Mike Mathews
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Mike Mathews
@memathews.bsky.social
B2B & Tech marketing, currently working in robotics, AI, vision systems. Wilderness advocate.
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of course
The deal has kick-started the president’s controversial plan to sell up to 50mn barrels of Venezuelan oil, with more sales expected in the ‘coming days and weeks’. ft.trib.al/a2pf6om
January 16, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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Wind Power: Affordable and British-made

So why does Farage want us to use expensive fossil fuels supplied by Putin? 🇷🇺
January 16, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Of course.
In an interview yesterday with Reuters, President Trump boasted that he has accomplished so much that “when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election.”

www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
January 15, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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January 15, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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Oh, Lord. VandeHei quotes Musk predictions about AI and robots replacing doctors. Have you learned nothing about Musk?
January 15, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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January 15, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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Pitched and landed this story for @NBCNews.com: 24 members of Congress are 80 or older. More than half are running for re-election. #dataViz www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
January 15, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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Flashbangs burn hotter then lava.

They've caused serious burns, severed hands, and even killed.

*That's* what ICE just tossed into a car full of kids.

Here's our investigation from 2015, by @juliaangwin.com:

www.propublica.org/article/flas...
January 15, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Then take action NOW! Write the bill, vote it into place, ensure all military leaders are trained on how to respond to contrary orders.
Kaine: "I can tell you this -- we will force a vote in the Senate about no US military action in Greenland or Denmark if we need to. We will get overwhelmingly bipartisan support that this president is foolish to even suggest this."
January 11, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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“The murdering will continue until you stop calling us murderers.”
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."
January 11, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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January 11, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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January 6 was the dress rehearsal. ICE is the touring production.
January 9, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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January 10, 2026 at 4:36 AM
Greenland is the perfect spot to set our president on an ice floor and wave goodbye. We can do that without invading.
We‘re taking suggestions, Joachim.
January 11, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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It's murder from every angle.
January 8, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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January 11, 2026 at 6:48 AM
This is more instructive than surprising and illuminates the progress of the Christo-Fascist movement within the U.S.
"Together with my team, I spent around a year working on a historical investigation into how Russia prepared for the seizure of Crimea starting in the 1990s," writes Yevheniia Motorevska, Head of War Crimes Investigation Unit of the Kyiv Independent, in this op-ed.
When did Russia really begin its aggression against Ukraine?
That's the question most of you probably answered instinctively: in 2014, when Vladimir Putin, exploiting political instability and the change of power in Ukraine following the EuroMaidan Revolution, ...
kyivindependent.com
January 11, 2026 at 8:40 AM
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ICE has awarded a contract to Constellis Holdings, the successor to the notorious mercenary firm Blackwater.

The contract is for "skip tracing" to hunt down 1.5 million immigrants—and offering bounties for their locations.

Using whatever surveillance tools they want—no badges, no oversight.
Blackwater Successor Hunts Immigrants for ICE
Constellis Holdings, which traces its roots to Erik Prince’s mercenary firm Blackwater, landed an ICE contract as a bounty hunter.
theintercept.com
January 10, 2026 at 6:33 AM
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Must keep posting this.

ICE has contracted with the successor to the mercenary firm Blackwater.

As one keen follower pointed out:

We have private military mercenaries operating on US soil.
ICE has awarded a contract to Constellis Holdings, the successor to the notorious mercenary firm Blackwater.

The contract is for "skip tracing" to hunt down 1.5 million immigrants—and offering bounties for their locations.

Using whatever surveillance tools they want—no badges, no oversight.
January 10, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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Retired doctor Jennifer Black with the group Doctors Defending Democracy said members of the group who work for Legacy have shared concerns about ICE officers being allowed access to patients without a lawyer present and violating patient privacy laws.
January 10, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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If you had predicted with precise accuracy any of our current top stories this week during the ‘24 election, it would have been dismissed as Trump Derangement Syndrome by most of the professional takesmiths.
January 10, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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Frey: "An individual from a car that was in the middle of a street was detained. ICE left the car in the middle of the street. The car wasn't even in park, so you got it just rolling down the street w/nobody in it. It could've hit anybody, including my own family. This is not about safety"
January 10, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Was Keith's murder caught on video?
That may be the difference of his murder & Renee's

A decade past I, & many others were just as outraged by the murder of Philando Castile in MN. We saw him die an unnecessary death at the hands of a scared Pig. I realize this.
January 10, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.

I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
January 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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I'm wearing second hand hats
Second hand clothes
That's why they call me
Second hand Rose
Even our piano in the parlor
Daddy bought for ten cents on the dollar
Second hand pearls
I'm wearing second hand curls
I never get a single thing that's new
January 10, 2026 at 7:42 AM