Tony Webster

Tony Webster

@tony.xyz

Personal account, views expressed are my own.

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I keep getting billed for someone else’s highway tolls, and the agency keeps ignoring my disputes. So instead I send a public records request for photos of the car. They deny my request because it’s not my car, so I have no right to the photos, and they simultaneously refund me. Magic.

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Amazing autumn day, but you can feel winter coming. Sitting on a balcony half-studying, half-taking photos of random planes flying around with ADS-B turned off.

I can’t believe that a prosecutor thought it would be okay to use ChatGPT (according to SynthID) to turn mugshots of the people she’s prosecuting into deepfakes with manipulated facial expressions. There’s something truly sick about the mindset required to do this. (Blurring by me.)

TFW there’s a song you love and played a lot during a bad period of life, and then couldn’t listen to anymore because of the association, but now you’re totally healed and can love it again

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In just over a month, the duration of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine will match that of the entire World War I. And the entire might of Russia and its totalitarian allies, as well as of the Kremlin's corrupt useful morons in the West, still can't defeat Ukraine.

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BREAKING: Blanche, Woodward, and Trent McCotter file a deranged motion in the National Trust ballroom case asking the district court to "immediately" issue an "indicative ruling" that it will dissolve the preliminary injunction that DOJ has already appealed if it gets jurisdiction to do so .

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Employers should offer a certain number of space days off so you can just nonstop watch YouTube videos about the vastness of the universe and mindlessly browse nasa dot gov

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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

I made a chart of Minnesota federal lawsuits with captions of “v. [Bondi/Noem/Easterwood/Lyons/Trump]” over the last three months. Almost all of these are immigration habeas corpus cases.

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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social

JUST IN: Lawyers file declaration in federal court from first-hand witness to immigration agents' shooting of a US citizen onlookers today. Minneapolis Mayor Frey said details would be used to bolster case for ousting ICE from city. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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A colleague of Alex Pretti at the Minneapolis VA hospital vehemently rejected DHS' narrative that Pretti went to the area seeking to commit violence against federal law enforcement Saturday. “Bullshit,” said Julia Grigoriev. “I would never believe that Alex would want to harm anybody.”

bit.lyAlex Pretti identified as man fatally shot by federal officers in MinneapolisPretti, an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System, had no criminal record beyond parking tickets.

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Replying to @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

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Thirty-one known defendants have been charged in Chicago with non-immigration crimes tied to “Operation Midway Blitz.” With today’s acquittal, 15 of them have been cleared. No one has been convicted.

Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social

#BREAKING: Federal jury finds Chicago man NOT GUILTY of offering $10K for the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino. The trial of Juan Espinoza Martinez was the first to result from “Operation Midway Blitz”: chicago.suntimes.com/live/closing...

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21-year-old activist injured by ICE: I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.

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is this about Greenland or Minneapolis?

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

How about we not get into a fight with Scandinavian soldiers in a frozen landscape. Foreign invaders trying that while going "we're bigger than you, back down" has a bad record.

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Near Lyndale and 24th Ave in Minneapolis tonight, feds have reportedly shot another person. Preliminary info is shaky for now, hearing two people injured. BORTAC just rolled up in an armored vehicle. A crowd is gathering outside the police tape—MPD presence as well.