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marisakabas.bsky.social
It appears the jetway photos at Logan were part of CBP "biometric exit" program, which has been tested for years but was quietly approved for wider rollout in Sept. (Doesn't explain threats to passenger)

Some really creepy, damning details in NYT report from Sept: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/t...
Those officers were part of an expanding federal program called biometric exit, which involves taking photos of passengers leaving the country and applying facial recognition technology to ensure that travelers match their identification documents. This process is known as facial comparison. For foreign nationals, the photos can remain in a database for up to 75 years. For U.S. citizens, the photos are matched to their passports and deleted within 12 hours, according to the Department of Homeland Security. U.S. citizens can opt out and request to be verified manually by showing their passport to the C.B.P. officers or gate agents at the gate and undergoing a visual facial comparison. Mr. Rodriguez said that an agent told him that in order to opt out, he would have to wait until others had boarded, which made him fear missing his flight. Mr. Tanciar stressed that biometric exit is quick and that the goal is not to delay flights or passengers. The reliance on facial recognition concerns privacy experts like Jeramie Scott, a lawyer with the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington-based nonprofit. Facial recognition is prone to false positives, he said, particularly for people of color and women. He said the program also risks “mission creep” — the idea that the photos could be used for more than biometric exit.
January 21, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
Ted Cruz has been caught on camera flying to Laguna Beach, California as Texas is expected to experience another dangerous winter storm.
January 21, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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lukemcgee.bsky.social
While obviously Trump backing down is a good thing, there will be two frustrating immediate consequences: 1) he will be praised for doing so despite having caused so much unrest and disruption and 2) the lesson he will learn is treat allies shabbily and you get what you want
January 21, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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klasfeldreports.com
After Sauer says Lisa Cook "was given an opportunity" to respond to the allegations, KBJ asks whether that due process was: "She supposed to post about it, and that was the opportunity to be heard?"

Yes, Sauer replies.
January 21, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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michaelsderby.bsky.social
Day by day increasing the odds the world’s longest peaceful border won’t stay that way, and for no apparent reason.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h
“Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements.”
January 21, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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startribune.com
Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol
January 21, 2026 at 3:35 AM
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karlbode.com
what's wild is this will somehow get 10% of the news coverage of any one of Trump's baseless election theft claims
kyledcheney.bsky.social Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d
NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 21, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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andycraig.bsky.social
The Insurrection Act in no way whatsoever suspends, closes, or bypasses the courts. It is not a suspension of habeas corpus. It is not martial law. It does not authorize rule by decree. It allows using troops for law enforcement but that's it. It's not an instant dictatorship switch.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
Trump on the Insurrection Act: "It does make life a lot easier. You don't through the court system. It's just a much easier thing to do."
January 21, 2026 at 3:17 AM
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pjkaz.bsky.social
Gross as hell. We are currently paying for ICE bounty hunters to do this to Americans
January 21, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
The President of the United States today called an entire ethnic group “very low IQ people.”

This occurred as ICE in Minneapolis continues to arrest lawfully present Somalis and other refugees and fly them to Texas detention centers to be interrogated by government officials.
Operation PARRIS Department of Homeland Security 'reexamining' their refugee status By FREDERICK MELO | fmelo@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer Press PUBLISHED: January 18, 2026 at 5:05 AM CST Getting your Trinity Audio player ready.... On Tuesday morning, a Venezuelan couple came to Jane Graupman's office sobbing over the unknown fate of their 20-year-old son, who had been taken away by masked federal agents. "They were getting ready for work, and all of a sudden their house was surrounded by men with drawn guns saying, 'Oh, it's OK. It's just some paperwork that needs to be fixed. Just open the door," said Graupman, executive director of the International Institute of Minnesota. The mother did as she was told, and her 20-year-old son was immediately removed from the home, the latest in a growing number of planned detentions involving recent immigrants with lawful refugee status who have applied for but not yet received their permanent residency, otherwise known as their Green Cards. Before long, Graupman said a distraught Sudanese family arrived at the International Institute with a similar story - their son was gone.
January 21, 2026 at 1:11 AM
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comraderobot.bsky.social
hey train perverts wanna see the shinkansen cloaca
January 17, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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brandonfriedman.bsky.social
People in power don't take this stuff seriously (governors, senators, national media, etc.), but people who participate in civil wars do (warlords, militia members, assassins, combat-curious X incels, etc.)
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d
Nick Fuentes urging Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota: "Bro, do it. Do something. Just stop chickening out. I'm just tired of the idle threats... Please pull the trigger. Please kill them, Mr. President. Please just kill them."

www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
Nick Fuentes: “Please pull the trigger. Please kill them, Mr. President. … I'm not actually wishing for violence, but please send in the military and restore order.”
www.mediamatters.org
January 21, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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snowden.st
everything is stressful and dumb, but there is a private kind of amusement at watching my nation’s cabinet officials trying to convince other nation-states to “quit whining and just indulge Sundowning Fascist Pop-Pop! that’s how all of us got here, don’t see what’s so hard about it!”
January 21, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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kathleenromig.bsky.social
While DOGE was under a TRO at SSA, they entered a "voter data agreement" with an org aiming to "overturn election results"--without review or approval.

SSA also concedes they "have not been able to determine what data [DOGE] shared" & have no way to know.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
January 20, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
If you were appointed unlawfully, you do not get to cosplay as U.S. Attorney. That’s not politics. That’s the law. Turns out you cannot just slap “U.S. Attorney” on your bio because Trump said so. Judges still exist. For now.
January 20, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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usefulnoise.bsky.social
"agents told hospital staff that Castaneda Mondragon ... 'purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.'”
January 20, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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melissasweetdr.bsky.social
"To date, 757,314 people – the majority children – have died from the funding cuts, according to ImpactCounter, which tracks the effect of USAID cuts via sophisticated modelling tools. That is 88 deaths every hour."
January 20, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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theferocity.bsky.social
Wait a damn minute, the pastor himself is an ICE agent?????????? That is DIABOLICAL, holy shit. WOW.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Protesters interrupt St. Paul church service, say pastor works as ICE director in field office
Lawyer and activist Nekima Levy Armstrong was among the protestors who interrupted a service at a Baptist church in St. Paul on Sunday alleging that one of the pastors is the acting director of a U.S....
www.mprnews.org
January 21, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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vetsfighfascist.bsky.social
Elon Musk purchased our last election and we got Trump. He's doing it again by purchasing the Senate seat in KY with a $10 Million Dollar Donation to the Republican Candidate. $10 Million.
January 20, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
'We aren't gonna live in a liars fog the same way those stupid Americans seem to be doing every day'
stevenbeschloss.bsky.social Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1d
A brilliant speech by Canada's Mark Carney in Davos: "The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy...The powerful have their power. But we have something too — the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home & to act together."
January 21, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
January 20, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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tiffanycli.bsky.social
Depressing. And so, so unbearably stupid. Shortsighted and foolish. We’ve lost decades (at least) of progress.
davidho.bsky.social David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
January 21, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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davidgilbert.bsky.social
If anyone has any information on the identity of the "advocacy group tyring to overturn election results in certain states” and who were secretly in contact with DOGE, my Signal is DavidGilbert.01

www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data
Some DOGE personnel had more access to data than previously acknowledged, according to a court filing.
www.politico.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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atrupar.com
Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."
January 21, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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thorbenson.bsky.social
I'm seeing lots of people debating if Dems should focus more on ICE, more on affordability, etc.

Do this. This message got to my sister, who's not following this stuff closely, and it made her angry
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8d
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 21, 2026 at 12:52 AM