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Vanessa J B
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
Eye-opening information here about CBP criminality that brings to mind the testimony of @jennbudd.bsky.social:

“Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005.”
Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005. CBP's misconduct scandal is so long-running that today it would be old enough to drink. In total, according to CBP's own discipline reports, over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024 — the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested themselves, some multiple times. (In 2018 alone, a single CBP employee was arrested five times.) To put that number in perspective: • The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation's fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police. • Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States.
February 1, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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netw3rk.bsky.social
Jarvis, tell them I’m not a pedo
February 1, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
Omg leave us alone 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
A screenshot of my weather app that reads: ! Severe Weather Extreme Cold Warning. These conditions are expected by 7:00 PM (EST), Saturday, January 31. Additional alert: Winter Storm Warning.
January 31, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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maris.bsky.social
I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”
January 31, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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djbyrnes1.bsky.social
It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.

But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
January 31, 2026 at 12:41 AM
vanessajbnyc.bsky.social
Photos from Foley Square, NYC earlier today amid the general strike
No Human is Illegal and No / Fuck ICE protest signs in NYC ‘Minneapolis you inspire us’ protest signs in NYC ICE out of NY protest signs in NYC staged in front of the “Freedom” Tower Palestinian flags at the NYC protest against ICE 1/30/26
January 31, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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kashana.blacksky.app
Man, it’s wild that normal people just go to work every day while the people who run everything meticulously document their sex crimes
January 31, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
there’s something about the fixation on polling when people are being brutalized in the streets by federal agents that doesn’t sit quite right
January 29, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
We’ve seen haunting photos of post-abduction abandoned ghost cars on the streets of Minneapolis. Now it’s happening in Maine too:
danielsilliman.bsky.social Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 3d
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.

ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
January 29, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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katzish.bsky.social
Legal asylum seeker, no criminal record, working two jobs, dragged out of smashed car and kidnapped by ICE as his US citizen newborn cries in a car seat in the freezing cold in Maine and his wife who barely speaks English pleads for help. WTAF
dylantus.bsky.social Dylan Tusinski @dylantus.bsky.social · 3d
Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
www.pressherald.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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ederc.bsky.social
Yikes. The Latino-owned businesses in Mercado Central in Minneapolis report a 90% dip in business since the major influx of federal agents into Minnesota. This is where I’d go to get my Mexican groceries and my pozole fix when I lived in the Twin Cities
January 29, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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britculpsapp.bsky.social
i fucking love minnesotans
January 29, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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lorennacleary.bsky.social
Sesame Street chimes in on ICE murders by aiding parents on how to help their children.
January 28, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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lesbrains.bsky.social
ICE kidnapped 5 people from my community this morning. I don’t live in Minneapolis. I live in LA County. They’re still here and their still brutalizing.
January 28, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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rincewind.run
that the president is a rapidly decaying lunatic is the worst kept secret in the world right now

when It Happens, we are going to get countless accounts about how bad it was and how everyone knew and it's absolute malpractice that the same media that went full court press on Biden Old ignores it
joncooper-us.bsky.social Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4d
"A key European ally of Trump said he was 'traumatized' by a meeting where the president’s 'psychological state' came across as 'dangerous.’ Robert Fico, the populist prime minister of Slovakia … characterized Trump as being 'out of his mind,' per a diplomat."
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-ally-s...
January 28, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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noslracs.bsky.social
This is Minneapolis.

Collective trauma, and neighbors helping neighbors.

This is our 24/7 every day lives right now, not just a 10 second news clip.
January 28, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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dumplingmenace.bsky.social
every time someone has asked me the last week or so about priorities it is rental assistance. please please please people need rent to stay in their homes. scroll down to rent relief funds and pick something www.standwithminnesota.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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katelynburns.com
If you don't understand it, you shouldn't be in office
lebassett.bsky.social Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 6d
Rep. Tom Suozzi(D-NY), getting raked over the coals for his vote for more ICE funding, says in a campaign email that he didn’t understand what he was doing
A Statement From Tom — 1/26/26 "I failed to view the DHS funding vote as a referendum on the illegal and immoral conduct of ICE in Minneapolis. I hear the anger from many of my constituents, and I take responsibility for that. I have long been critical of ICE's unlawful behavior and I must do a better job demonstrating that. The senseless and tragic murder of Alex Pretti underscores what happens when untrained federal agents operate without accountability. President Trump must immediately end "Operation Metro Surge" and ICE's occupation of Minneapolis that has sown chaos, led to tragedy, and undermined experienced local law enforcement." —Congressman Tom Suozzi (NY-3)
January 26, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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proptermalone.bsky.social
don't really want to argue about the ethics of genAI overall right at the moment but if you're giving OpenAI in particular your money please consider literally any other option
jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 6d
The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI
CONTRIBUTOR GREG BROCKMAN AMOUNT ELECTION TO DAT $25,000,000 $25,000,000
January 26, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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kibblesmith.com
“He’s killing us in the streets and we still have to pay our taxes in April” is an incredibly compelling point.
taliajane.bsky.social talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 7d
Before speaking with two armed men at the Pretti vigil last night, a man approached & asked if I was going to tell the truth. I said yes. He told me how frustrated he was at the media & the harm it’s causing to his community.

I asked if he wanted to share words for the media on camera, & he did:
January 26, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the “woke scolds” and your friend who’s “too woke” were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.
January 25, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
They call it "pulling a Vatican"
mattcameron.bsky.social Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 7d
CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.

This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
January 25, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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ilhanmn.bsky.social
Statement from the family of Alex Pretti.
Statement from the family of Alex Pretti, Michael and Susan Pretti: We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
January 25, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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parismarx.com
US-owned TikTok is a greater threat than Chinese-owned TikTok.
January 23, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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edburmila.bsky.social
Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid.
danielharper.bsky.social Daniel Harper @danielharper.bsky.social · 7d
The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.
jeffsharlet.bsky.social Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 7d
James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.
January 25, 2026 at 3:31 PM