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Saturn Vazquez

@saturnnailya.bsky.social

I went to a local county campaign kick off today and saw members of my community supporting an amazing woman of color running for elected office. I know everything feels existential and overwhelming, but don't let the bad days win. Keep showing up. Fight for our democracy with you voice and vote.

February 10, 2026 at 4:46 AM

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Jasmine Crockett

@jasmineforus.bsky.social

Bad Bunny understood the assignment…

A picture of bad bunny with the word love

February 9, 2026 at 3:05 AM

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈

@beingliberal.bsky.social

Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) reacted to Trump personal attorney-turned Deputy AG Todd Blanche discussing the DOJ's intention to appeal the judges decision releasing Liam Ramos.

"Why is the Trump Administration fighting harder to arrest 5-year-old children than pedophiles in the Epstein files?" he posted

February 8, 2026 at 2:50 AM

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✙ 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 - 🇺🇸 🖇️

@unauthorizedbeast.bsky.social

federaloverreach.org

#FAFO Please repost!

Fight Against Federal Overreach

The Fight Against Federal Overreach (FAFO) is a national coalition of District Attorneys collaborating to ensure federal officials are held accountable when they exceed their lawful authority.

federaloverreach.org

February 3, 2026 at 1:40 AM

Saturn Vazquez

@saturnnailya.bsky.social

Yes of course. That'll show 'em. Because only liberals use the airports in some of America's largest cities.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Markwayne Mullin: "I agree with what Lindsey is saying on defunding these sanctuary cities. We should pull our TSA agents out of their airports and not allow their airpot to be classified as international or even a regional hub. We should pull all of our aid."

February 3, 2026 at 8:33 AM

Saturn Vazquez

@saturnnailya.bsky.social

I can no longer search the USDOL on bluesky. On Nov 20th (when they blocked me) I posted about blatant misogyny ("quiet, piggy") and not complying with illegal orders (Mark Kelly). TBH I'm a bit proud to have been blocked by a federal agency that is working SO HARD to channel the 3rd Reich.

Coyote ^.^ ΘΔ @coyoteden.bsky.social · 9d

Well now that’s interesting. @saturnnailya.bsky.social I don’t know what you said, but it made DOL break the law:

Clearsky:

U.S. Department of Labor @dol.gov
1/14/2025

Blocking 1
*@ saturnnailya.bsky.social Saturn Vazquez
11/20/2025

February 1, 2026 at 7:32 AM

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Mitch Green

@councilorgreen.bsky.social

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

February 1, 2026 at 1:23 AM

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Portland City Councilor Jamie Dunphy

@councilordunphy.bsky.social

I've seen videos of the indiscriminate use of tear gas on a large crowd that was clearly peaceful and filled with Portlanders of all ages, and well off the macadam facility. We banned tear gas for a reason. I join Councilor Green in calling for enforcement of our laws.

Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 9d

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

February 1, 2026 at 2:54 AM

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Piyush Mittal

@piyushmittal.bsky.social

Children raped and killed. American citizens shot in the street. Immigrants illegally shackled, tortured, killed. Journalists arrested.
While a $300 million ballroom is constructed and a trash documentary released.

January 31, 2026 at 3:48 AM

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WomenRiseUp2026

@womenriseup2026.bsky.social

#Trump

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

January 30, 2026 at 5:12 PM

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Sen. Maria Cantwell

@cantwell.senate.gov

President Trump has crossed a line. Now the only question is, do my colleagues really believe in enforcing the civil liberties and civil rights of Americans?

January 29, 2026 at 12:42 AM

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Will Stancil

@whstancil.bsky.social

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.

Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.

Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

January 28, 2026 at 11:38 PM

Saturn Vazquez

@saturnnailya.bsky.social

Gravity Falls is an incredible show.

January 29, 2026 at 5:29 AM

Saturn Vazquez

@saturnnailya.bsky.social

Disgusting and immoral.

Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 14d

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

January 28, 2026 at 5:12 AM

Saturn Vazquez

@saturnnailya.bsky.social

Stay soft if you can. Stay kind.

Ink Radio @inkradio.bsky.social · 15d

Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is stay soft in a world that keeps asking you to harden up.

Pay attention to what steadies you — a quiet moment, a voice, a song — and keep those things close. They ain’t escapes; they’re anchors.

January 27, 2026 at 2:44 AM

Saturn Vazquez

@saturnnailya.bsky.social

Republicans, instead of running the government or investigating murders by ICE officials: "We need to punish Minnesota for letting trans women exist." What a petty, ludicrous, salt-in-the-wound waste of time.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Even as the Trump administration murders Minnesotans in the streets they can't help but attack our state on other fronts. This press release is from today!

U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services Refer Minnesota Case to U.S. Department of Justice for Title IX Non-Compliance
January 26, 2026
Today, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (ED’s OCR) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (HHS’ OCR) notified the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) and the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) that it is referring their case to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for enforcement action. This is due to Minnesota's ongoing refusal to comply with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) by allowing men to compete in women’s sports and occupy women’s intimate facilities.

January 27, 2026 at 2:40 AM

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Will Stancil

@whstancil.bsky.social

BORTAC is modeled after US Special Forces and maintains the highest standards of training and physical conditioning. Heavily armed, they deploy to resolve the most dangerous situations encountered by DHS officers every day*

*someone tries to kick you out of an Indian grill
bsky.app/profile/pilg...

pilgrim76.bsky.social @pilgrim76.bsky.social · 15d

Calling up your tactical unit when you experience entirely predictable social ostracism. These guys really do think it should be illegal not to like them.

January 26, 2026 at 2:31 AM

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Molly Jong-Fast

@mollyjongfast.bsky.social

Two former presidents felt compelled to comment publicly

January 26, 2026 at 2:47 AM

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Faine Greenwood

@faineg.bsky.social

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military:

www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

jaderemedy • 4h ago
And now comes the most nauseating part of this whole goddamn mess: the hypocrisy. The same loud-mouthed idiots who spent years screaming about tyranny are suddenly dead fucking silent, or worse, cheering, now that it's their side doing it. "ThEy'Re cOminG fOr OuR gUnS!" "GoVerNMenT oVerReAch!" "ShAll nOt bE inFrinGeD!" All that chest-thumping bullshit evaporated the second armed federal agents started terrorizing people they don't like.
Let me get this straight: a civilian gets shot dead by federal agents, and the only thing you brainless cunts can muster is
"well, DHS says he had a gun"? THAT'S your red line? Guns are sacred when they're strapped to your waist, but magically become a death sentence when they're used as a post-hoc excuse by the government? Either the Second Amendment applies to everyone, or you never believed in it at all. Fucking pick one and own it.
This is exactly what tyranny looks like, by the way. Not jackboots marching in formation, but armed agents roaming neighborhoods, stopping people, killing civilians, and then daring the public to question it. Tyranny is execution followed by a press release. Tyranny is labeling the dead a "threat" so the state doesn't have to explain why someone's life just ended in the street. Tyranny is demanding obedience while shredding due process and calling it order.
And all you so-called "freedom lovers" are fucking fine with it, as long as it's brown people, immigrants, protesters, or anyone you've already dehumanized. Turns out "don't tread on me" actually meant "tread on them." You weren't afraid of tyranny.
You were afraid of losing dominance. There's a difference, and this moment exposes it completely.
"Just comply" isn't a principle. It's cowardice dressed up as common sense. It's the language of people who have already accepted that the state gets to decide who deserves rights and who doesn't. And once you make that deal, don't act shocked when the line moves, because it always fuckin…

January 25, 2026 at 1:33 AM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM

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Jenny Cohn

@jennycohn.bsky.social

“We have a nice little database, & now you’re considered domestic terrorists” says an ICE agent after photographing a civilian who was videotaping them. Posted today by Brian Allen on X. h/t @allenanalysis.bsky.social

January 23, 2026 at 6:30 PM

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Conrad Lange Zbikowski

@czbi.org

Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators filling the streets with signs and banners

January 23, 2026 at 8:19 PM

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Moira Donegan

@moiradonegan.bsky.social

Abolishing ICE is not enough.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19d

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child

January 22, 2026 at 3:26 AM

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Andrew Lawrence

@ndrew.bsky.social

things off the top of my head that i can think of that conservatives have called tyranny

- health care subsidies
- seeing pronouns in an email
- being suspended from a social media platform
- pride month
- baking a cake for a same sex wedding
- legal rulings against donald trump
- EV benchmarks

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29d

Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity.

(vid via Ford Fischer on X)