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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

On BlueSky, I see people who want Americans to believe that because Biden, Obama, and others did not end racism in America, they are no different than Trump, who actively encourages racist rhetoric and racist policies. Don't fall for their lies. There is a difference, and it is worth fighting for.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

While many are paid, many more join in out of ignorance. They are the "useful idiots" for that cause. If you can convince people that there is no difference between a blood thirsty dictator and a dedicated leader who is human and thus unable to solve every problem, the dictator wins.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Having served in multiple countries run by ruthless dictators, I am accustomed to their tactics for keeping their populations under control. One of them is to employ a legion of fake opposition figures who promote the false narrative that "all parties are the same, so why bother voting?"

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John Brophy @jk001-ie.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Imagine electing a bunch of paedophile fascists and then blaming the other guys...

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Libby 🎃Stink Gourd🎃 @libbystigaard.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

DoJ massacre underway. Yesterday four attorneys quit because the DoJ refused to investigate Jonathan Ross, and today another six quit because they refused to unjustly prosecute Renee Good's widow. Pretty soon DoJ's going to be nothing but a fascist clown car full of Liberty U grads.

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The US is a Mafia state.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Trump has also revoked TPS status for immigrants from Venezuela, Afghanistan, Haiti, Syria, and others. That means thousands of immigrants here legally, who cannot return to their home countries due to unsafe conditions there, now have no protection. Shameful.

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Jimski @jimski.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

or you can have 34 felony counts and be fine. Really depends on who's Breaking the Laws

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Nico Tift @nicotift.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

How did she break the law? What legal suspicion did they have for detainment? The people that claim Ashli Babbit was murdered by Capitol Police are really having a hard time in Hypocrisy Land.

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

okay but you might wanna actually watch star trek first

Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation with a quotation beside him that says

"The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity."

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Chuck @chuckolalala.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Star Trek had non-white people in it, though.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

This is unconstitutional.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

How, again, are Dems supposed to negotiate with the Rs on the 2026 fiscal year budget (already 3.5 months late) if Trump has no intention of honoring the deals negotiated and laws passed?

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

even aside from the casual racism this nitwit deploys, imagine how dumb you'd have to be to not understand why people might more readily protest a murder carried out by their government, for which their government is unrepentant, than than a murder by an individual.

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prezoh @prezoh.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

"bluesky is boring" then youre a fake ass poster. youre not supposed to mindlessly scroll youre supposed to post your every thought for the five people who care about u

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Being “disrespectful of law enforcement” is not a crime, and is not something that American citizens should be summarily executed for by masked men in unmarked cars.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 13/01/2026

"Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow" Six lawyers in the U.S. Attorney's Office have done what their oath requires of them: resigned rather than participate in building a sham domestic terrorism case against Renee Good's widow. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

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Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

By the end Scott Adams wasn't just grossly misogynist, entrenched in racism, a COVID denier, anti-vaxxer and general right wing stooge, he was also a Holocaust denier. So while my normal daily refrain is "fuck cancer" in this case he should've suffered for much longer.

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Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

A reminder that my strip took over Dilberts vacant spot in the Washington Post after they dropped his ass. 😎 www.stlpr.org/show/st-loui...

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How a St. Louis cartoonist replaced 'Dilbert' in the Washington Post

"Heart of the City" replaced "Dilbert" in the Washington Post.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/01/2026

These are absolutely monstrous people "Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior DOJ officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent"

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3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 13/01/2026

This is Minneapolis: Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city. Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.

Sign on door prohibiting immigration enforcement on private property

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/01/2026

Starting in October 2026, Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will shift billions in SNAP costs from the federal government onto states, some of whom could be forced to deeply cut or even shutter their SNAP programs altogether.

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Wave of Tax Cuts Has Left Many States Vulnerable to Trump SNAP and Medicaid Crisis

President Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act will shift billions in costs for SNAP and Medicaid to states. But with 26 having cut or eliminated state income taxes just since 2021, the...

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Leftists address this constantly. We advocate for universal health care and child care, guaranteed pensions, decommodified housing, and all kinds of other things that would directly address these issues. What we don't do is say "more white babies" which is what is really being asked here

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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

NEW: Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting - At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good. www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...

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A new spate of Justice Department officials quit because their section didn't want to probe Renee Good's shooting

At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Watching them all fall in line to brazenly lie to protect their new secret police/terror squads from accountability for shooting a scared mom in the face 3 times, is a reminder (in case we still needed one) that it’s no where near enough to just replace Trump. It’s the entire immoral & corrupt GOP.

