bripod
@bripod.bsky.social
Software engineer, avid board/video gamer, space & science enthusiast. He/him
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The Senate Switch Board Number is: (202)224-3121.
We are calling our senators right now and demanding that they vote no on the omnibus with DHS funding
We are explicitly mentioning ICE’s murder in cold blood of a man on the streets of Minneapolis this morning
We are explicitly mentioning ICE’s murder in cold blood of a man on the streets of Minneapolis this morning
January 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
The Senate Switch Board Number is: (202)224-3121.
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I would like for trump and vance to summarily execute fewer people in Minnesota, sorry to sound partisan
January 24, 2026 at 4:53 PM
I would like for trump and vance to summarily execute fewer people in Minnesota, sorry to sound partisan
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Cops sealed off 26 st. Lots of tear gas coming now. People taking refuge in nearby apartments
January 24, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Cops sealed off 26 st. Lots of tear gas coming now. People taking refuge in nearby apartments
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Not only does ICE need to be abolished, but there should be publically aired tribunals for as long as it takes to hold every last one of these thugs accountable. No one, not even the people who file paperwork or handle payroll, should be immune from prosecution.
January 24, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Not only does ICE need to be abolished, but there should be publically aired tribunals for as long as it takes to hold every last one of these thugs accountable. No one, not even the people who file paperwork or handle payroll, should be immune from prosecution.
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ICE attacked an observer after they tailed a group of clergy on a spiritual pilgrimage.
Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.
Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.
January 24, 2026 at 4:22 AM
ICE attacked an observer after they tailed a group of clergy on a spiritual pilgrimage.
Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.
Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.
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An important one to watch. Each element is critical. ICE tailing clergy. Fact that ICE declared driving *behind* ICE “obstruction.” White people; ICE still went to violence in 30 seconds; but community saved them. This cld have been another murder; community intervened.
ICE attacked an observer after they tailed a group of clergy on a spiritual pilgrimage.
Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.
Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.
January 24, 2026 at 3:50 PM
An important one to watch. Each element is critical. ICE tailing clergy. Fact that ICE declared driving *behind* ICE “obstruction.” White people; ICE still went to violence in 30 seconds; but community saved them. This cld have been another murder; community intervened.
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I think more of you should be getting your news from photographers. Here’s a thread. Most aren’t here. Sorry, you’ll have to branch out.
Scott Olson, Getty.
Scott Olson, Getty.
Scott Olson on Instagram: "Border patrol agents smash out a man’s car window before taking him into custody for failing to present citizenship documentation while at a gas station in St. Paul, MN. #b...
8,138 likes, 402 comments - olsongetty on January 11, 2026: "Border patrol agents smash out a man’s car window before taking him into custody for failing to present citizenship documentation while at ...
www.instagram.com
January 24, 2026 at 2:19 PM
I think more of you should be getting your news from photographers. Here’s a thread. Most aren’t here. Sorry, you’ll have to branch out.
Scott Olson, Getty.
Scott Olson, Getty.
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For our entire lives, people were shamed for being “conspiracy theorists”. Meanwhile, there’s an actual conspiracy that’s been happening for eons in which the land-holding white supremacist hoarders of wealth structure the global economy around their interests alone. Yep. A muthafukkkin CONSPIRACY.
January 24, 2026 at 1:54 PM
For our entire lives, people were shamed for being “conspiracy theorists”. Meanwhile, there’s an actual conspiracy that’s been happening for eons in which the land-holding white supremacist hoarders of wealth structure the global economy around their interests alone. Yep. A muthafukkkin CONSPIRACY.
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This pattern stands in contrast to the idea of Trumpism’s irresistible march towards consolidated authoritarian rule.
Being lawless, immoral, and violent does not make the Trumpists omnipotent.
Obscuring that distinction is an act of defeatism that only serves the regime.
Being lawless, immoral, and violent does not make the Trumpists omnipotent.
Obscuring that distinction is an act of defeatism that only serves the regime.
January 24, 2026 at 2:28 PM
This pattern stands in contrast to the idea of Trumpism’s irresistible march towards consolidated authoritarian rule.
Being lawless, immoral, and violent does not make the Trumpists omnipotent.
Obscuring that distinction is an act of defeatism that only serves the regime.
Being lawless, immoral, and violent does not make the Trumpists omnipotent.
Obscuring that distinction is an act of defeatism that only serves the regime.
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ICE wants to terrify people into submission and compliance so that they can operate with impunity, unimpeded, in semi-secrecy. It is not working. In every urban center these masked goons descend upon, the local community is rallying in solidarity.
January 24, 2026 at 2:18 PM
ICE wants to terrify people into submission and compliance so that they can operate with impunity, unimpeded, in semi-secrecy. It is not working. In every urban center these masked goons descend upon, the local community is rallying in solidarity.
