Bernadette DeMesme-Anders
@bunideme.bsky.social
Retired school psychologist, active nana, still seeking beauty and social justice in our world. I marched for civil rights in the ‘60’s and here we go again.
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ICE agents are scanning your face while hiding theirs.
Here’s the Company That Sold DHS ICE’s Notorious Face Recognition App
Immigration agents have used Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US—including many citizens.
www.wired.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:18 PM
ICE agents are scanning your face while hiding theirs.
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If there’s a hell, it will be filled with people who claimed faith in Jesus, while trying to strip the sick of care, the terrified of refuge, and the vulnerable of protection, and reveled in it as if it were a righteous victory.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-hell-ex...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-hell-ex...
If Hell Exists, It Will Be Filled With Congressional Republicans
Growing up in the Church, I believed in Hell.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:19 PM
If there’s a hell, it will be filled with people who claimed faith in Jesus, while trying to strip the sick of care, the terrified of refuge, and the vulnerable of protection, and reveled in it as if it were a righteous victory.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-hell-ex...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-hell-ex...
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I wrote about how in a December email to me, RFK Jr.'s HHS insisted the current South Carolina measles outbreak wouldn't get that bad—and how it has since snowballed into the biggest US outbreak since measles was eliminated. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
HHS wasn't worried about South Carolina's measles outbreak. It's now enormous.
“CDC is not currently concerned that this will develop into a large, long-running outbreak," the agency said in December.
www.motherjones.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:28 PM
I wrote about how in a December email to me, RFK Jr.'s HHS insisted the current South Carolina measles outbreak wouldn't get that bad—and how it has since snowballed into the biggest US outbreak since measles was eliminated. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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California just told federal agents: Break the law on our soil and we WILL prosecute you. Every state should be doing this. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/senator-wh...
January 29, 2026 at 3:31 PM
California just told federal agents: Break the law on our soil and we WILL prosecute you. Every state should be doing this. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/senator-wh...
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ICE is torturing kids.
Trump's violating the Flores binding national standard for the detention, treatment & release of kids in federal custody.
The government MUST place children in the least restrictive detention within 3–5 days, & release them to parents within 20 days."
#ICELawlessness
Trump's violating the Flores binding national standard for the detention, treatment & release of kids in federal custody.
The government MUST place children in the least restrictive detention within 3–5 days, & release them to parents within 20 days."
#ICELawlessness
January 29, 2026 at 3:34 PM
ICE is torturing kids.
Trump's violating the Flores binding national standard for the detention, treatment & release of kids in federal custody.
The government MUST place children in the least restrictive detention within 3–5 days, & release them to parents within 20 days."
#ICELawlessness
Trump's violating the Flores binding national standard for the detention, treatment & release of kids in federal custody.
The government MUST place children in the least restrictive detention within 3–5 days, & release them to parents within 20 days."
#ICELawlessness
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Tom Homan is announcing that his goons will execute one hostage each day until their demands are met.
the feds saying theyll end their campaign of terror against an american city if their demands are met is the biggest domestic scandal of my lifetime
January 29, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Tom Homan is announcing that his goons will execute one hostage each day until their demands are met.
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Traditionally in the theater of war the biggest risk is getting heckled in Hooters.
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 29, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Traditionally in the theater of war the biggest risk is getting heckled in Hooters.
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We would tend to lean Tim’s way on this one
January 29, 2026 at 3:04 PM
We would tend to lean Tim’s way on this one
😺
Cat shaped snow at a cat-named store after the winter freeze. 😂
January 29, 2026 at 4:40 PM
😺
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Gotta suck shit being a true Trump believer. You spend years roiling in anger over made-up bullshit. You fill a little bottle with piss or whatever and spray a 5-foot tall woman with it. She instantly squares up to kick the shit out of you. You go to jail. The goons you idolize say you work for her.
Until it was silenced 10 months ago by DOGE and self-proclaimed USAGM acting CEO Kari Lake, along with the rest of the nearly 50 language services of the Voice of America, VOA Somali reached on a weekly basis ~65% of adults in Somalia.
January 29, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Gotta suck shit being a true Trump believer. You spend years roiling in anger over made-up bullshit. You fill a little bottle with piss or whatever and spray a 5-foot tall woman with it. She instantly squares up to kick the shit out of you. You go to jail. The goons you idolize say you work for her.
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More than a year in this has mostly gone as I feared, and in some ways has been worse. But there have been two contrasting surprises:
-- The speed and breadth of institutional capitulation
-- The courage, ferocity, and resolution of regular people
Our strength isn't our institutions. It's us.
-- The speed and breadth of institutional capitulation
-- The courage, ferocity, and resolution of regular people
Our strength isn't our institutions. It's us.
January 29, 2026 at 3:09 PM
More than a year in this has mostly gone as I feared, and in some ways has been worse. But there have been two contrasting surprises:
-- The speed and breadth of institutional capitulation
-- The courage, ferocity, and resolution of regular people
Our strength isn't our institutions. It's us.
-- The speed and breadth of institutional capitulation
-- The courage, ferocity, and resolution of regular people
Our strength isn't our institutions. It's us.
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Rand Paul: "After seeing this, if you call this a good shooting you aren't watching the video. This was a real tragedy and a mistake. The man had been disarmed and then shot 10 times ... if we say things that are obviously not true, the situation is going to get worse."
