Mark von Wahlde
@markvonwahlde.bsky.social
Relatively inactive lawyer.
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The "White House staffer" who posted the disgustingly racist Obama meme:
February 6, 2026 at 7:54 PM
The "White House staffer" who posted the disgustingly racist Obama meme:
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February 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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Been offline most of today -- has Mike Johnson denied seeing Trump's racist post yet?
February 6, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Been offline most of today -- has Mike Johnson denied seeing Trump's racist post yet?
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Everything you’re hearing from the Trump administration is a lie. Today was one of the most active days in Northeast since the entire Operation Metro Surge began.
Nothing is changing on the ground in Minneapolis, no matter what headlines Trump and Homan try to create.
Nothing is changing on the ground in Minneapolis, no matter what headlines Trump and Homan try to create.
February 5, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Everything you’re hearing from the Trump administration is a lie. Today was one of the most active days in Northeast since the entire Operation Metro Surge began.
Nothing is changing on the ground in Minneapolis, no matter what headlines Trump and Homan try to create.
Nothing is changing on the ground in Minneapolis, no matter what headlines Trump and Homan try to create.
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This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
February 4, 2026 at 12:53 AM
This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.
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When big banks charge 24% or 30% interest on credit cards, they are not engaged in the business of "making credit available." They are involved in extortion and loan sharking.
Yes, we need to cap credit card interest rates at 10% and stop Wall Street from ripping off Americans.
Yes, we need to cap credit card interest rates at 10% and stop Wall Street from ripping off Americans.
SEN BERNIE SANDERS: We need to cap credit card interest rates at 10%, Trump is right
Senator Bernie Sanders calls Wall Street credit card practices "usury" as major banks profit from 24% average rates while borrowing at 4% from Fed.
www.foxnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:36 PM
When big banks charge 24% or 30% interest on credit cards, they are not engaged in the business of "making credit available." They are involved in extortion and loan sharking.
Yes, we need to cap credit card interest rates at 10% and stop Wall Street from ripping off Americans.
Yes, we need to cap credit card interest rates at 10% and stop Wall Street from ripping off Americans.
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It rules how every other government worker is subject to incredible scrutiny for like everything but if you're a cop you can just do blatant fraud and everyone kinda just shrugs at it
I know this from researching police salaries for a recent paper: many cities have a set of officers taking home more than $500k and they can’t really explain why
oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/o...
oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/o...
One Oakland police officer made $490,000 in overtime. The city can’t find records detailing much of what he did
One OPD officer logged 5,242 total working hours, racking up $490,000 in overtime pay. If he worked more than half of the time in a calendar year, why can't the city tell us what he did?
oaklandside.org
January 31, 2026 at 10:32 PM
It rules how every other government worker is subject to incredible scrutiny for like everything but if you're a cop you can just do blatant fraud and everyone kinda just shrugs at it
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I might get a Nobel Prize before Trump!
As longtime observers of struggles to establish peace and justice in the US and around the world, The Nation is honored to nominate the city of Minneapolis and its people for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
“The Nation” Nominates Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize
With their resistance to violent authoritarianism, the people of Minneapolis have renewed the spirit of Dr. King’s call for “the positive affirmation of peace.”
www.thenation.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:12 PM
I might get a Nobel Prize before Trump!
Roy Cohn has been reincarnated.
January 29, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Roy Cohn has been reincarnated.
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Cheers FOR the plaintiffs lawyers…
January 27, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Cheers FOR the plaintiffs lawyers…
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Imagine a paramilitary gang kills 2 observers over 2 weeks, then shows up at your home to say, "You, observer, we know where you live."
That's a death threat.
If it happened to me or a colleague when I was a human rights observer in N. Ireland, we would've lodged complaints with three govts.
That's a death threat.
If it happened to me or a colleague when I was a human rights observer in N. Ireland, we would've lodged complaints with three govts.
One human rights observer in Maine said agents followed her home, blocked off her street, and came to her door to say they know where she lives. Her children are now staying elsewhere, to keep them safe.
Now in Maine: ICE watchers say federal agents are coming to their house to threaten and intimidate them.
www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
January 27, 2026 at 5:38 AM
Imagine a paramilitary gang kills 2 observers over 2 weeks, then shows up at your home to say, "You, observer, we know where you live."
That's a death threat.
If it happened to me or a colleague when I was a human rights observer in N. Ireland, we would've lodged complaints with three govts.
That's a death threat.
If it happened to me or a colleague when I was a human rights observer in N. Ireland, we would've lodged complaints with three govts.
What is everyone worried about? Susan Collins is CONCERNED.
January 27, 2026 at 12:40 AM
What is everyone worried about? Susan Collins is CONCERNED.
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This article / presentation is profoundly moving -- particularly at this moment in time. On art. And principles. And betrayal.
Gift article.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift article.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Face to Face With History’s Most Dangerous Painter (Gift Article)
Jacques-Louis David, artist and politician of the French Revolution, has beguiled our critic Jason Farago for years — and scared him, too. Let him show you why.
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:31 PM
This article / presentation is profoundly moving -- particularly at this moment in time. On art. And principles. And betrayal.
Gift article.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift article.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Not sure we’re all pricing in how much worse things are going to get now TikTok’s gone the way of CBS
TikTok has been under new leadership for like a day and I made a slideshow with posts from the ICE rally today and it immediately got out under review and is not being published. Incredible.
January 26, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Not sure we’re all pricing in how much worse things are going to get now TikTok’s gone the way of CBS
This is tyranny. Really bad.
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.
This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 25, 2026 at 4:29 AM
This is tyranny. Really bad.
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Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.
This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 25, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.
This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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ICE just crashed a car at my intersection (due to their own shitty driving) and immediately got out and tear gassed observers.
January 23, 2026 at 7:38 PM
ICE just crashed a car at my intersection (due to their own shitty driving) and immediately got out and tear gassed observers.
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Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)
January 22, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)
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I will never get over the fact that the Republican Party chose as its standard-bearer, and this country elected as its President, quite possibly the worst human being on the planet.
Trump: "ICE is gonna be too rough with somebody. They're gonna make a mistake sometimes. I felt horribly when I was told the young woman had the tragedy. But when I learned her father is - I hope he still is, but I don't know - was a tremendous Trump fan. It's terrible. It's so sad. It just happens"
January 20, 2026 at 7:52 PM
I will never get over the fact that the Republican Party chose as its standard-bearer, and this country elected as its President, quite possibly the worst human being on the planet.
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The sort of people who support ICE and the Trump Administration are fine with this because she’s black, because she’s a woman, because she‘s Somali-American, and because THEY are shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture.
Nasra Ahmed, 23, was walking through the parking lot of her aunt’s St. Paul apartment complex when she found herself surrounded by 12 agents. Ahmed, born in the USA, says she showed them her I.D. She was forcefully detained and jailed anyway for more than 2 days. www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/s...
St. Paul woman, a U.S. citizen, recounts her two days in detention
Nasra Ahmed, 23, said she was taken to the hospital for an MRI with hands and legs shackled
www.twincities.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:33 AM
The sort of people who support ICE and the Trump Administration are fine with this because she’s black, because she’s a woman, because she‘s Somali-American, and because THEY are shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture.
@rbreich.bsky.social It should be a felony for any immigration actor to fail to document any detention, however short.
January 18, 2026 at 5:49 AM
@rbreich.bsky.social It should be a felony for any immigration actor to fail to document any detention, however short.