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Rob Tracinski
@tracinski.bsky.social
Candidate for Congress in Virginia's fifth district.

https://TracinskiForCongress.com

Author of "Dictator From Day One" https://amzn.to/3KaCKyZ

Other articles: https://www.tracinskiletter.com
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i would like to see impeachment articles filed against Noem at this point.

there was maybe a case before we hit shutdown for not doing it because it might negatively affect chances of a deal; that case no longer exists.
Bovino gone for real is the minimum personnel outcome and if that's all we get I will be unhappy.

Bovino+impeach and miss on Noem is an L but an acceptable one.

Bovino+Noem quits or gets fired or gets successfully impeached+removed is a W.

Bovino+Noem+Miller is a big W.
February 13, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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given education polarization and MAGA's reliance on low propensity voters, something like the SAVE Act would almost certainly backfire on republicans (i'm reasonably sure senate republicans understand this too)
i'm against barriers to the fanchise but it would be extremely funny if the republicans enact barriers to voting and nuke their voter base
Been toying with the same thought. Pointless barriers to voting pitched as a solution to an imaginary problem are a bad idea in principle, but Republicans seem very sure it will help them on net, and that’s not really obvious to me.
February 13, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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"They soon realized the unsettling truth: Not just women but entire families were detained inside, including children and even newborn babies. This former employee struggled daily with what they saw."
The Kids Aren’t Alright in Dilley
A baby who needs medicine. A toddler whose detained mom may have breast cancer. A suicide attempt.
lnk.thebulwark.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.
The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid.
One of the women Alex Pretti was killed trying to defend is an EMT. Federal agents stopped her from giving him first aid.
interc.pt
February 13, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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We are entering the “falling out of windows” phase.
February 14, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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Jeffrey Epstein's December 20, 2016 email to Bill Gates: "come to visit the island. new administration people visiting."

What was the upcoming administration in December2016? Oh!
February 13, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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You didn’t think all those concentration camps they want to build are only for immigrants, did you? (Gift article)
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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It’s an RNA world. RNA is posited to be the first genetic material, arising 4 billion years ago. It can store information and act as an enzyme. Eventually, it duplicated its information into a more stable form, DNA.
February 13, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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hey cool man while you were deep in research or whatever you might want to catch up on some other stuff that has happened in the world in the past year
February 13, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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Yaaaay! The special ‘Muppet Show’ revival drew almost 8 million viewers over an eight-day window. We’re wiggling our arms, Kermit style, in triumph.
Yaaaay! The Muppet Show Revival Is a Ratings Success.
Yaaaay! The special ‘Muppet Show’ revival drew almost 8 million viewers over an eight-day window. We’re wiggling our arms, Kermit style, in triumph.
www.vulture.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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They got mad when we called them deplorable over regular deplorable stuff they were doing so they then said "Hold mah beer, you ain't seen nothin' yet" and went full fash sadist. The fact they do this while thinking that they are going to their heaven and that their god is on their side is just wild
February 13, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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I interviewed a family of Russian asylum seekers who’ve been held more than four months at the Dilley detention center in Texas.

As we spoke over Zoom this week, their daughter Kamilla was one day shy of turning 12. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday.

She replied: “To get out of here.”
'Even in Russia, they don't treat children like this': A family's nightmare in ICE detention
A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine.
www.nbcnews.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Charles Dickens just called from the afterlife to say this is a little too over-the-top.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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Breaking news: Two immigration officers have been suspended and are facing a criminal investigation into whether they lied under oath about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis last month.
ICE officers suspended after making ‘untruthful statements’ about shooting
The federal immigration officers are facing a criminal inquiry after new evidence surfaced contradicting their accounts after the Jan. 14 shooting of a Venezuelan man.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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February 13, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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This is worth reading, but read it with both your eyes open: it’s clearly coming from ICE’s Lyons, CPB’s Scott and Tom Homan to preserve their secret police while marginalizing their bureaucratic rivals
February 13, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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“.. using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought ..”

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
February 13, 2026 at 12:45 PM
How is this not fiction?
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
February 13, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".
February 12, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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I hope he explained to the business owner that Joe Biden is quite old.
God the gall of @jaketapper.bsky.social lecturing that Minneapolis small business owner about the meaning of the word "concentration camp" while people are being crammed into poorly resourced buildings by the thousands and shuttled off never to be heard from again
February 13, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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harboring unauthorized immigrant who is your niece: admirable, family-oriented

harboring unauthorized immigrant who is your girlfriend: romantic, possibly cinematic

harboring girlfriend who is your niece:
February 13, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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February 13, 2026 at 5:33 AM
What the F is Platner doing front and center here? I mean, the two people waaaay in the background have actually been elected to something. (And never got Nazi tattoos, so far as we know.)
A base that has long made pragmatic, sober decisions appears increasingly attracted to charismatic outsiders who promise to break from the party’s failures of the last decade. They see their party’s leaders as feckless and inept.

It’s the Democratic Tea Party, with a twist. trib.al/mC5cBDA
February 13, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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There are reports that ICE was at South Station in Boston, taking photos of everyone coming off the trains.

Photos. Of everyone.

When we get rid of this administration, we must also insist on destroying whatever sinister database these fucks are feeding.
February 13, 2026 at 12:19 AM