January 29, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Rand Paul: "After seeing this, if you call this a good shooting you aren't watching the video. This was a real tragedy and a mistake. The man had been disarmed and then shot 10 times ... if we say things that are obviously not true, the situation is going to get worse."
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By the way, patriarchy centers men.
Matriarchy centers children.
Matriarchy centers children.
January 29, 2026 at 3:10 PM
By the way, patriarchy centers men.
Matriarchy centers children.
Matriarchy centers children.
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At 5 a.m., Senile Satan continued his marathon bullshit posting. More than 60 posts attacked Obama, Mark Carney, Newsom, Tim Walz, Ilhan Omar, Alex Pretti, and a bunch of other craziness.
January 29, 2026 at 3:13 PM
At 5 a.m., Senile Satan continued his marathon bullshit posting. More than 60 posts attacked Obama, Mark Carney, Newsom, Tim Walz, Ilhan Omar, Alex Pretti, and a bunch of other craziness.
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This fear you’re feeling isn’t new. It’s borrowed. And it’s long overdue to be understood.
Hear me out👇🏽
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Hear me out👇🏽
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This Is America, Just Not the America You Knew
Two white people were killed by ICE in Minneapolis and suddenly White America is outraged.
open.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:16 PM
This fear you’re feeling isn’t new. It’s borrowed. And it’s long overdue to be understood.
Hear me out👇🏽
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
Hear me out👇🏽
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
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America is outraged after ICE killed two white people in Minneapolis.
I understand why folks are feeling afraid and angry right now. But I need you to understand something just as clearly: this is what Black America has been living with for generations.
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
I understand why folks are feeling afraid and angry right now. But I need you to understand something just as clearly: this is what Black America has been living with for generations.
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
This Is America, Just Not the America You Knew
Two white people were killed by ICE in Minneapolis and suddenly White America is outraged.
open.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:16 PM
America is outraged after ICE killed two white people in Minneapolis.
I understand why folks are feeling afraid and angry right now. But I need you to understand something just as clearly: this is what Black America has been living with for generations.
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
I understand why folks are feeling afraid and angry right now. But I need you to understand something just as clearly: this is what Black America has been living with for generations.
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
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Congress has the power to stop ICE from terrorizing our communities. Let’s use it.
January 29, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Congress has the power to stop ICE from terrorizing our communities. Let’s use it.
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The tone-deafness in the statement is so on brand.
Melania Trump: "He would like to have a country where all of the people can walk down the street and not be harassed or murdered or women raped"
January 29, 2026 at 3:18 PM
The tone-deafness in the statement is so on brand.
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BREAKING: As Trump transformed an immigration database into a tool to scrutinize voter rolls, newly unearthed comments show a prominent election denial activist was already claiming inside access to the effort — and touting a potential partnership with the Department of Homeland Security.
Leading election denier claimed DHS ‘wants to partner with us’ on voter roll checks. Now he’s a top official there
Comments from Phillips at the time suggest True the Vote, which has repeatedly pushed for access to federal data, also was working with DHS officials.
www.democracydocket.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:20 PM
BREAKING: As Trump transformed an immigration database into a tool to scrutinize voter rolls, newly unearthed comments show a prominent election denial activist was already claiming inside access to the effort — and touting a potential partnership with the Department of Homeland Security.
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This is the escalation cycle I've been talking about for months, one Homan can't pretend DHS is not part of.
DHS adopts aggressive tactics and arrest quotas, the community responds angrily, agents mask up and DHS deploys more, the response gets bigger/angrier, agents get more aggressive, etc...
DHS adopts aggressive tactics and arrest quotas, the community responds angrily, agents mask up and DHS deploys more, the response gets bigger/angrier, agents get more aggressive, etc...
CNN: How did we get to a place where we had Bovino having Border Patrol agents stopping citizens in interior of the country, asking them ID, creating fear? Who made the decisions to allow this kind of operation to proceed?
HOMAN: The reason for the massive deployment is bc of the threats & violence
HOMAN: The reason for the massive deployment is bc of the threats & violence
January 29, 2026 at 3:24 PM
This is the escalation cycle I've been talking about for months, one Homan can't pretend DHS is not part of.
DHS adopts aggressive tactics and arrest quotas, the community responds angrily, agents mask up and DHS deploys more, the response gets bigger/angrier, agents get more aggressive, etc...
DHS adopts aggressive tactics and arrest quotas, the community responds angrily, agents mask up and DHS deploys more, the response gets bigger/angrier, agents get more aggressive, etc...
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I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:29 PM
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 3:32 PM
"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
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Under authoritarian regimes, public spheres — streets, parks, neighborhood — become testing grounds for authoritarian rituals of humiliation and domination.
January 29, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Under authoritarian regimes, public spheres — streets, parks, neighborhood — become testing grounds for authoritarian rituals of humiliation and domination.
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Hell yes, Minnesota Democrats have won a state House with over 95% of the vote which officially ended fascist republican control of the House chamber in that state.
Couldn’t love this more. 💙👊
Couldn’t love this more. 💙👊
January 29, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Hell yes, Minnesota Democrats have won a state House with over 95% of the vote which officially ended fascist republican control of the House chamber in that state.
Couldn’t love this more. 💙👊
Couldn’t love this more. 💙👊