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Wait hold on someone's reading this?
Formerly @aspirational_no over on twitter. That is a he/him tower viewer.
Formerly @aspirational_no over on twitter. That is a he/him tower viewer.
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@weaselproof.bsky.social
· Nov 14
It looks like the bluesky folks are too busy kicking the servers back to life so I'll do a bit of work for them
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DHS has a whole citizen detainment system set up in Minnesota. They snatch citizens off the street (often with proof they are citizens), detain them for a few hours, steal their phones, then release them into the cold.
It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.
It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.
‘Abolish ICE’ has become an increasingly popular position and people are being shot in the streets over it why the fuck would you dillweeds roll over like this. Especially given that citizenship is much more friable than people think it is this is not as protective as dems want it to look.
January 30, 2026 at 1:43 AM
DHS has a whole citizen detainment system set up in Minnesota. They snatch citizens off the street (often with proof they are citizens), detain them for a few hours, steal their phones, then release them into the cold.
It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.
It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.
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And I'm not here to give Haaretz props or not or what. Just where I saw it.
This horror is happening, it's fucking real, all the government enforcement systems are aiding & abetting it, & it is also true that there is not nobody saying anything, & also it's not enough. It's all true.
This horror is happening, it's fucking real, all the government enforcement systems are aiding & abetting it, & it is also true that there is not nobody saying anything, & also it's not enough. It's all true.
‘We are reliving the Nakba’: A Palestinian community says it’s being erased as Israeli settler violence intensifies | CNN
Suleiman Ghawanmeh is tired of talking. For over 10 years, he talked himself hoarse until he realized his words could not save his community from being driven out. After his final appeal for help came...
www.cnn.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:39 AM
And I'm not here to give Haaretz props or not or what. Just where I saw it.
This horror is happening, it's fucking real, all the government enforcement systems are aiding & abetting it, & it is also true that there is not nobody saying anything, & also it's not enough. It's all true.
This horror is happening, it's fucking real, all the government enforcement systems are aiding & abetting it, & it is also true that there is not nobody saying anything, & also it's not enough. It's all true.
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there is a specific tic in the way that centrist Dems address law enforcement:
they don’t understand that the interaction with police *is* the harm. they think a show your papers situation is neutral as long as you leave walking, but police interaction is itself traumatic. It’s terrifying.
they don’t understand that the interaction with police *is* the harm. they think a show your papers situation is neutral as long as you leave walking, but police interaction is itself traumatic. It’s terrifying.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand a ban on the deportation of American citizens as a condition of winning their support for legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Jeffries demands ban on deportation of US citizens as part of DHS reforms
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand a ban on the deportation of American citizens as a condition of winning their support for legislation fun…
www.kget.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:24 AM
there is a specific tic in the way that centrist Dems address law enforcement:
they don’t understand that the interaction with police *is* the harm. they think a show your papers situation is neutral as long as you leave walking, but police interaction is itself traumatic. It’s terrifying.
they don’t understand that the interaction with police *is* the harm. they think a show your papers situation is neutral as long as you leave walking, but police interaction is itself traumatic. It’s terrifying.
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"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 3:32 PM
"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
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I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:31 PM
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Immigrant rights groups vow to keep calling on New Jersey officials to restrict assistance with ICE, despite a recent setback. “ICE is already here, kidnapping people, and we can’t obey in advance out of fear of what Trump might do,” said an advocate.
On His Way Out, New Jersey Governor Vetoes Legislation to Bar Local Assistance to ICE
Phil Murphy killed a bill meant to codify restrictions on how sheriffs and police can partner with ICE. Some restrictions remain in place, for now, due to an attorney general directive.
boltsmag.org
January 29, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Immigrant rights groups vow to keep calling on New Jersey officials to restrict assistance with ICE, despite a recent setback. “ICE is already here, kidnapping people, and we can’t obey in advance out of fear of what Trump might do,” said an advocate.
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our country's political window shifting as far right as it has is due entirely to a repeated process of Republicans doing things they aren't allowed to do and Democrats responding not with sanctions but a repeated demand that Republicans knock it off, already.
it's how Roe v Wade got overturned!
it's how Roe v Wade got overturned!
Jeffries: "We believe there should be a prohibition on ICE deporting or detaining American citizens. We believe that ICE should conduct itself like every other law enforcement agency in the country. We believe ICE shouldn't run around with masks ... "
January 29, 2026 at 9:53 PM
our country's political window shifting as far right as it has is due entirely to a repeated process of Republicans doing things they aren't allowed to do and Democrats responding not with sanctions but a repeated demand that Republicans knock it off, already.
it's how Roe v Wade got overturned!
it's how Roe v Wade got overturned!
