@rekati.bsky.social
"The cruelty is the point." We say it often.
But damn. I guess it really is.
But damn. I guess it really is.
No parent should ever be denied the chance to bury their child. This is not enforcement. It is cruelty. I will continue to use my voice and oversight authority to demand accountability and a system rooted in basic humanity.
January 30, 2026 at 4:33 AM
"The cruelty is the point." We say it often.
But damn. I guess it really is.
But damn. I guess it really is.
There's the thing: it's not the elections. It's the acceptance of the results. Georgia is an excuse to hurt Raffensberger, but it also gives a pretext to saying they get to pick and choose what elections are valid.
Exactly what Trump's doing with the Bombadier and Gulfstream approval schtick.
Exactly what Trump's doing with the Bombadier and Gulfstream approval schtick.
A lot of folks seem to not understand how federal elections work. They are run by states and localities, and federal elections are on the same ballots as state elections.
Think through how hard it would be to “steal” an entire set of midterms.
Think through how hard it would be to “steal” an entire set of midterms.
January 30, 2026 at 4:16 AM
There's the thing: it's not the elections. It's the acceptance of the results. Georgia is an excuse to hurt Raffensberger, but it also gives a pretext to saying they get to pick and choose what elections are valid.
Exactly what Trump's doing with the Bombadier and Gulfstream approval schtick.
Exactly what Trump's doing with the Bombadier and Gulfstream approval schtick.
These guys are going to LOVE Italy.
January 30, 2026 at 4:00 AM
These guys are going to LOVE Italy.
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Really?!?!
Shocked?!?! Where has he been all this time?
Shocked?!?! Where has he been all this time?
January 30, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Really?!?!
Shocked?!?! Where has he been all this time?
Shocked?!?! Where has he been all this time?
You really have to ask yourself at this stage, knowing that this has entered world history level criminality; how full is that corner of hell, the one that holds men who can do this?
MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
January 30, 2026 at 3:49 AM
You really have to ask yourself at this stage, knowing that this has entered world history level criminality; how full is that corner of hell, the one that holds men who can do this?
Poor America. We're in our "man in a hole" phase, if you're following Kurt Vonnegut's classic archetypes. The good news is eventually, it'll turn around. Kurt said.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ec0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ec0...
Kurt Vonnegut on the shapes of stories
YouTube video by Ernie Lausten
www.youtube.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Poor America. We're in our "man in a hole" phase, if you're following Kurt Vonnegut's classic archetypes. The good news is eventually, it'll turn around. Kurt said.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ec0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ec0...
I don't know if many of these damn politicians are going to survive November with all us actually paying attention.
January 30, 2026 at 2:47 AM
I don't know if many of these damn politicians are going to survive November with all us actually paying attention.
Does Pete Hegseth have just the one ill-fitting suit? He's expecting a bouncing baby bottle of bourbon from the way that button is having to dig in.
January 30, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Does Pete Hegseth have just the one ill-fitting suit? He's expecting a bouncing baby bottle of bourbon from the way that button is having to dig in.
Look, he's just there for the bribes. Otherwise Presidenting is sooo dull.
January 29, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Look, he's just there for the bribes. Otherwise Presidenting is sooo dull.
Went to visit the Alex Pretti memorial-lots of people coming through, and then to the bookstore owned by the man who disappeared into the tear gas at the ICE crackdown afterward. Replaced our old copies of the original Dune (falling apart), and @scalzi.com John Scalzi's The Ghost Brigades.
January 29, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Went to visit the Alex Pretti memorial-lots of people coming through, and then to the bookstore owned by the man who disappeared into the tear gas at the ICE crackdown afterward. Replaced our old copies of the original Dune (falling apart), and @scalzi.com John Scalzi's The Ghost Brigades.
Tricia McLaughlin, NAZI SHILL, would have you believe that a judge who clerked for Antonin Scalia, held vigil over his casket and mentored Amy Coney Barrett...is an "activist."
Also, what the hell with her eyebrows.
Also, what the hell with her eyebrows.
January 29, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Tricia McLaughlin, NAZI SHILL, would have you believe that a judge who clerked for Antonin Scalia, held vigil over his casket and mentored Amy Coney Barrett...is an "activist."
Also, what the hell with her eyebrows.
Also, what the hell with her eyebrows.
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So back in June Alex Padilla was tackled and detained by ICE for trying to ask a question at a press conference. The story from the administration was he attacked her.
Fast forward 7 months, Maxwell Frost attacked, Ilhan Omar attacked. Not a peep from the media about "turning down the rhetoric". 🙄
Fast forward 7 months, Maxwell Frost attacked, Ilhan Omar attacked. Not a peep from the media about "turning down the rhetoric". 🙄
January 29, 2026 at 5:18 PM
So back in June Alex Padilla was tackled and detained by ICE for trying to ask a question at a press conference. The story from the administration was he attacked her.
Fast forward 7 months, Maxwell Frost attacked, Ilhan Omar attacked. Not a peep from the media about "turning down the rhetoric". 🙄
Fast forward 7 months, Maxwell Frost attacked, Ilhan Omar attacked. Not a peep from the media about "turning down the rhetoric". 🙄
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The Senate fully funded the ICE executions.
ICE in volation of 100 court orders.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
ICE in volation of 100 court orders.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
Judge in Minnesota Says ICE Has Violated Nearly 100 Court Orders
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:32 PM
The Senate fully funded the ICE executions.
ICE in volation of 100 court orders.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
ICE in volation of 100 court orders.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
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I sometimes wish the Democratic Party in Congress consisted of any 260 people in the Minneapolis telephone directory rather than the 260 dignitaries now representing us.
January 29, 2026 at 5:41 PM
I sometimes wish the Democratic Party in Congress consisted of any 260 people in the Minneapolis telephone directory rather than the 260 dignitaries now representing us.
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Because between that and the voter rolls extortion that’s pretty clearly what this is: “We will make your state an unlivable occupied hellscape until you do things we cannot legally or constitutionally make you do directly.”
January 29, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Because between that and the voter rolls extortion that’s pretty clearly what this is: “We will make your state an unlivable occupied hellscape until you do things we cannot legally or constitutionally make you do directly.”
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BREAKING: As Trump transformed an immigration database into a tool to scrutinize voter rolls, newly unearthed comments show a prominent election denial activist was already claiming inside access to the effort — and touting a potential partnership with the Department of Homeland Security.
Leading election denier claimed DHS ‘wants to partner with us’ on voter roll checks. Now he’s a top official there
Comments from Phillips at the time suggest True the Vote, which has repeatedly pushed for access to federal data, also was working with DHS officials.
www.democracydocket.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:20 PM
BREAKING: As Trump transformed an immigration database into a tool to scrutinize voter rolls, newly unearthed comments show a prominent election denial activist was already claiming inside access to the effort — and touting a potential partnership with the Department of Homeland Security.
I wonder what country she's planning to flee to?
Where her hubby is. Cute.
Enten: "Historical critics don't really like Melania Trump either. Just take a look, historians' First Lady rankings -- dead last! Melania Trump"
January 29, 2026 at 7:05 PM
I wonder what country she's planning to flee to?
This is the ICE agent who shot Alex Pretti taken earlier in the day while he and his goons arrest two minors. His hand goes to his gun reflexively, in non escalated circumstances. He is primed to kill.
These are the vicious criminal predators unleashed on Minnesota by the Nazi government.
These are the vicious criminal predators unleashed on Minnesota by the Nazi government.
January 29, 2026 at 6:58 PM
This is the ICE agent who shot Alex Pretti taken earlier in the day while he and his goons arrest two minors. His hand goes to his gun reflexively, in non escalated circumstances. He is primed to kill.
These are the vicious criminal predators unleashed on Minnesota by the Nazi government.
These are the vicious criminal predators unleashed on Minnesota by the Nazi government.
Stealing from their victims- it's what Nazis do. They always have and they always will.
Fascism is redistribution of wealth.
From the individual and from the society as a whole.
Fascism is redistribution of wealth.
From the individual and from the society as a whole.
January 29, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Stealing from their victims- it's what Nazis do. They always have and they always will.
Fascism is redistribution of wealth.
From the individual and from the society as a whole.
Fascism is redistribution of wealth.
From the individual and from the society as a whole.
This is what Tom 50k Homan will expand in Minnesota.
This is terrorism.
ICE is a secret police operation to destroy all opposition to the Nazi party
This is terrorism.
ICE is a secret police operation to destroy all opposition to the Nazi party
January 29, 2026 at 6:44 PM
This is what Tom 50k Homan will expand in Minnesota.
This is terrorism.
ICE is a secret police operation to destroy all opposition to the Nazi party
This is terrorism.
ICE is a secret police operation to destroy all opposition to the Nazi party
MINNESOTA WILL NOT SELL OUT.
January 29, 2026 at 6:23 PM
MINNESOTA WILL NOT SELL OUT.
ARREST BOVINO NOW
#ProudBlue #Resist
“This is our fucking city.”
Yup - all the way to the top, everybody fucking gets it if they touch you,” Bovino told the troops -
Good riddance!
Can’t wait to see this at his trial!
“This is our fucking city.”
Yup - all the way to the top, everybody fucking gets it if they touch you,” Bovino told the troops -
Good riddance!
Can’t wait to see this at his trial!
Seems like a good video for his trial
January 29, 2026 at 6:18 PM
ARREST BOVINO NOW
WHERE IS RODNEY TAYLOR
ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year!
Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him.
He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary.
His health is declining.
Public outrage might save his life.
Say his name:
Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him.
He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary.
His health is declining.
Public outrage might save his life.
Say his name:
Sign the Petition
Demand the Release of Rodney Taylor from ICE Detention
www.change.org
January 29, 2026 at 6:16 PM
WHERE IS RODNEY TAYLOR
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Plans for Trump hotel in Belgrade collapse after Serbia’s culture minister indicted
Proposals to redevelop a former Yugoslav military headquarters into a branded luxury complex have been dropped following indictments of senior cultural officials
archive.ph/2RUSW#select...
Proposals to redevelop a former Yugoslav military headquarters into a branded luxury complex have been dropped following indictments of senior cultural officials
archive.ph/2RUSW#select...
archive.ph
January 29, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Plans for Trump hotel in Belgrade collapse after Serbia’s culture minister indicted
Proposals to redevelop a former Yugoslav military headquarters into a branded luxury complex have been dropped following indictments of senior cultural officials
archive.ph/2RUSW#select...
Proposals to redevelop a former Yugoslav military headquarters into a branded luxury complex have been dropped following indictments of senior cultural officials
archive.ph/2RUSW#select...
TERROR IS THE MISSION
Battlefield technology deployed against Minnesota- and not resulting in ANYTHING other than terror. The man they sought was released without charges.
Battlefield technology deployed against Minnesota- and not resulting in ANYTHING other than terror. The man they sought was released without charges.
Video: How Battlefield Tech Was Used in Minneapolis
Our reporter Thomas Gibbons-Neff, who deployed twice to Afghanistan as a Marine and later was our Kabul bureau chief, looks at the battlefield technology used for an immigration arrest at a home in Mi...
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:09 PM
TERROR IS THE MISSION
Battlefield technology deployed against Minnesota- and not resulting in ANYTHING other than terror. The man they sought was released without charges.
Battlefield technology deployed against Minnesota- and not resulting in ANYTHING other than terror. The man they sought was released without charges.