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Shari in AZ🌵
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Shari in AZ🌵 @mutsy67.bsky.social · Feb 1
🚨Tariffs: 🚨
trump can EXEMPT from tariffs anyone he wants

Read that again

He controls who is charged & who is exempt

1️⃣He will SELL exemptions

2️⃣He will WITHHOLD exemptions

He is a MOB BOSS collecting his PIZZO

The absolute power here is insane!!
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Politically Connected Corporations Received More Exemptions from U.S. Tariffs on Chinese Imports, Study Finds
Exemption grant process functioned as a “spoils system” rewarding political supporters and punishing opponents
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stevethdemocrat.bsky.social
FBI executes search warrant looking for 2020 ballots in Georgia’s Fulton County - The Washington Post

A very clever means to steal voter data! With the ballots, they can track every voter's vote and either torment them or remove them from the register or both!
Fuck the judge that signed off!🖕🏼🖕🏿
FBI executes search warrant seeking ballots from Fulton County’s 2020 election
The FBI executed a search warrant in Fulton County, Georgia, for 2020 election ballots, as President Donald Trump seeks to find already debunked voter fraud.
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January 29, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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rhutabhayga.bsky.social
Dear friends,
I know many of you value the time-honored tradition of voting in person. But we are in unprecedented times & need EVERY vote.

Unless ICE is curtailed, they'll likely be deployed to blue states to intimidate at polls.

EVERYONE NEEDS TO VOTE BY MAIL.
And VOTE EARLY.
January 29, 2026 at 2:58 AM
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larrytenney.bsky.social
Well, we got our Dec heating bill.

And while we used less gas than we did the year before, our bill was $60 more!!!

Our heating bill WENT UP 42% even though we used less gas.

AFFORDABILITY ISN'T A HOAX!

Trump's Big Fugly Bill did this
January 29, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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malena.bsky.social
There are approximately 1200 detainees at the Dilley torture camp & one third of them are
children.

C👶🏾H🍼I👶🏾L🍼D👶🏾R🍼E👶🏾N FFS!

Call your Senators at 202-224-3121 today because there are voting on DHS and ICE funding tomorrow!

SAY NO FUNDING FOR ICE MURDERERS!

ABOLISH ICE!
#NoWarrantNoICE
January 29, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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malena.bsky.social
It is absolutely imperative that we call our two senators right now.

Google their district office or call the DC number.

Leave a message.
202-224-3121

#NoWarrantNoICE
TELL THEM: NOT ONE DIME FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY OR ICE.

Even 19% of Republicans want to abolish ICE.
January 29, 2026 at 1:55 AM
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pam.sheshed.rocks
Find a protest near you, January 29th. Let’s ShutOut ICE!
#SheShed
#FuckICE
January 29, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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rhutabhayga.bsky.social
#TikTok is now owned by the U.S. in a forced sale.

The consortium is led by Larry Ellison, executive chairman of Oracle, which helped the Heritage Foundation create a database of loyalists for Project 2025.

And they now control what 150MM Americans can or can't see. Or post.
January 28, 2026 (Wednesday) If they were going to build state-sponsored media in America, they wouldn’t announce it. For months, the warnings spread like rumor. Delete it. Get your kids off it. The Chinese are watching. The algorithm is feeding them propaganda, depression, rage. A hundred and fifty million Americans on a single app, scrolling ninety-five minutes a day, and the servers sat in Beijing. Lawmakers called it a national security threat. Parents called it digital fentanyl. TikTok is spying on your children, they said. TikTok is brainwashing a generation. The dread was real. The danger may have been real. So they forced a sale. And five days ago, the app that terrified them changed hands. Now the dread has a different shape. Yesterday, a woman in a Chicago salon, still in her smock between clients, propped her iPhone against the mirror and recorded a video about ICE. Thirty seconds. Posted it. Went back to work. An hour later: zero views. She deleted it. Recorded again, this time using emojis. 🧊 instead of ICE, thinking maybe the algorithm flags certain words. Posted it. Checked again before bed, the screen bright in her hand. Still zero. The next morning, she posted a video of her latte. Three thousand views by noon. Across the country, similar reports. A father in Minneapolis, 400,000 followers, posting about Palestine: zero views. A physical therapist in New Jersey typing “Epstein” into a direct message, watching the app freeze, a warning appearing: This message may be in violation of our Community Guidelines. CNBC reporters reproduced the error on camera, typing the same name, getting the same block. TikTok blamed a power outage at a data center. Users described an outage that seemed to know the difference between British users and American users. An outage that triggered when you typed a name. An outage that affected political content but not dance videos, ICE but not coffee, Gaza but not lipstick tutorials. This was the app that showed Minneapolis burning when the networks cut away. For ten minutes on May 25, 2020, a seventeen-year-old named Darnella Frazier held her phone steady and recorded a police officer kneeling on George Floyd’s neck. She posted it. It spread. The world saw what the official story would have buried: that he called for his mother, that bystanders begged the officer to stop, that it took eight minutes and forty-six seconds for a man to die on a sidewalk in America. TikTok didn’t break that story. But TikTok became the place where stories like it couldn’t be contained. Gaza, when the networks looked away. ICE raids filmed in real time. Protests before the press arrived. For five years, it was the camera that couldn’t be managed, the signal that couldn’t be jammed, the place where ordinary people could make power visible without asking permission. A hundred and fifty million Americans opened it every day. A third of teenagers said it was their primary news source. Not CNN. Not the Times. The algorithm. And now the algorithm answers to someone new. On January 22, 2026, a pop-up appeared on a hundred and fifty million American phones. A new privacy policy. Most people clicked through without reading. But the language had changed. TikTok now lists what it collects: racial or ethnic origin, national origin, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, citizenship, immigration status. That data existed before. But before, it flowed to ByteDance, a Chinese company with no stake in American deportation policy. Now it flows to a different owner. The consortium is led by Larry Ellison, executive chairman of Oracle, host to Trump at his Rancho Mirage estate. In September 2024, Ellison told investors wh… Within seventy-two hours of the ownership transfer, creators reported anti-Trump content throttled, videos about ICE stuck at zero, the word “Epstein” blocked in DMs. The same name the Justice Department was legally required to release files about forty days ago—and hasn’t. BBC and Guardian videos appeared visible in London, invisible in Los Angeles. Uninstalls spiked, if only by anecdote: screenshots, goodbye posts, friends telling friends to delete it. On social media, people began describing the same sensation in different words: the feed felt newly policed. “I got rid of it,” one user wrote. “Nice side effect is a calmer brain.” In an interview that fall, Netanyahu had been blunt: “The most important purchase that is going on right now is TikTok. I hope it goes through because it can be consequential.” It went through. People didn’t need proof of intent. They only needed the sensation: that the room had gained a guard. Orwell didn’t imagine censorship as a bonfire. He imagined it as clerical work. In 1984, when a man named Withers falls out of favor, he isn’t arrested in the square. He becomes an “unperson.” The records are edited. The photographs altered. “Withers, then, did not exist: he had never existed.” The newspaper still prints. The world still turns. But the public record has been silently revised, and no one can prove it was ever different. State-sponsored media doesn’t announce itself. It looks like the app you already use, doing what apps already do: sorting content, recommending videos, deciding what spreads and what disappears. The difference is whose hand is on the dial. State-sponsored media is when the algorithm answers to power, when the content that vanishes is the content power wants vanished, when the glitch is always the explanation. The woman in Chicago can watch her video on her own phone. It exists. But zero views means zero reach means zero presence in the public reality. She wasn’t banned. She was just never there. How would you know i… The algorithm has always been opaque. Content has always risen and fallen for reasons no one could explain. That opacity is the camouflage. Beneath it, suppression becomes indistinguishable from bad luck. It cannot be named, cannot be fought, cannot be proven. The most effective censorship doesn’t delete. It throttles. It shadowbans. It lets your voice exist while ensuring no one hears it. And eventually, you stop posting what doesn’t spread. You learn which words the algorithm won’t carry. You try emojis. You try euphemisms. You watch what works for other people and start to mimic it. You censor yourself before anyone has to do it for you. The woman in Chicago has started noticing patterns. Her videos about rent do fine. Her videos about traffic do fine. Anything about policy, about power, about the government doing something to someone: zero views. She doesn’t know if it’s real. She doesn’t know if she’s paranoid. She just knows what happens when she posts, and what doesn’t. The threat was China. That’s what they said for years. A foreign adversary controlling the algorithm, manipulating what Americans see, collecting data on a hundred and fifty million citizens. A national security risk so severe it justified forcing a sale. So they forced a sale. And the platform that documented Minneapolis, that broadcast Gaza, that showed ICE raids in real time—now belongs to a man who dreams of constant surveillance, backed by a president who calls his consortium “Great American Patriots,” financed in part by twenty billion dollars from the United Arab Emirates. The data collection hasn’t stopped. The algorithm still runs. Only now it’s American. So it’s safe. TikTok says the glitch has been resolved. The servers are stable. The woman in Chicago checked her phone again this morning. The screen was bright in her hand. The video about ICE: still zero views. The video about her latte: twelve thousand. She typed a caption about a raid in her neighborhood. Stopped. Deleted it. Typ…
January 29, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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larrytenney.bsky.social
Against smoke and rubber bullets
In the dawn's early light

