Ted Sweeney
@mrfriendlywalk.bsky.social
friendly walker, loud talker, novelty socker, crypto blocker, dyke patroller
fiercely protective relative of trans and NB folks
"Wealth is a filthy rag." - B. Dylan, "Band of the Hand"
fiercely protective relative of trans and NB folks
"Wealth is a filthy rag." - B. Dylan, "Band of the Hand"
Pinned
Remember the good old days when you could train a guy to enter a president's dreams?
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Sen. Van Hollen was on this morning talking "permanent change!!!11!" and when they asked him for specifics he came up with body cams and paperwork. These people will not save us.
"simply about getting ICE back to obeying the law"
Come on. They will never obey the law. And the law itself allows them to abuse & murder with impunity via qualified immunity.
ICE OUT OF OUR CITIES is the minimum short term demand.
Defund and abolish ICE is the only moral long term course.
Come on. They will never obey the law. And the law itself allows them to abuse & murder with impunity via qualified immunity.
ICE OUT OF OUR CITIES is the minimum short term demand.
Defund and abolish ICE is the only moral long term course.
Here's Senator Chris Murphy's extended discussion of this group of restrictions on ICE:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
January 27, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Sen. Van Hollen was on this morning talking "permanent change!!!11!" and when they asked him for specifics he came up with body cams and paperwork. These people will not save us.
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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Jacob Frey: “We have seen consistent unconstitutional practice by ICE discriminating only on the basis of - are you Latino, are you Somali - & then indiscriminate pickups thereafter — ppl are walking around on the street with their passports. That's not American. That's the furthest thing from it”
January 16, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Jacob Frey: “We have seen consistent unconstitutional practice by ICE discriminating only on the basis of - are you Latino, are you Somali - & then indiscriminate pickups thereafter — ppl are walking around on the street with their passports. That's not American. That's the furthest thing from it”
There's a lot of bad things happening now. We're inundated with them.
This here is a bad thing that particularly worries me. This isn't just some rogue maggat. This is a direct effort to negate the just power of the court, all courts.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
This here is a bad thing that particularly worries me. This isn't just some rogue maggat. This is a direct effort to negate the just power of the court, all courts.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Top US immigration judge says bond hearings should be denied despite court rulings, documents show
The top U.S. immigration judge has told her colleagues that they are not bound by a federal court ruling that declared the Trump administration cannot place thousands of people in mandatory detention ...
www.reuters.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:40 AM
There's a lot of bad things happening now. We're inundated with them.
This here is a bad thing that particularly worries me. This isn't just some rogue maggat. This is a direct effort to negate the just power of the court, all courts.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
This here is a bad thing that particularly worries me. This isn't just some rogue maggat. This is a direct effort to negate the just power of the court, all courts.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Renee Nicole Good was 37. She was murdered by an ICE agent in the street in broad daylight. What really happened to her will not be forgotten, minimized, or ignored.
January 7, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Renee Nicole Good was 37. She was murdered by an ICE agent in the street in broad daylight. What really happened to her will not be forgotten, minimized, or ignored.
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January 3, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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If Maduro is in custody my expectation is the admin will try to hold Dumb Nuremberg. They'll make it a judicial referendum on fentanyl and try to blame Maduro for the deaths from the opiate crisis.
January 3, 2026 at 10:18 AM
If Maduro is in custody my expectation is the admin will try to hold Dumb Nuremberg. They'll make it a judicial referendum on fentanyl and try to blame Maduro for the deaths from the opiate crisis.
He's taking Venezuela to turn it into his retirement country.
January 3, 2026 at 7:19 PM
He's taking Venezuela to turn it into his retirement country.
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This message hits hard.
December 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This message hits hard.
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Whiteness is a trick made to get people to believe their supposed racial superiority and that they can one day become an elite and therefore think interests are aligned more with the elite then with working people of all identities with whom they actually share much more in common.
December 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Whiteness is a trick made to get people to believe their supposed racial superiority and that they can one day become an elite and therefore think interests are aligned more with the elite then with working people of all identities with whom they actually share much more in common.
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BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
Welcome to America, duck!
December 17, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Welcome to America, duck!
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Suddenly they don’t like showing when they bomb boats? Jeepers, it’s Almost like they have something to hide
December 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Suddenly they don’t like showing when they bomb boats? Jeepers, it’s Almost like they have something to hide
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I read this and I am just.... Is this woman loud quitting???? Is she hoping to be fired? This was very strange.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I read this and I am just.... Is this woman loud quitting???? Is she hoping to be fired? This was very strange.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
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MINNEAPOLIS: “We kept yelling ‘she’s pregnant! She’s pregnant!’ — they put their knees in her… the handcuffed woman was dragged on the ground…”
Lawless.
Lawless.
December 16, 2025 at 3:29 AM
MINNEAPOLIS: “We kept yelling ‘she’s pregnant! She’s pregnant!’ — they put their knees in her… the handcuffed woman was dragged on the ground…”
Lawless.
Lawless.
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Undecided voter: “How can someone like you convince me that my vote matters”
James Talarico: “They wouldn't be trying so hard to stop you from voting if your vote didn't matter — Texas is one of the hardest places to vote in the entire country. That is by design”
James Talarico: “They wouldn't be trying so hard to stop you from voting if your vote didn't matter — Texas is one of the hardest places to vote in the entire country. That is by design”
December 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Undecided voter: “How can someone like you convince me that my vote matters”
James Talarico: “They wouldn't be trying so hard to stop you from voting if your vote didn't matter — Texas is one of the hardest places to vote in the entire country. That is by design”
James Talarico: “They wouldn't be trying so hard to stop you from voting if your vote didn't matter — Texas is one of the hardest places to vote in the entire country. That is by design”
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One of the main themes of my account is that people in the United States, by and large, do not know how laws or the legal system work in practice. One question I get a lot is why this matters. Many leftists or progressives ask me every day why it's so important to know this stuff anyway. (cont)
December 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
One of the main themes of my account is that people in the United States, by and large, do not know how laws or the legal system work in practice. One question I get a lot is why this matters. Many leftists or progressives ask me every day why it's so important to know this stuff anyway. (cont)
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As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Maybe the reason we feel differently about these murders is because they’re a reminder of the noose around each of our necks. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/instead-he...
December 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Maybe the reason we feel differently about these murders is because they’re a reminder of the noose around each of our necks. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/instead-he...
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“The only reason that he’s able to continue to harass me is because New Yorkers are paying for it,” Boylan said in an interview with THE CITY. “It never ends.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/15/t...
Taxpayers Forked Out Another $1.3 Million for Cuomo’s Sexual Harassment Defense
As his failed mayoral campaign played out, the former governor’s lawyers ran up the bill contesting the claims of a former state trooper on his security detail.
www.thecity.nyc
December 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“The only reason that he’s able to continue to harass me is because New Yorkers are paying for it,” Boylan said in an interview with THE CITY. “It never ends.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/15/t...
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Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's son was pulled over by ICE and forced to prove he is an American.
Two options:
1) ICE deliberately targeted him.
2) ICE is stopping all non-White people without any probable cause and forcing them to prove they are citizens.
Hard to say which option is scarier.
Two options:
1) ICE deliberately targeted him.
2) ICE is stopping all non-White people without any probable cause and forcing them to prove they are citizens.
Hard to say which option is scarier.
December 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's son was pulled over by ICE and forced to prove he is an American.
Two options:
1) ICE deliberately targeted him.
2) ICE is stopping all non-White people without any probable cause and forcing them to prove they are citizens.
Hard to say which option is scarier.
Two options:
1) ICE deliberately targeted him.
2) ICE is stopping all non-White people without any probable cause and forcing them to prove they are citizens.
Hard to say which option is scarier.
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This is a textbook case of political asylum.
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This is a textbook case of political asylum.
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🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA: “The man who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters has been identified as Ahmed al Ahmed. The father-of-two has been hailed a hero after pouncing on one of the gunmen and wrestling a rifle from his arms.” thenightly.com.au/australia/ns...
December 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA: “The man who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters has been identified as Ahmed al Ahmed. The father-of-two has been hailed a hero after pouncing on one of the gunmen and wrestling a rifle from his arms.” thenightly.com.au/australia/ns...
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When they destroyed our Mary figure in our anti-ICE #nativity, I bet they didn’t think that we would make it MORE powerful! Honestly, if you tear something down that you don’t like, you’re pretty much never the good guy. That goes for nativities and the entire county, btw. #DHS, take note.
December 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM