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camofarc.bsky.social
@camofarc.bsky.social
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Historian, Statistician, IT Pro. Activist. Thank god we have independent media and national activist groups, the real fighters and defenders of democracy.
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camofarc.bsky.social @camofarc.bsky.social · Jan 15
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sollenbergerrc.bsky.social
Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...
February 15, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
UTAH - Wasatch County Republican Party Chair David Johnson arrested for allegedly “waterboarding” a teen girl for not cleaning her room.

She also had bruising, and says he did it to other kids. Released on $10,000 bail.

Full: www.abc4.com/news/crimes-...
February 15, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre: “I was trafficked to a lot of types of different men — billionaires, royalty… he used me as a form of blackmail so these people would owe him favors.”
February 15, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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pbump.com
Lazy McCarthyism
drewharwell.com Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 18h
Chaya Raichik is trying to get an elementary-school teacher fired for reposting a single viral video with zero additional commentary
Meet Kaili Schmidt. A staff member at Gene Dillon Elementary school in Minnesota. She reposted this video celebrating a student who PUNCHED a pro-ICE student in the face. Would you feel comfortable with this person teaching your children? The principal can be reached here: ami_aalgaard@isd31.net
February 15, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social
NEWS: Mariela Sobrero, who fears she has breast cancer & has been in Dilley with her 3 kids & husband was released yesterday I confirmed. Decision came after persistent advocacy from @jasmineforus.bsky.social’s office & hours after our @thebulwark.com story Friday

www.thebulwark.com/p/kids-arent...
The Kids Aren’t Alright in Dilley
A baby who needs medicine. A toddler whose detained mom may have breast cancer. A suicide attempt.
www.thebulwark.com
February 15, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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simonwdc.bsky.social
Polling these last two weeks is very clear that Trump has not only lost the argument about ICE, he's also lost it on mass deportation. Country wants him to focus on the criminals and leave the rest of us alone. From new Yahoo/YouGov:

www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
February 14, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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jayrosen.bsky.social
"The Crime of Witness" by Fintan O’Toole in @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

"The videos that expose the administration’s mendacity about its own use of extreme violence against peaceful dissent are themselves products of the courage to show up [and] see for yourself."

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
February 16, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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simonwdc.bsky.social
Ongoing, staggering betrayal of the West, of democracy, of America itself. We are now functionally aligned with Russia, and not Europe. And why? What in the world is in it for us?

All of this is making us less prosperous, less safe, and less free and our leaders should be fighting it far harder.
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h
In other words, he will say nothing to Orban and Fico about this because the US only seeks to encourage European leaders who are aligned with Putin.
February 16, 2026 at 12:08 AM
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February 16, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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bradlander.bsky.social
The Pride flag at the Stonewall Monument is re-raised!

New Yorkers won’t let Donald Trump erase LGBTQ+ history, or trample the rights of our LGBTQ+ neighbors.
February 12, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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peggyflanagan.bsky.social
I will not let the world forget what the Trump administration did to Minnesota.
February 12, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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newrepublic.com
The Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. trib.al/TSV3cmb
February 16, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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maxberger.bsky.social
Epstein survivors believe the Trump DoJ illegally released the names of survivors in an effort to intimidate them.
February 15, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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rweingarten.bsky.social
ICE is disrupting learning and putting our educators on the frontlines of immigration enforcement. Schools must be safe and welcoming places. We must restore sensitive locations protections.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
This small school district kept losing students to ICE. So it mobilized.
Outside of Minneapolis, the five schools in Columbia Heights have taken an aggressive approach to protecting the immigrant families of their students.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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adamkeiper.com
NEW: "This was not a decision to reject the Moderna vaccine. It was a refusal even to think about approving it."
www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-wh...
This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like
A shocking move by RFK Jr.’s team has the industry spooked—for good reason.
www.thebulwark.com
February 15, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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pkrugman.bsky.social
When Bereleh and Faygel Krugman emigrated from Belarus to New York, which was mostly Catholic and Jewish in 1920, I don't think they did for the Scots (with one t) Irish culture
February 15, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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sjjphd.bsky.social
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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FYI: In 2023, Twitter fought Jack Smith tooth and nail on a legal subpoena for Trump's account info, delaying the investigation by at least four months. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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muellershewrote.com
ALERT: The republicans - who threw a FIT over Jack Smith LEGALLY subpoenaing their toll records - ILLEGALLY spied on Democratic lawmakers' Epstein file searches. I'll discuss this with @katiephang.bsky.social in 45 minutes over on Meidas: www.youtube.com/live/sM8TZSP...
LIVE: Trump Caught BREAKING LAW in EPSTEIN SPY SCANDAL
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February 15, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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newrepublic.com
“If this is true, it would mean the Department of Justice redacted more than 96% of the mentions of Trump." trib.al/0LEUOPT
February 15, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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tomjoscelyn.bsky.social
We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.

