ontic5
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nerd, bureaucrat, hobby philosopher, history buff; I love books, music, films and traveling the world. #Libera Fan #Pirate
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These are concentration camps. And these are the numbers they're comfortable sharing.
This is the sixth death in ICE custody in 18 days. This isn’t enforcement, it’s a system that cages people, outsources care, and shrugs when they die. Abolish ICE.
January 18, 2026 at 9:38 PM
These are concentration camps. And these are the numbers they're comfortable sharing.
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West Texas cities are scrambling for water. But decades of oil and gas drilling has impacted the region’s water quality.
A Small Oil Company Polluted Midland’s Water Reserve. The Cleanup Has Dragged on for Years. - Inside Climate News
Cleaning up oilfield pollution in arid West Texas is costly and complicated. The bankruptcy process allows companies to move on while the public pays the price.
insideclimatenews.org
January 18, 2026 at 5:25 PM
West Texas cities are scrambling for water. But decades of oil and gas drilling has impacted the region’s water quality.
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This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all
January 18, 2026 at 12:44 PM
This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all
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A joke for the history buffs:
Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“
Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“
January 18, 2026 at 1:56 PM
A joke for the history buffs:
Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“
Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“
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Mark Carney saying that Canada is preferring stability with China
Over instability with the United States under Trump
We really are entering a new world order
Over instability with the United States under Trump
We really are entering a new world order
January 18, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Mark Carney saying that Canada is preferring stability with China
Over instability with the United States under Trump
We really are entering a new world order
Over instability with the United States under Trump
We really are entering a new world order
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🚨Border Patrol whistleblower outraged by ICE's conduct exposes over a dozen secret ICE programs in documents leaked to me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/21-secret-...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/21-secret-...
21 Secret ICE Programs Revealed
Leaked documents detail the dizzying scope of ICE operations
www.kenklippenstein.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:40 PM
🚨Border Patrol whistleblower outraged by ICE's conduct exposes over a dozen secret ICE programs in documents leaked to me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/21-secret-...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/21-secret-...
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The New Dropkick Murphys' Anti-ICE Song Is Everything
As the lyrics say, “Too scared to join the military, too dumb to be a cop.”
crooksandliars.com/2026/01/new-...
As the lyrics say, “Too scared to join the military, too dumb to be a cop.”
crooksandliars.com/2026/01/new-...
The New Dropkick Murphys' Anti-ICE Song Is Everything
As the lyrics say, “Too scared to join the military, too dumb to be a cop.”
crooksandliars.com
January 17, 2026 at 5:07 AM
The New Dropkick Murphys' Anti-ICE Song Is Everything
As the lyrics say, “Too scared to join the military, too dumb to be a cop.”
crooksandliars.com/2026/01/new-...
As the lyrics say, “Too scared to join the military, too dumb to be a cop.”
crooksandliars.com/2026/01/new-...
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Appears that the most recent negotiated EU-US trade deal is dead, with Renew Europe and EPP party leadership rejecting the deal in light of Trump’s recent threats.
January 17, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Appears that the most recent negotiated EU-US trade deal is dead, with Renew Europe and EPP party leadership rejecting the deal in light of Trump’s recent threats.
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Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger just issued an executive order shutting down state police cooperation with Trump’s ICE immediately after taking office.
January 17, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger just issued an executive order shutting down state police cooperation with Trump’s ICE immediately after taking office.
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$1.5T for the military budget
$170B for ICE and Border Patrol
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$470M to send National Guard into cities
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets
$100M for Trump's golf outings
But no money to lower your healthcare costs.
$170B for ICE and Border Patrol
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$470M to send National Guard into cities
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets
$100M for Trump's golf outings
But no money to lower your healthcare costs.
January 17, 2026 at 11:00 PM
$1.5T for the military budget
$170B for ICE and Border Patrol
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$470M to send National Guard into cities
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets
$100M for Trump's golf outings
But no money to lower your healthcare costs.
$170B for ICE and Border Patrol
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$470M to send National Guard into cities
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets
$100M for Trump's golf outings
But no money to lower your healthcare costs.
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This is the definition of what Kavanaugh thinks a good stop is. He was detained, based on his accent, and then released after they checked his papers (which presumably Kavanaugh does not carry with him).
He was detained in front of his five year old child, who told him "I don't want to lose you."
He was detained in front of his five year old child, who told him "I don't want to lose you."
This ICE agent and the man he’s accusing of not being a US citizen have the same damn accent. If this were a movie, this scene would be on the cutting room floor.
January 17, 2026 at 6:38 PM
This is the definition of what Kavanaugh thinks a good stop is. He was detained, based on his accent, and then released after they checked his papers (which presumably Kavanaugh does not carry with him).
