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Taller in real life. #AbolishICE
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darnich.bsky.social
The orange Epstein Class 💩 tried to keep you from seeing this great interview.

CBS won't show it, but YouTube will.

youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...
Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
youtu.be
February 17, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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oliviamesser.bsky.social
I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track

www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...
Michigan ICE detention center owner reports $254 million profit, record new business in 2025
The company that owns Michigan’s North Lake Processing Center, the largest immigration detention facility in the Midwest, reported $254 million in profit last year, up nearly 700 percent from $32 mill...
www.michiganpublic.org
February 17, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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taraghuveer.bsky.social
MAJOR: Twin Cities Tenants joins five labor unions, together repping 25,900 members, to launch a rent strike drive, vowing to withhold rent March 1 if @governorwalz.mn.gov fails to deliver an eviction moratorium and rent relief. If launched, this would be the largest US rent strike in 100+ years.
February 17, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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warren.senate.gov
Does that seem fair to you?
February 16, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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gabrielmalor.bsky.social
Also, nobody is holding back when it comes to how much the Trump government is not getting a presumption of regularity.

Here is how Judge Rufe's decision on Trump's attempt to erase history starts:
MEMORANDUM OPINION Rufe, J. February 16, 2026 All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place. George Orwell, 19841 As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 now existed, with its motto “Ignorance is Strength,” this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims—to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts. It does not.
February 16, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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gabrielmalor.bsky.social
Fed. judge holds that it likely violated the law for the Trump administration to remove displays and exhibits about enslaved people at President Washington's first official residence in Philadelphia.

PI issued to stop Trump from trashing President's House.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
For the reasons stated above, the Motion for Preliminary Injunction will be granted. The preliminary injunction will remain in place pending further litigation in this matter. There can be no prejudice to Defendants’ restoration of the status quo as of January 21, 2026, which requires that Defendants reinstall all panels, displays, and video exhibits that were previously in place. Defendants shall further prevent any additions, removals, destruction, or further changes of any kind to the President’s House site, except in the event that a mutual written agreement is reached between Defendants and the City of Philadelphia. An order will be entered.
February 16, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
The Washington Post 2 topp @washingtonpost Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents. Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkesMMA This country has endless funds for doing stuff TO people. It's when you want us to do anything FOR people that we're suddenly strapped for cash. Fred Wellman @FPWellman I want to wrap your head around that number. $38.3 BILLION to warehouse humans. While millions are losing healthcare. While billionaires party. This isn't "fiscal conservative" it's a mass terror operation.
February 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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crindivisible.bsky.social
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
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February 13, 2026 at 12:25 PM
bikedude.bsky.social
Really liking these wraps that the City of Portland is putting on their traffic signal cabinets. Nice pops of color
February 12, 2026 at 7:41 PM
bikedude.bsky.social
Larry’s Mt Tabor Dog Station seems to have grown since my last visit. I love this city. #PDX
February 12, 2026 at 7:28 PM
bikedude.bsky.social
Interesting “cloud” formation and a real rainbow
February 10, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
February 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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aclu.org
We can’t afford to wait as federal agents terrorize us with impunity.

Congress must rein in ICE’s lawless abuses now.
Stop ICE's Attack On Our Communities
An ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. This news is devastating. ICE must immediately withdraw its 2,000 agents from Minnesota and Congress must block any new funding to immigration enforcement.
action.aclu.org
February 8, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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julzsaveusa.bsky.social
Wake up and get involved.
October 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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seachanger.bsky.social
message from MN
From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here. From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here.
February 7, 2026 at 6:19 AM
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snowcat23.bsky.social
My name is Patty Snow, and I’m running against Cliff Bentz to represent the people of Oregon’s 2nd District. Learn more about my campaign at the link in my bio.
September 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
futurism.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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histoftech.bsky.social
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
bikedude.bsky.social
Someone in the butcher department showing off their artistic chops
February 5, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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dworkin.bsky.social
187 Democrats just signed on to impeach Kristi Noem. Hundreds rallied outside ICE headquarters demanding she answer for the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. The momentum is building: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/newsom-def...
February 5, 2026 at 4:51 PM
bikedude.bsky.social
I'm sure they're sad over the $20 in revenue they're losing www.oregonlive.com/entertainmen...
He made a joke on his Oregon theater’s marquee, then he says Amazon pulled the ‘Melania’ movie
A Lake Oswego theater known for provocative movie marquees may now be on Amazon's blacklist after higher-ups objected to the theater's marketing approach.
www.oregonlive.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.
February 4, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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wyden.senate.gov
Really enjoyed chatting more with @tressiemcphd.bsky.social about how the federal government is weaponizing private data. Privacy has become a life-and-death issue, and I have a plan to rein the government in. Thread:
February 4, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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wyden.senate.gov
1. ICE is using Palantir apps to collect biometric data on protestors. I'm working closely with @markey.senate.gov to stop this.
Wyden, Merkley and Markey Demand ICE Stop Using Mobile Facial Recognition App | U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon
www.wyden.senate.gov
January 27, 2026 at 9:28 PM