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Bock Sam

@bocksam.bsky.social

This made my day!! Maybe even made my tomorrow!! 🩵💙🩵💙

It looks like the Republicans are conceding Texas's #SD09 to the Democrats.

They're conceding a Trump+17 district in an area of Fort Worth that's been favorable to Republicans for decades, just a massive massive loss for them.

February 1, 2026 at 4:52 AM

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Eyeatola

@eyeatola.bsky.social

February 1, 2026 at 4:52 AM

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Meta Resistance

@metaresistance.bsky.social

Proposed bonus to ICE... #NEVERFORGET

January 29, 2026 at 3:33 AM

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Peggy Stuart

@peggystuart.bsky.social

Ohio braces for an ICE enforcement surge as TPS for Haitian refugees is set to end next week. Gov. DeWine says Springfield could face 30 days of enforcement unless courts intervene. ACLU warns communities are at risk. Losing TPS means detention, deportation. Refugees are being targeted—by design.

January 31, 2026 at 9:40 PM

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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦🍁

@tommasinaresist.bsky.social

An evangelical Christian explains how Christians fell into following Hitler & how the same tactics were used in this country. It didn’t start with Trump- MAGA is just the result of decades of this "moral collapse".
White evangelicalism must be called out as hypocrisy.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Bonhoeffer's Warning, Unheeded: The Moral Collapse of White Evangelicalism - Tripp Fuller

YouTube video by Homebrewed Christianity w/ Dr. Tripp Fuller

youtu.be

January 31, 2026 at 6:43 PM

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🫘Desireé Owen

@oweninthefirst.bsky.social

I found this to be very entertaining. BTW, the local theatre had 8 shows today. I could count 13 tickets sold. Your'e welcome. 😂

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12h

New Yorkers don’t play. They lady at the end though 🔥

February 1, 2026 at 3:06 AM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

DHS doesn’t even bother trying to lie well. The man whose skull was shattered told the hospital he’d been struck by ICE officers, an ICE officer told hospital staff the guy “got his sh*t rocked,” then when it became clear how badly he was injured, they claimed he deliberately ran into a wall.

ICE's account of how he was hurt evolved during the time that federal officers were at his bedside. At least one ICE officer told caregivers that Castañeda Mondragón "got his (expletive) rocked" after his Jan. 8 arrest near a St. Paul shopping center, the court filings and a hospital staff member said. His arrest happened a day after the first of two fatal shootings in Minneapolis by immigration officers.
The Department of Homeland Security, which includes ICE, did not respond to repeated requests for comment on his injuries. A deportation officer skirted the issue in the court documents, saying that during the intake process at an ICE detention center, it was determined he "had a head injury that required emergency medical treatment."

$But staff members at Hennepin County Medical Center determined that could not possibly account for the fractures and bleeding throughout the man's 31-year-old's brain, said three nurses familiar with the case. "It was laughable, if there was something to laugh about," said one of the nurses, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss patient care. "There was no way this person ran headfirst into a wall."$ Castañeda Mondragón was alert and speaking, telling staff he was "dragged and mistreated by federal agents," though his condition quickly deteriorated, the documents said.
The following week, a Jan. 16 court filing described his condition as minimally responsive and communicative, disoriented and heavily sedated.

Castañeda Mondragón was alert and speaking, telling staff he was "dragged and mistreated by federal agents," though his condition quickly deteriorated, the documents said.
The following week, a Jan. 16 court filing described his condition as minimally responsive and communicative, disoriented and heavily sedated.

January 31, 2026 at 4:59 PM

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Alison the Resister

@alisonwhite3.bsky.social

You’d think this would be enough to impeach and remove all of them…

February 1, 2026 at 1:26 AM

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funkyartlady.bsky.social

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

HARVEY LEVIN, with an impassioned response to Don Lemon’s arrest:

“.. It is obvious what's happening in this country, people. LOOK at what is happening.”

@tmz.com.web.brid.gy @meidastouch.com

February 1, 2026 at 1:26 AM

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Mark Agee

@markagee.bsky.social

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

January 30, 2026 at 11:21 PM

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More Perfect Union

@moreperfectunion.bsky.social

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.

January 30, 2026 at 8:31 PM

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funkyartlady.bsky.social

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

HARVEY LEVIN, with an impassioned response to Don Lemon’s arrest:

“.. It is obvious what's happening in this country, people. LOOK at what is happening.”

@tmz.com.web.brid.gy @meidastouch.com

February 1, 2026 at 1:26 AM

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MarysBoutique

@marysboutique.bsky.social

#DV1 #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

🧵In St. Peter, Minnesota the police chief intervened and prevented federal agents from arresting a women observer. This women observer got pulled over by federal agents with their GUNS DRAWN

1/14

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident

The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to be the first time local police...

www.mprnews.org

January 31, 2026 at 8:03 PM

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Anonymous

@opdeatheaters.bsky.social

The director of Melania Trump’s 2026 documentary, Brett Ratner, appears in DOJ-released Epstein files alongside Epstein collaborator Jean-Luc Brunel, who was incarcerated while awaiting trial on charges of rape and sexual assault of children. #OpDeathEaters

x.com/OpDeathEater...

January 11, 2026 at 5:32 AM

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Jon Cooper

@joncooper-us.bsky.social

Yes, we need ALL the Epstein files.

January 31, 2026 at 5:34 PM

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Kathryn Tewson

@kathryntewson.bsky.social

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
SAN ANTONIO DIVISION
ADRIAN CONEJO ARIAS, and
L.C.R., a Minor Child by and through His
Parent and Guardian Adrian Conejo Arias,

Petitioners,

VS. CIVIL CASE NO. SA-26-CV-415-FB

KRISTI NOEM, in Her Official Capacity as
Secretary of the United States Department of
Homeland Security; PAMELA BONDI, in Her
Official Capacity as Attorney General of the
United States; TODD LYONS, in His Official
Capacity as Acting Director, United States
Immigration and Customs Enforcement;
DAREN MARGOLIN, in His Official Capacity
as Acting Director of the Executive Office of
Immigration Review; and JOHN DOE, in His
Official Capacity as the Warden of the Dilley
Immigration Processing Center in Dilley, Texas,

Respondents.
OPINION AND ORDER OF THE COURT
Before the Court is the petition of asylum seeker Adrian Conejo Arias and his five-year-old son
for protection of the Great Writ of habeas 1 corpus. They seek nothing more than some modicum of due
process and the rule of law. The government has responded.
The case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit
of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children. This Court and others
regularly send undocumented people to prison and orders them deported but do so by proper legal
procedures.
1 Ex parte Bollman, 8 U.S. (4 Cranch) 75 (1807); Sir William W. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of
England (1765-1769); see also Magna Carta, Article 39.

Apparent also is the government's ignorance of an American historical document called the
Declaration of Independence. Thirty-three-year-old Thomas Jefferson enumerated grievances against
a would-be authoritarian king over our nascent nation. Among others were:
1. "He has sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People."
2. "He has excited domestic Insurrection among us.”
3. "For quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us."
4. "He has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies without the consent
of our Legislatures."
"We the people" are hearing echos of that history.
And then there is that pesky inconvenience called the Fourth Amendment:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against
unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue,
but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing
the place to be searched, and persons or things to be seized.
U.S. CONST. amend. IV.
Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to
itself do not pass probable cause muster. That is called the fox guarding the henhouse. The
Constitution requires an independent judicial officer.
Accordingly, the Court finds that the Constitution of these United States trumps this
administration's detention of petitioner Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R. The Great Writ
and release from detention are GRANTED pursuant to the attached Judgment.
Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled
power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And
the rule of law be damned.

Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to
their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more
orderly and humane policy than currently in place.
Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you
can keep it."
With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike,
It is so ORDERED.
SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026.
_________________________________________________
FRED BIERY
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
[Image of child being arrested]
Credit: Bystander
Matthew 19:14
John 11:35
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January 31, 2026 at 11:07 PM

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Daniel Jalkut

@danielpunkass.punkitup.com

Americans are unlikely to know the names of the “supporting cast” that allowed Adolf Hitler to impose his lawless, evil, contemptible, indefensible acts on the people of Germany and beyond. But here in 2026 we will never forget Vance, Noem, Miller, Bovino, Johnson, Loomer, Stefanik, Graham, etc.

January 27, 2026 at 6:33 AM

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greencentaur.bsky.social

@greencentaur.bsky.social

A restoration of democracy in America is not just important in the US, but the world. Democracies are teetering on the brink in Britain, France, and Germany, just to name 3. If Trump succeeds a new Dark Age will spread across Europe and elsewhere.

February 1, 2026 at 1:15 AM

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Carl Ott

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February 1, 2026 at 1:26 AM

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET

@patti3333.bsky.social

THIS BILLBOARD BEING PUT UP ALL OVER AMERICA COURTESY OF THE @womensmarch.com
*please donate
Thank you WOMEN'S MARCH

"What women have known forever"

I don't know about you but don't you hate the word
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We stand with the victims
#EpsteinFiles
#REDACTED
#PedoPotus

January 31, 2026 at 9:48 PM

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SpoonFellas#NAFO NC Gen❌🦋🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇪🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰🇦🇺🌈💙democrat 💛

@spoont51.bsky.social

This is the one that’s over Google

February 1, 2026 at 1:27 AM

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Serendipity

@serendipityinfl.bsky.social

Icetapo, with this administration blessing can raid churchs, schools and even pepper spray or rubber bullet Pastors and Journalists but if Journalists report on stories about churches the man in the White House will arrest you.
Remember this ...