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Jared Douglas
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Singer & songwriter, among other sundry things. Insatiably curious.

I love the arts, walks, sports, peoples & their pets. I want everyone to have what they need to live well.

Latest EP - RADIATE - out now: https://rb.gy/w2moyn. Produced by Jack Splash.
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Just because good news is worth celebrating:

There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.

HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
February 7, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.pressherald.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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genocide
At least 556 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes since a U.S.-brokered truce came into effect in October, including 24 on Wednesday and 30 on Saturday, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
The Gaza ceasefire began months ago. Here’s why the fighting persists.
Since the U.S.-brokered truce came into effect, four Israeli soldiers have been killed in Gaza, with more injured.
trib.al
February 7, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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one mole thing,
February 5, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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I'm sorry, the Washington Post hopes *I* will reconsider the value of their journalists?
February 4, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Marimar Martinez, shot by federal agents in Chicago, testifying in Washington today:
Martinez ends her testimony with this:

"If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."
February 3, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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In the coming days you might well hear arguments that surveillance is the answer to the tragedy of gun violence, and therefore Seattle shouldn't turn off SPD's cameras. I urge you to interrogate this framing.
February 2, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Exactly.
Anyone know who they cast as Wade Robson and James Safechuck in this one? The IMDb must not be updated or something.
The official trailer for the Michael Jackson biopic, 'Michael.'

In theaters and IMAX April 24.
February 2, 2026 at 2:53 PM
THRILLED for Durand! His perfect acceptance speech got me all teared up too. #GRAMMYs
‘BLOOM’ by Durand Bernarr wins the #GRAMMYs  award for Best Progressive R&B Album.
February 1, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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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...
Translated "it's fine if they're slaves or indentured servants"
January 31, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia
January 29, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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I am happy for people in Maine if this is true. ALSO, this suggests that the administration is unleashing ICE in blue cities and states as punishment for political reasons. Collins is up for re-election and they need her to keep their control of the Senate. This is GROTESQUE.
January 29, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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honestly surprised it took this long for this type of Dem to get no peace at public events
January 29, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Respect for the work you've done for Washingtonians, @murray.senate.gov, but this is how you and the "unified" Dems sound with this mind-boggling disaster.
I am introducing the Cut It Out And This Time I Really Mean It bill. It provides an additional $57 billion to the murder goons but they will agree to wear business casual Monday through Thursday and if they do any murders they have to put a dollar in this jar.
January 28, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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If the Democrats approve the unprecedented DHS and ICE funding package (3x 2024’s already record budget!) based on these meaningless and, in any event, unenforceable “reforms,” it will be among the greatest moral betrayals and strategic failures of the modern era.
Dems coalescing around 5 restrictions on ICE, I'm told:

DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big)
CBP stays at border
warrants for arrests
IDs, bodycams
ICE out of churches, schools

"That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
A Dem Senator’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Hits Home: “Breaking Point”
As Trump scrambles to contain the damage from the latest ICE horrors, Senator Chris Murphy offers a sharp indictment of Trump-ICE lawlessness—and explains how Dems can meet the urgency of the moment.
newrepublic.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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@murray.senate.gov, I see you there. You can do more than this. Rules will not stop them. Body cameras will not stop them. None of the is acceptable.
SCHUMER says Democrats are “united” behind three DHS reforms

1/ End roving patrols; tighten the rules on warrants and require ICE to coordinate with local authorities.

2/ Enforce accountability; a uniform code of conduct.

3/ Require masks off, body cameras on, agents carry ID.
January 28, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests

- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
January 27, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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From a FB post about Alex Pretti:
January 26, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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I'm not sure Democrats in D.C. are aware that their base's rage against ICE has reached a level of blinding white-hot intensity.

They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
January 24, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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Protester: "It just feels like they're murdering the most peaceful people we have, the people who are out on the street, young, and trying to protect other people"
January 24, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
January 24, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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Third angle shows Alex Pretti yet more clearly deescalating. As goon attacks woman, Pretti tries to shield, pulling his left arm back so it can't be misconstrued as restraint, raising right hand open. Sprayed in face. Turns away, shielding woman; he's swarmed, on knees trying to curl in protection.
Another angle of the ICE murder shows agents brutally shoving two women who were also acting as peaceful observers before homing in on, tackling and then gunning down Alex Pretti at close range.
January 24, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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He was doing what many have been saying white men should be doing. He went outside to observe, he documented, he put his body on the line to protect another person and for this he was murdered by the gatekeepers of the fascist regime.
January 24, 2026 at 8:21 PM