Patrick Harney
Patrick Harney
@patrickharney.bsky.social
Recovering local news reporter fleeing X/Twitter, major film fan, democracy enthusiast
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“The entire operation is becoming slower and more resource-intensive. There is good reason to believe that more immigrants are with their families tonight because of ICE Watch.”
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.

The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
www.ms.now
January 17, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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Yes. Do you know how many families are being supported by their neighbors right now? Families afraid to leave home being fed by their neighborhoods; immigrant communities feeding the old hippies standing on their street corners with whistles in 10-degree snowstorms. They cannot break us
January 17, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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It’s quite likely that being called a “fucking bitch” is one of the last things a dying Renee Good ever heard.

I demand leaders who are as filled with pure, diamond-hard rage over this as I am.

I believe this is absolutely not asking for too much.
Not to be too morbid, but today's reporting is that she was actually still alive for several minutes. He said that to her while she was dying.
January 17, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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a big problem here is the way every scrap of a claim about Democrats supposedly selling out gets hyped and inflated, and then even when it turns out to be untrue people remember it as having happened, or as having almost happened. Builds bad mental models.
the post everyone got mad about for two hours has been updated turns out it's the opposite actually
🚨BREAKING: DEMS DRAW RED LINE IN DHS APPROPS: NO FUNDING INCREASE FOR ICE. POLICY RIDERS GROWING. STORY COMING IN MIGRANT INSIDER
January 16, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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1. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they came.

2. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they came.

3. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they…
out of curiosity, could you give us your top 5 most important issues/causes/concerns that you want a candidate to focus on?
January 16, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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We made it
January 16, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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yeah man, what would i, a black guy from the south, know about thugs intimidating people out of voting? what possible experiences in my family, which has been here since slavery, could ever inform my perspective?
January 15, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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i actually live in a district that might be the kind of competitive that attracts attention, in a city that holds real significance for trump and his minions. there might be goons at my polling place and if i see them i'll give a smile and a wave and i'll cast my fucking ballot
January 15, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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in general, a lot of doomerism on this website boils down to, "they are going to start treating us like black people, and i believe the marginalization of black people is immutable destiny"
January 15, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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This is the truest truth of any creative career
Natural talent is nothing compared to the ability to keep making shit long after everyone else has given up
January 15, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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COWARDS
January 15, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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In Rochester, NY, we have Rochester Rapid Response Network!

rocrapidresponse.wordpress.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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people keep being like “hey sorry for the beef last week/year/decade” and I cannot even describe to you how little you care about or even remember any internet beef when you see 50 cars full of masked paramilitaries roll into your immediate neighborhood every day. all is forgiven, fight with us
January 14, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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With One Battle After Another winning big at the Globes last night, it's the perfect time to read @angelicabastien.bsky.social's fantastic analysis of the film and Teyana Taylor's fantastic performance that provides an interiority the script often lacks
Black Actresses Are Carrying One Battle After Another
Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, and Regina Hall propel the film’s most conflicted ideas, for better and worse.
www.vulture.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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I'm already seeing people on here use AI face tools to try to identify the masked ICE agent in Minneapolis. It's a truly terrible idea and here's why
January 7, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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This is for real -- post away, but post like ICE and your future potential employers are watching. (Also just don't be jerks, that goes a really long way)
Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic

www.404media.co/the-200-site...
January 7, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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Jamiroquai when Jamiro vewwy sad
December 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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pretty bummed about james ransone taking his life. yeah he was ziggy on the wire but his performance in IT was also great. sounds like idiot person stuff but i wish people didn’t get so sad about life. man just power through, there is some fun stuff to be had.
December 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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December 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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December 24, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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“Political prescription isn’t the point; teasing out the humanity of these people is.”

An incredible critique by @angelicabastien.bsky.social’s via @vulture.com that looks at the faults of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER without negating the agency of its Black actresses.
Black Actresses Are Carrying One Battle After Another
Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, and Regina Hall propel the film’s most conflicted ideas, for better and worse.
www.vulture.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Excuse to post a classic?
November 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM