River Song
@actnowforward.bsky.social
Formerly RiverSong@actnowforward on Twitter
Iowa USA, Anti-Fascist, Proud Memaw
Iowa USA, Anti-Fascist, Proud Memaw
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NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:33 PM
FYI subscribe as @wired.com under @katie-drummond.bsky.social is killing it
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Ouch
SWALWELL: You said you wanted to see a deportation process that was 'like Amazon Prime but with human beings.' How many times has Amazon Prime shot a mom 3 times in the face?
LYONS: None
SWALWELL: How many times has Amazon Prime shot a nurse 10 times in the back?
LYONS: None
LYONS: None
SWALWELL: How many times has Amazon Prime shot a nurse 10 times in the back?
LYONS: None
February 10, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Ouch
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Thanks for all your messages and emails about an economic boycott. Now it’s time to head to resistandunsubscribe.com to learn more about @profgalloway.com's plan.
January 30, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Thanks for all your messages and emails about an economic boycott. Now it’s time to head to resistandunsubscribe.com to learn more about @profgalloway.com's plan.
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“Trump does not respond to outrage. He responds to markets.”
@profgalloway.com makes the case for a national economic strike.
@profgalloway.com makes the case for a national economic strike.
January 25, 2026 at 10:35 PM
“Trump does not respond to outrage. He responds to markets.”
@profgalloway.com makes the case for a national economic strike.
@profgalloway.com makes the case for a national economic strike.
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Coming soon to a fact-based news organization near you. Added bonus: I don’t trade gross jokes with criminal sexual predators in a thirsty attempt at relevance or tell you codswallop about cod liver oil and such to sell you unnecessary supplements.
February 3, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Coming soon to a fact-based news organization near you. Added bonus: I don’t trade gross jokes with criminal sexual predators in a thirsty attempt at relevance or tell you codswallop about cod liver oil and such to sell you unnecessary supplements.
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It’s important to realize that the subtext of Trump freaking out at Kaitlan Collins when she asks him what he’d say to the Epstein survivors is that she may in practice be asking what he’d say to the *Trump* survivors, and they both know that. A well worded question
This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.
February 4, 2026 at 1:37 AM
It’s important to realize that the subtext of Trump freaking out at Kaitlan Collins when she asks him what he’d say to the Epstein survivors is that she may in practice be asking what he’d say to the *Trump* survivors, and they both know that. A well worded question
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Trump telling a woman reporter to smile more is not new. What is information here is him snarling like a cornered dog as she essentially asks what he would say to his and his dead friend’s victims about covering up what they did
February 4, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Trump telling a woman reporter to smile more is not new. What is information here is him snarling like a cornered dog as she essentially asks what he would say to his and his dead friend’s victims about covering up what they did
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He installed an incompetent and flaccid exec, made a series of dumb and venal decisions & sucked up to Trump to make yet another filthy dollar. He’s so poor, all he has is money and, let’s stop pretending, bad facial surgery that makes him look like he is in some bad remake of The Santa Clause.
February 4, 2026 at 3:45 PM
He installed an incompetent and flaccid exec, made a series of dumb and venal decisions & sucked up to Trump to make yet another filthy dollar. He’s so poor, all he has is money and, let’s stop pretending, bad facial surgery that makes him look like he is in some bad remake of The Santa Clause.
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I’d like to report a murder. Trying to fix a legacy media company is hard — we all know the economics — but Jeff Bezos just killed the @washingtonpost.com in the most cowardly & inept way possible. He would never entertain others who wanted to fix it too like me www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Washington Post Begins Laying Off More Than 300 Journalists
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:45 PM
I’d like to report a murder. Trying to fix a legacy media company is hard — we all know the economics — but Jeff Bezos just killed the @washingtonpost.com in the most cowardly & inept way possible. He would never entertain others who wanted to fix it too like me www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
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I have the means now because of what this legendary institution gave me to donate a decent chunk of dough to these hardworking employees. I urge you to give whatever you can.
a cartoon of a person handing another person a wallet with money in it
ALT: a cartoon of a person handing another person a wallet with money in it
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February 4, 2026 at 5:04 PM
I have the means now because of what this legendary institution gave me to donate a decent chunk of dough to these hardworking employees. I urge you to give whatever you can.
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The @washingtonpost, where I started in the mailroom, is the place that made me everything I am now. Skinflint billionaire and failed fashion model Jeff Bezos has decimated it. Well, fuck that guy and give to the people he screwed. www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t... www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...
Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel
On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund
www.gofundme.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:04 PM
The @washingtonpost, where I started in the mailroom, is the place that made me everything I am now. Skinflint billionaire and failed fashion model Jeff Bezos has decimated it. Well, fuck that guy and give to the people he screwed. www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t... www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...
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My take today on Jeff Bezos since I met him at his struggling start up in the 1990s in Seattle: Twice the muscles, half the man.
February 4, 2026 at 7:16 PM
My take today on Jeff Bezos since I met him at his struggling start up in the 1990s in Seattle: Twice the muscles, half the man.
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Thank god he has the fashion shows to attend nymag.com/intelligence...
Inside the Washington Post’s Existential Meltdown
“There’s no vision for why it should exist.”
nymag.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Thank god he has the fashion shows to attend nymag.com/intelligence...
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God I love @bencollins.bsky.social
New CBS News contributors: Aaron Rodgers, Roseanne Barr, Anton Chigurh, Stephen Miller, Stephen Miller (the other one), Stephen Miller (found a third one), a smokin' hot babe with huge bazongas, Walter White, Tom (not Jerry), big bucket of gravy, Budd Dwyer (deceased), Thomas Chatterton Williams.
January 28, 2026 at 1:26 AM
God I love @bencollins.bsky.social
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Two Democratic members of Congress attacked in three days. Maxwell Frost was assaulted on Saturday, Ilan Omar tonight.
January 28, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Two Democratic members of Congress attacked in three days. Maxwell Frost was assaulted on Saturday, Ilan Omar tonight.
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⬇️ "The Member for Clacton is warmly welcoming people who spent 14 years undermining public services, who wrecked the economy, who botched Brexit, and who then got booted out by the British people in 2024."
😲 "Mr. Speaker, their latest recruit was so bad, she managed to get sacked by Liz Truss!"
😲 "Mr. Speaker, their latest recruit was so bad, she managed to get sacked by Liz Truss!"
January 27, 2026 at 5:40 PM
⬇️ "The Member for Clacton is warmly welcoming people who spent 14 years undermining public services, who wrecked the economy, who botched Brexit, and who then got booted out by the British people in 2024."
😲 "Mr. Speaker, their latest recruit was so bad, she managed to get sacked by Liz Truss!"
😲 "Mr. Speaker, their latest recruit was so bad, she managed to get sacked by Liz Truss!"
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🇷🇺 Stephen Doughty MP, Minister of State for Europe on Russian misinformation:
"This year, Russia alone plans to spend 30 million euros weekly on state propaganda."
The misinformation crisis is not an accident. It is a manufactured weapon of war.
"This year, Russia alone plans to spend 30 million euros weekly on state propaganda."
The misinformation crisis is not an accident. It is a manufactured weapon of war.
January 6, 2026 at 1:10 PM
🇷🇺 Stephen Doughty MP, Minister of State for Europe on Russian misinformation:
"This year, Russia alone plans to spend 30 million euros weekly on state propaganda."
The misinformation crisis is not an accident. It is a manufactured weapon of war.
"This year, Russia alone plans to spend 30 million euros weekly on state propaganda."
The misinformation crisis is not an accident. It is a manufactured weapon of war.
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I know they have some classified ChatGPT4theSea memo that defines drug trafficking as fighting, but that's ridiculous. If you define a tail as a leg, a dog has five legs.
December 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I know they have some classified ChatGPT4theSea memo that defines drug trafficking as fighting, but that's ridiculous. If you define a tail as a leg, a dog has five legs.
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Even if these guys were on the radio to other drug traffickers, who cares? These guys weren't coming in to shoot at Americans, there were no Americans around. Smuggling drugs isn't fighting, but those drugs weren't going to Trinidad or anywhere.
December 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Even if these guys were on the radio to other drug traffickers, who cares? These guys weren't coming in to shoot at Americans, there were no Americans around. Smuggling drugs isn't fighting, but those drugs weren't going to Trinidad or anywhere.
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Tom Cotton is babbling about how the boat survivors might have "stayed in the fight." There was no fight. These guys weren't armed. They were puttering along when they were struck by a missile. There was no American anywhere near them.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Tom Cotton is babbling about how the boat survivors might have "stayed in the fight." There was no fight. These guys weren't armed. They were puttering along when they were struck by a missile. There was no American anywhere near them.
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Just think, in just 10 months, Trump's Justice Department has had more indictments rejected by grand juries than all prior presidents put together www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... That's very MAGA!
Grand jury refuses to reindict Letitia James in mortgage fraud case
Before a Virginia grand jury’s ruling Thursday, a judge had dismissed an earlier indictment after finding that the prosecutor had been unlawfully appointed.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Just think, in just 10 months, Trump's Justice Department has had more indictments rejected by grand juries than all prior presidents put together www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... That's very MAGA!
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I used to have to teach the NSS: What's in it, what it means, how it was produced.
In this administration, documents mean nothing. Our national policy is whatever stray voltage is crossing Donald Trump's brain pan at any given moment. The NSS and other such documents are meaningless.
In this administration, documents mean nothing. Our national policy is whatever stray voltage is crossing Donald Trump's brain pan at any given moment. The NSS and other such documents are meaningless.
The Trump administration has quietly released its National Security Strategy — apparently late on Thursday. Usually there's a rollout and fanfare for these things: www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov
December 5, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I used to have to teach the NSS: What's in it, what it means, how it was produced.
In this administration, documents mean nothing. Our national policy is whatever stray voltage is crossing Donald Trump's brain pan at any given moment. The NSS and other such documents are meaningless.
In this administration, documents mean nothing. Our national policy is whatever stray voltage is crossing Donald Trump's brain pan at any given moment. The NSS and other such documents are meaningless.
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The boat was destroyed. The boat was never going to the US anyway, it wasn't even going to Trinidad. It was toast. Smuggling drugs is not fighting. This is insane.
there is no more shared reality. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
December 5, 2025 at 4:53 AM
The boat was destroyed. The boat was never going to the US anyway, it wasn't even going to Trinidad. It was toast. Smuggling drugs is not fighting. This is insane.
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What happened last week is that Putin ran out of money. All this diplomatic chaos, unofficial actors trying to set foreign policy, started the week Russia began selling off its gold reserves. What we're seeing is weakness, and influence: Putin has called in his US assets to stave off catastrophe. 8/
Russia’s Central Bank Starts Selling Physical Gold From Reserves - The Moscow Times
Russia’s Central Bank has for the first time begun selling physical gold from its reserves as part of Finance Ministry operations to fund the state budget, the Bank said on Wednesday.
www.themoscowtimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
What happened last week is that Putin ran out of money. All this diplomatic chaos, unofficial actors trying to set foreign policy, started the week Russia began selling off its gold reserves. What we're seeing is weakness, and influence: Putin has called in his US assets to stave off catastrophe. 8/