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Chris Barnett
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The only insurrection act we need to pay attention to is the ongoing one that started J6, and is being perpetrated out of our own WH by criminals who kill moms, fishermen, nurses, us. #WETHEPEOPLE #THISISUNACCEPTABLE

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This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.” — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol.
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Especially bad news for Atlantans, but also bad news for all of us and democracy. As more and more cities become increasingly unreported, ordinary corruption has an ever more open field into which to cohere into local authoritarianisms, rippling out and up.
Even more bad news for Atlanta local journalism: @atlpresscollective.com, which has extensively covered "Cop City", ICE, and Flock cameras, and a finalist for the @inn.org Insight Award for Visual Journalism, announced today that they have run out of cash to stay open beyond the end of March.
More bad news for Atlanta local journalism: Mariann Martin, Co-founder, Operations and Editorial Director of @canopyatl.bsky.social, announced her departure from the newsroom yesterday.

The award-winning nonprofit and Press Forward grantee has not published a single story since Dec. 2025.
February 11, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Reminder of the degree to which Americans are willing to participate in injurious and dishonest constructs. You hear it from GOP reps in the DHS congressional hearing today, *caring* about protecting *Law Enforcement* but not peaceful transition. And propagandized here. substack.com/@tritorch/no...
TriTorch (@tritorch)
Here is well over a dozen Fox, CBS, ABC, & NBC local news stations all reading an identical script sent down from their singular overlord to crash & burn alternative media in order to de-fang the Olig...
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February 10, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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Or... Hear me out on this one... We stop having political dynasties.
February 8, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Poor Karen I mean Kelly Loeffler is really into her white whine.
SBA Administration Kelly Loeffler accuses previous administrations of "discriminating against white business owners"
February 7, 2026 at 8:49 AM
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NEW: 150 days of Kavanaugh stops, and it just keeps getting worse.

Kavanaugh stops would always be bad. As a tool in the Trump administration's authoritarianism arsenal, they are worse. The consequences are everywhere.

This evening, at Law Dork:
150 days of Kavanaugh stops, and it just keeps getting worse
Kavanaugh stops would always be bad. As a tool in the Trump administration's authoritarianism arsenal, they are worse. The consequences are everywhere.
www.lawdork.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:08 PM
i wanna make you feel free

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Joni Mitchell - All I Want (Official Audio)
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February 4, 2026 at 6:23 AM
Love is the province of the brave

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Province
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February 2, 2026 at 6:29 AM
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TOMORROW: I'm hosting an emergency digital town hall to discuss the horrific murders in Minneapolis and holding ICE accountable. I'll be joined by Easha Anand from Stanford's Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.

Watch live tomorrow at 6p.m. PT by visiting kevinmullin.house.gov/live
January 28, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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Abolish. ice. 💔
January 27, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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There is no way in hell the United States under the Trump regime can host the World Cup in a few months.

They are murdering citizens in broad daylight, threatening war against NATO, and lawlessly kidnapping children and foreign heads of state.

The world has to organize a boycott. It’s not safe.
January 26, 2026 at 2:56 AM
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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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Less than one minute later.
January 24, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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As it happens, Alex Pretti apparently had a carry permit. THAT DOESN'T MATTER, because he *didn't draw a gun.* Even had he possessed an illegal gun, this would still be murder. His alleged gun is a DHS red herring; it doesn't matter. We do not need to debate it one way or other.
January 24, 2026 at 8:20 PM
@angiecoiro.bsky.social thank you Angie! Grateful to know you’re my fellow citizen 🙏🏻
January 24, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.

The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
January 24, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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Update: The man shot by federal agents in Minneapolis has died, according to Police Chief Brian O'Hara.
Breaking: Federal agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis this morning
Agents shot the man several times after wrestling him to the ground.
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January 24, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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My Democratic colleagues & I just introduced an impeachment resolution for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

Her inhumane approach to immigration is literally killing Americans. ICE must be held accountable.

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January 14, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Her job is to destroy and do harm. Thank you @kevinmullin.house.gov this is the only appropriate response.
My Democratic colleagues & I just introduced an impeachment resolution for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

Her inhumane approach to immigration is literally killing Americans. ICE must be held accountable.

kevinmullin.house.gov/2026/01/14/r...
January 14, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Update from Minnesota to all of us from Sean Sherman

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F*ck Your Fascism
Life After Good Was Murdered in Minnesota
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January 14, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
January 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
@kevinmullin.house.gov Here's a really great response worth a few minutes of our time, Congressman. Happy New Year. substack.com/@sydneymicha...
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Last week, I wrote to my Senator, Angus King, asking him to please focus on three priorities in the new year: 1) Stop foreign invasions 2) Release the Epstein files 3) Restore ACA subsidies. Senator ...
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January 12, 2026 at 6:56 AM