Jenerally Speaking
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Jenerally Speaking
@jenerallyspeaking.bsky.social
Made in America. Living in Istanbul.
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🧵This is what our tax dollars are going towards.

Not education, health care, or public transport.

Cages for people.

DHS just paid $70 million in cash for a warehouse in Surprise, AZ.

The week before, $102 million for one in Maryland.

A third in El Paso.
ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
www.bloomberg.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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Excuse me?
January 27, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.

Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
January 25, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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Thousands and thousands and thousands of Minneapolitans putting aside their jobs, lives, their personal safety and comfort, and all their petty differences and turning up in staggering numbers, with no guarantee this nightmare will end in a week or a month or a year. They’re all heroes
January 23, 2026 at 2:41 AM
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QR codes?? how about requiring them to wear ordinary name tags and badges (at least while we figure out how to disband the agency)?
I am introducing the Quick Recognition (QR) Act, which requires ICE and CBP officers to wear uniforms featuring QR codes. When scanned, the code would generate a digital ID displaying the officer’s name, badge number, and law enforcement agency.

ICE should be unmasked both physically and digitally.
January 14, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 AM
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The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. "

h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
Epstein files explode open as DOJ details discovery of powerful figures and more than 1,200 victims
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen people and government officials' names appear in the hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files made public Friday, sources said.
www.foxnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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“In Istanbul, you often find birdhouses on the qibla walls of mosques so the sound of birds becomes associated with the sound of prayer, with both human voices and birds' voices fluttering up to the sky”. @jenhattam.bsky.social on Istanbul’s architectural birdhouses. www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
Turkey's ornate Ottoman-era 'bird palaces'
Many of Istanbul's visitors are unaware that the city is home to half-a-millennium-old stone-carved bird houses that reflect the Ottomans' reverence for the animals.
www.bbc.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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I mean, do we talk enough about how deranged this person is—and how he should be miles away from the levers of power?
December 6, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Trump will die before the full realization of American fascism is reached. These are the birth pangs. It will get so much worse unless we do something. We should and we must.

Take stock of what this feels like, how unacceptable this is. Devote yourself to fighting it.
December 6, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Why are war criminals asking for pardons 🤔 does that make everything normal again !!!
November 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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JD Vance Cries In Bathroom After Trump Uses ‘Piggy’ Nickname On Someone Else https://theonion.com/jd-vance-cries-in-bathroom-after-trump-uses-piggy-nickname-on-someone-else/
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.’

George Orwell, Animal Farm
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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The world‘s richest man killing the world’s poorest children…
This is a documented case of public man-made death. Why? Because a government dismantled oversight, purged experts, and ruled by decree, all things our assessment highlights.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Actual nazi shit on your morning telly
Govt minister Alex Norris is asked if the govt will take jewellery from people [fleeing war and persecution]. Norris says the govt won't be taking peoples wedding rings but they will seize assets.
November 17, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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As of today I have been a Wikipedia editor for 20 years

🧵of my favorite things I've seen and done in my two decades on the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit
November 8, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Trump has long done this -- misreading a phrase on the TelePrompTer, pretending like he meant to make the mistake and rambling until he gets back on topic -- but this tangent wandered so far it set off a Silver Alert.
Trump: "For generations Miami has been a haven for those fleeing communist tyranny in South Africa. I mean, if you take a look at what's going on in parts of South Africa. Look at South Africa, what's going on. Look at South America, what's going on. You know, we have a G20 meeting in South Africa."
November 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world.

That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness.

And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
youtu.be
November 1, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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An Indiana gas and electric company is launching a spinoff specifically to provide massive amounts of energy to data centers.

The spinoff company is reportedly exempt from many of the regulations typically required before power plants can be built in the state.

www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat...
Critics decry company created to rush power to Indiana data centers
Northern Indiana Public Service Co. says the spinoff is needed to meet surging power demand. Others say it’s an excuse to bypass regulations that protect…
www.canarymedia.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM