Hale
@halelr.bsky.social
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Holy crap. NY Times stopped sanewashing fascism??!! It's like we crossed the event horizon and then were lucky enough to go back to normal reality.
December 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Holy crap. NY Times stopped sanewashing fascism??!! It's like we crossed the event horizon and then were lucky enough to go back to normal reality.
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I’m gonna have to stop you there, my guy.
We have to stop equating success with brilliance.
Trump and Musk, alone, prove the danger of such assumptions. These white male tech lords aren’t geniuses. They just have incredible access to skilled support. That’s it!
(Thank you for the gift link, Gil!)
We have to stop equating success with brilliance.
Trump and Musk, alone, prove the danger of such assumptions. These white male tech lords aren’t geniuses. They just have incredible access to skilled support. That’s it!
(Thank you for the gift link, Gil!)
December 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I’m gonna have to stop you there, my guy.
We have to stop equating success with brilliance.
Trump and Musk, alone, prove the danger of such assumptions. These white male tech lords aren’t geniuses. They just have incredible access to skilled support. That’s it!
(Thank you for the gift link, Gil!)
We have to stop equating success with brilliance.
Trump and Musk, alone, prove the danger of such assumptions. These white male tech lords aren’t geniuses. They just have incredible access to skilled support. That’s it!
(Thank you for the gift link, Gil!)
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NYT op-ed reminds billionaires to heed the French Revolution, mentions Network State cultists Peter Thiel and Balaji Srinivasan.
"It’s as if the sheer scale of this wealth, which beggars even the riches of the Gilded Age, has induced a kind of class sociopathy."
🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
"It’s as if the sheer scale of this wealth, which beggars even the riches of the Gilded Age, has induced a kind of class sociopathy."
🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
NYT op-ed reminds billionaires to heed the French Revolution, mentions Network State cultists Peter Thiel and Balaji Srinivasan.
"It’s as if the sheer scale of this wealth, which beggars even the riches of the Gilded Age, has induced a kind of class sociopathy."
🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
"It’s as if the sheer scale of this wealth, which beggars even the riches of the Gilded Age, has induced a kind of class sociopathy."
🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
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And now extrajudicial killings by paramilitaries on streets. Governor of restive northern province vows justice as trouble brews in the oil-rich former British colony
Eastern diplomats say "America has exported so much democracy that it has developed a shortage at home" #NewsIfUSAWasAForeignCountry
Eastern diplomats say "America has exported so much democracy that it has developed a shortage at home" #NewsIfUSAWasAForeignCountry
January 7, 2026 at 8:16 PM
And now extrajudicial killings by paramilitaries on streets. Governor of restive northern province vows justice as trouble brews in the oil-rich former British colony
Eastern diplomats say "America has exported so much democracy that it has developed a shortage at home" #NewsIfUSAWasAForeignCountry
Eastern diplomats say "America has exported so much democracy that it has developed a shortage at home" #NewsIfUSAWasAForeignCountry
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"military junta violently attacks teenagers demanding freedom from repressive regime"
#NewsIfUSAWasAForeignCountry
African officials warn of imminent human rights abuses in USA which has abundant natural resources but is plagued by ethnic animosities
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
#NewsIfUSAWasAForeignCountry
African officials warn of imminent human rights abuses in USA which has abundant natural resources but is plagued by ethnic animosities
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 9, 2026 at 6:04 PM
"military junta violently attacks teenagers demanding freedom from repressive regime"
#NewsIfUSAWasAForeignCountry
African officials warn of imminent human rights abuses in USA which has abundant natural resources but is plagued by ethnic animosities
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
#NewsIfUSAWasAForeignCountry
African officials warn of imminent human rights abuses in USA which has abundant natural resources but is plagued by ethnic animosities
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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African officials: We urge all parties to engage in inclusive dialogue to find peaceful solutions to their disagreements & to heal national divisions. Our worry is that the US, a nuclear armed, religious petrostate is turning into a failed state #NewsIfUSAWasAForeignCountry
January 9, 2026 at 6:14 PM
African officials: We urge all parties to engage in inclusive dialogue to find peaceful solutions to their disagreements & to heal national divisions. Our worry is that the US, a nuclear armed, religious petrostate is turning into a failed state #NewsIfUSAWasAForeignCountry
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👇🎯 Once again, I ask, in good faith & without trying to be overly alarmist, what anyone has seen in the last year to make them believe that the 2026/28 elections will be free, fair, & democratic by any traditional meaning of the words?