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HR "Jane" Haldeman @janetherevelator.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Happened at my alma mater, UNO. Just another day in America i guess

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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I know this comes up a lot but I'm trying to game out what would have happened if Obama said this about Alabama in 2010.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 13/01/2026

just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday

Eyewitness account:
Good morning,
My name is Brandon Siguenza, and l am a US citizen from Minneapolis. Yesterday, while doing legal observation, ICE stopped their cars to harass my friend and me. They sprayed pepper spray into the vent of our vehicle. We held our hands in the air and told them we were not obstructing, that the car was in park and they were free to drive forward and away. There was no active immigration raid. They returned to their cars, and drove forward a bit, then decided to stop again. They surrounded us, smashed the windows of our car, opened the doors (they were unlocked), ripped my friend and I out of the car and arrested us on charges of obstruction.
I was put in an unmarked SUV, separated from my friend.
As I was put in the back seat an ICE agent tore the whistle off my neck and said "I'll be taking this, I might need it later." My phone was knocked out of my hand while being arrested. As we drove away I asked the driver and the passenger if they wouldn't mind buckling my seatbelt, as they were driving erratically. I was ignored. I asked them if I could have the handcuffs loosened, as I was losing circulation, and was told no. At one point the passenger realized his own driver's license was in the backseat next to mine, and tried to surreptitiously grab it without me seeing it.
We were taken to the Whipple federal building, where I saw dozens of brown people being processed in an unheated garage. I was frisked, told of my charges, and saw buses and vans being prepped. I later learned that these were being filled with detainees and driven to the airport for deportation. As we were led in, I noticed that the building was very busy. I got the impression that one of the 2 agents bringing me around was being trained. At multiple points throughout my stay, government agents were unable to open doors, not sure where they were meant to be going, and overall confused and overwhelmed. They couldn't figure out how to use the building phones, or complai…

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

He shot a mother in the face three times after she said “I’m not mad.”

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Just spitballing here, but I think the founders probably wouldn't have approved of a President putting the entirety of a highly militarized federal government on a war footing against a state because he didn't like how they voted in the last election. But I'm sure John Roberts knows what he's doing.

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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

There are countless examples like this just stacking up with absolutely no accountability from any case, just operating with absolute impunity to commit overt crimes and trample any semblance of rights to US citizens and immigrants alike

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

he sounds like bush talking about iraq, but instead he's declared war on america

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/01/2026

Using his clemency power, Trump has undone prosecutions made by his own DOJ during his first term. Experts say the actions show a broad contempt for the justice system: “He’s rejecting ... the work of people he appointed but didn’t fully control.” (Published Nov. 2025)

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A Tale of Two Terms: How Powerful Figures Were Prosecuted in Trump’s First Term, Then Pardoned in His Second

We found that Donald Trump has granted clemency in at least a dozen criminal cases that originated during his first term. No other president has used clemency to erase his own appointees’ actions on s...

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Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com · 13/01/2026

Hey ICE,

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

"Dem fold" is a really weird way to describe the prison that he should spend the rest of his breathing moments in.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/01/2026

the thing about “ICE needs training” is that Jonathan Ross was a ten year DHS vet and a firearms instructor he’s the kind of guy they get training from the whole institution is rotten, throw it out

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 13/01/2026

This kind of 'science reporting' really grinds my gears, the conclusions in the study cited were not nearly this conclusive, many of the studies reviewed were biased, there was limited long-term followup, and these were all things readily available in the abstract!

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Exercise is as effective as medication in treating depression, study finds

New research shows exercise is as effective as medication at reducing symptoms of depression. And you don't need to run a marathon to see benefits. So how much is enough?

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

FYI this is part of the assault on Minnesota. FinCEN has issued a Geographic Targeting Order for Hennepin & Ramsey counties imposing additional reporting orders on banks and financial services. Federal outlays in 2025 exceeded those in 2024. This, like DOGE, is all pretext. Negative savings.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/01/2026

"The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a 'drug boat,' killing 11 ... the laws of armed conflict prohibit combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then killing them. That is a war crime."

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U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

if it helps, almost all cops are MAGA shitheads. the only guy i knew in high school who became a cop ended up becoming scary and rightwing and weird. you can argue all day long about whether cops start out as good people or not but the act of being boiled alive in that pot? it does ruin people

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 13/01/2026

January is often awful because insurance changes are just like "oh, you carefully and painstakingly figured out how to make these systems that don't care if you die sort of work? lmfao, let's shake it up on 1/1"

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JoCat is not fast @jocat.net · 13/01/2026

I personally believe if we want to try and dress up using AI gen to "speed up production" as if that is the real concern, we should instead be more okay with reusing already existing assets made by actual humans, rather than generating from a pool of stolen assets at a massive energy cost

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