Saltypepper
@saltypepper.bsky.social
"Remember: Care for yourself and the people around you. Believe that the world can be better than it is now. Never give up."
—Sarah Gailey
Both a masterpiece and a work-in-progress. She/her ✊🏽
—Sarah Gailey
Both a masterpiece and a work-in-progress. She/her ✊🏽
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every morning I wake up, read the news, walk down into hell, share a strong cup of tea with the devil who assures me it will and can get worse, walk backwards out of darkness, and emerge into the light to witness the world collapse
January 31, 2026 at 4:06 AM
every morning I wake up, read the news, walk down into hell, share a strong cup of tea with the devil who assures me it will and can get worse, walk backwards out of darkness, and emerge into the light to witness the world collapse
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* 60 journalists were arrested during BLM protests
* SPLC has a whole section called "civil rights martyrs"
* They literally dropped a bomb on Black people in Philadelphia in the 60s. The National Guard has been deployed in NYC subways for over a year.
* Martial law was threatened during BLM.
* 60 journalists were arrested during BLM protests
* SPLC has a whole section called "civil rights martyrs"
* They literally dropped a bomb on Black people in Philadelphia in the 60s. The National Guard has been deployed in NYC subways for over a year.
* Martial law was threatened during BLM.
January 30, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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* 60 journalists were arrested during BLM protests
* SPLC has a whole section called "civil rights martyrs"
* They literally dropped a bomb on Black people in Philadelphia in the 60s. The National Guard has been deployed in NYC subways for over a year.
* Martial law was threatened during BLM.
* 60 journalists were arrested during BLM protests
* SPLC has a whole section called "civil rights martyrs"
* They literally dropped a bomb on Black people in Philadelphia in the 60s. The National Guard has been deployed in NYC subways for over a year.
* Martial law was threatened during BLM.
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Veteran Dice Tower reviewer Sam Healey resigns in wake of saying Alex Pretti, Renee Good were to blame for ICE killing them, after comments began impacting review giant’s annual pledge drive:
boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
January 30, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Veteran Dice Tower reviewer Sam Healey resigns in wake of saying Alex Pretti, Renee Good were to blame for ICE killing them, after comments began impacting review giant’s annual pledge drive:
boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
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One of, if not the most, important thing you can do in electoral politics is get involved in the primaries against these fools
Trump admitted on Thursday evening that his administration is “not at all” deescalating its immigration raids in Minneapolis, confirming that his administration’s pledges to do so were lies, just hours after Senate Democrats folded on negotiations to prevent a government shutdown.
Trump Admits He Is “Not at All” Deescalating ICE Raids After Democrats Fold on Government Shutdown
The statement came hours after Trump celebrated a deal with Schumer to avoid a shutdown.
buff.ly
January 30, 2026 at 10:36 PM
One of, if not the most, important thing you can do in electoral politics is get involved in the primaries against these fools
ICE has been in the northwest Bronx for the last 2 days, in and around Van Cortlandt Park/the end of the 1 train. To the west of the park is Riverdale, which is one of the richer, whiter neighborhoods in the city. Whistles are blowing.
Don't think ICE won't come to your hood because they will.
Don't think ICE won't come to your hood because they will.
January 30, 2026 at 10:42 PM
ICE has been in the northwest Bronx for the last 2 days, in and around Van Cortlandt Park/the end of the 1 train. To the west of the park is Riverdale, which is one of the richer, whiter neighborhoods in the city. Whistles are blowing.
Don't think ICE won't come to your hood because they will.
Don't think ICE won't come to your hood because they will.
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We already have a warrant requirement. It's called the US Constitution. If that's not fucking binding them, what the hell does your little agreement mean?
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said the party agreed on three main goals:
° Require warrants in some cases and ICE coordination with state and local law enforcement
° Create a code of conduct and enforce it
° Require agents to wear body cams and not masks
° Require warrants in some cases and ICE coordination with state and local law enforcement
° Create a code of conduct and enforce it
° Require agents to wear body cams and not masks
Democrats demand new ICE restrictions as government shutdown looms
After federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Senate Democrats say they’ll block a massive government funding package without policy changes.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:26 AM
We already have a warrant requirement. It's called the US Constitution. If that's not fucking binding them, what the hell does your little agreement mean?
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Hell YEAH, signed up and invited neighborhood friends
Big news, NYC! @handsoffnyc.bsky.social is holding another training in Manhattan on Saturday, January 31! This is a big deal - please do sign up now for a full Know Your Rights/neighborhood coordination training! www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/...
MANHATTAN BOROUGH-WIDE TRAINING · Hands Off NYC
Date: THIS SATURDAY, January 31 | Time: 12 PM - 4 PM
Location provided after registration
Important: previous wait list members have received first notice of this training. If this event is at capac...
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January 29, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Hell YEAH, signed up and invited neighborhood friends
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For everyone saying he'd never send troops into cities. He's saying it out loud. It's all the same to him. He's gonna ask. Whether they do it or not, who knows? But if no one stands up to ICE the rank and file of the military are gonna start to see him as a true strongman and that's bad news
This is so unhinged
January 29, 2026 at 10:07 PM
For everyone saying he'd never send troops into cities. He's saying it out loud. It's all the same to him. He's gonna ask. Whether they do it or not, who knows? But if no one stands up to ICE the rank and file of the military are gonna start to see him as a true strongman and that's bad news
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9-9-6 was a Chinese term invented mostly to show how depressing and lifeless work culture was; watching softbrained AI guys adopt it as an ideal is ... well, entirely predictable
January 29, 2026 at 8:39 AM
9-9-6 was a Chinese term invented mostly to show how depressing and lifeless work culture was; watching softbrained AI guys adopt it as an ideal is ... well, entirely predictable
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👴🏻ICE is out of control! Immunity from prosecution is out of the question for an organization that brutalizes protesters and kills citizens in the street!
👩🏿Thank you! And cops that brutalize and kill Black folk should not have immunity from prosecution either! End it!
👴🏻No wait that one's different🤡
👩🏿Thank you! And cops that brutalize and kill Black folk should not have immunity from prosecution either! End it!
👴🏻No wait that one's different🤡
January 28, 2026 at 2:47 PM
👴🏻ICE is out of control! Immunity from prosecution is out of the question for an organization that brutalizes protesters and kills citizens in the street!
👩🏿Thank you! And cops that brutalize and kill Black folk should not have immunity from prosecution either! End it!
👴🏻No wait that one's different🤡
👩🏿Thank you! And cops that brutalize and kill Black folk should not have immunity from prosecution either! End it!
👴🏻No wait that one's different🤡
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I
was
just
following
orders
was
just
following
orders
Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"
January 28, 2026 at 1:58 PM
I
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was
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🤷🏿♂️You know what? Why not? We're bringing polio back, nazis back, measles back, and Jim Crow back. We're rolling back a century of science, and doing our best to shrink the US economy to the size it was in 1930. May as well bring phrenology back too.
If you need me I'll be in the hills, prospecting!
If you need me I'll be in the hills, prospecting!
In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:
January 28, 2026 at 2:09 AM
🤷🏿♂️You know what? Why not? We're bringing polio back, nazis back, measles back, and Jim Crow back. We're rolling back a century of science, and doing our best to shrink the US economy to the size it was in 1930. May as well bring phrenology back too.
If you need me I'll be in the hills, prospecting!
If you need me I'll be in the hills, prospecting!
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This is an impeachable statement. It should be a career-ending scandal to avoid a question, especially one of grave import and consequence, by claiming ignorance about the most basic fundamental aspect of your job.
Suddenly republicans have forgotten what the constitution says 🤷🏼 🇺🇸
January 28, 2026 at 11:44 AM
This is an impeachable statement. It should be a career-ending scandal to avoid a question, especially one of grave import and consequence, by claiming ignorance about the most basic fundamental aspect of your job.
Woken up at 2:30 with the beginning of a migraine. Able to doze a bit til 5:30, but now it's too strong and still rising.
It's been a while since this has happened. I didn't miss it at all. Logging off all screens now.
It's been a while since this has happened. I didn't miss it at all. Logging off all screens now.
January 28, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Woken up at 2:30 with the beginning of a migraine. Able to doze a bit til 5:30, but now it's too strong and still rising.
It's been a while since this has happened. I didn't miss it at all. Logging off all screens now.
It's been a while since this has happened. I didn't miss it at all. Logging off all screens now.
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Campaign promises made, campaign promises kept.
This is what it's all been about. This is what it's always been about. Reversing net migration.
They wrote extensive policy papers about why this is what they are willing to trade everything else for.
They want a smaller, whiter, fashier America.
This is what it's all been about. This is what it's always been about. Reversing net migration.
They wrote extensive policy papers about why this is what they are willing to trade everything else for.
They want a smaller, whiter, fashier America.
A crackdown on immigration is leading to a sharp drop in U.S. population growth
A sharp drop in net immigration has led to a slowdown in U.S. population growth. The Census Bureau says the population grew only about half as fast in the year ending last June as it did the previous ...
www.npr.org
January 28, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Campaign promises made, campaign promises kept.
This is what it's all been about. This is what it's always been about. Reversing net migration.
They wrote extensive policy papers about why this is what they are willing to trade everything else for.
They want a smaller, whiter, fashier America.
This is what it's all been about. This is what it's always been about. Reversing net migration.
They wrote extensive policy papers about why this is what they are willing to trade everything else for.
They want a smaller, whiter, fashier America.
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I’m still somewhat upset that people tried to debunk our memories of this trauma last year.
And I think about Holocaust denialism now and think how many people are already turning away from what we see is going on.
And I think about Holocaust denialism now and think how many people are already turning away from what we see is going on.
Today is the 40th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger disaster, and I still vividly remember being confused and traumatized alongside my classmates.
I think about these kids being terrorized by ICE, and I think that trauma will also stay with them well into adulthood. It's unforgivable.
I think about these kids being terrorized by ICE, and I think that trauma will also stay with them well into adulthood. It's unforgivable.
Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.
January 28, 2026 at 8:21 AM
I’m still somewhat upset that people tried to debunk our memories of this trauma last year.
And I think about Holocaust denialism now and think how many people are already turning away from what we see is going on.
And I think about Holocaust denialism now and think how many people are already turning away from what we see is going on.
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They've given the literal dumbest guys in America a military arsenal, a blank check, and immunity to do whatever they want. How fucking stupid do you have to be to break into a consulate?
1/27/2026 - Minneapolis
ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone
They did not have a warrant
ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone
They did not have a warrant
January 27, 2026 at 11:13 PM
They've given the literal dumbest guys in America a military arsenal, a blank check, and immunity to do whatever they want. How fucking stupid do you have to be to break into a consulate?
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this is explicitly forbidden by the fourth amendment, there should not need to be "guidance" because it is IN THE CONSTITUTION & in fact the drafters used these exact examples in constructing the amendment
ICE has been authorizing officers to forcibly enter homes without judicial warrants—a reversal of longstanding guidance to protect people's constitutional rights.
Senior reporter @samanthamichaels.bsky.social spoke with a family in Memphis that experienced this.
Senior reporter @samanthamichaels.bsky.social spoke with a family in Memphis that experienced this.
January 27, 2026 at 9:49 PM
this is explicitly forbidden by the fourth amendment, there should not need to be "guidance" because it is IN THE CONSTITUTION & in fact the drafters used these exact examples in constructing the amendment
I hope that not only do they do that, but that they make sure not to let any of their horrible peers evade the consequences of their choices. There's room at Nuremberg for all of them.
*popcorn.gif*
*popcorn.gif*
oh they are going to rip each other to shreds as it becomes clear that the country has decisively turned against them
Genuinely interesting. Kristi Noem is snitching that Stephen Miller is the one who made up the bullshit about Alex Pretti.
It would be genuinely useful if Congress can get her to admit that he has been dictating ALL OF THIS just like he dictated the murderboats.
www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...
It would be genuinely useful if Congress can get her to admit that he has been dictating ALL OF THIS just like he dictated the murderboats.
www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...
January 27, 2026 at 10:07 PM
I hope that not only do they do that, but that they make sure not to let any of their horrible peers evade the consequences of their choices. There's room at Nuremberg for all of them.
*popcorn.gif*
*popcorn.gif*
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If you want to know what I want Democrats to do, please look at everything the GOP has done to fuck shit up when it was the minority party and copy and paste those tactics.
I want Democrats to use every lever at their disposal to shut things down. They have the power to obstruct and gum up the works, the only thing stopping them is outdated norms.
People are being executed in the streets and if elected Dems aren't prepared to do dramatic things, they can fuck off.
People are being executed in the streets and if elected Dems aren't prepared to do dramatic things, they can fuck off.
What do y’all expect Dems to do? Undo the Big Beautiful budget bill (that the GOP majority passed)? Even if Dems hold up the budget resolution and shut down the govt, DHS and ICE will continue to operate. So what, exactly, can they do as the minority party?
January 27, 2026 at 9:22 PM
If you want to know what I want Democrats to do, please look at everything the GOP has done to fuck shit up when it was the minority party and copy and paste those tactics.
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It's a well placed fear.
Brilliant writing by @adamserwer.bsky.social in The Atlantic
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Brilliant writing by @adamserwer.bsky.social in The Atlantic
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 5:28 PM
It's a well placed fear.
Brilliant writing by @adamserwer.bsky.social in The Atlantic
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Brilliant writing by @adamserwer.bsky.social in The Atlantic
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys
"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
January 27, 2026 at 6:10 PM
getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys
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That was our reality in Gen X and before. Many younger people just don't quite get why we saw biracial folks as "Black w/ a white parent":
There was a cost for choosing us, and by extension, other communities of color. That cost was losing much of your access to privilege, like my godmother did.
There was a cost for choosing us, and by extension, other communities of color. That cost was losing much of your access to privilege, like my godmother did.
January 27, 2026 at 6:26 PM
That was our reality in Gen X and before. Many younger people just don't quite get why we saw biracial folks as "Black w/ a white parent":
There was a cost for choosing us, and by extension, other communities of color. That cost was losing much of your access to privilege, like my godmother did.
There was a cost for choosing us, and by extension, other communities of color. That cost was losing much of your access to privilege, like my godmother did.
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"It is literally the job of political journalists to know what politicians are planning to do. It is the job to read policy documents, to track personnel, to notice when a candidate praises an organization on video and then claims to know nothing about it. This is the work."
An excellent read.
An excellent read.
One year into Trump’s second term, some journalists have been “surprised” by the administration’s organized agenda. But Project 2025 was publicly available. Advocacy groups read it and warned us. The press read it and… 🤷♀️ www.readtpa.com/p/this-is-li...
This is Literally the Job
Political journalists need to stop pretending they don't know what Republicans are going to do.
www.readtpa.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:22 PM
"It is literally the job of political journalists to know what politicians are planning to do. It is the job to read policy documents, to track personnel, to notice when a candidate praises an organization on video and then claims to know nothing about it. This is the work."
An excellent read.
An excellent read.