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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 15m

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 12h

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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 4h

[H]uge swaths of progressive political advocacy...[are seen as] contributing to political violence and domestic terrorism, directing law enforcement and several federal agencies to investigate and possibly charge left-leaning advocacy groups and their funders. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-tru...

The Trump Admin’s Mostly Unnoticed Move to Crack Down on the Opposition

Last month, the White House issued two executive orders that direct federal...

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Bruce F. Singer @drawnandquartered.bsky.social · 2d

With no help from this branch.

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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 1d

@nytimes.com publishes a Claremont fascist take on Hegseth's pathetic "warrior" speech. "The trend Mr. Hegseth disparaged be dated...January 1993, when...Clinton pushed for gays in the military...[T]hat is now called diversity, equity and inclusion won out." Translation: oust blacks, gays and women

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 2d

“This is where we are. Donald Trump, with the help of his sycophants, is waging war against our own country. And he’s doing it for no good reason besides his hunger for power and his sadistic, sociopathic need to seek vengeance against his perceived enemies.”

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Stephen Miller and Donald Trump Want War

They are ignoring a judge's ruling, ignoring the sovereign right of governors to keep their states safe and ignoring the on-the-ground facts to justify their dangerous invasions

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters..."

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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data.

We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.

Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):

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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 2d

His family hates him. Miller is self-hating Jew who fashions himself the new Joseph Goebbels. This is not hyperbole.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 2d

Legacy media. Feel bad for the journalists but it's a dying institution, Bari Weiss will only hasten its downfall. Fuck CBS. Fuck Larry Ellison and most definitely Fuck Bari Weiss.

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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 2d

What a massive pile of bullshit.

Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 2d

“The generals believed they could manage Hitler. In the end, he managed them. ”Their submission made the Nazi dictatorship possible: Had the generals, with all their prestige and power, stood up to Hitler in 1933 or 1934, his career might have been ended before it had truly begun.”
William Shirer

Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 2d

Where is the national outrage that followed Kirk's assisination?

Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 2d

Stay horny.

Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 2d

Can you imagine the fat fuck in Vietnam?

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 2d

And the fascists Stephen Miller and Russell Bought carrying out their enacting Project 2025. Next we'll see the monitoring women's menstrual cycles and keeping a registry of dissidents. Is it Fascism yet?

Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 2d

So true.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

I strongly object to the comparison many are making these days between Stephen Miller and Joseph Goebbels.

I think it's deeply misguided, and unfair, to compare them.

Goebbels was a far better propagandist, and didn't execute much policy.

Miller far more closely resembles Heinrich Himmler.

Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 2d

Blah blah blah....

Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 2d

Sinking to tabloid at this point. The Washington Post is no more.

Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 2d

Is it Fascism yet?

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 2d

"They were throwing people’s medicine in the bin in front of them and laughing in their faces."

Gaza Flotilla Update: U.K. Journalist Describes “Torturous Conditions” in Israeli Custody

Global condemnation is mounting as hundreds of international activists remain in Israeli prison days after Israel’s military raided and captured dozens of boats in the Global Sumud Flotilla. Reuters r...

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🦋💔🇺🇸SEB🇺🇸💔🦋 @sebastiangarof5.bsky.social · 3d

Real men don’t zip-tie children.

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Children yanked from beds and zip-tied as 300 ICE agents raid apartment complex

Over 300 armed federal agents swarmed a five-story apartment complex late Tuesday evening in what became an hours-long immigration raid.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3d

ICE has been paying private security for 24/7 guards to watch a guy with no record whose leg they fucked up so badly he has been in a hospital for over a month, and we wonder why people were handing Tom Homan bags of cash.

Via @kyledcheney.bsky.social

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On August 27, 2025, Petitioner was arrested at the Carson Car Wash in Carson,
California by uniformed Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) officers and unidentified
plainclothes federal agents. See Pet. ¶¶ 16, 48; Santiago Decl. ¶ 3. During the arrest,
Petitioner sustained severe leg injuries. See Pet. ¶ 48; Santiago Decl. ¶ 5. He was
handcuffed and transported by CBP to the emergency room at Harbor-UCLA Medical
Center in Carson, California. Id.
At the hospital, Petitioner was admitted under a “blackout” procedure for patients
in law-enforcement custody and was registered under the pseudonym “Har Maine UNK
Thirteen.” Santiago Decl. ¶ 7. Federal agents remained at Petitioner’s bedside during
admission, transfer to non-public treatment areas, and throughout his stay, keeping him
handcuffed to his hospital bed. Id. ¶ 6.
On or about August 27, 2025, CBP transferred custody of Petitioner to ICE. See Pet.
¶ 48. He remains detained at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center under the supervision of ICE,
which has contracted with Spectrum Detention Services (“Spectrum”) to provide guards.
See Santiago Decl. ¶ 8; Pet. ¶ 48.
Since that date, two to four uniformed guards—either Spectrum employees or ICE
agents—have been continuously stationed in Petitioner’s hospital room, monitoring him at
all times, including while he sleeps, eats, uses the restroom, or receives medical care. See
Santiago Decl. ¶¶ 9–10.

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