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Kristen

@mediaperuana.bsky.social
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Writing, mostly about Latin America. Knitter, yogi, translator, feminist, mom, probably some other stuff too www.thecollector.com/author/kristen…

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Yes,the emerging line is wily, ruthless Israel tricked poor, trusting, naive Donald Trump into a stupid, reckless war. GMAFB. Israel has absolutely pushed for this but ultimately it’s DONALD TRUMP who decided to take the US to war. He likes war! He likes blowing things up! He literally says it’s fun
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Trump thinks the dangerous part here is the stretch when Iran *didn't* have the means to make a bomb and thinks we should all applaud him for changing that and making all this possible again
Iranian Enriched Uranium chart
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Kristen @mediaperuana.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Too easy.
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Kristen @mediaperuana.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I can’t believe bullying *the entire world* for a year resulted in no one wanting to help us!
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Lula tells Trump he won’t allow a Neo-Nazi envoy in Brasil! Its top headline story in Brasil. No one in US is talking about it
paydayreport.com
Lula Bans Trump Envoy w/ Neo-Nazi Ties from Entering Brasil
Today, Brazilian President Lula announced that he was banning Trump envoy Dennis Beattie from entering Brasil.
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Kristen @mediaperuana.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
“It’s open for transit as long as death is a fee you’re willing to pay.” Fucking clown.
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Kristen @mediaperuana.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I object.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Constitutional amendment to launch billionaires into the sun.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This is just astonishingly great reporting. All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them. And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.
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Insurrectionist Brunch: Trumpists plotted to deploy military on U.S. soil
Before the 2024 election, a cadre of MAGA loyalists met over brunch to plot ways for Trump to use the military domestically.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Flashback to the 2024 Republican National Convention 👇🏽
A whole bunch of white people holding MASS DEPORTATION NOW signs
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
We have successfully bombed a school, gotten 7 soldiers killed, disrupted the world economy, and replaced an 86 year-old supreme leader with his much younger, more hardline son who is more committed to building nuclear weapons. Operation Middle East Wing is all but complete. by Donald J. Trump
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Kristen @mediaperuana.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
There’s also apparently a lot of popular sentiment that the Earth is flat, COVID was a hoax, and Tupac is alive. Doesn’t make it true.
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Kristen @mediaperuana.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Every day I don’t have a stroke is a miracle.
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Kristen @mediaperuana.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
All great foreign policy is built on soldiers having “fun.”
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 09/03/2026
DHS claims that people detained in Minnesota had access to legal counsel, but new evidence from our case reveals a different story. Through attorney declarations and documents obtained via our court-ordered discovery, here is what we found 🔽
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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 09/03/2026
It's been 65 days since Donald Trump invaded a sovereign state, abducted its leader, and declared the US will "run" the state indefinitely It's been 9 days since Trump launched a war (his word) against Iran without congressional approval No House member has filed articles of impeachment for either
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The Iranian ambassador was not, for the record, on American soil. I’ve never seen an admin more full of juvenile man-children openly projecting their juvenile man-childness every time they open their mouths and try to come across as “tough.” (And yes, I know Waltz’s background: still juvenile.)
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Kristen @mediaperuana.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Fucking good
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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Trump/Hegseth operational security: at Joe’s Stone Crab, a restaurant a 2-minute walk from the White House, someone was having a conversation about the attacks on Iran that were going to start in 6 hours. Loud enough for the founder of @TMZ.com to recount it in real time with his podcast cohost.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Just a reminder that Trump didn't just bumble us into an unnecessary war -- he deliberately created the conditions that he's now screaming about
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Kristen @mediaperuana.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
There is no bottom with these slimey creeps.
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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
One family is about to control CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok. They’ll buy Warner Brothers with $24 billion from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi. To win over Trump, they canceled Colbert, blocked a 60 Minutes CECOT investigation, and blocked Talarico. Much more will follow. Block this rotten deal.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The White House is obsessed with hiding the President's involvement in a child sex ring. It's what they spend most of their time on.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
yes Josh they had to redact thousands of files for that reason
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Kristen @mediaperuana.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Why are literally all of this nation’s LEOs such fragile, whiny babies? How do they not spontaneously combust in shame?
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Kristen @mediaperuana.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I patently refuse to watch that festering orange garbage bag speak, but I am going to be so angry if I miss seeing this live.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 24/02/2026
Rep. Massie:  “I've not seen any arrests from the revelations in the Epstein files…Over two dozen people have resigned, CEOs, members of government worldwide. But I haven't seen any arrests or investigations here in the United States from this DOJ.”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The stories in here of what DHS officers are doing to children who are still making the journey to the southern border to seek protection is appalling. One teenager says he was threatened with "a dog and a stun gun" into signing away his right to seek protection in the United States
Ms. Fisher Flores has since learned that CBP is using misinformation, extreme coercion, threats, and fear to persuade children to relinquish their rights and purportedly “voluntarily” accept the return. “Over recent months, newly arrived unaccompanied minors have reported that federal immigration agents pressured them to waive their rights under the TVPRA, to abandon any claims for immigration relief they may have, and instead to accept expedited ‘voluntary return’ from the United States.” Id. ¶ 8. The children’s descriptions run the gamut from being willfully uninformed to being threatened and coerced. One LGML class member, an indigenous Guatemalan child, reported that “CBP agents shouted, cursed, and threatened [him] with a dog and a stun gun,” “told him he could accept a ‘voluntary return’ or he could remain detained for an extended period,” and refused his request to speak with his family before signing away his rights. Id. ¶ 11. This occurred on or around October 14, 2025—nearly a month after entry of the Court’s injunction.
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Kristen @mediaperuana.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Definitely Romero and Jesus Christ Superstar, but I also remember watching The Gods Must Be Crazy numerous times for unknown reasons?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
As the world reels from the president's rant and threats of additional tariff chaos, I'd just like to remind the UK that they recently arrested someone who could probably bring down this entire house of cards with very little incentive.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/02/2026
The Roberts Court loves corporations. Corporations are their benefactor more so than Trump. Corporations were not happy with the tariffs. SCOTUS rules against Trump when it's Corporations v. Trump. End of. Don't let this fool you into thinking this court as any goddamn legitimacy. It does not.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The majority of Americans believe the president sexually abused children in a notorious sexual trafficking operation.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 19/02/2026
Hmm. The US is giving $10 billion in taxpayer dollars, not appropriated by Congress, to a fake board set up by the President and which he put himself in charge of *for life*... seems very, very illegal.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
In Minnesota, this policy involved ICE officers arresting refugees who had done EVERYTHING right, then flying them to Texas in chains for interrogation. Remember, these people had filed every application on time, had done nothing wrong, and were here in the country 100% legally.
Published Jan. 26, 2026
Updated Jan. 29, 2026
Selamawit Mehari, an Eritrean single mother of three, was starting her day when federal agents showed up at her apartment in St. Paul, Minn., on a recent morning. As her 13-year-old son wailed and her older daughter produced paperwork proving her mother was in the United States lawfully, the agents shackled Ms. Mehari and took her away.
"They didn't explain anything," recalled her daughter, Yosan, 21, who described the encounter to The New York Times. "We didn't understand. We had done everything right."
The next day, chained at the wrists, waist and ankles, Ms. Mehari, 38, was shuffling up the steps of a plane bound for Texas, tears streaming down her face in the frigid wind.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 18/02/2026
"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)
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Journalists Arrested in Cameroon While Reporting on Trump’s Secretive Deportation Program
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
NEWS: The FBI interviewed an Epstein victim who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was underage not once — but at least FOUR times. But the document that shows those additional interviews appears to have been deleted from the DOJ website. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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DOJ Removed Record of Multiple FBI Interviews with Underage Trump Accuser, Epstein Data Shows
The FBI spoke at least four times with a woman who credibly accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor, Epstein files show. That document is no longer accessible on the DOJ website.
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Kristen @mediaperuana.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Stupidity will kill us all.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
On January 10, 2026, while driving back to work after getting lunch with his father
and cousin, a car quickly passed O., sped up, then stopped in front of him. (Id. ¶ 3.) A
few men in civilian clothes stepped out of the car and asked for his identification. (Id.)
The men threatened O.—if he did not get out of the car, they would force him out. (Id.)
O. exited the car and was told he was under arrest. (Id.) The men handcuffed him and did
not allow him to bring his phone. (Id.) O. felt like he was being kidnapped. (Id.)
The men detained O., his father, and his cousin, taking them all to Whipple. (Id.
¶ 4.) At Whipple, there was “food scattered on the floor, the floor was sticky with mud,
and everything stuck to your shoes.” (Id. ¶ 5.) The space was so cramped that sometimes
there was no space to sit on the floor. (Id.)
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Kristen @mediaperuana.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The party of “protecting life.”
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Kristen @mediaperuana.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I’ll believe they’re serious about this when they do something about the overwhelming violence coming from straight cis white men.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Mia Valentina Paz Faria
A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas 
Detained for 70 days

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by 
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
We murdered 11 more people on boats last night
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Late on Feb. 16, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted three lethal kinetic strikes on three vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes and were engaged in narco-tratficking operations. Eleven male narco-terrorists were killed during these actions, 4 on the first vessel in the Eastern Pacific, 4 on the second vessel in the Eastern Pacific, and 3 on the third vessel in the Caribbean. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 17/02/2026
So we launched an unprovoked military operation, seized and sold a foreign country’s natural resources, and stashed the profits in a bank in Qatar. The Energy Secretary calls this “diplomacy,” but I don’t think that word means what he thinks it means.
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Kristen @mediaperuana.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Of course we are BUT WE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Americans bewildered as release of Epstein Files leads to resignations and criminal investigations in democracies around the world.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/02/2026
Goldman: "If Trump wants to put his name on everything, as he does, then let's start calling this the Trump-Epstein files"
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Kristen @mediaperuana.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Chinga la migra and that bitch Kristi Noem.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wow.
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