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Vamaly

@vamaly.bsky.social
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Textbook introvert. Eternal optimist with pessimistic tendencies. Lifelong Yinzer transplanted in the south. Interested in all things political, artsy, woo-woo, and cats. (She/Her)

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 06/03/2026
Republicans "supposedly worship at the cult of the Founders," but they don't "venerate the Founders’ beliefs and democratic principles" they "project their contemporaneous views backwards onto men who have been dead for centuries" tell em @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The American King Goes to War
This is not what the Founders intended.
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litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Use this gift link: share.inquirer.com/sIiF3w
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The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch
An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Spot on!! 🎯
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Roses are red Violets are blue Cocaine is better With a small bit of poo
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/02/2026
The Democratic Party is filled with ambitious politicians who lost their sense of urgency after Trump won. Pritzker did not talk about authoritarianism like someone who was trying to fundraise (obviously) or get attention. He talked about authoritarianism like someone who is haunted by its ghosts.
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What being a billionaire scion taught JB Pritzker about standing up to one
Few national Democrats have pushed back as forcefully against Trump’s authoritarian crackdown. There’s a reason for that.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
seriously insane
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Hegseth, among others, is using the school as a punching bag to express the generic social anxiety and status-based resentment that drives much of the MAGA movement. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Pete Hegseth’s Attack on Harvard
The anger at the Ivy League is about status envy, not war-fighting.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Homeland Security is monitoring anti-ICE Reddit posts, an intelligence bulletin leaked to me reveals: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-s...
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Homeland Security Spies on Reddit Users
Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users like "Budget-Chicken-2425"
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 06/02/2026
Trump being massively racist to cover up for shitting himself on tv to cover up for his wife's film bombing to cover up for being all over the Epstein files to cover up for..
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
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Vamaly @vamaly.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
In America, doing things this horrible gets you promoted to run the Dept of Defense 🙃😒
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
this is a really interesting point and i've been thinking along similar lines. the reaction to renee's murder was explosive, but the reaction to alex's murder feels like more of a turning point.
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Vamaly @vamaly.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
He’s literally humiliating us on the world stage because the government/America went from “a shining city on a hill” to a goddamn circus in a sewer.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 23/01/2026
this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
photo of march, signs for renee good and against ICe, crowded street.
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Ailani 🌺 Brown Eye Girl @browneyegirlhi.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Y'all got dis 👇🏼, right? Look 👇🏼 Watch 👇🏼 👇🏼 So, GOOD! I learned a long time ago; If you let people talk long enough, they'll tell on themselves, every time. ‼️💣💥👏🏼💥👏🏼💥👏🏼💣‼️
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Steve McPherson @steventurous.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.
Announcements
Sullivan Elementary •
10:30 AM • To: Sullivan Elementary
Hello Sullivan Families, we have learned that ICE is sending out flyers offering food support to families. For your safety, do not respond to these offers. If your family is in need of support, please contact the school and we will connect you with one of our School Social Workers. Thank you!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/01/2026
Here’s a clearer video of the interaction between Raiklin and Fanone. Stay til the end when members applaud Fanone and ask that Raiklin be reined in.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Trump's BOARD OF PEACE
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Vamaly @vamaly.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Watching the Jack Smith hearing and listening to Republicans suddenly care *so much* about following laws/policy/procedure and questioning how money is spent during investigations is comical. The GOP look like a bunch of fucking clowns with their nitpicking and questioning Smith’s integrity.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
HAPPENING NOW: Former special counsel Jack Smith is testifying before Congress to explain why he indicted Trump. Today, the American people will hear the facts that were collected against Trump & how his violations of federal law did incredible damage to our democracy.
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Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
"My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it." Said, Jack Smith before Congress today about Trump Prosecutions.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/01/2026
The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u... 🎁
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Air Force One Turns Back After Electrical Issue
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Insane — a French judge says Trump’s goons tried to pressure her over Le Pen’s prosecution and she was so “taken aback” she told the French foreign office “There’s a political project behind all this and we must be vigilant”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/01/2026
wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.
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Opinion | This Is the Only Card Trump Can Play
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I’d bet on it www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
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Private prisons are shrouded in secrecy. I took a job as a guard to get inside—then things got crazy
This is the biggest investigation we’ve ever published.
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Vamaly @vamaly.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I needed this. youtu.be/I5XR48KLE8I
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GWAR cover “Pink Pony Club” by Chappell Roan
YouTube video by The A.V. Club
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i be knowing @nthatsthetruth.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Evergreen.
I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People
Our disagreement is not merely political, but a fundamental divide on what it means to live in a society.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/01/2026
Violent interactions with the public aren’t surprising, a former ICE official said of the agency under Trump. “That’s sort of by design.”
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Former members of ICE say recent violence is "by design"
"What has changed is there has been an encouragement from the top to be much more aggressive in enforcement."
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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Screenshot of the linked article that states "But if they missed the fact that I was an anti-ICE journalist who didn’t fill out her paperwork, what else might they be missing? How many convicted domestic abusers are being given guns and sent into other people’s homes? How many people with ties to white supremacist organizations are indiscriminately targeting minorities on principle, regardless of immigration status? How many rapists and pedophiles are working in ICE detention centers with direct and unsupervised access to a population that will be neither believed nor missed? How are we to trust ICE’s allegedly thorough investigations of the people they detain and deport when they can’t even keep their HR paperwork straight?"
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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Quote of the day: “Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses, because somewhere down the road of history, some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
WARNING to ST. Paul: ICE is going door to door with weapons drawn.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/01/2026
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
ALERT: Jack Smith will testify PUBLICLY before the House Judiciary Committee as early as this month Smith has been pressing to do so... in a public setting
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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Vamaly @vamaly.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
This is why women choose the bear.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
NEW On the streets of blue cities like Minneapolis that the front lines of resistance to Trump & his deportation campaign, protesters face jumpy feds and a volatile mix of vehicles, guns, cell phone cameras and masks www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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From ‘I’m Not Mad at You’ to Deadly Shots in Seconds
Frazzled agents, quick triggers, and a motor-powered protest movement are creating a uniquely dangerous moment on U.S. streets.
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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
So a CBS Evening News reporter actually did a pretty solid breakdown of the ICE murder video, talking to a former agent who details all the ways Ross messed up. And yet: It didn’t air on the actual show tonight. CBS did post it to YouTube—and it has nearly 800k views already youtu.be/6ywLEESFDu0?...
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Retired ICE agent breaks down deadly Minneapolis shooting
YouTube video by CBS Evening News
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
1000s are now on the streets of Tehran, local time 2am. The country is facing an almost total internet blackout as the regime cuts network connections to suppress news. Reports now that government buildings are burning in the capital. This looks like Nepal on a much bigger scale. (🎥 Negar) 2/
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 08/01/2026
More than 340 protests have taken place across all of Iran's 31 provinces, the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency reported Thursday. The death toll had reached at least 38, it added, with more than 2,200 arrests. to.pbs.org/4aM0FAf
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What to know about the intensifying protests shaking Iran and putting pressure on its theocracy
More than 340 protests have taken place across all of Iran’s 31 provinces, the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency reported Thursday.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Hi! The urge to doomscroll is understandable, but maybe it's worth setting a timer or logging off? Have you had something to eat yet or a big glass of water? Is there something you need to do before the end of the work day? I know how hard it can be to try and focus right now. One thing at a time
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