Erika with a K
@imaginaryerika.bsky.social
Corny as Kansas in August. Flibbertigibbet. Manic pixie dream crone. Crafty. Old at heart. Trying to get by in the PNW with my dog Jazmine and my cat roommates Julip & ZsaZsa.
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Thank you Senator @wyden.senate.gov!
I’m just going to leave this here
February 13, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Thank you Senator @wyden.senate.gov!
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If ICE and CBP don't want to be called secret police, then don't wear masks.
If they don't want to be accused of kidnapping, then don't drag people out of cars & houses without warrants.
And if they don't want to be accused of being lawless, then start following the law.
If they don't want to be accused of kidnapping, then don't drag people out of cars & houses without warrants.
And if they don't want to be accused of being lawless, then start following the law.
February 14, 2026 at 1:17 AM
If ICE and CBP don't want to be called secret police, then don't wear masks.
If they don't want to be accused of kidnapping, then don't drag people out of cars & houses without warrants.
And if they don't want to be accused of being lawless, then start following the law.
If they don't want to be accused of kidnapping, then don't drag people out of cars & houses without warrants.
And if they don't want to be accused of being lawless, then start following the law.
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Republicans are about to shut down FEMA, the Coast Guard and TSA in a few hours.
Instead of getting ICE under control this guy is having another meltdown online.
We will never let you steal the midterm election.
Instead of getting ICE under control this guy is having another meltdown online.
We will never let you steal the midterm election.
February 14, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Republicans are about to shut down FEMA, the Coast Guard and TSA in a few hours.
Instead of getting ICE under control this guy is having another meltdown online.
We will never let you steal the midterm election.
Instead of getting ICE under control this guy is having another meltdown online.
We will never let you steal the midterm election.
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People chose this.
Child detained by ICE: Since I got to the center, all you will feel is sadness and depression. All kids are being damaged mentally. They don't have schools or doctors. Serious situations happen, and there are no consequences.
February 14, 2026 at 1:47 AM
People chose this.
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I don't understand what's so complicated about voting against the worst of two options.
You have the entirety of the primary process to fall in love, the general election is when you fall in line.
Consumerism is going to be the death of Democracy.
You have the entirety of the primary process to fall in love, the general election is when you fall in line.
Consumerism is going to be the death of Democracy.
February 13, 2026 at 7:38 PM
I don't understand what's so complicated about voting against the worst of two options.
You have the entirety of the primary process to fall in love, the general election is when you fall in line.
Consumerism is going to be the death of Democracy.
You have the entirety of the primary process to fall in love, the general election is when you fall in line.
Consumerism is going to be the death of Democracy.
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When you’ve got THIS administration admitting that ICE lied under oath, the video evidence has to be catastrophic.
When you’ve got THIS administration admitting that ICE lied under oath, the video evidence has to be catastrophic.
FLASH: ICE says 2 of its officers are under investigation for apparently lying about Jan. 14 incident in Minneapolis where officer shot immigrant. DOJ abruptly dropped charges yday w/@kyledcheney
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
ICE says federal agents appear to have lied about confrontation that led to shooting
Officers claimed they were attacked, prompting one to open fire.
www.politico.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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When you’ve got THIS administration admitting that ICE lied under oath, the video evidence has to be catastrophic.
When you’ve got THIS administration admitting that ICE lied under oath, the video evidence has to be catastrophic.
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Still insane to me that the GOP can gin up a moral panic about innocuous things like drag queen story time while we know Democrats would be eviscerated in the press if they ever started asking what the deal is with youth pastors getting arrested every week.
February 13, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Still insane to me that the GOP can gin up a moral panic about innocuous things like drag queen story time while we know Democrats would be eviscerated in the press if they ever started asking what the deal is with youth pastors getting arrested every week.
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this is yet another example of DHS employees literally doing the kind of thing that would get your entire family bloodline erased in morality tales from medieval times, like, bread and salt shit
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 9:13 PM
this is yet another example of DHS employees literally doing the kind of thing that would get your entire family bloodline erased in morality tales from medieval times, like, bread and salt shit
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I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.
My most authoritarian opinion is that the MMR vaccine should be mandatory, with only medical (not religious or floofy) exemptions allowed. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.
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For more on how conditions at Dilley are affecting children, read my latest for @nbcnews.com
I interviewed a family of Russian asylum seekers who’ve been held more than four months at the Dilley detention center in Texas.
As we spoke over Zoom this week, their daughter Kamilla was one day shy of turning 12. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday.
She replied: “To get out of here.”
As we spoke over Zoom this week, their daughter Kamilla was one day shy of turning 12. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday.
She replied: “To get out of here.”
'Even in Russia, they don't treat children like this': A family's nightmare in ICE detention
A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine.
www.nbcnews.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:42 PM
For more on how conditions at Dilley are affecting children, read my latest for @nbcnews.com
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Cruelty is always the point with DJT and Republicans.
Yet still, the MSM refuse to hold them accountable.
If you aren't fighting to get them out of office in every level of government, in every state, then what are you doing?
As always, Fuck ICE.
Yet still, the MSM refuse to hold them accountable.
If you aren't fighting to get them out of office in every level of government, in every state, then what are you doing?
As always, Fuck ICE.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Cruelty is always the point with DJT and Republicans.
Yet still, the MSM refuse to hold them accountable.
If you aren't fighting to get them out of office in every level of government, in every state, then what are you doing?
As always, Fuck ICE.
Yet still, the MSM refuse to hold them accountable.
If you aren't fighting to get them out of office in every level of government, in every state, then what are you doing?
As always, Fuck ICE.
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One GEO group ICE camp saw a profit increase of $254 million last year.
That’s why there’s a quota.
That’s why ICE grabs anyone they can get their hands on.
That’s why they’re about to spend over $30 billion to build camps around the country.
It’s a money making machine.
That’s why there’s a quota.
That’s why ICE grabs anyone they can get their hands on.
That’s why they’re about to spend over $30 billion to build camps around the country.
It’s a money making machine.
Owner of Michigan ICE detention center reported $254M profit last year
GEO Group's profits soared last year as it opened four new immigration detention centers, including a largescale 1,800-bed facility in Northern Michigan.
www.mlive.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:18 PM
One GEO group ICE camp saw a profit increase of $254 million last year.
That’s why there’s a quota.
That’s why ICE grabs anyone they can get their hands on.
That’s why they’re about to spend over $30 billion to build camps around the country.
It’s a money making machine.
That’s why there’s a quota.
That’s why ICE grabs anyone they can get their hands on.
That’s why they’re about to spend over $30 billion to build camps around the country.
It’s a money making machine.
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So I guess we’ll just have to start assuming everyone wearing Ray Bans is a raging asshole. Seems like brand suicide to me, but what do I know?
February 13, 2026 at 3:09 PM
So I guess we’ll just have to start assuming everyone wearing Ray Bans is a raging asshole. Seems like brand suicide to me, but what do I know?
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Also just darkly funny that Meta thought people would be less concerned about secret surveillance glasses during a time of political unrest. How's that been working out
February 13, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Also just darkly funny that Meta thought people would be less concerned about secret surveillance glasses during a time of political unrest. How's that been working out
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We used AI to find the moment of social unrest most optimized to distract from our launch of the Torment Nexus
@kashhill.bsky.social @kalleyhuang.bsky.social @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
@kashhill.bsky.social @kalleyhuang.bsky.social @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
February 13, 2026 at 3:22 PM
We used AI to find the moment of social unrest most optimized to distract from our launch of the Torment Nexus
@kashhill.bsky.social @kalleyhuang.bsky.social @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
@kashhill.bsky.social @kalleyhuang.bsky.social @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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There's a real "let's do everything they told us we couldn't" thing going on at Meta now. The facial recognition glasses bring to mind an old story I haven't seen mentioned today: Facebook built a feature like this a decade ago and didn't release it www.businessinsider.com/facebook-bui...
February 13, 2026 at 4:51 PM
There's a real "let's do everything they told us we couldn't" thing going on at Meta now. The facial recognition glasses bring to mind an old story I haven't seen mentioned today: Facebook built a feature like this a decade ago and didn't release it www.businessinsider.com/facebook-bui...
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Shit like this is why I spent a big chunk of my Meta Ray-Ban Display review talking about privacy and what it mean culturally that we haven't figured out how it works with smart glasses.
I still think a bigger backlash is coming.
www.theverge.com/tech/878725/...
I still think a bigger backlash is coming.
www.theverge.com/tech/878725/...
Meta reportedly wants to add face recognition to smart glasses while privacy advocates are distracted
The feature could arrive as soon as this year.
www.theverge.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Shit like this is why I spent a big chunk of my Meta Ray-Ban Display review talking about privacy and what it mean culturally that we haven't figured out how it works with smart glasses.
I still think a bigger backlash is coming.
www.theverge.com/tech/878725/...
I still think a bigger backlash is coming.
www.theverge.com/tech/878725/...
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In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
February 13, 2026 at 5:44 AM
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
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all the media being stenographers for the feds and just repeating the drawdown nonsense should go to the whipple building today so they can see the same amount of masked men leaving in convoys of vehicles, and whatever this is too, and report accurately what’s happening on the ground in minnesota
So this is weird. The National Guard is staging at the Whipple building this morning. This is what you do when preparing for a mission.
February 13, 2026 at 4:13 PM
all the media being stenographers for the feds and just repeating the drawdown nonsense should go to the whipple building today so they can see the same amount of masked men leaving in convoys of vehicles, and whatever this is too, and report accurately what’s happening on the ground in minnesota
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The cruelty of this regime in a nutshell.
February 13, 2026 at 4:58 PM
The cruelty of this regime in a nutshell.
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This man is a thief, coward and hypocrite. He argues the U.S. can't afford to protect workers from scammy corporations through the CFPB, but it CAN afford to pay millions and millions robbed from three different agencies to pay for his imperial guard. #stopvought
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:50 PM
This man is a thief, coward and hypocrite. He argues the U.S. can't afford to protect workers from scammy corporations through the CFPB, but it CAN afford to pay millions and millions robbed from three different agencies to pay for his imperial guard. #stopvought
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
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There are ~90 million people alive today because of USAID. Russ Vought illegally shut it down and now is spending the money on himself. These are deeply evil people. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:33 PM
There are ~90 million people alive today because of USAID. Russ Vought illegally shut it down and now is spending the money on himself. These are deeply evil people. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
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One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.
a clinic that provided services to 12,000 people being closed on the basis of 8 complaints perfectly captures the nature of the uk 'trans-debate'
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight
An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.
www.thepinknews.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:50 PM
One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.
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Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...
www.pbs.org
February 12, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.