@amelbil.bsky.social
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DOJ under Trump and Bondi has completely gutted the unit that is supposed to investigate law enforcement when there are allegations of excessive force and civil rights violations. www.reuters.com/world/justic...
February 5, 2026 at 2:47 PM
DOJ under Trump and Bondi has completely gutted the unit that is supposed to investigate law enforcement when there are allegations of excessive force and civil rights violations. www.reuters.com/world/justic...
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In this year’s appropriations process, Trump and Republicans will be seeking another massive increase in military spending - $450B.
DOD budget was $870B in 2024. They want it to be $1.5T next year, nearly double in 2 years, with the national debt already accelerating at $38.5T.
DOD budget was $870B in 2024. They want it to be $1.5T next year, nearly double in 2 years, with the national debt already accelerating at $38.5T.
February 5, 2026 at 11:25 AM
In this year’s appropriations process, Trump and Republicans will be seeking another massive increase in military spending - $450B.
DOD budget was $870B in 2024. They want it to be $1.5T next year, nearly double in 2 years, with the national debt already accelerating at $38.5T.
DOD budget was $870B in 2024. They want it to be $1.5T next year, nearly double in 2 years, with the national debt already accelerating at $38.5T.
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We just dropped our Super Bowl ad.
If we’re going to take on the billionaires that have broken our political system, we need to reach everyone.
This is the time for big plays.
If we’re going to take on the billionaires that have broken our political system, we need to reach everyone.
This is the time for big plays.
February 5, 2026 at 12:15 PM
We just dropped our Super Bowl ad.
If we’re going to take on the billionaires that have broken our political system, we need to reach everyone.
This is the time for big plays.
If we’re going to take on the billionaires that have broken our political system, we need to reach everyone.
This is the time for big plays.
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In honor of Black History Month, here's a thread with one book recommendation a day.
February 1, 2026 at 7:05 PM
In honor of Black History Month, here's a thread with one book recommendation a day.
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The morning after mass layoffs, The Washington Post publishes this as their lead editorial. The owner and publisher clearly have no idea why they are losing subscribers. Meanwhile they have destroyed a storied brand.
Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
February 5, 2026 at 12:29 PM
The morning after mass layoffs, The Washington Post publishes this as their lead editorial. The owner and publisher clearly have no idea why they are losing subscribers. Meanwhile they have destroyed a storied brand.
Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
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Perfection
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Perfection
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I spoke with Aliya Rahman, the autistic woman whom ICE ripped out of her car, about her experience of being in a viral video, what she experienced in detention and why she thinks we might be in bigger trouble in the future.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
ICE dragged me from my car after I told them I’m autistic.
Exclusive Details: Aliya Rahman speaks to Eric Garcia about her ordeals — on the streets of Minneapolis, in a grim ICE detention center where she was mocked over her condition and through the public t...
www.independent.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 1:14 PM
I spoke with Aliya Rahman, the autistic woman whom ICE ripped out of her car, about her experience of being in a viral video, what she experienced in detention and why she thinks we might be in bigger trouble in the future.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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If Dem senators vote to extend the DHS CR again, they are instantly going to lose a tremendous amount of support from their base who have been in wait-and-see mode on this. I can only assume Dem senators considering this have completely lost touch with their voters. Don’t do it.
February 5, 2026 at 1:17 PM
If Dem senators vote to extend the DHS CR again, they are instantly going to lose a tremendous amount of support from their base who have been in wait-and-see mode on this. I can only assume Dem senators considering this have completely lost touch with their voters. Don’t do it.
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‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
![…
25. This Cibola jail was horrible. It was cramped. I was chained up again.
The officers mocked
me and called me their enemy. They laughed at me. I was kept at the jail for what felt like around three hours. I wasn't given an explanation for why I was there.
26. Security
guards then put me on a bus. I think it was around January 27.
No one said
anything about where I was going. I was handcuffed. It felt like the middle of the night. It was freezing cold in the bus because the driver had the AC on. We had no jackets. The bus eventually took me back to El Paso in the carly morning of Tuesday, January 27th.
