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loafsta.bsky.social
@loafsta.bsky.social
Dad, husband, recovering NYC lawyer, Gen-X, born in Midwest, raised in Mid-South, humanist ✡ #Dystonia #CripTheVote #ProgressiveDem #BidenHarris2024 #lgm #GoBlue #HTTC
This is outrageous. Must listen.
February 5, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...
WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
youtu.be
February 4, 2026 at 3:44 AM
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I was told today my Washington Post job is being eliminated

It's just a job, but it's one that I was proud to do for 8+ yrs alongside the best in the business

I'm here for opportunities to tell stories about the natural world and how we impact it

[email protected]
February 4, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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February 2, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Rocky is a rare mix of 3% poodle, 2% Chihuahua and 95% Fraggle.
February 1, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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🧵🧵🧵 I'll be collecting reviews of the "Melania" movie in this thread. 🧵🧵🧵
Variety:
"A Cheeseball Infomercial of Staggering Inertia"
‘Melania’ Review: Brett Ratner’s First Lady Documentary Is a Cheeseball Infomercial of Staggering Inertia
There's no drama to Brett Ratner's cheeseball First Lady documentary, which should have been called "Day of the Living Tradwife."
variety.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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I was present for this horrific scene this past Tuesday and would love to get as many eyes on this situation as we can. Anything you can give to help this family will go a long way. #abolishice ♥️
youtu.be/YEzPDqwXCQM?...

GoFundMe here: gofund.me/f1d10bd22
Migrant RUNS in Handcuffs from ICE in Minneapolis , Woman with Baby Crying
YouTube video by FREEDOMNEWS TV - NATIONAL / SCOOTERCASTER
youtu.be
January 30, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
January 30, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.
January 30, 2026 at 2:09 PM
This was an absolutely chilling murder. I’m glad he’s in a jurisdiction where he’ll face some consequences for blithely killing a woman in obvious distress who called the police seeking help.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A former Illinois deputy has been sentenced to 20 years for fatally shooting Sonya Massey, who called 911 for help.
January 29, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Another witness to Anderson Cooper: “Now is not the time to stay silent. We all need to be a little bit brave, and do what we can to stand up for our rights.”
January 29, 2026 at 5:29 AM
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Another source of vendor capture in safety net systems is the building of the digital infrastructure. Here, Deloitte dominates. Its a lot of money. Georgia's work requirements reforms spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and admin costs as on healthcare for people.
January 29, 2026 at 2:50 PM
A lot of older musicians starting to meet the moment.
Dave Matthews and Tim Ryenolds playing Neil Young’s Ohio last night and ends with some Rage Against the Machine.
January 29, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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There's a dollar "vibe shift" happening now that is different from past bouts of dollar pessimism. You might be skeptical. That's understandable since the de-dollarization narrative has been around for years now, and little has changed about the dollar's global position. 1/
January 27, 2026 at 4:00 PM
“I mean, how many peaceful Americans do we have to shoot in the street to get some help from Minnesota in combating violent crime?”
-Blanche, probably
Blanche: "Remember, what we all saw in that 10 or second video is not the full story. Every American should know that. The story goes way beyond that. It starts with the fact that literally for months we have received 0 assistance from the state of Minnesota."
January 27, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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Bovino being run out of town is the biggest L for Nazis since the Battle of Berlin
Leavitt throws Bovino under the bus: "Mr Bovino is a wonderful man and he's a great professional. He is very much going to continue CBP throughout and across the country. Mr Homan will be the main point of contact on the ground in Minneapolis"
January 26, 2026 at 6:53 PM
The grift rolls on. Federal taxpayers bankrolling private school vouchers in the state with one of the worst and most underfunded public education systems in America. Of course, this is also about race. We are still stuck in the battle over school integration and this is just another step backwards.
The federal government will fund the program through a novel federal tax incentive scheme that offers a dollar-for-dollar tax credit to individuals and corporations that donate up to $1,700 to certified scholarship-granting organizations.
Private Schools in Mississippi Will Get Federal Funding Under Trump Voucher Plan
Mississippi parents could soon use federal tax credits to send children to private and homeschool programs through federal vouchers.
buff.ly
January 26, 2026 at 5:57 PM
If you’re an American, this is what our government is doing in our names. We are responsible for stopping it. We must stop it.
“A protest broke out Saturday at the South Texas family detention complex in Dilley … after guards abruptly ordered attorneys to leave while detainees—many of them children—poured into open areas of the facility chanting ‘Libertad,’ or ‘Freedom,’ according to an immigration attorney …”
Protest breaks out at Dilley immigration detention facility holding 5-year-old Liam Ramos
A protest broke out Saturday at the ICE-run South Texas family detention complex in Dilley, where five-year-old Liam Ramos is being detained.
www.tpr.org
January 26, 2026 at 5:25 PM
This reminds me that the silence out of Memphis and NOLA is worrying. I suspect there’s a lot of terrible stuff going on there that isn’t getting coverage because there’s no state pushback and no good independent media outlets.
Trump: "Walz called me w/ the request to work together with respect to MN... we are looking for are any and all Criminals that they have in their possession. The Governor, very respectfully, understood that, and I will be speaking to him in the near future. He was happy that Homan was going to MN"
January 26, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Good analogy from MN counsel in federal court today.
Carter floats a hypothetical of an anti-gun admin deploying 3,000-4,000 masked federal agents engaging in pervasive, illegal conduct.

Under the crime-fighting banner, the gov't says: "If you just legislate, get rid of your carry statute, we'll go away."

"It's the same thing."
January 26, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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Just FYI, myself + several other pro-democracy creators are reporting that TikTok won't publish our vids today. They are all being held in review/ taken down.

TikTok was recently taken over by Oracle. The platform that is now state-controlled, and the state = fascist.
January 25, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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good morning
January 25, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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Angry? We should be. Show up this afternoon with @handsoffnyc.bsky.social to reject ICE terror.
January 24, 2026 at 7:03 PM