Centrist Firebrand
@centrist-firebrand.bsky.social
Former Republican, former Libertarian, Never Trump, now a principled Liberal looking to help the Democrats adapt and win.
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there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
![In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'.
's account was false.
According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency.
After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying.
He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreie3gc6fndj7mtotijddm4eg264zgsqxpn4nbekb3xq5ubdmskvr6u@jpeg)
!["You"
re not from here. Do you have your
papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer,
"New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested.
Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read.
According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name.
Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreiensu64iobo4ftuqeaighf2p5k745uzdnmhcecugsi4ec74dnqse4@jpeg)
April 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch
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This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.
April 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.
Hey @bennet.senate.gov, will you please make a statement of some kind on the illegal deportation, deprivation of due process, and inhumane treatment of the 283 Venezuelans by our government? CNN found 75% of them had no criminal record.
I am a voter in CO.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QmW...
I am a voter in CO.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QmW...
What records show about the migrants sent to Salvadoran mega-prison
YouTube video by 60 Minutes
www.youtube.com
April 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Hey @bennet.senate.gov, will you please make a statement of some kind on the illegal deportation, deprivation of due process, and inhumane treatment of the 283 Venezuelans by our government? CNN found 75% of them had no criminal record.
I am a voter in CO.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QmW...
I am a voter in CO.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QmW...
Better late than never to grow a single vertebrae, John Roberts
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
John Roberts, in rare statement, hits back after Trump calls for impeaching judges
It’s the most intense public conflict between Trump and Roberts since 2018.
www.politico.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Better late than never to grow a single vertebrae, John Roberts
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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🐕 Couldn’t make it up if we tried — the same day Trump celebrates K9 Veterans Day… DOGE cuts hit the TSA and they stop feeding and taking care of their bomb-sniffing dogs 😕
March 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
🐕 Couldn’t make it up if we tried — the same day Trump celebrates K9 Veterans Day… DOGE cuts hit the TSA and they stop feeding and taking care of their bomb-sniffing dogs 😕
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Musk as planes start falling out of the sky:
February 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Musk as planes start falling out of the sky:
America is entering its villain era.
Never thought we’d be calling the democratically elected president of a sovereign ally a “dictator” and a “warmonger” for the crime of *checks notes* ...getting invaded by a dictator?
Never thought we’d be calling the democratically elected president of a sovereign ally a “dictator” and a “warmonger” for the crime of *checks notes* ...getting invaded by a dictator?
February 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
America is entering its villain era.
Never thought we’d be calling the democratically elected president of a sovereign ally a “dictator” and a “warmonger” for the crime of *checks notes* ...getting invaded by a dictator?
Never thought we’d be calling the democratically elected president of a sovereign ally a “dictator” and a “warmonger” for the crime of *checks notes* ...getting invaded by a dictator?
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The smartphones and Facebook/YouTube algorithms melted so many people's brains, it's NUTS.
You really have to fight to stay connected to anything even close to actual reality and there's no payoff for doing it, just the despair that comes with seeing so many people living in literal fantasy worlds.
You really have to fight to stay connected to anything even close to actual reality and there's no payoff for doing it, just the despair that comes with seeing so many people living in literal fantasy worlds.
February 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The smartphones and Facebook/YouTube algorithms melted so many people's brains, it's NUTS.
You really have to fight to stay connected to anything even close to actual reality and there's no payoff for doing it, just the despair that comes with seeing so many people living in literal fantasy worlds.
You really have to fight to stay connected to anything even close to actual reality and there's no payoff for doing it, just the despair that comes with seeing so many people living in literal fantasy worlds.
It does suck that BlueSky has become so much of an echo chamber. Anyone know any people who are closer to the center that I should follow?
February 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It does suck that BlueSky has become so much of an echo chamber. Anyone know any people who are closer to the center that I should follow?
Elon is targeting the government institutions that push back on him
- Demanding the FAA director resign because SpaceX had too many delays
- Demolishing USAID because they'd announced a pending investigation into Starlink
- Going after the CFPB to skirt regulations for his upcoming X finance shit
- Demanding the FAA director resign because SpaceX had too many delays
- Demolishing USAID because they'd announced a pending investigation into Starlink
- Going after the CFPB to skirt regulations for his upcoming X finance shit
x.com
X.com
February 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Elon is targeting the government institutions that push back on him
- Demanding the FAA director resign because SpaceX had too many delays
- Demolishing USAID because they'd announced a pending investigation into Starlink
- Going after the CFPB to skirt regulations for his upcoming X finance shit
- Demanding the FAA director resign because SpaceX had too many delays
- Demolishing USAID because they'd announced a pending investigation into Starlink
- Going after the CFPB to skirt regulations for his upcoming X finance shit
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this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders
February 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders
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This is what happens when you fire government employees without caring about the consequences.
January 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This is what happens when you fire government employees without caring about the consequences.
fuck the connections today, jesus
January 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
fuck the connections today, jesus
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⚠️PFAS IS BACK—recall the EPA plan to ban dangerous forever chemicals from drinking water ➡️Well, Trump WH just cancelled it… once again allowing big corporations to discharge PFAS into rivers. PFAS cause cancers & many diseases. Does this make American healthy again?
January 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
⚠️PFAS IS BACK—recall the EPA plan to ban dangerous forever chemicals from drinking water ➡️Well, Trump WH just cancelled it… once again allowing big corporations to discharge PFAS into rivers. PFAS cause cancers & many diseases. Does this make American healthy again?
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BREAKING: New Schedule F guidance is out. Note the catch all that allows OPM to make the final call. This would allow Trump to determine that any job is a policy making job and can be fired at will. chcoc.gov/sites/defaul...
January 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
BREAKING: New Schedule F guidance is out. Note the catch all that allows OPM to make the final call. This would allow Trump to determine that any job is a policy making job and can be fired at will. chcoc.gov/sites/defaul...
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Mississippi can get rid of income/sales taxes and have the entire state government funded by the fines from by 14yo boys. www.wlbt.com/2025/01/22/m...
January 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Mississippi can get rid of income/sales taxes and have the entire state government funded by the fines from by 14yo boys. www.wlbt.com/2025/01/22/m...
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In fairness, “you can make millions of individual molecules but there are 13 that you need but can’t make so let’s outsource their production to plants. Also, it’s actually 12…you can make one of the vitamins…as long as the sun’s rays touch your skin like you yourself are a plant” does sound fake.
I’m sorry but vitamins sound fake
January 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
In fairness, “you can make millions of individual molecules but there are 13 that you need but can’t make so let’s outsource their production to plants. Also, it’s actually 12…you can make one of the vitamins…as long as the sun’s rays touch your skin like you yourself are a plant” does sound fake.
This is unbelievable evil from a member of congress. The whataboutism excusing pure evil.
If hating this person could get them to spontaneously combust, i would hate them with every fiber of my being for an hour each day.
But alas, i have to let it go.
Fuck you Representative Burchett. #evil
If hating this person could get them to spontaneously combust, i would hate them with every fiber of my being for an hour each day.
But alas, i have to let it go.
Fuck you Representative Burchett. #evil
ACOSTA: Do you agree with Trump's decision to pardon violent people?
REP. BURCHETT: If they were truly violent, no. But I don't know that?
ACOSTA: What do you mean you don't know? We're showing the footage right now.
REP. BURCHETT: If they were truly violent, no. But I don't know that?
ACOSTA: What do you mean you don't know? We're showing the footage right now.
January 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is unbelievable evil from a member of congress. The whataboutism excusing pure evil.
If hating this person could get them to spontaneously combust, i would hate them with every fiber of my being for an hour each day.
But alas, i have to let it go.
Fuck you Representative Burchett. #evil
If hating this person could get them to spontaneously combust, i would hate them with every fiber of my being for an hour each day.
But alas, i have to let it go.
Fuck you Representative Burchett. #evil
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ACOSTA: Do you agree with Trump's decision to pardon violent people?
REP. BURCHETT: If they were truly violent, no. But I don't know that?
ACOSTA: What do you mean you don't know? We're showing the footage right now.
REP. BURCHETT: If they were truly violent, no. But I don't know that?
ACOSTA: What do you mean you don't know? We're showing the footage right now.
January 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
ACOSTA: Do you agree with Trump's decision to pardon violent people?
REP. BURCHETT: If they were truly violent, no. But I don't know that?
ACOSTA: What do you mean you don't know? We're showing the footage right now.
REP. BURCHETT: If they were truly violent, no. But I don't know that?
ACOSTA: What do you mean you don't know? We're showing the footage right now.
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A British theory from 2005 suggests that, for a variety of reasons, the 3d Monday in January - termed Blue Monday - is the most depressing day of the year. (Google it)
Seems close to the mark.
Seems close to the mark.
January 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
A British theory from 2005 suggests that, for a variety of reasons, the 3d Monday in January - termed Blue Monday - is the most depressing day of the year. (Google it)
Seems close to the mark.
Seems close to the mark.
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TikTok Timeline:
1. Trump calls for immediate ban citing nat sec
2. Rs introduce bill
3. Rs secure Dem support after Biden insists it be softened from ban to divestiture
4. Trump reverses position after meeting with TikTok CEO during campaign
5. Chinese owners refuse to divest
6. People blame Dems
1. Trump calls for immediate ban citing nat sec
2. Rs introduce bill
3. Rs secure Dem support after Biden insists it be softened from ban to divestiture
4. Trump reverses position after meeting with TikTok CEO during campaign
5. Chinese owners refuse to divest
6. People blame Dems
January 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
TikTok Timeline:
1. Trump calls for immediate ban citing nat sec
2. Rs introduce bill
3. Rs secure Dem support after Biden insists it be softened from ban to divestiture
4. Trump reverses position after meeting with TikTok CEO during campaign
5. Chinese owners refuse to divest
6. People blame Dems
1. Trump calls for immediate ban citing nat sec
2. Rs introduce bill
3. Rs secure Dem support after Biden insists it be softened from ban to divestiture
4. Trump reverses position after meeting with TikTok CEO during campaign
5. Chinese owners refuse to divest
6. People blame Dems
Grappling with the futility of it all… truth, justice… finance, medicine, travel… software, algorithms. We’re powerless across it all.
January 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Grappling with the futility of it all… truth, justice… finance, medicine, travel… software, algorithms. We’re powerless across it all.