@zeebucket.bsky.social
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Abolish ICE, prosecute and imprison its leaders, impeach and remove the President from office. This is the only sane reaction to a group of armed men kidnapping and gunning down our neighbors in the street.
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.
ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Abolish ICE, prosecute and imprison its leaders, impeach and remove the President from office. This is the only sane reaction to a group of armed men kidnapping and gunning down our neighbors in the street.
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I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."
8 weeks under siege in Minnesota • Minnesota Reformer
Frank has a hard time explaining to his 8-year-old daughter why they rarely leave their home in the Twin Cities. Why she can’t go to school, and why he can’t work. “The only thing we tell her is that ...
minnesotareformer.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:05 PM
I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
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Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
January 23, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
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it's also funny how you can get the ai summary to insult Trump but only indirectly
January 24, 2026 at 3:26 AM
it's also funny how you can get the ai summary to insult Trump but only indirectly
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You read things like this and you can only hope that when the time comes, if it comes, when it is your community's turn to be tested, that you acquit yourselves half as well.
If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.
January 23, 2026 at 7:04 PM
You read things like this and you can only hope that when the time comes, if it comes, when it is your community's turn to be tested, that you acquit yourselves half as well.
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Checking in on EU officials who definitely buy Trump’s supposed pivot on Greenland… www.ft.com/content/fb90...
![But many EU officials were sceptical that Trump's pivot to a diplomatic solution was sustainable.
"He's patently unstable," the official added.
"He can come back tomorrow and decide every EU country is getting tariffs. He can decide that actually he's fine to use military force and invade [Greenland]. I hope that [EU leaders] don't fall for it."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5oevos635qa5cttq4y5w5cbf/bafkreiado2vd5wytvwlujk6vfq4iw5ytflvtm3ets3odrodtpxo654xk5q@jpeg)
January 22, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Checking in on EU officials who definitely buy Trump’s supposed pivot on Greenland… www.ft.com/content/fb90...
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Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it
Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it
Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it
January 21, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it
Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it
Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it
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I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.
Senator Gallego weighs in as well. Note that at the start of 2025 he was considered a *moderate* on immigration and co-sponsored the Laken Riley Act. Him and many other Dems have been increasingly horrified at what ICE is doing and shifted away from a "more enforcement" focus.
January 21, 2026 at 11:09 PM
I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.
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And you also *just know* that if this whole 'fascist regime' thing doesn't work, they're gonna hang these guys doing the warrantless home invasions out to dry.
'Oh, we never authorized that.'
'Oh, we never authorized that.'
they are actively trying to get these officers killed and have been for some time
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
January 22, 2026 at 2:43 AM
And you also *just know* that if this whole 'fascist regime' thing doesn't work, they're gonna hang these guys doing the warrantless home invasions out to dry.
'Oh, we never authorized that.'
'Oh, we never authorized that.'
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It was going too far last year - now there will be confrontations between Minnesota police and ICE. www.msn.com/en-ca/news/w...
MSN
www.msn.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:22 PM
It was going too far last year - now there will be confrontations between Minnesota police and ICE. www.msn.com/en-ca/news/w...
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"The Euros are weaklings who won't stand up for themselves and how dare they stand up for themselves" is too on the nose for satire and yet it's the official stance from Washington.
January 21, 2026 at 6:42 PM
"The Euros are weaklings who won't stand up for themselves and how dare they stand up for themselves" is too on the nose for satire and yet it's the official stance from Washington.
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Spreadsheet Georgina, who lives in cave & spends 10 hours each day watching spreadhseets, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
January 20, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Spreadsheet Georgina, who lives in cave & spends 10 hours each day watching spreadhseets, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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It never ceases to be funny when the statue-pfp right-wing chuds whine at me; they invariably assume I must be some sort of ultra-progressive 'libbed out' scholar.
I study Roman military materiel. Weapons, armor, ships, logistics. The physical stuff of war.
Truly, the most 'lib' of subfields.
I study Roman military materiel. Weapons, armor, ships, logistics. The physical stuff of war.
Truly, the most 'lib' of subfields.
January 20, 2026 at 2:48 AM
It never ceases to be funny when the statue-pfp right-wing chuds whine at me; they invariably assume I must be some sort of ultra-progressive 'libbed out' scholar.
I study Roman military materiel. Weapons, armor, ships, logistics. The physical stuff of war.
Truly, the most 'lib' of subfields.
