Russ Setzekorn
@1rustywriter.bsky.social
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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
February 12, 2026 at 5:31 PM
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
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MAP: All 23 industrial warehouses ICE wants to turn into detention ‘death camps’ couriernewsroom.com/news/map-ice...
MAP: All 23 industrial warehouses ICE wants to turn into detention ‘death camps’
In an apparent attempt to avoid public outcry and scrutiny, ICE has sought to secure these leases in private. So we made a searchable map of every proposed site.
couriernewsroom.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:32 PM
MAP: All 23 industrial warehouses ICE wants to turn into detention ‘death camps’ couriernewsroom.com/news/map-ice...
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Not only is this what you would do if you were trying to kill a technology and a company developing it ….
it's what you would do if you were trying to kill *people*.
it's what you would do if you were trying to kill *people*.
February 12, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Not only is this what you would do if you were trying to kill a technology and a company developing it ….
it's what you would do if you were trying to kill *people*.
it's what you would do if you were trying to kill *people*.
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2026 America hitting me in the gut: I just typed "liberate the camps" when giving guidance about what to demand of your electeds when you call Congress.
Congressional Switchboard:
202-224-3121
Liberate the camps.
Jesus.
Congressional Switchboard:
202-224-3121
Liberate the camps.
Jesus.
February 11, 2026 at 4:49 AM
2026 America hitting me in the gut: I just typed "liberate the camps" when giving guidance about what to demand of your electeds when you call Congress.
Congressional Switchboard:
202-224-3121
Liberate the camps.
Jesus.
Congressional Switchboard:
202-224-3121
Liberate the camps.
Jesus.
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Chris Murphy: "I sat with the kids for an hour. They saw things in these prisons they'll never forget. The bottom line is we have a constitutional obligation to only fund an administration that's operating lawfully. We cannot, we should not fund DHS if it committing these crimes."
February 11, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Chris Murphy: "I sat with the kids for an hour. They saw things in these prisons they'll never forget. The bottom line is we have a constitutional obligation to only fund an administration that's operating lawfully. We cannot, we should not fund DHS if it committing these crimes."
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The Trump-backed Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or the SAVE America Act, seeks to address the president's longstanding demands to "fix" U.S. elections that he says are "rigged" and "stolen," despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud. https://to.pbs.org/4bKG2F7
How the SAVE America Act could make major changes to voting
Ahead of the midterm elections, Republicans are again pushing for legislation that requires documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to vote.
to.pbs.org
February 11, 2026 at 3:04 PM
The Trump-backed Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or the SAVE America Act, seeks to address the president's longstanding demands to "fix" U.S. elections that he says are "rigged" and "stolen," despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud. https://to.pbs.org/4bKG2F7
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Two Palestinians on bicycles were killed in an Israeli drone strike on Tuesday, hospital officials said, marking the latest deaths since an October ceasefire that hasn't halted deadly attacks in the Gaza Strip. https://to.pbs.org/3O7HyHG
Israeli drone strike kills 2 cyclists in Gaza, hospital says, as death toll mounts despite ceasefire
Gaza health authorities say 586 Palestinians have been killed since the truce took effect, bringing the war's overall toll to more than 72,000.
www.pbs.org
February 10, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Two Palestinians on bicycles were killed in an Israeli drone strike on Tuesday, hospital officials said, marking the latest deaths since an October ceasefire that hasn't halted deadly attacks in the Gaza Strip. https://to.pbs.org/3O7HyHG
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BREAKING: New Image that Epstein sent himself confirms that in 2015, Epstein went to dinner with Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.
Why the hell was he invited to dinner with these three men, being that he basically plead guilty to being a p-do in 2008?
Why the hell was he invited to dinner with these three men, being that he basically plead guilty to being a p-do in 2008?
February 7, 2026 at 5:25 PM
BREAKING: New Image that Epstein sent himself confirms that in 2015, Epstein went to dinner with Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.
Why the hell was he invited to dinner with these three men, being that he basically plead guilty to being a p-do in 2008?
Why the hell was he invited to dinner with these three men, being that he basically plead guilty to being a p-do in 2008?
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We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch
A massive warehouse in Tremont. Pa. that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in an $119 million ICE deal.
www.inquirer.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:26 PM
We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
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Russia’s full-scale invasion began 4 years ago. It began in winter, and so this winter is the 5th. And, for civilians, the worst. Russia launches missiles and drones at energy infrastructure to force Ukrainians to endure the freezing cold. Here's how you can help
snyder.substack.com/p/the-long-u...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-long-u...
The Long Ukrainian Winter
How You Can Help
snyder.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Russia’s full-scale invasion began 4 years ago. It began in winter, and so this winter is the 5th. And, for civilians, the worst. Russia launches missiles and drones at energy infrastructure to force Ukrainians to endure the freezing cold. Here's how you can help
snyder.substack.com/p/the-long-u...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-long-u...
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A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
February 4, 2026 at 5:07 PM
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
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Truly Stasi-like. What would you say if you saw it in another country?
February 3, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Truly Stasi-like. What would you say if you saw it in another country?
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Sen Chris Murphy: A UAE investor secretly gave Trump 187 million dollars and his top Middle East envoy 31 million dollars. And then Trump gave that investor access to sensitive defense technology that broke decades of national security precedent
February 3, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Sen Chris Murphy: A UAE investor secretly gave Trump 187 million dollars and his top Middle East envoy 31 million dollars. And then Trump gave that investor access to sensitive defense technology that broke decades of national security precedent
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Trump Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche signaled on Fox News that the DOJ will not pursue ANY new charges of ANY individuals involved with Jeffrey Epstein. This is the definition of pedophile protectors. Don't let them sweep this under the rug.
February 3, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Trump Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche signaled on Fox News that the DOJ will not pursue ANY new charges of ANY individuals involved with Jeffrey Epstein. This is the definition of pedophile protectors. Don't let them sweep this under the rug.
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Three rules in FBI firearm training:
1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot
Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot
Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Three rules in FBI firearm training:
1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot
Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot
Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
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The report is shocking in its detail and its implication that Vladimir Putin has basically owned Donald Trump for years, even before Trump ran for president in 2016.
https://flip.it/kdlrUK
https://flip.it/kdlrUK
Staggering evidence trove shows who put Trump in the White House -- and controls him still
The British newspaper Daily Mail is out with a deeply researched investigative report, the result of a long collaboration between columnists Glen Owen and Dan Hodges, along with Mark Hookham (Assistant Editor Investigations), and Daisy Graham-Brown (In...
flip.it
February 3, 2026 at 5:40 PM
The report is shocking in its detail and its implication that Vladimir Putin has basically owned Donald Trump for years, even before Trump ran for president in 2016.
https://flip.it/kdlrUK
https://flip.it/kdlrUK
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Today, 2/3/2026, ICE in MN aimed their weapons at legal observers. Why? Allegedly, (per the video @ 1:11) the observers held their fingers up in a motion and ICE was scared.
#ProudBlue
#DefundICE
📹: Ford Fischer/News2Share
#ProudBlue
#DefundICE
📹: Ford Fischer/News2Share
February 3, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Today, 2/3/2026, ICE in MN aimed their weapons at legal observers. Why? Allegedly, (per the video @ 1:11) the observers held their fingers up in a motion and ICE was scared.
#ProudBlue
#DefundICE
📹: Ford Fischer/News2Share
#ProudBlue
#DefundICE
📹: Ford Fischer/News2Share
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They want us working earlier and til we die to pay for their tax cuts for the rich. Supervillains.
February 3, 2026 at 4:15 AM
They want us working earlier and til we die to pay for their tax cuts for the rich. Supervillains.
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www.texastribune.org/2026/02/02/m...
(thread 1🧵)
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
DAY 2 FEBRUARY 2026
THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES
Two confirmed cases of MEASLES now at the horrendous detention center in DILLEY TEXAS
OVER 1100 detainees are housed there including MANY CHILDREN (see2🧵)
(thread 1🧵)
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
DAY 2 FEBRUARY 2026
THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES
Two confirmed cases of MEASLES now at the horrendous detention center in DILLEY TEXAS
OVER 1100 detainees are housed there including MANY CHILDREN (see2🧵)
Measles detected at Dilley immigrant family detention center
The cases come amid renewed nationwide scrutiny of the facility following the transfer there of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy who federal agents arrested along with his father in Minn...
www.texastribune.org
February 3, 2026 at 12:26 AM
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/02/m...
(thread 1🧵)
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
DAY 2 FEBRUARY 2026
THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES
Two confirmed cases of MEASLES now at the horrendous detention center in DILLEY TEXAS
OVER 1100 detainees are housed there including MANY CHILDREN (see2🧵)
(thread 1🧵)
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
DAY 2 FEBRUARY 2026
THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES
Two confirmed cases of MEASLES now at the horrendous detention center in DILLEY TEXAS
OVER 1100 detainees are housed there including MANY CHILDREN (see2🧵)
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Anyone with a heart and soul should agree that children and babies do not belong behind bars. Thousands of kids will carry a lifetime of trauma and PTSD, done in our name, funded by our tax dollars.
February 3, 2026 at 4:47 AM
Anyone with a heart and soul should agree that children and babies do not belong behind bars. Thousands of kids will carry a lifetime of trauma and PTSD, done in our name, funded by our tax dollars.
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In case you were wondering what joke Trevor Noah told at the Grammys that now has President Trump threatening to sue him…
February 2, 2026 at 4:26 PM
In case you were wondering what joke Trevor Noah told at the Grammys that now has President Trump threatening to sue him…
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ICE took custody of two children who attend the same Minnesota elementary school as Liam Ramos, the detained five-year-old, according to school officials.
Their mother was first taken into custody during a court appointment for her ongoing immigration case.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Their mother was first taken into custody during a court appointment for her ongoing immigration case.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE detains two more students from Liam Ramos’s school, officials say
The brothers’ mother was taken by ICE and Minnesota educators were forced to bring the children to her
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:32 PM
ICE took custody of two children who attend the same Minnesota elementary school as Liam Ramos, the detained five-year-old, according to school officials.
Their mother was first taken into custody during a court appointment for her ongoing immigration case.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Their mother was first taken into custody during a court appointment for her ongoing immigration case.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE Issues Ransom Note Demanding $65 Billion If U.S. Wants To See Minnesota Again
ICE Issues Ransom Note Demanding $65 Billion If U.S. Wants To See Minnesota Again
WASHINGTON—Claiming the nation’s beloved North Star State was in peril, Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a ransom note Tuesday that told the United States to pay $65 billion if it ever wante...
theonion.com
February 1, 2026 at 7:00 PM
ICE Issues Ransom Note Demanding $65 Billion If U.S. Wants To See Minnesota Again
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An interminable slog of airbrushed nothingness. A pernicious celebration of the "good immigrant" myth. A ghastly parade of fun-house mirror herstory,
The Melania movie is an American obscenity.
The Melania movie is an American obscenity.
The Melania movie is an American obscenity
The vapid, corruption-soaked film, which celebrates the myth of the "good immigrant," is more revelatory than it seems.
www.motherjones.com
February 1, 2026 at 6:48 PM
An interminable slog of airbrushed nothingness. A pernicious celebration of the "good immigrant" myth. A ghastly parade of fun-house mirror herstory,
The Melania movie is an American obscenity.
The Melania movie is an American obscenity.
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Trump says he had nothing to do with the Texas state Senate race despite endorsing the Republican candidate just a day earlier.
Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins a reliably Republican Texas state Senate seat, stunning GOP
Democrat Taylor Rehmet has won a special election for the Texas state Senate and flipped a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024.
bit.ly
February 1, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Trump says he had nothing to do with the Texas state Senate race despite endorsing the Republican candidate just a day earlier.