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Michael Mathog
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I like lilies.
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Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent
February 1, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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America, throw the entire administration in prison.
January 31, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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I think what we have overlooked that has made society go haywire is that social pressures are the single strongest force acting on human beings, and the human brain doesn’t really distinguish between real-life, media-sourced, and internet social pressures. Our phones and feeds are pressure cookers
January 31, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
February 1, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Trump today has accused Obama of “manufacturing fake documents” so now I’m concerned that Trump is having fake documents manufactured.
February 1, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Of course Claude Code works. It’s actually embarrassing it took until 2000 and 26 to tell a computer what you want it to program. The Alpha Centaurians are laughing their asses off.
February 1, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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the answer is that jennings performance of smug dishonesty reliably generates viral clips, so they continue to have him on even though he is a shameless liar
CNN employees can’t understand why Scott Jennings isn't required to adhere to the network’s editorial and ethics standards which are b binding on them and other opinion journalists. CNN can't explain why. www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-boss-con...
CNN Boss Confronted by Staff Over MAGA Pundit’s On-Air Behavior
Network employees can’t understand why Scott Jennings is not required to abide by the network’s editorial standards.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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the federal government is arresting journalists not only without a warrant but after being explicitly denied a warrant

i wonder what our freedom of speech warriors like Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss have to say about this
January 30, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
January 30, 2026 at 4:40 PM
So the FBI with Gabbard took old ballots and they will “recount them” and say “a ha! Trump won!!” and there will be the dumbest news cycle in world history.

Dems should make it clear to participating agents that breaking the law puts them in jail.
January 30, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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I don’t know, declaring victory in MN seems premature. They’re still arresting people and brutalizing the community. The changes appear—so far—to be cosmetic
January 28, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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yes, there are no real signs of any big change in DHS activity here yet. In Chicago there really was after Bovino left and they basically ended "Midway Blitz" not so here so far.
I don’t know, declaring victory in MN seems premature. They’re still arresting people and brutalizing the community. The changes appear—so far—to be cosmetic
January 28, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it
January 28, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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Two Democratic members of Congress attacked in three days. Maxwell Frost was assaulted on Saturday, Ilan Omar tonight.
January 28, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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I want to say this too: this victory was won because we had observers EVERYWHERE. ICE and CBP couldn't set foot in our city without cameras rolling. Much of the nation seemed determined to ignore our plight for weeks, but the avalanche of documentation we produced dragged the nation to us.
January 27, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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What’s this— we have a regime in power that’s spending taxpayer dollars to innovate ways to bypass the rule of law??? Think about this, DOJ and FBI directors are sitting in rooms having conversations about how to strategically hide Epstein crimes and bypass American courts. Think about this!
January 26, 2026 at 8:44 AM
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if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
January 27, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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Kash Patel said the FBI opened an investigation into Signal group text chats that Minnesota residents are using to share information about ICE movements, launching a new front in the Trump administration’s conflict there with potential free speech implications.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
FBI investigating Minnesota Signal groups tracking ICE, Patel says
The statement from FBI Director Kash Patel comes after right-wing media figures said they joined the chats and claimed participants were obstructing law enforcement.
www.nbcnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:40 PM
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This is one of the biggest stories in America, comparable in scale to what’s happening in Minnesota. The largest social media platform is transferred to Trump’s allies and immediately forbids you from saying anything bad about him. Absolutely totalitarian in nature. No different than China.
#TikTok has begun censoring anti-Trump and anti-Ice content
January 26, 2026 at 6:54 AM
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Hasan is bad

Politics streaming is bad, but even within that space: Hasan is bad
During his trip to Minnesota, Hasan Piker claims that Kamala Harris would have done the exact same things Trump is doing right now to the American people. Why is he so fixated on this?
From the LivestreamFail community on Reddit: Hasan goes to MN just to say Kamala wouldve done the same thing 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️
Posted by Overall-Abalone3969 - 455 votes and 130 comments
www.reddit.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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There are about 100 protesters outside Schumer’s building in the middle of the blizzard urging him to whip Dem votes against any more ICE/CBP funding.
January 25, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”

Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
January 25, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 10:24 PM