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Rita Melinda Red

@ritamelindared.bsky.social
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non-fascist genx (i was adhd when adhd wasn't cool), geek-chic science freak, 45wpm but touchtyping imposs 4 me😩, deep south escapee, pro-democracy, pro-lgbtq, pro-teacher, pro-all the beautiful shades of skin, pro-ukraine, pro-freedom 4 all she/her

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Kim-M 26947 @kimberlymorgan.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
This article by John Fugelsang is spot on! 👇👇👇👇 Happy 250th Birthday, America: Here's a Presidential Cover-Up of Child Rape This Week's 5 Phases of Sloppy Epstein Corruption johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/happy-250t...
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Happy 250th Birthday, America: Here's a Presidential Cover-Up of Child Rape
This Week's 5 Phases of Sloppy Epstein Corruption
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Watch the video as a recklessly driven cheap car careens around and a gang of armed thugs spring out to menace an innocent civilian, like a kidnapping or robbery or murder-for-hire. It looks like organized crime taking place in a third-world country, because it is.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
FLASHBACK — Trump FBI director Kash Patel to Congress, under oath: “There’s no credible information that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked minors to others individuals.”🤔
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I guess this didn't make it into the documentary.
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 31/01/2026
I’ve been asked to help lead impeachment proceedings against Secretary Noem, unless she resigns or is fired in the coming days. She must be held accountable.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Unmarked car, no lights or police insignia. Masked armed men leap out. Victim not in the act of committing any crime. This is not how a serious federal law enforcement agency acts in a free society. How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is attempting to recruit a new arsenal of Assistant U.S. Attorneys amid a wave of resignations.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Goldman: They’re still covering up, because only half of the documents have been released. I don’t understand why they get to decide—without explanation—why half of the material should be held back. Trump’s name is all over it. So now we know why there was such a cover-up…
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I wonder how many people know about "Aryanization" in Nazi Germany
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"Aryanization" | Holocaust Encyclopedia
By the process of "Aryanization" in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, Jewish-owned businesses and property were transferred to non-Jews. Learn more.
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
DODEA marksmanship | Freshman shooter Kayla Garrett went on to win the prone and overall best shooter awards and propelled the Raiders to a three-peat championship performance Friday and Saturday. More: www.stripes.com/sports/europ...
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Raiders win third straight marksmanship crown
Kaiserslautern tops five other teams in the first year that JROTC takes over the season-ending championships from DODEA-Europe.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Powerful MAGA
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 31/01/2026
They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/01/2026
The nazis redistributed the stolen property of deported Jews to the German population. It was called Aryanization. This is no different. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryaniz...
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Fucking hell. When PBPD executed a search warrant on Epstein's house on October 12, 2005, they found the high school transcript of one of his victims in his desk drawer. And that's not to mention the photos and toys in the closet, and the tapes beside the TV, which I am just going to leave alone.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
WATCH — @petebuttigieg.bsky.social on Fox: “The people that are supposed to be enforcing the law are breaking the law. It has been held in court that they’ve violated countless court orders.”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/01/2026
Redacted to Epstein: I give you permission to kill him.' He is apparently with Olga. He lied to you and he lied to me. Epstein: whoops Redacted: No one will lie to you and get away with it from me. No one. Whoops is correct.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Classic authoritarian logic: corrupt people by giving them an incentive to do the wrong thing. In 1933 and 1938, years of major assaults on targeted groups, the Nazis forgave the debt of other Germans to bind them to the regime.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Good on @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and House Dems for doing this. Dems should be driving a much harder bargain than the milquetoast approach of Schumer and his appeasement senate Dems caucus.
X post from Sarah Ferris from CNN

“Jeffries has informed Johnson that Dems will not bail out Rs on a suspension vote - which requires 2/3 of House, sources tell @mkraju & me. Confirming Punchbowl

House Dems say it’s not their deal to pass, not inclined to help GOP out. 

Caucus will have call tomorrow evening.”
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Remember, the full Epstein Files are well over 6 million pages long. What you have seen so far is the *least offensive* 3 million pages. Trump and his lawyers are hiding the other 3 million pages—and have made clear that they will never ever release them, federal law be damned.
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 31/01/2026
ICE has more funding than all the other federal law enforcement agencies combined. They're not going to stop at Minneapolis. They're going to continue unleashing evil and cruelty on the streets of American cities until Congress puts a stop to this.
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Academia, Science, Media, Politics, Tech and Finance all revolve around one thing: Money That’s why so many high profile people surrounded the billionaire Epstein like moths to a flame.
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 31/01/2026
Here's a synergy you weren't expecting: Denmark sold pedophile island to the US in exchange for Greenland en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_...
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Stephen Rodrick @stephenrodrick.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Trump's lawyer says he chose to withhold "images of death" from a tranche of docs his client's name is all over, as well as other current and former members of Trump's administration. How are millions not in the street protesting the Epstein Files? We're paying taxes to these people.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
JD Vance in 2021:
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Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail?
And now we just don't talk about it.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Alex Acosta should rot for all time.
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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying. Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
What we found is bleak. Attorneys told us they’re struggling to get information in to or out of ICE and Customs and Border Protection facilities, which are holding nearly 69,000 people this month. And detainees often are forced to choose between remaining in crowded, squalid conditions or leaving the country immediately.

Judges in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have ordered the government to facilitate attorney-client communications at Homeland Security buildings. But attorneys say that doesn’t always happen. Even if detainees get the option, some worry they’ll be punished if they take it.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
ICE agents were told this week that they can arrest people without a warrant. They’re denying due process and incentivized to arrest and detain as many people as possible, even if they end up released. This is why they’re expanding detention camps.
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ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Written about this before but the administration's housing policy is centered around abducting people with the theory that it will lower demand and also that people will just move into homes and apartments presumably still full the victims' belongings. Which is nuts
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
DHS doesn’t even bother trying to lie well. The man whose skull was shattered told the hospital he’d been struck by ICE officers, an ICE officer told hospital staff the guy “got his sh*t rocked,” then when it became clear how badly he was injured, they claimed he deliberately ran into a wall.
ICE's account of how he was hurt evolved during the time that federal officers were at his bedside. At least one ICE officer told caregivers that Castañeda Mondragón "got his (expletive) rocked" after his Jan. 8 arrest near a St. Paul shopping center, the court filings and a hospital staff member said. His arrest happened a day after the first of two fatal shootings in Minneapolis by immigration officers.
The Department of Homeland Security, which includes ICE, did not respond to repeated requests for comment on his injuries. A deportation officer skirted the issue in the court documents, saying that during the intake process at an ICE detention center, it was determined he "had a head injury that required emergency medical treatment."But staff members at Hennepin County Medical Center determined that could not possibly account for the fractures and bleeding throughout the man's 31-year-old's brain, said three nurses familiar with the case.
"It was laughable, if there was something to laugh about," said one of the nurses, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss patient care. "There was no way this person ran headfirst into a wall."Castañeda Mondragón was alert and speaking, telling staff he was "dragged and mistreated by federal agents," though his condition quickly deteriorated, the documents said.
The following week, a Jan. 16 court filing described his condition as minimally responsive and communicative, disoriented and heavily sedated.
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Leave it to McArdle to portray the abductions, murders, and predations of ICE and the Border Patrol as a lesson in how "the civil service... is simply not built for excellence"! The problem isn't bureaucracy, it's fascism.
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Multiple sources: Zhang Shengmin, Secretary of CMC commission for Discipline Inspection, might be dead. Sources say he died by suicide at home. If true, Xi Jinping will be the only remaining member of the CMC.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I don’t know maybe it’s me, maybe I’m old-fashioned, but doesn’t it seem like a bad idea for the president, a bunch of his cabinet members, the guy he let decimate our federal workforce and his future Fed Chair, to be implicated in the criminal files of a notorious child sex trafficker?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2026
straight up Gestapo shit
DHS: Want affordable housing? Help report illegal aliens in your area. Call 866-DHS-2-ICE.

If you are an illegal alien, you can take control of your departure using DHS.GOV/CBPHOME.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 31/01/2026
It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
We finally know what happened to DOJ's (frivolous) misconduct complaint against Chief Judge Boasberg: It was transferred by Chief Justice Roberts from the D.C. Circuit to Sixth Circuit Chief Judge Jeff Sutton, and Sutton dismissed it in a ... direct ... memorandum and order just two weeks later:
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
'There’s something bigger going on': State election chiefs rebuff Trump bid to seize voter rolls www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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'There’s something bigger going on': State election chiefs rebuff Trump bid to seize voter rolls
Roughly two dozen states have rejected the Trump administration’s request, prompting an unprecedented legal clash between the Justice Department and state election officials.
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Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 31/01/2026
Liam, a 5-year-old boy, should be home with his family and going to school to see his friends. Instead, he’s hungry and depressed at Dilley detention center.    He and his father must be released immediately.
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Exclusive: House Oversight Committee ranking member Rep. @robertgarcia.bsky.social calls on DOJ inspector general to investigate arrest of Don Lemon: “… you must investigate this shocking abuse of power highlighted in this incident.”
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Yes, we need ALL the Epstein files.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
BREAKING: A federal judge just ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from immigration custody — condemning their removal from Minneapolis as unconstitutional. Judge Fred Biery condemned "the perfidious lust for unbridled power" and "the imposition of cruelty."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
👇🏽 @gallego.senate.gov amplifying a witness who worked for Epstein swearing under oath Trump/Epstein threatened witnesses with death/disappearance if they revealed the child sex abuse she witnessed
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Full rights and citizenship actually means they’re not a “foreign labor class.” And that’s what he’s angry about. He’s mad citizenship is universal rather than restricted to white people like before the civil war bsky.app/profile/gbbr...
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Translated "it's fine if they're slaves or indentured servants"
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 31/01/2026
we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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