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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Vicious cartoon by Clay Jones. And an association I think about every time I think about insurrectionists being pardoned or ICE recruiting. #UnmaskICE

ICE agent saying "It's easier putting children in zip ties than it was storming the Capitol," implying that many ICE agents were at January 6 and are violent insurrectionists.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

"Warden, you are breaking federal law: 118-47, Sec 527a. On camera." We must have a SERIOUS conversation about DoJ, FBI and US Marshals not being under the Executive Branch. At minimum, Article 3 Courts need to have their own law enforcement arm (US Marshals?) to enforce court orders.

Text of law enabling Congressional oversight of DHS detention facilities at any time with a 24 hour heads-up.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

If there's any justice left in this country, this sticks to Homan. I'm... skeptical. #UnmaskICE

Homan, head of ICE, took bribes in exchange for political favors. Allegedly.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Do not trust any official government statement. It's all lies and propaganda.

ICE officially reports 144K removals, but including 4 months under Biden. Previous leaked figures to press were 200,000 since Trump inauguration, or about double the real numbers.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

#ConstitutionDay celebrations #2: CBP recruits minors. #ICE: no mention.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Today is #ConstitutionDay: the anniversary of the day in 1787 that the Constitution was ratified. Here is how different federal federal agencies are celebrating: #UnmaskICE FBI, as I'd expect, is the most classy. /1

FBI upholds the Constitution on Constitution Day.

DHS asks people in America to report on each other.

DHS recruits agents with "Defend the Homeland - Join ICE today" with a picture of Noem.

DHS says all JS citizenship is sacred and says Trump congratulated newly naturalized citizens.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Extraordinary dissent from Sotomayor. "Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." An apparent 6-3 ruling on the shadow docket with no explanation of the majority, allowing ICE to detain anyone under suspicion of "walking while appearing Latino." #UnmaskICE

Dissent from Sotomayor. "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Man in the High Castle for inspiration. paologiandoso.artstation.com/projects/La5Ev

Concept art of Nazi architecture from Man In the High Castle.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Add Chicagoans to the list of people who are going to get good and mad.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Found on Reddit. No credit given, just "Spread it wide." Glad someone is doing this stuff. #UnmaskICE

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

"It is hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal." Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said: "It is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in the adventure before us." Stay brave, patriots.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Photo 1: Patriot Front, a white supremacist group. using a U-Haul as a troop carrier. Video 1: DHS, a department actively working to deport brown people, using a Penske as a troop carrier. And maybe violating court orders. #UnmaskICE

White supremacists pack into a U-Haul against company rules on safe rental truck usage.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

So much for HIPAA... And today I learned that HIPAA is enforced for by Health and Human Services. So we have Brain Worm Kennedy protecting confidential medical data. #UnmaskICE

A patch saying "It gets worse before it gets worse.*

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

July 5, Louisville, KY. Proud Boys March. With DHS prioritizing detention law-abiding immigrants over right-wing domestic terror investigations, the threat of another Oklahoma City bombing or a plot to assassinate governors/lawmakers increases. www.instagram.com/reel/DLx99Z8...

Proud Boys march, wearing masks and flying Confederate flags.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

You're right. About this not being good trouble. Not about me being a lefty. I'm a radical moderate. This inane thread is just a waste of everyone's energy at this point.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Sorry, what? The poll you posted doesn't have corruption as an option. The results of that poll thus have no relevance or bearing on how "the economy" fares against "corruption." www.pogo.org/analysis/cor...

Corruption is top issue facing the country in POGO poll of Ohio and Michigan.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

The left knows all about fighting because they have a lot of practice. They fight everyone all the time. The gap is focusing and targeting that fighting ability strategically to achieve an outcome. E.g., destroying property rather than nonviolent "good trouble" that wins the moral battle.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

And you just lost 30% of gettable voters by saying singing the National Anthem isn't good. You just let the Jan 6 "political prisoners" define patriotism. Might as well have brought up gun control. When bridge protesting, having a sign gets x honks. Having a sign and a flag gets 10x honks.

Wayne and Gus from Letterkenny say "Figger it out."

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Good on ya. I still work, doing similar things to what you did for a living. Don't get me started on state Democrats. Across this entire conversation, I bet we're all in 80+% agreement and could have robust healthy discussion across the other 20%. And yet here we all are, in-fighting.

Wayne from Letterkenny saying, "Figure it out."

