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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊
@callyson.bsky.social
Longtime CA/originally PGH/now NV
Leader @SwingLeftReno
Politics/fashion/art
Fighter for American democracy
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#Resist #Steelers #VoteBlue
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I did a thing. Hope others find it useful...because we sure AF can't trust the legacy media to deliver the news about what's going on:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Substacks & Podcasts Worth Following
docs.google.com
And I am still LMFAO about Steve Bannon's delusion that he was going to "take down" the (then) Pope Francis...
www.cnn.com/2026/02/14/w...
February 15, 2026 at 1:17 AM
"DOJ continues to muddy the waters by combining names in the files of 'politically exposed persons' who were actually involved with Epstein with random individuals who were mentioned in unrelated ways"
Mind the auto-play link:
open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
Major News: DOJ Releases Letter of "Politically Exposed Persons" in Epstein Files to Muddy the Waters as Europe Embraces Democratic Leaders
Good evening everyone.
open.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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@barackobama.bsky.social: "When I was POTUS, I suppose I could have simply unilaterally ordered the military to go into some red state and harass and intimidate a governor or cut off funding for states that didn't vote for me... but that is contrary to how I think our democracy is supposed to work."
February 14, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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Denmark fan waving a Greenland flag after they took the lead against the US. Swedes also cheering along Denmark.
February 14, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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The Danes (or actual Greenlanders maybe) bringing the Greenland flag to the USA v Denmark game is peak.
February 14, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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No, you don’t have to forgive people who giddily endorsed fascism for over ten years and only just now realize they support pedophiles.
February 14, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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Today, I remember the tragedy of the Parkland school shooting. As an infantryman and combat veteran accustomed to handguns and rifles––and as a licensed gun owner with a concealed carry permit––I am committed to gun safety. We must do more to keep our children safe & end the scourge of gun violence.
February 14, 2026 at 11:33 PM
February 14, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Let’s make it last:
February 14, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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I'm going to need you to sit down and read this headline slowly
February 14, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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February 14, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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New York City defies Donald Trump by raising the rainbow flag again at the Stonewall monument, the birthplace of the fight for LGBT+ rights.
February 14, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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I have an URGENT 8yr old that’s completely shut down #nycacc- he refuses 2leave his kennel- just so depressed. Was friendly at intake until he realized what was happening &he is terrified! If there’s some1 NY NH NJ NE DE DC MD ME RI VT VA PA that can open their homes -DM me! #caturday REPOST
February 14, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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February 14, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.
Meet Minnesota Bathrobe Lady Sam Stroozas of MPR News | Minnesota Public Radio
Earlier this week, an unexpected and fast-moving incident unfolded in St. Paul, Minnesota involving both federal and local law enforcement. As crowds gathered and questions mounted, one of our MPR New...
www.mpr.org
February 14, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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February 14, 2026 at 5:49 PM
"One might notice that Trump’s complaints about noncitizen voting evaporated after his victory last November. However, Trump seems to have revived his obsession ahead of the midterm elections"
Principled!
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newrepublic.com/post/206578/...
New DHS Tool to Check Voters’ Citizenship Status Is Already a Mess
The tool keeps misidentifying people as noncitizens.
newrepublic.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:25 PM
MAGA Senator Took Donation From Epstein Friend Before Key Vote
Ohio Senator Jon Husted received $3,500 from Les Wexner
...also Bernie Moreno, Mike Carey...& Joyce Beatty? Give it back, Joyce!
newrepublic.com/post/206564/...
February 14, 2026 at 5:21 PM
"There is a name for governments that ask collaborators to report on citizens who criticize the regime: They are called fascists...This will not stand. It is an abomination. It is anti-American, undemocratic, and fascistic:"
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
Homeland Security asks social media companies to identify users that criticize ICE.
February 14, 2026
open.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:07 PM
"requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency"
RIP freedom of speech
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Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:05 PM
“Nobody wants to get on Trump's bad side. If it wasn't for that, nobody would care, it's just a chant, but unfortunately, they've [Warner Bros.] got a company they're trying to sell and get regulatory approval from a guy who is going to take that stuff personal”
🙄
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Is Warner Bros. sidelining an anti-ICE wrestler?
Professional wrestler Brody King, who has inspired supporters to chant “Fuck ICE” at events, has reportedly been sidelined by the All Elite Wrestling promotion at the behest of Warner Bros. ...
www.dailykos.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:50 PM
"Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to pay his U.S. Marshal security through the end of the year"
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newrepublic.com/post/206559/...
Trump Official Who Helped Kill USAID Now Using Its Funds for Himself
Russ Vought, White House Office of Management and Budget director, has decided what is happening with USAID funds.
newrepublic.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:38 PM
An NYT example of how the omission of one word matters:
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
February 14, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Always concerned
Never courageous:
This ad should concern Susan Collins.
February 13, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Reeps, Fox, "and their useful idiots in the so-called ‘liberal’ media spent four long years absolutely obsessing over Hunter Biden’s financial scandals – and yet here is Jared attending high-level, international government meetings, something Hunter never did:"
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
👀 Jared Kushner... Redacted?
The president's son-in-law is at the center of a huge new scandal. Plus: the Trump administration's war on the climate and the Pakistani government's war on Imran Khan's health.
open.substack.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:41 PM