Abby Collins
@arpcollins.bsky.social
open heart, open mind, open anxiety 🤎 lover of art, animals, travel, ideas, and carbs 🤎 wife to one sweet human, mom to two
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We used to have a Constitution, Congress, and the law. Now the limits of Trump’s power are self-determined. This is why we called our rallies ‘No Kings’.
January 8, 2026 at 11:37 PM
We used to have a Constitution, Congress, and the law. Now the limits of Trump’s power are self-determined. This is why we called our rallies ‘No Kings’.
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“Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country,” a former DHS official said. “We’re at an inflection point in history right now and it’s frightening.”
(Published Oct. 2025)
(Published Oct. 2025)
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
www.propublica.org
January 9, 2026 at 12:00 AM
“Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country,” a former DHS official said. “We’re at an inflection point in history right now and it’s frightening.”
(Published Oct. 2025)
(Published Oct. 2025)
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BREAKING: U.S. federal agents shot two people in Portland on Thursday afternoon, police said, adding that they were taken to hospital and their conditions were not known reut.rs/4ssRkDX
January 9, 2026 at 12:04 AM
BREAKING: U.S. federal agents shot two people in Portland on Thursday afternoon, police said, adding that they were taken to hospital and their conditions were not known reut.rs/4ssRkDX
Remember that time Skittles changed the green flavor to green apple and everyone was disappointed and then we all collectively refused to accept it and Skittles apologized and changed it back to lime? That energy is my hope for 2026.
January 1, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Remember that time Skittles changed the green flavor to green apple and everyone was disappointed and then we all collectively refused to accept it and Skittles apologized and changed it back to lime? That energy is my hope for 2026.
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US military strikes another alleged drug boat as Trump ramps up Venezuela pressure
US military strikes another alleged drug boat as Trump ramps up Venezuela pressure
US military strikes another alleged drug boat as Trump ramps up Venezuela pressure
www.independent.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
US military strikes another alleged drug boat as Trump ramps up Venezuela pressure
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Bill Barr had the reporter who broke the Epstein story surveilled. Nothing to see here, folks.
December 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Bill Barr had the reporter who broke the Epstein story surveilled. Nothing to see here, folks.
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Big news no one is covering. My latest - along with Chuck Modiano - for @thenation.com "FIFA and UEFA Presidents Are Accused of Aiding Israel’s War Crimes". The complaint is being filed with the ICC in under two weeks. This does explain that FIFA Peace Prize a tad.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
“This Is Historic”: FIFA and UEFA Presidents Are Accused of Aiding Israel’s War Crimes
A coming filing with the ICC accuses FIFA’s Gianni Infantino and UEFA’s Aleksander Čeferin of crimes against humanity for their financial support of settlement clubs.
www.thenation.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Big news no one is covering. My latest - along with Chuck Modiano - for @thenation.com "FIFA and UEFA Presidents Are Accused of Aiding Israel’s War Crimes". The complaint is being filed with the ICC in under two weeks. This does explain that FIFA Peace Prize a tad.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Dr. Kirk Moore faked COVID vaccine cards and gave saline shots to children at their parents’ request to offer patients “choice” amid pandemic-era mandates. Pam Bondi dismissed all charges against him.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pam-bon...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pam-bon...
Pam Bondi Dismissed Charges Against a Surgeon Who Falsified Vaccine Cards. It Emboldened Others With Similar Cases.
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Dr. Kirk Moore faked COVID vaccine cards and gave saline shots to children at their parents’ request to offer patients “choice” amid pandemic-era mandates. Pam Bondi dismissed all charges against him.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pam-bon...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pam-bon...
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talking to reporters last night, Trump claimed of Hegseth's double tap strike that "I don't know anything about it," then moments later claimed "I don't who you're talking about" when asked his plan to pardon the former Honduran president
December 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
talking to reporters last night, Trump claimed of Hegseth's double tap strike that "I don't know anything about it," then moments later claimed "I don't who you're talking about" when asked his plan to pardon the former Honduran president
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Something upsetting I learned in my travels: an HIV-prevention worker whose org in South Africa went from 86 ppl to 4(!) told me that if I went on Grindr (& he suggested I do not, as it's dangerous), I'd find many of his "former colleagues offering services"—bc sex work is their only option
December 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Something upsetting I learned in my travels: an HIV-prevention worker whose org in South Africa went from 86 ppl to 4(!) told me that if I went on Grindr (& he suggested I do not, as it's dangerous), I'd find many of his "former colleagues offering services"—bc sex work is their only option
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Marco Rubio knew the truth 9 years ago, but he sold his soul for power. Yet he was correct: He will one day have to explain his support for Trump, and this is not going to end well.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Marco Rubio knew the truth 9 years ago, but he sold his soul for power. Yet he was correct: He will one day have to explain his support for Trump, and this is not going to end well.
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Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
I......just........don't know how this is real.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I......just........don't know how this is real.
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Turns out poor people spent a lot of money on tea and sugar *because they were poor* and that was their inadequate replacement for unaffordable things like cooking fuel, food with actual nutritional content, and enough calories to slave away over a loom for 12 hours.
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Turns out poor people spent a lot of money on tea and sugar *because they were poor* and that was their inadequate replacement for unaffordable things like cooking fuel, food with actual nutritional content, and enough calories to slave away over a loom for 12 hours.
FFS What are we even doing???
November 8, 2025 at 2:41 AM
FFS What are we even doing???
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AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano looked into a few of the men killed in Trump's extrajudicial strikes on Caribbean boats.
"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"
apnews.com/article/trum...
"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano looked into a few of the men killed in Trump's extrajudicial strikes on Caribbean boats.
"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"
apnews.com/article/trum...
"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"
apnews.com/article/trum...
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The Trump administration moved on Friday to deny swift and full food stamp payments to millions of low-income Americans, as it asked a federal appeals court to halt a judge’s recent order that would preserve those benefits during the shutdown.
Trump Administration Seeks Immediate Halt to Court Order to Pay Food Stamps
The appeal comes one day after a judge sharply attacked the White House for politicizing the anti-hunger program
nyti.ms
November 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The Trump administration moved on Friday to deny swift and full food stamp payments to millions of low-income Americans, as it asked a federal appeals court to halt a judge’s recent order that would preserve those benefits during the shutdown.
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“I found their justification for what they’re doing so flimsy that it makes the case for the Iraq War look like a slam dunk,” Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., said on Morning Joe. interc.pt/4nRmHVf
November 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
“I found their justification for what they’re doing so flimsy that it makes the case for the Iraq War look like a slam dunk,” Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., said on Morning Joe. interc.pt/4nRmHVf