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Cold Grits

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Concerned citizen. Missing what was once great.

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Debra Eastman @deastman57.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Is there anyone that can check the real statuses of the people ICE is arresting? Many are here legally or in the process of getting legal status. Is ICE just changing their status to "illegal violent criminal" and then arresting them? Isn't that fraud?
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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
TACO is cashing in on a many years‑old Kremlin idea that the U.S. could be “given” Caracas in exchange for looking the other way on Ukraine. 🤬🤬🤬
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?
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Just Jill 💖 @justjill.sheshed.rocks · 28/12/2025
Bernie is spot on with this. Most people have no idea what these data centers impact. It is HUGE and negative all around (with exception to the oligarchs wallets) All of you who needed to “research” at election time, THIS is what you need to research right now.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Agree 100% with this.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/12/2025
Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"
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☀️🌱SunCome🚫👑 @llfarm.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Thank you, Megan, for speaking truth. More of this please!!! #MSM
CNBC Correspondent, Megan Cassella
Landed a one two verbal punch on a stunned
Trump during a press briefing.
Her responses to two of his rude outbursts:
"Sir, you are the president, not God."
Then, in response to him demanding she never say that again she replied
"Mr. President I ask questions, not permission.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
“They came into the building understanding it was a daycare. They did not have a warrant. It is a violation of our rights. It is a violation of these children’s rights. They are terrorizing our community.” Trump’s ICE goons raided a damn daycare.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
FLORIDA now requires public schools to share space with charter schools, and “one charter operator intends to occupy space in more than 100 public schools (!)” 🤔 Privatizing public schools at breakneck speed, filling their pockets with taxpayer funds. www.fox13news.com/news/charter...
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 10/10/2025
BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
"My thoughts turned to David Rose, who volunteered to try to prevent another such attack on our country, and then, when back home, ran toward danger once again to help his fellow Americans." www.thebulwark.com/p/a-hero-dav...
thebulwark.com
A Hero We Didn’t Deserve
Remembering David Rose who ran towards danger.
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Peace @dogsmile.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I was grew up in 1950’s Jim Crow Alabama. Many if you have never known what it was like…water hoses and dogs turned loose on people of color just for congregating in groups, crosses burnt in your yard, hangings, beatings, people disappearing. YES this can happen to YOU too now.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/09/2025
BREAKING: The Epstein Estate has given House Oversight the birthday book and other documents. These have NOT been scrubbed by Pam Bondi and the DoJ or Trump. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
politico.com
House Oversight receives Epstein estate files
The materials could include the so-called birthday book.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
As a bookish kid, I admired the Supreme Court for having the character to unanimously come out against segregation in the 1950s, when no other branch of our government would have had that courage. So it saddens me to see it lose its way and endorse judging people for the color of their skin today.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 28/08/2025
If the Democratic Party intends to win this fight, it must stop functioning solely as a party & instead step into its moment in history: to lead a pro-democracy movement capable of confronting this authoritarian threat. www.lincolnsquare.media/p/stand-up-…
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The Time for a Pro-Democracy Movement Is Now
The Democratic Party must stop functioning solely as a political party and instead step into its moment in history: to lead a pro-democracy movement capable of confronting this authoritarian threat.
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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
In the richest country on Earth, hospitals are closing en masse. In rural Maine you’re driving an hour to the nearest birthing center. The hospital in Blue Hill where I was born is closed. It’s a disaster brought on by decades of pure greed, and nothing short of Medicare for All can turn the tide.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Shuler: This is the choice working Americans have been given: chaos, or the same broken status quo. We wanted cheaper groceries—and we got tanks in our streets. We wanted affordable health care—and instead, 16 million Americans are about to be kicked off their coverage
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
WOW. @marcelias.bsky.social goes off on the failures of legacy media: "We have an absolute collapse and failure by the institutions that have promised us that democracy would not die in darkness, that in fact, they stand for the proposition that democracy will die in plain sight of daylight."
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I’ve always been a big 2nd Amendment guy bcuz I fear government tyranny. I fear masked & armed government agents taking to our streets against the people. So how come all my fellow 2nd Amendment guys, who said they too feared government tyranny, are now happily on the side of the government tyranny?
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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/08/2025
‘Help me, please!’ Plainclothes “ICE” agents snatch a man outside Los Angeles’ largest courthouse on Wednesday. A tactic that has been repeatedly condemned by the legal community. Painful to watch. Even more painful knowing there are people who not only accept this, are happy about it.
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."
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Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea
I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/08/2025
"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."
motherjones.com
Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea
I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.
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Leigh Harrison Helberg @leighhelberg.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Our citizens are being snatched off of our streets illegally. The rest of the country says it isn’t happening. We in Los Angeles know the truth. Please share. Our people are terrified.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 09/08/2025
Good morning. Trump is protecting Epstein files. The confederacy lost and they were traitors, mRNA vaccines are the future, cops shouldn’t wear masks, Trump cut taxes for the rich and ripped benefits from the poor. Have a weekend
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CherieAnne @cherieanne.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Rest In Peace
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
From a report today on @npr.org: People held at Alligator Auschwitz have no legal path out. ICE says they're held on state charges, so Federal immigration judges can't hear cases for bond or anything else. The state hasn't charged them, so state judges can't hear the case because there's no case. 1/
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/08/2025
one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 30/07/2025
Americans deserve to know who is enforcing the laws and whether they are legitimate law enforcement officers. Masks embolden abuse. Full video: youtu.be/lmAdOjyCA_0?si…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
WATCH: “In video captured by the Tennessee Holler…” On @msnbc, @eriellereshef plays our video of @brotherjones.bsky.social getting banned from @GovBillLee’s Teslas-only tunnel announcement — even though it was a state event, in his own district.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero - Two years ago, we invited all 100 senators to work in the fields. Only two of them accepted: Alex Padilla and Cory Booker.
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Insta Science @instascience.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
A mesmerizing time-lapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft over a month. -Credits: NASA
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Growing up after WWII, I always hoped concentration camps were history, not current events. But here we are, with thousands of migrants in squalid conditions, no due process, and $45B in new camps to come Coming to terms with an American nightmare. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/us-c...
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This column on U.S. concentration camps is the one I hoped I’d never write | Will Bunch
Andrea Pitzer literally wrote the book on concentration camps. I talked to her about how they came to America.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/07/2025
my similar boomer opinion is that i think “home economics” or whatever the equivalent is ought to be mandatory for students in middle and high school.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
THIS
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The deportations are about to turn into detentions. There isn’t money in deporting folks, but there is in detaining them…
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
What do the bad guys all have in common? They all wear masks.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
If my taxes don’t pave my roads or fix my bridges or keep my schools open 5 days a week or pay local teachers a living wage or help keep my hospital open or help my neighbor’s kid eat lunch or fund public television or my healthcare… Why the f’ck should I pay taxes?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/07/2025
ICE is about to get access to Medicaid records—a HIPAA violation. Quick facts: Undocumented immigrants don’t get full Medicaid. They only qualify for emergency care like childbirth or life-threatening treatment. States like CA & NY offer limited coverage, but its’s state-funded, not federal.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
This is so wrong. So very wrong.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/07/2025
Padilla: "If it was only going after dangerous criminals, there would be no debate. I agree with that. But the fact is the vast majority of those being detained are the same people who were deemed essential workers at the end of the first Trump administration during covid. That's a cruel irony"
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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Friends, one problem we consistently have, and that the media amplifies, is the use of rightwing terminology to name or describe things. The concentration camp in the Everglades is "The concentration camp in the Everglades," or "Everglades Auschwitz," etc. Do NOT use their framing.
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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
If you're enforcing the law, show your face. As the son of a cop, brother to two, and a former prosecutor, I know credibility comes with transparency—not terror.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
What could possibly go wrong here?
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CGC- Cheryl @clgc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
RIP Bill Moyers. One of the greats. So wise, kind, thoughtful. Difficult to articulate how much I admire and love him....
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