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KatWilder
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Sara Kate (Watkins) Wilder.
Usually Atlanta. Sometimes Birmingham.
Teacher turned nonprofit leader.
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marcelias.bsky.social
Between seizing ballots in Georgia, trying to leverage Minnesota to turn over its sensitive voter data, and political prosecutions, the DOJ is laying the groundwork to subvert the 2026 elections. I created Democracy Docket for times like this. Help it grow by supporting it now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
January 30, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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volts.wtf
Gonna go ahead and say this was a) inevitable and b) widely predicted, but the subhuman shitstains involved in all this c) don't care.
Multiple Men Have Impersonated ICE Agents To Kidnap And Assault Women
In a letter shared with HuffPost, the Democratic Women’s Caucus urged DHS to mandate ICE agents to “visibly and clearly identify themselves" when making arrests.
ca.news.yahoo.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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johnpavlovitz.bsky.social
The complete disregard for Alex Pretti's life by those morally inverted thugs cosplaying as soldiers is beyond comprehension.

The utter contempt for his memory by this Administration is unrepentantly evil.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/ice-destro...
ICE Destroyed Alex Pretti's Body. The Trump Administration Assassinated His Character. Conservative Americans Are Fine With That.
Alex Pretti was murdered by ICE, in cold blood, without cause, and with giddy joy from his assassins.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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bluestein.bsky.social
“If Republicans can take over bright blue Fulton County, they don’t need to run good candidates. They don’t need to win the battle of ideas,” said Democratic Rep. @sairaforgeorgia.bsky.social “They’d be in position to win every statewide race in Georgia in 2026.”

www.ajc.com/politics/202...
Could FBI raid in Fulton set the stage for takeover of county’s elections?
Critics say the Trump administration's investigation into Fulton County could pave the way for the State Election Board to take over the heavily Democratic county's voting.
www.ajc.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Sitting President attempts to steal $10 BILLION from taxpayers.

The most corrupt regime of our lifetimes. With no close second.

And the Hunter hunters are silent.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
January 30, 2026 at 1:38 AM
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rhutabhayga.bsky.social
#TikTok is now owned by the U.S. in a forced sale.

The consortium is led by Larry Ellison, executive chairman of Oracle, which helped the Heritage Foundation create a database of loyalists for Project 2025.

And they now control what 150MM Americans can or can't see. Or post.
January 28, 2026 (Wednesday) If they were going to build state-sponsored media in America, they wouldn’t announce it. For months, the warnings spread like rumor. Delete it. Get your kids off it. The Chinese are watching. The algorithm is feeding them propaganda, depression, rage. A hundred and fifty million Americans on a single app, scrolling ninety-five minutes a day, and the servers sat in Beijing. Lawmakers called it a national security threat. Parents called it digital fentanyl. TikTok is spying on your children, they said. TikTok is brainwashing a generation. The dread was real. The danger may have been real. So they forced a sale. And five days ago, the app that terrified them changed hands. Now the dread has a different shape. Yesterday, a woman in a Chicago salon, still in her smock between clients, propped her iPhone against the mirror and recorded a video about ICE. Thirty seconds. Posted it. Went back to work. An hour later: zero views. She deleted it. Recorded again, this time using emojis. 🧊 instead of ICE, thinking maybe the algorithm flags certain words. Posted it. Checked again before bed, the screen bright in her hand. Still zero. The next morning, she posted a video of her latte. Three thousand views by noon. Across the country, similar reports. A father in Minneapolis, 400,000 followers, posting about Palestine: zero views. A physical therapist in New Jersey typing “Epstein” into a direct message, watching the app freeze, a warning appearing: This message may be in violation of our Community Guidelines. CNBC reporters reproduced the error on camera, typing the same name, getting the same block. TikTok blamed a power outage at a data center. Users described an outage that seemed to know the difference between British users and American users. An outage that triggered when you typed a name. An outage that affected political content but not dance videos, ICE but not coffee, Gaza but not lipstick tutorials. This was the app that showed Minneapolis burning when the networks cut away. For ten minutes on May 25, 2020, a seventeen-year-old named Darnella Frazier held her phone steady and recorded a police officer kneeling on George Floyd’s neck. She posted it. It spread. The world saw what the official story would have buried: that he called for his mother, that bystanders begged the officer to stop, that it took eight minutes and forty-six seconds for a man to die on a sidewalk in America. TikTok didn’t break that story. But TikTok became the place where stories like it couldn’t be contained. Gaza, when the networks looked away. ICE raids filmed in real time. Protests before the press arrived. For five years, it was the camera that couldn’t be managed, the signal that couldn’t be jammed, the place where ordinary people could make power visible without asking permission. A hundred and fifty million Americans opened it every day. A third of teenagers said it was their primary news source. Not CNN. Not the Times. The algorithm. And now the algorithm answers to someone new. On January 22, 2026, a pop-up appeared on a hundred and fifty million American phones. A new privacy policy. Most people clicked through without reading. But the language had changed. TikTok now lists what it collects: racial or ethnic origin, national origin, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, citizenship, immigration status. That data existed before. But before, it flowed to ByteDance, a Chinese company with no stake in American deportation policy. Now it flows to a different owner. The consortium is led by Larry Ellison, executive chairman of Oracle, host to Trump at his Rancho Mirage estate. In September 2024, Ellison told investors wh… Within seventy-two hours of the ownership transfer, creators reported anti-Trump content throttled, videos about ICE stuck at zero, the word “Epstein” blocked in DMs. The same name the Justice Department was legally required to release files about forty days ago—and hasn’t. BBC and Guardian videos appeared visible in London, invisible in Los Angeles. Uninstalls spiked, if only by anecdote: screenshots, goodbye posts, friends telling friends to delete it. On social media, people began describing the same sensation in different words: the feed felt newly policed. “I got rid of it,” one user wrote. “Nice side effect is a calmer brain.” In an interview that fall, Netanyahu had been blunt: “The most important purchase that is going on right now is TikTok. I hope it goes through because it can be consequential.” It went through. People didn’t need proof of intent. They only needed the sensation: that the room had gained a guard. Orwell didn’t imagine censorship as a bonfire. He imagined it as clerical work. In 1984, when a man named Withers falls out of favor, he isn’t arrested in the square. He becomes an “unperson.” The records are edited. The photographs altered. “Withers, then, did not exist: he had never existed.” The newspaper still prints. The world still turns. But the public record has been silently revised, and no one can prove it was ever different. State-sponsored media doesn’t announce itself. It looks like the app you already use, doing what apps already do: sorting content, recommending videos, deciding what spreads and what disappears. The difference is whose hand is on the dial. State-sponsored media is when the algorithm answers to power, when the content that vanishes is the content power wants vanished, when the glitch is always the explanation. The woman in Chicago can watch her video on her own phone. It exists. But zero views means zero reach means zero presence in the public reality. She wasn’t banned. She was just never there. How would you know i… The algorithm has always been opaque. Content has always risen and fallen for reasons no one could explain. That opacity is the camouflage. Beneath it, suppression becomes indistinguishable from bad luck. It cannot be named, cannot be fought, cannot be proven. The most effective censorship doesn’t delete. It throttles. It shadowbans. It lets your voice exist while ensuring no one hears it. And eventually, you stop posting what doesn’t spread. You learn which words the algorithm won’t carry. You try emojis. You try euphemisms. You watch what works for other people and start to mimic it. You censor yourself before anyone has to do it for you. The woman in Chicago has started noticing patterns. Her videos about rent do fine. Her videos about traffic do fine. Anything about policy, about power, about the government doing something to someone: zero views. She doesn’t know if it’s real. She doesn’t know if she’s paranoid. She just knows what happens when she posts, and what doesn’t. The threat was China. That’s what they said for years. A foreign adversary controlling the algorithm, manipulating what Americans see, collecting data on a hundred and fifty million citizens. A national security risk so severe it justified forcing a sale. So they forced a sale. And the platform that documented Minneapolis, that broadcast Gaza, that showed ICE raids in real time—now belongs to a man who dreams of constant surveillance, backed by a president who calls his consortium “Great American Patriots,” financed in part by twenty billion dollars from the United Arab Emirates. The data collection hasn’t stopped. The algorithm still runs. Only now it’s American. So it’s safe. TikTok says the glitch has been resolved. The servers are stable. The woman in Chicago checked her phone again this morning. The screen was bright in her hand. The video about ICE: still zero views. The video about her latte: twelve thousand. She typed a caption about a raid in her neighborhood. Stopped. Deleted it. Typ…
January 29, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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scottwiener.bsky.social
This outrageous act — seizing ballots — follows Bondi’s demand that to stop public executions in Minneapolis, Minnesota needed to turn over its voter roll.

They’re determined to steal the midterms since they know they can’t win under an actual democracy.
January 29, 2026 at 5:46 AM
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marcelias.bsky.social
The president of the United States had his Justice Dept. raid an election office and seize ballots in order to cast doubt on an election he lost. Yet, this is treated by legacy media as just another normal day.

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January 29, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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jamesbrandt.bsky.social
I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:

"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
January 28, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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motherjones.com
The Trump administration is painting Border Czar Tom Homan as a less extreme and more professional alternative to the leadership of the recently removed Border Patrol head, Greg Bovino, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

But his record tells a much different story.
Tom Homan is supposed to fix Trump's Minnesota crisis. His record raises serious questions.
The White House border czar is no moderate.
www.motherjones.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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aurabogado.bsky.social
NEW: A federal judge in Minnesota orders Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons to appear IN PERSON this Friday and explain why he shouldn't be held in contempt.

"The court's patience is at an end," writes Bush-appointed Judge Patrick J Schiltz, who clerked for Scalia. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Part 1 of 2 screenshots reads: "The court's patience is at an end. Accordingly, the Court will order Todd Lyons, the Acting Director of ICE, to appear personally before the Court and show cause why he should not be held in contempt of Court. The Court acknowledges that ordering the..." Part 2 of 2 screenshot reads "...head of a federal agency to personally appear is an extraordinary step, but the extent of ICE's violation of court orders is likewise extraordinary, and lesser measures have been tried an failed."
January 27, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Ta-Nehisi on Minnesota, and Culture War as war www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
When Liuzzo acquired this knowledge, when she got Woke, she was transfigured into a traitor to her race and a menace to The Homeland. For being a menace, for being Woke, she was killed—as was Renee Good. (As was Alex Pretti.) But revelations have their blessings, too. In this case, a life, however brief, that is clean, and does not depend on the oppression and debasement of others. The revelation of deep human ties, a belief that we are all equally chosen, doomed Liuzzo, Good, and Pretti, as revelation so often does. But it also immortalized them.
January 27, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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laurajedeed.bsky.social
ICE being extremely professional
January 27, 2026 at 3:23 AM
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drannieandrews.com
Everyone needs a ride or die like Lindsey. The kind that holds your hair back when you puke. Loyal no matter what. Cheerleading you every step of the way no matter how unhinged your behavior.

Lindsey has been supporting this Trump/Noem/Homan/Miller “immigration” policy every step of the way.
January 27, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Republican ex-congressman Trey Gowdy: “Kyle Rittenhouse was made a hero on the right… Alex Pretti’s gun was lawfully being carried. He never brandished it. And we certainly should not be labeling him a domestic terrorist who was going to execute cops.”
January 26, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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rawstory.com
The Republican Party must stand against Donald Trump's midterm plot as best they can, a political analyst has warned.
Republicans put on notice as Trump eyes 'norm-shattering' midterm plot
The Republican Party must stand against Donald Trump's midterm plot as best they can, a political analyst has warned. Whether the GOP representatives actively call out the president for recent, unprecedented actions is yet to be seen. Nathaniel Rakich, writing for Salon, warned that Trump may call o...
bit.ly
January 27, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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taniel.bsky.social
if you're looking to learn about what are some of the lowest-hanging fruits in terms of local elections in places that directly help ICE, this is for you:
taniel.bsky.social Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 3d
NEW: There are 2,400+ elections for DA & sheriff this year.

These matter hugely to criminal justice & policing—including: *these are often officials who decide ICE collaboration.*

So I took a dive into these 2,400+ races to identify early hotspots and battlegrounds.

Read, & check out our maps:
In Criminal Justice Elections This Year, ICE Contracts Are on the Hot Seat - Bolts
With roughly 2,400 elections for prosecutor and sheriff this year, Bolts reviews the map and early hotspots that will shape criminal punishment and law enforcement practices.
boltsmag.org
January 26, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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rawstory.com
Health experts say Donald Trump’s recent speeches show new warning signs of cognitive decline, renewing calls for closer scrutiny. Read the full story at bit.ly/4qN9ChO

#DonaldTrump #CognitiveHealth #MentalFitness #Aging #Politics #BreakingNews #HealthExperts
January 26, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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zhbuchanan.bsky.social
I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea.

It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road.

Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable.
January 27, 2026 at 6:07 AM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
STOP THE PRESSES!!! Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) is concerned!!! (Federal agents are currently operating in a surge to the state of Maine, but let's not get all fussy about it).
January 26, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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muellershewrote.com
This isn't about "training issues." The murderer who executed Renee Good has been with ICE for 10 years, and according to DHS, the murderer who executed Alex Pretti has been there for 8 years.

These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.
January 26, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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electionevery.bsky.social
#ICE - Harris repeatedly told people to read #Project2025

Trump has always planned to have a huge nationalized para military force... Told Hegseth to train them in cities.

This program is likely designed by Stephen Miller, and won't stop

This was aired yesterday in #Canada
youtu.be/TNh_jl3QePI
How ICE is using far-right subculture to recruit
YouTube video by CBC News: The National
youtu.be
January 27, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
literally Trump is not the President. his TV calls the shots
January 27, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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democracydocket.com
A Republican-led Utah audit of over 2 million voter registrations found only one noncitizen, who never voted.

The results undercut the right-wing narrative of widespread noncitizen voting, especially as Republicans renew their push for a proof-of-citizenship requirement in voter registration.
Utah reviewed its voter rolls for noncitizens. It found one. Who never voted
The results sharply undercut the narrative of widespread noncitizen voting Republicans are using to promote new nationwide restrictions on voting.
www.democracydocket.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:01 AM