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“We are all one–and if we don’t know it, we will learn it the hard way.” -Bayard Rustin
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thenicebryce.bsky.social
"By email, Balis confirmed to Snopes that a soldier was found in possession of child pornography around that time. He also confirmed there was a conversation about a sexually explicit video of a boy resembling Barros."

#sa #Epsteinfiles #credibility

www.snopes.com/news/2026/01...
Examining Sascha Riley's audio recordings alleging abuse by Epstein, Trump
No credible evidence supported the allegations regarding Epstein, the president and other prominent men.
www.snopes.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:18 AM
thenicebryce.bsky.social
Liberate Minnesota! These are VERY GOOD people!

#hypocrisy #fascism #gop #secondamendment

zeteo.com/p/conservati...
7 Times Conservatives Praised Gun-Toting Protesters
They're attacking Alex Pretti for having a gun. But here are some famous moments when Trump and the right treated armed protesters like heroes.
zeteo.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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proptermalone.bsky.social
only 17 of 50 prosecutors left in Minnesota
msrosenberg.bsky.social Ms. Rosenberg @msrosenberg.bsky.social · 12d
*thinks quietly about what an administration would prioritize if it actually cared about law & order & public safety* www.politico.com/news/magazin...
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota appears to be deteriorating, and more resignations from career prosecutors may be on the horizon. Justice Department and FBI leaders in Washington have undermined their public credibility yet again in defense of the White House's political priorities. Meanwhile, the federal deployment of ICE agents has created a major rupture between state and federal law enforcement officials in Minnesota, who once prided themselves on their cooperative working relationship with one another. The whole episode risks further destabilizing federal-state law enforcement relations throughout the country, ultimately making Americans everywhere less safe. Already, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota has been seriously hobbled, but the full extent of the problems have only been partially visible to the public. The office is supposed to have 50 criminal prosecutors on staff, but at the moment, there are only "about 17 prosecutors" left, according to David Lillehaug, who served as the U.S. Attorney in Minnesota during the Clinton administration and remains familiar with dynamics inside the office he once led. (A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment on personnel.)
January 28, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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pbump.com
Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.
January 28, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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segyges.bsky.social
grok is elon musk correctly noting that chatbots were a new and poorly understood ideological battleground, the same way social media was at its inception, and attempting to seize the field for nazism, as he has also done with twitter
January 28, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social
1/ Melania: "Donald nobody is going to see the film"
Donald: "The film?"
Melania: "The one we bribed Jeff Bezos to make! The only good thing I've gotten out of this decade!"
Donald: "Okay what am I supposed to about it?"
Melania: "You're President!"
Donald: "I can't unkill him!"
January 28, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.
DHS: It is horrific to see radical agitators bring children to their violent riots. PLEASE STOP ENDANGERING YOUR CHILDREN. ABC News • @ABC• 7h Two children, including a 6-month-old, were hospitalized last night after federal agents deployed tear gas during Wednesday night's protests, according to the Minneapolis Office of Community Safety.... 7:32 AM • 1/16/26 • 145
January 16, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
The response to the ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good is not what the White House was expecting.

Like with their hiding of the Epstein files, part of the fundamental problem they are facing is that the stories the Trump administration has built their movement on are being shown for their emptiness.
January 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
thenicebryce.bsky.social
"For others, this is a classic case of[...] “misrecognition”: mistaking polished performance and extra preparation, which is so often shaped by privilege, for greater underlying talent – and sincerely believing this to be fair."

#education #class #whitesupremacy
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
No, private schools aren’t victims of ‘reverse discrimination’ – and Cambridge should know better | Lee Elliot Major
Trinity Hall’s plan to target elite schools sends the message that privilege equals talent, when the reality is that poorer students are already on the back foot, says professor of social mobility at ...
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:40 PM
thenicebryce.bsky.social
"But on Thursday, the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office determined that the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) should no longer be part of the investigation."

#statesrights #fascism #secretpolice #murderers
www.axios.com/2026/01/08/d...
What DHS' own rules say on the deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis
Noem quickly weighed in the ICE shooting. But an ongoing investigation will take months.
www.axios.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:36 PM
thenicebryce.bsky.social
"Judge David Jones refused to grant the reprieve, however, in a Thursday ruling."

#affordablehousing #whitesupremacy
gothamist.com/news/judge-r...
Judge rejects Mayor Mamdani's bid to slow bankruptcy sale of 5,100 NYC apartments
The decision poses an early setback to Mamdani in his first full week in office.
gothamist.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:36 PM
thenicebryce.bsky.social
Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's goods.
January 8, 2026 at 8:32 PM
thenicebryce.bsky.social
"Some of the data the Justice Department is seeking includes names, dates of birth, residential addresses, driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers."

