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johnmcdermott66.bsky.social
@johnmcdermott66.bsky.social
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Always fighting Weaponized propaganda by our enemies.Bring back the Fairness Doctrine for fact base journalism.If you can’t pass a FBI background check your not qualified to be president or politician.If you take dark$ your the enemy of 🇺🇸 & democracy.
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bluestormcomin1.bsky.social
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Actions should have consequences
February 4, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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anno1540.bsky.social
It’s time to hit lying Putin with LOTS of sticks

Vladimir Putin’s promised “weeklong” pause in strikes on Ukraine’s power plants lasted just four days; will the Russian thugocrat pay any price for yet again breaking his word?
nypost.com/2026/02/03/o...
It’s time to hit lying Putin with LOTS of sticks
Vladimir Putin’s promised “weeklong” pause in strikes on Ukraine’s power plants lasted just four days; will the Russian thugocrat pay any price for yet again breaking his wo…
nypost.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:13 AM
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sanders.senate.gov
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.
February 5, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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teapainusa.bsky.social
After Trump declares himself the “winner” of the 2020 election, we can petition the Supreme Court to make him step down since he’s already served two terms.
February 5, 2026 at 12:50 AM
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angrystaffer.bsky.social
USAID fraud - no arrests

Medicare fraud - no arrests

Social security fraud - no arrests

Election fraud - no arrests

If MAGA didn’t have the collective IQ of a moldy peanut butter sandwich, they’d realize they were being scammed by now.
February 4, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
NEW: @rokhanna.bsky.social is calling for Congress to haul in every person who emailed Epstein about visiting his island.

He says he won’t rest until those who committed these crimes are held accountable.
#EpsteinFiles
February 5, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
US Rep. Jasmine Crockett -

The 1st, 4th, 5th, and 14th Amendments have been thrown out the window by the Trump Admin.
February 5, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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jkz12769.bsky.social
The French Cyber Crime Unit raided X office in Paris over child abuse & AI child sex photos.
Since Musk is in the Epstein files...
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youtu.be/4ZDSL0yjqNI?...
Offices of Elon Musk's X raided by Paris cybercrime unit
YouTube video by ABC News
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February 4, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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klasfeldreports.com
NEWS

Elon Musk and others LOSE their bid to duck depositions in DOGE litigation.

Judge doubts protections for "high-ranking government officials" for multiple reasons. It's unclear they ever had that status, and Musk "left government service."

Doc buff.ly/uhpSOTz
"Even assuming, consistent with the approach taken by certain other circuits, that depositions of high-ranking government officials should be restricted absent extraordinary circumstances regardless of whether they seek testimony on mental processes, the Court still finds that the protective order is not warranted . At the outset, it is at best unclear whether Musk, Marocco, and Lewin are properly deemed to be high -ranking government officials for purposes of this doctrine. Notably, in cases in which courts have barred depositions of cabinet secretaries, depositions of senior , Senate-confirmed subcabinet officials have been permitted to proceed. ...Here, USAID was not a cabinet -level agency, none of the designated officials were the head of that agency, and several were operating in an informal or acting role at the time of the relevant events."
February 4, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
Interesting that a senator felt the need to send a classified warning about intelligence activities.
February 5, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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governorwalz.mn.gov
They’re taking children from Minnesota and locking them up like criminals in detention camps in Texas.

For the love of God, send our kids home and bring an end to this nightmare.

