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Tom van de Laarschot

@tlaar.bsky.social

February 2, 2026 at 9:19 PM

Zenz

@therealzenz.bsky.social

Approved by Plan Commission tonight. This will NOT need separate rezoning approved at Common Council.

Zenz @therealzenz.bsky.social · 14h

At Madison Plan Commission tonight, 87 units in 5 stories proposed at 2103 Sherman in the parking lot next to Banzo. Initial plan was 6 stories and 20 more units but cut it after neighborhood concerns of height (city plans call for 4 stories), & cut footprint to allow Banzo access.

February 3, 2026 at 1:37 AM

Zenz

@therealzenz.bsky.social

At Madison Plan Commission tonight, 87 units in 5 stories proposed at 2103 Sherman in the parking lot next to Banzo. Initial plan was 6 stories and 20 more units but cut it after neighborhood concerns of height (city plans call for 4 stories), & cut footprint to allow Banzo access.

February 3, 2026 at 12:34 AM

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Nick Davies / Aster Loxley / Spiral Island

@spiralisland.bsky.social

Greater Madison Metropolitan Planning Organization, 6:30 Wednesday
www.cityofmadison.com/city-hall/co...
- Discussing resident feedback on Beltline expansion
- WisDOT is requesting a cost-sharing adjustment on the I90 project that would leave Madison unable to use federal funds for its portion

Greater Madison Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) Policy Board - February 4, 2026

www.cityofmadison.com

February 1, 2026 at 7:15 PM

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Nick Davies / Aster Loxley / Spiral Island

@spiralisland.bsky.social

This week in #Madison

Plan Commission, 5:30 Monday
madison.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...
- Multi-use plans for 2103 Sherman Ave 🌶️

Urban Design Commission, 4:00 Wednesday
madison.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...
- 999 S Park St 👇 🌶️

a 4 story building design, where the first floor retail is built out to the sidewalk, and three floors of residential are set back from the street. Two chunks of the residential building have cylindrical metal roofing atop, giving the building a "Streamline Moderne" 1930s kind of style

February 1, 2026 at 7:15 PM

Zenz

@therealzenz.bsky.social

When you are throwing out stuff in the basement and you discover a house you thought was kind of expensive at the time - this was a nice place!

February 1, 2026 at 6:55 PM

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Senator Scott Wiener

@scottwiener.bsky.social

Just the President saying he wants to make housing as expensive as possible & thus continue the massive wealth transfer from young to old due to not building nearly enough homes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "People that own their homes -- we're gonna keep them wealthy. We're gonna keep those prices up. We're not gonna destroy the value of their homes so that somebody who didn't work very hard can buy a home."

January 30, 2026 at 5:28 AM

Zenz

@therealzenz.bsky.social

Maybe Madison Common Council was right....
madison.com/news/local/c...

Monona police car damaged after high-speed chase

The 39-year-old driver was taken to the hospital for medical clearance before being booked into the jail. He is tentatively charged with crimes including being a felon in possession of

madison.com

January 30, 2026 at 1:06 AM

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Matthew Highton

@matthighton.bsky.social

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

January 27, 2026 at 4:24 PM

Zenz

@therealzenz.bsky.social

The country is messed up, but we still have Madison Common Council! I just learned that it is illegal in some German cities to salt your sidewalk and you can be fined 10k-20k euros...yeah...that's why I haven't salted my sidewalk..the lakes....that's the ticket!
www.cityofmadison.com/city-hall/co...

January 28, 2026 at 12:44 AM

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Seth Abramson

@sethabramson.bsky.social

Boy, I am just a former state public defender and federal criminal investigator but someone is going to have to explain to me how federal agents who are not on federal property are able to block state law enforcement from accessing a crime scene

Sounds like pretty clear Obstruction of Justice to me

January 25, 2026 at 3:12 AM

Zenz

@therealzenz.bsky.social

In better times they had good breakfast.

Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 8d

Broken again by this post from the cute brunch spot a block from where ICE killed Alex

"We have a medic and eye wash stations on site"

COPPER HEN

The Copper Hen Cakery & Kitchen

22h

The Copper Hen is closed for the rest of the day to customers due to overwhelming activity on Nicollet.

...

Our doors are OPEN to all protesters needing hot coffee, masks, towels. water, or place to warm up. We have a medic and eye wash stations on site.

Thank you from staff to our community members who keep us safe. Stay safe Minneapolis. We love you.

January 25, 2026 at 4:19 PM

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Chris Geidner

@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

The request includes a declaration from a witness who filmed today's shooting of Pretti.

Read their words:

"I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me.

2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work
when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in
the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is
doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your
neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26 where I could hear the whistles coming from. I
turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd
set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28. There were also about 15
observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them
stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me
find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him
and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from
us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers
were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a
backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the
street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the
sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were
being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray.
The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera
out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started
pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the
phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed
him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground.
The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man
who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to
have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my
eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them—he
wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying
to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground.
Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They
shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and
they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to
the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as
Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man
did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was
just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I
don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't
know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling
the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been
arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.

January 25, 2026 at 1:36 AM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9d

Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

January 24, 2026 at 11:29 PM

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Tom van de Laarschot

@tlaar.bsky.social

I didn't know him, but a guy I went to high school with and lived in my neighborhood was murdered by a federal death squad in front of my donut shop.

January 25, 2026 at 12:28 AM

Zenz

@therealzenz.bsky.social

The guy ICE murdered went to my high school.

January 25, 2026 at 12:20 AM

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Wedge LIVE!™

@wedge.live

January 24, 2026 at 7:54 PM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Fox News: "I've gotten my hands that AG Bondi said she sent to Gov. Tim Walz. It is strongly worded. The AG calls for the governor to support the men and women of ICE, to repeal the state's sanctuary policies, and to allow the DOJ to access state voter rolls."

January 24, 2026 at 7:36 PM

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Gambled And Lost Hat

@kenwhite.bsky.social

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect.
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January 24, 2026 at 7:18 PM

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Jay Willis

@jaywillis.net

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 9d

Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.

January 24, 2026 at 6:29 PM

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Joe Stieb

@joestieb.bsky.social

Watched the vid.

Honestly, it’s probably what a lot of lynchings looked like.

8 guys pummeling a dude who is on the ground before someone shoots him 8 times.

January 24, 2026 at 6:32 PM

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Don Moynihan

@donmoyn.bsky.social

What we are watching is a paramilitary force learning that they can kill with impunity, that the regime will smear the victim and defend them. Unless politicians and the legal system exerts accountability, it will not stop. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

And what are they learning? Experts on the formation of internal security services in authoritarian regimes point to a sense of impunity as a warning sign. Regime officials abuse their power when they know they will be protected, and even praised, for doing so.

Over the course of weeks and months, we have seen images of DHS officials abusing American citizens and immigrants alike, including killing them. What we do not hear is regime officials calling for credible investigations into such abuses, or even expressing any concerns. Renee Good’s killer was announced innocent, and both Good and her wife was instead the subject of an investigation, a perversion of justice so obvious that an FBI agent and half-dozen career Department of Justice prosecutors assigned to Minnesota resigned.

January 24, 2026 at 4:32 PM

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G Elliott Morris

@gelliottmorris.com

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

January 24, 2026 at 6:26 PM