Skeptic Tank
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when both barstool bros and kurt warner are voicing disgust, the outrage at ICE has truly broken containment across a spectrum
January 25, 2026 at 2:00 PM
when both barstool bros and kurt warner are voicing disgust, the outrage at ICE has truly broken containment across a spectrum
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Time to log in to the getting mad machine
January 25, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Time to log in to the getting mad machine
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From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.
January 25, 2026 at 1:53 PM
From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.
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We are seeing ordinary citizens — a children’s face painter and a doctor — come forth with sworn affidavits to describe the killing of the Minneapolis nurse.
In case you were wondering what courage looks like.
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In case you were wondering what courage looks like.
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January 25, 2026 at 2:17 AM
We are seeing ordinary citizens — a children’s face painter and a doctor — come forth with sworn affidavits to describe the killing of the Minneapolis nurse.
In case you were wondering what courage looks like.
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In case you were wondering what courage looks like.
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How does it feel to have TMZ show you guys up in the bravery department @cnn.com @nytimes.com ?
Very good that TMZ is running this headline on its top story rn: www.tmz.com/2026/01/24/n...
January 25, 2026 at 2:58 AM
How does it feel to have TMZ show you guys up in the bravery department @cnn.com @nytimes.com ?
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shouting for the journalists in the back: IT’S NOT AN IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN.
It’s a federal occupation of a city that didnt vote the right way. And the occupying force is there to enforce civil infractions, misdemeanors.
It’s a federal occupation of a city that didnt vote the right way. And the occupying force is there to enforce civil infractions, misdemeanors.
January 24, 2026 at 10:49 PM
shouting for the journalists in the back: IT’S NOT AN IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN.
It’s a federal occupation of a city that didnt vote the right way. And the occupying force is there to enforce civil infractions, misdemeanors.
It’s a federal occupation of a city that didnt vote the right way. And the occupying force is there to enforce civil infractions, misdemeanors.
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ngl I've always been in favor of gun control but this is a real strong point in favor that American gun culture was about southerner's right to violently resist reconstruction, not self-defense or fighting tyranny.
January 25, 2026 at 2:53 AM
ngl I've always been in favor of gun control but this is a real strong point in favor that American gun culture was about southerner's right to violently resist reconstruction, not self-defense or fighting tyranny.
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I will immediately resign from my corporate gig and take the attendant pay cut if a future D POTUS offers me a DOJ spot persecuting members of this Administration
Honestly a federal commission with prosecutorial authority paired with stripping immunity from ICE officers would be a huge wombo combo
January 25, 2026 at 1:05 AM
I will immediately resign from my corporate gig and take the attendant pay cut if a future D POTUS offers me a DOJ spot persecuting members of this Administration
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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
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Really want the academics and think tanks to start churning out pdfs on what tribunals and truth and reconciliation commissions look like. Political leaders are absolutely not going to come up with this on their own.
Would happily take time to help write and edit any of that, too.
Would happily take time to help write and edit any of that, too.
January 25, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Really want the academics and think tanks to start churning out pdfs on what tribunals and truth and reconciliation commissions look like. Political leaders are absolutely not going to come up with this on their own.
Would happily take time to help write and edit any of that, too.
Would happily take time to help write and edit any of that, too.
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When one side says it's raining, and one side says it isn't, your job isn't to quote both sides. Your job is to look outside and see if it's fucking raining.
January 24, 2026 at 11:00 PM
When one side says it's raining, and one side says it isn't, your job isn't to quote both sides. Your job is to look outside and see if it's fucking raining.
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America’s unions mourn the senseless killing by federal agents of our AFGE Local 3669 union brother and VA nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti.
We reiterate our call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed.
https://bit.ly/4pVTpFO
We reiterate our call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed.
https://bit.ly/4pVTpFO
January 25, 2026 at 12:22 AM
America’s unions mourn the senseless killing by federal agents of our AFGE Local 3669 union brother and VA nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti.
We reiterate our call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed.
https://bit.ly/4pVTpFO
We reiterate our call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed.
https://bit.ly/4pVTpFO
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Team stroke
Please share. We need mail and email to @fetterman.senate.gov asking him to retract this ridiculous statement and stand tall against this lawlessness in the funding vote. For the sake of Renee Good and Alex Pretti do not write off his vote!
January 25, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Team stroke
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I would be very surprised if a full accounting in the future didn't reveal more than one mass grave at the detention centers. If they're behaving this way in public, what's happening out of sight must be many times more brutal.
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 11:43 PM
I would be very surprised if a full accounting in the future didn't reveal more than one mass grave at the detention centers. If they're behaving this way in public, what's happening out of sight must be many times more brutal.
Good. No shitty deals either please
Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included.
January 25, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Good. No shitty deals either please
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🚨 JUST OUT from @schumer.senate.gov ▶️ "“Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included."
Now we are going to need him and every one from Sen. Dem to hold the line.
Now we are going to need him and every one from Sen. Dem to hold the line.
January 24, 2026 at 11:54 PM
🚨 JUST OUT from @schumer.senate.gov ▶️ "“Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included."
Now we are going to need him and every one from Sen. Dem to hold the line.
Now we are going to need him and every one from Sen. Dem to hold the line.
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This is exactly right.
January 24, 2026 at 10:35 PM
This is exactly right.
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this PAC, “democratic youth wave,” has poured over $100,000 into a single delaware based corporation with a generic sounding name that came into existence shortly after the PAC was formed in 2024. they’re using this man’s murder to fundraise for some vague fucking grift.
January 24, 2026 at 10:30 PM
this PAC, “democratic youth wave,” has poured over $100,000 into a single delaware based corporation with a generic sounding name that came into existence shortly after the PAC was formed in 2024. they’re using this man’s murder to fundraise for some vague fucking grift.
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Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c
1. continuing, not 1 off.
2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it
3. literally at hand of federal government, which is
4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.
1. continuing, not 1 off.
2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it
3. literally at hand of federal government, which is
4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.
January 24, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c
1. continuing, not 1 off.
2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it
3. literally at hand of federal government, which is
4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.
1. continuing, not 1 off.
2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it
3. literally at hand of federal government, which is
4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.
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the regime considers all resistance violent resistance. you chanting while holding a sign and carefully remaining on the sidewalk is as worthy of the death penalty to them as someone throwing a Molotov.
They are telling us in unequivocal terms that if you show solidarity with immigrants who are in the literal crosshairs of Trump/MAGA, you're risking a death sentence.
newrepublic.com/article/2055...
newrepublic.com/article/2055...
January 24, 2026 at 8:53 PM
the regime considers all resistance violent resistance. you chanting while holding a sign and carefully remaining on the sidewalk is as worthy of the death penalty to them as someone throwing a Molotov.
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Order them out of the way or arrest them for obstruction
January 24, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Order them out of the way or arrest them for obstruction
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Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans says his team arrived on the scene of the shooting to conduct an independent investigation and "were blocked by federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security."
January 24, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans says his team arrived on the scene of the shooting to conduct an independent investigation and "were blocked by federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security."