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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 3h

This is a very important story. Today Palantir's identification and deportation software aimed at immigrants, tomorrow aimed at dissidents.

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 7h

Earlier this year, ICE inked an agreement with Palantir Technologies, the firm co-founded by the billionaire Peter Thiel, to build software aimed at streamlining the process of identifying and deporting people the agency is targeting.

ICE Plans to Boost Social Media Surveillance Using Contractors

ICE plans to use a hub in Vermont to bolster its digital surveillance capabilities as the agency ramps up operations across the country.

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ItsVic @vcla85.bsky.social · 6h

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 19h

Amazing thing about this isn’t even that none of it is true (none of it is), but that on Sunday morning, every news show will have Republicans on to soft-pedal some similar fiction to cover for the fact that ICE is literally kidnapping people in the streets and Republicans shutdown the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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ItsVic @vcla85.bsky.social · 22h

“I’ve been waiting for what Kid Rock thinks about all of this…”

-Absolutely nobody. Ever.

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ItsVic @vcla85.bsky.social · 22h

Good job America!

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 1d

The way people are celebrating this Trumper who supports the killing of her own people off the coast of Latin America is wild to me. She is not who you think she is. Neither she nor Trump deserves the Nobel.

But what do I know? I've only been covering Venezuela for more than a decade.

Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 1d

Woot woot! All day long with this great news! I just love the taste of tangerine clown tears in the morning. 😏

#NobelPeacePrize #TrumpLost #Pinks

Gaby Oraa/Reuters:

María Corina Machado Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised the opposition politician for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela."

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ItsVic @vcla85.bsky.social · 22h

The American media will tell everyone he is "tough" and "strong" and not a fascist dictator who's using government resources and taxpayer money to go after everyone who disagree with him.

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ItsVic @vcla85.bsky.social · 23h

No. He just lies. It's his thing. He just lies and everyone goes with it.

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ItsVic @vcla85.bsky.social · 23h

The press went after Biden for "being old". They went after Hillary for calling out racists in the republican party.

The behavior you're seeing from this idiot on your screen is normal now according to that same media.

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ItsVic @vcla85.bsky.social · 23h

The American media keeps telling everyone that he's smart.

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ItsVic @vcla85.bsky.social · 1d

Totally deserving of the Nobel Prize.
Also:

Another immigrant dies in ICE custody in California, this time in the Imperial Valley

Another immigrant dies in ICE custody in California, this time in the Imperial Valley

Imperial County immigrants’ rights groups are calling for an investigation into the death of Huabing Xie, an immigrant from China.

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ItsVic @vcla85.bsky.social · 1d

I get it. Get him on the record. You're 100% correct.
It needs to be done.

Just imagining him sitting in front of Congress yelling at everyone cracked me up.

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ItsVic @vcla85.bsky.social · 1d

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ItsVic @vcla85.bsky.social · 1d

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ItsVic @vcla85.bsky.social · 1d

What's gong to happen with everyone who's disappeared?

What are they doing to them in those concentration camps?

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ItsVic @vcla85.bsky.social · 1d

Americans are struggling to pay bills.

Meantime, dear leader, his family, his staff, enablers, fascist-influencers:

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ItsVic @vcla85.bsky.social · 1d

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ItsVic @vcla85.bsky.social · 1d

This is the liberal media that conservatives complain about.

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ItsVic @vcla85.bsky.social · 1d

The "liberal media"

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TAT360 💕💚 @tat360.bsky.social · 1d

This is a problem! 😠😤😡🤬

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Dominion Voting Systems Sold to Former GOP Official, Rebranded as Liberty Vote

Dominion Voting Systems, the company once accused by Trump supporters of rigging the 2020 election, has officially been sold and rebranded under new leadership. The new owner? A former GOP election of...

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ItsVic @vcla85.bsky.social · 1d

I have to say that Agolf Shitler is a great name

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ItsVic @vcla85.bsky.social · 1d

This was the message they sent to the people who attacked police officers with the American flag and also tried to kill Mike Pence:

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ItsVic @vcla85.bsky.social · 1d

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ItsVic @vcla85.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans can lie on camera to everyone's face because American media just lets them do it. This is one of the reasons most people don't know what's going on.

No pushback. No follow up questions. Zero curiosity. They just repeat whatever the GOP say and move on. End of story.

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