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toadthe12sprocket.bsky.social
Tee Haitch (he/him)
@toadthe12sprocket.bsky.social
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Building science nerd. My background is typical. Bachelor’s from U of Rangoon, varsity luge captain. I designed meat helmets. As an insolent junior engineer I was placed in a tyvek envelope and beaten with slide rules. Pretty standard, really.
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toadthe12sprocket.bsky.social
This is such good work, about an awful thing. These are not law enforcement officers, they are domestic terrorists. I am so sorry for this family and so grateful for this reporting.
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h
New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.

My story:
Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home
DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 20, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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virginiahall32.bsky.social
Isaiah Blackwell used his body as a shield in guiding Lang away from counterprotesters before two Black women were his unexpected getaway drivers. I hope racist Nazi Lang learned a lesson about being protected by the very types of people hates.

www.startribune.com/man-reveals-...
The Black man and women who rescued right-wing influencer Jake Lang from protesters in Minneapolis
Isaiah Blackwell used his body as a shield in guiding Lang away from counterprotesters before two Black women were his unexpected getaway drivers.
www.startribune.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:59 AM
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sarahburnes.bsky.social
THE MAN THEY TOOK WRAPPED IN A BLANKET IS A U.S. CITIZEN.

This is the Kavanaugh Stop of all Kavanaugh Stops.
cwebbonline.com Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21h
Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket.

He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War.

Notice the suppressors
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January 19, 2026 at 3:46 PM
toadthe12sprocket.bsky.social
Thank you so much, Harry.
libradunn1.bsky.social Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 17h
On the day we honor the great Martin Luther King Jr, I reflect on one of the things he didnt talk much about rather he was a living example of it… Courage.

Happy MLK Day.
January 19, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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patrickiber.bsky.social
A passage from the 1943 OSS psychological assessment of Hitler, for your holiday mo(u)rning www.cia.gov/readingroom/...
PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND RECONSTRUCTION The world has come to know Adolph Hitler for his insatiable greed for power, his ruthlessness, cruelty and utter lack of feeling, his contempt for established institutions and his lack of moral restraints. In the course of relatively few years he has contrived to usurp such tre- mendous power that a few veiled threats, accusations or insinuations were sufficient to make the world tremble. In open defiance of treaties he occupied huge territories and conquered millions of people without even firing a shot. When the world became tired of being frightened and concluded that it was all a bluff, he initiated the most brutal and deva- stating war in history - a war which, for a time, threatened the com- plete destruction of our civilization. Human life and human suffering seem to leave this individual completely untouched as he plunges along the course he believes he was predestined to take. Earlier in his career the world had watched him with amuse- ment. Many people refused to take him seriously on the grounds that "he could not possibly last." As one action after another met with amaz- ing success and the measure of the man became more obvious, this amusement was transformed into incredulousness. To most people, it seemed inconceivable that such things could actually happen in our mod- ern civilization. Hitler, the leader of these activities, became generally regarded as a madman, if not inhuman. Such a judgment, concerning the nature of our enemy, may be satisfactory to the man in the street. It gives him a feeling of satisfaction to pigeon-hole an incomprehensible individual in one category or another and having classified him in this way, he feels that the problem is solved. All we need to do is to eliminate the madman from the scene of activities, replace him with a sane indivi- dual, and the world will again return to a normal and peaceful state of affairs. This naive view, however, is wholly inadequate for those who are delegated to conduct the war against Germany or for those who will be delegated to deal with the situation when the war is over. They can- not content themselves with simply regarding Hitler as a personal devil and condemning him to an Eternal Hell in order that the remainder of the world may live in peace and quiet. They will realize that the madness of the Fuehrer has become the madness of a nation, if not of a large part of the continent. They will realize that these are not wholly the actions of a single individual but that a reciprocal relationship exists between the Fuehrer and the people and that the madness of the one stimulates and flows into the other and vice versa. It was not only Hitler, the madman, who created German madness, but German madness which created Hitler. Having created him as its spokesman and leader, it has been carried along by his momentum, perhaps far beyond the point where it was originally prepared to go. Nevertheless, it continues to follow his lead in spite of the fact that it must be obvious to all intelligent people now that his path leads to inevitable destruction. From a scientific point of view, therefore, we are forced to con- sider Hitler, the Fuehrer, not as a personal devil, wicked as his actions and philosophy may be, but as the expression of a state of mind existing in millions of people, not only in Germany but, to a smaller degree, in all civilized countries. To remove Hitler may be a necessary first step, but it would not be the cure. It would be analogous to removing a chancre without treating the underlying disease. If similar eruptions are to be prevented in the future, we cannot content ourselves with simply remov- ing the overt manifestations of the disease. On the contrary, we must ferret out and seek to correct the underlying factors which produced the unwelcome phenomenon. We must discover the psychological streams which nourish this destructive state of mind in order that we may divert them into channels which will permit a further evolution of our form of civilization.
January 19, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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ohrobin.bsky.social
Let this radicalize you.
An elderly Hmong-American man being led, in cuffs, from his home by ICE gestapo. He is wearing boxer shorts and slippers.
January 19, 2026 at 5:53 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
toadthe12sprocket.bsky.social
Sprocket the cinnamon wonder mutt likes to show off her ridiculous drum major plume of a tail.
A dog with long red hair wags her very bushy tail on a snowy day.
January 17, 2026 at 6:12 PM
toadthe12sprocket.bsky.social
Zipper is well equipped to handle precipitation. She also likes to bite shovels.
A small Australian Shepherd lies in freshly fallen snow.
January 17, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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statuscoupnews.bsky.social
With arms linked and snow falling, Minneapolis ICE protesters dance as ICE agents retreat back. "Nah nah nah, hey hey hey, goodbye!" WATCH ⬇️
January 17, 2026 at 3:34 AM
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stanrmitchell.com
I couldn’t have said it better.
January 15, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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cohen489.bsky.social
pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:
January 15, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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taylordahlin.com
they want you to think minneapolis is dangerous. more of brass solidarity band performing today at powderhorn park at the anti ICE protest after their agent killed renee good. the band is made up of community members around george floyd square and they bring joy to every action they appear at
January 11, 2026 at 2:29 AM
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notlikewe.bsky.social
what a legend lmao
January 14, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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statuscoupnews.bsky.social
🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 15, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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nwresistance.bsky.social
Hartford Visibility Brigade this am! Lots of honking for these!
@hcrichardson.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @briantylercohen.bsky.social @rbhubbell.bsky.social @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social @jesscraven101.bsky.social @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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crockett.house.gov
Kristi Noem has been a complete and total failure at her job. She has violated her oath and has allowed ICE agents to terrorize our communities.

