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HOLD THE LINE
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Shameful. Crucifying readiness - and morale.
For the record, our division commander BANNED things called “presence patrols” in Iraq.

“If you don’t have a specific task & purpose, your ‘presence’ doesn’t do anything.”

National Guard stating they are now doing presence patrols in DC.

A complete waste of soldier’s time & effort.
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⛓️CONCENTRATION CAMPS & INCINERATORS—D.H.S. is setting up a huge network of camps. They are converting the U.S. as a region for ‘expeditionary military deployment’ & no-bid no-public-comment contracts to build a “ghost network” of 10,000-person concentration camps. Jesus. Thread 🧵
February 3, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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First shot: sugarcane

The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times

Still used to make rum of course!
February 9, 2026 at 2:33 AM
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This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
February 9, 2026 at 3:50 AM
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Bezos killed his own paper to please an illiterate clown
February 8, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
www.disconnect.blog
July 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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February 5, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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Ten reasons to hate jackbooted government thugs
February 6, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
February 5, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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Wild: (Microsoft) Xbox Live banned Epstein for being a sex offender in 2013, but Microsoft founder Bill Gates kept making appointments with him
January 31, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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TO RECAP:

-A judge declined to approve a criminal complaint against @donlemonofficial.bsky.social

-An appeals court rejected the Trump DOJ again

-They arrested him anyway

A lawless regime trampling our rights. 🇺🇸
January 30, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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Welcome to America, where masked federal agents can murder you on the street and not even get investigated but journalists get cuffed and charged for filming a protest.
January 30, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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New from me:
What’s going on in ICE detention isn’t just lethal (a 20-year high of 32 deaths last yr; 2 in a single facility this yr).
It’s leading countless people to “choose” to give up their cases. Which was the core of Miller’s ‘23 mass deportation plan. linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%...
The Throughline: Don’t Lose Sight of Detention Atrocities
linkprotect.cudasvc.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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Per that last possibility, migrants, activists and immigration attorneys say ICE is using domestic shuffle flights to make their court cases harder. A lot of the time they have to file docs all over again when they are moved.
January 28, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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These two charts came up in back to back posts on my feed. First shows deaths in ICE custody. The second, deaths from measles.

The two charts present data differently (bar chart vs overlaid year lines) but share one obvious thing in common:

Trump’s policies are actively killing people
January 28, 2026 at 2:59 AM
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How long before we must simply assume that, if we are approached by ICE, we must protect our lives and our property at all costs?
January 25, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month.

Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.
January 26, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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when the feds essentially abandoned the scene today after gassing us, we saw upon returning to the intersection this pile of what we were pretty sure was alex’s coat & some of his clothes, a lighter & a crampon, with crime scene tape in it

we created the barrier to preserve likely evidence
January 25, 2026 at 5:46 AM
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Protesters attempting to block an armored vehicle from advancing earlier today in Minneapolis
January 25, 2026 at 5:58 AM
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Rosen and Cortez Masto have already said they'd vote no. Call the rest.
Senate Republicans need 60 votes 2 pass the DHS funding bill. R’s only have 53 so they will need 7 Dems to vote with them.

Dems who may potentially help them:

Congressional switchboard 202-224-3121

Fetterman (PA)
Cortez Masto (NV)
Rosen (NV)
Sheehen (NH)
Hassan (NH)
King (ME)
Durbin (IL)
January 24, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 AM
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Every Democratic Senator must vote NO on DHS/ICE funding. Continuing to fund this agency that is terrorizing and murdering our people makes you complicit. They EXECUTED Alex Pretti.

Every Senator must draw a line in the stand here.
January 24, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
January 23, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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Judge William Young ends his order protecting noncitizen students targeted for deportation for their activism or speech with this quotation.

It’s by Ronald Reagan, who appointed him to the bench four decades ago.
January 23, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Shame.
Terrific
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JUST IN: The US has completed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, the US Department of Health and Human Services said, finalizing a longstanding goal of President Donald Trump. https://cnn.it/4a7NRmO
January 23, 2026 at 3:16 AM