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I’ve been many people, done many things. Besides my 30+ yr marriage to Carlton, most proud to have volunteered with the #OneInTeen #LGBTQ youth group in Nashville for 20 yrs. Was also part of #GeeksResist #DemCast prior to being banned from Musk’s Twitter.
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Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
www.wired.com
No Pay Wall on this important Wired article - How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
If you're going to join any protests, as is your right under the First Amendment, you need to think beyond your physical well-being to your digital security, too.
If you're going to join any protests, as is your right under the First Amendment, you need to think beyond your physical well-being to your digital security, too.
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ICE is shooting soccer moms in the face and raiding middle schools but the administration wants to investigate fake daycare conspiracy theories fabricated by right wing teenage YouTubers.
January 10, 2026 at 12:36 AM
ICE is shooting soccer moms in the face and raiding middle schools but the administration wants to investigate fake daycare conspiracy theories fabricated by right wing teenage YouTubers.
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Rep Thomas Massie (R-KY) to CNN on DOJ stonewalling Epstein: “I also want to remind those folks at the DOJ, you can be prosecuted by a future DOJ for violating this law because it’s a law. It’s not a congressional subpoena that expires at the end of this Congress. It will last forever”
...tick tock!
...tick tock!
Today in Politics, Bulletin 282. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Today in Politics, Bulletin 282. 1/9/25
… The cover-up by DHS of the killing of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross is well underway, with Kristi Noem declaring him innocent before any investigation has been conducted while refusing to co...
open.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Rep Thomas Massie (R-KY) to CNN on DOJ stonewalling Epstein: “I also want to remind those folks at the DOJ, you can be prosecuted by a future DOJ for violating this law because it’s a law. It’s not a congressional subpoena that expires at the end of this Congress. It will last forever”
...tick tock!
...tick tock!
Strong woman makes a powerful statement about how real law enforcement operates.
Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal:
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
January 9, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Strong woman makes a powerful statement about how real law enforcement operates.
(Minneapolis) Hennepin County prosecutor launchs independent state review into fatal ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good -- not waiting on the corrupt Federal investigation to white wash the murder.
Murder is a state crime & should be investigated locally.
www.startribune.com/hennepin-cou...
Murder is a state crime & should be investigated locally.
www.startribune.com/hennepin-cou...
Hennepin County prosecutor, attorney general launch independent state review into fatal ICE shooting
The decision comes one day after the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension announced it had been removed from a joint investigation alongside the FBI.
www.startribune.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:02 PM
(Minneapolis) Hennepin County prosecutor launchs independent state review into fatal ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good -- not waiting on the corrupt Federal investigation to white wash the murder.
Murder is a state crime & should be investigated locally.
www.startribune.com/hennepin-cou...
Murder is a state crime & should be investigated locally.
www.startribune.com/hennepin-cou...
There will be justice here. Don't give into their violence.
This is a battle Trump, Vance, & the GOP is losing.
"Protest loudly, peacefully, and legally. Allow the open wound to sit in the lap of [Trump's] presidency and fester."
www.youtube.com/shorts/EEMI4...
This is a battle Trump, Vance, & the GOP is losing.
"Protest loudly, peacefully, and legally. Allow the open wound to sit in the lap of [Trump's] presidency and fester."
www.youtube.com/shorts/EEMI4...
January 9, 2026 at 8:22 PM
There will be justice here. Don't give into their violence.
This is a battle Trump, Vance, & the GOP is losing.
"Protest loudly, peacefully, and legally. Allow the open wound to sit in the lap of [Trump's] presidency and fester."
www.youtube.com/shorts/EEMI4...
This is a battle Trump, Vance, & the GOP is losing.
"Protest loudly, peacefully, and legally. Allow the open wound to sit in the lap of [Trump's] presidency and fester."
www.youtube.com/shorts/EEMI4...
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:
"That is a fundamental difference between Vice President Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street."
"That is a fundamental difference between Vice President Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street."
Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.
January 9, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:
"That is a fundamental difference between Vice President Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street."
"That is a fundamental difference between Vice President Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street."
Alpha News – Bias and Credibility from mediabiasfactcheck.com/alpha-news/
January 9, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Alpha News – Bias and Credibility from mediabiasfactcheck.com/alpha-news/
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As seen from down under - Cathy Wilcox is easily the best cartoonist in Australia right now.
January 9, 2026 at 7:25 PM
As seen from down under - Cathy Wilcox is easily the best cartoonist in Australia right now.
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“To assess whether an officer acted reasonably in using force, a court must consider all … facts and events leading up to the climactic moment,” the majority SCOTUS opinion stated in 23-1239 Barnes v. Felix (05/15/2025).
FOLKS IN MINNEAPOLIS:
SAVE all videos & photos from today. They will be valuable to prove the ICE agent --- who had time to move & re-position himself to the side of the victim's car to shoot into the driver's side window --- was not in reasonable fear of imminent serious physical injury or death.
SAVE all videos & photos from today. They will be valuable to prove the ICE agent --- who had time to move & re-position himself to the side of the victim's car to shoot into the driver's side window --- was not in reasonable fear of imminent serious physical injury or death.
January 7, 2026 at 7:46 PM
“To assess whether an officer acted reasonably in using force, a court must consider all … facts and events leading up to the climactic moment,” the majority SCOTUS opinion stated in 23-1239 Barnes v. Felix (05/15/2025).
No Pay Wall on this important Wired article - How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
If you're going to join any protests, as is your right under the First Amendment, you need to think beyond your physical well-being to your digital security, too.
If you're going to join any protests, as is your right under the First Amendment, you need to think beyond your physical well-being to your digital security, too.
Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
www.wired.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:17 PM
No Pay Wall on this important Wired article - How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
If you're going to join any protests, as is your right under the First Amendment, you need to think beyond your physical well-being to your digital security, too.
If you're going to join any protests, as is your right under the First Amendment, you need to think beyond your physical well-being to your digital security, too.
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We’re mobilizing across the country this weekend to honor Renee Nicole Good, demand accountability for ICE’s killing of Renee, and make visible the human cost of ICE’s terror: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
January 9, 2026 at 3:11 AM
We’re mobilizing across the country this weekend to honor Renee Nicole Good, demand accountability for ICE’s killing of Renee, and make visible the human cost of ICE’s terror: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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To recap: we’ve now seen two ICE goons point their guns at unarmed protesters heads— at protests about them shooting a woman in the head.
These guys are so out of control.
These guys are so out of control.
January 9, 2026 at 4:27 PM
To recap: we’ve now seen two ICE goons point their guns at unarmed protesters heads— at protests about them shooting a woman in the head.
These guys are so out of control.
These guys are so out of control.
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The reason all this is happening is that the memory of what happened the last time we behaved this way has faded.
January 4, 2026 at 2:25 PM
The reason all this is happening is that the memory of what happened the last time we behaved this way has faded.
The key point here is NON-CONSENSUAL!
Adults may do mostly what they want with their own images & I'm not going to start porn shaming when it involves adults that freely decided on work that suits their life circumstances.
BUT this tool-set is about shaming & sexualizing people without consent.
Adults may do mostly what they want with their own images & I'm not going to start porn shaming when it involves adults that freely decided on work that suits their life circumstances.
BUT this tool-set is about shaming & sexualizing people without consent.
“Hundreds of nonconsensual AI images being created by Grok on X, data shows ***
Sample of roughly 500 posts shows how frequently people are creating sexualized images with Elon Musk’s AI chatbot” 1/8/26 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Sample of roughly 500 posts shows how frequently people are creating sexualized images with Elon Musk’s AI chatbot” 1/8/26 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Hundreds of nonconsensual AI images being created by Grok on X, data shows
Sample of roughly 500 posts shows how frequently people are creating sexualized images with Elon Musk’s AI chatbot
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:18 PM
The key point here is NON-CONSENSUAL!
