inkwrat
@inkwrat.bsky.social
Recovering journo, Champion of the Apostrophe
Former: Your favorite neighborhood bartender
Current: Librocubicularist Laureate
Still pretty good at listening & libations
Dogs are welcome here. Humans will be vetted.
Former: Your favorite neighborhood bartender
Current: Librocubicularist Laureate
Still pretty good at listening & libations
Dogs are welcome here. Humans will be vetted.
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inkwrat
@inkwrat.bsky.social
· Jan 26
A Party, and Nation, in Crisis
The GOP’s leaders are attempting to destroy the foundations of American democracy.
www.theatlantic.com
" ... the soul-blighted Donald Trump and the satraps and lackeys who abet his nefarious behavior—are attempting to destroy the foundations of American democracy. This must be stated clearly, and repeatedly."
Sadly, unbelievably, it must be stated again.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Sadly, unbelievably, it must be stated again.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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One citizen said that federal agents in Idaho pointed guns at her children, ages 6 and 8, and dragged her 14-year-old daughter out of a truck and zip-tied her.
The mother told investigators that an agent threatened to “fucking blow your head off.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
The mother told investigators that an agent threatened to “fucking blow your head off.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
Immigration Agents Have Often Grabbed and Mistreated Citizens, Congressional Investigators Find
Prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, an investigation by Senate Democrats documented the experiences of nearly two dozen citizens wrongly detained by immigration agents, contradicting the Trump adminis...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
One citizen said that federal agents in Idaho pointed guns at her children, ages 6 and 8, and dragged her 14-year-old daughter out of a truck and zip-tied her.
The mother told investigators that an agent threatened to “fucking blow your head off.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
The mother told investigators that an agent threatened to “fucking blow your head off.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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I truly feel for everyone dealing with the Brown investigation. We have capable and transparent police and investigators in Rhode Island who are clearly working their asses off to get answers. They have to deal with a clown show of an FBI.
December 15, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I truly feel for everyone dealing with the Brown investigation. We have capable and transparent police and investigators in Rhode Island who are clearly working their asses off to get answers. They have to deal with a clown show of an FBI.
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This is what happens when the FBI is run by two right-wing conspiracy theorist podcasters who spent the last 11 months purging almost anyone with institutional knowledge from the bureau. They're going to keep fucking this kind of thing up.
BREAKING: Authorities will release the person of interest in the Brown University shooting, officials said, as the investigation continues.
Live updates: Person of interest identified after 2 killed and 9 injured at Brown University
Live updates: 2 dead, 9 wounded in Brown University shooting; person of interest in custody
nbcnews.to
December 15, 2025 at 5:45 AM
This is what happens when the FBI is run by two right-wing conspiracy theorist podcasters who spent the last 11 months purging almost anyone with institutional knowledge from the bureau. They're going to keep fucking this kind of thing up.
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It’s the first night of Hanukkah and the world seems like a very dark place. But we can bring light to the darkness. We can fight for each other and make goodness, love, and community shine through.
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
December 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
It’s the first night of Hanukkah and the world seems like a very dark place. But we can bring light to the darkness. We can fight for each other and make goodness, love, and community shine through.
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
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May the lights of Hannukah drive out the darkness. Chag Hannukah Sameach to all who celebrate 🕎
Image: courtesy of Yad Vashem, Berlin, Germany, 1930s.
Image: courtesy of Yad Vashem, Berlin, Germany, 1930s.
December 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
May the lights of Hannukah drive out the darkness. Chag Hannukah Sameach to all who celebrate 🕎
Image: courtesy of Yad Vashem, Berlin, Germany, 1930s.
Image: courtesy of Yad Vashem, Berlin, Germany, 1930s.
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Stephen Miller shares worth $50,000 to $100,000 in the mining company MP Materials following a lucrative deal between the company and the Trump admin.
The sale came just one month after the admin announced measures to support MP Materials. The deal led MP Materials' share price to skyrocket.
The sale came just one month after the admin announced measures to support MP Materials. The deal led MP Materials' share price to skyrocket.
Stephen Miller’s Stock Sale Raises Questions, Ethics Experts Say
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Stephen Miller shares worth $50,000 to $100,000 in the mining company MP Materials following a lucrative deal between the company and the Trump admin.
The sale came just one month after the admin announced measures to support MP Materials. The deal led MP Materials' share price to skyrocket.
The sale came just one month after the admin announced measures to support MP Materials. The deal led MP Materials' share price to skyrocket.
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Very good @nytimes.com investigation of crypto deregulation and who benefits.
The next wave of stories will be about the consumers who were ripped off
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
The next wave of stories will be about the consumers who were ripped off
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
The S.E.C. Was Tough on Crypto. It Pulled Back After Trump Returned to Office.
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Very good @nytimes.com investigation of crypto deregulation and who benefits.
The next wave of stories will be about the consumers who were ripped off
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
The next wave of stories will be about the consumers who were ripped off
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
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NEW: The government admitted in text messages that Rep. LaMonica McIver didn't assault a federal agent in Signal chat messages that DOJ failed to hand over until this past week. That story and more on today's Breakdown. Free to subscribe: www.muellershewrote.com/p/doj-admitt...
DOJ Admitted LaMonica McIver Didn't Assault ICE in Withheld Signal Chat
Plus, DOJ's ridiculous response to my Epstein FOIA, Trump's corrupt collusion with a hand-picked immigration judge to re-arrest Kilmar Abrego, and more embarrassing DOJ losses!
www.muellershewrote.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
NEW: The government admitted in text messages that Rep. LaMonica McIver didn't assault a federal agent in Signal chat messages that DOJ failed to hand over until this past week. That story and more on today's Breakdown. Free to subscribe: www.muellershewrote.com/p/doj-admitt...
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"Every lockdown drill is a confession of failure. Every barricaded classroom is an indictment. Every child taught to hide is proof that the adults in charge have surrendered."
What Are We Doing to Our Children?
We taught kids to read, write, and dream; then trained them to hide, barricade, and bleed quietly while adults chose guns, cowardice, and silence over their future.
www.meidasplus.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
"Every lockdown drill is a confession of failure. Every barricaded classroom is an indictment. Every child taught to hide is proof that the adults in charge have surrendered."
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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ICE is thug scum
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
ICE is thug scum
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I sat down with 20 undecided Texas voters on @jubileemedia.bsky.social’s Surrounded.
One of them brought up “welfare queens” so I told him the truth:
The biggest welfare queens in this country are the giant corporations that don’t pay a penny in federal taxes.
One of them brought up “welfare queens” so I told him the truth:
The biggest welfare queens in this country are the giant corporations that don’t pay a penny in federal taxes.
December 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I sat down with 20 undecided Texas voters on @jubileemedia.bsky.social’s Surrounded.
One of them brought up “welfare queens” so I told him the truth:
The biggest welfare queens in this country are the giant corporations that don’t pay a penny in federal taxes.
One of them brought up “welfare queens” so I told him the truth:
The biggest welfare queens in this country are the giant corporations that don’t pay a penny in federal taxes.
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if these kids were conservative influencers, it would not have been "things can happen"
December 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
if these kids were conservative influencers, it would not have been "things can happen"
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what trump is doing to the somali-american community is deplorable.
BREAKING: Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by immigration agents and asked to prove his citizenship.
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by ICE
Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said federal immigration agents pulled over her son on Saturday and asked him to prove his citizenship.
cbsn.ws
December 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
what trump is doing to the somali-american community is deplorable.
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There's no rule of journalism that says you have to show a president telling lie after lie – uncorrected – many times a day. That's a decision that corporate media are making for purposes other than delivering the truth to the public.
December 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
There's no rule of journalism that says you have to show a president telling lie after lie – uncorrected – many times a day. That's a decision that corporate media are making for purposes other than delivering the truth to the public.
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“.. The problem isn’t that grocery prices are high .. the problem is that nobody is giving the president credit for all the good things happening in the make-believe world he inhabits.”
@rexhuppke.bsky.social
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
@rexhuppke.bsky.social
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
December 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
“.. The problem isn’t that grocery prices are high .. the problem is that nobody is giving the president credit for all the good things happening in the make-believe world he inhabits.”
@rexhuppke.bsky.social
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
@rexhuppke.bsky.social
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.
December 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.
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Fact-check: true
December 14, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Fact-check: true
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California: this weekend, be the good Pete.
December 13, 2025 at 5:14 AM
California: this weekend, be the good Pete.
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“This is an agency that demonizes immigrants who have committed no crimes yet it fails to police its own ranks. The hypocrisy is breathtaking, & the threat to public safety is clear.”
This ⤵️ is who is behind the mask, grabbing people off the street.
www.citybeat.com/news/cincinn...
This ⤵️ is who is behind the mask, grabbing people off the street.
www.citybeat.com/news/cincinn...
Cincinnati ICE Leader Accused of Strangling Woman Held on $400k Bond
Prosecutors say the award-winning ICE agent has a history of domestic violence reports as DHS places him on suspension.
www.citybeat.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
“This is an agency that demonizes immigrants who have committed no crimes yet it fails to police its own ranks. The hypocrisy is breathtaking, & the threat to public safety is clear.”
This ⤵️ is who is behind the mask, grabbing people off the street.
www.citybeat.com/news/cincinn...
This ⤵️ is who is behind the mask, grabbing people off the street.
www.citybeat.com/news/cincinn...
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🎯 CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER @oliverma2026.bsky.social: “The detention centers are run by private prison companies (like @CoreCivic) — they make millions PER PERSON… that’s why they’re looking for anybody brown, so they can keep stealing from taxpayers.”
*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
December 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🎯 CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER @oliverma2026.bsky.social: “The detention centers are run by private prison companies (like @CoreCivic) — they make millions PER PERSON… that’s why they’re looking for anybody brown, so they can keep stealing from taxpayers.”
*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
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A can't miss conversation between two of the best out there in @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @pkrugman.bsky.social.
Also brb because we're all getting "left-leaning but scrupulously honest" tattoos.
Also brb because we're all getting "left-leaning but scrupulously honest" tattoos.
Live with Heather Cox Richardson
A recording from Paul Krugman and Heather Cox Richardson's live video
open.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
A can't miss conversation between two of the best out there in @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @pkrugman.bsky.social.
Also brb because we're all getting "left-leaning but scrupulously honest" tattoos.
Also brb because we're all getting "left-leaning but scrupulously honest" tattoos.