@bigsteven.bsky.social
Making my way through this crazy life…
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Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.
For the love of all that is decent and holy: abolish ICE
January 8, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.
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WITNESS: "I just can't let this narrative of self-defense go any further. That’s absolutely not what it was… ICE agents didn’t let anyone help her for 15 minutes, then medics couldn’t get through with their ambulance.”
January 8, 2026 at 3:35 AM
WITNESS: "I just can't let this narrative of self-defense go any further. That’s absolutely not what it was… ICE agents didn’t let anyone help her for 15 minutes, then medics couldn’t get through with their ambulance.”
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School has been cancelled tomorrow and Friday across the city of Minneapolis, because our federal government has made it unsafe for children here.
January 8, 2026 at 3:07 AM
School has been cancelled tomorrow and Friday across the city of Minneapolis, because our federal government has made it unsafe for children here.
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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 7:01 PM
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.
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You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
January 8, 2026 at 12:15 AM
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
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Heading to Minneapolis tomorrow morning with @grantirving.bsky.social. Will be there through the weekend Looking to talk to/meet up with anyone on the ground. My DMs are open.
January 7, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Heading to Minneapolis tomorrow morning with @grantirving.bsky.social. Will be there through the weekend Looking to talk to/meet up with anyone on the ground. My DMs are open.
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remains striking the extent to which trump quite loudly does not see himself as president of the united states and more as a clan leader for his supporters
Trump: "I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting ... "
January 7, 2026 at 9:17 PM
remains striking the extent to which trump quite loudly does not see himself as president of the united states and more as a clan leader for his supporters
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Walz: "Do you have no decency? We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever. I don't want to be right about this, but I said if they do this they're gonna create a chaotic situation where someone innocent is gonna get killed. And they did it."
January 7, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Walz: "Do you have no decency? We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever. I don't want to be right about this, but I said if they do this they're gonna create a chaotic situation where someone innocent is gonna get killed. And they did it."
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we know regime playbooks here: smear the deceased, target the family, valorize the murderer both as supposedly innocent and with a sadistic delight in the murder itself.
I have an awful feeling they’re going to target the bereaved
January 7, 2026 at 9:30 PM
we know regime playbooks here: smear the deceased, target the family, valorize the murderer both as supposedly innocent and with a sadistic delight in the murder itself.
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ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video.
The Trump administration is lying.
The Trump administration is lying.
January 7, 2026 at 7:47 PM
ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video.
The Trump administration is lying.
The Trump administration is lying.
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important message to all bluesky users
January 7, 2026 at 7:53 PM
important message to all bluesky users
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This might get lost because of all the other news, but this hearing is vile.
NANCY MACE: Should Somalians in Minnesota be required to speech English if they're citizens?
BALLOU: I think that question is really inappropriate
MACE: Can you name one significant contribution to Minnesota from a Somali immigrant who can't speak English?
BALLOU: I think that question is really inappropriate
MACE: Can you name one significant contribution to Minnesota from a Somali immigrant who can't speak English?
January 7, 2026 at 5:52 PM
This might get lost because of all the other news, but this hearing is vile.
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Trump is using ICE like a secret police force. They’ve used Gestapo-like tactics to terrorize communities for nearly a year, and now they’re literally killing people. This can’t be America.
I was the first member of Congress to call for abolishing ICE. November’s elections can’t come soon enough.
I was the first member of Congress to call for abolishing ICE. November’s elections can’t come soon enough.
There is video of the shooting of a woman by ICE in Minneapolis circulating that shows an ICE agent repeatedly shooting her at point blank range while she tries to drive off. There was no obvious threat to any ICE agent.
January 7, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Trump is using ICE like a secret police force. They’ve used Gestapo-like tactics to terrorize communities for nearly a year, and now they’re literally killing people. This can’t be America.
I was the first member of Congress to call for abolishing ICE. November’s elections can’t come soon enough.
I was the first member of Congress to call for abolishing ICE. November’s elections can’t come soon enough.
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After posting on the White House website just yesterday that Ashli Babbit was "murdered in cold blood," the administration states that the victim of the ICE shooting in Minnesota was justifiably killed as a "domestic terrorist."