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

A long read, but a fantastic primer on how our current immigration courts work and why the system is hopelessly complicated. From 2018, so things may have changed a bit. U of Cincinnati Law Review: "Creating an Article I Immigration Court." scholarship.law.uc.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Header of University of Cincinnati Law Review article: "Creating an Article I Immigration Court."

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

BTW, why aren't immigration courts under the Constitution's Article III court system? 1. They are part of DoJ. So the prosecuting branch also owns the courts. Great. 2. AILA advocates for immigration courts independent of DoJ. docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/... immigrationforum.org/wp-content/u...

AILA advocates for independent Article I immigration courts.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

#ICE complaining about non-US flags being flown, which is Constitutionally protected free speech. And yet they're silent while their boss pardons insurrectionists from Jan 6 flying... non-US flags. Talk about desecration of American soil - namely the hallowed halls of the US Capitol.

DHS threatens to deport people flying non-US flags.

Jan 6 insurrectionist flies Confederate flag inside US Capitol.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

DHS post compared to Nazi Volksgemeinschaft propaganda. I look at the DHS post and can't help but think of the thousands of Native Americans slaughtered by US settlers and soldiers. This is the image DHS chooses to represent the US "heritage." Just fly a Confederate flag at this point, #ICE.

DHS treats white colonialism as proud American "heritage."

Propaganda poster for Nazi-era Volksgemeinschaft.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

The "drink where they poop" line drives me nuts. Prisons have been using space-saving toilet+sink units for years; Democrats just haven't bothered to notice. Theoretically, it reduces water use and some homes also use them.

Combined sink+toilet used in many prisons.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

This looks a lot like a military invasion of a US city. It's hard to tell, but to my eye that looks like a tripod-mounted sniper rifle with a silencer. Would be happy to be wrong.

Tripod-mounted rifle with scope and maybe a silencer photographed at MacArthur Park, Los Angeles.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Don't pre-concede the symbol. The flag is a symbol of liberty, not of autocracy.

America citizens exercise their First Amendment rights on No Kings June 14, 2025, with a large American flag.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Found in the niche sci-fi horror comedy section.

President Comacho from Idiocracy demonstrating the best way to approach advertising while President.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I simply... feel bad for our troops. So undeserving of this political theater.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Brass band as counterprotest defense. Nice. We need a few of these around, too.

Chaos Noise Marine miniature from Warhammer 40K.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Spontaneous No Kings block party in Oakland. #NoKings

Patriots exercising their 1st Amendment rights.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Just some patriotic Americans exercising their 1st Amendment rights in San Jose.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

It's also to avert a herd stampede. In large numbers, humans act very much like a herd, and, if routed, can panic and cause a lot of physical damage to other people. It's an efficient way to take up space/stand your ground, be safe AND provide powerful images.

Protestors kneel at a Black Lives Matter protest.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

It's in the context of violent agitators. It separates the peaceful from the aggressive very clearly. Plus the images and symbols are very powerful to casual observers.

Martin Luther King and protestors peacefully kneeling in Selma, Alabama.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I'll decide whether to exercise my 1st Amendment rights myself, thank you very much. Maybe I'll carry a Gadsden flag in the spirit of resisting an oppressive tyrannical government while I'm at it.

Gadsden flag: a rattlesnake with the words "Don't tread on me."

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Here's one. Take the symbol of the American flag and what it stands for back.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Tempe Rising representing today! We're taking back the symbols: the flag, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. Getting ready for No Kings June 14. If you're unsure about participating in an event for your first time, grab a friend and go. Great people everywhere, great vibe.

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

One 10,000 person protest in a city is manageable. Ten 1,000 person protests jams infrastructure.

Minsk: Ten 1,000 person protests cause chaos

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Can't even get the timeline right. LOL. Let's play geoguessr. Your turn: where are you at on #MayDay? Your mom's basement, I presume?

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Palo Alto #TeslaTakedown Apr 26, '25. Estimated 200 patriots exercising their 1st Amendment rights. #WhatDemocracyLooksLike

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Heads-up. El Salvador is getting too hot, so Trump has started sending people to Rwanda. www.reuters.com/world/us-dep...

Meme: David Mitchell, "Are we the baddies?"

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mikecating.bsky.social @mikecating.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Tempe, AZ shows up for #HandsOff #Indivisible #protest. Estimated 2,000 civic-minded patriots.

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