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serenakyle.bsky.social
@serenakyle.bsky.social
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Retired teacher of humanities who is always searching for the “human”part. 💙 crew🧢.
Mom of 🏳️‍🌈 hero, Mimi of an IVF miracle, Aunt of 🏳️‍⚧️ nieces! Proud of all and shall fight to the death for their rights.
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serenakyle.bsky.social @serenakyle.bsky.social · Jan 19
Pinned for predictive sake (and hoping my sleepless nights are for naught). Hoping but not believing.
Andrew Coyne, a highly respected Canadian columnist with the Globe and Mail, pulls no punches on the incoming US administration: "Nothing mattered, in the end. Not the probable dementia, the unfathomable ignorance, the emotional incontinence; not, certainly, the shambling, hate-filled campaign, or the ludicrously unworkable anti-policies. The candidate out on bail in four jurisdictions, the convicted fraud artist, the adjudicated rapist and serial sexual predator, the habitual bankrupt, the stooge of Vladimir Putin, the man who tried to overturn the last election and all of his creepy retinue of crooks, ideologues and lunatics: Americans took a long look at all this and said, yes please. There is no sense in understating the depth of the disaster. This is a crisis like no other in our lifetimes. The government of the United States has been delivered into the hands of a gangster, whose sole purpose in running, besides staying out of jail, is to seek revenge on his enemies. The damage Donald Trump and his nihilist cronies can do - to America, but also to its democratic allies, and to the peace and security of the world - is incalculable. We are living in the time of Nero. The first six months will be a time of maximum peril. NATO must from this moment be considered effectively obsolete, without the American security guarantee that has always been its bedrock. We may see new incursions by Russia into Europe - the poor Ukrainians are probably done for, but now it is the Baltics and the Poles who must worry - before the Europeans have time to organize an alternative. China may also accelerate its Taiwanese ambitions. At home, Mr. Trump will be moving swiftly to consolidate his power. Some of this will be institutional - the replacement of tens of thousands of career civil servants with Trumpian loyalists. But some of it will be ... atmospheric. At some point someone - a company whose chief executive has displeased him, a media critic who has gotten under his skin — will find themselves the subject of unwanted attention from the Trump administration. It might not be so crude as a police arrest. It might just be a little regulatory matter, a tax audit, something like that. They will seek the protection of the courts, and find it is not there. The judges are also Trump loyalists, perhaps, or too scared to confront him. Or they might issue a ruling, and find it has no effect - that the administration has called the basic bluff of liberal democracy: the idea that, in the crunch, people in power agree to be bound by the law, and by its instruments the courts, the same as everyone else. Then everyone will take their cue. Executives will line up to court him. Media organizations, the large ones anyway, will find reasons to be cheerful. Of course, in reality things will start to fall apart fairly quickly. The huge across-the-board tariffs he imposes will tank the world economy. The massive deficits, fueled by his ill-judged tax policies - he won't replace the income tax, as he promised, but will fill it with holes - and monetized, at his direction, by the Federal Reserve, will ignite a new round of inflation. Most of all, the insane project of deporting 12 million undocumented immigrants - finding them, rounding them up and detaining them in hundreds of internment camps around the country, probably for years, before doing so - will consume his administration. But by then it will be too late. We should not count upon the majority of Americans coming to their senses in any event. They were not able to see Mr. Trump for what he was before: why should that change? Would they not, rather, be further coarsened by the experience of seeing their neighbours dragged off by the police, or the military, further steeled to the necessity of doing "tough things" to "restore order?" Some won't, of course. But they will find in time that the democratic levers they might once have pulled to demand change are no longer attached to anything. There are still elections, but the rules have been altered: there are certain obstacles, certain disadvantages if you are not with the party of power. It will seem easier at first to try to change things from within. Then it will be easier not to change things. All of this will wash over Canada in various ways - some predictable, like the flood of refugees seeking escape from the camps; some less so, like the coarsening of our own politics, the debasement of morals and norms by politicians who have discovered there is no political price to be paid for it. And who will have the backing of their patron in Washington.
serenakyle.bsky.social
The irony gods are having a field day or maybe it’s karma seeing that!
February 9, 2026 at 4:49 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Perfect
February 8, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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govpritzker.illinois.gov
Unidos somos América.
Bad Bunny holds a football that says Together, we are America.
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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atrupar.com
Massie on Howard Lutnick: "He should just resign. Three people in Great Britain resigned for less than what we've seen Howard Lutnick lie about. He clearly went to the island, if we believe what's in these files. He was in business with Jeffrey Epstein."
February 8, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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hispanicdems.dhcfl.org
He is us, and we are him.

Bad Bunny is all of us tonight.

We are woven into the history of this nation, and no amount of hate will erase us.

Love will conquer hate tonight and always.

Keep the faith, America!

#BadBunny
#SuperBowl
February 9, 2026 at 3:18 AM
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maddow.bsky.social
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention and denied prescribed medication, lawsuit says
The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.
www.nbcnews.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:03 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
If ICE gets even one of these facilities fully up and running, it’ll immediately be the second-largest jail in the country behind only Rikers Island.
brunojnavarro.bsky.social Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 1d
The proposed centers are so large that some could house as many as 8,000 detainees at once, according to a DHS spreadsheet of more than 20 potential locations that was verified by NBC News. The largest federal prison in the U.S., for example, has roughly 4,000 inmates.
ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern
Sources at two government contractors told NBC News they were worried that new warehouses — and the large numbers of immigrants who would be housed in them — would present safety problems.
www.nbcnews.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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malena.bsky.social
The American government is torturing people!

This is being done with our taxpayer dollars in our name!

Will you stand against this horror?

Will you talk about it to friends?

Will you call Congress & demand accountability?
202-224-3121

This is a 2 part video because of the 3 min limit on bsky.🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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fintechernest.bsky.social
Let’s hope to see this on…

EVERY BUILDING IN AMERICA!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
February 9, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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pbump.com
Trump's utterly predictable complaint about Bad Bunny singing in Spanish was thoughtless culture-war stuff — but also failed to understand how many Americans speak Spanish.
www.pbump.net/o/actually-l...
Actually, lots of people understood Bad Bunny
43 million people in the U.S. speak Spanish, even if there aren't any at the White House.
www.pbump.net
February 9, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Cartoon by @dennisgoris.bsky.social.

The mystery poster.
February 8, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
👇👇
February 8, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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democracydocket.com
@padilla.senate.gov (D-Calif.):

“Trump wants to control election outcomes because he knows his party can’t win on their failed policies and disastrous track record. We’re not going to let him.”

Read more on Trump’s plan to “take over” elections👇
Trump doubles down on taking over elections, as outrage builds
"Trump is using the federal government to weaken our democracy, and he has escalated his attacks in his second term,” Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said. “He will not succeed.”
www.democracydocket.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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democracydocket.com
It was another busy week for voting and democracy.

President Trump issued his clearest statement yet about taking control of elections. And after House Speaker Mike Johnson welcomed Trump’s comments, the GOP proposed the most restrictive voting bill in modern U.S. history.

Read more here.
This week at Democracy Docket: Trump wants to ‘take over’ voting, while GOPers unveil a massive new suppression measure
Steve Bannon and Mike Johnson welcomed Trump's comments about taking control of elections. And a new Republican anti-voting bill could disenfranchise millions.
www.democracydocket.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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democracydocket.com
Florida voters just sued Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) to block what they call a “unilateral” and unauthorized mid-decade redistricting plan.

The lawsuit targets DeSantis’s attempt to bypass the legislature — part of a broader GOP effort to rig the 2026 midterms for Donald Trump.
Voters sue DeSantis for ordering Florida legislature to pursue pro-GOP gerrymander
DeSantis cannot constitutionally issue orders to the state legislature, the suit alleges.
www.democracydocket.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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democracydocket.com
Will ICE be at your polling place? The White House won’t say no.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt refused to rule out immigration enforcement at voting locations this fall, admitting she “can’t guarantee” agents won’t be present.
White House ‘can’t guarantee’ ICE won’t be at polls
The federal government has historically recognized polling places as off-limits for immigration enforcement precisely to avoid deterring lawful voters.
www.democracydocket.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
Breaking: Democrat Chasity Martinez just won a Louisiana district in a massive landslide victory.

Trump won this district by 13 points.
February 8, 2026 at 4:39 AM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
Katie Zacharia: President Trump has been the most transparent president on the Epstein files.

BTC: When Kaitlan Collins asked him about it, he told her to smile more.
February 8, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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mnswede.bsky.social
Call your representatives !
dvsmemphis.bsky.social Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 2d
The SAVE Act sounds harmless, but it lets politicians kick eligible Americans off the rolls if they can’t dig up passports or birth certificates. Millions of citizens, especially young people and voters of color, could be denied a ballot over paperwork. #sheshed
February 8, 2026 at 5:42 AM
serenakyle.bsky.social
This is an excellent read. What you don’t know.
February 8, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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maddow.bsky.social
www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jrs-biza...
RFK Jr.’s Bizarre Trip With Epstein and Ghislaine Exposed in Files
The trip took place on a Native reservation where collecting fossils without explicit tribal permission is considered looting.
www.thedailybeast.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:10 AM
serenakyle.bsky.social
No!
Making the calls…
marcelias.bsky.social Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d
NEW: House Republicans Friday unveiled an amended version of their voter suppression bill that, if it became law, would gravely undermine the right to vote in the U.S. ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
New version of GOP suppression bill would impose nationwide proof of citizenship, photo ID requirements
The bill would undermine the right to vote in the U.S. ahead of the 2026 midterms.
www.democracydocket.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
You may recall that in January of 2025, artist Ann Telnaes announced that she had quit The Washington Post after editors killed a cartoon that depicted owner Jeff Bezos, among others, genuflecting to Trump.

This cartoon feels even more relevant this week.
February 7, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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cheryl2877.bsky.social
Cheryl's Starter Pack (#25)

"Change is never easy, but always possible" - Barack Obama

We are #StrongerTogether

Please Repost and Follow

go.bsky.app/Ric7oCK
February 7, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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mblue.bsky.social
Afternoon Terry,
And now a few words from Bill!
February 7, 2026 at 12:39 AM