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The number of children in ICE detention on a given day has skyrocketed, jumping more than sixfold since the start of the second Trump administration. We analyzed data obtained by the Deportation Data Project and found that ICE held around 170 children on an average day under Trump.
Children in ICE Detention Skyrocket in Trump’s Second Term
With a six-fold jump in children in detention, advocates allege harrowing conditions are putting kids’ lives at risk.
www.themarshallproject.org
January 29, 2026 at 9:19 PM
The number of children in ICE detention on a given day has skyrocketed, jumping more than sixfold since the start of the second Trump administration. We analyzed data obtained by the Deportation Data Project and found that ICE held around 170 children on an average day under Trump.
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New at Can We Still Govern: Here is one thing I wish more people understood about government. There is a lot of rent-seeking by private vendors in our social safety net. Trump's policies will make this worse.
@lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...
@lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...
The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
The vendors getting rich from putting administrative burdens on the poor
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:07 PM
New at Can We Still Govern: Here is one thing I wish more people understood about government. There is a lot of rent-seeking by private vendors in our social safety net. Trump's policies will make this worse.
@lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...
@lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...
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I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one.
It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.
It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.
January 28, 2026 at 7:52 PM
I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one.
It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.
It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.
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Hey guys today I'm going to show you how to install uBlock on your Neuralink to block the Melania documentary ads that have been constantly playing in our brains for the past few days. So first you're going to want to make sure your drill is charged,
January 29, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Hey guys today I'm going to show you how to install uBlock on your Neuralink to block the Melania documentary ads that have been constantly playing in our brains for the past few days. So first you're going to want to make sure your drill is charged,
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Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
www.pressherald.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
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when they tell you to go back to writing about gadgets www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
Best gas masks
“How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.
www.theverge.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:29 PM
when they tell you to go back to writing about gadgets www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
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i've been watching the coyote on Alcatraz's progress with great interest. a week-ish ago, a coyote SWAM to Alcatraz for the first time and looked fuckin rough after the dangerous swim. but the coyote is doing fine now, gorging itself on unprepared birds & rats who are dealing with a sort of Godzilla
January 29, 2026 at 4:50 PM
i've been watching the coyote on Alcatraz's progress with great interest. a week-ish ago, a coyote SWAM to Alcatraz for the first time and looked fuckin rough after the dangerous swim. but the coyote is doing fine now, gorging itself on unprepared birds & rats who are dealing with a sort of Godzilla
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2022: Massachusetts enacts a 4% tax on millionaires. Critics predict catastrophe.
2026: MA sees 39%⬆️ in number of millionaires, $5B⬆️ in new revenue, & MA is bottom 10 in poverty.
Taxing the wealthy creates more wealth. Taxing working people creates more poverty: www.qasimrashid.com/p/fixing-the...
2026: MA sees 39%⬆️ in number of millionaires, $5B⬆️ in new revenue, & MA is bottom 10 in poverty.
Taxing the wealthy creates more wealth. Taxing working people creates more poverty: www.qasimrashid.com/p/fixing-the...
Fixing the $12 Billion Lie
How Mayor Mamdani Plans to Fix NYC's Existential Budget Crisis—And Why It Affects Every Single American Nationwide
www.qasimrashid.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:20 PM
2022: Massachusetts enacts a 4% tax on millionaires. Critics predict catastrophe.
2026: MA sees 39%⬆️ in number of millionaires, $5B⬆️ in new revenue, & MA is bottom 10 in poverty.
Taxing the wealthy creates more wealth. Taxing working people creates more poverty: www.qasimrashid.com/p/fixing-the...
2026: MA sees 39%⬆️ in number of millionaires, $5B⬆️ in new revenue, & MA is bottom 10 in poverty.
Taxing the wealthy creates more wealth. Taxing working people creates more poverty: www.qasimrashid.com/p/fixing-the...
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i’m sorry but if you’ve been paying attention to democratic politics at all at any point in time in the last 15 years, and still cannot spot this move, which they go to constantly, you’re either a mark or in on it and think we are all marks. i’m tired of these people and their bullshit. aren’t you?
January 29, 2026 at 12:54 PM
i’m sorry but if you’ve been paying attention to democratic politics at all at any point in time in the last 15 years, and still cannot spot this move, which they go to constantly, you’re either a mark or in on it and think we are all marks. i’m tired of these people and their bullshit. aren’t you?
