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polcoastal.bsky.social
@polcoastal.bsky.social
Prioritizes family. Lifelong reader. Advocate for banned books. Feline fanatic. Compassion > greed
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📽️NEW: A year into Trump’s second term, Marc Elias exposes the collapse of democratic guardrails like law firms and legacy media, and how it threatens fair elections. So, what new guardrails do we need for democracy’s survival? Watch to find out👇
https://youtu.be/jvpdsMH0s2s
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January 17, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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January 17, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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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.
January 17, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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NEW: Jonathan Ross, the ICE thug who murdered Renee Good, was NOT TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL according to police reports. He was taken to the Federal Building. He was NOT INJURED. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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Let's make sure this video trends! Make it go viral! MELIA has to find a human. She's so easy to fall in love with. I know she'll find the right home.

Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793

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1K reactions · 175 comments | Melia has spent 854 days laying in her kennel, surrounded by nonstop barking, waiting for a life that still hasn’t come. Music plays to help soothe her, but it can’t repl...
Melia has spent 854 days laying in her kennel, surrounded by nonstop barking, waiting for a life that still hasn’t come. Music plays to help soothe her, but it can’t replace a home, a family, or...
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January 14, 2026 at 3:14 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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He kidnapped the president of Venezuela for them

And oil companies are like

Meh
January 10, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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DHS was created to FIGHT terrorists, not to BE terrorists. It needs to be defunded by congress in 2027, and we should select candidates who run on that platform.
January 10, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”
January 9, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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Now the USDA is cutting all funding to Minnesota.
at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us
January 10, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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Abolish the crazy thugs at ICE.
January 10, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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Officer 1: “Get out of the car!”
<simultaneously>
Officer 2: “Get out of here!”

The confusion is not surprising. The shooting officer had his phone out too.

This deserves a clear and fair investigation
January 9, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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Frey: "This notion of inflammatory comments -- c'mon guys. I dropped an F bomb, they killed someone. Which one of those is more inflammatory? I'm going with the killing somebody."
January 9, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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The Department of Justice's effort to gain access to you sensitive personal information continues. DOJ wants this data to be able to suppress the vote and subvert election results next Fall. They are suing 24 states to gain access. My law firm and I are fighting them in court in every one of them.
January 9, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans.

This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:

“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
January 10, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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Lots of people have been killed because multiple police officers screamed conflicting instructions at them. It's a sadistic game that predatory cops enjoy playing so they can provoke a "justifiable" shooting.
January 8, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"
Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.
www.mprnews.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
January 9, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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@petebuttigieg.bsky.social: "We have an ICE agent who should have been trained not to be in front of a vehicle and never to shoot into a moving vehicle, and yet this happened on [Kristi Noem's] watch. The whole POINT of Homeland Security is to make this country more stable and safe."
January 9, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis diverted more than $35 MILLION in taxpayer dollars to defeat two ballot initiatives last year.

I’ve got the @miamiherald.com‘s blockbuster reporting on how DeSantis cheated needy Floridians and children from their already-earmarked funds.

youtu.be/EM0uTojxLCM?...
🚨Desantis CAUGHT FUNNELING $35 MILLION away from Floridians?!?
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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December 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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🚨BREAKING: According to Democracy Docket, there have been 43 anti-voting lawsuits filed this election cycle. The DOJ has filed 25 lawsuits that would ultimately lead to valid voters being removed from registration rolls, putting their right to cast a ballot at risk.
Trump’s DOJ Filed Half the Anti-Voting Lawsuits This Election Cycle
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Share and tell CBS to air this! Sharyn Alfonsi, the veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent who reported a segment about migrants sent to the El Salvadoran torture prison CECOT, just sent a blistering letter to colleagues, sounding the alarm that Bari Weiss spiked the story for political reasons.
December 22, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power
December 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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"'If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient,' Ms. Alfonsi wrote."

{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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The corruption is absolutely staggering. One big money donor after another receiving direct benefits in return. Trump didn’t drain any swamps, he created a giant sewer to roll around in daily. Great reporting. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
December 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM