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Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
January 27, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
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I have never seen a case where state law enforcement had to file a lawsuit to obtain evidence of a police shooting within its jurisdiction. Until now.
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Complaint – #1 in Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension v. Noem (D. Minnesota, 0:26-cv-00628) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against All Defendants (filing fee $ 405, receipt number AMNDC-12575332) filed by Hennepin County Attorney's Office, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Filer requests summons issued....
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January 25, 2026 at 3:08 PM
I have never seen a case where state law enforcement had to file a lawsuit to obtain evidence of a police shooting within its jurisdiction. Until now.
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@halsparks.com On Twitter Dimi Reider said that friends in Northern Ireland have been saying that the US is heading for a Belfast style civil war. Interesting take given what is going on now
January 25, 2026 at 3:38 PM
@halsparks.com On Twitter Dimi Reider said that friends in Northern Ireland have been saying that the US is heading for a Belfast style civil war. Interesting take given what is going on now
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
substack.com/@arnaudbertr... @halsparks.com Interesting view, Hal.
Arnaud Bertrand (@arnaudbertrand)
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January 21, 2026 at 5:41 PM
substack.com/@arnaudbertr... @halsparks.com Interesting view, Hal.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... @halsparks.com As you know, Hal, the Globe and Mail is a mainstream paper. This is as serious as a heart attack. I suppose a Canadian government in exile would be constituted in London under the King in the same way as in World War II
Military models Canadian response to hypothetical American invasion
Armed Forces envision insurgency tactics like those used by Afghan mujahedeen, sources say. But officials and experts stress a U.S. operation is unlikely, and the scenarios are conceptual
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:51 PM
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... @halsparks.com As you know, Hal, the Globe and Mail is a mainstream paper. This is as serious as a heart attack. I suppose a Canadian government in exile would be constituted in London under the King in the same way as in World War II
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/... @halsparks.com @voiceoffranky.bsky.social In both cases immunity from accountability fuels impunity and outrageous behaviour
Why Does ICE Look More and More Like the Israeli Military Lately?
Prem on the jarring parallels between the two violent forces that receive billions of US tax dollars.
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January 18, 2026 at 10:37 PM
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/... @halsparks.com @voiceoffranky.bsky.social In both cases immunity from accountability fuels impunity and outrageous behaviour
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We are far past the stage of permissiveness with white-supremacist violence inside DHS. We are witnessing ICE transition into a death squad.
This cannot be reformed. The only question is who will fight to abolish it, and who will accommodate it instead.
This cannot be reformed. The only question is who will fight to abolish it, and who will accommodate it instead.
Either ICE Is Abolished or It Will Kill Many More Renee Goods
Minnesota is just the beginning of ICE's transformation into a right-wing death squad. But it can be the end
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January 12, 2026 at 6:46 PM
We are far past the stage of permissiveness with white-supremacist violence inside DHS. We are witnessing ICE transition into a death squad.
This cannot be reformed. The only question is who will fight to abolish it, and who will accommodate it instead.
This cannot be reformed. The only question is who will fight to abolish it, and who will accommodate it instead.
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Credible reports given multiple videos that ICE (or CBP?) in Minneapolis is going door to door, breaching doors when residents will not open, and searching homes with no warrant or even statement of a particularized suspicion, and trying to prevent residents from recording. Flagrantly illegal
A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
January 12, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Credible reports given multiple videos that ICE (or CBP?) in Minneapolis is going door to door, breaching doors when residents will not open, and searching homes with no warrant or even statement of a particularized suspicion, and trying to prevent residents from recording. Flagrantly illegal
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/d97d84a... Quite a shift. The US was the great threat to Canada from the American revolution up through Confederation in 1867 and beyond. And now again with Trump @halsparks.com
We need to prepare for the possibility that the U.S. uses military coercion against Canada
After the capture of Venezuela’s president and Trump’s musing about Greenland, Canada must consider the worst-case scenario
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January 6, 2026 at 11:23 PM
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/d97d84a... Quite a shift. The US was the great threat to Canada from the American revolution up through Confederation in 1867 and beyond. And now again with Trump @halsparks.com
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This is an old one, and we've all seen it. But we should all see it again.
January 4, 2026 at 8:24 PM
This is an old one, and we've all seen it. But we should all see it again.
Sweden hastens Gripen deep-strike punch with Taurus missiles www.defensenews.com/global/europ... This from a tweet by @voiceoffranky.bsky.social Adding
Taurus missile capability to the Gripen strengthens the case for Canada to choose it over the American F-35. @halsparks.com
Taurus missile capability to the Gripen strengthens the case for Canada to choose it over the American F-35. @halsparks.com
Sweden hastens Gripen deep-strike punch with Taurus missiles
Sweden's air chief now expects Taurus integration "considerably earlier than previously planned," he said in an interview with Defense News.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Sweden hastens Gripen deep-strike punch with Taurus missiles www.defensenews.com/global/europ... This from a tweet by @voiceoffranky.bsky.social Adding
Taurus missile capability to the Gripen strengthens the case for Canada to choose it over the American F-35. @halsparks.com
Taurus missile capability to the Gripen strengthens the case for Canada to choose it over the American F-35. @halsparks.com
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... @voiceoffranky.bsky.social @evansolomon.bsky.social ICYMI, this is a sobering analysis of what is going on in the US. @halsparks.com
Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.
www.theatlantic.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:33 AM
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... @voiceoffranky.bsky.social @evansolomon.bsky.social ICYMI, this is a sobering analysis of what is going on in the US. @halsparks.com
Check out this article from MarketWatch - China is quietly destroying the dollar — and that’ll cost you. Fight back with these money moves. @halsparks.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Check out this article from MarketWatch - China is quietly destroying the dollar — and that’ll cost you. Fight back with these money moves. @halsparks.com
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun... @halsparks.com @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social This is a bit exaggerated, since nine of the money will go to Ukraine at present, but it is definitely EU pushback against Trump
BREAKING: The EU Just Handed Ukraine $300 Billion in Frozen Russian Assets, Considers MASSIVE US Bond Sell-off
Nice to see the EU grow up this week.
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December 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun... @halsparks.com @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social This is a bit exaggerated, since nine of the money will go to Ukraine at present, but it is definitely EU pushback against Trump
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun... @halsparks.com This is a bit inflammatory, but accurate. Canada has to be wary of a rogue, unstable US. That is largely Trump, but not exclusively so. It will be a delicate balance going forward between the desire for good relations and the need to defend ourselves
Canada On Trump’s New 'National Security Strategy': “Vassal State? Go F*** Yourself.”
Why Ottawa isn’t taking Trump’s Kremlin-flavoured NSS lying down — and why the response is smarter, sharper, and more strategic than people realize.
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December 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun... @halsparks.com This is a bit inflammatory, but accurate. Canada has to be wary of a rogue, unstable US. That is largely Trump, but not exclusively so. It will be a delicate balance going forward between the desire for good relations and the need to defend ourselves
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Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy. www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...
Personalized Cancer Vaccines Are Almost Here—But Federal Funding Cuts Could Derail Them
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
www.scientificamerican.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy. www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...
www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne... @halsparks.com I don’t think this is wrong.
Matt Gurney: 'We will never fucking trust you again'
Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum.
www.readtheline.ca
December 9, 2025 at 2:50 AM
www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne... @halsparks.com I don’t think this is wrong.
reader.foreignaffairs.com/2025/12/05/t... @HalSparks This by a former Biden and Obama National Security official.
The End of the Israel Exception
A New Paradigm for American Policy
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December 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
reader.foreignaffairs.com/2025/12/05/t... @HalSparks This by a former Biden and Obama National Security official.
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They cannot be given authority to forcibly remove anyone from their vehicle this way. Think about how bad actors would abuse this power.
December 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
They cannot be given authority to forcibly remove anyone from their vehicle this way. Think about how bad actors would abuse this power.
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The agonizing long tail of disaster recovery is underexplored. I think a lot about this 2024 study finding that when a hurricane hits somewhere in the U.S., the people there are more likely to die *for the next 15 years*. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The agonizing long tail of disaster recovery is underexplored. I think a lot about this 2024 study finding that when a hurricane hits somewhere in the U.S., the people there are more likely to die *for the next 15 years*. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Looks like a white woman who would not ordinarily be targeted too.
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Looks like a white woman who would not ordinarily be targeted too.
@halsparks.com Sharing things across the two platforms is increasingly difficult, so that is why I don’t. Bob Rae referenced the situation as being like that of the power blocks in Orwell’s 1984. That, he feels, is more like the world going forward than the one we have known
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
@halsparks.com Sharing things across the two platforms is increasingly difficult, so that is why I don’t. Bob Rae referenced the situation as being like that of the power blocks in Orwell’s 1984. That, he feels, is more like the world going forward than the one we have known
@halsparks.com @BobRae48 , departing Canadian Ambassador to the UN, Rt’d Arnaud Bertrand on X about Xi calling Trump to try to reset Chinese American relations on the basis of maintaining the victorious WWII alliance, a relationship of equals now, not adversaries.
November 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
@halsparks.com @BobRae48 , departing Canadian Ambassador to the UN, Rt’d Arnaud Bertrand on X about Xi calling Trump to try to reset Chinese American relations on the basis of maintaining the victorious WWII alliance, a relationship of equals now, not adversaries.