Birdy Birdy
Birdy Birdy
@birdwatcher3.bsky.social
Former journalist (thanks, layoffs). Survived Stage 4 melanoma with help from science and medicine (thanks, Jim Allison). Learning guitar, petting all the cats, petting all the dogs, watching all the birds.
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I don’t see anything here to explain the “impersonating a police officer” charge. But also, it’s chilling how the officers play with these people’s lives. Stopped him for a scooter violation, and seem to refer him to ICE on a whim. If they hadn’t, he’d still be alive.
Story on the death of a 19-yo in ICE custody. www.miaminewtimes.com/news/body-ca...
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U.S. citizens Leo Venegas, Javier Ramírez & Marimar Martínez are asked to stand while Sen. Blumenthal asks Noem if she’s met the citizens detained by DHS. She didn’t answer. Blumenthal says she can meet these 3 I wrote about all 3 in this @propublica.org story www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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video from iceout.org earlier today at the whipple outside minneapolis shows a hennepin county sheriff’s deputy shoving the head of a protestor who was already tackled into the ground we need someone to challenge dawanna witt for sheriff. this brutality happening under her watch is unacceptable
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So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."
Press gave Biden far worse coverage for a small number of American soldiers dying while leaving a war than to Trump for a similar number dying while starting a war for no reason. It makes you think!
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some YouTube asshole lied about Somalians stealing daycare subsides. so Trump is stealing healthcare from the entire state
JD Vance: "We're announcing today that we have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that is going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people's tax money."
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The deliberate, systematic strategy of the Trump regime: Seize people indiscriminately, even if they’re going through the system exactly as they are expected to; detain them under brutally inhumane conditions specifically designed to break them - so that they will give up and waive all legal rights.
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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This happened Sep 9, 2025. The agent that shot the dog would not identify themselves and then hid from the homeowners. Given the months that have passed the family’s attorney and Congresswoman have yet to hear a result of the investigation that CBP was conducting.
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oh my god... just saw this, can't believe it...💔
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This is SO insane. Not only that the Hennepin County sheriff's office allows this to happen in the courthouse, but also that NOW THE CASE CANNOT BE PROSECUTED because the guy is probably gone forever. JFC.
The 18-year-old man detained inside the Hennepin County Government Center on Tuesday was in the building for a court appearance related to drug charges against him.
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StarTribune: The man detained by federal immigration agents was making a court appearance over allegedly driving a vehicle, along with several other occupants, that had 57 lbs of methamphetamine. They would rather nab someone on a civil violation than let Hennepin County try him on 57 lbs of meth!
Here’s more information and footage of the ICE arrest that took place at the Minneapolis Government Center today!
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Lutnick Admits He Visited Epstein’s Pedophile Island, but Only Because the Lunch Buffet Was Too Good to Pass Up
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FDA refuses to review Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine application, company says www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/h...
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Epstein engineered intimate relationship for Tesla’s Kimbal Musk, emails show
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This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.** He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
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"'There are literally millions of people who rely on immigrants for their basic care needs every single day.'"
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Unmarked car, no lights or police insignia. Masked armed men leap out. Victim not in the act of committing any crime. This is not how a serious federal law enforcement agency acts in a free society. How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?
This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
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"Chanting “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me” sure feels more righteous when thugs have overrun the streets of your city than it did in the ’90s, when that chorus was just as likely to seized by fratty malcontents looking for an excuse to collide with each other."
We got the concert we needed at First Ave this afternoon.
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Former Alligator Alcatraz detainees give sworn testimony in court about the abuse and horrible conditions they had to endured One witness was missing A Judge had issued a “Convention Against Torture” ruling which prohibited his deportation as he would likely be tortured. ICE deported him anyways:
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You know shit is bad when Springsteen writes a song about your city. youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...