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mattgertz.bsky.social
Fox News claims to be airing the "entire video" -- but they're cutting off before the officer says, "fucking bitch."
January 9, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER:

“.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish ..

“.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”
January 9, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant

“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co
January 8, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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tyleraking.com
“A social media and phone surveillance system ICE bought access to is designed to monitor a city neighborhood or block for mobile phones, track the movements of those devices and their owners over time, and follow them from their places of work to home or other locations…”
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co
January 8, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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swin24.bsky.social
“Watch the horrific video that Trump is now lying to you about”
January 7, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Frey: So, they are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell everybody directly: That is bullshit.
January 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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atrupar.com
Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
January 7, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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bnonews.com
NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed
January 7, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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greggnunziata.bsky.social
No president has ever more clearly deserved impeachment, conviction, and disqualification than Donald J. Trump after Jan 6, 2020. The failure of most Senate Republicans to do their duty will echo for eons. They should be forever defined by their disgrace, cowardice, and betrayal.
January 7, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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meidastouch.com
NEWS: Colin and Sophie Hortman, the children of Mark and Melissa Hortman, released statements after Trump reposted false claims about their parents’ deaths. Sophie Hortman urged Trump to remove the post, saying, “I ask President Trump to please consider the pain and sadness we have faced.”
Screenshot of a Facebook post written by Colin Hortman. The post begins by stating that his father and mother, Mark Hortman and Melissa Hortman, along with their dog Gilbert, were killed by a man influenced by conspiracy theories and fake news, emphasizing that words matter and that sharing misinformation is dangerous. Colin describes part of his grief process as understanding the last conversation he had with his mother, noting that she loved her job and was respected for her work. He recounts calling her after a legislative session and asking why she voted for a bill referenced in a video shared by President Trump, explaining that she became emotional because the vote had nothing to do with fraud and was instead cast to prevent a government shutdown. He explains that his mother had witnessed the harm caused by shutdowns, including people losing health care, jobs, and even their lives, and that the vote put her in an extremely difficult position that went against her conscience. Colin writes that seeing her struggle makes conspiracy theories about her vote even more painful. He asks President Trump to remove the video and apologize for spreading misinformation and for using his mother’s words in a way that dishonors her memory. The post includes a statement from his sister, Sophia Hortman, who is not on social media, calling the video shared on Truth Social a painful and false twisting of their mother’s final vote. Sophia explains that the vote was incredibly difficult, not made with malice, and was intended to prevent a government shutdown because their mother believed the state helps and protects Minnesotans. The statement calls for a society that does not harbor hatred or violence toward political opponents and says the video fuels political division. It concludes by saying the reposted video is another burden on the family as they grieve the loss of their parents and dog, and asks President Trump to consider their pain and take down the post. Photo of Melissa Hortman
January 5, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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meidastouch.com
FLASHBACK—Trump in 2023: When I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse. We would have taken it over, we would have gotten all that oil.
January 3, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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maxberger.bsky.social
This is why they want us talking about day care scams.
December 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
"I had a good and very productive phone call with Führer Hitler of Germany prior to my meeting with Charles de Gaulle of France today. Führer Hitler was very clear about which parts of France not currently under Nazi control he wants. Thank you for your attention to this matter! Winston Churchill."
December 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
December 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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cuspofarrows.bsky.social
Today Secretary Kristi Noem decided to show up to Springfield today and invoke the name of Emma Shafer (I hate that this caption spells her name wrong)

Emma was a fucking force. She advocated for equality, community, equity, JUSTICE, AND she walked the walk too.
May 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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nbcnews.com
Despite CBS News announcing it would pull a "60 Minutes" report about the Trump administration's sending detainees to a maximum-security "mega-prison" in El Salvador, the intended segment is circulating online, having been streamed in Canada.
Postponed '60 Minutes' segment on Salvadoran prison is streamed by Canadian outlet
CBS News under its new editor-in-chief pulled the segment which was to run Sunday in the U.S., generating criticism — including from the correspondent who reported on it.
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December 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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cengizyar.com
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.

You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
Deported and Imprisoned Archives
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...
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December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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matthewhaybrown.bsky.social
INSIDE EL CECOT (GIFT LINK) The Post's reporting on the Salvadoran prison where the Trump administration sent migrants deported from the United States, based on interviews with 16 former detainees

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‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants
Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.
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December 22, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
“The Free Press”

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CBS News pulled a planned "60 Minutes" segment on ar El Salvador maximum-security prison where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants, last-minute decision that drew a rebuke from one of its high-profile correspondents. Sharyn Alfonsi said in a Sunday email to fellow correspondents including Lesley Stahl, Scott Pelley and Anderson Cooper that she learned Saturday that new CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss "spiked our story." Alfonsi said the last-minute change was, in her view, a political decision, rather than an editorial call, accordin to the email, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. "The 60 Minutes report on "Inside CECOT" will air in a future broadcast. We determined it needed additional reporting," a spokesperson for CBS News said in a statement. Over the course of this weekend, Weiss made the decision not to run the piece as planned, according to people familiar with the matter. "Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. is factually correct," Alfonsi wrote in the email. If the standard for airing a story became the government agreeing to be interviewed, she wrote, the network would cede editorial control. "We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state," Alfonsi wrote. CBS parent Paramount PSKY 0.31% A purchased
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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bubbaprog.xyz
All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.
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December 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
What do these corporations all have in common?

-Lockheed Martin
-Palantir
-Microsoft
-Amazon
-Comcast
-Google
-Apple
-Meta
-HP
-Nvidia
-T-Mobile

They all have lucrative government contracts — and they're all donors to Trump's $400M ballroom.
December 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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richraho.bsky.social
Pope Leo: “Creation is crying. But many powerful people do not hear this cry: the wealth of the earth is in the hands of a few, very few, increasingly concentrated – unjustly – in the hands of those who often do not want to hear the groaning of the earth and the poor.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
December 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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muellershewrote.com
They're so transparent they're removing photos of Donald Trump. And now I'm getting an "access denied" message when I go back to look.
December 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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osbornforne.bsky.social
The DOJ was supposed to release the Epstein Files today. Worth remembering: in September, Pete Ricketts voted to BLOCK releasing these files. Only after massive public pressure did he change his position in November.
December 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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jilldlawrence.bsky.social
The My Little Pony peace prize. Classic.
December 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM