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Patiently furious.
PowerShell + git bash is the El Camino of shells.
February 10, 2026 at 2:05 AM
I live in a 100% mail in available voting state.

If ICE decides to surround polling centers in November I will go
vote in person for the first time in decades.

Let them try.
February 9, 2026 at 5:05 AM
Trump grift project Super Bowl ad count is now at 1.

Invest America, a partner with ‘TrumpAccounts’.
February 8, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Recommended reading...

Jason Stanley, _Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future_, 2024.

www.hpb.com/erasing-hist...
The State Department is scrubbing its X accounts of all posts from before Trump's second term
According to a report from NPR, a FOIA request will be the only official way to access the archived posts after the purge.
www.engadget.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:46 AM
Aaaaaaaaaand UNC beats Duke. For a moment, a ray of light.

(If nothing else, remember that Stephen Miller is a Duke alum. Anything that annoys him is on the side of good.)
February 8, 2026 at 1:44 AM
There is no bottom to the fraud.
NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...
www.wired.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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This @bostonreview.bsky.social piece by @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social is an absolute must-read, as are many of the responses to it.

Spread this one far and wide.
How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism
Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.
www.bostonreview.net
February 3, 2026 at 4:31 PM
GOP: Fuck dem poors.

In other words, same as it ever was.
Trump: "I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people who own homes."
January 29, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...
ICE’s excuse for wearing masks has never actually manifested
There have been incidents of harassment and threats. But there are no apparent incidents in which identified ICE officers have been assaulted off-duty.
www.pbump.net
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Retraining < Defunding < Abolishing < Prosecuting

Just in case any elected official is confused.

Nail every complicit bastard to the wall.
January 27, 2026 at 6:23 AM
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For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL:

When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.
January 27, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Fuck this. 'Ousting'?

This murderous short-shit cowardly psychopath needs to be on trial.
January 27, 2026 at 12:20 AM
“We are losing this war”

… SAY THAT AGAIN
Bill Melugin of Fox News may be the best-sourced journalist within ICE and CBP. If he's hearing this, the administration has a real problem.
January 26, 2026 at 7:38 AM
As is every member of Congress that continues to support them.

Complicity will be remembered, and not fondly.
ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.

If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
January 24, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Just curious where the 2A supporters are.

Weird.
January 24, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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Man, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun.

Any second now, I'm sure.

He was a white guy, if that helps?

Hello? NRA?
January 24, 2026 at 8:56 PM
ICE is an enemy of America, working on behalf of traitors to America.

It can’t be any more plainly stated.
January 24, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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I deleted TikTok back when the Oracle purchase was announced but if you've still got it, you GOTTA dump it. Especially for trans folks. It straight up says in the new TOS that they--Oracle, the company that has active ties to the Trump admin--are monitoring and documenting trans and NB users.
January 24, 2026 at 12:30 AM
This is by design.
In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi.

He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael.

At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk.

Wael died on Friday at age 30.

ICE caused his death.

They didn’t get to say goodbye.
Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization
It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral.
www.wfaa.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:38 AM
I've moved past defunding ICE, or dismantling ICE.

I want every one of these soulless fuckers prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, with the harshest penalties legally allowed for their utter betrayal of the public.

Because that's the gentlest outcome this can possibly end with.
January 24, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child.

ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents.

the family is here legally.

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital
The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
www.oregonlive.com
January 24, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Sadly not parody.
ICE Deems Being In Privacy Of Own Home Obstruction Of Justice https://theonion.com/ice-deems-being-in-privacy-of-own-home-obstruction-of-justice/
January 22, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.
January 22, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
January 22, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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Whistleblowers just shared a memo showing DHS instructing ICE to force their way into peoples' houses without a proper warrant. Why is this not on all the networks right now? This is a criminal conspiracy to violate rights under color of law.
January 22, 2026 at 12:55 AM