Packgrog
@packgrog.bsky.social
Cat servant, vinyl ripper, motorcyclist, introvert, nerd
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Movie review from Guardian on Melania.
January 30, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Movie review from Guardian on Melania.
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MAGA people lining up wanting the taxpayers to give them money. Trump wants $10 billion. Lindsey wants $1 million. J6ers want money. Farmers want money. Of course CEOs want their contracts,
subsidies & tariff waivers. It’s griftapalooza at taxpayer expense for the gangsters.
subsidies & tariff waivers. It’s griftapalooza at taxpayer expense for the gangsters.
January 30, 2026 at 5:18 PM
MAGA people lining up wanting the taxpayers to give them money. Trump wants $10 billion. Lindsey wants $1 million. J6ers want money. Farmers want money. Of course CEOs want their contracts,
subsidies & tariff waivers. It’s griftapalooza at taxpayer expense for the gangsters.
subsidies & tariff waivers. It’s griftapalooza at taxpayer expense for the gangsters.
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"Despite what the xenophobes in the Trump administration claim, international students aren’t stealing American students’ slots in higher education. To the contrary: their tuition dollars enable more American students to attend college."
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-m...
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-m...
Trump Is Making America Stupider
How MAGA is purging scientists and other skilled workers from both the private and public sectors.
www.thebulwark.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:55 AM
"Despite what the xenophobes in the Trump administration claim, international students aren’t stealing American students’ slots in higher education. To the contrary: their tuition dollars enable more American students to attend college."
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-m...
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-m...
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Y'all do realize ICE "backing down" means they're just gonna stick to terrorizin' minorities, right?
January 29, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Y'all do realize ICE "backing down" means they're just gonna stick to terrorizin' minorities, right?
I remember resenting having to take so many humanities courses in college, even though I tended to do better in them than in tech. Now seeing so many tech bros utterly lacking humanity, while I code with ethics, makes me resent that requirement going away since I graduated.
I agree that neither the humanities nor STEM are more important or pure or whatever than the other: the thing is that we need BALANCE between the two poles, and we have very much lost that in modern U.S. society today.
January 28, 2026 at 1:00 PM
I remember resenting having to take so many humanities courses in college, even though I tended to do better in them than in tech. Now seeing so many tech bros utterly lacking humanity, while I code with ethics, makes me resent that requirement going away since I graduated.
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ICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown
Mother whose visa application was pending says she will send girl back to US soon accompanied by another relative
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:42 AM
ICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.
January 27, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
JFC this is some apocalyptic shit!
Sesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.
January 27, 2026 at 11:05 PM
JFC this is some apocalyptic shit!
“Concerned Collins” is a mealy mouthed fascist. She is *NOT* the “moderate” she claims to be nor what Mainers consistently insisted on imagining her to be. Whether she’s a masked hate monger or too weak to actually fight back is moot. The results are the same. She could have stopped ALL of this.
"Susan Collins (R-Maine) told reporters Monday that she did not favor removing the DHS bill from the six-bill package" #mesen
politico.com/news/2026/01...
politico.com/news/2026/01...
No off-ramp in sight for DHS-fueled shutdown
Republicans are dangling options that would avoid having to change a massive spending bill. Democrats aren’t biting.
politico.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:03 PM
“Concerned Collins” is a mealy mouthed fascist. She is *NOT* the “moderate” she claims to be nor what Mainers consistently insisted on imagining her to be. Whether she’s a masked hate monger or too weak to actually fight back is moot. The results are the same. She could have stopped ALL of this.
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ICE continues targeting kids as young as preschool because they go after anyone who is better at regulating emotions than they are.
January 27, 2026 at 8:55 PM
ICE continues targeting kids as young as preschool because they go after anyone who is better at regulating emotions than they are.
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“We need to divert attention from the Pretti murder.”
“Gotcha.”
“Gotcha.”
Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
January 27, 2026 at 8:55 PM
“We need to divert attention from the Pretti murder.”
“Gotcha.”
“Gotcha.”
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The reality of the situation is that whatever Trump personally thinks about anything, he is allowing Stephen Miller to run his administration because he is lazy and stupid, and the entire decision-making apparatus on immigration has been infested with Nazis.
January 27, 2026 at 2:31 PM
The reality of the situation is that whatever Trump personally thinks about anything, he is allowing Stephen Miller to run his administration because he is lazy and stupid, and the entire decision-making apparatus on immigration has been infested with Nazis.
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I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.
January 27, 2026 at 3:06 PM
I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.
And weak kneed Dems like Schumer just love to fold at times like this. KEEP UP THE PRESSURE.
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 27, 2026 at 3:53 PM
And weak kneed Dems like Schumer just love to fold at times like this. KEEP UP THE PRESSURE.
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The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.
I was referencing this 9 years ago. Obviously holds even more true today.
January 27, 2026 at 3:04 AM
I was referencing this 9 years ago. Obviously holds even more true today.
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This isn't about "training issues." The murderer who executed Renee Good has been with ICE for 10 years, and according to DHS, the murderer who executed Alex Pretti has been there for 8 years.
These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.
These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.
January 26, 2026 at 11:04 PM
This isn't about "training issues." The murderer who executed Renee Good has been with ICE for 10 years, and according to DHS, the murderer who executed Alex Pretti has been there for 8 years.
These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.
These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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STOP THE PRESSES!!! Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) is concerned!!! (Federal agents are currently operating in a surge to the state of Maine, but let's not get all fussy about it).
January 26, 2026 at 11:45 PM
STOP THE PRESSES!!! Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) is concerned!!! (Federal agents are currently operating in a surge to the state of Maine, but let's not get all fussy about it).
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I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.
January 26, 2026 at 1:40 AM
I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.
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Please, please do this, especially if you live in the US.
I know how much it sucks to lose a source of entertainment or comfort or whatever TikTok means to you. But it's genuinely a matter of safety, especially if you're not a cishet white man.
It's a real way you can fight back.
I know how much it sucks to lose a source of entertainment or comfort or whatever TikTok means to you. But it's genuinely a matter of safety, especially if you're not a cishet white man.
It's a real way you can fight back.
January 26, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Please, please do this, especially if you live in the US.
I know how much it sucks to lose a source of entertainment or comfort or whatever TikTok means to you. But it's genuinely a matter of safety, especially if you're not a cishet white man.
It's a real way you can fight back.
I know how much it sucks to lose a source of entertainment or comfort or whatever TikTok means to you. But it's genuinely a matter of safety, especially if you're not a cishet white man.
It's a real way you can fight back.
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This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding.
Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.
Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.
January 26, 2026 at 4:01 AM
This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding.
Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.
Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.
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Target in Minneapolis has pulled Hispanic employees off of pick-up order duty after ICE arrested two US citizen Hispanic employees while on the job.
“I’m literally a U.S. citizen!” one shouted as they escorted him into a van.
“I’m literally a U.S. citizen!” one shouted as they escorted him into a van.
January 26, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Target in Minneapolis has pulled Hispanic employees off of pick-up order duty after ICE arrested two US citizen Hispanic employees while on the job.
“I’m literally a U.S. citizen!” one shouted as they escorted him into a van.
“I’m literally a U.S. citizen!” one shouted as they escorted him into a van.
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Fuck ECCC, glad I saw this before buying a ticket
www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/...
www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/...
From the Seattle community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the Seattle community
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January 23, 2026 at 6:22 AM
Fuck ECCC, glad I saw this before buying a ticket
www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/...
www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/...
Look out for the helpers.
They’re the ones ICE is executing.
This is intentional.
You were warned this was coming for at least 25 fucking years.
They’re the ones ICE is executing.
This is intentional.
You were warned this was coming for at least 25 fucking years.
I keep thinking about this fact that his last words were are you okay and hers were I'm not mad at you and it feels like a weird coincidence but it's just a reflection of the fact that the people who are coming out to take care of their neighbors are good and the people who are after them are bad
His dying words were asking about the safety of someone next to him
Hero
Hero
January 25, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Look out for the helpers.
They’re the ones ICE is executing.
This is intentional.
You were warned this was coming for at least 25 fucking years.
They’re the ones ICE is executing.
This is intentional.
You were warned this was coming for at least 25 fucking years.