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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 05-Feb-2026 03:06:44 JST Paul Cantrell

   A measly 25% decreased after an increase of…what, 10x? 20x? feels like 100x?

   With no timeline? no transparency, no accountability?

   And they’ll wear body cameras? eventually? they say? with footage that…who can view, again? Oh, we don’t know??

   This means nothing — •nothing• — except that they’re afraid: afraid of losing funding, afraid of consequences.

   •• It’s working. Punch harder. ••

   https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-drawdown-minnesota-homan-963adf341325d7f6eb5673e1c00d3c2a

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 05-Feb-2026 03:09:27 JST Paul Cantrell

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     Everything DHS has been doing and saying for the past week is focused around one goal: generating excuses.

     They’re trying to give Senators an excuse to fund them, to give CEOs an excuse to wash their hands of responsibility, to give wavering Republicans an excuse to keep believing their BS, to give Minneapolis an excuse to let our guard down.

     They’re trying to give everyone an excuse to believe it’s all OK now.

     It is not OK now. Here in MSP, it is very much not OK.

     KEEP • UP • THE • PRESSURE

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 05-Feb-2026 03:50:29 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Dave Polaschek (he/him)

     @davepolaschek
     Is that ICE only, or also CBP?

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     Dave Polaschek (he/him) (davepolaschek@writing.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 05-Feb-2026 03:50:31 JST Dave Polaschek (he/him)

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     @inthehands There were 80 in all of MN before this term.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 05-Feb-2026 07:37:41 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Dave Polaschek (he/him)

     If @davepolaschek is correct, then this big dramatic reduction of ICE+CBP in MN takes us from roughly 3750% of normal down to…about 2875% of normal. Yay.

     https://writing.exchange/@davepolaschek/116013806927464588

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 05-Feb-2026 08:08:37 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Dave Polaschek (he/him)
     • Krzysztof Sakrejda

     @wronglang @davepolaschek

     Not that I’ve heard of.

     My impression is that this is an attempt at placation / political cover for Senators in the upcoming budget fight.

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     Krzysztof Sakrejda (wronglang@bayes.club)'s status on Thursday, 05-Feb-2026 08:08:38 JST Krzysztof Sakrejda

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     • Dave Polaschek (he/him)

     @inthehands @davepolaschek basically changes... nothing... except maybe the state made some concessions?

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 05-Feb-2026 08:43:06 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Dave Polaschek (he/him)
     • Krzysztof Sakrejda

     @davepolaschek @wronglang
     Schumer…or Senators whose names we don’t hear (including some Republicans in both houses who have so far allowed this fight to proceed with less blowback than they could). I tend to think Schumer is more a thermometer than a leader.

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     Dave Polaschek (he/him) (davepolaschek@writing.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 05-Feb-2026 08:43:09 JST Dave Polaschek (he/him)

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     • Krzysztof Sakrejda

     @inthehands @wronglang Same impression here. It’s an attempt to get Chuck Schumer to say, “ok, good enough.”