Marsha Rumbarger
@marshabarger.bsky.social
Hoping for a more healthy, compassionate world.
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Thank you @democrats.senate.gov for voting unanimously for Senator Sanders’ Amendment to strip ICE of BBB funding. Can you please demand the Sanders Amendment as a condition to fund DHS now that you’ve successfully separated it from the larger spending package?
January 31, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Thank you @democrats.senate.gov for voting unanimously for Senator Sanders’ Amendment to strip ICE of BBB funding. Can you please demand the Sanders Amendment as a condition to fund DHS now that you’ve successfully separated it from the larger spending package?
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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
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.
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Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
January 29, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
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NEW: Experts are questioning the legality behind the FBI’s unprecedented raid of 2020 election materials in Fulton County. They’re also warning it’s not about 2020 — but 2026.
Law professor Rick Hasen said it’s possible “this is a test run for 2026, when control of Congress may be at stake.”
Law professor Rick Hasen said it’s possible “this is a test run for 2026, when control of Congress may be at stake.”
FBI’s Fulton County raid may have been illegal, legal experts warn. But it definitely raises fears for 2026
'This is a test run for 2026... Trump could try to seize voting machines or otherwise interfere with state ballot tabulation processes in swing districts around the country.'
www.democracydocket.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:41 PM
NEW: Experts are questioning the legality behind the FBI’s unprecedented raid of 2020 election materials in Fulton County. They’re also warning it’s not about 2020 — but 2026.
Law professor Rick Hasen said it’s possible “this is a test run for 2026, when control of Congress may be at stake.”
Law professor Rick Hasen said it’s possible “this is a test run for 2026, when control of Congress may be at stake.”
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Presidential pardons aren’t supposed to be for sale.
Yet Trump just pardoned a banker facing bribery charges after his daughter gave $3.5 million to his super PAC.
We need a constitutional amendment to put real, common-sense limits on the pardon power, and we need it NOW.
Yet Trump just pardoned a banker facing bribery charges after his daughter gave $3.5 million to his super PAC.
We need a constitutional amendment to put real, common-sense limits on the pardon power, and we need it NOW.
SCOOP: Trump quietly pardoned several people this week, including:
▶️A Venezuelan-Italian banker implicated in a bribery scheme whose daughter donated $3.5M to Trump's PAC.
▶️A California woman who was freed from prison by a Trump commutation in 2021 & was then convicted in an unrelated case in 2024.
▶️A Venezuelan-Italian banker implicated in a bribery scheme whose daughter donated $3.5M to Trump's PAC.
▶️A California woman who was freed from prison by a Trump commutation in 2021 & was then convicted in an unrelated case in 2024.
Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Presidential pardons aren’t supposed to be for sale.
Yet Trump just pardoned a banker facing bribery charges after his daughter gave $3.5 million to his super PAC.
We need a constitutional amendment to put real, common-sense limits on the pardon power, and we need it NOW.
Yet Trump just pardoned a banker facing bribery charges after his daughter gave $3.5 million to his super PAC.
We need a constitutional amendment to put real, common-sense limits on the pardon power, and we need it NOW.
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BREAKING: Republican lawmakers unveil the Make Elections Great Again Act — a new bill that would impose the most extreme federal voting restrictions in history.
The measure would go beyond the SAVE Act by imposing strict voter ID to vote, mandating voter roll purges, banning mail voting and more.
The measure would go beyond the SAVE Act by imposing strict voter ID to vote, mandating voter roll purges, banning mail voting and more.
New GOP anti-voting bill may be the most dangerous attack on voting rights ever
The MEGA Act represents one of the most catastrophic proposals for democracy in the United States.
www.democracydocket.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:54 PM
BREAKING: Republican lawmakers unveil the Make Elections Great Again Act — a new bill that would impose the most extreme federal voting restrictions in history.
The measure would go beyond the SAVE Act by imposing strict voter ID to vote, mandating voter roll purges, banning mail voting and more.
The measure would go beyond the SAVE Act by imposing strict voter ID to vote, mandating voter roll purges, banning mail voting and more.
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Thank you to everyone for making calls. The Senate voted 55–45 to block the spending package.
January 29, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Thank you to everyone for making calls. The Senate voted 55–45 to block the spending package.
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The resolution requires ICE agents to obtain a warrant and meet with the tribe's public safety director before coming onto the Red Lake reservation, and it goes on to state that an ICE agent must also be accompanied by a tribal public safety officer when on tribal land.
Red Lake Nation leaders pass resolution restricting ICE entry onto tribal lands
The Red Lake Nation tribal council has unanimously passed a resolution that restricts federal immigration agents from entering Red Lake tribal lands.
www.mprnews.org
January 29, 2026 at 5:32 PM
The resolution requires ICE agents to obtain a warrant and meet with the tribe's public safety director before coming onto the Red Lake reservation, and it goes on to state that an ICE agent must also be accompanied by a tribal public safety officer when on tribal land.
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If you are biased & insane enough to think that The Regime isn’t going to suddenly find 11,780 more 2020 Georgia votes in The Dictator’s favor, I don’t want to live in a country with you.
We had better get millions of people in the streets 3/28 & end this.
We had better get millions of people in the streets 3/28 & end this.
January 29, 2026 at 4:09 PM
If you are biased & insane enough to think that The Regime isn’t going to suddenly find 11,780 more 2020 Georgia votes in The Dictator’s favor, I don’t want to live in a country with you.
We had better get millions of people in the streets 3/28 & end this.
We had better get millions of people in the streets 3/28 & end this.
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I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:29 PM
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Yes - until you see it firsthand, it’s hard to understand how upsetting and enraging it is to see these guys operate in your community. They are dressed for war, they beat civilians up, they openly antagonize neighbors, they’re masked, they carry people away. Everyone is livid at every scene.
This video clip also demonstrates that Alex Pretti was made very angry by the brutal, lawless violence of the DHS. That makes him just like me, and a large part of America.
Until he was shot 10 times in the back.
Until he was shot 10 times in the back.
January 29, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Yes - until you see it firsthand, it’s hard to understand how upsetting and enraging it is to see these guys operate in your community. They are dressed for war, they beat civilians up, they openly antagonize neighbors, they’re masked, they carry people away. Everyone is livid at every scene.
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WATCH-- Tim Walz on his call with Trump officials: "Not once did they ever say Alex or Renee's name. Not once did they ask how the people of Minnesota were doing. So look, I know who I'm dealing with, and I know the reason that he was calling me was he needed something from us."
January 29, 2026 at 1:33 AM
WATCH-- Tim Walz on his call with Trump officials: "Not once did they ever say Alex or Renee's name. Not once did they ask how the people of Minnesota were doing. So look, I know who I'm dealing with, and I know the reason that he was calling me was he needed something from us."
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"I have no political consideration. I'll never run for an elected office again," Gov. Tim Walz tells @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social.
January 29, 2026 at 1:45 AM
"I have no political consideration. I'll never run for an elected office again," Gov. Tim Walz tells @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social.
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Maybe ICE is in Italy to seize the Italian satellite vote flipping switch.
@kagrox.bsky.social @demfromct.bsky.social
@kagrox.bsky.social @demfromct.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Maybe ICE is in Italy to seize the Italian satellite vote flipping switch.
@kagrox.bsky.social @demfromct.bsky.social
@kagrox.bsky.social @demfromct.bsky.social
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Surprised there aren’t perpetual crowds around the Capitol and Supreme Court building already.
January 29, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Surprised there aren’t perpetual crowds around the Capitol and Supreme Court building already.
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Homan’s use of “in theater” confirms DHS views this as a war in which they’re occupying hostile territory.
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 29, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Homan’s use of “in theater” confirms DHS views this as a war in which they’re occupying hostile territory.
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The anthem we need
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
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 6:39 PM
The anthem we need
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Just a reminder that both Ilhan Omar and Maxwell Frost have been attacked this week.
No outrage by right-wing media or even corporate media.
Now imagine if this were done to Republicans.
The entire system is rigged in favor of conservatives, folks. The double standards are just wild.
No outrage by right-wing media or even corporate media.
Now imagine if this were done to Republicans.
The entire system is rigged in favor of conservatives, folks. The double standards are just wild.
January 28, 2026 at 6:19 AM
Just a reminder that both Ilhan Omar and Maxwell Frost have been attacked this week.
No outrage by right-wing media or even corporate media.
Now imagine if this were done to Republicans.
The entire system is rigged in favor of conservatives, folks. The double standards are just wild.
No outrage by right-wing media or even corporate media.
Now imagine if this were done to Republicans.
The entire system is rigged in favor of conservatives, folks. The double standards are just wild.
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If Senate Republicans refuse to strip out the DHS bill to put real constraints on ICE — and hold hostage the vast majority of government funding — then Republicans are complicit in the chaos and own the potential government shutdown.
It’s time to stop ICE’s violence.
It’s time to stop ICE’s violence.
January 27, 2026 at 2:23 PM
If Senate Republicans refuse to strip out the DHS bill to put real constraints on ICE — and hold hostage the vast majority of government funding — then Republicans are complicit in the chaos and own the potential government shutdown.
It’s time to stop ICE’s violence.
It’s time to stop ICE’s violence.
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Ice Agents are pedo creeps
here's a video from this afternoon in Eden Prairie MN of ICE agents camping out as a bus stop.
Again, this is terrorism.
Again, this is terrorism.
January 27, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Ice Agents are pedo creeps
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Correct. Heroic stuff.
I get the impulse to push for more, harder, faster, but it's worth noting here: the lawyers for both the state and various other plaintiffs have been working their asses off at absolute breakneck speed today.
JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 25, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Correct. Heroic stuff.
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
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ICE isn't law enforcement without training; ICE is white nationalism with guns.
January 24, 2026 at 6:25 PM
ICE isn't law enforcement without training; ICE is white nationalism with guns.
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He was filming him with the phone in his right hand. Hard to threaten anyone with a gun in that position.
January 24, 2026 at 6:12 PM
He was filming him with the phone in his right hand. Hard to threaten anyone with a gun in that position.