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Dean Booth 🦆🐇
@deanbooth.bsky.social
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Artist, Philosopher, History addict, Social Justice Worrier

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Dean Booth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · Nov 10
This is a video of my art show in 2017 at City Center Gallery in Columbus, Ohio. It contains over 150 mechanized ordinary objects, each timed to move once an hour.

Since then I’ve changed my focus to doing philosophy of mind. It’s harder than doing art.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=80W1...
The Waiting Room
YouTube video by Jim Rubino
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diplomatofnight.com
Doesn't seem like this should be his job
Schumer: "I have many jobs as leader.. and one is to fight for aid to Israel — all the aid that Israel needs. I will continue to fight for it. «We delivered more security assistance to Israel, our ally, under my leadership than ever, ever before. We will keep doing that."
February 1, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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aclu.org
M.H. never thought as a U.S. citizen he’d be detained by ICE simply for being Somali.

ICE’s racism and ruthless arrest tactics are traumatizing for anyone who has experienced it.
Black quote graphic reading "Since this happened to me, I don't feel like the same person anymore. I feel physically weaker, and I feel terrified when I think about what happened to me. Sometimes, at night, I hear the whistles from that day, and I even have nightmares that I am being tackled and taken again.” -M.H. , ACLU client and Minneapolis resident challenging ICE’s unlawful actions.
February 1, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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mickeykuhns.bsky.social
ICE agents tried to quietly get Mexican food in Minneapolis, local neighbors and protesters found out and shamed then out of the neighborhood!
February 1, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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rhib.bsky.social
Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...
Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005. CBP’s misconduct scandal is so long-running that today it would be old enough to drink. In total, according to CBP’s own discipline reports, over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024 — the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested themselves, some multiple times. (In 2018 alone, a single CBP employee was arrested five times.) To put that number in perspective: • The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police. • Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States.
February 1, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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atrupar.com
TRUMP TODAY: There was an election in Texas? What?

TRUMP YESTERDAY:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Today is the day! To all Voters in Texas’ 9th State Senate District: GET OUT AND VOTE for a phenomenal Candidate, Leigh Wambsganss. She is a highly successful Entrepreneur, and an incredible supporter of our Movement to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. My very good friend, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, needs a strong conservative Republican in SD-9 to KEEP TEXAS RED! The Radical Left Democrats are spending a fortune to beat a true MAGA Warrior, Leigh Wambsganss. You can win this Election for Leigh, who has my Complete and Total Endorsement. POLLS CLOSE AT 7 P.M. GET OUT AND VOTE FOR LEIGH WAMBSGANSS! Find your closest Polling Location here. Leigh will NEVER let Texas, or the USA, down! President DJT
February 1, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
"Among the hires at CBS News announced by Weiss is a doctor who claims he reduced his biological age by 20 years with cold plunges; that cod liver oil treats autism; and that Alzheimer’s and dementia can be reversed with supplements he sells on his online store."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Bari Weiss’s new CBS hires include ‘germ theory denialist’ doctor
Dr Mark Hyman, who claimed he reduced his biological age by 20 years, brought on as a contributor
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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governorwalz.mn.gov
To all the Minnesotans who are making their voices heard and protesting peacefully:

The world is watching, and when change comes, it will be because of you.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Texas — Protester roughed up and arrested for having roller skates.

Trump’s America. Abbott’s Texas.

www.instagram.com/reel/DUN-IWg...
February 1, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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atrupar.com
Rep. Morrison on conditions at Whipple: "She said, 'they are treating us like animals in here. The women that are in this cell with me, we slept on a cold concrete floor last night. We were begging for a blanket, & guards were cruel'... we have to resolve that every single person deserves dignity"
February 1, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...
U.S. citizen injured by federal agents in Salem who demanded to see “papers,” union says - Salem Reporter
A home care worker and union worker was pulled from her car and injured by federal agents Thursday according to a statement by SEIU 503. To comment on this story, use the form at the end of the repor...
www.salemreporter.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:47 PM
deanbooth.bsky.social
This is who runs this account
Man with a giant head with a little man inside it
February 1, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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crampell.bsky.social
www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...
'Reminds me of Anne Frank': Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump's TPS end looms - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The end of Temporary Protected Status has Holocaust survivors offering to hide Haitian staffers, according to the CEO of a senior-living center in Florida.
www.jta.org
February 1, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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cwebbonline.com
DHS should be embarrassed that their ICE agent hires are so soft they can’t handle being videotaped, even while masked, so they resort to pepper spraying women at close range.

