JonS253
@jons253.bsky.social
Jon's just zis guy, you know?
"My no-consequences power fantasy is to be able to help everyone."
Fanfic: archiveofourown.org, search "jonsills"
"My no-consequences power fantasy is to be able to help everyone."
Fanfic: archiveofourown.org, search "jonsills"
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I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
February 6, 2026 at 2:35 AM
I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
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Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) tells reporters the Epstein files contain allegations that President Trump raped and threatened to kill children.
February 6, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) tells reporters the Epstein files contain allegations that President Trump raped and threatened to kill children.
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JUST IN: A federal judge has barred ICE and DHS from using taxpayer information provided by the IRS.
Judge Talwani says that DHS' view that noncitizens lack 4th amendment rights — combined with ICE use of administrative warrants — is a recipe for abuse.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Judge Talwani says that DHS' view that noncitizens lack 4th amendment rights — combined with ICE use of administrative warrants — is a recipe for abuse.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 5, 2026 at 9:55 PM
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred ICE and DHS from using taxpayer information provided by the IRS.
Judge Talwani says that DHS' view that noncitizens lack 4th amendment rights — combined with ICE use of administrative warrants — is a recipe for abuse.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Judge Talwani says that DHS' view that noncitizens lack 4th amendment rights — combined with ICE use of administrative warrants — is a recipe for abuse.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Cops were frequently getting caught planting drugs in 2017 because body cameras were new and many of them didn't understand how the technology worked.
When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.
When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.
Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017
Look. All technology comes with a learning curve.
gizmodo.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Cops were frequently getting caught planting drugs in 2017 because body cameras were new and many of them didn't understand how the technology worked.
When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.
When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.
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No wonder he shits his pants in public, he’s a big shitty baby
President Trump asked Chuck Schumer to support renaming Washington-Dulles and Penn Station after Trump, according to Punchbowl.
February 6, 2026 at 1:10 AM
No wonder he shits his pants in public, he’s a big shitty baby
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hell nope
Camp East Montana, the tent camp in El Paso, is reportedly a terrible place. And I struck by news that the admin wants to build warehouse detention facilities that are nearly 200% larger — holding up to 8,500 people in a single location.
Camp East Montana remains the largest facility in the US.
ICE detains over 3,100 people there on a typical day. From the reporting I have read, the conditions at Camp East Montana are extremely bad. detentionreports.com/facility/ERO...
ICE detains over 3,100 people there on a typical day. From the reporting I have read, the conditions at Camp East Montana are extremely bad. detentionreports.com/facility/ERO...
February 5, 2026 at 10:10 PM
hell nope
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Some people see an affordable housing crisis. Others see another opportunity to fleece the poor.
FOX: " Rent Now, Pay Later. It's a new option for renters who are struggling to make the monthly payment ... You pay them a fee or a monthly subscription, but if you miss the payments — that's when the interest rates go way up."
February 5, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Some people see an affordable housing crisis. Others see another opportunity to fleece the poor.
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Please for the love of god how do we remove this man from office.
Chuck Schumer says ICE should be allowed to wear masks in "unusual circumstances—you know, some guy's picture was put up by a terrorist group or something."
February 5, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Please for the love of god how do we remove this man from office.
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🚨Throughout his career, Justin Olson attacked women, pushing radical beliefs about fetal personhood and undermining our basic rights.
He once preached that "wives are the subjects of their husbands."
Senate Republicans just gave him a lifetime judicial appointment.
He once preached that "wives are the subjects of their husbands."
Senate Republicans just gave him a lifetime judicial appointment.
February 5, 2026 at 10:49 PM
🚨Throughout his career, Justin Olson attacked women, pushing radical beliefs about fetal personhood and undermining our basic rights.
He once preached that "wives are the subjects of their husbands."
Senate Republicans just gave him a lifetime judicial appointment.
He once preached that "wives are the subjects of their husbands."
Senate Republicans just gave him a lifetime judicial appointment.
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there's certainly plenty to criticize in the Dems' asks but this is why splitting off the DHS funding from everything else was such a big win - there's going to be far less pressure on Dems to end a DHS-only shutdown than there was when "food stamps run out" was on the table
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Security will shut down next week if they do not work with Republicans and the White House.
Homeland Security shutdown grows more likely as Republicans rebuff Democratic demands for ICE
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Secu…
trib.al
February 5, 2026 at 10:04 PM
there's certainly plenty to criticize in the Dems' asks but this is why splitting off the DHS funding from everything else was such a big win - there's going to be far less pressure on Dems to end a DHS-only shutdown than there was when "food stamps run out" was on the table
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This is an important point.
Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist.
The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes.
So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.
Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist.
The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes.
So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.
The war on empathy and the war on the arts are part of the same project.
www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...
www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...
February 5, 2026 at 4:03 PM
This is an important point.
Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist.
The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes.
So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.
Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist.
The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes.
So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.
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🙋♀️I know why!
Trump's billionaire first agenda and destructive tariffs are RAISING costs for working families and undermining our standing around the world.
Trump's billionaire first agenda and destructive tariffs are RAISING costs for working families and undermining our standing around the world.
Host: The polls on the economy are not great.
Trump: They should be great.
Host: So why aren't they?
Trump: I don't know
Trump: They should be great.
Host: So why aren't they?
Trump: I don't know
February 5, 2026 at 7:41 PM
🙋♀️I know why!
Trump's billionaire first agenda and destructive tariffs are RAISING costs for working families and undermining our standing around the world.
Trump's billionaire first agenda and destructive tariffs are RAISING costs for working families and undermining our standing around the world.
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Bluesky is that special place where someone will take time out from serialposting about how ICE can never defeat one mid sized midwesern city to post about how ICE is going to commandeer every voting booth in the US and all is lost
February 5, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Bluesky is that special place where someone will take time out from serialposting about how ICE can never defeat one mid sized midwesern city to post about how ICE is going to commandeer every voting booth in the US and all is lost
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one thing i have noticed is a lot of folks do not seem to understand the difference between a presidential election and 435+ legislative elections. i have seen any number of people say that you could subvert the outcome this november by targeting “swing states,” which does not make any sense.
February 5, 2026 at 1:26 PM
one thing i have noticed is a lot of folks do not seem to understand the difference between a presidential election and 435+ legislative elections. i have seen any number of people say that you could subvert the outcome this november by targeting “swing states,” which does not make any sense.
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in real terms, #7 would give states leverage to put an end to surges, #8 would give states the ability to outright stop construction of new detention facilities, #1 and #6 would slow the rate at which DHS could train and deploy officers, #2 and #10 would likely shrink the pool of recruits
Schumer & Jeffries lay out the Democratic demands for a DHS funding deal in a letter to the top Republican leaders
February 5, 2026 at 3:18 AM
in real terms, #7 would give states leverage to put an end to surges, #8 would give states the ability to outright stop construction of new detention facilities, #1 and #6 would slow the rate at which DHS could train and deploy officers, #2 and #10 would likely shrink the pool of recruits
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‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
![…
25. This Cibola jail was horrible. It was cramped. I was chained up again.
The officers mocked
me and called me their enemy. They laughed at me. I was kept at the jail for what felt like around three hours. I wasn't given an explanation for why I was there.
26. Security
guards then put me on a bus. I think it was around January 27.
No one said
anything about where I was going. I was handcuffed. It felt like the middle of the night. It was freezing cold in the bus because the driver had the AC on. We had no jackets. The bus eventually took me back to El Paso in the carly morning of Tuesday, January 27th.
27. I was put in a cold cell where I had to sleep on the bare cement floor. Around 10 in the morning my cellmate asked to speak to an ICE officer. Three officers came into the cell so I had a chance to speak to them too. One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." She told me that if I fought my case, I would spend two to three more months here in El Paso. She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota. If I hadn't managed to talk to my attorney who told me a while back that I was ordered released. I might have given up at this point and signed the self-deportation forms because the conditions were so unbearable.
…
30. When I was taken back to the detention center from the airport, after missing the flight, I overheard an ICE officer saying in English, "the judge in Minnesota wants this one back." I was put in a cold jail cell again until early next morning (January 28). But again no one had told me directly that a judge had ordered my release
…
32. When I arrived in Minneapolis, I was handed off to ICE
… I had to sign lots of papers saying that I wasn't going to be a part of any "groups." I didn't know what they meant by "groups." They never told me why I was detained](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5cn3kbi4g5blrtahon34xbu4/bafkreiccqxmfncofjqinoveiqscwale2ox5xpiqt46veqjdh3jmimkrxhq@jpeg)
February 5, 2026 at 6:04 AM
‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
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Speaker Johnson doesn't care about requiring warrants signed by a judge to protect your civil rights. Why? It'll take too long.
The authoritarian police state & executive overreach Republicans warned about is HERE.
But REPUBLICANS are enabling it. Not on my watch.
The authoritarian police state & executive overreach Republicans warned about is HERE.
But REPUBLICANS are enabling it. Not on my watch.
February 5, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Speaker Johnson doesn't care about requiring warrants signed by a judge to protect your civil rights. Why? It'll take too long.
The authoritarian police state & executive overreach Republicans warned about is HERE.
But REPUBLICANS are enabling it. Not on my watch.
The authoritarian police state & executive overreach Republicans warned about is HERE.
But REPUBLICANS are enabling it. Not on my watch.
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Yes. The best you can hope for at the moment is to strengthen the ability of states to fight deployment; to give them power to stop new detention facilities; to slow hiring, and shrink the recruiting pool. The Democrat demands accomplish that. You are not going to get abolition now.
Nothing in this list stops what's happening or even meaningfully slows it down, and that's before the part where they're already signaling the masks, for example, could be conditionally ok. I've also yet to see an evidence-based argument for how body cams will help.
February 5, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Yes. The best you can hope for at the moment is to strengthen the ability of states to fight deployment; to give them power to stop new detention facilities; to slow hiring, and shrink the recruiting pool. The Democrat demands accomplish that. You are not going to get abolition now.
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On a podcast this week, California GOP congressional candidate Dennis Feitosa said that white nationalist Nick Fuentes was "charismatic" & "capable of reaching a lot of people," meaning "narratives that the Jews are putting out there is going to effectively, you know, get a little weaker."
February 4, 2026 at 8:38 PM
On a podcast this week, California GOP congressional candidate Dennis Feitosa said that white nationalist Nick Fuentes was "charismatic" & "capable of reaching a lot of people," meaning "narratives that the Jews are putting out there is going to effectively, you know, get a little weaker."
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For those looking at Tom Homan's offer to MN sheriffs -- it's called a Basic Ordering Agreement. In essence, to skirt state law, DHS pays $50 in exchange for sheriffs to hold people 48 hours past their release date. It's not really a contract; it's like a warehousing agreement for bodies.
February 5, 2026 at 3:51 PM
For those looking at Tom Homan's offer to MN sheriffs -- it's called a Basic Ordering Agreement. In essence, to skirt state law, DHS pays $50 in exchange for sheriffs to hold people 48 hours past their release date. It's not really a contract; it's like a warehousing agreement for bodies.
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I guess this is "old" news but I hadn't heard about it AT ALL and I just gotta say, I don't have a good feeling about
"approval in as little as one month for medicines that support 'U.S. national interests.'"
"approval in as little as one month for medicines that support 'U.S. national interests.'"
Legal questions swirl around FDA's new expedited drug program, including who should sign off
A plan to slash Food and Drug Administration drug review times is raising alarms at the public health agency that's been rocked by recent layoffs and resignations.
apnews.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:52 PM
I guess this is "old" news but I hadn't heard about it AT ALL and I just gotta say, I don't have a good feeling about
"approval in as little as one month for medicines that support 'U.S. national interests.'"
"approval in as little as one month for medicines that support 'U.S. national interests.'"
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i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections
Trump doubled down on his comments to nationalize voting Tuesday during an Oval Office press conference. “If you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” Trump sai...
www.democracydocket.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:58 AM
i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Free tip, any candidate who says “The top 50 Epstein affiliates, starting with Trump and Musk, will be imprisoned, and every last penny of their families’ wealth expropriated” will win >40 states in 2028.
February 4, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Free tip, any candidate who says “The top 50 Epstein affiliates, starting with Trump and Musk, will be imprisoned, and every last penny of their families’ wealth expropriated” will win >40 states in 2028.
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It’s insane how regulated and certified for safety every little aspect of an aircraft must be, but cars are out there trapping people inside as they burn to death is somehow a big ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ to regulators
NEW: Trapped Tesla Driver’s 911 Call: ‘It’s on fire. Help please’
Samuel Tremblett died in Easton, MA after his Model Y crashed into a tree and caught on fire. He managed to talk to a dispatcher. His remains were found in the backseat.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Samuel Tremblett died in Easton, MA after his Model Y crashed into a tree and caught on fire. He managed to talk to a dispatcher. His remains were found in the backseat.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tesla Sued Over Crash That Trapped, Killed Massachusetts Driver
Samuel Tremblett pleaded with a 911 operator to be rescued from his burning Tesla Inc. Model Y SUV after a crash in October: “I can’t get out, please help me.”
www.bloomberg.com
February 5, 2026 at 12:31 AM
It’s insane how regulated and certified for safety every little aspect of an aircraft must be, but cars are out there trapping people inside as they burn to death is somehow a big ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ to regulators
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Texas man arrested after he started fight with high schoolers who walked out of class to protest ICE www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
February 4, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Texas man arrested after he started fight with high schoolers who walked out of class to protest ICE www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...