Owen Collins
@owenscenic.bsky.social
A theater person in small town Virginia.
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67 years ago today, Lance Newman, Michael Jones, Ronald Deskins, and Gloria Thompson made history in Arlington as the first students to desegregate a Virginia public school. Their courage forged a path for future integration across the Commonwealth.
At 8:45 a.m. on Feb. 2, 1959, four students – Lance Newman, Michael Jones, Ronald Deskins, and Gloria Thompson – entered Arlington's Stratford Junior High School, making them the first to desegregate a Virginia public school. Hear from the history makers: https://bit.ly/4gp4k6j
February 3, 2026 at 12:55 AM
67 years ago today, Lance Newman, Michael Jones, Ronald Deskins, and Gloria Thompson made history in Arlington as the first students to desegregate a Virginia public school. Their courage forged a path for future integration across the Commonwealth.
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Important for people to realize that like 30% of all the bad stuff in society is already explicitly illegal it's just not enforced.
Three delivery apps, including UberEats, will pay NYC delivery workers $4.6 million after they violated the city's minimum pay law.
The Mamdani admin will announce the settlement today, which comes after enforcement action taken by the city.
nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/30/t...
The Mamdani admin will announce the settlement today, which comes after enforcement action taken by the city.
nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/30/t...
The Mamdani Effect: Three Delivery Apps Must Pay $5M In Minimum Pay Settlement - Streetsblog New York City
A new era: Mayor Mamdani's worker protection department announces new enforcement against UberEats, HungryPanda, and Fantuan for not complying with the minimum pay law.
nyc.streetsblog.org
January 30, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Important for people to realize that like 30% of all the bad stuff in society is already explicitly illegal it's just not enforced.
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Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.
University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini
In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."
dailyillini.com
February 2, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.
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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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Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
January 30, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
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WOW! 👏Philly DA Larry Krasner:
“This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis in a country of 350 million. We outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will. We will find you. We will achieve justice.”
#ICEoffOurStreets
“This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis in a country of 350 million. We outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will. We will find you. We will achieve justice.”
#ICEoffOurStreets
January 30, 2026 at 1:46 AM
WOW! 👏Philly DA Larry Krasner:
“This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis in a country of 350 million. We outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will. We will find you. We will achieve justice.”
#ICEoffOurStreets
“This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis in a country of 350 million. We outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will. We will find you. We will achieve justice.”
#ICEoffOurStreets
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Very important vote. It makes repealing ICE surge funding the mainstream position in the party, with bipartisan support.
👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.
January 30, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Very important vote. It makes repealing ICE surge funding the mainstream position in the party, with bipartisan support.
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January 31, 2026 at 4:19 AM
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This right here is the beginnings of the result of what DOGE was really up to. Not *really* slashing stuff, but getting access to as many government citizen databases and joining them to be able to target people quickly and comprehensively across all their exposure to the federal government.
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:38 PM
This right here is the beginnings of the result of what DOGE was really up to. Not *really* slashing stuff, but getting access to as many government citizen databases and joining them to be able to target people quickly and comprehensively across all their exposure to the federal government.
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ICE are running around in the streets using facial recognition on random people and telling anyone filming them they're a domestic terrorist and Democrats solution is to equip every ICE agent with their very own body-worn surveillance camera
January 29, 2026 at 10:21 PM
ICE are running around in the streets using facial recognition on random people and telling anyone filming them they're a domestic terrorist and Democrats solution is to equip every ICE agent with their very own body-worn surveillance camera
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WATCH: “There is no indication that this larger Trump immigration campaign of terror is ending. The intent appears to be to play Whac-a-Mole with American cities. Those 3,000 agents could simply be deployed somewhere else,” says Chris Hayes.
‘Playing Whac-a-Mole’: Hayes says Trump’s ICE ‘drawdown’ can’t be trusted
YouTube video by MS NOW
www.youtube.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:42 AM
WATCH: “There is no indication that this larger Trump immigration campaign of terror is ending. The intent appears to be to play Whac-a-Mole with American cities. Those 3,000 agents could simply be deployed somewhere else,” says Chris Hayes.
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Wanna hear something crazy?
The federal budget allocates three times the funding for ICE than for the United States Marine Corps.
The federal budget allocates three times the funding for ICE than for the United States Marine Corps.
January 30, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Wanna hear something crazy?
The federal budget allocates three times the funding for ICE than for the United States Marine Corps.
The federal budget allocates three times the funding for ICE than for the United States Marine Corps.
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French senate adopts a bill to ease the return of colonial-era artifacts to their countries of origin
French senate adopts a bill to ease the return of colonial-era artifacts to their countries of origin
The new legislation aims to broaden the restitution of colonial-era assets, introducing clear criteria and a transparent process for handling requests from the countries involved.
www.lemonde.fr
January 29, 2026 at 1:39 AM
French senate adopts a bill to ease the return of colonial-era artifacts to their countries of origin
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This is one of the most accurate explanations & predictions I’ve seen. Thank you, Secretary Rubio. Were you lying then? Or, has the republic completely crumbled?
