Cookie Riot
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Cookie Riot
@cookieriot.bsky.social
It’s not so much that we lost that breaks my heart. It’s that we lost to a twice-impeached, adjudicated rapist, conman who was responsible for the death of almost a million people and who has promised to derail the country again.

My body. Fuck you.
Pinned
📌 … for later. I still can’t right now.
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He's had their number for a long time
February 8, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade
The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.
www.democracydocket.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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Small dog suffers broken rib after being repeatedly kicked by U.S. Marshals deputy. "Action News 5 obtained two videos that show the marshals service employee kicking Yoshi not once, but twice." www.actionnews5.com/2026/02/07/d...
Dog kicked by Memphis Safe Task Force member on the mend as US Marshals defend action
The dog’s owner told Action News 5 that the deputy U.S. marshal seen punting her pup had no reason to do so, but officials with the U.S. Marshals Service say otherwise.
www.actionnews5.com
February 8, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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"[The Framers would] be appalled at what we're seeing today. That you're having a president who thinks he can run roughshod over Congress."

I stopped by #Unfiltered this week to talk about the state of Democracy, and what's at stake.

link to the entire conversation: youtu.be/_DLwKr7bif8?...
February 7, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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From what they’re saying, it’s someone close to Trump getting caught communicating with a foreign intelligence operative. I don’t know what it was related to, but I’m deeply concerned that the NSA Director and Deputy Director were both fired around the time of the complaint.
February 8, 2026 at 2:55 AM
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I think that’s the right move. Bezos seems desperate to cripple the Post for whatever reason.

Obviously, I don’t know if the layoffs were Bezos or Lewis’ idea, but either way, Bezos should sell the paper to someone who will give a shit about it.
February 8, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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With this cabinet?

Trump could waddle naked across the South Lawn screaming about how Obama stole his bathrobe and they would just clap.

He’s clearly impaired, but until he physically can’t do the job anymore (and maybe even after) nobody is going to do a damn thing about it.
February 8, 2026 at 2:58 AM
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Involving Iran, huh? Interesting.

Makes even more sense that Tulsi blocked it, now.

Hillary was right about everything, btw.
February 8, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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Thoughts on this?

“🚨 BREAKING: Members of Congress were just briefed on an intercepted call between foreign nationals discussing someone close to Donald Trump — involving Iran. A whistleblower says Tulsi Gabbard restricted access to the report and blocked wider sharing across U.S. intelligence…”
February 8, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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Master class in how to respond to political bullshit.

Happy to talk to you out in the open, but I’m not going to let you feed the selective outrage machine with cherry-picked quotes.
February 8, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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Did you see Bill Clinton’s response to the closed-door subpoena?
February 8, 2026 at 2:55 AM
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I don’t have a clue what they’ll ultimately decide to do, but I sure as hell hope they will.

I think it’s likely there are several countries who have access to most of the records that COULD release them.
February 8, 2026 at 3:03 AM
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After we vote we should all hang out in the parking lot and tailgate to shield the people in line from ICEholes.
February 8, 2026 at 3:57 AM
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That’s absolutely the intent, and I would encourage people to ignore every bit of that nonsense.

I’ll crawl over broken glass to vote these idiots out of office, and I hope all of you will too.

I worry that if ICE tries to prevent people from voting, we’ll be looking at actual violence.
February 8, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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I’ve seen a LOT of the worst of humanity over the course of my career. Brutal torture videos, beheadings, immolations, etc.

I usually compartmentalize that stuff pretty well.

This is something else. I was actually nauseous reading some of these files.
February 8, 2026 at 3:08 AM
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I think so, but that depends on us.

We can’t get complacent. We can’t get bullied. We can’t be intimidated by ICE or any other thugs they try to use to prevent people from voting.

The Senate will be tougher for sure, but I think we can get there with the right plan.
February 8, 2026 at 3:13 AM
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It’s worse. There is no decline in presence. They are breaking car windows and dragging people out of their cars. They’re hanging around schools and pre-schools. People are still afraid to leave their homes.
February 8, 2026 at 3:24 AM
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Still a staggering amount of civil rights violations every day. There is no real decline. ICE are mean, vindictive assholes.
February 8, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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Still helicopters. They are harassing observers now
February 8, 2026 at 3:16 AM
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I don’t think they are, no.

Have you noticed any appreciable decline in ICE presence? Or is it just as bad as it was?
February 8, 2026 at 3:15 AM
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Are national audiences still aware shit is bad here in Minnesota? The "draw down" was just a headline.
February 8, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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Need to make this one the biggest one yet.
February 8, 2026 at 3:18 AM
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If you haven't heard the next date yet.
#NoKings3
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February 8, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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Sadistic, violent liars.
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
February 7, 2026 at 11:48 PM