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Fucking Bitch Hat

@kenwhite.bsky.social

/2 I assumed ”ICE took his phone and sold it” was a typo or something.

Nah bro. Thug THIEF scum.

January 13, 2026 at 11:56 PM

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Lawrence Schimel

@lawrenceschimel.bsky.social

Depressing news reported at @lgbtqnation.com:
Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president

www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/publ...

#kidlit #queerkidlit #lgbtq #booksky

Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president - LGBTQ Nation

"In the face of so many book bans and so much concern about decreasing school library sales of queer content" publishers are "passing" on LGBTQ+ books.

www.lgbtqnation.com

January 13, 2026 at 7:48 PM

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FactPost

@factpostnews.bsky.social

New video shows ICE agents detaining a US citizen legal observer in Minneapolis.

The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.

January 13, 2026 at 4:21 PM

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Bill Corbett

@billcorbett.bsky.social

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

Text: “A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including
citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them
ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the
president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal
government doesn't act extrajudicially.
Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …”

January 13, 2026 at 10:38 PM

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)

@iwriteok.bsky.social

ok but they won't

ICE officers won't follow orders they don't ideologically like

And elected Dems have not yet shown evidence of any spine to do what is necessary: punish these people.

January 11, 2026 at 3:30 AM

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Murshed Zaheed

@murshedz.bsky.social

"The Democrats’ plan: TBD. There has been a lot of rhetoric, but ... the caucus is largely shying away from using its leverage in the appropriations process and threatening another government shutdown."

“We’ll figure out the accountability mechanisms at the appropriate time" - Hakeem Jeffries

"The Democrats’ plan: TBD. There has been a lot of rhetoric, but as NOTUS’ Ursula Perano and Daniella Diaz report, the caucus is largely shying away from using its leverage in the appropriations process and threatening another government shutdown. “We’ll figure out the accountability mechanisms at the appropriate time,” Hakeem Jeffries told reporters. "

January 9, 2026 at 7:45 PM

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)

@iwriteok.bsky.social

there is no positive route forward for the United States without mass arrests and trials for DHS employees

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6d

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

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."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

January 10, 2026 at 12:16 AM

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thicc husband and father

@lukeisamazing.bsky.social

how many times have we seen videos like this out of Gaza for the past couple of years? the colonial form of oppression coming home to roost. American fascism distilled on video

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

Federal agents blocked a man identifying himself as a doctor from reaching the woman killed by ICE in Minneapolis, video shared with HuffPost shows www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

January 7, 2026 at 11:03 PM

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)

@iwriteok.bsky.social

This is my CES 2026 thread of AI slop.

First off: astrologers, prepare to be out of a job! This bold new company is bringing AI to the world of Horoscopes and for some reason merging that with a visibly unwell Furby.

Bonus: borderline illegal claims that it can "cure" certain behaviors.

January 7, 2026 at 8:16 PM

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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected

@adelpreore.bsky.social

There are no medics present

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6d

HuffPost has obtained a video of a physician trying to give medical care to the woman shot and killed by ICE goons today, and not being allowed to go near her. The ICE agents claim there are medics on site, but witnesses scream that there are no medics present

January 7, 2026 at 11:09 PM

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Oliver Willis

@owillis.bsky.social

An official NYT response means this is clearly a sore spot for them and people should keep hitting the target

Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 8d

NYT says a Trans News Network interview with ex-NYT editor Billie Jean Sweeney about NYT's gender identity coverage included "factually inaccurate criticisms" (The New York Times Company)

Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

January 5, 2026 at 10:32 PM

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Scott Horton

@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

December 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM

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Rita, antifascist🏴

@oldsquida.bsky.social

here we go (police incident report follows)

December 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM

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maple cocaine

@maplecocaine.bsky.social

Bari only pulled this program after the promos started airing, which means she probably got a phone call. So she's not just bad at her ostensible job of running CBS news, but she's also bad at her *actual* job of running interference for the Trump admin

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 22d

CBS News EIC Bari Weiss had concerns about the CECOT piece, I’m told. The network decided to hold the segment pending, among other things, comment or an interview with White House officials next year…

60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 23d

An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes

December 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE

@golikehellmachine.com

minaj is on the verge of having her $20M home forcibly sold by the court to cover a $500K debt, in case you wonder what’s going on here

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23d

Nicki Minaj: “For young men, don’t be Newscum (Gavin Newsom) .. Dear young men, you have amazing role models like our handsome, dashing president...”

December 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM

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Ed Zitron

@edzitron.com

I don’t know how anyone can still talk about “the AI revolution” with a straight face. Reuters story about a railroad company that has sunk $300,000 into “developing AI products” and appears to have made…a chatbot that doesn’t work?
archive.is/2025.12.17-0...

Companies have also struggled with Al's lack of consistency.
Jeremy Nielsen, general manager at North American railroad service provider Cando Rail and Terminals, said the company recently tested an Al chatbot for employees to study internal safety reports and training materials.
But Cando ran into a surprising stumbling block: the models couldn't consistently and correctly summarize the Canadian Rail Operating Rules, a roughly 100-page document that lays out the safety standards for the industry.
Sometimes the models forgot or misinterpreted the rules; other times they invented them from whole cloth. Al researchers say models often struggle to recall what appears in the middle of a long document.
Cando has dropped the project for now, but is testing other ideas. So far the company has spent $300,000 on developing
Al products.
"We all thought it'd be the easy button," Nielsen said. "And that's just not what happened."

December 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM

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Katelyn Burns

@katelynburns.com

Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 25d

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

CBS News/Free Press program "Has feminism failed women" brought to you by bank of america and hosted by Liz Plank and Allie Beth Stuckey

December 20, 2025 at 3:43 AM

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Erin Reed

@erininthemorning.com

For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care.

www.transyouthemergencyproject.org

December 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM

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Gianmarco Soresi

@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social

What do you do with a culture where a news organization can exploit people like this for clicks other than legalize punching

December 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)

@iwriteok.bsky.social

America, you've spoken loud and clear: you do not like being stabbed in the dick with an ice pick. But what if stabbing yourself in the dick with an ice pick is the only way to fight, idk, climate change or whatever?

December 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM

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derek guy

@dieworkwear.bsky.social

when you dig into the history of menswear, you find the same stories repeated. men who moralize traditional aesthetics rarely consider how their "tradition" was considered a corruption by an earlier generation, who wore things hated by people before them

IG the_art_of_dress