BigRedDiver
@bigreddiver.bsky.social
“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions” - Confucius
Doing my best with what I’ve got today. Working to be better tomorrow.
*he/him*
Doing my best with what I’ve got today. Working to be better tomorrow.
*he/him*
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Barely observed by US media, much of Trump's first year has included a scurrying about to secure unappropriated revenues he can use for his projects, much akin to what Charles I did in the years up to and during the English Civil War.
January 9, 2026 at 6:08 AM
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Stop falling for the “untrained” narrative.
NEW: Jonathan Ross is former National Guard and Border Patrol and has been part of ICE's SWAT equivalent, a team leader overseeing FBI, ATF, and IRS agents, and a firearms instructor, according to testimony obtained by WIRED. This is from @hudsongiles.bsky.social and me:
ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, Per Testimony
Jonathan Ross told a federal court in December about his professional background, including “hundreds” of encounters with drivers during enforcement actions, according to testimony obtained by WIRED.
www.wired.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Stop falling for the “untrained” narrative.
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Fundamental, and very important point.
We need to get it lodged more firmly in the discourse that Trump and Stephen Miller are prioritizing removing nonviolent immigrants over public safety. They are sinking so many resources into their ethnic purification project that they're putting us in more danger.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
January 8, 2026 at 5:40 AM
Fundamental, and very important point.
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We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
www.wired.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:35 PM
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
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Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"
Social Security - "That's socialism!"
Debt free education - "That's socialism!"
Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"
Billions for ICE, refurbishing Trump's Qatar jet, and tax cuts for the rich...
"That's just how it is."
Social Security - "That's socialism!"
Debt free education - "That's socialism!"
Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"
Billions for ICE, refurbishing Trump's Qatar jet, and tax cuts for the rich...
"That's just how it is."
January 8, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"
Social Security - "That's socialism!"
Debt free education - "That's socialism!"
Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"
Billions for ICE, refurbishing Trump's Qatar jet, and tax cuts for the rich...
"That's just how it is."
Social Security - "That's socialism!"
Debt free education - "That's socialism!"
Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"
Billions for ICE, refurbishing Trump's Qatar jet, and tax cuts for the rich...
"That's just how it is."
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Seems like a good time to re-up this one.
Again, my big takeaway from four-plus years of reporting on the Trump Hotel DC—
Norms aren’t laws and, unless they’re enforced quickly, laws ain’t shit.
Norms aren’t laws and, unless they’re enforced quickly, laws ain’t shit.
January 8, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Seems like a good time to re-up this one.
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Let's stop calling ICE "law enforcement" and call them what they really are: an ethnic cleansing death squad.
January 8, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Let's stop calling ICE "law enforcement" and call them what they really are: an ethnic cleansing death squad.
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Legal: Congress has what’s known as “the power of the purse.”
Illegal: When Trump says, “I’ve decided to create my own purse.”
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Illegal: When Trump says, “I’ve decided to create my own purse.”
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
‘Slush fund’: Democrats push back against Trump’s plan to control Venezuelan oil sales
The president said he’d create a pool of money from Venezuelan oil sales. Democrats said that can’t legally happen.
www.ms.now
January 8, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Legal: Congress has what’s known as “the power of the purse.”
Illegal: When Trump says, “I’ve decided to create my own purse.”
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Illegal: When Trump says, “I’ve decided to create my own purse.”
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
This is a CBP BORTAC officer.
The "elite of the elite within DHS."
Firing directly at a protestor's face from POINT-BLANK RANGE.
IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. IN FRONT OF CAMERAS.
What are they doing in detention centers where taxpayers can't observe & understand for themselves?
#YouArentAngryEnough
The "elite of the elite within DHS."
Firing directly at a protestor's face from POINT-BLANK RANGE.
IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. IN FRONT OF CAMERAS.
What are they doing in detention centers where taxpayers can't observe & understand for themselves?
#YouArentAngryEnough
January 8, 2026 at 6:46 PM
This is a CBP BORTAC officer.
The "elite of the elite within DHS."
Firing directly at a protestor's face from POINT-BLANK RANGE.
IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. IN FRONT OF CAMERAS.
What are they doing in detention centers where taxpayers can't observe & understand for themselves?
#YouArentAngryEnough
The "elite of the elite within DHS."
Firing directly at a protestor's face from POINT-BLANK RANGE.
IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. IN FRONT OF CAMERAS.
What are they doing in detention centers where taxpayers can't observe & understand for themselves?
#YouArentAngryEnough
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One way to tell if you’re “The Baddies” is if you’re the guy in helmet and body armor firing tear gas at high school students AT THEIR OWN SCHOOL.
CBP and ICE are a terrible mix of aggro and poorly trained, supercharged by feeling totally unaccountable.
CBP and ICE are a terrible mix of aggro and poorly trained, supercharged by feeling totally unaccountable.
man the video of border patrol facing off with angry students in Minneapolis on Reddit is depressing
www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/...
www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/...
An official from Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis told MPR News that armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came onto school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people; they handcuff...
www.reddit.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:29 PM
One way to tell if you’re “The Baddies” is if you’re the guy in helmet and body armor firing tear gas at high school students AT THEIR OWN SCHOOL.
CBP and ICE are a terrible mix of aggro and poorly trained, supercharged by feeling totally unaccountable.
CBP and ICE are a terrible mix of aggro and poorly trained, supercharged by feeling totally unaccountable.
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Offshore. Stealth wealth. New colonialism. I called in 2024.
If you want to understand more about how this is going to work, and how it's not just about money but ideology, you can find reviews and an excerpt here:
brookeharrington.com/books/offsho...
If you want to understand more about how this is going to work, and how it's not just about money but ideology, you can find reviews and an excerpt here:
brookeharrington.com/books/offsho...
January 8, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Offshore. Stealth wealth. New colonialism. I called in 2024.
If you want to understand more about how this is going to work, and how it's not just about money but ideology, you can find reviews and an excerpt here:
brookeharrington.com/books/offsho...
If you want to understand more about how this is going to work, and how it's not just about money but ideology, you can find reviews and an excerpt here:
brookeharrington.com/books/offsho...
Aiming his weapon DIRECTLY AT THE FACE
ICE++ the CBP, and judging from the patches — BORTAC.
BORTAC is a counterterrorism tactical unit of CBP.
Just shooting people
BORTAC is a counterterrorism tactical unit of CBP.
Just shooting people
January 8, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Aiming his weapon DIRECTLY AT THE FACE
For your situational awareness:
New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co
January 8, 2026 at 4:50 PM
For your situational awareness:
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The same way they do with everything else. Just ignore the rules and do what they want
January 8, 2026 at 4:27 PM
The same way they do with everything else. Just ignore the rules and do what they want
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The word “doxing”—and yes, since there’s anti-doxing laws, I guess you could say in a legal sense—means to reveal private information. Like publishing a home address or phone number. Vance and others are trying to redefine it to limit scrutiny into public records.
January 8, 2026 at 5:52 AM
The word “doxing”—and yes, since there’s anti-doxing laws, I guess you could say in a legal sense—means to reveal private information. Like publishing a home address or phone number. Vance and others are trying to redefine it to limit scrutiny into public records.
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Tim Walz has got nothing to lose. He needs to leverage the full power of the state government against ICE. Right now.
January 7, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Tim Walz has got nothing to lose. He needs to leverage the full power of the state government against ICE. Right now.
Thank goodness he was good & rested for the shooting thanks to @hiltonhotels.bsky.social
You done F’d up, aligning yourself with Gestapo murderers. It was cool when you just thought they were N@zi human traffickers, but now…HOO BOY!! #ReapIt
You done F’d up, aligning yourself with Gestapo murderers. It was cool when you just thought they were N@zi human traffickers, but now…HOO BOY!! #ReapIt
Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
January 7, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Thank goodness he was good & rested for the shooting thanks to @hiltonhotels.bsky.social
You done F’d up, aligning yourself with Gestapo murderers. It was cool when you just thought they were N@zi human traffickers, but now…HOO BOY!! #ReapIt
You done F’d up, aligning yourself with Gestapo murderers. It was cool when you just thought they were N@zi human traffickers, but now…HOO BOY!! #ReapIt
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One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
January 6, 2026 at 1:37 AM
One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
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To Denmark and Greenland: 100 Danish forces deployed to Desert Storm. They stood with us defending sovereignty and international law. Now I watch Stephen Miller mock you on TV while my government threatens to invade Greenland. I'm a veteran and I'm ashamed beyond words. I'm so sorry.
January 6, 2026 at 1:05 AM
To Denmark and Greenland: 100 Danish forces deployed to Desert Storm. They stood with us defending sovereignty and international law. Now I watch Stephen Miller mock you on TV while my government threatens to invade Greenland. I'm a veteran and I'm ashamed beyond words. I'm so sorry.
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It is truly insane to me that our system has the means to end this insanity but the people who can effect it refuse to…even though we are now at a point where in cannot possibly be in their own interest to keep supporting this shitshow
January 5, 2026 at 4:56 PM
It is truly insane to me that our system has the means to end this insanity but the people who can effect it refuse to…even though we are now at a point where in cannot possibly be in their own interest to keep supporting this shitshow
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Big Oil spent nearly $100M to get Trump elected in 2024.
Now Trump is returning the favor, giving them advance notice of his Venezuela attack and sending their stocks skyrocketing by promising them control of the country's oil reserves.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
Now Trump is returning the favor, giving them advance notice of his Venezuela attack and sending their stocks skyrocketing by promising them control of the country's oil reserves.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
January 5, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Big Oil spent nearly $100M to get Trump elected in 2024.
Now Trump is returning the favor, giving them advance notice of his Venezuela attack and sending their stocks skyrocketing by promising them control of the country's oil reserves.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
Now Trump is returning the favor, giving them advance notice of his Venezuela attack and sending their stocks skyrocketing by promising them control of the country's oil reserves.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
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I repeat 🔁 :
If you are not *alarmed,* you are not paying attention.
🆘🇺🇸
If you are not *alarmed,* you are not paying attention.
🆘🇺🇸
January 5, 2026 at 6:13 PM
I repeat 🔁 :
If you are not *alarmed,* you are not paying attention.
🆘🇺🇸
If you are not *alarmed,* you are not paying attention.
🆘🇺🇸