Kevin Rottinghaus
@12spddreamer.bsky.social
Son. Brother. Husband. Father. Cyclist. Recovering perfectionist. Please be gentle; I’m a noob around here.
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Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores.
TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.
Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.
Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.
TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.
Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.
Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.
January 29, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores.
TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.
Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.
Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.
TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.
Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.
Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.
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A completely insane take.
Also, guess what gun ICE issues to it's officers? That's right, the same Sig P320 Pretti was carrying.
Also, guess what gun ICE issues to it's officers? That's right, the same Sig P320 Pretti was carrying.
From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.
January 25, 2026 at 2:10 PM
A completely insane take.
Also, guess what gun ICE issues to it's officers? That's right, the same Sig P320 Pretti was carrying.
Also, guess what gun ICE issues to it's officers? That's right, the same Sig P320 Pretti was carrying.
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Patel is lying about the law as it is traditionally understood, as it is written. He’s telling the truth about law under Trumpism: you only have a right if they deign to acknowledge it; you have no right to do anything they don’t want you to do.
Kash Patel: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have a right to break the law." (Pretti was carrying a gun legally.)
January 25, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Patel is lying about the law as it is traditionally understood, as it is written. He’s telling the truth about law under Trumpism: you only have a right if they deign to acknowledge it; you have no right to do anything they don’t want you to do.
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I’ll to the throng:
Let life be short, else shame will be too long.
Let life be short, else shame will be too long.
January 23, 2026 at 9:38 PM
I’ll to the throng:
Let life be short, else shame will be too long.
Let life be short, else shame will be too long.
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Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
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It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
January 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
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The DOJ has smoke for Jerome Powell, but none for the people in the Epstein files? 👀
Also, investigating possible criminal activity everywhere except the White House? Bold move, Pamela.
Also, investigating possible criminal activity everywhere except the White House? Bold move, Pamela.
January 12, 2026 at 10:58 PM
The DOJ has smoke for Jerome Powell, but none for the people in the Epstein files? 👀
Also, investigating possible criminal activity everywhere except the White House? Bold move, Pamela.
Also, investigating possible criminal activity everywhere except the White House? Bold move, Pamela.
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These people and this "agency" are such a waste of our taxpayer money. Waste, Fraud and Abuse at the highest level. Project 2029 RIFs cannot come soon enough!
I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
January 10, 2026 at 6:45 PM
These people and this "agency" are such a waste of our taxpayer money. Waste, Fraud and Abuse at the highest level. Project 2029 RIFs cannot come soon enough!
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This agency is out of control if leadership is no longer checking violations of constitutional rights. Congress absolutely must step in before more people are kidnapped/killed.
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 6:57 PM
This agency is out of control if leadership is no longer checking violations of constitutional rights. Congress absolutely must step in before more people are kidnapped/killed.
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This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 8, 2026 at 1:39 AM
This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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The board should give itself a Pulitzer for this.
President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR
December 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The board should give itself a Pulitzer for this.
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Your president is spending 11% more days at his private company’s properties and 25% more days playing golf than at this point in his first term.
www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...
www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...
December 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Your president is spending 11% more days at his private company’s properties and 25% more days playing golf than at this point in his first term.
www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...
www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...
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Posted by the Tax Foundation — the world's leading nonpartisan tax policy nonprofit organization.
December 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Posted by the Tax Foundation — the world's leading nonpartisan tax policy nonprofit organization.
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NEW: Formal resolution introduced in US House by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD)
"Expressing the opposition of the House of Representatives to any grant of commutation, clemency, or pardon to federally convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell"
"Expressing the opposition of the House of Representatives to any grant of commutation, clemency, or pardon to federally convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell"
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
NEW: Formal resolution introduced in US House by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD)
"Expressing the opposition of the House of Representatives to any grant of commutation, clemency, or pardon to federally convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell"
"Expressing the opposition of the House of Representatives to any grant of commutation, clemency, or pardon to federally convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell"
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Neguse: This is one of the most shameful episodes in my view in the modern history of the congress. The decision that Speaker Johnson made to recess the house for 54 days, to send Republican members home on paid vacation for eight weeks, is disgraceful.
November 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Neguse: This is one of the most shameful episodes in my view in the modern history of the congress. The decision that Speaker Johnson made to recess the house for 54 days, to send Republican members home on paid vacation for eight weeks, is disgraceful.
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I am once again saying that we saw what wall to wall, panic coverage of a crisis looked like after the Biden debate and there’s no reason Trump isn’t getting that kind of coverage except for class solidarity.
So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I am once again saying that we saw what wall to wall, panic coverage of a crisis looked like after the Biden debate and there’s no reason Trump isn’t getting that kind of coverage except for class solidarity.
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if @neguse.house.gov has to *rewrite your dumb question* about Donny’s shutdown on the fly? you absolutely suck at journalism www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/s/...
November 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
if @neguse.house.gov has to *rewrite your dumb question* about Donny’s shutdown on the fly? you absolutely suck at journalism www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/s/...
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They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.
October 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.
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On top of his crypto grifts, real estate deals, and other corrupt ways he profits from the presidency, Trump now literally wants his own DOJ to pay him $230M.
He does this all while his tariffs raise prices on Americans.
An insane, unprecedented level of blatant corruption.
He does this all while his tariffs raise prices on Americans.
An insane, unprecedented level of blatant corruption.
Trump: "It's awfully strange to make a decision where I'm paying myself. But I was damaged very greatly and any money I would get I would give to charity."
October 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
On top of his crypto grifts, real estate deals, and other corrupt ways he profits from the presidency, Trump now literally wants his own DOJ to pay him $230M.
He does this all while his tariffs raise prices on Americans.
An insane, unprecedented level of blatant corruption.
He does this all while his tariffs raise prices on Americans.
An insane, unprecedented level of blatant corruption.
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A good way for Republicans to stop being called Nazis and authoritarians is to stop empowering an authoritarian president, undermining democratic norms at every opportunity, and making Holocaust jokes.
Dave McCormick: "I do think some of this horrible language on the extreme left -- 'fascism, Nazism, authoritarianism' -- I think that's a recipe, an introduction and encouragement to violence. It's gotta stop."
October 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
A good way for Republicans to stop being called Nazis and authoritarians is to stop empowering an authoritarian president, undermining democratic norms at every opportunity, and making Holocaust jokes.
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PRESIDENT TRUMP, IF YOU HAVE TIME TO MEET WITH PUTIN IN ALASKA, YOU HAVE TIME TO MEET WITH DEMOCRATIC LEADERS IN WASHINGTON. COME TO THE TABLE & NEGOTIATE! SHOW YOUR SKILLS & FIGURE OUT HOW TO PROTECT AMERICANS’ HEALTHCARE & KEEP GOVERNMENT OPEN. THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION, SIR!
September 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
PRESIDENT TRUMP, IF YOU HAVE TIME TO MEET WITH PUTIN IN ALASKA, YOU HAVE TIME TO MEET WITH DEMOCRATIC LEADERS IN WASHINGTON. COME TO THE TABLE & NEGOTIATE! SHOW YOUR SKILLS & FIGURE OUT HOW TO PROTECT AMERICANS’ HEALTHCARE & KEEP GOVERNMENT OPEN. THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION, SIR!
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And to think, Comey handed Trump the Presidency over Hillary.
September 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
And to think, Comey handed Trump the Presidency over Hillary.
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3 months ago, today, Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered by a Trump supporter.
They had kids, too.
They had kids, too.
September 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
3 months ago, today, Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered by a Trump supporter.
They had kids, too.
They had kids, too.
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Read your piece @adamliptak.bsky.social. My two cents is that we, in the media, shouldn't give a rat's ass about what the Supreme Court would like us to call the docket.
Our goal should be to inform the people, not repeat what makes the Nine feel comfortable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
Our goal should be to inform the people, not repeat what makes the Nine feel comfortable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
The Supreme Court’s Fast Track Needs a Name, and the Justices Are Split
www.nytimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Read your piece @adamliptak.bsky.social. My two cents is that we, in the media, shouldn't give a rat's ass about what the Supreme Court would like us to call the docket.
Our goal should be to inform the people, not repeat what makes the Nine feel comfortable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
Our goal should be to inform the people, not repeat what makes the Nine feel comfortable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...