I study Roman military materiel. Weapons, armor, ships, logistics. The physical stuff of war.
Truly, the most 'lib' of subfields.
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ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
January 18, 2026 at 2:39 AM
ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
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Incredible shot of the Hellenic Navy's new frigate Kimon being welcomed yesterday by the trireme Olympias and the armoured cruiser Averof (photo by Nick Dendris)
January 16, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Incredible shot of the Hellenic Navy's new frigate Kimon being welcomed yesterday by the trireme Olympias and the armoured cruiser Averof (photo by Nick Dendris)
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My analysis of the Trump-class "battleship" is out!
(TL;DR please just build more destroyers)
www.fpri.org/article/2026...
(TL;DR please just build more destroyers)
www.fpri.org/article/2026...
The Trump-Class Battleship: Spectacle Wins Out Over Combat Power - Foreign Policy Research Institute
After finishing my last article on the inability of the US Navy to build frigates, I was hopeful that I could have a bit of a break before the next crisis in
www.fpri.org
January 8, 2026 at 3:15 PM
My analysis of the Trump-class "battleship" is out!
(TL;DR please just build more destroyers)
www.fpri.org/article/2026...
(TL;DR please just build more destroyers)
www.fpri.org/article/2026...
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“As a reasonable centrist, I think the paramilitary death squads need better training.”
January 15, 2026 at 4:04 PM
“As a reasonable centrist, I think the paramilitary death squads need better training.”
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This is another reason why robust prosecutions of lawbreakers in the Trump administration will be important: to signal to allies and partners (and domestic audiences) that MAGA isn't going to return every 4 to 8 years.
You do that by putting a bunch of people in prison forever.
You do that by putting a bunch of people in prison forever.
January 15, 2026 at 12:20 AM
This is another reason why robust prosecutions of lawbreakers in the Trump administration will be important: to signal to allies and partners (and domestic audiences) that MAGA isn't going to return every 4 to 8 years.
You do that by putting a bunch of people in prison forever.
You do that by putting a bunch of people in prison forever.
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"Republicans announce that human life is worth literally nothing" is yet another headline that makes it feel like we're living in the alternate dimension where the Onion is a hard-hitting, Pulitzer Prize-winning news organization.
Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.
nyti.ms
January 12, 2026 at 8:41 PM
"Republicans announce that human life is worth literally nothing" is yet another headline that makes it feel like we're living in the alternate dimension where the Onion is a hard-hitting, Pulitzer Prize-winning news organization.
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Except, @chatterton.bsky.social, one of these two people is facing both state and federal charges, including the death penalty.
Whereas Jonathan Ross is being actively protected by an administration that started defaming Renee Good before her body was cold.
That is a meaningful difference!
Whereas Jonathan Ross is being actively protected by an administration that started defaming Renee Good before her body was cold.
That is a meaningful difference!
January 11, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Except, @chatterton.bsky.social, one of these two people is facing both state and federal charges, including the death penalty.
Whereas Jonathan Ross is being actively protected by an administration that started defaming Renee Good before her body was cold.
That is a meaningful difference!
Whereas Jonathan Ross is being actively protected by an administration that started defaming Renee Good before her body was cold.
That is a meaningful difference!
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I'm not sure "if you keep calling us murderers, we'll get angry and have to respond by shooting and murdering more citizens in broad daylight" is quite the argument that Tom Homas thinks it is.
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."
January 11, 2026 at 5:16 PM
I'm not sure "if you keep calling us murderers, we'll get angry and have to respond by shooting and murdering more citizens in broad daylight" is quite the argument that Tom Homas thinks it is.
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WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to:
* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon
The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon
The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings
A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.
www.wsj.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:44 PM
WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to:
* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon
The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon
The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
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It's so fucking convenient that they get to "fear for their lives" anytime they want to absolve themselves of anything and when we actually fear for our lives because of them and do anything a scared person would do it's justification for our death.
January 7, 2026 at 6:43 PM
It's so fucking convenient that they get to "fear for their lives" anytime they want to absolve themselves of anything and when we actually fear for our lives because of them and do anything a scared person would do it's justification for our death.
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One thing I wish Sparta bros would acknowledge is that by Leuctra the spartiates were like 8 guys and a dog.
January 5, 2026 at 8:25 PM
One thing I wish Sparta bros would acknowledge is that by Leuctra the spartiates were like 8 guys and a dog.