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Left wing politics, martial arts, music, reading, writing, gardening. OP physical therapist, dry needling, fixing backs, breaking hearts he/him

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 12/08/2026
Ruthie Wilson Gilmore recommends three books every radical should read
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Those who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 22/07/2026
The two types of right wing media commentary are “go woke go broke” and corrupting our children Korra is corrupting our children Tomb Raider (2013) is go woke go broke Strange World is corrupting our children Nolan’s Odyssey, despite being a box office hit, is go woke go broke
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Boy Howdy @besmith.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Forcing somone to go to an Ed Sheeran concert is a special kind of sadomasichism. Filming it and putting that out into the public is just sick.
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Brosephine so scary 🎃 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Can’t sleep? Simple methods that work: • study hurricane forecast • who hates me • what did i forget • relive supreme humiliation • win 12-yr-old argument • buried alive? could happen • what i did vs should have done • dead people i miss • what if i’m bad • why do i say stuff • what’s my fuckin deal
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Boy Howdy @besmith.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I love you forever, Mom
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Boy Howdy @besmith.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I say loooooosing love is like a window in your heart
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
#tdih 1882, Chinese Exclusion Act signed, prohibited all immigration of Chinese as laborers to U.S. White supremacist violence against Asian Americans increased, including 1885 Rock Springs Massacre in Wyo. 💔 Art from Alice St. Mural, Oakland #AAPIHM Read ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ch...
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May 6, 1882: Chinese Exclusion Act Signed
The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act was signed on #tdih May 6, 1882 which prohibited Chinese immigration—the first law to specifically targeted one national group. Here are profiles of people and events fr...
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Boy Howdy @besmith.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Oh yeah?!?! Well here's my nuanced take on statistics! *pulls out comically large revolver while laughing maniacally*
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Boy Howdy @besmith.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Fucking SUNUVABITCH!
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Boy Howdy @besmith.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Out amongst the youthier; they'll never understand they're just as corny as anyone else until it's too late and then they'll be sitting in a bar full of young people doing and saying stupid things and I'll be dust! Happy Friday!!
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Boy Howdy @besmith.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Jesus Fucking Christ
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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.
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Boy Howdy @besmith.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Horrific behavior by a nation seemingly hell bent on being history's top monster.
theguardian.com
Israeli police kill two young Palestinian boys and their parents in West Bank
Mother, father and brothers aged five and seven shot in their car as they returned from Ramadan shopping trip
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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.
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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack
No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.
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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 06/03/2026
"... and every other imperialist invasion, occupation and aggression toward another country. that is U.S. policy under every administration! regardless of whatever weird scandal a particular president may bring in. this is the policy! and it was the policy before Trump and the Epstein Files. and
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Boy Howdy @besmith.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
So Trump not evacuating relevant embassies is probably worse than Benghazi, right?
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Aaron Cohen @unlikelywords.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
He played outside in Tonight’s snow in the dark like It was a weekend.
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Boy Howdy @besmith.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
TONIGHT on Bug Court: Law Roach 🪳 Civil Rights Scorpion 🦂 And criminal defense caterpillar 🐛 forms a legally binding chrysalis 🦋 Bug Court!
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Boy Howdy @besmith.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
So happy we have PRIVATE CITIZEN Jared Kushner in peace talks with Iran. Nepotism will see us through!
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
This guy gets it.
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
a man in Oklahoma was speaking out against a data center in his community. He went a few seconds over time and the city had him arrested for trespassing
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Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long
An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Democrats should boycott the State of the Union and send Epstein survivors and people illegally detained by ICE in their place.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Kind of gives away the whole game that all the crypto ads this year have been replaced with gambling and AI ads.
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mechanical twerk @ruhee.ca · 08/02/2026
No Kings includes Draft Kings
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) tells reporters the Epstein files contain allegations that President Trump raped and threatened to kill children.
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Boy Howdy @besmith.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The urge to fuck post separation becoming the urge to date, becoming the urge to improve yourself, becoming the urge to not date, becoming the urge to collect something of mediocre value, becoming the urge to buy a mustang, becoming the urge to date....
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 02/02/2026
This whole heap is gonna go public soon. So he made twitter investors whole with AI venture money and soon he’ll make the AI investors whole with public equity market money, on the back of an enterprise the US government won’t allow to fail.
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Boy Howdy @besmith.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I'm sorry, but Paw Patrol would not SIMPLY be allowed to move into Adventure City without pushback from the ACPD. I really enjoyed the movie otherwise, outstanding work all involved.
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door. It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!
May 12, 2025 

 MEMORANDUM FOR: All ICE Personnel

FROM: Todd Lyons Acting Director 
SUBJECT: Utilizing Form I-205, Warrant of Removal 