Adults may do mostly what they want with their own images & I'm not going to start porn shaming when it involves adults that freely decided on work that suits their life circumstances.
BUT this tool-set is about shaming & sexualizing people without consent.
Adults may do mostly what they want with their own images & I'm not going to start porn shaming when it involves adults that freely decided on work that suits their life circumstances.
BUT this tool-set is about shaming & sexualizing people without consent.
The GOP & Trump only get to rewrite history it we let them! The world needs more Truth, not more Trump madness, chaos, and lies.
On the White House’s January 6 Rewrite
The Orwellian White House published an astonishing revisionist history on a new official webpage commemorating their version of events.
plus.briantylercohen.com/p/studio-not...
The Orwellian White House published an astonishing revisionist history on a new official webpage commemorating their version of events.
plus.briantylercohen.com/p/studio-not...
Studio Notes on the White House’s January 6 Rewrite
The White House published an astonishing revisionist history on a new official webpage commemorating their version of events.
plus.briantylercohen.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:36 PM
The GOP & Trump only get to rewrite history it we let them! The world needs more Truth, not more Trump madness, chaos, and lies.
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"The real goal of the Trump operation lies elsewhere: reclaiming Venezuela’s oil rents for the benefit of America’s economic elite—an arrangement that peaked in the 1950s, during the mythic “golden age” endlessly invoked by the MAGA movement"
January 6, 2026 at 9:05 PM
"The real goal of the Trump operation lies elsewhere: reclaiming Venezuela’s oil rents for the benefit of America’s economic elite—an arrangement that peaked in the 1950s, during the mythic “golden age” endlessly invoked by the MAGA movement"
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FFS ... Trump & the GOP will spend our tax money on anything ... as long as it DOESN'T help working Americans!
Wait wait wait, while Americans have to pay hundreds of billions of dollars in new tariffs, Trump is going send over $10,000 to each person in *Greenland*?????????
This is a joke right ?
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
This is a joke right ?
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Exclusive: Trump administration mulls payments to sway Greenlanders to join US
U.S. officials have discussed sending lump sum payments to Greenlanders as part of a bid to convince them to secede from Denmark and potentially join the United States, according to four sources famil...
www.reuters.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:38 PM
FFS ... Trump & the GOP will spend our tax money on anything ... as long as it DOESN'T help working Americans!
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Tennessee [APSU] professor fired over Charlie Kirk post reinstated, reportedly wins $500,000 settlement.
Free Speech wins again! Darren Michael, a theater professor at Austin Peay State University reached “a settlement agreement” with the Univ. & is reinstated.
www.ibtimes.com/tennessee-pr...
Free Speech wins again! Darren Michael, a theater professor at Austin Peay State University reached “a settlement agreement” with the Univ. & is reinstated.
www.ibtimes.com/tennessee-pr...
Tennessee Professor Wins $500,000 Settlement After Controversial Firing Over Charlie Kirk Social Media Post
Austin Peay State University pays $500,000 to reinstate professor Darren Michael after wrongful termination over Charlie Kirk social media post in 2025.
www.ibtimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Tennessee [APSU] professor fired over Charlie Kirk post reinstated, reportedly wins $500,000 settlement.
Free Speech wins again! Darren Michael, a theater professor at Austin Peay State University reached “a settlement agreement” with the Univ. & is reinstated.
www.ibtimes.com/tennessee-pr...
Free Speech wins again! Darren Michael, a theater professor at Austin Peay State University reached “a settlement agreement” with the Univ. & is reinstated.
www.ibtimes.com/tennessee-pr...
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The Barnes v. Felix (05/15/2025) SCOTUS decision should impact this case, courts directed to review the entire encounter, not just the last few seconds.
“To assess whether an officer acted reasonably in using force, a court must consider all … facts and events leading up to the climactic moment”
“To assess whether an officer acted reasonably in using force, a court must consider all … facts and events leading up to the climactic moment”
For all the “wait to conclude” people (I’m one of them) on the ICE assassination…we’ve waited, we’ve seen the videos…is there ANY REASON to think of this as anything but a murder for which the officer must be criminally charged?
January 8, 2026 at 9:52 PM
The Barnes v. Felix (05/15/2025) SCOTUS decision should impact this case, courts directed to review the entire encounter, not just the last few seconds.
“To assess whether an officer acted reasonably in using force, a court must consider all … facts and events leading up to the climactic moment”
“To assess whether an officer acted reasonably in using force, a court must consider all … facts and events leading up to the climactic moment”
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"Over and over again, this president has normalized & justified the use of both private violence and public violence against law enforcement, against peaceful immigrants to this country, & to United State citizens." Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut.
Listen to a Democrat who understand this era!
Listen to a Democrat who understand this era!
I want to connect the dots.
The rush to call Renee Good a terrorist, the rewriting of Jan 6th - it's all part of Trump's campaign to use violence to protect his power.
A world in which our leader gets to shoot or attack us if we oppose him - that's a dystopia we cannot permit.
The rush to call Renee Good a terrorist, the rewriting of Jan 6th - it's all part of Trump's campaign to use violence to protect his power.
A world in which our leader gets to shoot or attack us if we oppose him - that's a dystopia we cannot permit.
January 8, 2026 at 10:02 PM
"Over and over again, this president has normalized & justified the use of both private violence and public violence against law enforcement, against peaceful immigrants to this country, & to United State citizens." Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut.
Listen to a Democrat who understand this era!
Listen to a Democrat who understand this era!
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"Republicans like Sen. Ted Cruz called it an act of domestic terrorism. So did the FBI...Five yrs later, Trump has now given mass pardons to more than 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters. And those pardons applied to all of the most violent people, people who brutally assaulted police officers."
January 8, 2026 at 10:08 PM
"Republicans like Sen. Ted Cruz called it an act of domestic terrorism. So did the FBI...Five yrs later, Trump has now given mass pardons to more than 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters. And those pardons applied to all of the most violent people, people who brutally assaulted police officers."
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"Since President Trump returned to office, his administration has actively tried to erase government information about the January 6, 2021, attack by his supporters on the U.S. Capitol. Now on the fifth anniversary of the attack, NPR is preserving the history of that day."
NPR investigation shows how the government tried to erase information about January 6
www.npr.org/2026/01/04/n...
www.npr.org/2026/01/04/n...
NPR investigation shows how the government tried to erase information about January 6
This week marks the fifth anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. An NPR investigation details how the Trump administration is trying to erase government information on the attack.
www.npr.org
January 8, 2026 at 9:48 PM
"Since President Trump returned to office, his administration has actively tried to erase government information about the January 6, 2021, attack by his supporters on the U.S. Capitol. Now on the fifth anniversary of the attack, NPR is preserving the history of that day."
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Good Morning Kinley et al,
Protests all over 50501
Or Indivisible
Find one near you!
Protests all over 50501
Or Indivisible
Find one near you!
January 9, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Good Morning Kinley et al,
Protests all over 50501
Or Indivisible
Find one near you!
Protests all over 50501
Or Indivisible
Find one near you!
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We are watching Trump regime from Trump to Vance to Kristi Noem smear Renee Good with lies calling her a "terrorist," "a deranged leftist" etc. This is a classic fascist tactic of painting all who defy the regime as "terrorists" and dehumanizing the victim. We are in a new dangerous part of this war
January 9, 2026 at 12:33 PM
We are watching Trump regime from Trump to Vance to Kristi Noem smear Renee Good with lies calling her a "terrorist," "a deranged leftist" etc. This is a classic fascist tactic of painting all who defy the regime as "terrorists" and dehumanizing the victim. We are in a new dangerous part of this war