Citizens stood for justice
Their voices ringing through the night

And there were bloody footprints
Where mercy should have stood

And two dead, left to die on snow-filled streets
Alex Pretti and Renee Good
January 29, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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rhutabhayga.bsky.social
Don't count us old fogies out.
Anyone with time, and the will to join them, should go and support these folks!

#WhiteCapOfficePark
#WillistonVT
"On Thursday, Jan 22 at approximately 1pm, a group of about a dozen Vermont community elders with whistles entered the atrium of White Cap Office Park in Williston VT, home of ICE’s National Criminal Analysis and Targeting Center. They refused to leave when ordered by Williston Police, the property manager, and federal agents, demanding instead that the landlord renegotiate and cancel the facility’s lease. For the next 3.5 hours, they sat together in silence, pausing every 90 seconds to read the name of someone killed in ICE custody, followed by a loud whistle blast. Williston Police arrived at around 1:30pm, and asked protesters to leave and stop making noise. A group of 5 elders refused and remained in the atrium accompanied by a medic and physical therapist. Around 2pm, property manager and landlord Normand Stanislas arrived and began screaming at supporters gathered outside that he would have them arrested. Around 3:15, the Williston Police announced that they had determined that the protestors were not breaking the law and were acting within their first amendment rights. They declined to arrest the group, which had paused blowing whistles to sit in front of the ICE office doors. After the Williston Police had left, several DHS agents approached the group and threatened to charge them with Class C federal misdemeanors but did not actually do so, likely because they lacked authority to do so. The agents attempted to physically remove the elders and carry them away from the doors, but the group continued to exercise their right to protest by walking over and sitting back down. Eventually, the agents left. The group continued their protest with banners and singing until the sun began setting, when they left the office park of their own accord. Karen Bixler, 83, of Bethel said, “I’m taking this action to bring attention to our state’s role in this horrific institution. White collar workers, sheltered from the brutality that is taking place in our country, are providing ICE with information to aid in their raids.” This protest follows several months of public outcry against the Industrial Ave facility, which is used to monitor civilian social media activity and identify targets for ICE detention and deportation. Over the winter, community groups conducted several noise demos at White Cap Business, and anonymous individuals hung a banner from the flagpoles reading “ICE VIOLATES RIGHTS HERE.” 70 year-old Dorothy Mammen of Middlebury said: “This facility is staffing up to spy on people via social media, to flag "negative sentiment" toward ICE and build dossiers on anyone who opposes fascism. They are compiling personal details, family links, and using facial recognition. To what end? To stifle dissent; to trample our right to free speech.” The office at White Cap is one of many ICE-related facilities in Chittenden County, which serves as the national nerve center for ICE operations. The notorious Law Enforcement Support Center on Harvest Lane is home to ICE’s nationwide tip line, while at least 10 other nearby locations (totalling an estimated 400,000 square feet of office space) are used by DHS for data processing, surveillance, and administrative work. On Tuesday, the Williston Selectboard passed a resolution condemning ICE activities in the town, and several hundred protesters marched in the frigid temperature to denounce the ICE Call Center on Harvest Lane. The elders risking arrest in Thursday’s sit-in were not representatives of any official group or organization, but simply community members concerned about the safety of their neighbors. They expressed hope that their action would help others to find the courage necessary to get ICE out of Williston."
January 29, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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vivianofthesierras.bsky.social
Ya era hora de que le quitaran el mando a este troglodita con ínfulas de general. Donde quiera que va este chiquitín va rodeado de su falange de guardaespaldas creado caos y abusando de a indefensos y los que protestan la brutalidad innecesaria de ICE.
nytimeses.nytimes.com The New York Times en Español @nytimeses.nytimes.com · 6h
La noticia de la inminente salida de Gregory Bovino se produjo horas después de que el presidente Trump enviara a su zar de la frontera, Tom Homan, a asumir el control de las operaciones del ICE en Minnesota.
Gregory Bovino, rostro de la campaña de la Patrulla Fronteriza, deja Minnesota.
El gobierno de Trump planea trasladar fuera al oficial cuyas tácticas en las principales ciudades de EE. UU. han generado polémica, según dos funcionarios.
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January 28, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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cajunblue.bsky.social
🚨Ben Brainard is a comedian who had some things to say, and it is truth we need to hear from those with platforms across the entertainment industry. youtube.com/shorts/G9sR3...
Innocent until proven guilty only matters if you live long enough to see a court date.
YouTube video by Ben Brainard
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January 28, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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cajunblue.bsky.social
✊🏼Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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jbsmileyjr.bsky.social
Winter weather is always a reminder of the importance of having adequate city resources ready to tackle whatever Mother Nature throws at us. I want to make sure our city and neighborhoods have the resources they need to thrive, hot or cold. That’s how we build resilient communities.
January 28, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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gotvpac.bsky.social
The best way to stop the GOP is ensuring their elected officials are pushed out at every level. Whether it be a city council race in a small town or a U.S. House campaign, we have to challenge their power. We’re gearing up for that, with a goal of spending over $1 million in races across the country
January 28, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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peggystuart.bsky.social
Reporter: 1.4 billion, really closer to 1.5. I studied Donald Trump's finances, and this amount the Trump family made last year is greater than the sum total of everything he ever made in his whole life.
#NoWarrantNoICE #NoMoneyForMurderers
January 28, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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jesscraven101.bsky.social
Target got more terrible news today…and it’s time to expand our boycotts!