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Trump sees dollar signs with Venezuelan oil, has designs on other countries, and clearly sees himself as some kind of emperor of the world. I don’t think he has plans to leave in 2028. And he’s showing he’ll use the military however he wants
January 5, 2026 at 4:34 AM
👇🎯 Once again, I ask, in good faith & without trying to be overly alarmist, what anyone has seen in the last year to make them believe that the 2026/28 elections will be free, fair, & democratic by any traditional meaning of the words?
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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"YouGov has ICE at 39% favorable, 52% unfavorable...But this top line really understates the intensity of public backlash to ICE and its tactics. In February 2025, just 19% of Americans held a strongly unfavorable view of ICE. Today, 40% do."
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
Support for abolishing ICE hits a a new high
Americans have turned sharply against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and say it too often resorts to violence
open.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:18 PM
"YouGov has ICE at 39% favorable, 52% unfavorable...But this top line really understates the intensity of public backlash to ICE and its tactics. In February 2025, just 19% of Americans held a strongly unfavorable view of ICE. Today, 40% do."
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
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This is our 10th student librarian and I just gotta tell you it gets better every time. (This is a generic version of the sign I made to share, the real one has the student's name obviously.) Every part of this program is a joy. #librarylife
January 9, 2026 at 6:13 PM
This is our 10th student librarian and I just gotta tell you it gets better every time. (This is a generic version of the sign I made to share, the real one has the student's name obviously.) Every part of this program is a joy. #librarylife
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So hey, while Frey is doing soundbytes and spouting off, Sheriff Dawanna Witt and Frey's Police Chief Brian O'Hara's people were at HCMC last night protecting ICE agents, refusing to trespass them from the ER waiting room there despite requests from the hospital, and elected officials.
January 9, 2026 at 4:37 PM
So hey, while Frey is doing soundbytes and spouting off, Sheriff Dawanna Witt and Frey's Police Chief Brian O'Hara's people were at HCMC last night protecting ICE agents, refusing to trespass them from the ER waiting room there despite requests from the hospital, and elected officials.
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To no one's surprise ICE Thugs are barely literate, poorly trained & prone to violence
"Many recruits have criminal backgrounds or can’t pass open-book exams on officer conduct, yet they’re allowed to tear children from their beds at night"
-Charlie Pierce
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
#AbolishICE
"Many recruits have criminal backgrounds or can’t pass open-book exams on officer conduct, yet they’re allowed to tear children from their beds at night"
-Charlie Pierce
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
#AbolishICE
January 9, 2026 at 2:44 PM
To no one's surprise ICE Thugs are barely literate, poorly trained & prone to violence
"Many recruits have criminal backgrounds or can’t pass open-book exams on officer conduct, yet they’re allowed to tear children from their beds at night"
-Charlie Pierce
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
#AbolishICE
"Many recruits have criminal backgrounds or can’t pass open-book exams on officer conduct, yet they’re allowed to tear children from their beds at night"
-Charlie Pierce
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
#AbolishICE
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I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
January 9, 2026 at 2:15 PM
I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
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The Miccosukee Tribe blocked Alligator Alcatraz. Then Trump blocked a bill to return their land.
The Miccosukee Tribe blocked Alligator Alcatraz. Then Trump blocked a bill to return their land.
After the tribe sued to stop an immigration detention center, the White House vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have expanded Miccosukee land and environmental stewardship.
dlvr.it
January 9, 2026 at 4:38 PM
The Miccosukee Tribe blocked Alligator Alcatraz. Then Trump blocked a bill to return their land.
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Walz: "I saw an individual at the scene identify themselves as medical personnel and ask to provide aid, and an ICE agent said 'I do not care.' That lack of humanity was chilling to me."
January 8, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Walz: "I saw an individual at the scene identify themselves as medical personnel and ask to provide aid, and an ICE agent said 'I do not care.' That lack of humanity was chilling to me."
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WE WON. 🚨 Avelo Airlines just DROPPED their contract with ICE. The CEO admitted the backlash was too much. This is what people power looks like. 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/anti-regim...
January 9, 2026 at 4:24 PM
WE WON. 🚨 Avelo Airlines just DROPPED their contract with ICE. The CEO admitted the backlash was too much. This is what people power looks like. 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/anti-regim...
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@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social: "For this eminently wise and sensible suggestion, they were made fun of by the entire political establishment. They were dismissed by blow-dried pundits on television and in print." The same for Abolish ICE.
The Consequences of Rejecting "Defund the Police"
Political cowardice is paid for in blood.
open.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social: "For this eminently wise and sensible suggestion, they were made fun of by the entire political establishment. They were dismissed by blow-dried pundits on television and in print." The same for Abolish ICE.
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404 Media has obtained material that explains how two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. One can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
January 8, 2026 at 2:55 PM
404 Media has obtained material that explains how two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. One can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
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Rep. Randy Fine: "It's time for Americans to say 'enough,' and if you get in the way of the government repelling a foreign invasion, you're gonna end up just like that lady did yesterday."
January 8, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Rep. Randy Fine: "It's time for Americans to say 'enough,' and if you get in the way of the government repelling a foreign invasion, you're gonna end up just like that lady did yesterday."
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🧊🛩️ HEADS UP TENNESSEE‼️
⚠️ ICE Air arriving to Nashville
Key Lime Air Embraer 145
Tail: N975DC 👀
⚠️ ICE Air arriving to Nashville
Key Lime Air Embraer 145
Tail: N975DC 👀
January 8, 2026 at 2:58 PM
🧊🛩️ HEADS UP TENNESSEE‼️
⚠️ ICE Air arriving to Nashville
Key Lime Air Embraer 145
Tail: N975DC 👀
⚠️ ICE Air arriving to Nashville
Key Lime Air Embraer 145
Tail: N975DC 👀
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A cop shot a person three times point blank and instead of the streets being deserted. They filled with people yelling at the cops [who could have shot them too].
January 7, 2026 at 11:04 PM
A cop shot a person three times point blank and instead of the streets being deserted. They filled with people yelling at the cops [who could have shot them too].
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Time to join yr local ICE Rapid Response Network.
ANYONE can help: RRNs have many needs &
ways to plug in at whatever commitment level U can make.
Find yr local RRN on-line or ask local immigrants' rights groups.
None exists yet? Start yr own w/ just 2 othr ppl!
Step-by-step guide here:
ANYONE can help: RRNs have many needs &
ways to plug in at whatever commitment level U can make.
Find yr local RRN on-line or ask local immigrants' rights groups.
None exists yet? Start yr own w/ just 2 othr ppl!
Step-by-step guide here:
January 7, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Time to join yr local ICE Rapid Response Network.
ANYONE can help: RRNs have many needs &
ways to plug in at whatever commitment level U can make.
Find yr local RRN on-line or ask local immigrants' rights groups.
None exists yet? Start yr own w/ just 2 othr ppl!
Step-by-step guide here:
ANYONE can help: RRNs have many needs &
ways to plug in at whatever commitment level U can make.
Find yr local RRN on-line or ask local immigrants' rights groups.
None exists yet? Start yr own w/ just 2 othr ppl!
Step-by-step guide here:
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Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.
NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do."
“We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs.
www.advocate.com/news/minneso...
“We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs.
www.advocate.com/news/minneso...
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
“They killed my wife,” the distraught woman says, adding, “They shot her in the head.”
www.advocate.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.
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another reason to abolish borders: the life of a person born in Mexico or Colombia or Honduras or Nicaragua or Peru or Venezuela or Guatemala or anywhere is just as precious as the life of a person born in the U.S.
but a lotta people don’t know that
but a lotta people don’t know that
I'm sorry, but I just think it's very telling when we differentiate between ICE's killing of American citizens versus undocumented immigrants. And I'm seeing that a lot right now.
January 7, 2026 at 11:00 PM
another reason to abolish borders: the life of a person born in Mexico or Colombia or Honduras or Nicaragua or Peru or Venezuela or Guatemala or anywhere is just as precious as the life of a person born in the U.S.
but a lotta people don’t know that
but a lotta people don’t know that
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They shot an undocumented man here on a busy street in the middle of the day.
They put “5 shots, 7 holes” (agents bragging words) in a Latina woman. Lied about the reasons. Charged her with attacking them then dropped it all.
There wasn’t enough outrage.
They put “5 shots, 7 holes” (agents bragging words) in a Latina woman. Lied about the reasons. Charged her with attacking them then dropped it all.
There wasn’t enough outrage.
Deadly Minneapolis ICE shooting echoes Franklin Park, Marimar Martinez shootings during Operation Midway Blitz
The deadly Minneapolis shooting by an ICE agent that killed a woman Wednesday morning recalls shootings by federal immigration agents in Chicago during the height of Operation Midway Blitz in the fall...
www.cbsnews.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:18 PM
They shot an undocumented man here on a busy street in the middle of the day.
They put “5 shots, 7 holes” (agents bragging words) in a Latina woman. Lied about the reasons. Charged her with attacking them then dropped it all.
There wasn’t enough outrage.
They put “5 shots, 7 holes” (agents bragging words) in a Latina woman. Lied about the reasons. Charged her with attacking them then dropped it all.
There wasn’t enough outrage.