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best guess - tainted formula and downhill from there - but this one is really, really damaged
terilg.bsky.social Teri G @terilg.bsky.social · 3d
Fuentes: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women. … So they go to the gulag first. They go to the breeding gulags.”
melissagiragrant.com Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 3d
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
February 13, 2026 at 3:41 AM
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mddoogie3.bsky.social
“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights.”

It might not seem it to non-lawyers, but that is a *furious* judge right there.
February 13, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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therickydavila.bsky.social
The construction of the bulldozed section of the White House (The East Wing) has now come to a complete halt and it’s estimated to be finished in 3 years.

The $400M that was allocated for this disastrous demolition is now “unaccounted for.”

Another fraud scheme.
February 13, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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rickpicpoetry.bsky.social
One day…
Will be someday…
But you must live your life today…
February 13, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
What gets you fired at DHS? Murdering two peaceful protesters for no particular reason—that's fine. But leaving Kristi Noem's blanket behind on a flight gets you fired. Berating staff when Noem's not on TV enough gets you a reprimand. Inside the constant chaos at DHS. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS
Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.
www.wsj.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:06 AM
and one insidious virus problem
robedwards1.bsky.social Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · Nov 17
Our Planet has two Lungs, one is Blue the other is Green
February 13, 2026 at 2:29 AM
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ngmh.bsky.social
Abolish private prisons!
lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 3d
It’s all pain for profit

That’s their Immigration Plan

Immigrants are housed in unsafe and unsanitary conditions

Behind Chain Link Fencing, on a cold concrete floor

Packed wall to wall with humans stacked like dominoes

Deprived food and water for washing or drinking

It’s inhumane
February 12, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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wildflourskitchen.bsky.social
YEP!!!
lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 3d
It’s all pain for profit

That’s their Immigration Plan

Immigrants are housed in unsafe and unsanitary conditions

Behind Chain Link Fencing, on a cold concrete floor

Packed wall to wall with humans stacked like dominoes

Deprived food and water for washing or drinking

It’s inhumane
February 12, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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lillianorlando.bsky.social
This made me smile 🥰
February 12, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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patti3333.bsky.social
Just another reason why I love Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi...
Yesterday with HOPE and LOVE in her eyes
She greeted the Walk for Peace Buddhist Monks in Washington DC...Leader Jeffries and other members right there with her

As she always says
"For the Children "🙏🕊
Thank you Madam Speaker
February 12, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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sootie123.bsky.social
Just pointing out.
February 11, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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adamsmith.house.gov
After weeks of terrorizing Minneapolis, I am thankful for the decision to end ICE’s chaotic, violent, and oppressive occupation of the Twin Cities. I will not support more funding towards the Department of Homeland Security until there are strong guardrails to rein in Kristi Noem’s organization.
Federal authorities announce an end to the immigration crackdown in Minnesota
Federal officials say the immigration crackdown in Minnesota is coming to an end, after mass detentions, protests and two deaths.
apnews.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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marion-trainor.bsky.social
They’re not officers. They’re militia thugs, and that’s all they are
February 12, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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rmckee.bsky.social
February 12, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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madz123.bsky.social
I’m going to miss the Venerable Monks and Aloka the Peace Dog
Aloka the Peace Dog
February 12, 2026 at 9:56 PM
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end
satanscupcake.bsky.social Satan's Cupcake @satanscupcake.bsky.social · 3d
Exceptional thread ✌️
nickyschwenzer.bsky.social Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 3d
”NOBODY TOLD ME WHERE THE DEVIL LIVED...
... I FOUND HIM HIDDEN IN A HUMAN.”

- Monika Bhatti -

“When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as “animals”, yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.”

- Anthony D. Williams -

Thread 1/5🧵
February 12, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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satanscupcake.bsky.social
Exceptional thread ✌️
nickyschwenzer.bsky.social Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 3d
”NOBODY TOLD ME WHERE THE DEVIL LIVED...
... I FOUND HIM HIDDEN IN A HUMAN.”

- Monika Bhatti -

“When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as “animals”, yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.”

- Anthony D. Williams -

Thread 1/5🧵
February 12, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.
February 12, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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rhutabhayga.bsky.social
"This is the detail that should unsettle us most. The machinery built to manage a dying tyrant did not disappear with him. It had proven efficient. Fear governed more cheaply than consent. Procedures outlived the man who necessitated them."

Note the parallels to today's emperor.
By the winter of 1546, the most powerful man in England was rotting alive. Henry VIII’s leg wound, first opened by a jousting accident a decade earlier, had never healed. By the end of his life it was a necrotic cavity that had to be drained daily, leaking through layers of bandage, soaking the floors of his palaces, perfuming the air with the unmistakable sweetness of decay. Foreign ambassadors wrote of it in code. Servants scattered rushes and herbs to cover the stench. Courtiers learned to hold their breath at precise points in the hallway. What matters is not that Henry VIII was dying. All rulers do. What matters is how an entire political system reorganized itself around pretending that he was not. The familiar Henry VIII is all appetite and rupture: the six wives, the split from Rome, the birth of the English Reformation. Less discussed is the final decade, when England became something quietly more frightening. Not a state ruled by the will of a tyrant, but a state that no longer required his active participation. A government that learned how to convert fear into procedure. By 1545, Henry could barely write. His hands shook. Pain and infection left him dependent on opiates. The solution devised by his inner circle was the dry stamp, a wooden block carved with the king’s signature. In theory, it was to be used only at Henry’s explicit instruction. In practice, it turned royal authority into a mechanical act. Press wood to parchment. Authorize a warrant. Order an execution. This was not a coup. It was worse. It was administration. Between 1545 and Henry’s death in January 1547, dozens of executions were authorized by that stamp. Accusation, signature, scaffold. The process became so routine that the Tower of London’s executioner petitioned for an assistant, citing the volume of work. The system no longer depended on rage, spectacle, or even consciousness. It ran on compliance. Political theorists often imagine tyranny as theatrical. A shouting despot. A crowd … Everyone at court knew Henry was failing. Ambassadors reported that his face was swollen beyond recognition. Physicians privately recorded kidney failure and spreading infection while publicly issuing relentlessly optimistic bulletins. Official records continued to describe a vigorous monarch hunting and feasting. Portraits presented a man in the fullness of power. Maintaining the lie required coordination, discipline, and silence. This was not ignorance. It was trained perception. Courtiers developed signals to warn one another when the smell was especially bad. Guards were positioned to block sightlines when the king had to be moved. Ceremonies were redesigned so Henry could appear upright when he could no longer stand alone. Even his signature was forged in the confident hand of earlier years, convincing later historians that he must have recovered at intervals. He had not. The illusion was simply well managed. What followed was a culture of anticipatory cruelty. As Henry’s paranoia deepened, accusation became a survival strategy. If you suspected someone might denounce you, you denounced them first. The safest role was prosecutor. Mercy looked like disloyalty. Caution looked like treason. In December 1546, lists were drawn up for a massive purge. Nearly the entire Privy Council was named. So was the queen. Only Henry’s final coma prevented the dry stamp from falling again. He died before the orders could be carried out. The men who would have been executed instead inherited the kingdom. They kept the system. This is the detail that should unsettle us most. The machinery built to manage a dying tyrant did not disappear with him. It had proven efficient. Fear governed more cheaply than consent. Procedures outlived the man who necessitated them. Henry VIII did not begin as a monster. Contemporary accounts describe a gifted young king, athletic, multilingual, intellectually curious. The transformation was incremental. Each crisis justified a little more brutality. E… In rare moments of clarity, Henry understood this. He is said to have wept for his younger self, to have acknowledged that he was feared rather than loved. But insight without accountability changes nothing. By morning, the stamp came down again. The lesson of Henry’s final years is not about medieval medicine or royal excess. It is about how power adapts to its own corruption. Tyranny does not require belief. It requires performance. It requires people willing to repeat obvious falsehoods because acknowledging reality carries a higher cost than denying it. The clerks who prepared the warrants were not monsters. The judges who delivered guilty verdicts were not ideologues. The executioner who sharpened his axe kept careful records and submitted invoices. Everyone did their job. That was the problem. Systems do not collapse when leaders rot. They collapse when everyone agrees to pretend they are still healthy. By the time Henry’s death was announced, three days late to allow for “arrangements,” the smell was overwhelming. Children had been singing songs about it for years. Merchants gossiped. Foreign courts knew. Yet the fiction persisted, because it had become the price of participation. That is how evil becomes operational. Not all at once. Not loudly. But through routine, through paperwork, through the quiet decision to show up and not ask what the work is for. Some stains, once they soak into the floor, never come out. Some smells, once ignored long enough, stop registering at all. Until one day, you realize you can no longer remember what clean air ever smelled like.
February 12, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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beardedstoner.bsky.social
iT iS reAlLy uNfortUnate thAt it's NoT poSsibLe tO haVe A reAsonaBLe disCusSion AboUt AI oN heRE.
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d
“Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves. And rather than rallying resistance, academic administrators are aiding and abetting a hostile takeover of higher education.”
Opinion | How A.I. Companies Are Preying on College Students
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:39 PM
one can actually see and feel the machine inserting the probe directly into the base of human brains - or is that an AI produced hallucination?
beardedstoner.bsky.social Bearded Stoner @beardedstoner.bsky.social · 3d
iT iS reAlLy uNfortUnate thAt it's NoT poSsibLe tO haVe A reAsonaBLe disCusSion AboUt AI oN heRE.
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d
“Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves. And rather than rallying resistance, academic administrators are aiding and abetting a hostile takeover of higher education.”
February 12, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
For anyone saying "are you surprised" it's good to have this shit in writing, confirming suspicions as we move forward. Glad she wrote this.
benmullin.bsky.social Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 3d
NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:

Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
February 12, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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thefarce.org
She wrote a global history of concentration camps. Now she has a warning for her own country.

In a better world, Andrea Pitzer would be delivering this warning on 60 Minutes.

But you need to listen to how we can stop these systematic atrocities being committed in our name on Next Comes What.
What do you call warehouses full of humans?
Podcast Episode · Next Comes What · 02/12/2026 · 27m
podcasts.apple.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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thesgtjoker.bsky.social
Not a single Republican, millionaire, Commerce Secretary, Congressman, businessman, CEO, political pundit, or billionaire said what Jeffrey Epstein was doing was abhorrent until they were caught in the Epstein Files.
February 12, 2026 at 7:00 PM