April 7, 2025 at 2:49 AM
This is one of the most accurate explanations & predictions I’ve seen. Thank you, Secretary Rubio. Were you lying then? Or, has the republic completely crumbled?
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Push it as hard as Mamdani was asked to, for some reason, renounce Hamas.
Democrats should demand every sitting Republican decry this attack and explicitly denounce it, and then censure all of them when they don’t do it. Act like normal decent humans defending your colleague.
video of the moment a man tried spraying something at ilhan omar at her town hall in minneapolis tonight
January 28, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Push it as hard as Mamdani was asked to, for some reason, renounce Hamas.
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Once again, if you are warning me about fascism in a Substack newsletter, I cannot take you seriously because you are not willing to do the thing you are asking the rest of us to do.
January 27, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Once again, if you are warning me about fascism in a Substack newsletter, I cannot take you seriously because you are not willing to do the thing you are asking the rest of us to do.
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Greg Bovino, America's shortest Nazi, is not being fired or even demoted.
He's just being moved around, like a predator priest.
Trump hires all these idiots bc
1)they won't tell him he's breaking the law, and
2) the idiots don't know they're also going to be the Fall Guys.
He's just being moved around, like a predator priest.
Trump hires all these idiots bc
1)they won't tell him he's breaking the law, and
2) the idiots don't know they're also going to be the Fall Guys.
Leavitt throws Bovino under the bus: "Mr Bovino is a wonderful man and he's a great professional. He is very much going to continue CBP throughout and across the country. Mr Homan will be the main point of contact on the ground in Minneapolis"
January 27, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Greg Bovino, America's shortest Nazi, is not being fired or even demoted.
He's just being moved around, like a predator priest.
Trump hires all these idiots bc
1)they won't tell him he's breaking the law, and
2) the idiots don't know they're also going to be the Fall Guys.
He's just being moved around, like a predator priest.
Trump hires all these idiots bc
1)they won't tell him he's breaking the law, and
2) the idiots don't know they're also going to be the Fall Guys.
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[stares directly into the camera]
![Ben Terris
@bterris
X.com
"[My father] had one problem," Trump said. "
He started getting, what do they call it?" He pointed to his forehead and looked to his press secretary for the word that escaped him.
"Alzheimer's," Leavitt said.
"Like an Alzheimer's thing," Trump said. "Well, I don't have it."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:drfb2pdjlnsqkfgsoellcahm/bafkreiddfjrkrizv6r5szmevc7gl3bgwmcoub2i7ondb7cpnnqslhsjtvi@jpeg)
January 26, 2026 at 3:30 PM
[stares directly into the camera]
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"The randomness is the difference between a regime based on terror and a regime that is plainly repressive. A regime based on terror...deploys violence precisely to reinforce the message that anyone can be subjected to it."
M. Gessen: “It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror.” [nytimes.com]
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
Minneapolis has made it plain.
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:47 PM
"The randomness is the difference between a regime based on terror and a regime that is plainly repressive. A regime based on terror...deploys violence precisely to reinforce the message that anyone can be subjected to it."
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The correct answer to this is "Yes, and everyone else too."
Should artists get a basic income like they do in Ireland?
Could the government pay salaries to musicians and artists - no strings attached like they do in Ireland?
www.bbc.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:49 PM
The correct answer to this is "Yes, and everyone else too."
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Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges. This leaves in place a federal judge's ruling that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment and federal procedural rules. (Via AP) apnews.com/article/dei-... #ncpol #nced
Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges
The Trump administration is dropping its appeal of a federal court ruling that blocked a campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion threatening federal funding to the nation’s schools and colle...
apnews.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges. This leaves in place a federal judge's ruling that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment and federal procedural rules. (Via AP) apnews.com/article/dei-... #ncpol #nced
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Lot of conservative dudes out there telling on themselves by being astounded by a level of ”logistics” that the average mom has to manage every fucking day
January 26, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Lot of conservative dudes out there telling on themselves by being astounded by a level of ”logistics” that the average mom has to manage every fucking day
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If Trump is willing to remove ICE from Minnesota if they hand over their voter rolls, then there really isn't an "emergency" need for them to be there. www.cbsnews.com/news/bondi-m...
Bondi seeks Minnesota voter rolls, welfare data to "help bring back law and order" in wake of shootings
Attorney General Pam Bondi is pushing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to let the federal government access state voter rolls and welfare data, as tensions flare in Minneapolis after a man was shot and killed ...
www.cbsnews.com
January 25, 2026 at 6:58 PM
If Trump is willing to remove ICE from Minnesota if they hand over their voter rolls, then there really isn't an "emergency" need for them to be there. www.cbsnews.com/news/bondi-m...
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Thousands of protesters faced snow and below-freezing temperatures in the Loop Sunday afternoon to protest ongoing violence in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota.
Activists and politicians call for abolition of ICE at downtown protest following fatal shooting of Alex Pretti
Thousands faced snow and below-freezing temperatures in the Loop Sunday afternoon to protest the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by a federal immigration agent in Minnesota.
trib.al
January 26, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Thousands of protesters faced snow and below-freezing temperatures in the Loop Sunday afternoon to protest ongoing violence in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota.