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@speedyrick.bsky.social
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Socialist. From Seattle and New Mexico. Former AUSA, ex-journalist Latin American Review, Dog lover, avid reader, news junkie.

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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It was never about immigrants taking American jobs. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump immigrant purge could cut social security for Americans by $2,000 a year
New report on economic cost of anti-immigration campaign projects 8.6% reduction in retirement payments by 2034
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Many people prefer to believe the brutes and the sadists are responsible, largely because they are not like “us”. But modern genocide is the product of those who belong to the second category: the technocrats, bureaucrats and cold planners of extermination, who don’t get their hands dirty."
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This movie brings to mind The Zone of Interest, where a Nazi commander and his family leads a comfortable life while the grinding noise of Auschwitz and the stench of human flesh burning waft by unnoticed in their lives of comfort. www.theguardian.com/global/comme...
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How do human beings explain taking part in genocide? NAZA provides a chilling look | Omer Bartov
It’s easier to blame brutes and sadists for extreme violence. But as we see in the documentary, modern genocides are fueled by people who are uncomfortably recognizable
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We're fucked. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Medieval’ and ‘rather disturbing’: US plan to livestream execution elicits global condemnation
Pentagon said execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, would be broadcast live
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Katy Padilla Stout, a San Antonio attorney and former teacher, is the Democratic nominee in the 23rd TX Congressional district is in a 2 point race. Your vote or your donation can really help to keep the creepy monster Brandon Herrera out of Congress. www.texastribune.org/2026/08/05/t...
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I guess Donald will have to wait another year for his Nobel Peace Prize. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...
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Baby Making Funny Faces and Crying
ALT: Baby Making Funny Faces and Crying
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Nita Cosby @5-2blue.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." "Miller certainly seemed to make that point to everyone that he wanted it to be cruel." www.rawstory.com/stephen-mill...
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'He wanted it to be cruel': Insiders reveal Stephen Miller's 'insane' immigrant plan
A government contractor says White House adviser Stephen Miller "wanted it to be cruel" when the administration planned to turn warehouses into immigrant detention centers.The contractor, whose compan...
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Can't wait to watch this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFTf...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Documentary
YouTube video by Elevation Pictures
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Can we call it genocide now? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Chaos and cruelty’: the kids trapped in Trump’s immigration enforcement campaign
Children are being detained in record numbers, sometimes alone and where lawyers and family cannot find them
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Stephen "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...
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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You mean people like Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang, Peter Thiel and Jan Koum amongst others. Yeah, fuckin deport them.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Before he was appointed, Kash Patel was flagged by FBI counterintelligence agents as being deeply enmeshed in influence operations run by the Russians and Chinese. After he took over, Patel began systematically eliminating all Russian and Chinese counterintelligence capacity. What to make of that?
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As Trump focuses the FBI on immigration, counterintelligence is falling behind
The cuts come as a consequence of President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel's focus on violent crime and immigration, leaving other priorities understaffed.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"I am, I hope it's clear, not remotely asking you to feel sorry for Donald Trump. But I do want to focus some attention on just how sad a tableau this actually is, in addition to arrogant, grandiose, illegal and all the rest. But fundamentally sad." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
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Trump Rages, Rages Against the Dying of the Light
This is the weekly, free edition of The Backchannel. If you’d like...
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ken Paxton wants to kill your children. The TX Senate Repug candidate is threatening criminal prosecutions of pediatricians for doing their job. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
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Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children (Gift Article)
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Rahm Emanuel has as much chance of gaining the nomination for President as Republicans have of holding Congress. As they say, the dust bin of history.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Great. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Relatives of Epstein victim appear in attack ad targeting Republican congressman
Family of Virginia Giuffre criticizes Colorado’s Jeff Crank for voting to block a vote to release the Epstein files
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Here comes the next pandemic. edition.cnn.com/2026/10/04/e...
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Dozens quarantined after researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of ‘unknown’ infection | CNN
Dozens of people were reported to be in isolation after a Russian laboratory worker at an institute dedicated to studying the plague and other infectious diseases died of an undisclosed illness.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When I think of bipartisanship, names come to mind: Joe Manchin, Krysten Sinema, the Koch Bros. "Third Way", John Fetterman, Dems who voted for the SAVE Act, senators who voted for Hegseth, Patel, Blanche, Kristi Noem and the rest of the clown show. Fuck bipartisanship and onto war for democracy.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cultists.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Not even remotely funny. Pathetic.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This case just makes my blood boil. Gang raped by Frat Rats and the DA and Cornell think, writing on essay is appropriate punishment.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
TX 23rd district. The choice is between a MAGA extremist with no qualifications or a school teacher, Katy Padilla Stout represent one. Republican Brandon Herrera is an extremist with neo-Nazi views and hates women. This is a two point race, donate to Katy's campaign. emilyslist.org/candidate/ka...
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This case just makes my blood boil. Gang raped by Frat Rats and the DA and Cornell think, writing on essay is appropriate punishment. Incredible. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
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D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional Evidence (Gift Article)
Records show that campus police officers informed Tompkins County prosecutors that they had conducted additional interviews beyond taking a statement from the woman who said she was raped.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Call the Ken Paxton Corruption Hotline at 844-WHOS-KEN. Learn about his record and leave him a voicemail. (It’s a real number.)
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ICE arrested the mom of a 9-year-old at a school bus stop in Austin, leaving him alone and crying. The video has profanity and is heartbreaking to watch, but it shows the fear/pain of what happened. This is evil. This is wrong. And it has to stop.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Absolutely. Dystopian shit straight out of Blade Runner.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Republicans endorse Kansas Dem Adam Hamilton. Hayden is the second Republican former Kansas governor to endorse Hamilton former Gov. Bill Graves backed the Democrat in early September. Arch Naramore, who won a fifth of the vote in the Republican Senate primary, has also endorsed Hamilton.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
S.C. Justice John Roberts is hated by his neighbors for his Trumpism. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him.
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Indeed. The two most divisive characters in American politics running our civilian led military in a non-political manner. 🤡
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rebecca Kutler is who we should be focusing on at MSNOW. She fired Joy Reid and replaced them with a banal set of "noncontroversial" talking heads. Still good to have Chris Hayes, Nicole Wallace and Rachel Maddow but Kutler would have made the decision.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rebecca Kutler is who we should be focusing on at MSNOW. She fired Joy Reid and replaced them with a banal set of "noncontroversial" talking heads. Still good to have Chris Hayes, Nicole Wallace and Rachel Maddow but Kutler would have made the decision.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“This event is the worst we’ve seen and unlike any other botched execution in the modern era,” said Robin Maher, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center. “There is no precedent.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say (Gift Article)
Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump loses again. thehill.com/regulation/c...
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Appeals court backs finding Trump colluded with IRS, Treasury
An appeals court Tuesday sided with a lower court judge who determined President Trump colluded with the Department of Justice (DOJ) in bringing and later dismissing a case seeking $10 billion in d…
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Truly disturbing. Fraud on the most vulnerable. Must watch.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pathetic.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Brandon Herrera, a misogynist Repug candidate for Texas 23rd district is ahead by only a 6 point spread. This is one of the gerrymandered districts that Trump created. Katy Stout the Dem is grossly being outspent. Donations in this race can still turn the race. secure.actblue.com/donate/dw_tx23
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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MAGA Senator Humiliated After Attempt to Corner Jack Smith Backfires Comically
Eric Schmitt thought he was cornering former Special Counsel Jack Smith over a conspiracy theory about his prosecution of Donald Trump. He was wrong.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The difference between the practice depicted in “Checkout,” the comedy, and the unrelenting, unbearable horror described in “NAZA” is scale. Now, it’s industrial. That’s what makes it a genocide." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o...
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Opinion | There Is a Word So Powerful It Need Be Spoken Only Once (Gift Article)
The film that makes a powerful statement without ever raising its voice.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not to worry, DJT's NFL fascist commercials will not confuse Alaskans that his fascist vision will make their lives better. www.alaskasnewssource.com/2026/09/25/2...
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From $24 gas in Noatak to emergency generators in Anchorage, rural Alaska braces for winter energy strain
While gas prices topping $24 a gallon force remote communities to scale back subsistence hunting, state energy crews are stockpiling emergency generators and critical hardware in Anchorage.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Scott Galloway says that he, as a Jew, gets to define what genocide means and that the destruction, bombing, killing and displacement visited on Gaza do not constitute genocide because they did not kill enough people. Genocide has a legal definition, look it up Scott. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFRG...
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Scott Galloway Asks Absurd Genocide Question
YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Utterly insane and blasphemous although the skulls of his enemies kinda tell the whole story, right? And you wonder why normal people hate AI slop.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Or is it the "final solution."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/09/2026
Their punishment was to write essays.
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Source New Mexico @sourcenm.com · 25/09/2026
A New Mexico jury on Friday found Facebook willfully committed more than 43 million violations under state law and engaged in unfair and deceptive trade practices regarding collection of user data. buff.ly/sG1wrso
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New Mexico jury finds Facebook at fault over data collection • Source New Mexico
A New Mexico jury on Friday found Facebook willfully engaged in unfair and deceptive trade practices over third-party data sharing.
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Project Jupiter in New Mexico is on life support. Now is the time to keep fighting it. Here's a discussion of Oracle and the financial problems facing Project Jupiter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cbv...
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Hyperscalers are hiding a massive secret about uninstalled GPUs | Ed Zitron
YouTube video by The Tech Report
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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle (Gift Article)
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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