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To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS:
1) put your phone in airplane mode
2) open TikTok and go to your profile
3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account
4) turn airplane mode off
5) delete your account
Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this
1) put your phone in airplane mode
2) open TikTok and go to your profile
3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account
4) turn airplane mode off
5) delete your account
Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.
www.wired.com
January 24, 2026 at 5:59 AM
To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS:
1) put your phone in airplane mode
2) open TikTok and go to your profile
3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account
4) turn airplane mode off
5) delete your account
Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this
1) put your phone in airplane mode
2) open TikTok and go to your profile
3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account
4) turn airplane mode off
5) delete your account
Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this
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And here’s an Omni jet landing in Equatorial Guinea yesterday. This is very likely a third-country removal to a torture prison, the second in a week and the third there overall.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
January 23, 2026 at 11:50 PM
And here’s an Omni jet landing in Equatorial Guinea yesterday. This is very likely a third-country removal to a torture prison, the second in a week and the third there overall.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
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"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
-James Baldwin, from Notes on the House of Bondage (The Nation, 1980)
#everynightapoem #ofsorts
-James Baldwin, from Notes on the House of Bondage (The Nation, 1980)
#everynightapoem #ofsorts
January 24, 2026 at 1:26 AM
"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
-James Baldwin, from Notes on the House of Bondage (The Nation, 1980)
#everynightapoem #ofsorts
-James Baldwin, from Notes on the House of Bondage (The Nation, 1980)
#everynightapoem #ofsorts
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This bill by a Washington State Democratic legislator would prevent any law enforcement agency in the state from hiring anyone employed as a sworn ICE officer after January 20, 2025. A good start, I say. Make them outcasts.
Rep. Simmons introduces ICE Out Act of 2026 prohibiting hiring of ICE officers – Tarra Simmons
housedemocrats.wa.gov
January 24, 2026 at 4:35 AM
This bill by a Washington State Democratic legislator would prevent any law enforcement agency in the state from hiring anyone employed as a sworn ICE officer after January 20, 2025. A good start, I say. Make them outcasts.
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They wheeled this Nazi asshole into court in a wheelchair and he was still trying to hide his face in shame 76 years after World War II ended. That's the kind of commitment I'm looking for.
Ex-Nazi guard, 101, sentenced for role in 3,500 murders
He was sentenced to five years in prison for serving at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
www.nbcnews.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:14 AM
They wheeled this Nazi asshole into court in a wheelchair and he was still trying to hide his face in shame 76 years after World War II ended. That's the kind of commitment I'm looking for.
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Families were promised their children's data would be protected. Instead it was fed into shoddy, pseudoscientific research making claims about race and IQ. Now amplified by AI bots, compounding the harm. We need an honest reckoning with how genomic data can be weaponized for scientific racism.
January 24, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Families were promised their children's data would be protected. Instead it was fed into shoddy, pseudoscientific research making claims about race and IQ. Now amplified by AI bots, compounding the harm. We need an honest reckoning with how genomic data can be weaponized for scientific racism.
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This devastating, enraging NYT article reveals what happens when scientific institutions naively assume good faith while bad-faith actors exploit their systems. In a likely violation of both HIPAA and the Privacy Act, NIH failed to protect the DNA data of over 20,000 children.
January 24, 2026 at 12:42 PM
This devastating, enraging NYT article reveals what happens when scientific institutions naively assume good faith while bad-faith actors exploit their systems. In a likely violation of both HIPAA and the Privacy Act, NIH failed to protect the DNA data of over 20,000 children.
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🚨🚨🚨 "At least 63 times since 2007, data from some of the 28 human genomic repositories that the N.I.H. controls was improperly released to researchers, used for unapproved purposes or made vulnerable to theft..." (Gift Link) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...
Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 12:19 PM
🚨🚨🚨 "At least 63 times since 2007, data from some of the 28 human genomic repositories that the N.I.H. controls was improperly released to researchers, used for unapproved purposes or made vulnerable to theft..." (Gift Link) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...
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It isn’t healthy to be this angry all the time. But it also isn’t healthy if this doesn’t make you angry.
they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child.
ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents.
the family is here legally.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents.
the family is here legally.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital
The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
www.oregonlive.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:38 AM
It isn’t healthy to be this angry all the time. But it also isn’t healthy if this doesn’t make you angry.
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Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations
September 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations
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"among many other topics the political press would normally make a huge deal of but ignored for Trump in 2024 is how comically unqualified and unprepared JD Vance is
his work experience was a bunch of wingnut welfare conservative sinecures working for twisted billionaire oligarchs like Peter Thiel"
his work experience was a bunch of wingnut welfare conservative sinecures working for twisted billionaire oligarchs like Peter Thiel"
A sample JD Vance work product: He was on the board of directors for a SPAC "vertical farming" company that was accused of massive labor law violations and has since gone bankrupt and delisted and now trades as a penny stock. Great job JD, I'm sure "most powerful person in the world" will go great!
AppHarvest - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"among many other topics the political press would normally make a huge deal of but ignored for Trump in 2024 is how comically unqualified and unprepared JD Vance is
his work experience was a bunch of wingnut welfare conservative sinecures working for twisted billionaire oligarchs like Peter Thiel"
his work experience was a bunch of wingnut welfare conservative sinecures working for twisted billionaire oligarchs like Peter Thiel"
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NYT coverage of Minneapolis is a positive sign. They decided they couldn’t ignore it.
January 24, 2026 at 3:43 AM
NYT coverage of Minneapolis is a positive sign. They decided they couldn’t ignore it.
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ICE just crashed a car at my intersection (due to their own shitty driving) and immediately got out and tear gassed observers.
January 23, 2026 at 7:38 PM
ICE just crashed a car at my intersection (due to their own shitty driving) and immediately got out and tear gassed observers.