On January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion, directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to "ensur[e] the successful enforcement of final orders of removal." 90 Fed. Reg. 8443, 8444 (Jan. 20, 2025) (E.O. 14159). Essential to the removal of aliens subject to final orders of removal is the ability to locate and arrest them. To this end, certain supervisory immigration officers within both Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are authorized to issue an administrative warrant, Form I-205, Warrant of Removal (Form 1-205), for the arrest of an alien with a final order of removal. 8 C.F.R. § 241.2(a)(1). All U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents and deportation officers are authorized to execute Forms 1-205. 8 C.F.R. § 287.5(e)(3)(iii) - (y)

Although the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has not historically relied on administrative warrants alone to arrest aliens subject to final orders of removal in their place of residence, the DHS Office of the General Counsel has recently determined that the U.S. Constitution, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the immigration regulations do not prohibit relying on administrative warrants for this purpose. Accordingly, in light of this legal determination, ICE immigration officers may arrest and detain aliens subject to a final under of removal issued by an immigration judge, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), or a U.S.Arrow) district court judge or magistrate judge in their place of residence.23 ICE immigration officers should consider all available enforcement mechanisms, including the use of a Form 1-205 to arrest an alien in their place of residence, to achieve the requirements of E.O. 14159 in accordance with applicable law and policies. This guidance informs the use of Forms 1-205 and provides to ICE law enforcement personnel a reminder of the general limitations and exceptions that may apply when effectuating arrests in an alien's residence. General Guidelines ICE law enforcement officers receive extensive training on the legal and procedural requirements for making administrative and criminal arrests. ICE personnel must remain cognizant of all existing laws and policies pertaining to arrests when carrying out civil immigration enforcement actions. Prior to entering a residence to conduct an administrative immigration arrest pursuant to Form I-205, officers and agents must ensure the Form 1-205 is properly completed and is supported by a final order of removal issued by an immigration judge, the BIA, a U.S. district court, or a magistrate judge. This is essential because that order establishes probable cause. Officers and agents must also have reason to believe that the subject alien resides at and is currently located in the address where the Form I-205 is to be served.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."
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8 weeks under siege in Minnesota • Minnesota Reformer
Frank has a hard time explaining to his 8-year-old daughter why they rarely leave their home in the Twin Cities. Why she can’t go to school, and why he can’t work. “The only thing we tell her is that ...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Watching these videos of ICE attacking children, I can’t help but think about how many of these men first practiced their violence in their own homes. Domestic violence teaches our oppressors to dehumanize the most vulnerable among us.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Trump-backing billionaire Miriam Adelson at the Israeli-American Council, asked how she exerts (buys) influence with American politicians: "Can you allow me not to answer? I want to be truthful, and there are so many things I don't want to talk about."
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Boy Howdy @besmith.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I wish boring, white American men would analyze anything about themselves as much as they analyze sports.
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John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15/01/2026
A single federal agent with a long gun just walked through the crowd, slipped on the ice on his way under the police tape. Dropped his loaded clip.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
published this and was then immediately without internet for 3+ hours to share it so please read 🙏
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ICE is headed to Maine
The Mayors of Portland and Lewiston confirmed Wednesday ICE's imminent presence.
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
“We’ll Have Our Home” again is a song that’s extremely popular with white nationalists. It’s all over Telegram. I think the first time I heard it was from a video of a secretive group called the Mannerbünd.
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dhsgov e and icegov
& Pine Tree Riots • We'll Have Our Home Again
WE'LL HAVE OUR HOME AGAIN
JOIN.ICE.GOV
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
How many women have died with “fucking bitch” ringing in their ears? Don’t let the misogyny get erased here
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I can't stop thinking of all the poets slain by tyranny. Today I hear the voice of Federico García Lorca, slain by fascists in 1936.
Lorca
                     after Neruda
                      
Because I was a poem, my country
hushed me.
They knelt me
on the cold stones of a roadway
and even when the guns had touched
my body,
I heard the birds, I heard my heart
be strong.

Listen. You have to go on
without me.
You know what my triumph was,
my victory?
I was open. I stayed
so wholly open
that I heard the birds and the gift
the Spring is singing.

They can kill the singers but they cannot kill the song.
They can kill the singers but they cannot kill the song.

—Joseph Fasano
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It’s also time to start wondering if some of these reporters are a little cooked by the bots themselves. Reporters aren’t inured to chatbot psychosis. In fact, some of them may have drank too much of the kool aid from sources selling them stuff. We’re in a new world of stupid. Adjust your credulity.
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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
According to a memo from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Trump administration plans to deploy immigration agents to the U.S.–Mexico border to arrest undocumented migrants trying to return home voluntarily during the holidays. Read More👉 ebx.sh/1oZD5d
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 09/12/2025
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, said agents told her in the truck that if she didn’t watch herself “they were going to pull me over to the side of the road and give me this OC,” law enforcement shorthand for pepper spray.
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Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
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Boy Howdy @besmith.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Waiting for discussion from the Democrats that the solid floor is just verbal promises that they're happy with you at the poverty line.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
On “The Necessary Conversation” podcast, Chad’s Trump supporter parents tell him the military should follow Trump’s illegal orders and kill everyone in LA if Trump commanded it — even with him and his sister in the city😳
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