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In the 1800s mainstream newspapers regularly propagandized and justified lynchings by publicizing perceived crimes of victims
More than a week before federal agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, different agents pushed him to the ground after he spit at them and broke a taillight on their SUV, according to newly unearthed videos. Watch here.
Videos Show Alex Pretti in Confrontation With Agents 11 Days Before His Death
More than a week before federal agents killed Mr. Pretti, a Minneapolis nurse, different agents pushed him to the ground after he spit at them and broke a taillight on their S.U.V.
nyti.ms
January 29, 2026 at 1:10 PM
In the 1800s mainstream newspapers regularly propagandized and justified lynchings by publicizing perceived crimes of victims
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Hakeem Jeffries has told House Democrats not to go to Minnesota
January 29, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Hakeem Jeffries has told House Democrats not to go to Minnesota
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There really seems to be a lot of kayfabe happening right now. Trump is pretending to de-escalate to placate Dems so they don't demand reform, and Dems are making up fake reforms so they can pretend like they made changes while they vote to fund DHS.
January 29, 2026 at 1:26 PM
There really seems to be a lot of kayfabe happening right now. Trump is pretending to de-escalate to placate Dems so they don't demand reform, and Dems are making up fake reforms so they can pretend like they made changes while they vote to fund DHS.
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What makes this so insane is by definition, you don’t need to ever appeal to the “I will always vote for the lesser evil” group. They’ll always vote for you! Democrats refuse to move left because they say it will cost them votes from… The people they just said will vote for them no matter what! Huh?
This is exactly why alienating young people and progressives is a losing strategy for democrats.
If you want to win, don’t try to force people to make this choice! Be better. Work to move the needle rather than compromising with Nazis!
If you want to win, don’t try to force people to make this choice! Be better. Work to move the needle rather than compromising with Nazis!
January 29, 2026 at 1:17 PM
What makes this so insane is by definition, you don’t need to ever appeal to the “I will always vote for the lesser evil” group. They’ll always vote for you! Democrats refuse to move left because they say it will cost them votes from… The people they just said will vote for them no matter what! Huh?
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“This Is a Warning”: ICE Agents Follow Protesters Home newrepublic.com/post/205759/... via @newrepublic.com
“This Is a Warning”: ICE Agents Follow Protesters Home
In Maine and elsewhere, federal immigration agents are trying to scare people out of resisting.
newrepublic.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:33 PM
“This Is a Warning”: ICE Agents Follow Protesters Home newrepublic.com/post/205759/... via @newrepublic.com
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This has become a regular thing. Trump's account posts as if he's dysregulating into delirium all night, and we get no reporting on what this even looks like inside the White House. Unchecked madness and propaganda at levels history won't even be able to process.
Sleepless Trump, 79, Launches Manic 6AM Post-a-Minute Rampage
The perennially online president started out his Thursday with a bombardment of posts that sometimes came just seconds apart.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:40 PM
This has become a regular thing. Trump's account posts as if he's dysregulating into delirium all night, and we get no reporting on what this even looks like inside the White House. Unchecked madness and propaganda at levels history won't even be able to process.
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be wary of people whose Opsec advice is "don't go anywhere or do anything unless you've spent dozens of hours and thousands of dollars taking preventative actions to protect yourself"
January 28, 2026 at 11:30 PM
be wary of people whose Opsec advice is "don't go anywhere or do anything unless you've spent dozens of hours and thousands of dollars taking preventative actions to protect yourself"
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masking by ICE et al is neither the step too far nor enabling condition.
enabling condition for widespread masking is a fascist occupational regime utilizing a largely pre-existing police state apparatus.
“too far” was early, eg tossed Bill of Rights, sent people to death camps (CECOT), etc
masking by ICE et al is neither the step too far nor enabling condition.
enabling condition for widespread masking is a fascist occupational regime utilizing a largely pre-existing police state apparatus.
“too far” was early, eg tossed Bill of Rights, sent people to death camps (CECOT), etc
January 29, 2026 at 2:50 AM
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masking by ICE et al is neither the step too far nor enabling condition.
enabling condition for widespread masking is a fascist occupational regime utilizing a largely pre-existing police state apparatus.
“too far” was early, eg tossed Bill of Rights, sent people to death camps (CECOT), etc
masking by ICE et al is neither the step too far nor enabling condition.
enabling condition for widespread masking is a fascist occupational regime utilizing a largely pre-existing police state apparatus.
“too far” was early, eg tossed Bill of Rights, sent people to death camps (CECOT), etc