Kelly Oristano
@kellyo101.bsky.social
Haven't had to make a bio for an app profile in maybe a decade? I used to try to make them funny.
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President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion.
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January 30, 2026 at 12:56 AM
President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion.
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Here's hoping
January 30, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Here's hoping
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President Trump's national intelligence director has been "studying information about voting machines, analyzed data from swing states and pursued theories that President Trump has promoted to claim the 2020 election was unfairly taken from him."
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January 29, 2026 at 9:03 PM
President Trump's national intelligence director has been "studying information about voting machines, analyzed data from swing states and pursued theories that President Trump has promoted to claim the 2020 election was unfairly taken from him."
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So I guess Aranofsky is in the Epstein files
January 29, 2026 at 8:48 PM
So I guess Aranofsky is in the Epstein files
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Tina Smith: "There is real harm that is unfolding in Minnesota as we speak. Nothing has changed on the ground even though President Trump sent Homan to Minnesota."
January 29, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Tina Smith: "There is real harm that is unfolding in Minnesota as we speak. Nothing has changed on the ground even though President Trump sent Homan to Minnesota."
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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s termination of Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans and Haitians was unlawful, a Ninth Circuit panel found.
It’s the first time an appellate court has ruled on the substance of Trump efforts to dismantle the TPS program.
It’s the first time an appellate court has ruled on the substance of Trump efforts to dismantle the TPS program.
DHS Unlawfully Ended Venezuelan Migrant Status, Ninth Cir. Says
The Trump administration’s termination of humanitarian protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan and Haitian immigrants violated the Immigration and Nationality Act, a federal appeals court ...
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January 29, 2026 at 1:25 PM
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s termination of Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans and Haitians was unlawful, a Ninth Circuit panel found.
It’s the first time an appellate court has ruled on the substance of Trump efforts to dismantle the TPS program.
It’s the first time an appellate court has ruled on the substance of Trump efforts to dismantle the TPS program.
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This judge says:
- refugees must be released in the next 5 days
- Returned to Minnesota. Not released onto the streets of Texas, which is what's been happening.
- ICE must alert the refugees' lawyers so they aren't released into dangerous cold without someone to meet them
- refugees must be released in the next 5 days
- Returned to Minnesota. Not released onto the streets of Texas, which is what's been happening.
- ICE must alert the refugees' lawyers so they aren't released into dangerous cold without someone to meet them
REAKING: A federal judge in Minnesota has barred the Trump administration from arresting / detaining the state's 5,600 refugees while they await lawful permanent resident status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 28, 2026 at 11:07 PM
This judge says:
- refugees must be released in the next 5 days
- Returned to Minnesota. Not released onto the streets of Texas, which is what's been happening.
- ICE must alert the refugees' lawyers so they aren't released into dangerous cold without someone to meet them
- refugees must be released in the next 5 days
- Returned to Minnesota. Not released onto the streets of Texas, which is what's been happening.
- ICE must alert the refugees' lawyers so they aren't released into dangerous cold without someone to meet them
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It’s the same thing as bind/not protect; protect/not bind thing, it’s the same as our enemies are pathetic weakings and also the immense shadow power only we can protect you from thing. Fascism has always been about being the whiniest crybaby on the block
January 29, 2026 at 12:39 AM
It’s the same thing as bind/not protect; protect/not bind thing, it’s the same as our enemies are pathetic weakings and also the immense shadow power only we can protect you from thing. Fascism has always been about being the whiniest crybaby on the block
What the fuck is the DNI doing there?
“.. U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaks on the phone while standing inside a vehicle loaded with boxes outside the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center after the FBI executed a search warrant there.”
@reuters.com
@reuters.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:21 AM
What the fuck is the DNI doing there?
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Rand Paul: "There has to be an investigation. I don't know who trusts an investigation done by DHS when they're the ones calling this person an 'assassin,' a 'domestic terrorist,' saying he was assaulting police. How can they be in charge of an independent investigation? Something's got to happen."
January 28, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Rand Paul: "There has to be an investigation. I don't know who trusts an investigation done by DHS when they're the ones calling this person an 'assassin,' a 'domestic terrorist,' saying he was assaulting police. How can they be in charge of an independent investigation? Something's got to happen."
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A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.
"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."
"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."
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"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."
"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."
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January 28, 2026 at 7:09 PM
A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.
"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."
"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."
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"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."
"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."
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Buried lede: a cabinet secretary claims to have been taking direction from someone who has never held a Senate-confirmed position
Noem rockin’ the Nuremberg. A classic, if for that reason obvious, fascist choice.
January 28, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Buried lede: a cabinet secretary claims to have been taking direction from someone who has never held a Senate-confirmed position
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They wore yellow stars to complain about vaccine mandates
"Don't say forcing children into hiding to avoid being taken and sent to detention camps is like the Holocaust, that's degrading it," says party who historically calls letting pregnant people deciding whether or not they want to give birth a Holocaust.
January 28, 2026 at 5:52 PM
They wore yellow stars to complain about vaccine mandates
This is the energy we need. Now to match actions to rhetoric.
Warnock: "You can't ask me to be an accomplice to the killing of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. It's to make a butchery of my conscience."
January 28, 2026 at 5:59 PM
This is the energy we need. Now to match actions to rhetoric.
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one of the agents said “okay we know” when we were whistling so i leaned in and whistled louder and he threatened to pepper spray me. i then said “are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” and he very meekly said “no i’m not scared of a whistle”
January 28, 2026 at 4:30 PM
one of the agents said “okay we know” when we were whistling so i leaned in and whistled louder and he threatened to pepper spray me. i then said “are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” and he very meekly said “no i’m not scared of a whistle”
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Once you start noticing it you can't stop: when the real Trump falters and is incapable of defending his administration (more and more frequent) the actual Trump is "subbed out" of news coverage for an invented, imaginary, often explicitly hypothetical version of Trump who is reasonable and cogent
A few hours ago the msm unquestioningly repeated the White House spin that Trump had changed his “tone.”
Um, holy shit? This has gotta be up there in the most crass & worse things Trump has ever said
January 28, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Once you start noticing it you can't stop: when the real Trump falters and is incapable of defending his administration (more and more frequent) the actual Trump is "subbed out" of news coverage for an invented, imaginary, often explicitly hypothetical version of Trump who is reasonable and cogent
Got real... Got a real...Ryan Adams Fascist here.
Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"
January 28, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Got real... Got a real...Ryan Adams Fascist here.
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Democrats should demand every sitting Republican decry this attack and explicitly denounce it, and then censure all of them when they don’t do it. Act like normal decent humans defending your colleague.
video of the moment a man tried spraying something at ilhan omar at her town hall in minneapolis tonight
January 28, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Democrats should demand every sitting Republican decry this attack and explicitly denounce it, and then censure all of them when they don’t do it. Act like normal decent humans defending your colleague.
Greg bovino reassigned=
rearranging dick chairs on the Titanic.
rearranging dick chairs on the Titanic.
January 27, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Greg bovino reassigned=
rearranging dick chairs on the Titanic.
rearranging dick chairs on the Titanic.
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I usually eat this shit up, but palace intrigue just hits different when it involves roving gangs of armed hooligans murdering people in the street.
"Noem has complained to others that she feels she's being hung out to dry over the episode and has made sure to emphasize she took direction from Miller and the president"
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Scoop: Stephen Miller behind misleading claim that Alex Pretti wanted to "massacre" agents
The episode illustrates the sheer power of Miller, Trump's close and longest-serving political adviser
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January 27, 2026 at 9:49 PM
I usually eat this shit up, but palace intrigue just hits different when it involves roving gangs of armed hooligans murdering people in the street.
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NEW: President Donald Trump’s top immigration officials have repeatedly made statements after violent encounters involving agents - including two fatal shootings of U.S. citizens in Minneapolis this month - that were later contradicted by evidence, Reuters found.
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January 27, 2026 at 8:15 PM
NEW: President Donald Trump’s top immigration officials have repeatedly made statements after violent encounters involving agents - including two fatal shootings of U.S. citizens in Minneapolis this month - that were later contradicted by evidence, Reuters found.
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I love you Wemby. Popovich loves you too.
"Every day, I wake up and see the news and I'm horrified. I think it is crazy that some people make it sound like it's acceptable, like the murder of civilians is acceptable." - Victor Wembanyama says about the killings in Minnesota
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January 27, 2026 at 8:04 PM
I love you Wemby. Popovich loves you too.
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my father's 85+ year old friend with dementia just got stuck behind ICE trucks in Minnesota, saw them go into a building, he got out of his car and started filming and blowing his whistle and was quickly joined by ~30 people
January 27, 2026 at 5:15 PM
my father's 85+ year old friend with dementia just got stuck behind ICE trucks in Minnesota, saw them go into a building, he got out of his car and started filming and blowing his whistle and was quickly joined by ~30 people
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The families of two Trinidadian men killed in a U.S. boat strike off the coast of Venezuela have filed a wrongful-death lawsuit, the first legal challenge to the Trump administration’s lethal attacks on boats.
Families of men killed in boat strikes sue Trump administration
The wrongful-death lawsuit is the first filed in federal court in response to lethal strikes conducted on what the government has said are drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.
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January 27, 2026 at 7:15 PM
The families of two Trinidadian men killed in a U.S. boat strike off the coast of Venezuela have filed a wrongful-death lawsuit, the first legal challenge to the Trump administration’s lethal attacks on boats.
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Duckworth on Senate Republicans: "I gotta be honest with you. When I talk to a few of my colleagues, they had not even seen the videos. It's almost like they put blinders on. They're uneasy."
January 27, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Duckworth on Senate Republicans: "I gotta be honest with you. When I talk to a few of my colleagues, they had not even seen the videos. It's almost like they put blinders on. They're uneasy."