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Sarah O'Neill

@girlvgrizzly.bsky.social

Thanks. We have folks in our community giving vulnerable students rides to school, and a teacher shared that they were putting small stuffed animals on their dashboards to help kids identify safe cars. ICE picked up on it and started doing the same. Horrifying.

January 16, 2026 at 3:29 PM

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John Abernathy

@john-abernathy.bsky.social

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

She is aggressively trying to turn the wheel AWAY from the ICE agent. It is her very last action. They provoke her, surround her, then kill her in cold blood. I have barely slept since this happened and I don't think I'll ever stop being angry about this.

post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 10d

i have watched the shooter's video. it's going to make you way the fuck madder.

post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 12d

I have watched the video. I think you probably do not need to watch the video. it shows what you think it's gonna show in terms of lack of justification.

January 9, 2026 at 7:14 PM

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Nicholas Thompson

@nxthompson.bsky.social

"A doctor at the scene attempted to help the woman who was shot, but was kept away by federal agents. When an ambulance finally arrived, it was blocked from reaching her by law-enforcement vehicles, and paramedics had to reach her on foot. The woman has died." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A Deadly Shooting in Minnesota

A federal immigration agent’s killing of a woman driving an SUV fits into a tragic pattern.

www.theatlantic.com

January 7, 2026 at 8:32 PM

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Chad Loder

@chadloder.bsky.social

These cosplaying nazis. jfc

Pacific Antifascist Research Collective @pacantifa.is · 12d

Justin T. Corbin, seen wearing an "ICE" vest this week in St. Paul, MN alongside Kristi Noem. He is not an officer, he is Kristi Noem's assistant. A former Heritage Foundation intern and Trump 2024 transition team staffer, he is now a DHS employee who works on media scheduling for ICE Barbie.

A young man wearing a tactical vest that says "POLICE ICE" on it walking through a hallway

The same man in the background at a press gaggle with Noem

The same man carrying Noem's bag and holding an umbrella above her head

January 7, 2026 at 8:38 PM

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Ken Jennings

@kenjennings.bsky.social

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM

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Defector

@defector.com

ICE agent kills woman, DHS tells obvious, insane lies about it: defector.com/ice-agent-ki...

ICE Agent Kills Woman, DHS Tells Obvious, Insane Lies About It | Defector

On Wednesday in Minneapolis, masked government agents apparently representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surrounded a stationary vehicle stopped in the middle of a residential street.…

defector.com

January 7, 2026 at 8:47 PM

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Christopher Wiggins

@cwnewser.bsky.social

NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do."

“We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs.

www.advocate.com/news/minneso...

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting

“They killed my wife,” the distraught woman says, adding, “They shot her in the head.”

www.advocate.com

January 7, 2026 at 8:55 PM

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Eli Valley

@elivalley.bsky.social

Tiresome to keep repeating it a full decade into Democrats giving Nazis power to commit Nazi atrocities but:

The government must be shut down permanently until this Nazi criminal is gone, and Democrats who refuse to go along with this should be afraid to leave their homes.

Trump on his social media site:
Donald J. Trump ©
@realDonaldTrump
I am pleased to announce that the Interim
Authorities in Venezuela will be turning over
between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels of High
Quality, Sanctioned Oil, to the United States
of America. This Oil will be sold at its Market
Price, and that money will be controlled by
me, as President of the United States of
America, to ensure it is used to benefit the
people of Venezuela and the United States! I
have asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright to
execute this plan, immediately. It will be
taken by storage ships, and brought directly
to unloading docks in the United States.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA

January 7, 2026 at 1:14 AM

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Ian Boudreau

@ianboudreau.com

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM

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Ana Marie Cox

@anamariecox.bsky.social

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM

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Timothy Burke

@bubbaprog.xyz

The federal government is attempting a radical, massive expansion of what constitutes "wiretapping" that threatens everyone working in media/as a journalist today and I hope you'll read this and share it with everyone you know.

I'm not just fighting this for me. I'm fighting it for everyone.

Advisory to Journalists: The Dangerous Expansion of the Federal Wiretap Law

Journalists, podcasters, and digital media professionals beware: the U.S. government is currently advancing a legal theory under 18 U.S.C. § 2511—the federal wiretap statute—that threatens to criminalize the mere act of downloading publicly available videos or listening to podcasts. This interpretation risks not only chilling investigative journalism but undermines the very foundation of freedom of the press.

The federal wiretap law makes it a felony to intentionally “intercept”—that is, acquire the contents of—a “wire communication” unless you are a party to the communication or a party has given prior consent. Under 18 U.S.C. § 2510(1), a "wire communication" includes any transfer containing the human voice that travels at any point by wire or cable. Originally meant to prevent unlawful phone taps in 1968, the statute has not meaningfully evolved to reflect digital media distribution in the 21st century.

As a result, many core journalistic practices today—listening to audio on a video stream, downloading a podcast, reviewing livestreamed footage—can be construed as “intercepting” a wire communication. And unlike “oral communications” (which are only protected if private) or “electronic communications” (which are exempt if publicly accessible), wire communications have no similar public-access defense. This leaves journalists legally vulnerable for accessing material that is otherwise freely available to the public.

This is not just a theoretical risk. In Tampa, Florida, the U.S. Department of Justice is actively prosecuting my client, journalist Timothy Burke for allegedly violating the wiretap statute by downloading publicly accessible livestreamed interviews from a video server. The journalist used only a URL—no password, no hack, no deception.

The government claims that because the streams included the human voice and were transmitted in part by wire or cable, they are “wire communications”. Under this interpretation, even if the stream was intended for public consumption, and even if no reasonable expectation of privacy existed, the act of acquiring and publishing the content becomes a federal felony. The government also asserts that the same communications are also “electronic communications,” where the law makes it clear that it is not a violation if the electronic communication is obtained from a server that is configured so that the communication is “readily accessible to the general public” -- however, the government has argued (and the court has agreed) that whether or not the communication was obtained from a publicly accessible server is a fact question that the journalist must prove at trial - not an element of the offense that the government must prove. This means that a journalist that obtains public information may still be subject to search, seizure, arrest, indictment and prosecution.

The implications for the First Amendment are chilling. Under the government’s interpretation of interception of “wire communications”, the government could prosecute journalists based not on their methods, but on the content they choose to listen to or report on. The wiretap law also criminalizes the disclosure of the contents of a wire communication. Thus, quoting from a podcast or a leaked livestream could subject a reporter to criminal liability regardless of intent, public interest, or harm.

This is a dangerous expansion of government authority. It converts the passive act of receiving a communication—something essential to journalism—into a criminal offense based solely on outdated statutory definitions and prosecutorial discretion.

The broader issue is not just technical—it’s constitutional. A law that is so vague or overbroad that it allows the government to pick and choose whom to prosecute based on their speech, targets the very heart of press freedom. It is unconstitutionally vague under the Fifth Amendment and overbroad under the First.

By failing to modernize the statute—or at least to interpret it in line with modern communication platforms—the government risks turning millions of journalists, researchers, and citizens into potential criminals. The law as it stands today is an anachronism of the analog era being misapplied in a digital one.

If you are a journalist, you should be alarmed. If the DOJ’s current theory prevails, simply clicking “play” could one day lead to prosecution. The press cannot operate in an environment where the law punishes access to speech—particularly where that speech is both public and newsworthy.

The press must not only report on this misuse of power, but challenge it—legally, politically, and publicly. Because the right to receive and report information is not just a constitutional luxury. It’s a democratic necessity.

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Mark Rasch
MDRasch@gmail.com
(301) 547-6925

May 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM

Hyper Masculinity

@hypermasculinity.bsky.social

these people are not fixable

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Jul 9

This is a real tweet from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

DHS Twitter account:
FIRE UP THE DEPORTATION PLANES!

Image of a skeleton doing squats with the text MY BODY IS A
THAT TURNS
MACHINE
ICE FUNDING
INTO
MASS DEPORTATIONS

July 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM

Hyper Masculinity

@hypermasculinity.bsky.social

When everyone is allergic to red meat the real squirrels will rise

Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · Jun 29

Not only is climate change causing ticks to expand their territory, it's also causing an explosion in alpha-gal syndrome, which makes people allergic to eating red meat or using products that come from those animals. A dozen cases in '09 to over 450,000 now. 🧪
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...