Because ICE isn’t the only one who can escalate.

Find the list at tinyurl(dot)com/boycott2026
January 29, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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ericjhensal.bsky.social
New data analysis: 66.5% of ICE surge hires have NO DISCERNIBLE PRIOR LEO EXPERIENCE— OPM payroll data doesn't lie. DHS claims do.

@repjasmine.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov @ocasio-cortez.house.gov

newsletter.aprogressiveway.com/ice-is-built...
66% of ICE Surge Hires Have no Prior Experience
DHS claims 85% of ICE surge hires are experienced cops. Federal payroll data says 66.5% are not rookies. The numbers don't lie.
newsletter.aprogressiveway.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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newsfanatic.bsky.social
Release the kids! They are not criminals!
January 29, 2026 at 3:13 AM
mutsy67.bsky.social
Email your senators right NOW!

Text PUZXNZ

to 50409

Follow the super simple prompts

It's FREE!!!
January 29, 2026 at 2:15 AM
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boycottcitizens.bsky.social
Citizens Bank finances ICE prison company CoreCivic.

Apparently, they're fine with this.
A masked federal agent stands behind a chain-link fence while a small child in a blue hooded jacket walks in front of him. Overlaid text reads: “A masked federal agent used 5-year-old Liam Ramos as bait, having him knock on his door to see if anyone else was home, before shipping him to an ICE prison run by CoreCivic.” A green banner at the bottom shows a quote attributed to Citizens Bank: “Citizens Bank engages with companies that conduct their business in a lawful manner and if that is not the case, we are prepared to exit the relationship.” The URL boycottcitizens.org appears in the corner.
January 29, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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malena.bsky.social
Please don't sleep on this! They are voting tomorrow!
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January 29, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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malena.bsky.social
There's a TWO-MONTH-OLD INFANT in detention, at the same torture camp, where "bunny-hat" 5 year old Liam Ramos was placed.

A 2 MONTH OLD!

There are hundreds of other children there as well.

Call your Senators
202-224-3121

#NoWarrantNoICE
TELL THEM: NOT 1 DIME FOR THE DHS OR ICE. ABOLISH ICE!
January 29, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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chez-rolez.bsky.social
#Arizona
mutsy67.bsky.social Shari in AZ🌵 @mutsy67.bsky.social · 6h
When I say #Arizona is the tip of the spear - THIS is what I mean. The GOP agenda always gets telegraphed from AZ. And looky here - they have introduced a measure to REPEAL THE 17TH AMENDMENT. Letting legislators choose our US Senators.

Remember we were the Fraudit state. Pay attention to AZ
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January 29, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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tm71.bsky.social
I’m in TX. I feel your pain. Also, I love visiting AZ! I am interested in amplifying AZ issues.
Thanks for alerting us to this.
January 29, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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ericmgarcia.bsky.social
FWIW, even if the Senate passes the ICE reforms, it would still need to go through the House because the spending bill would have changes. And there's no guarantee that Mike Johnson will put it to a vote.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Democrats offer an ultimatum to GOP: Fix ICE or face another government shutdown
Democrats think they have a chance to pass modest reforms to ICE. But, Eric Garcia writes, they face numerous challenges
www.independent.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 1:19 AM