tim
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"Reformation is necessary and despair is criminal." Computational biologist; US-Canadian (Team Canada); he/him. Vancouver is unceded land.
present day. present time
present day. present time
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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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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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Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
January 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
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i’m not particularly attached to “abolish ICE” as a slogan but as a policy it’s mandatory
January 24, 2026 at 5:50 PM
i’m not particularly attached to “abolish ICE” as a slogan but as a policy it’s mandatory
Hate it when house lights are cued up during a performance. Yes, yes, I'm here to observe, not to be observed, thank you for reminding me
January 24, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Hate it when house lights are cued up during a performance. Yes, yes, I'm here to observe, not to be observed, thank you for reminding me
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Please join me, and support my friend and Oak Park Trustee Brian Straw. As one of the “Broadview 6,” he continues to fight the Trump administration and stand up for the 1st Amendment. Your support will make a difference in the fight to save our democracy. secure.actblue.com/donate/jan31...
Donate to Brian Straw's Legal Defense!
As you know, Brian Straw is currently facing down the federal government over charges that threaten our collective rights to free speech and assembly. He is battling these charges for the same rea...
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January 21, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Please join me, and support my friend and Oak Park Trustee Brian Straw. As one of the “Broadview 6,” he continues to fight the Trump administration and stand up for the 1st Amendment. Your support will make a difference in the fight to save our democracy. secure.actblue.com/donate/jan31...
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a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
January 22, 2026 at 3:05 AM
a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
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This is insane not just the explicit "go break the 4A" substance but how they knew how bad it was, acting in guilty paranoia to cover it up and suppress the written evidence.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 11:03 PM
This is insane not just the explicit "go break the 4A" substance but how they knew how bad it was, acting in guilty paranoia to cover it up and suppress the written evidence.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
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there's no reforming ICE, there's no democracy while ICE exists
January 22, 2026 at 12:35 AM
there's no reforming ICE, there's no democracy while ICE exists
This is a disgusting column. Mason is "just asking questions" that imply VAG should not have hired an architect because he was insufficiently polite to the prime minister on social media while VAG seeks federal funds.
Let us not build a culture that expects leaders to act like thin-skinned tyrants.
Let us not build a culture that expects leaders to act like thin-skinned tyrants.
January 21, 2026 at 1:15 PM
This is a disgusting column. Mason is "just asking questions" that imply VAG should not have hired an architect because he was insufficiently polite to the prime minister on social media while VAG seeks federal funds.
Let us not build a culture that expects leaders to act like thin-skinned tyrants.
Let us not build a culture that expects leaders to act like thin-skinned tyrants.
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I’m not saying anything like ”Carney’s selling us out.” Rather that he’s consistently followed a strategy that’s at odds with his rhetoric. He’s promising transformative change while his actual actions are far more conservative.
I lay this argument out here.
blaynehaggart.com/2025/10/24/c...
I lay this argument out here.
blaynehaggart.com/2025/10/24/c...
Carney vs Carney: Desperately seeking certainty
Canada is trapped in an unacknowledged debate over the nature of the US crisis, with PM Carney’s words on one side and his actions on the other.
blaynehaggart.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:11 AM
I’m not saying anything like ”Carney’s selling us out.” Rather that he’s consistently followed a strategy that’s at odds with his rhetoric. He’s promising transformative change while his actual actions are far more conservative.
I lay this argument out here.
blaynehaggart.com/2025/10/24/c...
I lay this argument out here.
blaynehaggart.com/2025/10/24/c...
hoping i can talk the shy kitten out of this thing where he hisses whenever i walk in the room but then comes over to see if i have food for him
January 21, 2026 at 7:11 AM
hoping i can talk the shy kitten out of this thing where he hisses whenever i walk in the room but then comes over to see if i have food for him
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For all the Mark Carney praise for his speech, let's remember his domestic agenda remains neoliberalism on steroids. It's a plan that makes us poorer and weaker, despite his rhetoric.
January 21, 2026 at 6:53 AM
For all the Mark Carney praise for his speech, let's remember his domestic agenda remains neoliberalism on steroids. It's a plan that makes us poorer and weaker, despite his rhetoric.
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In 2025, City Hall paralysis blocked 6 key sites from being developed. Ken Sim couldn’t build the majority required to get things done.
Enough. I’m moving to immediately unlock these sites for 4,000 affordable homes. No more excuses. #VanPoli #HousingNow
Enough. I’m moving to immediately unlock these sites for 4,000 affordable homes. No more excuses. #VanPoli #HousingNow
January 20, 2026 at 5:57 PM
In 2025, City Hall paralysis blocked 6 key sites from being developed. Ken Sim couldn’t build the majority required to get things done.
Enough. I’m moving to immediately unlock these sites for 4,000 affordable homes. No more excuses. #VanPoli #HousingNow
Enough. I’m moving to immediately unlock these sites for 4,000 affordable homes. No more excuses. #VanPoli #HousingNow
This has gotta bring mixed feelings for Greenlanders
Footage shows Danish troops arriving in Greenland as part of a new military deployment. Among the personnel who landed on the island is Major General Peter H. Boysen, Chief of the Danish Army Command. #Greenland
January 20, 2026 at 7:13 PM
This has gotta bring mixed feelings for Greenlanders
mood at Davos seems grim
January 20, 2026 at 4:22 PM
mood at Davos seems grim
oh! i forgot to mention that we brought home a pair of kittens last week. please meet falstaff (on router) and benvolio (in plant). they are 16 weeks old! they came to us through RAPS BC. all we know about their origins is that they came from a rescue on the Island.
January 20, 2026 at 4:38 AM
oh! i forgot to mention that we brought home a pair of kittens last week. please meet falstaff (on router) and benvolio (in plant). they are 16 weeks old! they came to us through RAPS BC. all we know about their origins is that they came from a rescue on the Island.
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Attorneys are being denied access to their clients at the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis. Attorney Robert Sicoli says an ICE agent told him letting lawyers see their clients would cause “chaos.” Another attorney reports being blocked from seeing a U.S. citizen war veteran. (ABC)
January 19, 2026 at 6:50 AM
Attorneys are being denied access to their clients at the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis. Attorney Robert Sicoli says an ICE agent told him letting lawyers see their clients would cause “chaos.” Another attorney reports being blocked from seeing a U.S. citizen war veteran. (ABC)
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The Trump admin is moving to quickly deport two men who witnessed, they say, ICE guards choke a fellow detainee to death.
The admin moved to deport men right after they spoke the Washington Post.
This is the death that the medical examiner has already ruled likely homicide.
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The admin moved to deport men right after they spoke the Washington Post.
This is the death that the medical examiner has already ruled likely homicide.
wapo.st/4qR1T1U
DHS seeking to deport two men who said fellow ICE detainee was killed
The two men’s eyewitness accounts of the Jan. 3 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp differ from the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the incident.
wapo.st
January 18, 2026 at 12:10 AM
The Trump admin is moving to quickly deport two men who witnessed, they say, ICE guards choke a fellow detainee to death.
The admin moved to deport men right after they spoke the Washington Post.
This is the death that the medical examiner has already ruled likely homicide.
wapo.st/4qR1T1U
The admin moved to deport men right after they spoke the Washington Post.
This is the death that the medical examiner has already ruled likely homicide.
wapo.st/4qR1T1U
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Cry more losers
January 17, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Cry more losers
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For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
www.ms.now
January 16, 2026 at 6:55 PM
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.