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Human-powered news feed defending your civil liberties and climate from oligarchs & fascists. Rants as necessary here already for quite a while.
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pftompkins.bsky.social
It’s so funny that this guy’s entire thing is “Oh are you triggered by what I have to say about marginalized people” but he loses it when someone more well-liked than he will ever be talks about an actual injustice
February 3, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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evangreer.bsky.social
It's so grim that ICE are out murdering and kidnapping and the Trump admin is like "yes this is great we're gonna do more of this and livestream it, let's get some camera crews out to film this."

and Democrats are like "OK but we need more money for body cameras if we're gonna keep funding this"
February 3, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets.

These are their stories:
What it's like to see ICE tear gas kids
Attendees at a Portland, OR protest describe a vicious, unprovoked and sudden attack
www.thehandbasket.co
February 3, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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jswatz.bsky.social
The Trump Justice Department is treating the Bill of Rights as if it's published in a looseleaf binder. Waiting to hear their demand to quarter ICE agents in our homes. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
U.S. Failed to Alert Judge to Press Law in Application to Search Reporter’s Home
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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webrant.bsky.social
"It's obvious that Antifa is our primary concern and the most immediate violent threat that we're facing."

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February 3, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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webrant.bsky.social
From the avatar to rejecting the evidence of your eyes and ears, his reality is barely a passable parody of Big Brother.

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February 3, 2026 at 3:12 AM
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ddayen.bsky.social
Republicans appear to be demanding that Democrats shut down all business in the Senate. OK.
Either the filibuster ends (and Democrats can pass an agenda when in power) or it doesn't (and enormous amounts of remaining time during the Republican majority will be wasted).
What's the downside?
sahilkapur.bsky.social Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 6h
A "standing filibuster"—also known as a "talking filibuster"—is the nuclear option Democrats attempted in 2022 to pass the Freedom To Vote Act, falling two votes short due to Sinema/Manchin. Senate Republicans vehemently opposed it and widely promised post-2024 they won't do it.
February 3, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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webrant.bsky.social
"Homeland" being their Nuremberg Rally recruited fascist excuse for the ethnic cleansing from its start.

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February 3, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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acyn.bsky.social
AOC: Why haven’t so many people been prosecuted? Why are Pam Bondi and the DOJ continuing to hide the majority of the Epstein files, which they admit contain even more direct evidence of genuinely shocking crimes and abuse of women, minors, and increasingly men…
February 3, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Odds are decent it only makes things worse for him.
internethippo.bsky.social Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12h
I fully believe Trump will smash the authoritarianism button harder and harder as he feels the midterms wipe out approaching, I'm less sure that doing so will prevent or mitigate said wipe out
February 3, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
citizensnippy.bsky.social Citizen Snippy △ @citizensnippy.bsky.social · 8h
Yes, Peter decided that the continued existence of our democracies isn't compatible with his desired level of personal freedom.

An absolute enemy of humanity.
"I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." - Peter Thiel
February 3, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Simply incredible
“Update on the Peter Attia situation: We're hearing there is a battle royale between Paramount corporate and CBS News' Bari Weiss. She does not want to cut ties w/ Attia and sees it as givin in to the mob. Paramount sees it as an HR matter and that Attia can't give expert advice”
February 3, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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webrant.bsky.social
Funny how the party that has too many people voting for it also has to "stuff ballot boxes with fake ballot boxes" at least in the very dim mind of Florida fascist Fine.

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atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
Rep. Randy Fine on Dem opposition to the SAVE Act: "If you make sure they can't stuff ballot boxes with fake ballot boxes, they lose. So this is the reason they're against it. They can't win honestly. They have to win through cheating."
February 3, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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wajali.bsky.social
I've called them a pro death cult for years for a reason. Just listen to them. Modern day eugenicists.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Dr Oz on rural healthcare: "There's no question about it, whether you want it or not -- the best way to help some of these communities is gonna be AI-based avatars"
February 3, 2026 at 1:23 AM
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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
Sure would be cool if Congress could do or say literally anything about this
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kenklippenstein.bsky.social Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 7h
🚨 Documents leaked to me reveal a federal watchlist of American protesters suspected of being Antifa - including its supposed leader.

One Department of Homeland Security document says a 29-year-old resident of Portland "is the leader of Antifa":
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-ident...
Feds Identify “Leader of Antifa”
The list they're creating says so, anyway
www.kenklippenstein.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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webrant.bsky.social
Actually, it absolutely was a crime.

Many crimes.

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February 3, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social
February 3, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Robocop was not supposed to be aspirational.
Dearborn police launch first-of-its-kind real-time crime-fighting system with drones and integrated cameras
The Dearborn Police Department has become the first in Michigan to deploy FUSUS, a state-of-the-art real-time crime-monitoring system that integrates thousands of cameras with drones to fight crime.
www.wxyz.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Jumping to the end, Judge Reyes summarizes why she is blocking the termination of Haitian TPS for now, making clear that Secretary Noem had to follow the law and the facts, and having neither, chose instead to "pound X" with an irrelevant screed about immigrant killers.
VII. CONCLUSION There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. Secretary Noem, the record to-date shows, does not have the facts on her side—or at least has ignored them. Does not have the law on her side—or at least has ignored it. Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, she pounds X (f/k/a Twitter). Kristi Noem has a First Amendment right to call immigrants killers, leeches, entitlement junkies, and any other inapt name she wants. Secretary Noem, however, is constrained by both our Constitution and the APA to apply faithfully the facts to the law in implementing the TPS program. The record to-date shows she has yet to do that. By accompanying Order, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs’ Renewed Motion for a Stay Under 5 U.S.C. § 705. Date: February 2, 2026 ANA C. REYES United States District Judge
February 3, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
At the conclusion of her introduction Judge Reyes emphasizes what's really at stake here:

"Secretary Noem complains of strains unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959 lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight."
Finally, the balance of equities and public interest favor a stay. The Government does not cite any reason termination must occur post haste. Secretary Noem complains of strains unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959 lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight. She complains of strains to our economy. Her answer? Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable. She complains of strains to our healthcare system. Her answer? Turn the insured into the uninsured. This approach is many things—in the public interest is not one of them. For the reasons below, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs’ Renewed Motion for a Stay Under 5 U.S.C. § 705, Dkt. 81.
February 3, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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webrant.bsky.social
Oh, it was definitely preordained" and based on someone's general "hostility to nonwhite immigrants."

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February 3, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Judge Reyes begins by explaining who the plaintiffs are: not "killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies" as Kristi Noem suggested.

They are a neuroscientist, a software engineer, a laboratory assistant, a registered nurse, and an economics major. All were facing deportation.
Plaintiffs are five Haitian TPS holders. They are not, it emerges, “killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies.” They are instead: Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer’s disease, Dkt. 90 (Second Am. Compl. (SAC)) ¶ 1; Rudolph Civil, a software engineer at a national bank, id. ¶ 2; Marlene Gail Noble, a laboratory assistant in a toxicology department, id. ¶ 3; Marica Merline Laguerre, a college economics major, id. ¶ 4; and Vilbrun Dorsainvil, a full-time registered nurse, id. ¶ 5. They claim that Secretary Noem’s decision violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. § 706(2), and the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Government counters that the Court does not have jurisdiction, and, in any case, the Secretary did not violate the law.
February 3, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
It's a great opinion by Judge Ana Reyes (and sound on the law—Noem was too busy posting to follow even the basics of the statute). Worth a read, and don't skip the footnotes.
Alexander Moritz Frey was the first to use “shithole” as a descriptor of a “wretched place,” doing so in his seminal antiwar novel, The Cross Bearers (1930). See Shithole, Oxford English Dictionary, https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=shithole. Frey’s life story confirms the role democracies can play in welcoming, as George Washington did, “the oppressed and persecuted.” Frey, a prolific author and pacifist, served as a medic in the trenches of World War I alongside Adolf Hitler. Hitler later tried to convert him to Nazism, but Frey staunchly refused. He fled Germany in 1933, as Nazis burned his books, raided his apartment, and issued a warrant for his arrest. He lived his remaining years in exile, first in Austria and then in Switzerland. See Von David Gordon Smith, Eye-Witness Account of Hitler’s WWI Years Found, Spiegel International (April 30, 2007), https://www.spiegel.de/ international/zeitgeist/ rediscovering-alexander-moritz-frey-eye-witness-account-of-hitler-s-wwiyears-found-a-478359.html [https://perma.cc/RU49-2Y4U].
February 3, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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murshedz.bsky.social
IMPORTANT ▶️ As powerful as decision Judge Reyes wrote eviscerating Noem's attempt to terminate TPS 4 Haitian immigrants, it will crucial to build public support of her ruling based on laws and facts - bc Roberts & the MAGA #SCOTUS will attempt to do their part to help Trump/Noem & President Miller.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7h
Right at the top, Judge Reyes lays out her official findings, after reviewing the evidence. She says it is "substantially likely" that Secretary Noem's decision to end Haitian TPS was "preordained" and based on Secretary Noem's general "hostility to nonwhite immigrants."
Plaintiffs charge that Secretary Noem preordained her termination decision and did so because of hostility to nonwhite immigrants. This seems substantially likely. Secretary Noem has terminated every TPS country designation to have reached her desk—twelve countries up, twelve countries down. See Section IV.A.2. Her conclusion that Haiti (a majority nonwhite country) faces merely “concerning” conditions cannot be squared with the “perfect storm of suffering” and “staggering” “humanitarian toll” described in page-after-page of the Certified Administrative Record (CAR). See Section IV.A.3.a. She ignored Congress’s requirement that she “review the conditions” in Haiti only “after” consulting “with appropriate agencies.” 8 U.S.C. § 1254a(b)(3)(A); see Section IV.A.1. Indeed, she did not consult other agencies at all. See id. Her “national interest” analysis focuses on Haitians outside the United States or here illegally, ignoring that Haitian TPS holders already live here, and legally so. See Section IV.A.3.b. And though she states that the analysis must include “economic considerations,” she ignores altogether the billions Haitian TPS holders contribute to the economy. See id.
February 3, 2026 at 1:07 AM