Jon Steinman
@jonsteinman.bsky.social
dad, dog walker, Nebraskan
@ProtectDemocracy.org
*and because time is short, cofounder of workfour.org
Skeets my own
@ProtectDemocracy.org
*and because time is short, cofounder of workfour.org
Skeets my own
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Literally searching for outgroups to scare people about
"That has left the G.O.P. looking for ways to address its voters’ concerns over the number of immigrants who came into the country during the Biden admin. while avoiding the increasingly unpopular policy of mass deportations under Mr. Trump."
"That has left the G.O.P. looking for ways to address its voters’ concerns over the number of immigrants who came into the country during the Biden admin. while avoiding the increasingly unpopular policy of mass deportations under Mr. Trump."
February 10, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Literally searching for outgroups to scare people about
"That has left the G.O.P. looking for ways to address its voters’ concerns over the number of immigrants who came into the country during the Biden admin. while avoiding the increasingly unpopular policy of mass deportations under Mr. Trump."
"That has left the G.O.P. looking for ways to address its voters’ concerns over the number of immigrants who came into the country during the Biden admin. while avoiding the increasingly unpopular policy of mass deportations under Mr. Trump."
The administration insists obeying the Constitution is a “non-starter” because it might slow its pogrom.
No agency should be able to grant itself permission to invade private property and abduct people.
If this isn’t impeachable, what is?
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
No agency should be able to grant itself permission to invade private property and abduct people.
If this isn’t impeachable, what is?
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
‘Complete nonstarter’: Administration allies say judicial warrants a red line for White House in DHS funding talks as shutdown looms
The seeming stalemate sets up a clash between the Trump administration and Democrats ahead of a Friday night deadline.
www.politico.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 PM
The administration insists obeying the Constitution is a “non-starter” because it might slow its pogrom.
No agency should be able to grant itself permission to invade private property and abduct people.
If this isn’t impeachable, what is?
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
No agency should be able to grant itself permission to invade private property and abduct people.
If this isn’t impeachable, what is?
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
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I do not regret to inform you that we - not the White House - are going to win
February 9, 2026 at 9:19 PM
I do not regret to inform you that we - not the White House - are going to win
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ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
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fuck this Ring commercial hiding fascism behind dogs
February 9, 2026 at 2:08 AM
fuck this Ring commercial hiding fascism behind dogs
He was saying something, they suspect
February 9, 2026 at 2:33 AM
He was saying something, they suspect
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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
February 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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What do fans do when cheering and flag-waving can be claimed by Trump, who has sought to put his name on anything he can? @jonsteinman.bsky.social and @michaelangeloni.bsky.social have suggestions for how American sports fans who want to root for their team without endorsing its government.
Let’s Not Sportswash Trump’s Authoritarianism
The Olympics, the World Cup, and cheering for our nation’s athletes but not the current administration.
www.thebulwark.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:04 PM
What do fans do when cheering and flag-waving can be claimed by Trump, who has sought to put his name on anything he can? @jonsteinman.bsky.social and @michaelangeloni.bsky.social have suggestions for how American sports fans who want to root for their team without endorsing its government.
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🚨 Epstein survivors release this powerful PSA in advance of the Super Bowl demanding answers from the Justice Department. This is the Super Bowl ad every American should see. Spread it everywhere.
February 8, 2026 at 5:32 PM
🚨 Epstein survivors release this powerful PSA in advance of the Super Bowl demanding answers from the Justice Department. This is the Super Bowl ad every American should see. Spread it everywhere.
they're not likely to succeed (imo) but the US is backing the separatists with a 500B line of credit
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www.ft.com/content/11dc...
February 7, 2026 at 3:36 PM
February 6, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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No, the flags and the cheers are not for Donald Trump.
@jonsteinman.bsky.social and @michaelangeloni.bsky.social on supporting American athletes without supporting this administration:
@jonsteinman.bsky.social and @michaelangeloni.bsky.social on supporting American athletes without supporting this administration:
Let’s Not Sportswash Trump’s Authoritarianism
The Olympics, the World Cup, and cheering for our nation’s athletes but not the current administration.
lnk.thebulwark.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:03 PM
No, the flags and the cheers are not for Donald Trump.
@jonsteinman.bsky.social and @michaelangeloni.bsky.social on supporting American athletes without supporting this administration:
@jonsteinman.bsky.social and @michaelangeloni.bsky.social on supporting American athletes without supporting this administration:
Authoritarians have long used international sports to promote their own supposed “strength.” Ours may even try to claim gold medals for himself.
But history shows we can boo him while still cheering on our athletes. My latest with @michaelangeloni.bsky.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/lets-not-s...
But history shows we can boo him while still cheering on our athletes. My latest with @michaelangeloni.bsky.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/lets-not-s...
Let’s Not Sportswash Trump’s Authoritarianism
The Olympics, the World Cup, and cheering for our nation’s athletes but not the current administration.
www.thebulwark.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Authoritarians have long used international sports to promote their own supposed “strength.” Ours may even try to claim gold medals for himself.
But history shows we can boo him while still cheering on our athletes. My latest with @michaelangeloni.bsky.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/lets-not-s...
But history shows we can boo him while still cheering on our athletes. My latest with @michaelangeloni.bsky.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/lets-not-s...
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We just published database: @aclu.org plaintiffs' sworn declarations of ICE enforcement actions in Minnesota
Devastating
Racial profiling-arrests-headlock-handcuffs-shackles
Mostly US citizens
A big lesson here for Justice Kavanaugh. I believe he'll get it
www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne...
🧵
Devastating
Racial profiling-arrests-headlock-handcuffs-shackles
Mostly US citizens
A big lesson here for Justice Kavanaugh. I believe he'll get it
www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne...
🧵
February 5, 2026 at 1:39 PM
We just published database: @aclu.org plaintiffs' sworn declarations of ICE enforcement actions in Minnesota
Devastating
Racial profiling-arrests-headlock-handcuffs-shackles
Mostly US citizens
A big lesson here for Justice Kavanaugh. I believe he'll get it
www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne...
🧵
Devastating
Racial profiling-arrests-headlock-handcuffs-shackles
Mostly US citizens
A big lesson here for Justice Kavanaugh. I believe he'll get it
www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne...
🧵
Functionally the same thing the Soviets did during the Cold War to undermine Western democracies, but run by an American president
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US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe
State department grants to spread ‘American values’ are part of Washington’s 250th anniversary celebrations
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February 6, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Functionally the same thing the Soviets did during the Cold War to undermine Western democracies, but run by an American president
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AOC: We are going to have to reckon, as a country, with this time. And I hope that that reckoning includes prosecution of people who are involved with the lawbreaking and human rights violations they are knowingly engaging in right now.
February 6, 2026 at 1:04 AM
AOC: We are going to have to reckon, as a country, with this time. And I hope that that reckoning includes prosecution of people who are involved with the lawbreaking and human rights violations they are knowingly engaging in right now.
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‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
![…
25. This Cibola jail was horrible. It was cramped. I was chained up again.
The officers mocked
me and called me their enemy. They laughed at me. I was kept at the jail for what felt like around three hours. I wasn't given an explanation for why I was there.
26. Security
guards then put me on a bus. I think it was around January 27.
No one said
anything about where I was going. I was handcuffed. It felt like the middle of the night. It was freezing cold in the bus because the driver had the AC on. We had no jackets. The bus eventually took me back to El Paso in the carly morning of Tuesday, January 27th.
27. I was put in a cold cell where I had to sleep on the bare cement floor. Around 10 in the morning my cellmate asked to speak to an ICE officer. Three officers came into the cell so I had a chance to speak to them too. One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." She told me that if I fought my case, I would spend two to three more months here in El Paso. She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota. If I hadn't managed to talk to my attorney who told me a while back that I was ordered released. I might have given up at this point and signed the self-deportation forms because the conditions were so unbearable.
…
30. When I was taken back to the detention center from the airport, after missing the flight, I overheard an ICE officer saying in English, "the judge in Minnesota wants this one back." I was put in a cold jail cell again until early next morning (January 28). But again no one had told me directly that a judge had ordered my release
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32. When I arrived in Minneapolis, I was handed off to ICE
… I had to sign lots of papers saying that I wasn't going to be a part of any "groups." I didn't know what they meant by "groups." They never told me why I was detained](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5cn3kbi4g5blrtahon34xbu4/bafkreiccqxmfncofjqinoveiqscwale2ox5xpiqt46veqjdh3jmimkrxhq@jpeg)
February 5, 2026 at 6:04 AM
‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
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I am running out of ways to convey how disconnected from reality Trump's judicial nominees are. They can't say that Trump lost the 2020 election, they won't say that the January 6 insurrection happened, they don't acknowledge any fact about anything if Trump hasn't authorized them to believe it
Trump Is Building a Federal Judiciary of Delusional, Cowardly Loyalists
Judges have to decide cases based on facts. For Trump judges, the only facts that matter are the ones that he authorizes them to believe.
ballsandstrikes.org
February 4, 2026 at 8:28 PM
I am running out of ways to convey how disconnected from reality Trump's judicial nominees are. They can't say that Trump lost the 2020 election, they won't say that the January 6 insurrection happened, they don't acknowledge any fact about anything if Trump hasn't authorized them to believe it
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Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel?
Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.
And they almost shot some kids in the process.
Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.
And they almost shot some kids in the process.
They just blindly shot through the fucking door.
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Photographic evidence from the shooting scene of a Venezuelan man by federal agents last month in Minneapolis supports the account of witnesses there – and appears to undercut the narrative provided by federal officials." www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
February 3, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel?
Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.
And they almost shot some kids in the process.
Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.
And they almost shot some kids in the process.
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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
ICE is afraid of children protesting
“Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”
www.theverge.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:11 PM
ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
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Three companies control most of our fertilizer. Four companies control most of our meatpacking. That's not free enterprise. That's a rigged system squeezing family farmers and ranchers.
February 2, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Three companies control most of our fertilizer. Four companies control most of our meatpacking. That's not free enterprise. That's a rigged system squeezing family farmers and ranchers.