January 7, 2026 at 8:22 PM
After posting on the White House website just yesterday that Ashli Babbit was "murdered in cold blood," the administration states that the victim of the ICE shooting in Minnesota was justifiably killed as a "domestic terrorist."
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Just want to point out for the "trying to protect people around them" crowd: there are no less than 3 other people (including the woman taking the video) in close proximity when the trigger is pulled. Likely more out of view to the right.
January 7, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Just want to point out for the "trying to protect people around them" crowd: there are no less than 3 other people (including the woman taking the video) in close proximity when the trigger is pulled. Likely more out of view to the right.
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No CR until the masks of every one of these goons come down forever. Ds need to hold the line or let every subsequent line be broken forever.
As a future measure, any federal LE force that insists on hiding from the public should be disbanded.
Ds have power. Wield it while you can.
As a future measure, any federal LE force that insists on hiding from the public should be disbanded.
Ds have power. Wield it while you can.
This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.
January 7, 2026 at 8:28 PM
No CR until the masks of every one of these goons come down forever. Ds need to hold the line or let every subsequent line be broken forever.
As a future measure, any federal LE force that insists on hiding from the public should be disbanded.
Ds have power. Wield it while you can.
As a future measure, any federal LE force that insists on hiding from the public should be disbanded.
Ds have power. Wield it while you can.
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threatening senators currently
January 7, 2026 at 8:29 PM
threatening senators currently
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wonder how executing a 37-year-old white woman in cold blood is going to play out this time for the administration (genuinely wondering, this is not a rhetorical question)
January 7, 2026 at 6:59 PM
wonder how executing a 37-year-old white woman in cold blood is going to play out this time for the administration (genuinely wondering, this is not a rhetorical question)
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I just came from the Venezuela briefing; can confirm this insane plan to indefinitely take Venezuela's oil at gun point and use it as leverage to micromanage the country.
We're back in the nation building business. And we're going to make oil guys rich. Also, it won't work.
We're back in the nation building business. And we're going to make oil guys rich. Also, it won't work.
January 7, 2026 at 7:33 PM
I just came from the Venezuela briefing; can confirm this insane plan to indefinitely take Venezuela's oil at gun point and use it as leverage to micromanage the country.
We're back in the nation building business. And we're going to make oil guys rich. Also, it won't work.
We're back in the nation building business. And we're going to make oil guys rich. Also, it won't work.
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The Republic is failing in part because sycophants can enjoy decades in the legislature. America deserves a better breed of asshole who will tell a President they like that the executive still has to go through Congress to spend money.
People used to like being responsible for things.
People used to like being responsible for things.
Q: Does the president have the authority to unilaterally seize oil from Venezuela and use money from the sale of that oil as he sees fit?
MIKE JOHNSON: That's sanctioned oil, and I'm not gonna get up here and tell you the details of all these developments
MIKE JOHNSON: That's sanctioned oil, and I'm not gonna get up here and tell you the details of all these developments
January 7, 2026 at 4:14 PM
The Republic is failing in part because sycophants can enjoy decades in the legislature. America deserves a better breed of asshole who will tell a President they like that the executive still has to go through Congress to spend money.
People used to like being responsible for things.
People used to like being responsible for things.
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I don't know how to describe it, but there's this profound brokenness in the American body politic where nobody can take the implications of anything seriously. People keep saying things that should be existential threats to the political system, and then everyone just keeps going on as normal.
fuck outta here
January 6, 2026 at 6:28 PM
I don't know how to describe it, but there's this profound brokenness in the American body politic where nobody can take the implications of anything seriously. People keep saying things that should be existential threats to the political system, and then everyone just keeps going on as normal.
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this shit is so fuckin funny to me bc every conservative coded white person over 25 has seen Landman, which in the very first episode Billy Bob Thornton explains how fucked American oil producers are if it's too cheap to sell
January 6, 2026 at 7:44 PM
this shit is so fuckin funny to me bc every conservative coded white person over 25 has seen Landman, which in the very first episode Billy Bob Thornton explains how fucked American oil producers are if it's too cheap to sell