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Here for the opposition. No DMs. Another damned historian. Prodigal Detroit Draft Diva. Blue for Life. BLM. 😷 Up. 🇺🇦 Counter.Social rocks
Pinned
I will not give into the lies.
I will not give into the fear.
I will not give into the fear.
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While Americans are told to tighten their belts, DHS is asking taxpayers to bankroll a flying penthouse. Photos from NBC News.
February 19, 2026 at 8:00 PM
While Americans are told to tighten their belts, DHS is asking taxpayers to bankroll a flying penthouse. Photos from NBC News.
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😕 ugly stuff here from the nashville banner… nashvillebanner.com/2026/02/19/i...
February 19, 2026 at 4:12 PM
😕 ugly stuff here from the nashville banner… nashvillebanner.com/2026/02/19/i...
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This is an important piece and you should read it.
Also, I wish journalists would stop saying immigrant families in MN are “staying home to avoid encounters with immigration.”
They’re IN HIDING. It isn’t a casual choice. They have been terrorized into hiding.
theconversation.com/when-ice-swe...
Also, I wish journalists would stop saying immigrant families in MN are “staying home to avoid encounters with immigration.”
They’re IN HIDING. It isn’t a casual choice. They have been terrorized into hiding.
theconversation.com/when-ice-swe...
When ICE sweeps a community, public health pays a price – and recovery will likely take years
As immigration enforcement crackdowns expand across the US, communities can mobilize to lessen the public health impacts.
theconversation.com
February 18, 2026 at 6:01 PM
This is an important piece and you should read it.
Also, I wish journalists would stop saying immigrant families in MN are “staying home to avoid encounters with immigration.”
They’re IN HIDING. It isn’t a casual choice. They have been terrorized into hiding.
theconversation.com/when-ice-swe...
Also, I wish journalists would stop saying immigrant families in MN are “staying home to avoid encounters with immigration.”
They’re IN HIDING. It isn’t a casual choice. They have been terrorized into hiding.
theconversation.com/when-ice-swe...
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So… not a hoax then?
February 19, 2026 at 1:43 PM
So… not a hoax then?
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A man claims his grandmother in Colombia—a former housekeeper at Epstein’s Manhattan home—kept hidden memory cards, photos, and tapes when she was fired. He says it includes child abuse evidence, and both ABC and Fox refused to release it. If true, she may be holding what investigators searched for.
February 19, 2026 at 2:22 PM
A man claims his grandmother in Colombia—a former housekeeper at Epstein’s Manhattan home—kept hidden memory cards, photos, and tapes when she was fired. He says it includes child abuse evidence, and both ABC and Fox refused to release it. If true, she may be holding what investigators searched for.
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Brendan Carr, head of the FCC, wrote the chapter on it in Project 2025. It’s hard to know what’s worse: The administration’s efforts to intimidate journalists or CBS’s willingness to cave in. Read here to understand the issues: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Stephen Colbert and the First Amendment
As if CBS hasn’t drawn enough fire for tampering with 60 Minutes’ journalistic integrity, on Monday, Stephen Colbert shared that he was told by the network’s lawyers that he couldn’t have Texas Democr...
open.substack.com
February 19, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Brendan Carr, head of the FCC, wrote the chapter on it in Project 2025. It’s hard to know what’s worse: The administration’s efforts to intimidate journalists or CBS’s willingness to cave in. Read here to understand the issues: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Athens researchers followed 137 children for up to a year after COVID-19 and found at least 1 in 5 had long COVID symptoms.
Even without heart disease, many showed signs of subtle but lasting heart dysfunction.
www.internationaljournalofcardiology.com/article/S016...
Even without heart disease, many showed signs of subtle but lasting heart dysfunction.
www.internationaljournalofcardiology.com/article/S016...
Long term cardiovascular effects on COVID-19 infection in children. The need for monitoring
Although SARS-CoV-2 infection has been associated with mild illness in children, concerns
have emerged regarding potential long-term cardiovascular and systemic effects, even
in previously healthy ped...
www.internationaljournalofcardiology.com
February 19, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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Listen closely to every word of this
February 19, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Listen closely to every word of this
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Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison suspended two officers for coordinating with Border Patrol in violation of department policy. He said he “intends to terminate them."
Our public records request showed two more instances of officers calling immigration agents, with @kobylevin.bsky.social:
Our public records request showed two more instances of officers calling immigration agents, with @kobylevin.bsky.social:
What we know about Detroit police calls to CPB at traffic stops
Detroit police officers coordinated with Border Patrol more often than the department acknowledged.
outliermedia.org
February 18, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison suspended two officers for coordinating with Border Patrol in violation of department policy. He said he “intends to terminate them."
Our public records request showed two more instances of officers calling immigration agents, with @kobylevin.bsky.social:
Our public records request showed two more instances of officers calling immigration agents, with @kobylevin.bsky.social:
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NEW: ICE has raided dormitories at the Dilley concentration camp to confiscate letters from children per @pabloreports.bsky.social. I have filed a FOIA request for them. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social: the second we get anything, we will send it to you. 1/ www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ice-co...
NEW: ICE Confiscates Children's Letters at Dilley Concentration Camp. I've filed a FOIA Request to Get Them
ProPublica recently published heart-wrenching letters from children at Dilley. ICE then raided the dormitories to confiscate and destroy those letters. I've filed a Freedom of Information Act Request.
www.muellershewrote.com
February 18, 2026 at 7:09 PM
NEW: ICE has raided dormitories at the Dilley concentration camp to confiscate letters from children per @pabloreports.bsky.social. I have filed a FOIA request for them. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social: the second we get anything, we will send it to you. 1/ www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ice-co...
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Brooklyn Park, MN - Predator in Distress: Goons Pose as Stranded Motorist to Lure Good Samaritan
February 18, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Brooklyn Park, MN - Predator in Distress: Goons Pose as Stranded Motorist to Lure Good Samaritan
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BREAKING: Our campaign raised $2.5 million in 24 hours after the FCC banned our Colbert interview.
February 18, 2026 at 2:14 PM
BREAKING: Our campaign raised $2.5 million in 24 hours after the FCC banned our Colbert interview.
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They are moving people to 3 states without Habeas. Mississippi is one not sure of the others. This is a deliberate work around to strip civil rights
February 18, 2026 at 1:52 AM
They are moving people to 3 states without Habeas. Mississippi is one not sure of the others. This is a deliberate work around to strip civil rights
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I find it frustrating that the left has been characterized as more prone to scolding when the right’s entire culture is built on an openly insidious kind of scolding
February 18, 2026 at 3:39 PM
I find it frustrating that the left has been characterized as more prone to scolding when the right’s entire culture is built on an openly insidious kind of scolding
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"The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2026 at 4:19 PM
"The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
February 18, 2026 at 1:40 PM
“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
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This is what I’ve been talking about for weeks now.
There’s still a potential (read: very very small) for an off-ramp, but they aren’t sending all this hardware into the region for nothing.
www.axios.com/2026/02/18/i...
There’s still a potential (read: very very small) for an off-ramp, but they aren’t sending all this hardware into the region for nothing.
www.axios.com/2026/02/18/i...
February 18, 2026 at 2:04 PM
This is what I’ve been talking about for weeks now.
There’s still a potential (read: very very small) for an off-ramp, but they aren’t sending all this hardware into the region for nothing.
www.axios.com/2026/02/18/i...
There’s still a potential (read: very very small) for an off-ramp, but they aren’t sending all this hardware into the region for nothing.
www.axios.com/2026/02/18/i...
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These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share.
*one voice altered to disguise identity
*one voice altered to disguise identity
February 18, 2026 at 11:36 AM
These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share.
*one voice altered to disguise identity
*one voice altered to disguise identity
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To unnecessarily deport a sick baby and his entire family is heinous. My staff and I are in contact with Juan’s family.
February 18, 2026 at 12:49 AM
To unnecessarily deport a sick baby and his entire family is heinous. My staff and I are in contact with Juan’s family.
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Stephen Colbert responds to CBS disputing his claims that he was barred from airing the James Talarico interview:
"And for the lawyers to release this without even talking to me is really surprising. I don’t even know what to do with this crap. Hold on."
He then picks it up with a dog poop bag.
"And for the lawyers to release this without even talking to me is really surprising. I don’t even know what to do with this crap. Hold on."
He then picks it up with a dog poop bag.
February 18, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Stephen Colbert responds to CBS disputing his claims that he was barred from airing the James Talarico interview:
"And for the lawyers to release this without even talking to me is really surprising. I don’t even know what to do with this crap. Hold on."
He then picks it up with a dog poop bag.
"And for the lawyers to release this without even talking to me is really surprising. I don’t even know what to do with this crap. Hold on."
He then picks it up with a dog poop bag.
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What’s one way we can rein in ICE?
We can start by boycotting ICE’s corporate collaborators that are profiting from the agency’s cruelty.
Watch.
We can start by boycotting ICE’s corporate collaborators that are profiting from the agency’s cruelty.
Watch.
February 17, 2026 at 3:05 PM
What’s one way we can rein in ICE?
We can start by boycotting ICE’s corporate collaborators that are profiting from the agency’s cruelty.
Watch.
We can start by boycotting ICE’s corporate collaborators that are profiting from the agency’s cruelty.
Watch.
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I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
February 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
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RIP Rev. Jesse Jackson
There are going to be a lot of tributes to his activism, so I'm choosing to remember how much he crushed hosting SNL
There are going to be a lot of tributes to his activism, so I'm choosing to remember how much he crushed hosting SNL
The question is moot Reverend Jesse Jackson Saturday night live
Dailymotion video by Jesse Jackson Jr.
www.dailymotion.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:47 PM
RIP Rev. Jesse Jackson
There are going to be a lot of tributes to his activism, so I'm choosing to remember how much he crushed hosting SNL
There are going to be a lot of tributes to his activism, so I'm choosing to remember how much he crushed hosting SNL
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“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 7:31 PM
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...