@genebean3.bsky.social
Thankfully my dad naturalized but this literally could be him. Born to refugees after WWII, emigrated to the US in 1949
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Thankfully my dad naturalized but this literally could be him. Born to refugees after WWII, emigrated to the US in 1949
I’m dying at the mention of Hunan Lion in @lioneltrolling.bsky.social’s When the Clock Broke. My family used to eat there all the time when I was a kid and we called it the “toilet bowl building” 😆 Don’t recall any Shakespeare performances…
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I’m dying at the mention of Hunan Lion in @lioneltrolling.bsky.social’s When the Clock Broke. My family used to eat there all the time when I was a kid and we called it the “toilet bowl building” 😆 Don’t recall any Shakespeare performances…
Read The Fort Bragg Cartel
We’re gonna find out there’s so much fuckin drug use at dhs and ice, it’s gonna make the Nazis look like puritans
Border Patrol agent who went viral over arrest video died of overdose, lawyer says
November 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Read The Fort Bragg Cartel
Extremely grateful that my kid is being taught the “old” method of learning to read
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Extremely grateful that my kid is being taught the “old” method of learning to read
I’ve been thinking a lot about the parallels to strikes. Strikes cause a lot of pain to striking employees, that is built in. The Dems have zero preparation, concept of their goals, understanding of their opponents’ pain points, credibility from their base
A govt shutdown is like a strike in the sense that before you start it you MUST have a concrete idea of what your leverage is and what will cause your opponent to fold. Ironically the Dems' strongest leverage point was probably "fucked up Thanksgiving travel" and they folded just before it came.
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I’ve been thinking a lot about the parallels to strikes. Strikes cause a lot of pain to striking employees, that is built in. The Dems have zero preparation, concept of their goals, understanding of their opponents’ pain points, credibility from their base
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There will be some "Wow you can't make these people happy" sentiment but what's really happening is the Dems are beginning to reap the consequences of not really believing in anything. Choreographed maneuvers, too clever by half talking points. People have just had it
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
There will be some "Wow you can't make these people happy" sentiment but what's really happening is the Dems are beginning to reap the consequences of not really believing in anything. Choreographed maneuvers, too clever by half talking points. People have just had it
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The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
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We tried to show them after the last surrender. There's no sense in trying to convince them anymore. Primaries are the only path to a fighting opposition party now.
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
We tried to show them after the last surrender. There's no sense in trying to convince them anymore. Primaries are the only path to a fighting opposition party now.
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Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means.
Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.
Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.
So Democrats get:
1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays
2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail
3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts
Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays
2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail
3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts
Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means.
Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.
Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.
BIPARTISAN COMMITTEE TO NEGOTIATE ON HEALTHCARE is absolutely the cherry on top. This is why people loathe the democratic party
SCHUMER is on the floor now making this offer to end the shutdown:
Clean CR
Bipartisan "minibus" of approps bills
1-year ACA funding extension
Bipartisan cmte to negotiate on health care
"This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability."
Clean CR
Bipartisan "minibus" of approps bills
1-year ACA funding extension
Bipartisan cmte to negotiate on health care
"This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability."
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
BIPARTISAN COMMITTEE TO NEGOTIATE ON HEALTHCARE is absolutely the cherry on top. This is why people loathe the democratic party
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There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.
Tesla shareholders have approved a pay package that could make CEO Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, the world’s first trillionaire. https://cnn.it/43KZnkA
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.
The Jews are a stateless people. I believe it is a core part of our identity. My family lived near Munkacs which bounced between being Hungarian, Czech, Ukrainian…
the longer we soldier on without the bund’s ’wherever we live is our homeland’ the more obvious the need for it becomes!
November 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The Jews are a stateless people. I believe it is a core part of our identity. My family lived near Munkacs which bounced between being Hungarian, Czech, Ukrainian…
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Loudoun County, in northern Virginia, was the sign of apocalypse twelve months ago for Democrats.
Most of the vote just came in. (AP estimates 79%.)
Spanberger up 26%. (And Jay Jones up 15%.)
Four years ago, McAuliffe won it by just 11% on his way to a 2% loss.
Most of the vote just came in. (AP estimates 79%.)
Spanberger up 26%. (And Jay Jones up 15%.)
Four years ago, McAuliffe won it by just 11% on his way to a 2% loss.
November 5, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Loudoun County, in northern Virginia, was the sign of apocalypse twelve months ago for Democrats.
Most of the vote just came in. (AP estimates 79%.)
Spanberger up 26%. (And Jay Jones up 15%.)
Four years ago, McAuliffe won it by just 11% on his way to a 2% loss.
Most of the vote just came in. (AP estimates 79%.)
Spanberger up 26%. (And Jay Jones up 15%.)
Four years ago, McAuliffe won it by just 11% on his way to a 2% loss.
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The photos in this Chicago Tribune piece… It's a quiet middle-class inner suburb, but these guys look like they're in Fallujah circa 2006.
The uniforms indicate Border Patrol and its BORTAC "special operations" unit.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/c...
The uniforms indicate Border Patrol and its BORTAC "special operations" unit.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/c...
November 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The photos in this Chicago Tribune piece… It's a quiet middle-class inner suburb, but these guys look like they're in Fallujah circa 2006.
The uniforms indicate Border Patrol and its BORTAC "special operations" unit.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/c...
The uniforms indicate Border Patrol and its BORTAC "special operations" unit.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/c...
We will win.
I find it immensely heartening that so many normal people are seeing and defying the obscenity of what ICE/CBP is trying to do in Chicago, but stories like this also make clear how much more disciplined those people are than the state violence worker guys. www.reuters.com/world/us/wer...
'We're not a violent city': Chicago locals take on ICE block-by-block
The immigration agents' tear gas grenades clinked and then exploded against the concrete, shrouding the block in plumes of white gas. The dozen or so residents at the scene only screamed louder.
www.reuters.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
We will win.
The banality of evil.
I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
October 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The banality of evil.
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🧵This horrific story is being reported all over Latin America, but not the US.
Randall Gamboa, a Costa Rican, was deported from the US in such a critical health condition it required an ambulance flight.
He then died upon his return to Costa Rica after being detained for 8 months by DHS.
Randall Gamboa, a Costa Rican, was deported from the US in such a critical health condition it required an ambulance flight.
He then died upon his return to Costa Rica after being detained for 8 months by DHS.
October 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
🧵This horrific story is being reported all over Latin America, but not the US.
Randall Gamboa, a Costa Rican, was deported from the US in such a critical health condition it required an ambulance flight.
He then died upon his return to Costa Rica after being detained for 8 months by DHS.
Randall Gamboa, a Costa Rican, was deported from the US in such a critical health condition it required an ambulance flight.
He then died upon his return to Costa Rica after being detained for 8 months by DHS.
How about lead paint?!
Just asked the WH if they did an asbestos abatement before demolishing the East Wing -- a project Trump began without being formally approved by the National Capital Planning Commission + on a structure built in the early 1900s, expanded in the 1940s.
Not that I expect a response. But still. 😬
Not that I expect a response. But still. 😬
October 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
How about lead paint?!
At Tufts around 2008 there was a conservative student paper that would just print straight up racist “parody” songs around the holidays
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
October 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
At Tufts around 2008 there was a conservative student paper that would just print straight up racist “parody” songs around the holidays
Catholicism practiced in the pursuit of social justice is extremely powerful
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Catholicism practiced in the pursuit of social justice is extremely powerful
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This is lunacy: they had a health care plan, and they implemented it in H.R.1.
It includes work requirements for Medicaid, and the cutting of ACA subsidies that will cause millions to lose health insurance. That was the plan!
bsky.app/profile/atru...
It includes work requirements for Medicaid, and the cutting of ACA subsidies that will cause millions to lose health insurance. That was the plan!
bsky.app/profile/atru...
Mike Johnson: "It's about keeping Congress operating so we can get to healthcare. We always were going to. They're lying to you. Okay? The healthcare issues were always gonna be something discussed, deliberated, contemplated, and debated in October and November."
October 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This is lunacy: they had a health care plan, and they implemented it in H.R.1.
It includes work requirements for Medicaid, and the cutting of ACA subsidies that will cause millions to lose health insurance. That was the plan!
bsky.app/profile/atru...
It includes work requirements for Medicaid, and the cutting of ACA subsidies that will cause millions to lose health insurance. That was the plan!
bsky.app/profile/atru...
This is why I truly don’t believe in community input into these types of projects 🤪
As always with NIMBYs and other people opposed to change, the way it goes is that the democratic process begins when *I* hear about something.
October 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This is why I truly don’t believe in community input into these types of projects 🤪
THEY ARE WEARING MASKS TO BE ANONYMOUS!! They are snatching people off the streets as anonymously as they possibly can
Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin complains about the "dehumanization" of federal agents. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/n...
October 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
THEY ARE WEARING MASKS TO BE ANONYMOUS!! They are snatching people off the streets as anonymously as they possibly can