Collieflower
@collieflower.bsky.social
Your friendly local neighborhood mail carrier. Speedy Delivery in Pittsburgh. Outdoorsy, tabletop with buds, video games, history, and literature. Screaming in agony socialist.
The Internet Makes You Stupid, or so I've heard.
The Internet Makes You Stupid, or so I've heard.
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this was my pinned post for the longest time on my old twitter page and frankly it seems appropriate to bring this back.
heres to a few small beers 🍻
‘ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER’ has been nominated for 13 Oscars, one of the most-nominated films of the decade.
See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26
See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26
January 22, 2026 at 2:27 PM
heres to a few small beers 🍻
I know, I know people are going to chicken out and call off Monday in da Pitt once that snowstorm hits. I'm not though, because we have dedicated hardcore +62 year old Postal Carriers who definitely will be in regardless, and if they're out in that shit, I better be as well.
January 22, 2026 at 1:53 PM
I know, I know people are going to chicken out and call off Monday in da Pitt once that snowstorm hits. I'm not though, because we have dedicated hardcore +62 year old Postal Carriers who definitely will be in regardless, and if they're out in that shit, I better be as well.
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only thing blue line i recognize 🫡
January 22, 2026 at 2:36 AM
only thing blue line i recognize 🫡
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Allowing swing-district Democrats to vote for DHS funding so as not to look "anti-law enforcement" feeds into the false narrative that ICE is enforcing laws rather than breaking them. It is an organized crime syndicate. prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
Jeffries Won’t Whip Vote Against ICE Funding - The American Prospect
While the House Democratic leader announced personal opposition to a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, he won’t pressure his colleagues to do the same.
prospect.org
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Allowing swing-district Democrats to vote for DHS funding so as not to look "anti-law enforcement" feeds into the false narrative that ICE is enforcing laws rather than breaking them. It is an organized crime syndicate. prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
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I'm so proud of Kat. She went back to Broadview on Saturday, the first time since she was indicted. Five degrees out.
Feddy agitators were there only to taunt her.
She stopped her speech and said, “You may love ICE, baby, but they don’t love you. There’s nothing ICE likes more than hitting women.”
Feddy agitators were there only to taunt her.
She stopped her speech and said, “You may love ICE, baby, but they don’t love you. There’s nothing ICE likes more than hitting women.”
This past weekend, I went back to Broadview for the first time since being federally indicted.
I will put my body on the line no matter how many times it takes.
I will put my body on the line no matter how many times it takes.
January 21, 2026 at 11:22 PM
I'm so proud of Kat. She went back to Broadview on Saturday, the first time since she was indicted. Five degrees out.
Feddy agitators were there only to taunt her.
She stopped her speech and said, “You may love ICE, baby, but they don’t love you. There’s nothing ICE likes more than hitting women.”
Feddy agitators were there only to taunt her.
She stopped her speech and said, “You may love ICE, baby, but they don’t love you. There’s nothing ICE likes more than hitting women.”
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Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
As Malcolm Harris notes in his Palo Alto book, the Silicon Valley crowd comes from the Standford tradition of Smelling like some Nazi shit. Not particularly surprising that these guys are all indulging in it while trying to wrap themselves deep into the US federal budget, old playbook for success.
“There will be more than enough jobs for the citizens of your nation, esp. those with vocational training,” said Karp. “I do think these trends really do make it hard to imagine why we should have large-scale immigration unless you have a very specialized skill.”
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Palantir CEO Says AI to Make Large-Scale Immigration Obsolete
Artificial intelligence will displace so many jobs that it will eliminate the need for mass immigration, according to Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp.
www.bloomberg.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:34 PM
As Malcolm Harris notes in his Palo Alto book, the Silicon Valley crowd comes from the Standford tradition of Smelling like some Nazi shit. Not particularly surprising that these guys are all indulging in it while trying to wrap themselves deep into the US federal budget, old playbook for success.
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DSA bluesky is 50% "real communists" saying we're all sheepdogs for the democratic party and 50% "real Democrats" saying we're all crazy tankie Stalinists. Here I am stuck in the middle with you ...
January 21, 2026 at 9:02 PM
DSA bluesky is 50% "real communists" saying we're all sheepdogs for the democratic party and 50% "real Democrats" saying we're all crazy tankie Stalinists. Here I am stuck in the middle with you ...
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Department of Homeland Security is worried about people with "class-based or economic grievances," per its annual threat assessment (leaked to me):
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leaked-doc...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leaked-doc...
Leaked Doc: Homeland Security's Domestic Terror Obsession
Forget Greenland; the American public are the real target
www.kenklippenstein.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Department of Homeland Security is worried about people with "class-based or economic grievances," per its annual threat assessment (leaked to me):
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leaked-doc...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leaked-doc...
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🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
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Be kind to your elders, Lily x Chun Li
January 20, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Be kind to your elders, Lily x Chun Li
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I shelved a 8k+ piece I was writing on the Lakatosian intellectual hard core of the conservative project. When I laid it all out, there was a black hole at the centre, a nexus all else rotated: ‘I got mine, and if you try to stop me, I will get my goon squad to kill you and everyone you love’
The thing is, the right wing has been stark bollock naked since the French revolution and yet we've spent the intervening centuries acting like they have a disagreement about tax rates instead of profound neurological damage and we don't know what politics that recognises this would look like.
A lot of British "patriots" siding with a hostile foreign leader who has declared economic war on their country.
A hostile foreign leader who is now looking for anything he can do to damage Britain - because he wants to steal Greenland.
You have all been totally exposed.
A hostile foreign leader who is now looking for anything he can do to damage Britain - because he wants to steal Greenland.
You have all been totally exposed.
January 21, 2026 at 11:29 AM
I shelved a 8k+ piece I was writing on the Lakatosian intellectual hard core of the conservative project. When I laid it all out, there was a black hole at the centre, a nexus all else rotated: ‘I got mine, and if you try to stop me, I will get my goon squad to kill you and everyone you love’
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The rise of Big Beef as an ally to fascism isn't surprising, but it does add an additional twist of Robber Baron absurdity.
The Dept.of Interior is sabotaging the MT bison restoration efforts of the group American Prairie, by revoking their permits, claiming that the allotments only be grazed by cows, not bison.
Yet another win for the beef industry, owned in large part by venture capitalists/tech bros.
Yet another win for the beef industry, owned in large part by venture capitalists/tech bros.
Environmental group blasts Interior for proposal to revoke Montana bison leases - Western Watersheds Project
For Immediate Release January 20, 2026 Contact: Patrick Kelly, Western Watersheds Project, (208) 576-4314, [email protected] MISSOULA, Mont. – Western Watersheds Project today blasted th...
westernwatersheds.org
January 21, 2026 at 7:34 AM
The rise of Big Beef as an ally to fascism isn't surprising, but it does add an additional twist of Robber Baron absurdity.
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replace rfk jr with this guy
January 19, 2026 at 2:43 PM
replace rfk jr with this guy
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TODAY: Israeli authorities demolish the UNRWA headquarters in Jerusalem.
January 20, 2026 at 11:51 AM
TODAY: Israeli authorities demolish the UNRWA headquarters in Jerusalem.
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We have an entire class of Democratic "leadership" that has been told that it's dangerous and extreme to say this, and that does not understand that what Democrats want is for their leaders to articulate what they believe and why they believe it. That should not be as big an ask as it apparently is.
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
January 20, 2026 at 5:04 PM
We have an entire class of Democratic "leadership" that has been told that it's dangerous and extreme to say this, and that does not understand that what Democrats want is for their leaders to articulate what they believe and why they believe it. That should not be as big an ask as it apparently is.
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I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.
ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
popular.info
January 20, 2026 at 1:47 PM
I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.
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“Oxfam’s study…argues that the wealth boom is being matched by a dramatic concentration of political clout, with billionaires 4,000 times more likely than ordinary citizens to hold political office.”
In a report timed for the opening of the World Economic Forum, anti-poverty group Oxfam said billionaire wealth surged at three times its recent pace last year to reach its highest level on record, deepening economic and political divides that threaten democratic stability reut.rs/4b8PEcw
Billionaires' wealth hits new peak as their clout grows, Oxfam says
Billionaire wealth surged at three times its recent pace last year to reach its highest level on record, deepening economic and political divides that threaten democratic stability, anti-poverty group...
reut.rs
January 19, 2026 at 4:18 PM
“Oxfam’s study…argues that the wealth boom is being matched by a dramatic concentration of political clout, with billionaires 4,000 times more likely than ordinary citizens to hold political office.”
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ahh a nice night out at the movies. now time to check my phone and see what our mad pedophile king and his evil scheming viziers are up to
January 19, 2026 at 6:47 AM
ahh a nice night out at the movies. now time to check my phone and see what our mad pedophile king and his evil scheming viziers are up to
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Can Any House Truly Be Owned?
January 20, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Can Any House Truly Be Owned?