That’s why I’m joining @robinkelly.house.gov in calling for her impeachment.

We deserve better, she’s gotta go.
January 14, 2026 at 9:15 PM
toadthe12sprocket.bsky.social
Oh my.
petersagal.bsky.social Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 6d
The letter from Bill and Hillary Clinton to James Comer explaining their refusal to testify in his Epstein investigation is really remarkable, not like any letter of this genre I've seen. It's signed by them, not a lawyer, and the arguments are not legal ones. Reprinted from their X account:
January 14, 2026 at 3:36 AM
toadthe12sprocket.bsky.social
King Gregory and his men endured a brutal taunting. “So, you think you could out-clever us Minneapolis folk with your silly knees-bent running about advancing behavior? I wave my private parts at your aunties, you cheesy lot of second hand electric donkey-bottom biters!”
dominicervolina.com Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 7d
I added captions to this video of people heckling Greg Bovino leaving a Target in Minneapolis, and there's so many people yelling things at him it's like a comedy skit
January 13, 2026 at 3:44 PM
toadthe12sprocket.bsky.social
These protesters aren’t “clashing,” they are letting the government know that they cannot use illegal tactics to illegally capture and illegally hold people under the pretense that they are here illegally.

It is ICE who are the domestic terrorists, ipso fucking facto.
startribune.com Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 7d
Protesters clashed with federal agents for another night outside the Whipple Federal Building, which holds ICE detainees. Agents fired less-lethal munitions and deployed chemical irritants at the crowd.

📷️: Jeff Wheeler
January 13, 2026 at 3:39 PM
toadthe12sprocket.bsky.social
Rocking the guyliner.
meidasguy.bsky.social MeidasGuy @meidasguy.bsky.social · 7d
This clip has been on repeat.
January 13, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
ICE is now behaving in such a way that even Tucker Carlson’s favorite Holocaust minimizing, Hitler-apologist “historian” is like “hey now guys, this is getting a little out of hand.”
Martyr Made & @martyrmade X.com Anyone being cavalier about how this is playing with the general public doesn't care about deportations or demographics. They're nihilists who just want a good show. The number of highly-committed 3-time Trump voters I know who have stepped away over the past week is astonishing. Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara • 11h DAMN: ICE grabbed a 17yo Target worker at his job, despite him saying he's a US citizen. After confirming he was, they dumped him in a Walmart lot 8 min away. Bystanders found him sobbing, bleeding: "They slammed me on the ground."
January 12, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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timzero4.bsky.social
Minnesota

#ICE
January 12, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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gaykwon.bsky.social
This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.
January 12, 2026 at 6:47 PM
toadthe12sprocket.bsky.social
"Some high-protein diets, especially very restrictive versions such as the carnivore diet, limit carbs so much that you might not get enough nutrients or fiber. This can cause problems such as bad breath, headache, and constipation."
www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-life....
January 12, 2026 at 5:52 PM