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Marq in the Bay
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SF Bay Area #climate champ, dog dad, technologist, singer (stage and closet). Followed by @JennyCohn, @DevinCow & @TeaPain. #ProudBlue #StandWithUkraine #ActOnClimate #Resist #BlueEarth
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Marq in the Bay @baymarq.bsky.social · Nov 16
Poem, by Marq

That site of Musk
Is now a husk.
The site of Graber? It
Is now our favorite.
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sayittomyface.bsky.social
Everything begins locally! Go to your local city and county council meetings to fight ICE warehouses before they start. You can make a difference.
February 12, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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muellershewrote.com
NEW: Senate Democrats REJECT funding for DHS, which will lead to shutdown of the agency. Keep in mind, ICE and CBP are still funded by supplemental money in the BBB, but it's harder to spend and will deplete those funds. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Senate Democrats Block DHS Measure as Funding Deadline Approaches
Lawmakers say they remain far apart on deal on Homeland Security to put new restrictions on immigration enforcement
www.wsj.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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czeckmate2024.bsky.social
Putin demanding war end be signed in Moscow, is a very important symbol. It’s to show UKR is a vassal state.

No way Zelenskyy could be confident of his safety.

The war won’t end.
February 12, 2026 at 4:50 PM
baymarq.bsky.social
My theory: Hegseth is staging an invasion of Mexico.
February 11, 2026 at 12:45 PM
baymarq.bsky.social
In case you're in the huge majority of Americans who have no idea that antisemitism is rising.
raskin.house.gov Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 2d
Montgomery County is horrified by the swastika and antisemitic graffiti scrawled on Shaare Tefila in Olney. Our community sends the congregation our sympathy, solidarity and affection. I know anyone trespassing and defacing property like this will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Shaare Tefila congregation in Washington suburbs defaced with antisemitic graffiti
Signs outside the Conservative congregation in Olney, Md., were spray-painted with a swastika and an antisemitic slur
jewishinsider.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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therickydavila.bsky.social
Not at all surprised that racist neo-Nazi Kristi Noem’s full name (Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem) spells out KLAN. Destined by the universe to be white supremacist trash.
February 10, 2026 at 7:24 PM
baymarq.bsky.social
Hey NY Times - the adjective you're looking for is "supposed" drug trafficking boats. #ProudBlue #Resistance
U.S. Boat Strike Kills 2 in Pacific, With One Survivor The strike in the eastern Pacific, the third on suspected drug trafficking boats this year, was the second authorized by Gen. Francis L. Donovan, the new head of the Southern Command.
February 11, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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propublica.org
Read the letters referenced by Rep. James Walkinshaw here:
February 10, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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senseidai.bsky.social
Want to know if ICE has plans to buy a warehouse near you to cruelly house undocumented immigrants? Check out this interactive map, as seen on the Rachel Maddow show. @maddow.bsky.social

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsACriminal #FuckICE

lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...
DHS Contracts Visualizer
Looker Studio turns your data into informative dashboards and reports that are easy to read, easy to share, and fully customizable.
lookerstudio.google.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:51 AM
baymarq.bsky.social
Youbetcha!
February 10, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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cwebbonline.com
🚨BREAKING: Puerto Rico has been part of the United States since 1898, and people still act confused that Puerto Ricans are American.

States that joined after Puerto Rico:
• Oklahoma — 1907
• New Mexico — 1912
• Arizona — 1912
• Alaska — 1959
• Hawaii — 1959

Yet somehow this is still news to folks.
February 10, 2026 at 4:36 AM
baymarq.bsky.social
"2 prison giants spent millions lobbying for the Fair Access to Banking Act, a pending bill that seeks to prevent banks from denying access to ... those involved in “politically unpopular businesses but that are lawful under Federal law.” #ProudBlue #Resistance theintercept.com/2026/02/05/p...
ICE’s Private Prison Contractors Spent Millions Lobbying to Force Banks to Give Them Loans
Major banks have denied financing to ICE prison contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic — but a bill pushed by companies could force their hand.
theintercept.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:45 PM
baymarq.bsky.social
ICYMI
Release ALL of the #EpsteinFiles
#ProudBlue #Resistance
amysiskind.com Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 4d
This powerful PSA by Epstein survivors will be aired on the Super Bowl tonight.
February 9, 2026 at 6:41 PM
baymarq.bsky.social
Here's the WSJ being sooo careful not to say that the Pee-resident post of the Obamas as apes was incontrovertibly RACIST. SMH #ProudBlue #Resistance
There was an unusually public rift between President Trump and a large number of Republicans on Friday over a video he posted to his social-media account that many in his party viewed as racist. Trump refused to apologize, but this is the second time in recent weeks that Republicans have sought to distance themselves from Trump (the first instance was following the killing of two protesters in Minnesota). Does something have to give?
February 9, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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February 9, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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rwillson.bsky.social
Everyone making noise about Olympic Skater Ilia Malinin (a white dude) pulling off the first legal backflip in competition as if he is a revolutionary skater needs to remember Surya Bonaly (black girl) completed a backflip in the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics and was penalized for it
I call Bullshit
February 8, 2026 at 10:08 PM
baymarq.bsky.social
Will Trump steal the midterms? "Be vigilant, be imaginative, but also remember that everything Trump is doing to impose restrictive voting measures is backfiring on Republicans, just like his previous efforts." - @washingtonmonthly.com

washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/06/t...
How Worried Should Democrats Be About Trump Stealing the Next Election?
Trump is again talking about controlling and stealing elections. History suggests Democrats should worry—but not panic.
washingtonmonthly.com
February 8, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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mudlady64.bsky.social
Share this picture instead. ♥️
February 6, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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namwella1961.bsky.social
It's easier for Trump to try to discredit those of us calling bullshit on his disgusting post of Barack and Michelle Obama, rather than making the effort to not be a racist asshole.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
February 7, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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tmel1219.bsky.social
If you’re not horrified, you’re not paying attention!

Listen to a MN resident, “I’m immediately concerned for other states. If 700 agents leave here, they’ll go somewhere else. One kid pulled off a bus or out of school is too many. Everyone is afraid & is hiding.

#ProudBlue
#Voices4Victory
February 6, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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urocklive1.bsky.social
"Trump alleged that the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian election interference - prepared by folks he associates with the “deep state” including former CIA Director John Brennan - included underlying source materials proving outcome-determinative foreign election interference:"
A few weeks later, Jack Smith filed a motion in limine - that’s a motion asking a judge to prohibit certain evidence from being allowed in court. Jack Smith wrote: “The defendant has indicated that he intends to introduce evidence of foreign influence in the 2020 presidential election to show that (1) he was personally tricked by foreign disinformation, and/or (2) the January 6 riot resulted from “efforts by foreign actors to influence public opinion.” Such evidence should be excluded as an irrelevant and confusing sideshow. As to any claim that the defendant was fooled by foreign influence, absent a concrete showing that the defendant (1) relied in good faith on (2) specific foreign disinformation when (3) making a particular false claim, such evidence will be irrelevant to the defendant’s mens rea and will only distract the jury from the issues properly before it. Next, any argument that foreign actors—rather than the defendant, and his ceaseless, knowingly false claims of election fraud—were responsible for inflaming his followers and causing the Capitol riot is nothing more than an infirm third-party guilt defense. The defendant has not pointed to a single piece of evidence indicating that foreign influence—rather than his own lies—motivated rioters on January 6. And in any event, whether others—be they civilians or foreign actors—said untrue things on the internet does not exonerate the defendant for the lies he told to his followers or the criminal steps he took to illegally retain power.” All of this to say that Trump was and is hell-bent on fabricating foreign election interference. Why?
February 5, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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papootx.bsky.social
CBP And ICE Rampant Criminality And Corruption

Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that one of its own agents or officers was arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005.

From 2005 to 2024 - 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents were arrested.

www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
Accountability for ICE and CBP
However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 5, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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bmcushing.bsky.social
Huge. Laws like this were designed to punish investors for taking basic steps to address climate risk.

@sierraclub.org statement: www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...

(Also worth noting: the firms targeted were never actually “boycotting” fossil fuels—that was political misinformation all along.)
texastribune.org Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 8d
A federal district judge on Wednesday declared Senate Bill 13 — a 2021 law restricting state investments in companies boycotting the fossil fuel industry — unconstitutional, calling it “facially overbroad” and citing First and Fourteenth Amendment concerns.
Texas fossil fuel boycott law ruled unconstitutional
A judge ruled Senate Bill 13, passed in 2021, violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments. The law prevented state investments in firms it deemed as boycotting oil and gas companies.
www.texastribune.org
February 5, 2026 at 8:10 PM
baymarq.bsky.social
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February 5, 2026 at 2:51 AM
baymarq.bsky.social
Another action for today -
No safety exemptions for nuclear reactors!
#ProudBlue #Resistance #BlueEarth
act.foodandwateraction.org/page/93758/a...
I just took action on: No Safety Exemptions for Nuclear!
Will you take this quick action too?
act.foodandwateraction.org
February 4, 2026 at 10:34 PM