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xiobhan.bsky.social
@xiobhan.bsky.social
Recovering Republican, currently an enemy within. Working mom, wife, daughter, sibling. Everything takes work. Team dog. Team babies.
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Well this only took me two hours 🥴
They’re like, ‘We’re going to form a human wall against you,’ ” (the agent) said. “When they do that, you can just pop ‘em up. Let them disperse and cry about it.” web.archive.org/web/20260113...
You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
web.archive.org
January 13, 2026 at 2:46 PM
“Spending over $10bn of taxpayer money to prevent people from working is a hell of a way to run a railroad,” said Peer senior counsel Peter Jenkins. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Doge cuts cost US taxpayers $10bn to cover workers’ paid leave, analysis finds
Analysis estimates Trump administration ‘wasted’ billions to compensate over 154,000 federal employees on leave
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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The White House says the Smithsonian Institution must submit materials about current and upcoming exhibitions and events for a review that will determine whether they express "improper ideology." n.pr/4583d8f
Today is the Smithsonian's deadline to give thousands of documents to the White House
The White House says the Smithsonian Institution must submit materials about current and upcoming exhibitions and events for a review that will determine whether they express "improper ideology."
n.pr
January 13, 2026 at 11:54 AM
What’s the song that is saving you from Vecna? What’s opening that portal? I’ll go first: Elliott Smith Walz #2 open.spotify.com/track/5AMrnF...
Waltz #2 (XO)
open.spotify.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:04 AM
January 12, 2026 at 12:35 AM
The emotional toll on kids, families and communities can’t be understated. Such a powerful letter. www.startribune.com/ice-immigrat...
Opinion | When ICE comes for our kids’ caregivers, no one is safe
The staff member taken from our school wasn't a statistic, Tim Bergslien writes. "They are someone who greeted my kids by name, who wiped tears, tied shoes and helped create the stable environment eve...
www.startribune.com
January 11, 2026 at 10:08 PM
I specialize in shitty seizure inducing tik toks
January 10, 2026 at 5:06 AM
MUSIC /MENTAL HEALTH BREAK
January 10, 2026 at 5:02 AM
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My kid attends Roosevelt, and was in the library across the street during this operation. My wife and I were both miles away and feeling helpless, relying on texts from our child to know they were safe. We really didn't know what to think after these same assholes had just murdered Renee Good.
Social studies teacher at Roosevelt High School on colleague arrested & accused of impeding ICE: "On school grounds, during our duty hours, a colleague of ours was detained for doing his job keeping students and staff safe, and our students had to witness violence.” sahanjournal.com/education/bo...
Border Patrol detains Roosevelt High staffer
Minneapolis Public Schools were closed districtwide on Thursday and Friday after a Roosevelt High special education assistant was detained in front of students outside the school on Wednesday afternoo...
sahanjournal.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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Turns out “Don’t tread on me” always meant “tread on them”
January 8, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 20d
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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BREAKING: Russia Is Buying Trump for $6 Billion — And It’s Happening in Plain Sight
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
BREAKING: Russia Is Buying Trump for $6 Billion — And It’s Happening in Plain Sight
A failing social media company. A Russian-backed fusion deal. AI panic. Presidential conflicts. And now, a dead American nuclear scientist. Tell me again this is “just a tech story.”
open.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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The $2.7 trillion peak last year was the world saying: “Therapy? No thanks, I’ll take artillery.”
December 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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I turned off the news for 1 day to give myself a break, and came back to this. wtf is going on now?
New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says
The Kremlin welcomes the starkly worded document, which does not cast Russia as a threat to the US.
www.bbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Five-byline alert: 🚨

“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦

www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.
September 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
www.insidehighered.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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I THREW THE SANDWICH
But I did not throw the panini
The DC sandwich guy has been charged with assault for shouting at a CBP officer, throwing a sub into his chest, and then running off.

"I did it. I threw the sandwich," he said while he was being processed.
August 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Someone else said this, so can't take credit.
"DC, right now."
a woman wearing a mask and a yellow shirt is standing on a red carpet
ALT: a woman wearing a mask and a yellow shirt is standing on a red carpet
media.tenor.com
August 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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They finally made the milk from that hotel
July 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Well this only took me two hours 🥴
June 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM