OldBae
@dorianbae.bsky.social
Trans man. Left to my own devices I'd be making mead and playing with my friends and chosen family in the woods. Choosing kindness as my strength. Pet cats, lift heavy, laugh in the teeth of despair.
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24 hours later: Trump has two journalists arrested
January 30, 2026 at 1:57 PM
24 hours later: Trump has two journalists arrested
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Let’s try this one in foreign correspondent voice:
State Security Forces Arrest Journalist Who Covered Protests Against Regime Official
State Security Forces Arrest Journalist Who Covered Protests Against Regime Official
Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.
January 30, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Let’s try this one in foreign correspondent voice:
State Security Forces Arrest Journalist Who Covered Protests Against Regime Official
State Security Forces Arrest Journalist Who Covered Protests Against Regime Official
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US measles cases this year already exceed the total for the whole of 2023 and 2024 combined, and it is only January. Yikes.
January 29, 2026 at 8:29 PM
US measles cases this year already exceed the total for the whole of 2023 and 2024 combined, and it is only January. Yikes.
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HELLO
Every elected should be acting like a community organizer/mutual aid organizer all the damn time in 2026.
Every elected should be acting like a community organizer/mutual aid organizer all the damn time in 2026.
realizing that democrats could be using their ginormous fundraising apparatus to send out links to rent funds or even, hell, frontline orgs is just so annoying
January 30, 2026 at 4:14 AM
HELLO
Every elected should be acting like a community organizer/mutual aid organizer all the damn time in 2026.
Every elected should be acting like a community organizer/mutual aid organizer all the damn time in 2026.
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it's cold out, please remember to winterize your greyhounds
January 29, 2026 at 10:27 PM
it's cold out, please remember to winterize your greyhounds
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“If you weren’t so mouthy, I wouldn’t have to hit you so hard.”
GOP abuser logic, front and center.
Get them out. Take away their guns and their masks and their money.
GOP abuser logic, front and center.
Get them out. Take away their guns and their masks and their money.
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 3:05 PM
“If you weren’t so mouthy, I wouldn’t have to hit you so hard.”
GOP abuser logic, front and center.
Get them out. Take away their guns and their masks and their money.
GOP abuser logic, front and center.
Get them out. Take away their guns and their masks and their money.
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New fascist is just like the old fascist.
ICE kidnapped a permanent resident in Minnesota today. They let the individual go after realizing they had authorization. Don’t be fooled, ICE is still discriminating against our neighbors based on the color of their skin. 1/
January 29, 2026 at 10:28 PM
New fascist is just like the old fascist.
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Yes, please subscribe through the web and save yourself money too! Last month these fees ate up an unbelievably huge amount off my patreon x__x
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January 29, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Yes, please subscribe through the web and save yourself money too! Last month these fees ate up an unbelievably huge amount off my patreon x__x
www.patreon.com/monarobot
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Why would I stare into eyes that no human is staring back from or that no human drew?
Why would I invest my heart into images that no person invested their heart into?
Why would I read words no human wrote?
Why would I invest my heart into images that no person invested their heart into?
Why would I read words no human wrote?
Why should I watch something that a director didn't even bother to make?
January 29, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Why would I stare into eyes that no human is staring back from or that no human drew?
Why would I invest my heart into images that no person invested their heart into?
Why would I read words no human wrote?
Why would I invest my heart into images that no person invested their heart into?
Why would I read words no human wrote?
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A word of caution from Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings, to hospitals capitulating to threats over best practice health care supported by every major medical association: “You can’t appease someone who is hell-bent on destroying people’s lives. And that’s what’s happening.”
Trump administration investigates Nemours over its care for transgender youth
Over the past two months, Delaware’s attorney general has twice sued the Trump administration, accusing federal officials of using executive orders and funding threats to restrict health care access t...
www.newsfromthestates.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:20 PM
A word of caution from Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings, to hospitals capitulating to threats over best practice health care supported by every major medical association: “You can’t appease someone who is hell-bent on destroying people’s lives. And that’s what’s happening.”
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Today, we’re launching Encrypt It Already, a new website pushing tech companies to deliver stronger privacy protections to their users by enabling and expanding the use of end-to-end encryption across their products or services. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Introducing Encrypt It Already
Today, we’re launching Encrypt It Already, our push to get companies to offer stronger privacy protections to our data and communications by implementing end-to-end encryption. If that name sounds a
www.eff.org
January 29, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Today, we’re launching Encrypt It Already, a new website pushing tech companies to deliver stronger privacy protections to their users by enabling and expanding the use of end-to-end encryption across their products or services. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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They stole his Spidey backpack.
“[Liam] keeps asking about that hat and that backpack that are in the picture,” the congressman said. “I think they took that from him.”
www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...
Rep. Joaquin Castro meets with the 5-year-old boy held with his father at a Texas detention facility | CNN
US Rep. Joaquin Castro met Wednesday with Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old Minnesota boy taken from his family’s suburban Minneapolis driveway last week after federal agents apprehended his father, t...
www.cnn.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:27 AM
They stole his Spidey backpack.
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On Friday and Saturday, the Twin Cities were the center of global news. A day of solidarity. A horrific murder of a good man by masked federal agents. A city that rallied with peaceful fury. And then, as of Monday, a scapegoat sent packing. A neat story all wrapped up. Reporters all fly home.
January 28, 2026 at 12:57 PM
On Friday and Saturday, the Twin Cities were the center of global news. A day of solidarity. A horrific murder of a good man by masked federal agents. A city that rallied with peaceful fury. And then, as of Monday, a scapegoat sent packing. A neat story all wrapped up. Reporters all fly home.
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This is Nazi shit and that’s not hyperbole
Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.
January 29, 2026 at 2:05 AM
This is Nazi shit and that’s not hyperbole
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Housing is a basic human right & human need.
January 28, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Housing is a basic human right & human need.
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An extraordinary document. Read it.
“Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
“Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
January 28, 2026 at 10:42 PM
An extraordinary document. Read it.
“Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
“Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
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"Don't say forcing children into hiding to avoid being taken and sent to detention camps is like the Holocaust, that's degrading it," says party who historically calls letting pregnant people deciding whether or not they want to give birth a Holocaust.
January 28, 2026 at 1:47 PM
"Don't say forcing children into hiding to avoid being taken and sent to detention camps is like the Holocaust, that's degrading it," says party who historically calls letting pregnant people deciding whether or not they want to give birth a Holocaust.
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Half a billion on terrorizing citizens but we can’t have universal healthcare or basic income or affordable housing or public transit or
Congressional Budget Office: “Federal troop deployments to US cities cost a total of $496 million in 2025, CBO estimates. Continuing current deployments will cost $93 million a month; 1,000 Guard personnel deployed to a city will cost at least $18 million a month.” www.cbo.gov/publication/...
www.cbo.gov
January 28, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Half a billion on terrorizing citizens but we can’t have universal healthcare or basic income or affordable housing or public transit or
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We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
January 28, 2026 at 9:25 PM
We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
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Yes Trump pretended he was de-escalating to get the Senate Dems to back off, leave them alone. It's why we need to keep the pressure on people. Call your Senators today!
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“An administration official gave away the game to Punchbowl News, admitting that these “de-escalatory measures” are about placating Senate Democrats so they don’t seize this moment to demand restrictions on ICE as part of any government funding package.”
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
Donald Trump Is Frightened
Trump wants to appear eager to minimize out-of-control clashes between government militias and protesters. But he doesn’t want to stop the things causing those clashes in the first place.
newrepublic.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Yes Trump pretended he was de-escalating to get the Senate Dems to back off, leave them alone. It's why we need to keep the pressure on people. Call your Senators today!
bsky.app/profile/bill...
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This is what letting RFK jr go wild on health looks like
Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
January 28, 2026 at 1:14 PM
This is what letting RFK jr go wild on health looks like
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Think about it like this. This ICE agent was on camera and unmasked — fulfilling one of three "demands" Democratic leader Chuck Schumer just issued in order to agree to save Republicans and give DHS even more money.
And he was still threatening to kill someone.
And he was still threatening to kill someone.
"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
January 28, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Think about it like this. This ICE agent was on camera and unmasked — fulfilling one of three "demands" Democratic leader Chuck Schumer just issued in order to agree to save Republicans and give DHS even more money.
And he was still threatening to kill someone.
And he was still threatening to kill someone.