Kristen Leist 🫘
@kristenpilates.bsky.social
Military veteran. Pilates instructor, Harbor Isles Tennis & Fitness Club. Trail runner, Moore Mountain trails. Aerialist. Believer in democracy and bodily autonomy. #leguminati 🫘
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A significant difference between Hitler and Trump? Hitler doesn’t appear in the Epstein files.
January 13, 2026 at 9:49 PM
A significant difference between Hitler and Trump? Hitler doesn’t appear in the Epstein files.
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Trump is using ICE to terrorize our cities. He is using DOJ to target his political opponents. He will eventually try to steal the 2026 election. I started Democracy Docket to be fiercely independent and unbowed. Become a member now to help support its work and to stay informed. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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January 13, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Trump is using ICE to terrorize our cities. He is using DOJ to target his political opponents. He will eventually try to steal the 2026 election. I started Democracy Docket to be fiercely independent and unbowed. Become a member now to help support its work and to stay informed. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
Again, ICE agents kidnap and brutalize, then steal from, a CHILD. Fuck ICE. Defund and abolish ICE, and investigate and prosecute the violent criminals ICE has hired and unleashed on our cities.
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
January 13, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Again, ICE agents kidnap and brutalize, then steal from, a CHILD. Fuck ICE. Defund and abolish ICE, and investigate and prosecute the violent criminals ICE has hired and unleashed on our cities.
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I'm gonna be real I'm pretty fucking sick of everything being called a god damn distraction.
Multiple bad things can be going on at once. They can be discrete actions.
Like he's right. He's scapegoating immigrants. But for the love of christ calling it a fucking distraction is so minimizing.
Multiple bad things can be going on at once. They can be discrete actions.
Like he's right. He's scapegoating immigrants. But for the love of christ calling it a fucking distraction is so minimizing.
January 13, 2026 at 10:46 PM
I'm gonna be real I'm pretty fucking sick of everything being called a god damn distraction.
Multiple bad things can be going on at once. They can be discrete actions.
Like he's right. He's scapegoating immigrants. But for the love of christ calling it a fucking distraction is so minimizing.
Multiple bad things can be going on at once. They can be discrete actions.
Like he's right. He's scapegoating immigrants. But for the love of christ calling it a fucking distraction is so minimizing.
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A U.S. citizen legally observed ICE activity from a distance. He didn’t interfere, block agents, or make contact. An ICE agent still threatened lethal force and referenced a recent killing. That’s retaliation for protected speech—and it’s illegal. Caught on video. #sheshed
January 13, 2026 at 5:29 AM
A U.S. citizen legally observed ICE activity from a distance. He didn’t interfere, block agents, or make contact. An ICE agent still threatened lethal force and referenced a recent killing. That’s retaliation for protected speech—and it’s illegal. Caught on video. #sheshed
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Professor Richardson details Senator Mark Kelly’s response to the Trump-Vance regime’s attacks against his First Amendment rights to free speech for simply reiterating the law requiring service members to not follow illegal military orders.
January 12, 2026
Today, Democratic senator Mark Kelly of Arizona sued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Defense Department, Navy Secretary John Phelan, and the Navy Department for violating his First Amendment right...
open.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:51 PM
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Professor Richardson details Senator Mark Kelly’s response to the Trump-Vance regime’s attacks against his First Amendment rights to free speech for simply reiterating the law requiring service members to not follow illegal military orders.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... “The attempt to replace Powell with a loyalist who will give Trump control over the nation’s financial system profoundly threatens the stability of the country.” The corrupt grifters of the Trump-Vance regime are working hard to destroy the American economy.
January 11, 2026
The news has seemed to move more and more quickly in the last week.
open.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:23 AM
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... “The attempt to replace Powell with a loyalist who will give Trump control over the nation’s financial system profoundly threatens the stability of the country.” The corrupt grifters of the Trump-Vance regime are working hard to destroy the American economy.
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AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 1:20 AM
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
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I'm certainly no political genius, but it was obvious to me early on that with all federal branches held by Rs, the states would be best suited as a counter-check. Why haven't Blue States put together a Renee Good Good Policing Act?
4. Form a coalition of blue state governors (and any R governors that recognize the threat to constitutional order) to establish shared goals (see 3. above) as a check on the administration: reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, climate change, healthcare, EPA, education, etc.
January 12, 2026 at 11:52 PM
I'm certainly no political genius, but it was obvious to me early on that with all federal branches held by Rs, the states would be best suited as a counter-check. Why haven't Blue States put together a Renee Good Good Policing Act?
Kavanaugh stop in which ICE agents kidnap and brutalize a child.
ICE kidnap 17-year-old U.S. citizen working at Target then dump him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot… 🤬
January 13, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Kavanaugh stop in which ICE agents kidnap and brutalize a child.
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This is in response to Congressman Randy Fine announcing the Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act.
January 13, 2026 at 12:46 AM
This is in response to Congressman Randy Fine announcing the Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act.
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These people are ops. Some of them are too dumb to realize it, but they remain ops nonetheless.
January 12, 2026 at 11:21 PM
These people are ops. Some of them are too dumb to realize it, but they remain ops nonetheless.
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Jamelle Bouie was in the ICE closet making agents and I saw one of the agents and the agent looked at me
January 12, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Jamelle Bouie was in the ICE closet making agents and I saw one of the agents and the agent looked at me
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This is the most chilling explanation I’ve read on why the war on nature and the war on workers are actually the same fight.
Our Lives Are Not Line Items
Wolves, humans, or fish—we are not dispensable
www.lovelyparkspeople.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:05 PM
This is the most chilling explanation I’ve read on why the war on nature and the war on workers are actually the same fight.
