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bobby

@bobbylewis.bsky.social

six is a woke queer musical that’s basically about women’s liberation. none of those chodes would ever even notice it, which they didn’t for nine years until dylan mulvaney joined the cast. they just don’t want queer, especially trans, people to exist in public.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 5h

So apparently Dylan Mulvaney got cast in a Broadway musical... which resulted in transphobes losing their minds and threatening to "Bud Light" the show... and now the show's Twitter page is locked down. Cool cool.

January 19, 2026 at 7:29 PM

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Phil Lewis

@phillewis.bsky.social

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95

ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

thezebra.org

January 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM

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Ben Lamb

@bennyfactor.bsky.social

replace rfk jr with this guy

January 19, 2026 at 2:43 PM

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Daniel Kuehn

@dkuehn.bsky.social

The really dumb stuff they get so excited about is sometimes welcome just because this dynamic is so funny:

January 19, 2026 at 4:41 PM

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Marisa Kabas

@marisakabas.bsky.social

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

January 19, 2026 at 5:41 AM

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Chise

@sailorrooscout.bsky.social

WELL NOW, would you look at that?

A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

January 18, 2026 at 5:00 PM

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cait (and adonis)

@cait.bsky.social

Clorox coming out with a bold "huff bleach" ad campaign

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New Clorox Scentiva Cherry Blossom-yeah, this bleach smells good.
Sponsored • Clorox

January 18, 2026 at 6:57 PM

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Laurasaurus

@laurasaurus.bsky.social

I’m howling.

Recently, Clifford "Buzz" Grambo decided to upgrade his electric scooter. The old one he had purchased online only reached 16 mph and wasn't cutting it anymore. He needed to go faster to keep up with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement cars he chases around Baltimore. So, Grambo bought a Segway MAX G3, which features a 2,000-watt motor and can get up to 28 mph.
"The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was," he told me when we first spoke on the phone in late October. "They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ha-ha bitches, I got a new scooter!"

November 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM

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Matt Novak

@paleofuture.bsky.social

ICE agents when a guy in a bathrobe standing out in -20 weather tells them to each shit

Meme image from Reno 911 where the character is sitting on the ground: "I was murdered"

January 18, 2026 at 7:48 PM

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Faine Greenwood

@faineg.bsky.social

ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”

it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.

January 18, 2026 at 2:39 AM

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Craig Harrington

@craigipedia.bsky.social

Democratic politicians facing frivolous criminal investigations from Trump:

Kat Abughazaleh
Elissa Slotkin
Jason Crow
Tim Walz
Jacob Frey
Letitia James
Lisa Cook
Mark Kelly
Eric Swalwell
Adam Schiff

Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 3d

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic.

The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3d

Breaking news: The Justice Department has issued subpoenas for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey as part of an investigation alleging that they are impeding federal law enforcement officers’ abilities to do their jobs in the state.

January 17, 2026 at 12:28 AM

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Oliver Willis

@owillis.bsky.social

Gavin Newsom has demonstrated that he will throw members of the liberal coalition under the bus at a drop of the hat.

January 16, 2026 at 12:01 PM

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himbobottomus.bsky.social

@himbobottomus.bsky.social

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

January 16, 2026 at 9:38 PM

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Gianmarco Soresi

@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social

This makes me feel more patriotic than the national anthem ever could

January 16, 2026 at 5:28 PM

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Kyle Griffin

@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

Breaking: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey are being investigated by the Trump DOJ for allegedly obstructing law enforcement activities, two U.S. officials told WCCO.

It's unclear how Walz and Frey allegedly obstructed law enforcement or what they were allegedly obstructing.

Department of Justice investigating Gov. Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Frey, U.S. officials say

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey are under federal investigation, two U.S. officials told WCCO on Friday afternoon.

www.cbsnews.com

January 16, 2026 at 11:10 PM

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Ron Filipkowski

@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Jimmy Kimmel offers to let Trump have one of his trophies if he will pull ICE out of Minneapolis.

January 16, 2026 at 1:12 PM

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)

@portlandken.bsky.social

ICE Agents enter Target with no warrant and violently tackle two American citizen employees, evidently because they didn't "look American" enough. (DHS refused to explain their rationale, so we have to guess.)

The injured Americans were later dumped in parking lots miles away in sub-zero weather.

‘Madness’: two US citizens violently detained by ICE in Minnesota, officials say

Two Target employees forced to the ground, then into SUV, then dumped in different parking lot

www.theguardian.com

January 16, 2026 at 2:51 AM

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Ezra Levin ❌👑

@ezralevin.bsky.social

This could be the unified Dem position. It is wildly popular. Puts the regime on defense on two fronts at the same time. Good policy, good politics.

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 5d

The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...

Progressive Caucus Backs Bill To Redirect ICE Money To Affordable Housing

www.huffpost.com

January 16, 2026 at 9:29 AM

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Laura Bassett

@lebassett.bsky.social

The network's top editor, Bari Weiss, expressed a high level of interest in the story on an editorial call Wednesday morning, according to staffers who listened.
"There was big internal dissension about the
'internal bleeding' report here last night," the
CBS News staffer, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said. "It was viewed as a thinly-veiled, anonymous leak by [the Trump administration] to someone who'd carry it online."
"Felt to many here like we were carrying water for the admin's justifying of the shooting to keep our access to our sources," said a second network staffer, who was also not authorized to comment.

January 16, 2026 at 5:28 AM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide.

He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

By Douglas MacMillan
When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the Jan. 3 death of detainee Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp, the agency said “staff observed him in distress,” and it gave no cause of death.

An employee of El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner told Lunas Campos’s daughter this week that, subject to results of a toxicology report, the office is likely to classify the death as a homicide, according to a recording of the conversation.

In the recording, which the daughter shared with The Washington Post, the employee said a doctor there “is listing the preliminary cause of death as asphyxia due to neck and chest compression,” which means Lunas Campos did not get enough oxygen because of pressure on his neck and chest. Pending the results of a toxicology report, the staffer said on the recording, “our doctor is believing that we’re going to be listing the manner of death as homicide.”

In an interview with The Post, Santos Jesus Flores, a man who says he was detained in the segregation unit the day Lunas Campos died, said he saw at least five guards struggling with Lunas Campos after he refused to enter the segregation unit, complaining that he didn’t have his medications. Flores said he saw guards choking Lunas Campos and heard Lunas Campos repeatedly saying, “No puedo respirar” — Spanish for “I can’t breathe.” Medical staff tried to resuscitate him for an hour, after which they took his body away, Flores said.

“He said, ‘I cannot breathe, I cannot breathe.’ After that, we don’t hear his voice anymore and that’s it,” said Flores, who had contacted a family member of Lunas Campos, who in turn put him in touch with a Post reporter. The Post confirmed Flores was in Camp East Montana through ICE’s detainee locator.

January 15, 2026 at 11:03 PM

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Consequence

@consequence.bsky.social

Dropkick Murphys are releasing a new song called "Citizen I.C.E."

The lyrics go: "Too scared to join the military/ Too dumb to be a cop."
consequence.net/2026/01/drop...