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OMG this is terrible! I hope that made her feel bad but it sure doesn't sound like it!
Kindergarten teacher called a prank ICE hotline thinking it was real. She called to report her 6 year old student to ICE to try to get them and their family deported.

6 years old.

She does not enjoy hearing her own words and actions played back to her.
Kindergarten teacher wants kindergartener deported
YouTube video by Ben Palmer
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February 4, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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To be clear: a zoom call with the employee’s webcams disabled so they didn’t have to see any of their faces while they laid them off.
I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...
New: Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray and HR Chief Wayne Connell tell employees to stay home for a zoom webinar ahead of “significant actions across the company.” Widely expected layoffs are scheduled to begin today.
February 4, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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You're going to love this retelling of the story of Gwidion and Gilfaethwy from the Mabinogion: it's utter chaos
Tomorrow I'm doing a lecture with a glorious disaster of a medieval Cymraeg story & so today I'm putting it on Bluesky (so I don't have to open X-itter where I told it the first time)

It might be incestuous & sort of has bestiality, but it's also one of the oldest Welsh stories with an LGBT theme!
February 2, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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The American right wing has *literally* been told to drink shit and like it, and now they will fist-fight you if you don't let them drink milk with shit in it.
This is bonkers. MAHA 'farmers' with ecoli tainted raw milk admit they really don't know how to make the stuff after all.

"Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact."

people.com/ballerina-fa...
Hannah Neeleman's Ballerina Farm Halts Sale of Raw Milk Due to Bacteria Concerns: Report
Hannah and Daniel Neeleman have paused Ballerina Farm's sale of raw milk following health violations discovered during routine testing. Screenings from summer 2025 showed high levels of coliform, the ...
people.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:34 AM
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Really terrible for immigrant families upstate: a member of the local school board in Mahopac is an ICE deportation officer. www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley...
February 3, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office.

Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.
February 3, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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If my caucus was any sort of indication, national Dems really need to wake the fuck up about what voters want them to do about ICE.
February 4, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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Americans live under a lawless regime that refuses to obey court orders
A federal judge ordered the release of two Venezuelan men accused of assaulting a federal immigration officer last month outside a north Minneapolis duplex.

But they never made it outside the St. Paul courthouse. ICE detained them again, without explanation, after the hearing.
Federal judge orders release of two men in ICE shooting charged with assaulting immigration agents
Defense attorneys cited photos in challenging the government’s account of when the agent fired a shot that wounded the fleeing suspect.
www.startribune.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:59 AM
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Paris prosecutors raid the French offices of Elon Musk’s X as part of an investigation into spreading child pornography and deepfakes.
Paris prosecutors raid X offices as part of an investigation into child porn, deepfakes and more
French prosecutors have launched a search at the offices of Elon Musk's social media platform X. This is part of an investigation into alleged offenses, including spreading child pornography and deepfakes.
bit.ly
February 3, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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Until the day I die I will never understand how government officials enforcing NDAs for non- classified materials isn't a 1st Amendment violation.
John Roberts is out here making Supreme Court clerks and employees sign nondisclosure agreements

Roberts surely knows this raises the question 'WTF is behind the NDA?'

To do so anyway suggests he decided even public speculation is preferable to public knowledge

ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...
John Roberts Does Not Want You Finding Out How the Supreme Court Actually Works
The six-justice conservative supermajority is taking aggressive steps to ensure that the public remains in the dark about how the Supreme Court functions.
ballsandstrikes.org
February 4, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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HERE WE FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOO

do it Leo. do it. you want to. you can. these guys were excommunicated in 1988 for doing this and they just did it again. you have the opportunity to do the coolest and funniest thing in the world
February 4, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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I'm reminded of a Behind the Bastards episode (@iwriteok.bsky.social) that was ostensibly about the FDA, but most of the first part was spent discussing the absolutely *wild* food situation in late 19th / early 20thC America. The section on milk was horrifying

Check it out!
youtu.be/Ag1UD3qjA5A?...
Part One: The Food And Drug Administration | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
YouTube video by Behind the Bastards
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November 25, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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This degree of movement so fast on an issue among American voters feels…almost unprecedented?

Political scientists, help me out here.
74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it, according to YouGov polling from last month.

Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:

End the roving patrols and racial profiling.

Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.

Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 4, 2026 at 3:15 AM
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JK Rowling has not tweeted since openly denying that her team invited the world's most notorious child rapist to a kid's play despite evidence directly disproving her claims
February 3, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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holy shit, was not aware john denver was so cool!
Stumbled upon this satirical song from the 60s called “Your Friendly Liberal Neighborhood KKK” on YouTube.

Performing this song back in the 60s was brave bruh 😭

“And if you don’t like that then call the cops cuz chances are they’re us” 😭😭

youtu.be/J3TcUA5jE6o?...
Mitchell Trio feat. John Denver- "Your Friendly Liberal Neighborhood KKK" 1966 [RITY Archive]
YouTube video by ReelinInTheYears66
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February 4, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
newrepublic.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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Important context for those blessedly not in the know: these aren't just any MAHA 'farmers.'

Hannah Neeleman of Ballerina Farm is the single most successful marketer of tradwife content on the planet right now.
This is bonkers. MAHA 'farmers' with ecoli tainted raw milk admit they really don't know how to make the stuff after all.

"Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact."

people.com/ballerina-fa...
Hannah Neeleman's Ballerina Farm Halts Sale of Raw Milk Due to Bacteria Concerns: Report
Hannah and Daniel Neeleman have paused Ballerina Farm's sale of raw milk following health violations discovered during routine testing. Screenings from summer 2025 showed high levels of coliform, the ...
people.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:56 AM
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seems bad that one of the dudes mentioned the most in the Epstein Files is now in charge of the US surveillance apparatus and his company is being integrated into every level of US intelligence
February 4, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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Following the release of the Epstein files Jk Rowling has deleted a decade of port logs belonging to the Super yacht Samsara.

What is she hiding?
February 3, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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Hey NM gang, last day for this—share a story, and maybe keep book bans away from our libraries.
Hey New Mexico Residents! Freedom to Read New Mexico is asking for people to help move legislation forward by sharing their story with the governor. Easy peasy at the link. They're at about 80 stories with a goal of 200. Let's bump that number!
Share Your Story with Governor Lujan Grisham to Protect the Freedom to Read in New Mexico.
EveryLibrary © 2019. All Rights Reserved.
www.freedomtoreadnewmexico.org
February 3, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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That’s right. The city cannot collaborate with the occupiers.
February 4, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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Horrifying and unnerving. DHS sent an administrative subpoena to Google for this retiree's records and even sent armed agents out to his house for the "offense" of writing the following completely anodyne email to a federal prosecutor using an email address he found via Google.
February 3, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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every awful trend on the internet for the last decade came out of GamerGate and they were all readily visible from the very early days

if you couldn’t see it you weren’t paying attention, and everyone who coddled the movement bears responsibility for where we are today
hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”
The Epstein files reveal what powerful people see in video games: profit, coercion, and control

aftermath.site/jeffrey-epstei...
February 4, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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Robert Kennedy killed another child ~
New Mexico warns against consuming raw milk after newborn dies from listeria
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
New Mexico warns against consuming raw milk after newborn dies from listeria
While the New Mexico Department of Health said it cannot pinpoint the baby's exact cause of death, officials believe it could have been linked to the mother drinking raw milk during pregnancy.
www.nbcnews.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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Somebody let Dr. Van Helsing know that some imbecile pulled the stake out of Neil Gaiman.
February 3, 2026 at 2:33 AM