www.startribune.com/walz-demands...
Walz demands DHS stop detaining Minnesota children
In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Walz demanded details about how many Minnesota kids are in detention facilities.
www.startribune.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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grantmeaccess.bsky.social
Creating a database of peaceful protesters “would constitute a shocking violation of the First Amendment and abuse of power,” and amount to “the kinds of tactics the United States rightly condemns in authoritarian governments such as China and Russia,” Markey said.
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 1d
ICE officers and senior Trump administration officials have repeatedly suggested that DHS is building a "domestic terrorists" database with information on US citizens protesting ICE’s actions in recent weeks.
"Capture it all": ICE urged to explain memo about collecting info on protesters
Sen. Markey: Database of peaceful protesters, if it exists, should be shut down.
arstechnica.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Great read. An ICE attorney working for DOJ temporarily explains that ICE has no clue how all of this "federal court" stuff works and makes clear that both ICE and DOJ were totally unprepared for the flood of habeases that were the inevitable result of the Minneapolis raids.
MS. LE: I have to go back and pulling teeth to get things fixed. And it took a long time. For a long time the ICE agency is work under the Immigration Court, and they have their own policy and procedures. To get my back-home colleagues up to date that Federal Court is not the same as how Immigration Court operate, it took a long, long, long time and many order to show cause to explain and let them know that, Come on, if you guys don't fix it, I'm going to quit and you are going to be dragging yourself into court. I have to say that too in front of that in order to get it fixed. I did put in my resignation from the job too, but they couldn't find a replacement. So I gave them a specific time and -- to get it done. If they don't, then by all mean, I'm going to walk out. And before I walk out, I was able to release another individual, a juvenile. That kind of like a step -- like a barrier. Like, Wait, Julie, stop. You need to go back and get more people out. That's why I'm still here. I am here just trying to make sure that the agency understand how important it is to comply with all the court orders, which they have not done in the past or currently. I am here as a bridge and a liaison between the one that in jail, because if I walk out -- sometime I wish you would just hold me in contempt, Your Honor, so that I can have a full 24 hours of sleep. I work days and night just because people still in there. And, yes, procedure in place right now sucks. I'm trying to fix it. As you can see the e-mail that I sent to you, it has been improving, a great improvement. And last night I had to stay up until 2:35 a.m. just to get this documents ready for you. It's a -- I can't say it's a waste of my time, but I could have sent so many more e-mail and get so many more people get ready to be released. And I am here with you, Your Honor. What do you want me to do? The system sucks. This job sucks. And I am trying every breath that I have so that I can get you what you need. THE COURT: All right. So I hear your frustrations and comments about the job. My question is: Are you expressing those to the others who are -- MS. LE: I do. THE COURT: -- just a minute -- the others within the DOJ or ICE or DHS who have the role of carrying out the Court's orders that require immediate release? How is this frustration getting translated? MS. LE: I write an e-mail with big, bold font. I CC Ms. Voss in it, and I said, here's what it fail and we need to fix it. You can't just have people sitting in jail and drag me into court and explain to the Court why the system fail. And if they can't help me, then I am not here -- I'm not meant for this job. And to be honest, Your Honor, I did put for a request to be transferred back, but no one were willing to come here to stand in front of you to explain and/or to help to improve the system.
February 4, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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muellershewrote.com
BREAKING: Judge Boasberg has GRANTED our motion to compel in our DOGE FOIA case involving Musk's phone(s). The government must now reach out to Sean Duffy and multiple Republican Senators to comply. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-j...
BREAKING: Judge Boasberg has GRANTED Our Motion to Compel in DOGE FOIA Case Involving Musk's Phone(s)
Though still refusing to acknowledge Musk was a government employee, DOJ argued they shouldn't have to find out if he was using a personal phone. They just lost that argument.
www.muellershewrote.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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atrupar.com
Sen. Mark Kelly: "Right now they need to get out of Minneapolis & really reevaluate what this agency agency should be. Kristi Noem needs to be fired, by the way. That's a good starting point here. And the senior leadership there, the ones who have implemented these policies, these people need to go"
February 4, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
reptedlieu.bsky.social Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 2d
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche needs to resign.

He got the law wrong about patronizing sex parties with alleged child trafficking. He failed to redact names of victims & pictures of children. AND he moved Ghislaine Maxwell to a minimum-security prison & got her a puppy.
February 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
🚨🚨Poland to examine “increasingly likely possibility that pedophilia scandal was co-organized by intelligence services” in Moscow.

Read the full story below. 🖇️
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
February 4, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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alexip718.com
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.
February 4, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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marlenerobertson.bsky.social
Elon musk has made 40+ posts where he attacks people he doesn’t agree with and calls them traitor and tyrants.

His newest victim is Spain’s PM Sanchez because Sanchez wants to attack social platforms that fuel divisiveness and hate, and protect minors from it effects.
February 4, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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atrupar.com
GARCIA: Do you have any idea how much we're spending on ICE every day?

BESSENT: This is the financial stability oversi---

GARCIA: You're the treasury. You're supposed to follow the money. How much are they spending to terrorize communities?

BESSENT: Again, President Trump has secured the border
February 4, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
But Bezos had $75 million to spend on Melania’s vanity project.
February 4, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
Seems 💯 accurate.
February 4, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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asharangappa.bsky.social
The indictment of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers revealed that they had a cache of weapons, entered the Capitol in military formation, and were prepared to harm lawmakers. They were all pardoned and no doubt many of them are now in ICE
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Bondi accuses Don Lemon of "performing an attack-style infiltration of a church"
February 3, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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atrupar.com
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
NEW: A federal judge said uses of force against peaceful protesters and journalists appeared to be escalating in Portland. He ordered sharp restrictions to DHS agents' use of force and chemical munitions.

w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social @natsfert.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
February 3, 2026 at 11:59 PM