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Chronicler of the final days of humans, focus on environment, public health, law.
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
I am underwhelmed by “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.” The minimum demand should be all ICE and CBP agents off the streets of Minnesota. The minimum.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Senate Democrats plot strategy as DHS standoff deepens heading into shutdown week
Two sources who were on a Democratic caucus strategy call Sunday said Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told the group the message must be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
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January 26, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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governorwalz.mn.gov
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.

The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
January 24, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
1000000 percent this
chrismurphyct.bsky.social Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 6d
Democrats have no obligation to support a bill that not only funds the dystopian scenes we are seeing in Minneapolis but will allow DHS to replicate that playbook of brutality in cities all over this country.
January 20, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
Trump-Allied Prosecutor Sends Letters to Medical Journals Alleging Bias www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/h...
MAHA
January 20, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
I'm starting to think that, until he's finally gone, I should repost on a daily basis this 11,000+ word piece I published in @theatlantic.com about Donald Trump's serious psychiatric disorders to explain why, as a legal and constitutional matter, he was unfit for the presidency.
gtconway.bsky.social George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15d
In the six-plus years since, every mental health professional I have come across has told me that my essay had it exactly right. I think every word of it has been proven right many times over.

Even today, he's still only going to get worse.

Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Unfit for Office
Donald Trump’s narcissism makes it impossible for him to carry out the duties of the presidency in the way the Constitution requires.
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
“Our current president has issued no statement this year in recognition of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This administration’s only notice of the day was when it announced that it had eliminated this holiday from the list of days with free entry to national parks.”

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Celebrate a King, Not a Trump
We will never have a DJT day.
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January 19, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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walshfreedom.bsky.social
WSJ reporting confirms ICE agents get rewarded for any arrest—even if the person is released, legal or a citizen. 73.6% held in ICE jails have no conviction - now we know why.

Arresting based on looks violates the Constitution.

Know your rights. Act.
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January 18, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
Marx remarks somewhere that historical events appear, as it were, twice: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

He forgot to add that beneath the farce also can lurk tragedy.
January 18, 2026 at 2:29 AM
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lollardfish.bsky.social
This kidnapping was about a mile from my house. You don’t have to watch it. But I need to share it.
Video: Circle Pines Pancho’s employee screams for help during ICE arrest
An employee at a Circle Pines Mexican restaurant was detained by ICE agents Tuesday night, and his screams for help were caught on camera.
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January 16, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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gregggonsalves.bsky.social
No Ross. No. You can push a normalization narrative about ICE, but it just serves as a mirror on the kind of person you are. I am always struck by your religiosity in contrast to the barbarism you have come to play footsie with.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16d
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“We’re fighting over a shooting video as a proxy for the fight over whether ICE is doing normal law enforcement work or something more fascistic and extreme,” our columnist Ross Douthat writes.
Opinion | What Would Peace on Immigration Look Like?
A tough issue for stabilization in our politics and public institutions.
nyti.ms
January 16, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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ositanwanevu.com
Apropos of nothing, let's check in with how things are going at Bari Weiss's free speech university. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Most people didn’t think much of it when the university dean, Ben Crocker, called a student named Dan into his office on Monday, Sept. 9, the first day of classes. But at 7:44 in the evening, they received an email from three administrators saying that Dan had been removed from campus, “transported to his home out of state,” and barred from further access to the university. The nature of the allegations concerned, at their core, a pair of charged statements Dan allegedly made that would be familiar to any Title IX officer. The first was a general statement implying that UATX girls carried themselves physically in a way that invited sexual assault. The second was a suggestion to a specific female student that she had carried herself in a way that invited sexual assault. Dan had already been the subject of some negative attention on campus because of provocative statements he’d made in a UATX-based Discord “introductions” chat. These included a challenge — “If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I’ll kill you” — which was a reference to the 1981 movie “Stripes” and likely misunderstood by fellow students. In another exchange, a discussion of transgender issues, Dan expressed reservations about hormone treatment and said that he couldn’t wait “to play devil’s advocate for legalizing pedophilia.” Between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m., Crocker visited the dorms, where he hosted a meeting on the roof to discuss the issue with students. Crocker’s message was that Dan’s conduct had been evaluated to be a “credible threat” — a phrase that would be repeated by the administration many times over the following days. Crocker then faced what one student attendee recalled as a “firing squad” of questions. Some students said that Dan had seemed off, but others saw his hasty removal as an example of the very cancel culture to which UATX was supposed to be the antithesis. Several students noted a lack of diversity. Consistent with its emphasis on “merit-based admissions,” UATX doesn’t publish demographic data. The students with whom I spoke said their classmates — and the college’s leadership — were overwhelmingly white, disproportionately came from wealthy families and had an overrepresentation of apparent neurodivergence. They found ideological diversity to be particularly lacking. “I didn’t realize exactly how conservative it would be,” one current student told me. “You know, when I hear free speech and open debate and all that jazz, I assumed that there was going to be a more equal amount of political views, and there wasn’t.” Classes weren’t as innovative as most students expected. “Year one was exceptionally boring,” the student said. “They did great books, they just didn’t do it in a great way,” said another student, who lamented the amount of memorization required. “I thought we were going to be intensely debating,” he said. Several students shared course syllabi with me. Most are easy enough to imagine being offered on any campus — with the notable exception of math and science. “The math classes go over algebra you learned in ninth grade,” a student told me. “There was just nothing there.” He described the offering as “schizophrenic” and described a class he’d taken at University of Texas at Austin as “exponentially more important.” Indeed, the syllabus I reviewed for a class called “Intellectual Foundations of Science II” covered a range of topics unusual for a science class including “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.” A student who’d taken the course shared a slide with me on “ensoulment” — the principally religious question of when a soul enters the human body — and said that the class had been told that IVF but not abortion could be consistent with the Catholic belief about ensoulment. The poor quality of the science offerings had bothered Heying and Pinker. “Others thought I was the token liberal,” Heying told me, “but I came to understand myself as the token scientist.” In an email, Pinker wrote, “They should have hired a widely esteemed scientist and proven program builder to set up their science division.” Another surprising similarity with other colleges stemmed directly from Dan’s expulsion: The students feared cancellation. “At any moment a frivolous Title IX complaint could be filed against you,” a former student told me. “I’ve never felt my speech was so chilled as it was in the classroom at UATX.” During the many conversations I had reporting this story, two questions came up more than any other. The first: Where was Bari Weiss? Many of the people I interviewed told me about internal conversations and shared internal emails. Weiss, who remains on the board of trustees, was almost never present in the conversations as they were related to me, and while I saw many emails on which Kanelos and Ferguson were copied, I never saw any including Weiss. speaks onstage during an event in New York City, on Nov. 19, 2024. | Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press One person I spoke to, who was present during the early planning stages, told me that Weiss was “very elusive” and almost never present in person. This was ironic since UATX was closely associated with Weiss — a bust of whom now resides in the school library. Weiss, meanwhile, has only risen further during the Trump 2.0 era and is now editor-in-chief of CBS News, where she has been criticized as genuflecting to the Trump administration. A spokesperson for CBS News did not respond to a request for comment from Weiss. One former member of the development team told me that they would routinely ask prospective donors how they got to know UATX. “Eighty percent of the time, the answer was Bari Weiss,” they said. “It was very often referred to as Bari Weiss’ University, or Bari Weiss’ University Project, or Bari Weiss’ University of Austin.” For several people, this was a source of resentment. “I don’t care whether she wants to pretend this is all gone now — she is the reason that this place exists. She was huge, she was held in such high regard, she had such an enormous impact,” the former staffer said. “I want her to be held to account,” she added. “I’m pissed.”
January 16, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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gregggonsalves.bsky.social
This op-ed holds up a mirror to all of us. The mirror also reflects back on the editors and journalists who seek to normalize this administration by playing both sides so late in this game. Yes coverage has gotten better, but there’s still an enormous appetite for BS. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...
Opinion | They Were Ordinary Germans. We Are Ordinary Americans.
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Jesus.

www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 15, 2026 at 5:08 PM Reid Forgrave ICE agents eat at small-town Mexican restaurant — then arrest workers Federal agents detained three workers from a family-owned Mexican restaurant in Willmar yesterday, hours after four agents ate lunch there. It was not immediately clear what the immigration status of those detained was, or whether the people detained included the restaurant’s owners or only workers. An eyewitness who declined to give a name for fear of retribution, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that four ICE agents sat in a booth for a meal at El Tapatio a little before 3 p.m. Staff at the restaurant were frightened, said the eyewitness, who shared pictures from the restaurant as well as video of the arrest. The arrest happened around 8:30 p.m. near a Lutheran church and Willmar Middle School as agents followed the workers after they closed up for the night. A handful of bystanders blew whistles and shouted at agents as they detained the people. “Would your mama be proud of you right now?” one of the bystanders asked.
January 16, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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scalzi.com
What? The AI companies have misrepresented what they're doing and how it was done? That's unpossible!
jasonsanford.bsky.social Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 13d
GenAI companies keep claiming the books and copyrighted works their programed were "trained" on without permission didn't retain complete copies in their systems. This was a lie.

These companies may now face for even more liability for violating copyrights. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
AI’s Memorization Crisis
Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.
www.theatlantic.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov
If a President can deploy his private police force against his critics today, he can use it against anyone tomorrow.

That should scare everyone.
January 13, 2026 at 3:11 AM
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govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov
This isn’t left vs. right.

A President deploying his private police force against Americans should terrify anyone who believes in the Constitution.
January 13, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Yet another scandal that would have ended any other administration.

Trump's salvation is that he's doing a hundred different things that would be huge scandals and impeachable offenses on their own, but pursued together they become a blob of vague criminality that's hard to tack down.
January 12, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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January 12, 2026 at 3:31 AM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress
January 12, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
As of now they’re not trying to talk me out of it but told me to email PriorityLetter@HIlton.com. That may just be a deflection hoping that if they throw up some hurdles some people won’t cancel but I think they underestimate how much time I will devote to making trouble.
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15d
On the phone with them right now.

You can host the armed goons terrorizing our families, or you can host us.
hormiga.bsky.social Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 15d
It's worth your time to call Hilton to cancel your account with them. 1-800-446-6677. Here's why:

They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.

The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.
January 12, 2026 at 3:23 AM
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cjzero.bsky.social
Wanda Sykes thanks Ricky Gervais for not being there because it means she can accept the award on his behalf... and he's gonna thank God and the trans community (he won, she did) #GoldenGlobes
January 12, 2026 at 3:23 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
I feel comfortable mentioning the time I mildly criticized Jake Tapper on Twitter for a “what do you expect of a defense lawyer“ comment on Twitter and he responded by DM just FURIOUS and resentful I would call him out in public.

When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.
January 11, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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warren.senate.gov
While millions of Americans struggle to afford groceries, Donald Trump wants to spend their taxpayer dollars on invading foreign countries.

That's not America first.
This is NOT America first.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
youtube.com
January 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
President Sundown McGoodbrain thinks he won all three times in Minnesota despite losing all three times.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17d
Trump: "I feel I won Minnesota. I think I won it all three times. Nobody has won it since Richard Nixon won it many many years ago. I won it all three times in my opinion. It's a corrupt state ... I did so well in that state. The people were crying every time after."
January 9, 2026 at 10:28 PM