27. I was put in a cold cell where I had to sleep on the bare cement floor. Around 10 in the morning my cellmate asked to speak to an ICE officer. Three officers came into the cell so I had a chance to speak to them too. One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." She told me that if I fought my case, I would spend two to three more months here in El Paso. She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota. If I hadn't managed to talk to my attorney who told me a while back that I was ordered released. I might have given up at this point and signed the self-deportation forms because the conditions were so unbearable.
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30. When I was taken back to the detention center from the airport, after missing the flight, I overheard an ICE officer saying in English, "the judge in Minnesota wants this one back." I was put in a cold jail cell again until early next morning (January 28). But again no one had told me directly that a judge had ordered my release
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32. When I arrived in Minneapolis, I was handed off to ICE
… I had to sign lots of papers saying that I wasn't going to be a part of any "groups." I didn't know what they meant by "groups." They never told me why I was detained](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5cn3kbi4g5blrtahon34xbu4/bafkreiccqxmfncofjqinoveiqscwale2ox5xpiqt46veqjdh3jmimkrxhq@jpeg)
February 5, 2026 at 6:04 AM
‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
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People keep debating whether Epstein is more tied to Russia or Israel without understanding it's the same people: dual Russia/Israeli citizens involved in organized crime. The modern roots of this operation, going back to the 1980s, are detailed in the excerpt from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT below.
On Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, and espionage. From my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. Written in 2019, published in 2020.
February 5, 2026 at 1:29 PM
People keep debating whether Epstein is more tied to Russia or Israel without understanding it's the same people: dual Russia/Israeli citizens involved in organized crime. The modern roots of this operation, going back to the 1980s, are detailed in the excerpt from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT below.
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We just published database: @aclu.org plaintiffs' sworn declarations of ICE enforcement actions in Minnesota
Devastating
Racial profiling-arrests-headlock-handcuffs-shackles
Mostly US citizens
A big lesson here for Justice Kavanaugh. I believe he'll get it
www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne...
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Devastating
Racial profiling-arrests-headlock-handcuffs-shackles
Mostly US citizens
A big lesson here for Justice Kavanaugh. I believe he'll get it
www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne...
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February 5, 2026 at 1:39 PM
We just published database: @aclu.org plaintiffs' sworn declarations of ICE enforcement actions in Minnesota
Devastating
Racial profiling-arrests-headlock-handcuffs-shackles
Mostly US citizens
A big lesson here for Justice Kavanaugh. I believe he'll get it
www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne...
🧵
Devastating
Racial profiling-arrests-headlock-handcuffs-shackles
Mostly US citizens
A big lesson here for Justice Kavanaugh. I believe he'll get it
www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne...
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I am running out of ways to convey how disconnected from reality Trump's judicial nominees are. They can't say that Trump lost the 2020 election, they won't say that the January 6 insurrection happened, they don't acknowledge any fact about anything if Trump hasn't authorized them to believe it
Trump Is Building a Federal Judiciary of Delusional, Cowardly Loyalists
Judges have to decide cases based on facts. For Trump judges, the only facts that matter are the ones that he authorizes them to believe.
ballsandstrikes.org
February 4, 2026 at 8:28 PM
I am running out of ways to convey how disconnected from reality Trump's judicial nominees are. They can't say that Trump lost the 2020 election, they won't say that the January 6 insurrection happened, they don't acknowledge any fact about anything if Trump hasn't authorized them to believe it
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A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
February 4, 2026 at 2:34 PM
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
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This is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
February 4, 2026 at 9:53 PM
This is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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From the draft complaint prepared by SD FL prosecutors against Epstein and his co-conspirators. The girls are 14, 15 and 16... so this is not a case of "borderlines." The whole indictment is worth perusal.
February 4, 2026 at 11:43 PM
From the draft complaint prepared by SD FL prosecutors against Epstein and his co-conspirators. The girls are 14, 15 and 16... so this is not a case of "borderlines." The whole indictment is worth perusal.
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Exclusive: The top Democrat on a House committee overseeing U.S.-China competition has launched a probe into a $500 million investment by an Abu Dhabi royal in a Trump family cryptocurrency company.
Exclusive | Top Democrat Launches Probe into “Spy Sheikh” Deal with Trump Company
More than a dozen Democrats have condemned the company’s decision to accept an investment by Abu Dhabi royal.
on.wsj.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Exclusive: The top Democrat on a House committee overseeing U.S.-China competition has launched a probe into a $500 million investment by an Abu Dhabi royal in a Trump family cryptocurrency company.
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Bannon (and his buddies) are using an informational strategy called reflexive control that intentionally exploits the reaction of his adversaries (on the left) to inflict damage on their own side. Don't become an unwitting agent in their information operation.
February 4, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Bannon (and his buddies) are using an informational strategy called reflexive control that intentionally exploits the reaction of his adversaries (on the left) to inflict damage on their own side. Don't become an unwitting agent in their information operation.
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Reminder: Palantir sells AI tools that help law enforcement agencies like ICE analyze massive amounts of personal data. It's a big reason why it is quickly becoming the most dangerous corporation in America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_VwyhErd88
The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?
The AI surveillance state is real — and it's being built by Palantir.
www.youtube.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Reminder: Palantir sells AI tools that help law enforcement agencies like ICE analyze massive amounts of personal data. It's a big reason why it is quickly becoming the most dangerous corporation in America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_VwyhErd88
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5) Judicial Warrants Are Necessary and Administrative Warrants Are Not a “Skip the Constitution” Card
6) Officers should be civilly and personally liable for wrongfully detaining bona fide US citizens
6) Officers should be civilly and personally liable for wrongfully detaining bona fide US citizens
February 4, 2026 at 10:31 PM
5) Judicial Warrants Are Necessary and Administrative Warrants Are Not a “Skip the Constitution” Card
6) Officers should be civilly and personally liable for wrongfully detaining bona fide US citizens
6) Officers should be civilly and personally liable for wrongfully detaining bona fide US citizens
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I heavily pushed @vermontgmg.bsky.social's testimony on CBP's long-term criminality. Here, he lists 6 ways to fix DHS:
1) Basic Uniform and Identification Standards
2) Use of Force
3) Enforcement Standards and Restrictions
4) Restore DHS’s “Sensitive Locations” Restrictions
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1) Basic Uniform and Identification Standards
2) Use of Force
3) Enforcement Standards and Restrictions
4) Restore DHS’s “Sensitive Locations” Restrictions
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Six Ways to Reform ICE and CBP
And why congressional "reform" isn't actually the real problem....
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 4, 2026 at 10:30 PM
I heavily pushed @vermontgmg.bsky.social's testimony on CBP's long-term criminality. Here, he lists 6 ways to fix DHS:
1) Basic Uniform and Identification Standards
2) Use of Force
3) Enforcement Standards and Restrictions
4) Restore DHS’s “Sensitive Locations” Restrictions
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1) Basic Uniform and Identification Standards
2) Use of Force
3) Enforcement Standards and Restrictions
4) Restore DHS’s “Sensitive Locations” Restrictions
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To any of the talented journalists and creatives that were laid off by @washingtonpost.com today — come join our independent, pro-democracy news outlet powered by readers, not corporate billionaires.
We want to work with those who value protecting democracy and voting rights: https://bit.ly/45Qaw4K
We want to work with those who value protecting democracy and voting rights: https://bit.ly/45Qaw4K
February 4, 2026 at 9:13 PM
To any of the talented journalists and creatives that were laid off by @washingtonpost.com today — come join our independent, pro-democracy news outlet powered by readers, not corporate billionaires.
We want to work with those who value protecting democracy and voting rights: https://bit.ly/45Qaw4K
We want to work with those who value protecting democracy and voting rights: https://bit.ly/45Qaw4K
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Great work by Greg Sargent. We are, right now, deciding whether we want to be a land of giant concentration camps and ethnic cleanings.
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country
The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But guess what? Even parts of Red America are saying no.
newrepublic.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Great work by Greg Sargent. We are, right now, deciding whether we want to be a land of giant concentration camps and ethnic cleanings.
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
newrepublic.com/article/2060...