely solely on tap water.” wapo.st/4t0zc4s (Gift link)
Column | Should you drink bottled water or tap? The answer may surprise you.
If you’re concerned about microplastics, PFAS and lead, there are certain ways to make your drinking water safer.
wapo.st
January 27, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.
January 27, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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This is actually one of the most troubling ICE stories I’ve seen recently — an eye-popping sign of how corrupt, broken, and racist the internal culture is:
ICE is leaving Vietnam-style death cards in the wake of their kidnappings because they are the saddest, most embarrassing military wannabes to ever live

coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...
January 26, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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I knew MN DOC had debunking Greg Bovino's false claims abt the target of the snatch CBP was doing when they murdered Alex Pretti. I didn't realize they created an entire website to debunking DHS lies.

mn.gov/doc/about/ne...
Combatting DHS Misinformation / Department of Corrections
mn.gov
January 26, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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You don't need "better training" for this bc this is what white supremacists train for all their lives: Harming people they consider lesser beings.

"Parents legally applying for US asylum prevented from getting emergency medical care for 7-year-old daughter."
www.commondreams.org/news/ice-arr...
'Endless Monster Behavior From ICE': Family Arrested While Rushing Child to Oregon ER | Common Dreams
Parents who are legally applying for US asylum were prevented from getting emergency medical care for their 7-year-old daughter.
www.commondreams.org
January 25, 2026 at 1:16 AM
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I guess we found out from Republicans this week the various ways that Second Amendment rights may be infringed.
January 26, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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I said what I said about the silly people who say, "But there has to be a path back for MAGA folk!🤡" There has always been a path back. It's never been an issue at all. Many anti-MAGA folk spent some part of their life on the hateful side.

But the path back involves repair. Undoing harm. Like this.
He spent decades bringing the religious right to power. Now he's marching to undo it.

Rev. Rob Schenck spent decades helping build the Religious Right—commingling church and state to advance conservative causes. Now, he says he must confront the damage he helped cause.
January 26, 2026 at 4:40 AM
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Always read @sulliview.bsky.social “With what amounts to civil war raging in the United States, we desperately need clear, fearless truth-telling that doesn’t pull its punches and doesn’t hand a megaphone to lies and propaganda in the name of supposed fairness.”
@sulliview.bsky.social did what I couldn’t.

“The right-wing media— led by Fox News, as always — was immediately spilling out its propaganda with, yes, passionate intensity…. A few hours after the shooting, I watched Fox’s coverage for as long as I could stand it…”

open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
Defensive caution can’t compete with right-wing propaganda
Is it so hard for journalists to clearly state that the Trump administration is lying?
open.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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Truly the Minnesotest
“We are starting to build a huge ICE OUT sign on Lake Nokomis [in Mpls.] 100 foot letters for MSP flights to see. By day snow letters, by night we’ll light w/ candles in white paper bags

Send this widely.

Tonight will get it outlined. Tomorrow night we’ll light it up and keep it going all week.“
January 26, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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Their central offense, among those eager to champion Trump’s politics and policies, was their failure to be pliant. They were at odds with the state and, well, sometimes that’s punishable by death. www.ms.now/opinion/minn...
Opinion | The real reason Trump and MAGA are so quick to blame Minneapolis shooting victims
Philip Bump: Alex Pretti and Renee Good were immediately vilified — and their killings at the hands of the state justified — by the Trump administration and its supporters.
www.ms.now
January 26, 2026 at 6:34 AM
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On Friday, we saw the stirring of the national soul, as hundreds of faith leaders and thousands of everyday folks took to the streets to denounce rising fascism

Saturday's murder raised the stakes. It's past politics. This is about good vs. evil

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/minn...
Alex Pretti’s ICE murder is beyond politics. This is about good vs. evil | Will Bunch
Trump's inhumane immigration raids and two ICE murders has triggered an American yearning for a return to morality.
www.inquirer.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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New in PN: The regime's mind-bending lies are a tactic

"The VP told them they could kill anyone who annoyed them. Pretti annoyed them. So they killed him. Now the lies Bovino and Noem are telling about Pretti’s death are intended to encourage further extrajudicial executions and likely will do so."
The regime's mind-bending lies are a tactic
Thinking about them in terms of truth or falsity is a category error.
www.publicnotice.co
January 26, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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I’m still reporting this story. If you work for the federal government and would like to talk confidentially, you can reach me on Signal at jesse_coburn.56 or at jesse.coburn[at]propublica.org.
January 26, 2026 at 12:45 PM