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@dammitsmithers.bsky.social
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Socialist. A Better World Is Possible. Ardent believer in peace, love and empathy.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 09/02/2026
you're going to see a LOT of this sort of retconning (I was always on the right side of history) by all the very loud people who were on the wrong side of history. Especially as Trump's health fails. we need a big tent to dismantle fascism, but a little accountability might be nice as a treat
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
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And_New @dammitsmithers.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
He has to be getting regular IV infusions, right?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
You should read this. It is the type of detail that experts in authoritarian regimes see as telling. In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
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Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/02/2026
"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)
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Opinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/02/2026
GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
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A. Rascal @rascality.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
“Hours before federal agents in Minneapolis killed a second US citizen, President Donald Trump addressed the 2026 March for Life via video on Friday, January 23 congratulating those who came to Washington ‘to defend the infinite worth and God-given dignity of every human life.’”
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The anti-life administration
There is a deep responsibility to unveil the cloud of falsehoods falling over government actions that disrespect life. The United States is in crisis. To quote President Trump's March for Life video m...
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Holy Boulder Roller @vivasisyphus.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 06/02/2026
Stratigraphy from two of the 51 Aketala sites in the Tarim Basin of north-western China. The westernmost Bronze Age settlements discovered in China to date, they indicate cultural connections across Central Asia c. 4000 years ago. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
Two photographs of the sides of trenches, separated into stratigraphic layers and annotated with numbers.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
His enemies spend a lot of time attacking that Mamdani’s a “social democrat.” What makes him special, I think, is that he’s an authentically moral person with empathy. That’s sadly rare in politics these days.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
"So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. 'Gimme five bees for a quarter,' you'd say. "
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And_New @dammitsmithers.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
From dangers so awful they fled to “the greatest country in the world” only to face abduction, detention and possible removal back to face the very dangers they fled from. The US government is actively trying to ruin these people’s lives.
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Jeremy Ward @jmichaelward.com · 05/02/2026
If you can gut the Department of Education you can abolish ICE.
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And_New @dammitsmithers.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Congrats to everyone who thought Michael and Richard weren’t disingenuous dipshits.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 03/02/2026
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
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And_New @dammitsmithers.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Even after he was elected President in 2016 Donald Trump was still hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein? Shocker.
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And_New @dammitsmithers.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The Speaker of the House is a fucking idiot
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Gus Squawks @gussquawks.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
What do you MEAN the president audibly SHIT himself live on camera and they immediately cancelled the press conference and rushed everyone out of the room like it's a fire drill, and it happened two days ago, and I'm just hearing about it NOW?
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This or just dumping people *in the woods* AND sending folks out w/o their phone or I.D. Volunteers w/ Safe Haven wait at the gate & do sweeps of the woods, with warm clothes, a burner, and a ride home, "so no one is left alone at the gate." I donated; pls join me if you can: gofund.me/7d506a3d0
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And_New @dammitsmithers.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
We have to be in The Bad Place
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The director of Melania movie
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
We live in a world where a convicted child rapist and sex trafficker is treated better in prison than the children who’ve been detained by ICE. Ghislaine Maxwell gets to be in a cushy minimum security facility … 5 year old Liam Ramos is locked up in a camp where kids are screaming “let us out”.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/01/2026
well then
Elon Musk emailing Jeffrey Epstein in 2013: "Actually, I could fly back on the 3rd. We will be in St Bart's. When should we head to your island on the 2nd?"
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And_New @dammitsmithers.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
ICE is full of monsters
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And_New @dammitsmithers.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I’m not a Catholic but I appreciate those who are and speak out from a place of deep concern about our moral obligations, and how we are failing to live up to them. More of this, please!
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Martin Rosner @hotpaper.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Man ponders if he is still a good person if helping others benefits him. The universe answers and tells him: 'Be kind, I don't care why'
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The president should be impeached and convicted, as should everyone responsible for these outrages. ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
They even made a TV show about the Rahm presidential run
"Nobody wants this"
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ACLU @aclu.org · 26/01/2026
NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Let me say something very directly. We are objectively in a fascist authoritarian moment here in this country. Academics and historians have established indicators for this. We are well over the line on many of them.
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And_New @dammitsmithers.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Also Pam Bondi: Not only am I a terrible person, but I’m also a fucking idiot.
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And_New @dammitsmithers.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Reminder: JD Vance has always been a piece of shit
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/01/2026
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
DOJ lies. DHS lies. ICE lies. That has been established. Do not repeat their claims as fact. Their claims are arguments or, often, misleading propaganda — when not outright lies. They are seeking to make a case for their lawlessness (and to please Trump), not seeking to inform.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The Board of Peace is to other international institutions as Truth Social is to other social media.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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Ky @ky.fyi · 22/01/2026
bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
If you are not furious at the state of things in America, you are NOT paying attention. The bad behavior and crimes from this administration are unrelenting. I totally get having to unplug though. Totally... Because, holy $#!^. These people are awful, horrible, terrible examples of human beings.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I will never get over the fact that the Republican Party chose as its standard-bearer, and this country elected as its President, quite possibly the worst human being on the planet.
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The Trump administration's idea of a "mom and pop" investor is a hypothetical couple that owns 5-12 investment properties.
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