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emily68.bsky.social
@emily68.bsky.social
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I live in a rural, bright red county & I watch the county commissioners most every week. We got >$8 million. I can’t remember anyone saying “It’s a trap! Send it all back!” And the Public Health dept got ~$1 million to pay for extra expenses incurred bc of Covid.
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A few months ago, ICE hired me

I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable

And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"

My latest for Slate
You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
slate.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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NEW: Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken.

“I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold.

The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.
We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...
www.propublica.org
January 13, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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ICE officers are now saying "Learn the lesson of what happened."
January 13, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: The knucklehead agenda: GOP leaders engineer pillaging of Kansas universities #ksleg
The knucklehead agenda: GOP leaders engineer pillaging of Kansas universities • Kansas Reflector
Kansas legislative leaders looked at the smoldering crater of ESU and decided: We want that for all Kansas schools.
kansasreflector.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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It shows how pointless FCC rules about swearing are, when swears cannot be broadcast but genocidal threats can be.
The sign on Kristi Noem's podium reads "One of ours, all of yours." The reader will recall that this was a fascist rallying cry in the Spanish Civil War. What it means is that one of "our" people is worth all of "your" people.
January 12, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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christ DON'T PEOPLE GET EXHAUSTED BY ALL OF THIS SHIT?
January 12, 2026 at 12:59 AM
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Episcopalians going *hard*
“I have asked the clergy of the diocese to make sure their affairs are in order and they have written their wills.,not the time for statements. It is time to put our bodies between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable”. Rob Hirschfeld, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire
Redirecting...
www.facebook.com
January 10, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
January 9, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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New footage from the ICE agent's phone who shot at Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis has emerged, posted by AlphaNews on X. We've placed that footage in a synced timeline with the other currently available footage.
January 9, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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Daniel Shaver. An American classic.

bsky.app/profile/teri...
I’ll never forget the video of the man in a motel hallway that the officer ordered him to do multiple weird things, the guy was confused and sobbing. He followed every order and he shot him. He wasn’t even guilty of anything or wanted. Cop got off and it was all on camera.
January 9, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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Oh my gosh you guys! The House just passed my bill to extend the health care tax credits for three more years!
January 8, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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Really useful breakdown of the video showing the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE officer. Freeze frame and outlines give a crystal clear indication of exactly what was occurring as shots were fired.
We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands.
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
January 8, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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A video analysis of the killing of a protestor in Minneapolis. Officers wouldn’t let a bystander physician check her pulse and the masked officer who shot her quickly fled the scene. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
January 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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😡😡😡😡
January 7, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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My initial take on the criminal law governing the ICE shooting in MN:
609.066 of the MN Code controls a self-defense claim for a "peace officer" under state law. I'm not going to consider federal law given the capture of the DOJ by the Trump administration. 1/
January 7, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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Trump: "The woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully and viciously ran over the ICE officer. ... It is hard to believe [the ICE officer] is alive but he is now recovering in the hospital."

All lies.
January 7, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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"...the deep story was used as implied evidence for the claim at the same time as the claim being presented was added as evidence for the deep story, creating a self-reinforcing construction of moral legitimacy."

Truth can be drowned out by a strategic deep story. We all tell the truth together.
January 7, 2026 at 6:53 PM
They can cut your pension without any kind of due process?
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

Again, textbook stuff. Presidency-ending stuff if we had a functional legislative branch of government that cared about the Constitution at all.
January 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, could you please establish an official NYC Mayor account on Bluesky and post everything your office is currently posting on X over here?

And please remove all city accounts from X, which has become a CSAM creation and distribution site?

No money for Musk, ever, please.
January 5, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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Rubber hand. Looks obvious.
January 5, 2026 at 3:34 AM
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January 5, 2026 at 12:08 AM
I’ve got all of my shots.
We've been focused on childhood vaccination lately due to RFK Jr.'s crusade against them, but vaccines given in adulthood are crucial too. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/h...
Vaccines Are Helping Older People More Than We Knew
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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I'm going to be a broken record on this matter for the next three years. The administration is acting as if "illegal" is a made-up category with no power over them. Either we hold people to account for their criminal actions, or we lose constitutional government forever. People need to be prosecuted
Well, this is also just the America we've built around ourselves these past 25 years. Airstrikes? Midnight raids? Black-bagging? That's the kind of stuff the President does now. It's illegal, but it's not delegitimizing. It holds to the expected pattern.
January 4, 2026 at 1:24 AM