#technofascism #fascism #justicedepartment #privacy
apnews.com/article/just...
Justice Department sues Connecticut and Arizona as part of effort to get voter data from the states
Officials in Connecticut and Arizona are defending their decision to refuse a request from the U.S. Justice Department to turn over detailed voter information.
apnews.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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jaywillis.net
What I am saying here is every self-righteous Federalist Society type who is not loudly calling for the president’s impeachment is a bootlicking little bitch whose opinions about the law and the Constitution you never need to take seriously again
January 3, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab
maxtani.bsky.social max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · Jan 3
The Washington Post editorial board comes out in favor of the Venezuela attack/operation to capture Maduro
January 3, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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jaywillis.net
Mike Lee’s role is to justify Trump’s Venezuela invasion to conservative legal movement types, but this is fucking gibberish. The assertion that kidnapping a head of state “likely” falls under “inherent authority” is as close as it gets to admitting you’re a little errand boy doing as you’re told.
Mike Lee * @BasedMikeLee •11h Just got off the phone with @SecRubio He informed me that Nicolás Maduro has been arrested by U.S. personnel to stand trial on criminal charges in the United States, and that the kinetic action we saw tonight was deployed to protect and defend those executing the arrest warrant This action likely falls within the president's inherent authority under Article Il of the Constitution to protect U.S. personnel from an actual or imminent attack Thank you, @SecRubio, for keeping me apprised Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee • 12h | look forward to learning what, if anything, might constitutionally justify this action in the absence of a declaration of war or authorization for the use of military force x.com/nicksortor/sta... • 4.8K セ 7.9K 33K Il 77M 贝
January 3, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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jaywillis.net
Rubio is in all other contexts a vapid moron, but it’s very funny that he has the ability to look an interviewer in the eye and explain that a Delta Force op to depose a foreign head of state and install a puppet in his place isn’t “military,” but simply good old-fashioned police work
Besides navigating the treacherous minefield of nation-building that lies ahead, Rubio will also have to rebuild trust among U.S. lawmakers, many of whom have accused him of lying to Congress when he said the Trump administration would seek congressional approval before taking military action against Venezuela. "Secretaries Rubio and [Pete] Hegseth looked every Senator in the eye a few weeks ago and said this wasn't about regime change. I didn't trust them then and we see now that they blatantly lied to Congress," said Sen. Andy Kim (D-New Jersey). In an interview with The Washington Post, Rubio denied that he lied and said he promised to get congressional approval only if the United States "was going to conduct military strikes for military purposes." "This was not that. This was a law enforcement operation," Rubio said, referring to the indictment against Maduro in the Southern District of New York on drug charges. When pressed that U.S. forces bombing Venezuela, seizing its leader and claiming to "run" the country would be widely interpreted as a military operation, Rubio did not relent, saying "the mission last night was in support of the Department of Justice.
January 4, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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murshedz.bsky.social
“Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois and Colorado will be cut off from around $7 billion in funding for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which provides cash assistance to households with children, according to two people familiar with the matter.”

Monstrously cruel.
Health Dept. to Freeze $10 Billion in Funding to 5 Democratic States
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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eaponte.bsky.social
I have people with me IN LAW SCHOOL who say and believe things like this.
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Jan 6
right. and like it's not like they're hiding it now. all of the major pundits (knowles + walsh) basically think the takeaway from Iraq War was not that PNAC was right to want to build democracy, but a world that is explicitly built around turning America into an empire
January 6, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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normative.bsky.social
If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · Jan 5
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 8:57 PM
thenicebryce.bsky.social
"It's exactly what [Hegseth] said all along," she said. "He's against women in combat and he's going to get them out. It's going to be an effort to prove women don't belong."

#sexism #military #fascism
www.npr.org/2026/01/06/n...
Pentagon will begin review of 'effectiveness' of women in ground combat positions
The review, outlined in a Pentagon memo obtained by NPR, comes after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told admirals and generals in September that women must meet the "highest male standard."
www.npr.org
January 6, 2026 at 6:34 PM
thenicebryce.bsky.social
"the Board shall assure that after December 2, 1983, no additional memorials or plaques in the nature of memorials shall be designated or installed in the public areas of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts."

#lawandorder #fascism #grift
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
20 U.S. Code § 76j - Duties of Board
www.law.cornell.edu
December 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM
thenicebryce.bsky.social
"You must use your own judgment. But instead of seeing good manners as a set of catch-all rules, my feeling is we should treat them instead as the answer to the question: what does this person truly need from me in this situation?"

#manners #ethics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The hill I will die on: Being late can be the height of good manners and decorum, actually | Rachel Connolly
Instead of seeing etiquette as a set of categorical rules, we should recognise that poor form can actually have good consequences, says writer Rachel Connolly
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
thenicebryce.bsky.social
“This was a preventable disaster, but Harris and the Democratic Party leadership prioritized the agendas of corporate donors and gambled on a centrist path, while largely abandoning working-class, young, and progressive voters,”
December 25, 2025 at 6:22 AM
thenicebryce.bsky.social
"During [45's] first administration, about 170 denaturalization cases were sent to court[...] Taufa says it would be a Herculean undertaking for the administration to meet the 100-to-200-per-month quota."

#facism #citizenship #whitesupremacy
www.npr.org/2025/12/24/n...
Trump administration wants to set quota for denaturalizing American citizens
The Trump administration says it wants to establish a quota for next year to denaturalize up to 200 American citizens per month.
www.npr.org
December 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM