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Programmer with an interest in open data like Common Crawl and OpenStreetMap. Cyclist in Kitchener, Ontario. Hiker in the more attractive parts of Canada. I � Unicode. https://cldellow.com/

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ME: pack a bag, we’re flying to kansas

MY WAYWARD SON: what kind of bag

01.03.2026 04:26 👍 1401 🔁 350 💬 26 📌 13

Just wild to me what that country has become.

23.02.2026 01:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

man, this game.

22.02.2026 15:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They incarcerated a white, retired British grandmother with a valid visa.

For 2 months.

I'm glad this article gets into what most don't: Even if you manage to get released, that's 2 months of not paying your bills. Her credit was wrecked.

She's retired - younger folks would have lost their jobs.

21.02.2026 12:02 👍 354 🔁 203 💬 1 📌 1

I will take any opportunity to post this again

18.02.2026 16:54 👍 2256 🔁 471 💬 29 📌 9
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CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.

14.02.2026 16:25 👍 4606 🔁 2076 💬 368 📌 746

my wife: we have to wear what we died in for eternity!?

st. peter: that’s right

me: [from the back end of our horse costume] what’d he say

20.03.2024 18:02 👍 3408 🔁 747 💬 7 📌 14
BBC News headlines: Education
School caterers 'confident' of meat
Missing children data 'worrying'

BBC News headlines: Education School caterers 'confident' of meat Missing children data 'worrying'

Happy 13th anniversary to this pair of matching news headlines.

10.02.2026 07:26 👍 2677 🔁 749 💬 21 📌 19
a meme — the top says “My dog just got a haircut and now he looks like he gave up drinking and got his life together” and underneath are 2 photos of a dog (a schnauzer i think?). on the left, the “before,” he’s scruffy and in need of a haircut and a bath. and on the right, the “after,” he’s clean and clipped and wearing a jaunty red bow tie and looking very dapper indeed.

a meme — the top says “My dog just got a haircut and now he looks like he gave up drinking and got his life together” and underneath are 2 photos of a dog (a schnauzer i think?). on the left, the “before,” he’s scruffy and in need of a haircut and a bath. and on the right, the “after,” he’s clean and clipped and wearing a jaunty red bow tie and looking very dapper indeed.

i don’t know if it’s the jaunty bow tie or what but i cannot stop laughing at this

07.02.2026 06:19 👍 16631 🔁 2127 💬 494 📌 168

Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved.

DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.

06.02.2026 22:00 👍 4784 🔁 2424 💬 143 📌 252

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

29.01.2026 21:34 👍 42171 🔁 6055 💬 621 📌 314

He was convicted, had to give the ass nuggets back, and has since been released.

There's a dude on LinkedIn who shares the offender's name, and advertises himself as a "Procurement Specialist" with a "diverse" background in logistics.

I dunno if it's the same guy, but if it is, that's hilarious.

27.01.2026 20:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

How am I only now learning about the Canadian mint employee who stole gold by smuggling it in his rectum?

(and more importantly, only now learning that Ontario has a Justice Doody, who oversaw the man's trial.)

27.01.2026 20:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea.

It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road.

Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable.

27.01.2026 06:07 👍 5762 🔁 2849 💬 344 📌 315
Woman on the right was using her walker to advance into the tear gas

Woman on the right was using her walker to advance into the tear gas

Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.

25.01.2026 01:11 👍 4833 🔁 1090 💬 31 📌 84

Ah, yes, when DHS said medics on the scene provided aid, they meant that a pediatrician bystander had to convince them to let him assess the man they shot, and on whom they were not performing first aid.

25.01.2026 02:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

25.01.2026 00:43 👍 24919 🔁 12844 💬 200 📌 447
The New York Times
When a Coat Becomes a Symbol of Conflict
How the choice of outerwear for Gregory Bovino, the president’s Border Patrol chief, turned into part of the deportation story.

The New York Times When a Coat Becomes a Symbol of Conflict How the choice of outerwear for Gregory Bovino, the president’s Border Patrol chief, turned into part of the deportation story.

Gregory Bovino
Der ICE-Kommandant im Nazi-Look
Martialisch und effektheischend, so tritt ICE-Kommandant Gregory Bovino gern auf.
22.01.2026, 17.09 Uhr

Gregory Bovino Der ICE-Kommandant im Nazi-Look Martialisch und effektheischend, so tritt ICE-Kommandant Gregory Bovino gern auf. 22.01.2026, 17.09 Uhr

the nyt style section vs. der spiegel

24.01.2026 23:20 👍 4403 🔁 1209 💬 42 📌 55

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

24.01.2026 19:51 👍 16997 🔁 5528 💬 128 📌 172

He is pepper sprayed, brought to ground by several agents, beaten in the head, and then shot several times. He is a nurse.

DHS says he "wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement".

I hope Americans will understand what their country is becoming before it is too late.

24.01.2026 19:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

national strike to support this guy, specifically

24.01.2026 17:27 👍 3845 🔁 648 💬 27 📌 6
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I can't believe "asking Donald Trump to stop" is still the strategy

24.01.2026 18:02 👍 2202 🔁 340 💬 55 📌 75
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Video before it happens is showing this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis was just standing there videoing them before and they got out to push him back and then murder him.

24.01.2026 17:24 👍 4095 🔁 2009 💬 131 📌 441
Stella Carlson said that before the shooting, the man was helping vehicle traffic get around the area where ICE agents and observers had started to gather.
"The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. The ICE agents approached us, told us to back up, back up. I'm not even sure why we were helping them, if anything. And I got on the snow bank, and next thing I knew, they shot him," Carlson said.

Stella Carlson said that before the shooting, the man was helping vehicle traffic get around the area where ICE agents and observers had started to gather. "The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. The ICE agents approached us, told us to back up, back up. I'm not even sure why we were helping them, if anything. And I got on the snow bank, and next thing I knew, they shot him," Carlson said.

"The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. ...

"Next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

24.01.2026 17:56 👍 3383 🔁 1797 💬 16 📌 66

refuse, not recuse, I hope

24.01.2026 17:18 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Every person who goes into the streets to observe or respond to ICE knows, in some part of their brain, there’s a likelihood that they’ll be killed by masked federal paramilitaries. And yet they do it anyway. But it doesn’t make it any less shocking or heartrending when a good neighbor is martyred.

24.01.2026 15:59 👍 1264 🔁 249 💬 3 📌 2

This poor man. The bravery of folks in Minnesota is immense.

24.01.2026 15:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

24.01.2026 14:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0