And we should be proud of the Santa Barbara women who stood their ground anyway.
January 31, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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dumbrunner.bsky.social
I saw it too:
February 1, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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portlandken.bsky.social
Just returned home from the anti-ICE protest in Portland today. A 100% peaceful crowd that the Portland Police Department (PPD) estimated to be "in the thousands" marched past ICE's Portland HQ.

ICE, of course, responded with a barrage of tear gas and chemical rounds to suppress free speech.
Thousands march to ICE facility in South Portland
A large protest took place in South Portland today from Elisabeth Caruthers Park to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility.
katu.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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badchoices.us
ICE thugs brutally beat and kidnap man who complied and had his hands in the air.

This is the kind of stuff that happens in third world dictatorships.
February 1, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
JD Vance in 2021:
JD Vance @JDVance X.com Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don't talk about it. 8:28 AM • 9/4/21
January 31, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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statuscoupnews.bsky.social
"Families in Minneapolis are afraid to go to work, send kids to school, answer their door—and are still being evicted. If people can't safely work, move, or live—eviction is violence!" -Minneapolis ICE protester calls for Gov. Walz to declare eviction moratorium. LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 31, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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socialistdogmom.bsky.social
"With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, It is so ORDERED."
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: Federal judge orders Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R., released.

"The Great Writ and release from detention are GRANTED."

"Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster."
FILED January 31, 2026 CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS Jaemie Herndon DEPUTY ADRIAN CONEJO ARIAS, and L.C.R., a Minor Child by and through His Parent and Guardian Adrian Conejo Arias, Petitioners, VS. KRISTI NOEM, in Her Official Capacity as Secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security; PAMELA BONDI, in Her Official Capacity as Attorney General of the United States; TODD LYONS, in His Official Capacity as Acting Director, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement; DAREN MARGOLIN, in His Official Capacity as Acting Director of the Executive Office of Immigration Review; and JOHN DOE, in His Official Capacity as the Warden of the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Dilley, Texas, Respondents. CIVIL CASE NO. SA-26-CV-415-FB § OPINION AND ORDER OF THE COURT Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster. That is called the fox guarding the henhouse. The Constitution requires an independent judicial officer. Accordingly, the Court finds that the Constitution of these United States trumps this administration's detention of petitioner Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R. The Great Writ and release from detention are GRANTED pursuant to the attached Judgment. Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned. Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more orderly and humane policy than currently in place. Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you can keep it." With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, It is so ORDERED. SIGNED this 31st day of February [sic], 2026. Fred Biery FRED BIERY UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE Credit: Bystander Matthew 19:14 John 11:35
January 31, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
MINNESOTA: Mexican immigrant hospitalized with a shattered skull and broken face — Trump’s ICE goons claim he “purposefully ran into a brick wall”

NURSE: “NO WAY”

apnews.com/article/immi...
January 31, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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batkaren.bsky.social
The reviews for Melania are in, and they’re just as hilarious as you expected.
Rotten Tomatoes Melania 6% tomatometer 98% popcornmeter The Guardian Melania review - Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest 1⭐️ (out of 5) Adam Olinger (reviewer) I’d rather rewatch January 6th. Liz Shannon Miller (reviewer) Grade: F Look, Leni Riefenstahl was a terrible person, but at least she had some style. Accused sex pest/confirmed hack Brett Ratner, meanwhile, captures the proceedings with all the flair of HGTV
January 31, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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eddieperez.bsky.social
💥Everyone needs to watch this video. Seriously.💥

These are ICE agents *chasing* and *passing* a US CITIZEN on the road (so she could not have been “impeding” them), in rural Minnesota

After aggressively boxing her in, all three of them draw their weapons on her
youtu.be/EG7bqoDJ9L4

Details below
Federal agents drew weapons on unarmed woman in St. Peter, Minnesota
YouTube video by MPR News
youtu.be
January 31, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
UTAH auto body shop owner: “You guys broke the fucking window to get in here! Where is your warrant??”

Trump’s ICE goons: “Yes we did… We don’t need one.” 🤔

Rights are gone under this regime.

(From Somali Snaps: www.instagram.com/reel/DUKpzuS...)
January 31, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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cwebbonline.com
Maria Santay, a U.S. citizen and community observer, live-streamed masked ICE agents detaining her after they boxed in her car from all sides and smashed her window. Local police showed up and did nothing.

She was denied access to a restroom, and forced to pee in the parking lot while handcuffed.
January 31, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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chrisjustice01.bsky.social
🚨TONIGHT’S PROTEST IN MINNEAPOLIS IS INSANE:

CNN is STUNNED. Share this widely!

“I've covered many protests… I've not seen a crowd like this before.” It’s 8 degrees. “It is freezing, but nothing, nothing is stopping these people.”

This isn’t a rally. It’s a movement. @calltoactivism.bsky.social
January 31, 2026 at 12:59 AM