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Skeletired @skeletired.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
"I have instructed the DOJ..." used to be a scandal worthy of impeachment. Now it's a daily thing, a whiff of historic moral rot.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
"oh you think i don't deserve a peace prize?" *shoots random danish guy* "how about now?"
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Oh man. It would be terrible if people started following Bovino around and playing Baby Shark. It would be terrible because he would hate it, and it would probably become his theme song, and it would make his Nazi in a long coat cosplay all the more ridiculous. So no one should do that.
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The Crane Report 🗿 @thecranereport.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
@bsky.app please investigate See x.com/U24_gov_ua/s... for details
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
the picture is fake by the way, he’s in Canada, and the people sharing it here are probably on his side. but he’s the guy who has previously shared my home address and encouraged people to kill me. he very much wants something to happen to me
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
So to reiterate now they are attacking an orphaned child
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School of Renee Good’s son targeted by right-wing attacks
Threats to Southside Family Charter School in Minneapolis came after New York Post articles and a series of social media posts from right-wing commentators.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I always wondered, when I read Suetonius, how everyone could put up with Caligula for so long. I think I understand better now. The institutional and social inertia is so strong, especially among elites with “something to lose”. No one wants to stick their heads up first, so they go into denial.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account. Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.
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Law enforcement uses 'reasonable suspicion' to make arrests, as protected under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court has already vindicated us on this position.
A person's immigration status makes them a target for enforcement, not their skin color, race or ethnicity.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 16/01/2026
A former federal agent after watching the New York Times breakdown of the ICE shooting:
I watched it, that actually makes it much worse. He never should have been in front of the SUV. We are trained do not get in front of a vehicle like that, there’s only bad outcomes.  Also, his video clearly shows she was not surreptitiously reaching for any objects within the vehicles drivers compartment, so the only defense for the agent would be that she was trying to run him over, which clearly isn’t the case, as emphasized by the fact that his legs were out of the way. The video also shows the SUV was moving so slowly that even in icy conditions he should’ve just moved out of the way. In the department of justice we are prohibited from using deadly force purely to prevent escape. Bad shoot all around
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17/01/2026
This ICE agent and the man he’s accusing of not being a US citizen have the same damn accent. If this were a movie, this scene would be on the cutting room floor.
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
ICE officers are under pressure from daily arrest quotas that leadership has set at 3,000 a day…Though ICE has never come close to meeting that daily goal, officers are rewarded for making arrests, even if the immigrants they take in are later released. www.wsj.com/us-news/the-...
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The Standoff That Has Turned Minnesota Into a Tinderbox
ICE agents with arrest quotas are colliding with angry residents, a compact city and a relatively small proportion of immigrants here illegally.
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
"The document says the ICE agent allegedly whipped his sons with a belt, made homophobic slurs and racist remarks about Black and Latino people and brought a gun to a youth sports game."
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ICE agent believed responsible for L.A. killing accused of child abuse, racism in court filings
A court filing made public this week claims that a federal immigration agent thought to have shot and killed a Los Angeles man on New Year's Eve was previously accused of child abuse and making racist...
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C.M. Lewis 🦬⚔️ @thehousered.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
You know the autopen thing is all projection, right? He isn't signing or authorizing many of the actions with his name on them. He's probably not even aware of them. For the ones he does authorize, he's probably not competent. I doubt many of his pardons could survive an evidentiary hearing.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
So she had a pulse. That’s what the doctor on the scene wanted to check. She wasn’t breathing, but she had a pulse. He could have started CPR right away. Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The thing is, some people can make mistakes, get things wrong, be careless, etc. But that’s not what Jennings did here. Jennings knowingly, purposefully and intentionally lied to utterly distort what was said, which CNN pays him to do every day. CNN is the enabler of this.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
“Lifeless… foam around his mouth. Nobody wants to see their kids like that.” ICE attacked a family trying to LEAVE the besieged neighborhood and hospitalized a 6 month old baby that couldn’t breathe.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/01/2026
damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”
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It is horrific to see radical agitators bring children to their violent riots.
PLEASE STOP ENDANGERING YOUR CHILDREN.
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Two children, including a 6-month-old, were hospitalized last night after federal agents deployed tear gas during Wednesday night's protests, according to the Minneapolis Office of Community Safety....
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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Machado presenting Trump a prize and testifying to his love of liberty and democracy while masked secret police invade Minneapolis, abduct people, and beat peaceful protestors is an affront to every American trying to preserve democracy at home. www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-nob...
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Trump's Nobel Peace Lies
María Corina Machado was given the choice between dictatorship and dishonor. In the end, she will get both.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Country X is imperative to our national security. If you don't support our conquest of Country X, I have to tariff you on national security grounds. Rinse and repeat. Everything is national security. It interprets the tariff authority as a limitless delegation to the President.
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Speak Truth....
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raincoast.bsky.social @raincoast.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Conservatives Say Renée Good Was Brainwashed By Bible Into Loving Thy Neighbor — theonion.com/conservative...
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Conservatives Say Renée Good Was Brainwashed By Bible Into Loving Thy Neighbor
WASHINGTON—Calling her actions “indefensible,” Vice President JD Vance stated Thursday that Renée Good was brainwashed by the Bible into loving thy neighbor. “The fact of the matter is that Renée Good...
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Democrat leaders looking for "creative ideas" to fight ICE, I've got a crazy one called "go outside to where the shit is actually happening."
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fede @hymage.eurosky.social · 16/01/2026
He is such a con artist
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
In short, fuck this Nazi administration, fuck that loathsome Gestapo trash Tom Homan, and fuck the slobbering Nazi losers who support them.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
BREAKING — Mayor of Lewiston, Maine posts on FB that ICE is coming to the city imminently. This confirms my reporting the agency is planning a surge in the city and state generally. Lewiston is home to a large Somali-American population, which made up 4.6% of the population as of the 2020 census.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Publishing the names of protesters and contacting their employers to have them fired for exercising their rights is a tactic straight out of the White Citizens Councils.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/01/2026
conduct yourself in a way that does not lead the entire news organization you are supposedly in charge of to leak a new and different embarrassing story about you every day
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.
DHS: It is horrific to see radical agitators bring children to their violent riots.
PLEASE STOP ENDANGERING YOUR CHILDREN.
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Two children, including a 6-month-old, were hospitalized last night after federal agents deployed tear gas during Wednesday night's protests, according to the Minneapolis Office of Community Safety....
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Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
ICE is younger than the Taco Bell chalupa and about the same age as the Crunchwrap supreme and contributes far less to society than either!
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."
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“U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations and when several violent agitators used their vehicles to block in agents in an effort to impede and assault federal officers. In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers used their service vehicle to strike a suspect’s vehicle and create an opening. As agents were driving, Deborah Brockman, a U.S. citizen, threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer. 

 

“This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. These attacks highlight the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily—all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/10/2025
George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Someone looking at all this with a cold eye might say that Miller and Hegseth are seeking control over the power ministries before a Vance ally invokes the 25th Amendment.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
"We're gonna crash some planes if you don't fund ICE."
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Hooray for my brave old colleagues in the EDVA US attorneys office. They've apparently produced a memo laying out while there's no PC to indict Comey. If Trump flunky Lindsey Halligan goes ahead and indicts him anyway, she could be looking at severe professional sanctions even possibly disbarment.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
BREAKING: In place of Jimmy Kimmel’s return, Sinclair and Nexstar will broadcast 90 minutes of Ezra Klein criticizing you for not reading “The Bell Curve”
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Mr. Elias @theeliasrework.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Elon Musk having to buy back his own stock to prop up Tesla and everyone pretending that is good business. Wall Street setting itself up for a reality check... Recession.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth* A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel” Person watching on tv: well if they say so
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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia
A grainy screenshot of the sidebar of the desktop version of Goodreads. It says:

RECOMMENDATIONS:
Because you enjoyed A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune:
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible...

View all books similar to A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune
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Will Harris @sandwichpick.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I went through the hour special and outside of the "I'm a Christian and family man" stuff here's all two minutes of him actually talking, and you can see why ABC didn't air this
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous. It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy." Because that's not how America works. play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...
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The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The Washington Roundtable is joined by the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Keren Yarhi-Milo, the dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, to discuss...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
3rd deadly US strike on a boat in the Caribbean. As with the others: -in area US military operates freely -where arrest has relatively low risk, and greater strategic value -no US legal rationale, or even attempt to offer one -blatant violation of international law -no evidence US knew who they hit
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
ILLINOIS — Trump’s Gestapo violently throws female congressional candidate @KatAbughazaleh to the ground to the ground
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Chargé d’Affaires @brandiatkinson.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
He’s gonna find someone to do it, of course
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Stephen Colbert: “Tonight we’re all Jimmy Kimmel…. With an autocrat, you can’t give an inch. If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive, and clearly they've never read The Children's Book If You Give a Mouse A Kimmel.”
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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Hundreds of people detained at the Alligator Alcatraz immigration processing center west of Miami, Florida, appear to have vanished. They have disappeared from the ICE online database, and their lawyers and families have been unable to locate them. english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-...
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The mysterious disappearance of hundreds of immigrants detained at Alligator Alcatraz
Lawyers and family members report that they have been unable to locate the inmates at the infamous Florida prison after they disappeared from the ICE database
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Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Calling all Guild members, labor allies and anyone who believes in a free country — Join us outside the entrance to ABC's offices at 7 Hudson Square (310 Hudson Street, Manhattan) TOMORROW at 12 PM ET to demand that ABC bring back Jimmy Kimmel Live! RSVP: wgaea.st/kimmel-rally
Demand ABC Bring Back Jimmy Kimmel Live!

RALLY TO PROTECT FREE SPEECH

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
12pm - 1pm

310 HUDSON ST, MANHATTAN
(7 Hudson Sqaure between Spring 
and Vandam, outside ABC Network)

RSVP: WGAEA.ST/KIMMEL-RALLY
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025
This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.
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