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They still frame is as “damage to the White House“ and not damage to the economy or the United States and it citizens
January 12, 2026 at 10:14 PM
They still frame is as “damage to the White House“ and not damage to the economy or the United States and it citizens
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I keep trying to get ppl to understand: crashing the economy into an economic depression doesn’t hurt the extremely rich—it helps them…it’s their GOAL…it forces everyone else to sell off all their assets to pay debt—eat—merely survive…allowing the rich to buy up & own literally everything of value
January 12, 2026 at 2:42 AM
I keep trying to get ppl to understand: crashing the economy into an economic depression doesn’t hurt the extremely rich—it helps them…it’s their GOAL…it forces everyone else to sell off all their assets to pay debt—eat—merely survive…allowing the rich to buy up & own literally everything of value
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this is a five alarm Fucking With The Money fire and between this and the Greenland threats the rich assholes might want to wake up and realize this dude is going to cost them way more than any wealth tax will
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
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Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
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January 12, 2026 at 1:10 AM
this is a five alarm Fucking With The Money fire and between this and the Greenland threats the rich assholes might want to wake up and realize this dude is going to cost them way more than any wealth tax will
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Deportations to Add Almost $1 Trillion in Costs to the “Big Beautiful Bill”
We are spending 175 billion dollars on ICE to brutalize communities and traumatize children for life.
This is being done in your name, with your tax dollars, on our watch. Don’t look away.
www.cato.org/blog/deporta...
We are spending 175 billion dollars on ICE to brutalize communities and traumatize children for life.
This is being done in your name, with your tax dollars, on our watch. Don’t look away.
www.cato.org/blog/deporta...
Deportations to Add Almost $1 Trillion in Costs to the “Big Beautiful Bill”
Properly considered, the actual cost of H.R. 1’s immigration enforcement spending is nearly $1 trillion more than the CBO estimates. When seen in the context of the overall costs of the bill, mass dep...
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January 10, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Deportations to Add Almost $1 Trillion in Costs to the “Big Beautiful Bill”
We are spending 175 billion dollars on ICE to brutalize communities and traumatize children for life.
This is being done in your name, with your tax dollars, on our watch. Don’t look away.
www.cato.org/blog/deporta...
We are spending 175 billion dollars on ICE to brutalize communities and traumatize children for life.
This is being done in your name, with your tax dollars, on our watch. Don’t look away.
www.cato.org/blog/deporta...
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open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p... “The worst thing that Maduro did is just what Trump is beginning to do: killing civilians and blaming them for their own deaths.” How is ICE and their extrajudicial murders different from Venezuela’s death squads?
Maduro in Minneapolis
Murderous Lies
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January 11, 2026 at 2:23 PM
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p... “The worst thing that Maduro did is just what Trump is beginning to do: killing civilians and blaming them for their own deaths.” How is ICE and their extrajudicial murders different from Venezuela’s death squads?
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... The ICE agent who murdered Renee Good videoed his atrocity. His protectors thought his video would exonerate him. Instead we saw a woman say, “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you,” before he shot her in the face and then spit out “F*cking bitch.”
January 10, 2026
Yesterday, in an apparent attempt to regain control of the national narrative surrounding the deadly shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, Vice President J.D.
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January 11, 2026 at 6:04 AM
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... The ICE agent who murdered Renee Good videoed his atrocity. His protectors thought his video would exonerate him. Instead we saw a woman say, “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you,” before he shot her in the face and then spit out “F*cking bitch.”
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Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally:
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
August 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally:
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
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If McConnell had allowed the GOP-controlled Senate to impeach Trump after January 6, 2021, none of this would be happening.
Republicans MUST be punished for their corruption and the damage they're inflicting on the United States by losing their seats in Congress.
VOTE OUT ALL REPUBLICANS IN 2026.
Republicans MUST be punished for their corruption and the damage they're inflicting on the United States by losing their seats in Congress.
VOTE OUT ALL REPUBLICANS IN 2026.
January 10, 2026 at 7:16 PM
If McConnell had allowed the GOP-controlled Senate to impeach Trump after January 6, 2021, none of this would be happening.
Republicans MUST be punished for their corruption and the damage they're inflicting on the United States by losing their seats in Congress.
VOTE OUT ALL REPUBLICANS IN 2026.
Republicans MUST be punished for their corruption and the damage they're inflicting on the United States by losing their seats in Congress.
VOTE OUT ALL REPUBLICANS IN 2026.
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Epidemic abuse:
"One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police"
"White nationalists pervade law enforcement
10,000 family dogs killed by police every year (DOJ: "epidemic")
"Police solve just 2% of all major crimes"
"NYPD Costs $10 Billion a Year
"50% of municipal budgets
"One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police"
"White nationalists pervade law enforcement
10,000 family dogs killed by police every year (DOJ: "epidemic")
"Police solve just 2% of all major crimes"
"NYPD Costs $10 Billion a Year
"50% of municipal budgets
January 10, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Epidemic abuse:
"One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police"
"White nationalists pervade law enforcement
10,000 family dogs killed by police every year (DOJ: "epidemic")
"Police solve just 2% of all major crimes"
"NYPD Costs $10 Billion a Year
"50% of municipal budgets
"One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police"
"White nationalists pervade law enforcement
10,000 family dogs killed by police every year (DOJ: "epidemic")
"Police solve just 2% of all major crimes"
"NYPD Costs $10 Billion a Year
"50% of municipal budgets
Removing evidence from the murderer’s house.
It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers.
Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing
Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing
January 10, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Removing evidence from the murderer’s house.