M. Natale
@mnatale.bsky.social
Historian of childhood, the Palestine Mandate, and criminal law (PhD candidate, finishing 2026); writer, knitter, reader, tabletop gamer.
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This is the beginning not the end of how surveillance will change America. We could stop it. We should. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
The powerful tools in ICE’s arsenal to track suspects — and protesters
Biometric trackers, cellphone location databases and drones are among the surveillance technologies agents are using in their immigration enforcement campaign.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:13 AM
This is the beginning not the end of how surveillance will change America. We could stop it. We should. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
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I agree that it’s high fucking time that we stopped acting like we need to grovel and constantly justify the existence of some of our most incredibly elemental and ancient human pursuits.
Are the humanities the only disciplines whose classes begin with modules speaking to the importance of studying the humanities? "Why study the humanities?" and "Why the humanities are important" must be cliches.
January 28, 2026 at 1:34 AM
I agree that it’s high fucking time that we stopped acting like we need to grovel and constantly justify the existence of some of our most incredibly elemental and ancient human pursuits.
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An attorney quoted further down: “The water is putrid. They have to mix baby formula with water that nobody wants to even smell. The food has bugs in it. The food has dirt in it.”
“[Liam] keeps asking about that hat and that backpack that are in the picture,” the congressman said. “I think they took that from him.”
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www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...
Rep. Joaquin Castro meets with the 5-year-old boy held with his father at a Texas detention facility | CNN
US Rep. Joaquin Castro met Wednesday with Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old Minnesota boy taken from his family’s suburban Minneapolis driveway last week after federal agents apprehended his father, t...
www.cnn.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:17 AM
An attorney quoted further down: “The water is putrid. They have to mix baby formula with water that nobody wants to even smell. The food has bugs in it. The food has dirt in it.”
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Opposition party doing so good that they’re gonna pass a law that exists already and tell us it’s a win 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand a ban on the deportation of American citizens as a condition of winning their support for legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Jeffries demands ban on deportation of US citizens as part of DHS reforms
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand a ban on the deportation of American citizens as a condition of winning their support for legislation fun…
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January 30, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Opposition party doing so good that they’re gonna pass a law that exists already and tell us it’s a win 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
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I am introducing the Cut It Out And This Time I Really Mean It bill. It provides an additional $57 billion to the murder goons but they will agree to wear business casual Monday through Thursday and if they do any murders they have to put a dollar in this jar.
January 28, 2026 at 11:05 PM
I am introducing the Cut It Out And This Time I Really Mean It bill. It provides an additional $57 billion to the murder goons but they will agree to wear business casual Monday through Thursday and if they do any murders they have to put a dollar in this jar.
So is anyone going to clarify what their orders were before, or what
The purported internal memo suggests ICE will be altering its tactics and focusing on migrants with criminal records.
ICE Reportedly Told To Not Engage With ‘Agitators’—New Clips Show Alex Pretti’s Earlier Clash With Agents
The purported internal memo suggests ICE will be altering its tactics and focusing on migrants with criminal records.
www.forbes.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:14 AM
So is anyone going to clarify what their orders were before, or what
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When the president was calling all Somali immigrants "garbage" who "come from hell" and "contribute nothing" to America and therefore needed to go "back where they came from" did you ask him to "stop the rhetoric," Tom?
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 2:07 PM
When the president was calling all Somali immigrants "garbage" who "come from hell" and "contribute nothing" to America and therefore needed to go "back where they came from" did you ask him to "stop the rhetoric," Tom?
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the one silver lining of all this bullshit with the dems is people are grasping the whole problem of advocating for reforms on law enforcement that clearly nobody can or is willing to enforce
January 29, 2026 at 7:58 AM
the one silver lining of all this bullshit with the dems is people are grasping the whole problem of advocating for reforms on law enforcement that clearly nobody can or is willing to enforce
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every Signal chat of laypeople is losing their minds over the wildest opsec advice imaginable and every Signal chat of security professionals is like “dude wtf”
The vast majority of problems can be avoided by not being foolish, being aware of your surroundings, and using common sense
The vast majority of problems can be avoided by not being foolish, being aware of your surroundings, and using common sense
January 28, 2026 at 8:38 PM
every Signal chat of laypeople is losing their minds over the wildest opsec advice imaginable and every Signal chat of security professionals is like “dude wtf”
The vast majority of problems can be avoided by not being foolish, being aware of your surroundings, and using common sense
The vast majority of problems can be avoided by not being foolish, being aware of your surroundings, and using common sense
Imagine looking at this and thinking “if only we reformed HOW we jailed this chronically ill child.”
Anadith Danay Reyes Álvarez died in government custody.
She had sickle cell and congenital heart disease but couldn’t access timely and adequate medical care.
We need to reform immigration detention.
She had sickle cell and congenital heart disease but couldn’t access timely and adequate medical care.
We need to reform immigration detention.
January 28, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Imagine looking at this and thinking “if only we reformed HOW we jailed this chronically ill child.”
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"In the streets, in the schools, in the Signal threads, in all our places of healing and justice, we are as locusts."
A dvar Torah from occupied Minneapolis by Joey Glick:
A dvar Torah from occupied Minneapolis by Joey Glick:
Swarm Like Locusts
A dvar Torah from occupied Minneapolis
jewishcurrents.org
January 28, 2026 at 6:23 PM
"In the streets, in the schools, in the Signal threads, in all our places of healing and justice, we are as locusts."
A dvar Torah from occupied Minneapolis by Joey Glick:
A dvar Torah from occupied Minneapolis by Joey Glick:
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The Secretary of Homeland Security is asserting that the Deputy White House Chief of Staff ultimately bears responsibility for the murder of two American citizens, which is something that would normally generate a dozen congressional inquiries.
Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"
January 28, 2026 at 2:11 PM
The Secretary of Homeland Security is asserting that the Deputy White House Chief of Staff ultimately bears responsibility for the murder of two American citizens, which is something that would normally generate a dozen congressional inquiries.
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Incredible self own for the US. The damage being done to the US scientific enterprise is generational. We will look back on this as a tipping point where the US chose all on its own to stop leading the world in science.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
www.science.org
January 28, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Incredible self own for the US. The damage being done to the US scientific enterprise is generational. We will look back on this as a tipping point where the US chose all on its own to stop leading the world in science.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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there is no earthly reason to believe that these goons will comply with any new regulations! it’s like if I put a sign on my door ordering the pines not to drop their needles! they’re pines and those needles will drop! zero funding, “reform” my ass, this guy must be stopped
Word is from NBC that instructions from Mr. Schumer to his caucus are: “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.” 1/ www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Senate Democrats plot strategy as DHS standoff deepens heading into shutdown week
Two sources who were on a Democratic caucus strategy call Sunday said Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told the group the message must be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
www.nbcnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:47 PM
there is no earthly reason to believe that these goons will comply with any new regulations! it’s like if I put a sign on my door ordering the pines not to drop their needles! they’re pines and those needles will drop! zero funding, “reform” my ass, this guy must be stopped
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The regime obviously thought they'd be able to take out a few dozen scary-queer-weirdo Antifa types in black masks and then successfully cow the rest of the Coastal Elite Liberal class into terrified silence: they were not expecting "totally fearless mass nonviolent resistance by entire cities."
It also sounds like at least some of them thought the cameras wouldn't matter because they were assuming that a couple of public executions would cause all of the resistance to run and hide.
January 26, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The regime obviously thought they'd be able to take out a few dozen scary-queer-weirdo Antifa types in black masks and then successfully cow the rest of the Coastal Elite Liberal class into terrified silence: they were not expecting "totally fearless mass nonviolent resistance by entire cities."
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We wanted to put our money where our mouth is this week, and we encourage other shows to do the same.
If you have a podcast and want to donate your ad space to local organizations and small businesses supporting MN's immigrants, head over to bit.ly/mnpodcastads for a full guide on how to do that.
If you have a podcast and want to donate your ad space to local organizations and small businesses supporting MN's immigrants, head over to bit.ly/mnpodcastads for a full guide on how to do that.
January 26, 2026 at 9:00 PM
We wanted to put our money where our mouth is this week, and we encourage other shows to do the same.
If you have a podcast and want to donate your ad space to local organizations and small businesses supporting MN's immigrants, head over to bit.ly/mnpodcastads for a full guide on how to do that.
If you have a podcast and want to donate your ad space to local organizations and small businesses supporting MN's immigrants, head over to bit.ly/mnpodcastads for a full guide on how to do that.
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I'm glad the worst people on earth are on their back foot today but until the two murderers are arrested and prosecuted this is all fluff
BREAKING: Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino and some agents are expected to leave Minneapolis tomorrow, an AP source says.
Border Patrol commander Bovino and some agents expected to leave Minneapolis
A federal judge is considering Minnesota’s challenge to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
bit.ly
January 26, 2026 at 10:51 PM
I'm glad the worst people on earth are on their back foot today but until the two murderers are arrested and prosecuted this is all fluff
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I am begging you to not take information security advice from a pseudonymous Bluesky account claiming to be the "Alternative National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration".
January 26, 2026 at 9:28 PM
I am begging you to not take information security advice from a pseudonymous Bluesky account claiming to be the "Alternative National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration".
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the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now
January 19, 2026 at 4:40 AM
the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now
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Following the Kent State massacre in May 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58% of Americans thought the shootings were justified. The night *before* the killings, Ohio's GOP governor described the student protesters this way: "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."
January 26, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Following the Kent State massacre in May 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58% of Americans thought the shootings were justified. The night *before* the killings, Ohio's GOP governor described the student protesters this way: "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."
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I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal
January 25, 2026 at 1:34 AM
I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal
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"Why are you yelling at Democrats, who promised to represent us and need our votes to stay in office? The ones who keep agreeing with us that this is awful but usually just when they want to ask us for money? I mean, come on, do you think these persuadable politicians can be persuaded?"
January 24, 2026 at 10:58 PM
"Why are you yelling at Democrats, who promised to represent us and need our votes to stay in office? The ones who keep agreeing with us that this is awful but usually just when they want to ask us for money? I mean, come on, do you think these persuadable politicians can be persuaded?"
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Don't forget the Supreme Court's role facilitating ICE's brutality and racism in Minneapolis. SCOTUS lifted an injunction that limited racial profiling in immigration enforcement on Sept. 8. The federal assault on Chicago began the next day. Then came the Twin Cities. SCOTUS greenlit these horrors.
January 23, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Don't forget the Supreme Court's role facilitating ICE's brutality and racism in Minneapolis. SCOTUS lifted an injunction that limited racial profiling in immigration enforcement on Sept. 8. The federal assault on Chicago began the next day. Then came the Twin Cities. SCOTUS greenlit these horrors.
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this photo. minneapolis. 💜
📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
January 23, 2026 at 10:04 PM
this photo. minneapolis. 💜
📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune