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The evidence is increasingly pointing to the probability that an ICE agent killed a woman after misreading her as a threat because he was distracted by his simultaneous effort to record her so he could upload her image to a facial recognition database.
We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands.
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
January 9, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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basically; “the summary execution of americans on the streets is a land of contrast”

this guy is a true airhead. just nothing between those ears.
New CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil closing the broadcast from MN last night.
January 9, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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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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"The emerging order is one in which Putin, Xi, and Trump each get to do whatever they want in their respective zones: a grand bargain among the powerful at the expense of everyone else." hegemon.substack.com/p/venezuela-...
Venezuela Is a Gift to Putin
and a harbinger of more Russian aggression in Europe
hegemon.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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Trump and admin lawyers know Pete Hegseth and others in the chain of command on the boat bombings are legally vulnerable. Adding to this from @swin24.bsky.social and @premthakker.bsky.social, the Trump Murder Memo "justifying" the bombings also makes this clear:
zeteo.com/p/trump-is-a...
Trump Is Already Discussing Preemptive Pardons For His Lawless Administration
The revelation comes as Pete Hegseth faces scrutiny for a possible war crime, and as a judge pursues a contempt inquiry into the defiance of his order.
zeteo.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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At the launch of a speaking tour intended to connect with Americans struggling with higher prices and stagnant wages, President Trump mocked the word “affordability” and touted how high the stock market had risen.
At the first stop on his affordability tour, Trump mocks affordability
What was supposed to be a speaking tour to connect with Americans struggling with higher prices and stagnant wages was instead a greatest hits campaign speech.
wapo.st
December 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Two must-read perspectives on Zohran Mamdani/Jessica Tisch:

"Mamdani's NYC can't afford NYPD Commissioner Tisch" by Spencer Ackerman: www.forever-wars.com/mamdanis-nyc...

"If we want Mamdani to beat the NYPD, the Left must build power" by Jon Ben-Menachem: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Mamdani's NYC Can't Afford NYPD Commissioner Tisch
With ICE on its way, how can we expect an ICE collaborator to protect New Yorkers? Here's a compromise: make Tisch sanitation commissioner again
www.forever-wars.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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A White House website with a dedicated Lügenpresse tab marks a pretty bleak moment in US history.
November 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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A few different ways you can square the circle, but one way that is perhaps less challenging than either of those is to join ICC and give them retrospective jurisdiction to 2025 in the signing statement. At that point a valid pardon ends the domestic process and starts the intl one
November 29, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Mass pardons are coming. There will be no accountability without treating those as null and void. And that means a future administration taking an official position that Trump is not the legitimate president right now because he is disqualified by the 14th Amendment. The two things are inextricable.
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Imagine getting ready for your daughter to come home from her freshman year of college for Thanksgiving, and the day of departure she goes MIA, and then 48 nightmarish hours later she calls you to tell her that ICE goons kidnapped her and shipped her to Honduras www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...
November 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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There are no terse excuses for moral cowardice, gullibility, and breach of fiduciary duty.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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👀 when it comes to "harassment" and student protest, northwestern has given the trump administration what appears to be a veto over changes in policy: "Northwestern shall not revise or modify these policies and procedures without the consent of the Assistant Attorney General".

horrible.
November 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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“Sports trading”

I would love a random survey of 100 people 2 years ago that asked them to define “sports trading”

I bet ~0 would give a definition that matches Kalshi.

Now if you described Kalshi to them and asked them to describe what it is in two words I bet most would say “sports gambling”
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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National police investigate members of the opposition who call for military to follow the law
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
FBI seeks interviews with six Democrats Trump accused of 'seditious behavior'
The lawmakers, who released a video urging members of the military and the intelligence community not to follow illegal orders, accused Trump of trying to intimidate them.
www.nbcnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Lizza has posted part 2 of this story, which has a gross poem about a blowjob by RFK jr as a teaser and also more gross sex stuff* if you want to pay. That's what they're talking about.

* not judging; if RFK jr is involved it is per se gross
There's a [former?] journalist named Olivia Nuzzi who covered presidential campaigns. She had an affair with RFK Jr. while covering his 2024 run and also with Mark Sanford in 2020 (the hiking-in-Argentina SC governor), according to her ex-fiancé, Ryan Lizza.

That's what they're talking about.
November 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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🎉 Check out the latest from Qin Gu’s team at Nanjing Agricultural University: “Keystone Pseudomonas species in the wheat phyllosphere” (Cell Host & Microbe) 👉 www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Keystone Pseudomonas species in the wheat phyllosphere microbiome mitigate Fusarium head blight by altering host pH
Fusarium graminearum (F. graminearum) pathogen induces wheat phyllosphere alkalinization, promoting the development of Fusarium head blight (FHB). Xu et al. show that host-acidifying Pseudomonas, sele...
www.cell.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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A year ago, flyers promoting vaccines were prevalent across the Navajo Nation.

But as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has put his stamp on federal immunization policy, the Indian Health Service’s messaging on immunizations has taken a stark turn.

By @maryhudetz.bsky.social
The Indian Health Service Is Flagging Vaccine-Related Speech. Doctors Say They’re Being Censored.
Officials have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations.
www.propublica.org
November 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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CASSIDY: I know it's titillating, but I think we need to move beyond the titillation

TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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It’s official. @dougjones.bsky.social will run against Tommy Tuberville for Alabama governor. www.al.com/life/2025/11...
Doug Jones will enter 2026 Alabama governor’s race
Campaign paperwork is to be filed this week.
www.al.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Fired Bryan federal prison nurse says Ghislaine Maxwell is receiving special treatment — and she has the emails via BCS journalism treasure @rustysurette.bsky.social

www.kbtx.com/2025/11/18/f...
Fired Bryan federal prison nurse says Ghislaine Maxwell is receiving special treatment — and she has the emails
Noella Turnage was fired from her job at the prison last week. On Monday, she sat down with KBTX’s Rusty Surette
www.kbtx.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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NEWS — The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued 100% of November SNAP benefits, per an alert on their website. I've received reports that the funds have already hit recipients' EBT accounts.

www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM