Adam Iam
@adam-selene.bsky.social
Game designer. Liberal and proud. Blue Dog: gun owner and straight shooter. Not happy with the US becoming a fully compliant subsidiary of Putin, Inc.
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From @apnews.com realtime coverage: "US athletes cheered, JD Vance booed" apnews.com/live/milan-c...
February 7, 2026 at 1:21 AM
From @apnews.com realtime coverage: "US athletes cheered, JD Vance booed" apnews.com/live/milan-c...
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So about TrumpRx: We crunched the numbers today and about half of the drugs on there have cheaper generics available already. www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/t...
February 6, 2026 at 11:09 PM
So about TrumpRx: We crunched the numbers today and about half of the drugs on there have cheaper generics available already. www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/t...
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I am not laying off the Washington Post's sportswriters. All of them have the option to take a new job as publicists for the Melania documentary.
by Jeff Bezos
by Jeff Bezos
February 5, 2026 at 5:57 PM
I am not laying off the Washington Post's sportswriters. All of them have the option to take a new job as publicists for the Melania documentary.
by Jeff Bezos
by Jeff Bezos
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Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963.
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
mississippitoday.org
February 5, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963.
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
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Imagine if four years into our war in Iraq we had only occupied 20 percent of it and lost 1.2 million men. Would anyone say the US is winning?
No? Then how in the hell can you say Russia is winning?!
No? Then how in the hell can you say Russia is winning?!
February 5, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Imagine if four years into our war in Iraq we had only occupied 20 percent of it and lost 1.2 million men. Would anyone say the US is winning?
No? Then how in the hell can you say Russia is winning?!
No? Then how in the hell can you say Russia is winning?!
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Updating the @prospect.org tracker of people immigration agents have killed or caused to die and I'm heartbroken to say that we have sixteen more entries. SIXTEEN.
Our total is now 24 deaths since January 2025 -- not counting the dozens who died in custody.
Our total is now 24 deaths since January 2025 -- not counting the dozens who died in custody.
February 5, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Updating the @prospect.org tracker of people immigration agents have killed or caused to die and I'm heartbroken to say that we have sixteen more entries. SIXTEEN.
Our total is now 24 deaths since January 2025 -- not counting the dozens who died in custody.
Our total is now 24 deaths since January 2025 -- not counting the dozens who died in custody.
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Defense attorneys say law enforcement obtained "30 days" of camera images of Marimar Martinez's car all over Chicago.
"They presumably wanted to be able to show her driving from the dynamite factory … to the suicide vest store."
They say she was likely caught going to Target, instead.
"They presumably wanted to be able to show her driving from the dynamite factory … to the suicide vest store."
They say she was likely caught going to Target, instead.
February 5, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Defense attorneys say law enforcement obtained "30 days" of camera images of Marimar Martinez's car all over Chicago.
"They presumably wanted to be able to show her driving from the dynamite factory … to the suicide vest store."
They say she was likely caught going to Target, instead.
"They presumably wanted to be able to show her driving from the dynamite factory … to the suicide vest store."
They say she was likely caught going to Target, instead.
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@ethanscorey.bsky.social and I have published a database of congressmembers who received donations from ICE profiteers GEO Group, CoreCivic, and Management and Training Corporation. Look up your reps at @inthesetimes.com + @theappeal.org. inthesetimes.com/article/ice-....
February 5, 2026 at 7:32 PM
@ethanscorey.bsky.social and I have published a database of congressmembers who received donations from ICE profiteers GEO Group, CoreCivic, and Management and Training Corporation. Look up your reps at @inthesetimes.com + @theappeal.org. inthesetimes.com/article/ice-....
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I asked Ron Wyden what his cryptic letter to the CIA was all about. He wouldn't say.
"I wrote it for a specific reason. That’s all I can say.”
He did a similar thing before, in 2011, and illicit spy activities were later revealed by Edward Snowden
www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-wy...
"I wrote it for a specific reason. That’s all I can say.”
He did a similar thing before, in 2011, and illicit spy activities were later revealed by Edward Snowden
www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-wy...
Democratic Senators Give Cryptic Warning About CIA Activities
Ron Wyden has previously warned about spy abuses before they were public. Now he and Mark Warner say something else is up.
www.huffpost.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:54 PM
I asked Ron Wyden what his cryptic letter to the CIA was all about. He wouldn't say.