There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.

Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
Musk advocates white monoculturalism
February 15, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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amandacarpenter.bsky.social
GINA CHRIST: “My name is Gina Christ. And I live in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. I was on my way to work. There’s people all around my car. I have both hands up on either side of my face — you cannot hear me. An ICE agent breaks my driver’s side window, glass, reaches in, opens my door, pulls me out of the door, tells me to get on the ground, zip-ties me — and now gas, flashbangs, pepper spray. There was no need. They detoured to grab me. They could have continued to drive. Their cars were past my car. They passed my car, jumped out of their cars, apprehended me, and kept going. Once I was detained, it was very like, ‘Do you have water? Are you comfortable? How’s the heat?’ It was a very schizophrenic experience. I mean, this is insane. This isn’t anything that could minutely be referred to as a couple of bad apples.”
February 15, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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amandacarpenter.bsky.social
ALIYA RAHMAN: “My name is Aliya Rahman. I was born in Northern Wisconsin, grew up in Bangladesh. I now live in Minneapolis. I came upon a traffic jam that I pretty quickly realized was ICE. I was told: ‘Move. I will break your effing window.’ And I couldn’t get a clear answer to where they wanted me to move to. Very quickly, I was pulled out of that car. I fell twice — once right outside the car, and once behind the car face down. I am disabled. I am autistic. I have a brain injury. And when I hit that ground face first, I just experienced shooting pain through my neck, through my head. My vision became blurry. What happened to me in detention was far worse than what happened to me on camera. What happened to me in detention was a complete stripping of my rights. Nobody knew I was there. I wasn’t told where I was going. I wasn’t given a phone call. And I’m going unconscious and I’m wondering — is this it? They call us bodies. Is this it for me? Am I going to die? I want to live in a country where people who are enforcing the law treat people humanely.”
February 15, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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amandacarpenter.bsky.social
PBS News Hour: U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated.

Watch the segment here www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgC...

I'm clipping transcripts of the citizens speaking in this thread 1/3
GEORGE RETES: “My name is George Retes. I was born and raised here in Ventura, California. I’m 26 years old and I am an Iraq combat veteran. I was going to work like normal. I show up. ICE is there. There’s kind of like a roadblock. I get out. I identify myself — that I’m a U.S. citizen, that I’m just trying to get to work. I’m trying to leave. I’m getting ready to leave and they surround my car, start banging on it, start shouting these contradictory orders. Even though I was giving them no reason, they still felt the need to — one agent knelt on my back and another agent knelt on my neck. And during that time, I’m just pleading with them that I couldn’t breathe. I was in isolation. I was in basically this concrete cell. I was stripped naked in like a hospital gown. And they leave the lights on 24/7. They just came out and they said that I was violent and that I assaulted agents. Why lie when it’s on video of everything that happened? Why lie?”
February 15, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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cdelawalla.bsky.social
SUP KRUSTI GNOME!
February 15, 2026 at 8:31 PM