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Van der Burgh
@stephenintheburgh.bsky.social
U.S. Navy ⚓️veteran🇺🇸
Fire Captain, retired
Animal lover and History nerd.
Bike advocate. 🚲
World traveler.
Dudeist Priest, abides
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MAGA=Nazism
Stand for something, or you'll fall for anything.
E pluribus unum is what makes us great.
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February 4, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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February 4, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country newrepublic.com/article/2060... via @newrepublic.com
"Prison Camp", they don't even bother with a euphemism. Understand that the people imprisoned will be Concentrated.
Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country
The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But guess what? Even parts of Red America are saying no.
newrepublic.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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February 4, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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MAGA Cult Slayer

The pink hat lady’s full video. You aren’t angry enough.🤬🤬🤬
January 26, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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We've just learned that the man in this video, Ian Austin, was among those arrested by federal officials.

More info to come soon.
Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him.

“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."
January 30, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Then imagine the shared psychosis that follows and all the attendant consequences.
WE'RE LIVING IT EVERY DAMNED DAY!!!!!!!
February 4, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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February 3, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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Truth 😏
January 30, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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Karma?
February 4, 2026 at 4:01 AM
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💯
January 25, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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January 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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Don’t forget Keith Porter!!

On December 31, 2025, Keith Porter Jr., a 43-year-old father of two, was shot and killed by an off-duty U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in the Northridge neighborhood of Los Angeles.
January 27, 2026 at 4:39 AM
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If we can’t laugh we would be crying. Funny but also true- the US is a dangerous clown show right now. Steer clear of us until we get the house clean.
January 29, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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August 25, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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They really have no fucking idea what is coming. No fucking idea.
January 29, 2026 at 4:20 AM
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The source letter:
February 3, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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“Whatever may have been my political opinions before, I have but one sentiment now: that is, we have a government, and laws, and a flag, and they must all be sustained. There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter.” - Ulysses S. Grant
February 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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What strange fucking foxholes we find ourselves in
this is really an totally unequivocal endorsement of migration as something guaranteed by God and which, according to Bundy, no secular power has the right to abrogate
February 3, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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The US parties are built out of such weird coalitions across eras. Trump recognized that the mainstream GOP leadership had been feeding so much red meat to its racist reactionary hoi polloi for decades that he could ride them to completely take over what had become a hollowed out party
February 1, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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February 2, 2026 at 3:43 AM
youtube.com/watch?v=X7Vp...
This speech may go down as one of the last best warnings before the curtain of despotism fell upon us.
Future generations will wonder how and why we ignored so many glaring warnings.
I wonder that myself.
Murphy: Trump and His Billionaire Buddies want to Make Themselves Richer at Our Expense
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
youtube.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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Listen and learn.
February 3, 2026 at 11:58 PM