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Phoenix Calida
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Black. Boricua. Midwest af. I like flowers and yarn. I talk about sex workers rights, racism, and politics. A lot. 18+ please
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ohrobin.bsky.social
If one group captures a radically disproportionate share of growth, others receive less than they otherwise would have, even in a growing economy. This is measurable.

You can have innovation without extreme wealth concentration. You cannot have extreme wealth concentration without exploitation.
marchforbillionaires.org March for Billionaires @marchforbillionaires.org · 9h
There isn't some fixed pie of wealth that billionaires are monopolizing. People who found companies create new wealth, and capture only a slice of that. Imagine how much poorer we would be if iPhones, Google, Uber, Spotify, or mRNA vaccines did not exist. Even Bluesky was created by a billionaire!
February 1, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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davidfbrand.bsky.social
Mayor Mamdani names criminal justice reformer Stanley Richards as NYC’s new Department of Correction commissioner

Richards is the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the city’s jails system

@gothamist.com @wnyc.org

gothamist.com/news/mamdani...
Mamdani names reformer Stanley Richards to steer chaotic Rikers complex
Exactly one month into his term, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed a formerly incarcerated person to manage the facility.
gothamist.com
January 31, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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swin24.bsky.social
we have reporting, per our sources, in here on what Trump’s intel community (yes Intel community) and federal law enforcement have been probing since last year, which led to this raid, and boy is it wild… I know we’ve come to expect this from this gang, but it’s basically Trump’s feds and spooks…
January 31, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
Everyone telling you not to worry about the midterms. Is it gonna work? Probably not. Is he gonna try? Yes. And they're desperate. Again, there's a wide berth between Trump will send military into cities and Person shot at polls by ICE and neither should happen. Shut this shit down forever.
swin24.bsky.social Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 19h
we have reporting, per our sources, in here on what Trump’s intel community (yes Intel community) and federal law enforcement have been probing since last year, which led to this raid, and boy is it wild… I know we’ve come to expect this from this gang, but it’s basically Trump’s feds and spooks…
swin24.bsky.social Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 20h
new details in here with @justinglawe.bsky.social, who I’ve had the privilege of reporting with at the daily beast, rolling stone, and now at @zeteo.com: zeteo.com/p/trump-geor...

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January 31, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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golikehellmachine.com
the chief of staff at the DOJ and the US homeland security advisor publicly begging on twitter for lawyers to *DM them* about applying for AUSA jobs should tell you volumes about how staffing is going at the DOJ, even restaurant owners don’t do this
joycewhitevance.bsky.social Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d
DM me? We used to get hundreds of highly qualified applicants for a single job posting. Good prosecutors are increasingly hesitant to work for this DOJ.
January 31, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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socialistdogmom.bsky.social
"With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, It is so ORDERED."
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19h
BREAKING: Federal judge orders Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R., released.

"The Great Writ and release from detention are GRANTED."

"Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster."
FILED January 31, 2026 CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS Jaemie Herndon DEPUTY ADRIAN CONEJO ARIAS, and L.C.R., a Minor Child by and through His Parent and Guardian Adrian Conejo Arias, Petitioners, VS. KRISTI NOEM, in Her Official Capacity as Secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security; PAMELA BONDI, in Her Official Capacity as Attorney General of the United States; TODD LYONS, in His Official Capacity as Acting Director, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement; DAREN MARGOLIN, in His Official Capacity as Acting Director of the Executive Office of Immigration Review; and JOHN DOE, in His Official Capacity as the Warden of the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Dilley, Texas, Respondents. CIVIL CASE NO. SA-26-CV-415-FB § OPINION AND ORDER OF THE COURT Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster. That is called the fox guarding the henhouse. The Constitution requires an independent judicial officer. Accordingly, the Court finds that the Constitution of these United States trumps this administration's detention of petitioner Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R. The Great Writ and release from detention are GRANTED pursuant to the attached Judgment. Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned. Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more orderly and humane policy than currently in place. Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you can keep it." With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, It is so ORDERED. SIGNED this 31st day of February [sic], 2026. Fred Biery FRED BIERY UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE Credit: Bystander Matthew 19:14 John 11:35
January 31, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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dlknowles.bsky.social
And finally there is an editorial, in which we argue that Donald Trump is "creating a militia which answers only to himself" and how he could use it to "stage provocations pretty much anywhere with impunity, including during elections" if Congress does not step in www.economist.com/leaders/2026...
ICE’s impunity is a formula for more violence
Is America’s president building his own paramilitary militia?
www.economist.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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scottdagostino.ca
Us in 2014: “We really need to do something about internet trolls.”
People in charge: “Don’t be silly. The internet isn’t real life.”
wootmaster.bsky.social Wootmaster @wootmaster.bsky.social · 22h
It appears that 4chan was used as a massive psyop by Jeffrey Epstein and his associates to help install pro-pedophilia rightwing figures into the American government:

"The potential for manipulation is huge"

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
January 31, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
Thousands of People gathered
Copenhagen, Denmark, on Saturday, January 31, 2026, for an emotional silent march to protest comments made by U.S.
President Donald Trump regarding the role of non-U.S. NATO troops.
January 31, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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danhon.com
Can you imagine a world in which a teacher made $490k in overtime pay
January 31, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
👀 Looks like the husband of the woman ICE abducted called his lawyer, lawyer called the cops, then the police chief went and got her & took her home

Article says it may be the first time local Minnesota PD "intervened in a federal law enforcement action" since Trump started terrorizing the state
Screenshot from the quote skeeted article reading as follows: The husband told MPR News that after his wife was taken into custody, he called his attorney, and soon after, he got a call from St. Peter Chief of Police Matt Grochow, whom he said he has known for years. “I was talking to him, kind of venting some of my frustrations,” the man said, adding that he urged the chief to have his officers just be more visible during the federal enforcement actions. “If [local police] were present and they could see you, I promise you their behavior more than likely, or hopefully, would, you know, be appropriate and law abiding.” The husband says he talked to the chief for a while and “we had a good conversation.” “He asked me, ‘what was your wife's name’? I told him my wife's name. He said, ‘was she picked up in a bronco?’ And I said, ‘I'm not sure, but it was an SUV, dark colored. I'd have to look at my video.’ He goes, ‘I think I got her. I'll call you back’.” The husband said a few minutes later, the chief called again, “and said, I got her or I'm bringing her home.” “I was just so relieved that she got released and was able to come home,” he said.
January 31, 2026 at 4:29 PM
phoenixcalida.bsky.social
Cleaning out old screen shots and found this one.

sometimes it feels nice to find proof of your own consistency
January 31, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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chadstanton.blacksky.app
So what I’m gathering is a pedophilic billionaire successfully worked to destigmatize race science among the academic, political, and business elite partly by sex trafficking girls. Is that the shape of it so far?
January 31, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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wicked-lizzie.bsky.social
Leaving aside the obvious fact that the Bible doesn't belong in public school curriculum, 4,200 errors is INSANE.
texastribune.org Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 1d
New: The Texas Education Agency has to correct roughly 4,200 errors in a Bible-infused elementary school curriculum that was approved by the state two years ago, the State Board of Education said Friday.
TEA moves to fix 4,200 errors in Bible-infused curriculum
State Board of Education members criticized the publishing errors and postponed their vote on the agency’s request until their next meeting.
www.texastribune.org
January 31, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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enchantrasand.bsky.social
Word of the day: tricoteuse.
phoenixcalida.bsky.social Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 6d
I know a lot of people are noting that they're in generally non political spaces where people are suddenly speaking out against ICE.

The crochet & knit crowd is part of it.

2 of the most popular patterns on ravelry rn are Liams hat (free with suggested donation link) and the red resistance hat
Blue crocheted hat with white ears Red knitted hat with a tassel In the 1940’s, Norwegians made and wore red pointed hats with a tassel as a form of visual protest against Nazi occupation of their country. Within two years, the Nazis made these protest hats illegal and punishable by law to wear, make, or distribute. As purveyors of traditional craft, we felt it appropriate to revisit this design. The sample shown was knit in Blue Sky Fibers Skyland for the DK version. All proceeds from the sale of this pattern go to the immigrant aid agencies who will distribute the funds to those impacted by the actions of ICE.
January 31, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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mommunism.bsky.social
I literally expected a lot of gross things in the Epstein files but this particular one is something else
nyx-land.bsky.social 𝕹𝖞𝖝 妛彁 @nyx-land.bsky.social · 1d
yet another email implying that the resurgence of the far-right in the 2010s was an intentional psyop by billionaire pedophile elites and the intelligence community
Jeffrey Epstein email to Boris Nikolic: "This article describes why I find moot interesting. The potential for manipulation is huge. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/09/AR201008090612.html"
January 31, 2026 at 7:55 AM
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maplecocaine.bsky.social
It makes you sound crazy to say this out loud, but it's becoming increasingly clear that the United States government has been effectively toppled by a group of overt pedophiles
January 31, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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milesklee.bsky.social
Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible
January 30, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
This guy can’t stop getting W’s
January 30, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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elivalley.bsky.social
Everybody who perpetrated this while covering it up should be in the Hague

www.reuters.com/world/early-...
The staff reported seeing a human femur and other bones on the roads, dead bodies abandoned in cars and “catastrophic human needs, particularly for food and safe drinking water.” But the U.S. ambassador to Jerusalem, Jack Lew, and his deputy, Stephanie Hallett, blocked the cable from wider distribution within the United States government because they believed it lacked balance, according to interviews with four former officials and documents seen by Reuters.
January 30, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
BREAKING: Tenants across Minneapolis and Saint Paul have just launched a Twin Cities tenant union, citing the fact that their cities are under siege, and saying they need to band together to protect one another.

linktr.ee/twincitieste...
twincitiestenants | Instagram | Linktree
The twin cities are under siege. Every tenant needs a union. We are launching a twin cities-wide tenant union. Organize your neighbors. Join the Union NOW.
linktr.ee
January 30, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
So if I’m understanding this sequence correctly, from Thanksgiving to Christmas 2012, Elon Musk was essentially pestering registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to throw him a wild party on the island.
January 30, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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startribune.com
Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.

📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
January 30, 2026 at 9:42 PM
phoenixcalida.bsky.social
I hate that this is a controversial proposal.
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.
January 30, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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mrwilliam.bsky.social
I have nothing positive to say about Chuck Schumer and never have.

It’s been 4 decades.

I’d like to ask New York voters: Why do y’all keep reelecting this guy?

I’d like to ask other New York politicians.
Why are y’all scared of stepping up to primary this guy?
January 30, 2026 at 7:26 AM