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- Reposted by grollenThe available evidence doesn't justify the bans. www.iflscience.com/review-of-52...
- Reposted by grollenNew Hampshire needs to mobilize. indepthnh.org/2026/02/03/s...
- Reposted by grollenWe are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
- This is another effort that has taken a HUGE amount of local activism, led by community folks who care. It CAN be done. Get involved where you live and push back. www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
- Reposted by grollenDr. Intissar Shamlakh Al-Rubaie was killed today in an IDF airstrike on her home in Gaza City in northern Gaza, reports the Palestinian Medical Association. She leaves behind her husband. Today and every day, healthcare workers are not a target.
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- Reposted by grollen"The #climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures & compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world – & could undermine the foundations of economic growth” - Dr Jesse Abrams, @gsiexeter.bsky.social
- Reposted by grollenThe Department of Homeland Security has been quietly demanding tech companies turn over user information about critics of the Trump administration, according to reports. techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/h...
- Reposted by grollenAccording to Btselem, the IDF killed 89 Palestinians in the last six days. Some of them were, according to Israeli military sources, Hamas/Islamic Jihad activists on Israel's hit list (that is, it was retribution rather than specific threat). The vast majority of casualties were civilians.
- Reposted by grollenThis is a baby solar system being born. Emerging from a womb of interstellar gas, a bright new star glows at the centre. It’s surrounded by a dusty black band called a protoplanetary disc. Gravity can sculpt this material into orbiting worlds. Image: NASA/ESA/L. Ricci (ESO) #astronomy
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- Reposted by grolleni think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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- Reposted by grollenVOLUNTEER ON A DINOSAUR DIG: We run one of the only free dinosaur digs in the USA. We work public land and the fossils go in our public museum, forever. It's hard work, but we find some cool things. If this sounds like you, we're taking applications. Link in comms. #dinosaurs
- Reposted by grollenThis is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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- Reposted by grollenThere were 89,000 polling places in 2022. 8 states have all-mail elections. At least 5,000,000 Americans marched in the October No Kings demonstrations. They have 15,000 guys. They couldn't "surround the polls" if they wanted to.
- Steve Bannon says the federal government is planning to send ICE officers to patrol polling stations during the midterms. "We're going to have ICE surround the polls come November." "We're not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- Reposted by grollenAnd, finally, WE ARE WINNING. They're crumbling, and the full firepower of the Minnesota bar isn't close to online yet. The combined might of our state's attorneys will soon be able to double, triple, 10x, the number of filings. They can't cope.
- Reposted by grollenAll in all, while Le's frustrated asides got the most attention, this hearing is most shocking for how little control there is over ICE. Even an experienced and respected AUSA like Anna Voss can't get them within a mile of compliance.
- Reposted by grollenI just want to call this line from petitioner's counsel out specifically: "We shouldn't need a specific court order to ask the DOJ not to put somebody's life in danger." Bars.
- Reposted by grollenMeanwhile, during all the delays, ICE agents are pressing detained individuals to self-deport, claiming they'll never get out otherwise. All AFTER the Court has ordered their release. And then when they are release, they're dumped on the side of the road, in 0° weather, in Crocs.
- Reposted by grollenSteve Bannon says the federal government is planning to send ICE officers to patrol polling stations during the midterms. "We're going to have ICE surround the polls come November." "We're not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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- so apparently the DNC is going for the ‘we’re not _as bad as_ the other guys’ GOTV strategy again
- Reposted by grollen“There are other students with whom we have lost contact who might also be in a detention facility,” Columbia Heights district officials said today.
- Reposted by grollenThe two children who returned to MN today say they saw one of their Valley View schoolmates at a detention center in TX. This is a child whose family was last in contact with the school on January 9. No one has known where they were until now.
- Reposted by grollenWe have to set the lot of them on a raft.
- "except in extraordinary and unusual circumstances" is a big enough loophole for a family of elephants to walk through. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
- Reposted by grollenRuth Marcus on today's devastating cuts at the Washington Post: "Today, people in war zones are getting e-mails telling them that their positions have been eliminated. And you know what? I bet they’re gonna file stories, because that’s what we do. It’s what we’ve always done."
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- Reposted by grollenTop Senate negotiators say an effort to renew expired healthcare subsidies has effectively collapsed www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
- Reposted by grollenNEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
- Reposted by grollenNancy Mace has an auto responder for comments containing the word “drugs”.
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- Reposted by grollenICE just released new detention statistics. As of January 25, 2026, ICE is detaining 70,766 people across the United States. www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
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- Reposted by grollenINBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
- Reposted by grollenThe billionaire class has convinced itself for a number of reasons that America is a lot more conservative than it actually is and this is the result
- Reposted by grollenI don't want to quote dunk but I saw another "body cams don't do anything" post and I just want to say that I, a criminal defense attorney, very much like having body cams.
- Reposted by grollenThese are the last words in the last column I wrote for The Washington Post, titled "When institutions crumble, strongmen step in". www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
- Reposted by grollenIf you are able, The Post's union has started a layoff fund for those fired by the world's fourth-richest man today. gofund.me/a310d0286
- Reposted by grollen“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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- Reposted by grollenBreaking news about the new driving taxes in Iceland
- Reposted by grollenJudge rules members of Congress can inspect all ICE detention centers without appointment. "...DHS Sec. Kristi Noem re-implemented a notice requirement…..[which] required 7-days’ warning for visits to [ICE] facilities... funded exclusively by the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’..." thehill.com/regulation/c...
- Reposted by grollenThis is action EVERY city in the country can take. If your hotels cooperate with ICE, goodbye liquor revenue.
- Reposted by grollenThis cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.
- Reposted by grollenFor the record: I will not send another cent to Kristi Noem or Stephen Miller while the department they run is shredding the Constitution and murdering American citizens in the streets. A two-week extension is two weeks too long. I’m voting no.
- Reposted by grollenIn the first case of its kind, an ICE agent is being criminally prosecuted for his battery of lawyer/activist, Robert Held. Robert joins me to talk about the case, as well as his work across the country fighting back against the Trump Regime. youtu.be/84kwpm4woQ8?...
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- Reposted by grollenHere's the full post in the Star Tribune liveblog for posterity since it doesn't have a stable URL to link to:
