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radleybalko.bsky.social
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
newrepublic.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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atrupar.com
BERNIE SANDERS: Do vaccines cause autism?

BHATTACHARYA: I do not believe that the measles vaccine causes autism

SANDERS: Nah. Uh uh. I didn't ask measles. Do vaccines cause autism?

BHATTACHARYA: I have not seen a study that suggests any single vaccine causes autism
February 3, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
They like Trump and want to help him rule us like a king
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d
Gonna beg media not to just repeat Trump's obviously bullshit framing in the headlines. Tell readers the truth in the headlines.
Alternatives:
"With Artists and Audience Fleeing, Trump Closes Kennedy Center Indefinitely"
"Trump Says Kennedy Center Needs Renovation, Despite Recent $250M Renovation"
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3d
Breaking news: President Trump said that the Kennedy Center could temporarily close for roughly two years to undergo construction.
https://wapo.st/49VsdCk
February 2, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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lalehkhalili.bsky.social
The director of Melania movie
January 31, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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nstenhouse.bsky.social
Looking at the list of 19 new CBS News commentators, the median number of times they appear in the searchable Epstein database is 2 and the mean is 100
Peter Attia 1752 Niall Ferguson 59 HR McMaster 35 Janna Levin 27 Roland Fryer 9 Derek Thompson 6 Mark Hyman 5 Roger Carstens 3 Arthur Brooks 2 Reihan Salam 2 Elliot Ackerman 0 Masih Alinejad 0 Caroline Chambers 0 Clare de Boer 0 Andrew Huberman 0 Casey Lewis 0 Patrick McGee 0 Lauren Sherman 0
January 31, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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weirdguita.rs
Eko Rocket IV bass
The Eko Rocket IV bass has a squared-off body with a large curve taken out of the end, making it look like a cross between a Flying V and a shovel. There's one angled single-coil pickup by the neck, and it's controlled by one volume and one tone knob. The 2/2 split headstock is extra pointy for all your crowd control needs.
January 30, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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rkalland.bsky.social
Yahoo with the frontrunner for Most Insane Social Graphic of 2026
January 30, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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parkermolloy.com
Proud to have been one of the 9,200 people who submitted that name to the contest. Lol blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/28/a...
'Abolish ICE' Submitted 9,200 Times For Chicago Snowplow Naming Contest, Records Show
Anti-ICE sentiments made up nearly 80 percent of submissions. Voting for the top six names opens Sunday and runs through Feb. 14.
blockclubchicago.org
January 29, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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ndrew.bsky.social
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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jwmueller-pu.bsky.social
Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”

Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
January 25, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
NRA accidentally forgets to rise up against tyrannical government
January 24, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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libankerdc.bsky.social
Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
January 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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scottlgreer.bsky.social
My life hack: put my rep and two senators in contacts on my phone. Every time I’m getting mad, leave a 1 minute message (they never answer). Share my short opinion. If I like how they voted, thank them. 5-6 minutes total, demonstrably effective politics, and good for mental health.
January 23, 2026 at 4:10 AM
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craigipedia.bsky.social
The Trump administration's idea of a "mom and pop" investor is a hypothetical couple that owns 5-12 investment properties.
thebulwark.com The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16d
Bessent: "Someone, maybe your parents for their retirement have bought 5, 10, 12 homes."
January 20, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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joelhs.bsky.social
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless. The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence. ICE isn’t that. Not even close. ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse. You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do. But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize. In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses. That difference matters. Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with. And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”
January 20, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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ashton7sloan.bsky.social
Scott Bessent: "Someone, maybe your parents for their retirement have bought 5, 10, 12 homes."

He's completely out of touch with reality. Who among us hasn't bought an extra dozen homes?

This cabinet is filled with billionaires who are incapable of understanding the working poor and middle class.
January 20, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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ianboudreau.com
It's the Karen presidency. Everything going on is because one dumb old asshole didn't get his way and now it's everyone's problem
ndrew.bsky.social Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17d
every single goddam crisis happening right now is self imposed
January 19, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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annpettifor.bsky.social
Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States….
gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...
January 19, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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theonion.com
Alzheimer's Patients Say They Do Not Have Alzheimer's
January 16, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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catconlan.net
ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings
Guild member detained by ICE in Minnesota January 16, 2026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dylan Manshack, Comms | dmanshack@cwa-union.org | 202-445-4033 Member remains in ICE custody in Texas MINNEAPOLIS — On Friday, January 9, ICE arrested a member of our union, the Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild, TNG-CWA Local 37002, as part of Operation Metro Surge. While the circumstances of his arrest are not clear, we know he has been transferred to an ICE detention facility in El Paso, Texas, where he is awaiting action on his petition for habeas corpus. The Guild is not publicly identifying the member out of concern for his family’s safety, but he is a father, a husband, and a staff member at a Minneapolis non-profit organization. He is a steward in our union and an advocate for all workers. And he is one of dozens of Minnesota union members who have been detained in recent weeks. The Department of Homeland Security says it has made more than 2,000 arrests since the surge began in December, according to an MPR News report. But the agency has not provided details about the people arrested, such as how many were charged with a crime, how many face deportation, and how many were subsequently released. “The Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild stands with our member and his family as they face an uncertainty that is all too common in our state right now,” local president Nick Woltman said. “Like all Minnesota workers, our members deserve to feel safe in their communities both on and off the job.” “The detention of a Guild member in Minnesota amidst the chaos created by DHS is heartbreaking and infuriating,” said NewsGuild-CWA President Jon Schleuss. “My heart goes out to his family, who are now without their father and husband. As a union, we commit to fight for each other as stewards of our communities—especially in times as dark as this, while federal agents continue to target working families.” ALT TEXT CONTINUED IN NEXT POST
January 16, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
once again we are all tapping the sign
Claire Willett @clairewillett honestly the best marketing scheme in history is men successfully getting away with calling women the "more emotional" gender for like, EONS, because they've successfully rebranded anger as Not An Emotion 02:00 • 13/08/2020 From Earth 19K Reposts 685 Quotes 103K Likes 881 Bookmarks
January 9, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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weirdguita.rs
Gibson Designer Series Explorer bass
The Gibson Designer Series was a short-lived (about two years in the mid-80s) run of guitars with wild paint jobs. This Explorer bass is part of that series. It's painted white and has black lines that run diagonally from the part you whack your elbow on down to the lower cutaway horn. The lines start out thick, but get thinner as they go. There aren't any pickups to break up the design, either, as there's a piezo system in the bridge. It's controlled by a volume and a tone knob.
January 9, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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anthonymkreis.bsky.social
This is not the law.
January 8, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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jfallows.bsky.social
1/2 Remember that the great disruptions of past 11 1/2 months are from the WHIM OF ONE MAN:

—Upheaval of world economy via tariffs
—Effective dissolution of longest-standing Western alliances (NATO, North Amer partners, cultural-scientific-educ-aid institutions, US "soft power" overall.)
—Now this.
January 3, 2026 at 5:02 PM