Powerful testimony from ICE watchers in suburban Minnesota:

My god. They couldn’t get *anyone* to repost this BESIDES the folks quote-reposting it. Well done, folks.

"Senator Chuck Grassley, a lifelong Iowan, has served on the Senate Judiciary Committee since 1981, when he was first sworn into the U.S. Senate." www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/chair

He questioned and voted on every single justice on the U.S. Supreme Court during their confirmation hearings.

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

I saw those postings and need a job but ugh, do I really want to work for the NYPD?

A list of currently trending topics: Chris madel, reform party, department of homeland security, Minneapolis, Ukraine defense

why is it that, out of the 5 trending topics right now on bluesky, the only one that doesn't work when I tap through is DHS?

Got it right at the top and then weaseled out at the bottom: "these videos *appear* to tell a different story"

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

It's easy to look at this and say "this is not a science issue." But doing so concedes to these lunatics that things like facts and evidence don't matter, and they will continue to apply that to science & everything else.

The denial of reality is the same whether it's vaccines, climate, or murder.

I cannot begin to describe the impact of this event on my entire life.

I had night terrors for literally years.

I couldn't understand how or why someone could possibly do this unspeakable thing to an innocent animal.

I stopped believing in God after that happened.

HEAD OF THE NRA.

I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed.

When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL

I was traumatized for years from reading the news story.

The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.

I wrote the speech I *wish* Chuck Schumer would give tonight - as an actual opposition leader. Here it is:

"My fellow Americans: At this hour, an unrestrained force of militarized and violent federal officers is carrying out a project of ethnic cleansing in the streets of American cities."

1/14

It'll be a cold day on Venus before I ever shop again Target again.

More info:

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Jeffries Won’t Whip Vote Against ICE Funding - The American Prospect While the House Democratic leader announced personal opposition to a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, he won’t pressure his colleagues to do the same.

Everyone should be furious at these Democrats for voting to fund ICE, but the real culprit is Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

He refused to pressure his members to vote against ICE. He quite literally chose not to lead. Pathetic.

Shitty newspapers, shitty editors, shitty publishers, shitty values.

Block them. They're here just to troll and enrage. Make it so they can't even see you.

Queer trans ICE protester in small Minn. city recounts agents' violence and humiliation Alice Valentine of St. Cloud was pepper sprayed and jailed by ICE for trying to protect immigrant neighbors.

NEW — ICE violence has spread well beyond Minneapolis, with agents landing in small cities like St. Cloud. I spoke with Alice Valentine, a local queer trans woman, who protested ICE on Monday and was pepper sprayed, beaten and jailed as a result, along with her girlfriend.

This is Alice's story:

Weak messaging again. They DO lay hands on Americans exercising their rights.

Try: "It is illegal for ICE and DHS officials to target people exercising their constitutional rights and we will hold them accountable."

AOC seems to be one of the only ones who knows how to do this. mvp.

Remember, when Vance was caught spewing racist lies that Haitian immigrants were eating people's pets, he admitted that "if I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do."

Proudly, openly a liar.

I just read all 90 pages of the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines, and I will apologize for the length and wonkiness of my take on it.

This is pretty detailed, and you may not have the stomach or patience for it, but here goes.

A very long 🧵

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this is how every outlet should refer to X

Personally I'm counting on the Great Pumpkin to fix this

Of course it shows up right after I left home for the evening sans umbrella

The Brooklyn Public Library now lets you borrow works of art for a three-week period Take home real art for three weeks. Yes, seriously.

www.timeout.com/newyork/news...

Was in the ER waiting for a relative when someone behind me played the Bond theme right as I read this. "Nope, in the hospital getting pieced back together"

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

Plus the amount of air pollution from fossil fuel production. we should get rid of that too

For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate.

Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.