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Uh, Anne Frank was not there legally after all the Jews had been rounded up, which was kind of why she was hiding in an attic

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 I’ll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest
 Where the people are many and their hands are all empty
 Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
 Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
 Where the executioner’s face is always well hidden
 Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
 Where black is the color, where none is the number
 And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
 And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it

I’ll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest Where the people are many and their hands are all empty Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison Where the executioner’s face is always well hidden Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten Where black is the color, where none is the number And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it

How Bob Dylan described devastation in 1962 (β€œA Hard Rain’s a-gonna Fall”)

27.01.2026 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Her ideal point is a horizontal line intersecting the y-axis at -1.00

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It’s just messaging people. Plus whatever Wiles does.

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Ingraham is proposing dismantling DHS

27.01.2026 02:53 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Okay I think I've mapped out ICE politics as of Monday night

27.01.2026 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3505    πŸ” 795    πŸ’¬ 92    πŸ“Œ 74

And it looks like I was wrong! Huzzah! www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

27.01.2026 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh no not realignment

26.01.2026 23:39 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is helpful. I'm happy to be wrong on this, but I imagine the number of administration officials removed for the deaths of Good and Pretti will be zero.

26.01.2026 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2

Bari’s desperate to find some CBS employees who are driving her away with their wokeness by tomorrow

26.01.2026 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

[stares directly into the camera]

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I do appreciate these presidents issuing statements, but man Obama could do better than "this wake-up call to every American that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault." It's such a hedged and oblique description of something that screams for moral clarity.

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People who are not kidnappers or Gestapo generally don't punish people who call them that

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Impressive that he's dropping, but also fascinating that he's dropping because he feels he can't be a Republican state officer while the national party is acting this way.

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A former Republican Colorado State Representative (admittedly, one of the last few sane ones)

26.01.2026 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Republican former member of Colorado's statehouse.

26.01.2026 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If we have to shut down the government to stop this ICE madness, so be it. Congress, do your job.

26.01.2026 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

Okay fine we're killing unarmed civilians, but let's recall that some people were rude to us last year

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Enforcing immigration or "enforcing immigration" What we're seeing today is the result of a president obsessed with bloody visuals and a set of allies terrified to cross him

New at Tusk: What we're seeing today is the result of a president obsessed with bloody visuals and a set of allies terrified to cross him

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Mood in Nuuk, Greenland today.

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Change seems impossible until it doesn't The killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis yesterday feels like a significant turning point in what was already an awful and authoritarian situation.

thought a bit about abolishing ICE, Democratic caution, and how this time the institutional change is probably the easy part
goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/change-see...

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Immigrant Rapid Response Fund Your gift supports the immediate need for rights and resources in all targeted immigrant communities.

Just gave to this organization in Minnesota

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a close up of a dinosaur in a room with a videofs logo ALT: a close up of a dinosaur in a room with a videofs logo

Patriots testing the Broncos defense like

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Stidham is playing like a talented, inexperienced, enthusiastic, & overwhelmed Matt Saracen #broncos

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Hours later, Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino told assembled reporters that Pretti had approached agents with a handgun, intending to β€œmassacre law enforcement.”

Hours later, Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino told assembled reporters that Pretti had approached agents with a handgun, intending to β€œmassacre law enforcement.”

If carrying a loaded weapon and magazines evidences an intention to massacre, then ICE is intending to massacre the population of Minneapolis.

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Chief Strategist for Rand Paul.

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What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.

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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

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This administration would defend Tim McVeigh if they thought he was a Trump voter

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ICE is full of COWARDS. They are all absolute, pathetic, untrained COWARDS. DEFUND AND PROSECUTE.
YouTube video by Seth Moulton ICE is full of COWARDS. They are all absolute, pathetic, untrained COWARDS. DEFUND AND PROSECUTE.

holy crap youtube.com/shorts/hyqtA...

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