He was detained in front of his five year old child, who told him "I don't want to lose you."
He was detained in front of his five year old child, who told him "I don't want to lose you."
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⚡️Pro-Ukrainian partisans sabotage electrical substation in Russia's Bryansk Oblast, group claims.
Pro-Ukrainian partisans sabotage electrical substation in Russia's Bryansk Oblast, group claims
The Atesh partisan group sabotaged an electrical substation Russia's Bryansk Oblast, disrupting power supply to "key" components of Russia's war machine, the group claimed in a Telegram post on Jan. 1...
kyivindependent.com
January 18, 2026 at 5:41 AM
⚡️Pro-Ukrainian partisans sabotage electrical substation in Russia's Bryansk Oblast, group claims.
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Greg Bovino was seen earlier today at the Minneapolis ICE facility dressed in a very nazi-inspired outfit. They don’t even hide anymore.
January 17, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Greg Bovino was seen earlier today at the Minneapolis ICE facility dressed in a very nazi-inspired outfit. They don’t even hide anymore.
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Forced face scanning of a U.S. citizen with zero cause, just bald racial profiling. This is tech fascism.
Mubashir and his family came to the United States as refugees from Ethiopia when he was a child, and they all became naturalized citizens in 2019.
Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:
Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:
January 18, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Forced face scanning of a U.S. citizen with zero cause, just bald racial profiling. This is tech fascism.
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OTD in 1945, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved 15,000 Jews in WW2, was kidnapped by the Soviet NKVD who took him to Moscow & killed him.
Cos we're the real anti-fascists
Cos we're the real anti-fascists
January 17, 2026 at 9:12 AM
OTD in 1945, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved 15,000 Jews in WW2, was kidnapped by the Soviet NKVD who took him to Moscow & killed him.
Cos we're the real anti-fascists
Cos we're the real anti-fascists
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Italy’s Guardia di Finanza seized a cargo ship in Brindisi that came from Russian Black Sea waters with 33,000 tons of metal, Rai News reports. The vessel falsified logs to conceal a stop at a sanctioned Russian port. #RussiaSanctions
January 17, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Italy’s Guardia di Finanza seized a cargo ship in Brindisi that came from Russian Black Sea waters with 33,000 tons of metal, Rai News reports. The vessel falsified logs to conceal a stop at a sanctioned Russian port. #RussiaSanctions
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Well, that took no time at all, did it
January 17, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Well, that took no time at all, did it
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Europeans need to accept that NATO only exists now as a zombie alliance being used to undermine their own security from Ukraine to Greenland.
January 17, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Europeans need to accept that NATO only exists now as a zombie alliance being used to undermine their own security from Ukraine to Greenland.
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More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
January 17, 2026 at 5:36 PM
More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
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TODAY: Massive protests erupt in Greenland and Denmark as people take to the streets to show their unity against the United States threat
January 17, 2026 at 6:53 PM
TODAY: Massive protests erupt in Greenland and Denmark as people take to the streets to show their unity against the United States threat
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NEWS: Canada just checkmated the United States.
Breaking with the U.S., Canada has struck a major deal with China: Ottawa will cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in exchange for dramatically lower tariffs on Canadian farm products.
Breaking with the U.S., Canada has struck a major deal with China: Ottawa will cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in exchange for dramatically lower tariffs on Canadian farm products.
January 16, 2026 at 6:20 PM
NEWS: Canada just checkmated the United States.
Breaking with the U.S., Canada has struck a major deal with China: Ottawa will cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in exchange for dramatically lower tariffs on Canadian farm products.
Breaking with the U.S., Canada has struck a major deal with China: Ottawa will cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in exchange for dramatically lower tariffs on Canadian farm products.
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"I started repeating, I'm a citizen, I'm a citizen. ICE didn't even look at my ID. He said that doesn't matter. My boss came out with my passport and held it up to the agent's windshield. He ignored it and drove away. They forced me to do a face scan. They told me I was being deported."
January 16, 2026 at 6:27 PM
"I started repeating, I'm a citizen, I'm a citizen. ICE didn't even look at my ID. He said that doesn't matter. My boss came out with my passport and held it up to the agent's windshield. He ignored it and drove away. They forced me to do a face scan. They told me I was being deported."
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A large chemical plant is on fire in Voskresensk, near Moscow. The facility is a key producer of components used in explosives for Russia’s military industry. The blaze adds to a series of incidents hitting critical sites tied to the Russian war effort. #Russia
January 16, 2026 at 8:20 PM
A large chemical plant is on fire in Voskresensk, near Moscow. The facility is a key producer of components used in explosives for Russia’s military industry. The blaze adds to a series of incidents hitting critical sites tied to the Russian war effort. #Russia