"I wrote it for a specific reason. That’s all I can say.”
He did a similar thing before, in 2011, and illicit spy activities were later revealed by Edward Snowden
www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-wy...
"I wrote it for a specific reason. That’s all I can say.”
He did a similar thing before, in 2011, and illicit spy activities were later revealed by Edward Snowden
www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-wy...
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
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Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
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Every American needs to watch this:
February 5, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Every American needs to watch this:
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A few scoops in this one @dell.bsky.social and @regret.bsky.social on Mobile Fortify, ICE's face recognition app.
• Not built to confirm identities, just possible matches
• Only approved after DHS blew up its centralized privacy review process
• Feeds a few databases that store info for 15+ years
• Not built to confirm identities, just possible matches
• Only approved after DHS blew up its centralized privacy review process
• Feeds a few databases that store info for 15+ years
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...
www.wired.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:41 PM
A few scoops in this one @dell.bsky.social and @regret.bsky.social on Mobile Fortify, ICE's face recognition app.
• Not built to confirm identities, just possible matches
• Only approved after DHS blew up its centralized privacy review process
• Feeds a few databases that store info for 15+ years
• Not built to confirm identities, just possible matches
• Only approved after DHS blew up its centralized privacy review process
• Feeds a few databases that store info for 15+ years
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Here's what Republicans think is "unrealistic"
1) Need a judicial warrant to enter private property
2) Require verification that someone is not a US citizen before sending them to immigration detention
3) No masks
4) No secret police: Officers must have ID
5) Keep enforcement away from
1) Need a judicial warrant to enter private property
2) Require verification that someone is not a US citizen before sending them to immigration detention
3) No masks
4) No secret police: Officers must have ID
5) Keep enforcement away from
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Security will shut down next week if they do not work with Republicans and the White House.
Homeland Security shutdown grows more likely as Republicans rebuff Democratic demands for ICE
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Secu…
trib.al
February 5, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Here's what Republicans think is "unrealistic"
1) Need a judicial warrant to enter private property
2) Require verification that someone is not a US citizen before sending them to immigration detention
3) No masks
4) No secret police: Officers must have ID
5) Keep enforcement away from
1) Need a judicial warrant to enter private property
2) Require verification that someone is not a US citizen before sending them to immigration detention
3) No masks
4) No secret police: Officers must have ID
5) Keep enforcement away from
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‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
![…
25. This Cibola jail was horrible. It was cramped. I was chained up again.
The officers mocked
me and called me their enemy. They laughed at me. I was kept at the jail for what felt like around three hours. I wasn't given an explanation for why I was there.
26. Security
guards then put me on a bus. I think it was around January 27.
No one said
anything about where I was going. I was handcuffed. It felt like the middle of the night. It was freezing cold in the bus because the driver had the AC on. We had no jackets. The bus eventually took me back to El Paso in the carly morning of Tuesday, January 27th.
27. I was put in a cold cell where I had to sleep on the bare cement floor. Around 10 in the morning my cellmate asked to speak to an ICE officer. Three officers came into the cell so I had a chance to speak to them too. One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." She told me that if I fought my case, I would spend two to three more months here in El Paso. She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota. If I hadn't managed to talk to my attorney who told me a while back that I was ordered released. I might have given up at this point and signed the self-deportation forms because the conditions were so unbearable.
…
30. When I was taken back to the detention center from the airport, after missing the flight, I overheard an ICE officer saying in English, "the judge in Minnesota wants this one back." I was put in a cold jail cell again until early next morning (January 28). But again no one had told me directly that a judge had ordered my release
…
32. When I arrived in Minneapolis, I was handed off to ICE
… I had to sign lots of papers saying that I wasn't going to be a part of any "groups." I didn't know what they meant by "groups." They never told me why I was detained](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5cn3kbi4g5blrtahon34xbu4/bafkreiccqxmfncofjqinoveiqscwale2ox5xpiqt46veqjdh3jmimkrxhq@jpeg)
February 5, 2026 at 6:04 AM
‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
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This is just a guess, but maybe the rise in dramatic prose from district court judges is partly due to a growing belief among those judges that it's pointless to try to persuade SCOTUS and they must therefore focus on other potential audiences.
February 3, 2026 at 2:04 PM
This is just a guess, but maybe the rise in dramatic prose from district court judges is partly due to a growing belief among those judges that it's pointless to try to persuade SCOTUS and they must therefore focus on other potential audiences.
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Maybe a dollop of good news today? Here's my newsletter about this week in the Resistance. Includes some awesome judicial verdicts. www.headsupnews.org/p/nimby-but-...
NIMBY, but for concentration camps
ICE is getting major pushback as it tries to buy massive warehouses for people
www.headsupnews.org
February 4, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Maybe a dollop of good news today? Here's my newsletter about this week in the Resistance. Includes some awesome judicial verdicts. www.headsupnews.org/p/nimby-but-...
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You may not have heard, but it’s important. Dems are holding shadow hearings on ICE crimes. Witnesses provided harrowing and explosive accounts yesterday. I provide some highlights from the day, and I urge everyone to watch and amplify them. Link in the replies.
February 4, 2026 at 6:11 PM
You may not have heard, but it’s important. Dems are holding shadow hearings on ICE crimes. Witnesses provided harrowing and explosive accounts yesterday. I provide some highlights from the day, and I urge everyone to watch and amplify them. Link in the replies.
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A Ron Wyden specialty: sending a letter in public that reveals he's seen some really bad classified shit that he wants an explanation for.
February 4, 2026 at 9:29 PM
A Ron Wyden specialty: sending a letter in public that reveals he's seen some really bad classified shit that he wants an explanation for.
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"We have created a monster rampaging through the heart of our democracy and are trying to define and restrict which cities it can pillage and how many civilians it can eat."
The only acceptable answer is zero. Zero cities pillaged + zero civilians eaten
The only acceptable answer is zero. Zero cities pillaged + zero civilians eaten
Congress has a real chance right now to influence and change the trajectory of immigration enforcement in the US and arrest the use of ICE and CBP as a fascist secret presidential interior police.
Here's my research on what would make a difference: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-ways-t...
Here's my research on what would make a difference: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-ways-t...
Six Ways to Reform ICE and CBP
And why congressional "reform" isn't actually the real problem....
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 4, 2026 at 9:36 PM
"We have created a monster rampaging through the heart of our democracy and are trying to define and restrict which cities it can pillage and how many civilians it can eat."
The only acceptable answer is zero. Zero cities pillaged + zero civilians eaten
The only acceptable answer is zero. Zero cities pillaged + zero civilians eaten
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I keep arguing: there are 5 ways to fight fascism:
1) 3.5% in the streets
2) Peel off 8 Reps or 4 Sens
3) Rescue Trump catastrophe
4) Win in the courts
5) Win in November
If you've foresworn 2-5, fine. Then put everything into 1.
1) 3.5% in the streets
2) Peel off 8 Reps or 4 Sens
3) Rescue Trump catastrophe
4) Win in the courts
5) Win in November
If you've foresworn 2-5, fine. Then put everything into 1.
February 4, 2026 at 10:54 PM
I keep arguing: there are 5 ways to fight fascism:
1) 3.5% in the streets
2) Peel off 8 Reps or 4 Sens
3) Rescue Trump catastrophe
4) Win in the courts
5) Win in November
If you've foresworn 2-5, fine. Then put everything into 1.
1) 3.5% in the streets
2) Peel off 8 Reps or 4 Sens
3) Rescue Trump catastrophe
4) Win in the courts
5) Win in November
If you've foresworn 2-5, fine. Then put everything into 1.
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Great read. An ICE attorney working for DOJ temporarily explains that ICE has no clue how all of this "federal court" stuff works and makes clear that both ICE and DOJ were totally unprepared for the flood of habeases that were the inevitable result of the Minneapolis raids.
February 4, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Great read. An ICE attorney working for DOJ temporarily explains that ICE has no clue how all of this "federal court" stuff works and makes clear that both ICE and DOJ were totally unprepared for the flood of habeases that were the inevitable result of the Minneapolis raids.
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The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Pete Hegseth https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-pete-hegseth/
February 4, 2026 at 11:00 PM
The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Pete Hegseth https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-pete-hegseth/
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our government used a Blackhawk helicopter in a major American city, detained children and zip-tied U.S. citizens all to target... squatters
and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public."
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public."
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building
The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...
www.propublica.org
February 4, 2026 at 11:46 PM
our government used a Blackhawk helicopter in a major American city, detained children and zip-tied U.S. citizens all to target... squatters
and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public."
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public."
www.propublica.org/article/chic...