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Noir and Old Hollywood. Anything Verdi. Reading. Writing. Walks.
"ICE tactics, already sadistic, are looking increasingly like torture," writes @judith-levine.bsky.social. "The slim avenues to legal recourse and the refusal of transparency or accountability by the perpetrators of de jure and de facto torture are driving detainees to desperate measures..."
ICE’s tactics look increasingly like torture | Judith Levine
Plans for gloves that can deliver electric shocks underline the homeland security department’s sadistic practices
theguardian.com
If you want to know what is happening to the $1B being withheld, it's going to Peter Thiel's little buddy Michael Kratsios who was installed at Trump's science advisor, so that he can give it to corporations.Your tax dollars, that Congress allocated for science, are being given away.
capitolhunters@capitolhunters.bsky.social · last yr.Today 19 Dem Senators helped enable both Trump's attack on science and the techbro power grab by confirming the most unqualified person ever to lead the Office of Science & Technology Policy: a non-scientist (BA in politics) who spent 8 years working for Peter Thiel. 1/
Target has shown that its leadership can change course. But it still refuses to call for an end to ICE’s occupation of the Twin Cities. Until Target stands with its own community, we’re asking members and allies to shop local instead. shopsmart.aft.org
Those who raise their hand to serve deserve the best care our nation can provide. The Trump Administration cut 35,000 jobs at the VA last year - now our veterans are left with longer wait times for the care they need. www.startribune.com/staffing-sho...
Staffing shortfall disrupting surgeries at Minneapolis VA
“Is the VA leadership allowing the hospital to fail?” one provider asked.
startribune.com
The state of Minnesota has sued the state of Texas, seeking to compel Gov. Greg Abbott to extradite an ICE agent who has been charged with shooting a Minneapolis resident and falsifying a report about the incident.
Minnesota Sues Texas to Extradite ICE Agent Accused of Shooting Resident, Falsifying Report
It’s been over two months since ICE agent Christian Castro was arrested in Texas for shooting a Minneapolis resident.
truthout.org
"tRUmp 2: The Fast-Track Shithole-ization of America"
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · last wk.I'd like to see someone far smarter than me to draw these four things together: 1) Highest borrowing in 25 years. 2) Debt accelerating by the month. 3) No long range missiles left -- Whiskey Pete shot his wad and left us defenseless. 4) SPR emptying at steady clip.
I’m using my executive authority to ban nonferrous mining in the Boundary Waters. As far as my administration is concerned, the fight for the future of the Boundary Waters is over. The verdict is in. The decision is made. We will protect this place.
"“We Rise” was created as a reflection on resilience and renewal. The mural combines bold lettering with flourishing flowers, using growth as a visual metaphor for the strength of a community that continues to move forward through hardship." -- SHEVA
daviss@daviss.org · 3w agoNew mural in progress at Hennepin Ave on the Midtown Greenway in Uptown Minneapolis. Featuring Alex Pretti, who was disarmed by federal agents before being shot to death along with ICE on ICE violence, federal agents at Whipple and other scenes of violence in Minneapolis by federal agents. 1/2
Here is another article from @labornotes.bsky.social that’s more comprehensive on the issue. 2/2 labornotes.org/2026/08/fede...
Federal Spies Hunt Minnesota Unions in Search of Conspiracy, But Find Solidarity
Yesterday news broke of a sweeping undercover investigation by the Department of Homeland Security in Minnesota early this year to infiltrate and surveil meetings and obtain the financial records of n...
labornotes.org
Grifter-in-Chief siphoning off America's wealth like Putin pocketed Russia's rubles.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago“.. The US National Debt has increased by over $550 billion — since July 1st.” - Bilello
How much of that $875 million is going right into the Grifter-in-Chief's pocket?
Tina Smith@smith.senate.gov · 2w agoThe White House normally gets $2.5 million a year for maintenance. Trump’s team has allocated $875 million. That’s 350 years’ worth of the usual budget spent by a single administration.
They started out quieter abut this. They’ve been getting more brazen. We’ve gone from tens of millions with no paper trail to authorized transfers or almost $1B in a little more than a year. bsky.app/profile/samh...
Sam Halpert@samhalpert.bsky.social · last yr.No one wants a paper trail because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is colloquially known as “stealing from the US Treasury.”
Peggy Flanagan: "We need to rip ICE apart and stop from them from terrorizing our communities"
TB Centennial today. Here he is with another departed giant. People who don't spend a lot of their lives listening to these dudes need their head examined. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LIW...
Bill Evans Tony Bennett Together Again
YouTube video by James Kauffman
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The craziest thing about Fauci’s diary is that Donald Trump is illegally refusing to release further evidence that he participated in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes.
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
On this day 6 months ago in Minneapolis: Signs of resistance to ICE on utility poles, side of businesses and on schools seen 6 days after Renee Good was killed. Alex Pretti was killed 9 days later. chaddavis.photography/sets/ice-in-...
After a months-long occupation, Minnesota is still recovering from a retribution campaign waged by the federal government. Now, Minnesota stands with Houston in demanding accountability for the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. This bloodshed cannot be normalized.
Stock trades by President. The blatant corruption is just staggering
“ABORT SUPREME COURT” on the Midtown Greenway in South Minneapolis, June 2022
Minnesotans are living through a coordinated campaign of retribution from the Trump Administration. Funding cuts. Lawsuits. Terrorizing our citizens. Today, I filed 16 FOIA requests to find out how far this campaign reaches.
ICE picking up legal observers today in Minneapolis, swarming through the city like we haven’t seen in months. Very aggressive: watched a heavily armed platoon take an observer, then ran into a four-car convoy that kept intentionally veering in front of me on the highway. STAY SAFE MN PEOPLE
"ONE SOLUTION! REVOLUTION!" written on a fist standing at 39th Street and Chicago Avenue while the street gets ripped up around it. Minneapolis, George Floyd Square, June 2026
Pope Leo to those who exploit migrants: “For every life lost, every family deceived, every body subjugated, every woman threatened, every worker exploited, you will have to appear before divine justice. Break those chains and free those you hold under your dominion.”
Now we know Vice-President Vance has been helping lead the Epstein cover-up from the Situation Room. The VP owes the survivors and the American people answers.
Did not expect to tear up when reading the first page of my kid's yearbook but here we are
Doug Mack@douglasmack.bsky.social · 3mo agoEnd of the school year and I'm so, so grateful for Minnesota's teachers, school support staff, and everyone else who helped all the kids and families get through the ICE occupation. School is hard enough in normal times but then we also had parent patrols and extra fundraising and support and ...
During Operation Metro Surge, the Minneapolis community showed extraordinary care, courage and peaceful resistance. We're honored to share the stories of residents, small businesses and community partners shaping our city's recovery.
Pope Leo: “Peace, not merely the absence of war, is justice at work. But when technology undermines our critical sense, peace itself is at risk. Disarming, however, is not enough. We must build.”
