Josh
@libraryjosh.bsky.social
Librarian. Jaguars fan. Orioles fan.
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the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system
President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion.
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January 30, 2026 at 4:33 AM
the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system
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It's amazing how this radical "step too far" is how every law enforcement officer in the country operated for our entire history.
Tillis says he opposes ICE being barred from wearing masks: "I've seen people dox me. I've seen people take pictures and identify law enforcement officers and then put their families at risk. So, I think that's a step too far."
January 28, 2026 at 10:30 PM
It's amazing how this radical "step too far" is how every law enforcement officer in the country operated for our entire history.
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Nearly 1 in 4 people killed by Maryland police was in mental health crisis, AG finds
Nearly 1 in 4 people killed by Maryland police was in mental health crisis, AG finds
Since 2021, the Maryland Office of the Attorney General has reviewed 86 cases in which someone was killed by police — and 20 of those cases involved mental health crises, according to a report released...
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January 30, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Nearly 1 in 4 people killed by Maryland police was in mental health crisis, AG finds
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just choked on my beverage
January 29, 2026 at 11:19 PM
just choked on my beverage
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She Fought a Book Ban. She May Never Teach Again. (via @nytimes.com) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u... #books #bookbans
She Fought a Book Ban. She May Never Teach Again.
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January 29, 2026 at 1:19 PM
She Fought a Book Ban. She May Never Teach Again. (via @nytimes.com) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u... #books #bookbans
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Want to re-emphasize what this bill does. It implements a $1,000 bounty for anyone to sue someone they suspect is trans and using the bathroom.
January 29, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Want to re-emphasize what this bill does. It implements a $1,000 bounty for anyone to sue someone they suspect is trans and using the bathroom.
Fucker was out here like I can’t believe they just printed my full name on this ballot!! I’m being doxxed!!
Tillis says he opposes ICE being barred from wearing masks: "I've seen people dox me. I've seen people take pictures and identify law enforcement officers and then put their families at risk. So, I think that's a step too far."
January 29, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Fucker was out here like I can’t believe they just printed my full name on this ballot!! I’m being doxxed!!
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Wait til you hear what they’re doing to school and public librarians. This guy wouldn’t last a day at the desk.
Tillis says he opposes ICE being barred from wearing masks: "I've seen people dox me. I've seen people take pictures and identify law enforcement officers and then put their families at risk. So, I think that's a step too far."
January 29, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Wait til you hear what they’re doing to school and public librarians. This guy wouldn’t last a day at the desk.
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ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?
January 29, 2026 at 4:45 PM
ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?
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Facial recognition "being used on the street in ways that are dangerous, that are totally unprecedented in this country, and that are, frankly, blatantly illegal."
ICE Agents Film Protesters & Immigrants as Part of Facial Recognition Push
ICE and CBP are using facial recognition technology to facilitate President Trump’s mass deportation campaign. With a smartphone app, immigration officers can scan faces of people they encounter and q...
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January 29, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Facial recognition "being used on the street in ways that are dangerous, that are totally unprecedented in this country, and that are, frankly, blatantly illegal."
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So he’s admitting that his subordinates are easily offended snowflakes who accidentally commit bloodshed when their feelings are hurt? What a stark admission of the incompetence in his ranks.
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 3:57 PM
So he’s admitting that his subordinates are easily offended snowflakes who accidentally commit bloodshed when their feelings are hurt? What a stark admission of the incompetence in his ranks.
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At the most fundamental level, the Trump admin is still treating peaceful protesters as the aggressors and the heavily armed government militias as the victims, even though Homan, Miller, Noem, Trump have spent months torquing them into a frenzy of hate and telling them they can act with impunity.
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 2:52 PM
At the most fundamental level, the Trump admin is still treating peaceful protesters as the aggressors and the heavily armed government militias as the victims, even though Homan, Miller, Noem, Trump have spent months torquing them into a frenzy of hate and telling them they can act with impunity.
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I mean, I know plenty of people have already pointed this out, but it needs to be hammered home that this is how fascism works. It demands you accept lies as truth, even when we’ve all seen who has actually been demanding violence (Trump and his goons).
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 2:56 PM
I mean, I know plenty of people have already pointed this out, but it needs to be hammered home that this is how fascism works. It demands you accept lies as truth, even when we’ve all seen who has actually been demanding violence (Trump and his goons).
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It’s easy to forget since he’s still a high public official but Homan straight up took $50,000 in cash from undercover agents on camera and then nothing happened
January 29, 2026 at 2:53 PM
It’s easy to forget since he’s still a high public official but Homan straight up took $50,000 in cash from undercover agents on camera and then nothing happened
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“in theater” is a crazy way to describe minneapolis
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 29, 2026 at 2:20 PM
“in theater” is a crazy way to describe minneapolis
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“[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...
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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...
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January 29, 2026 at 5:52 AM
“[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...
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Since we published this, Pam Bondi's X account has started posting mugshots of Minnesotans arrested for impeding ICE/CBP. Sharing a defendant's photo publicly in this way is forbidden under DOJ rules
ICE and CBP are at the head of Trump's campaign to terrorize Minnesotans. But the Justice Department is not far behind.
ICE’s No. 1 Ally
The Department of Justice has rushed to shield federal agents from accountability and launched needless criminal investigations into Minnesota officials and residents.
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January 28, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Since we published this, Pam Bondi's X account has started posting mugshots of Minnesotans arrested for impeding ICE/CBP. Sharing a defendant's photo publicly in this way is forbidden under DOJ rules
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I keep on blaring my tiny horn: Congress needs to (criminally) investigate the Trump Administration’s investigations. It is odd, CPB—the very agency whose agents *appeared* to murder a man…is investigating this as a “procedure” violation. It is odd DHS is investigating Alex Pretti for his own death.
Over at Public Notice, @lizdye.bsky.social explains how the Trump administration is making sure that the agents involved in the murder of Alex Pretti are never prosecuted.
The investigation is the coverup
Trump's "pivot" on Pretti is just a head fake.
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January 28, 2026 at 9:09 PM
I keep on blaring my tiny horn: Congress needs to (criminally) investigate the Trump Administration’s investigations. It is odd, CPB—the very agency whose agents *appeared* to murder a man…is investigating this as a “procedure” violation. It is odd DHS is investigating Alex Pretti for his own death.
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This is what it's always been.
"Race traitors" Renee Good and Alex Pretti were "not acting like citizens," Fuentes says. I don't think I have seen anyone on the right link whiteness and citizenship so explicitly.
January 28, 2026 at 8:04 PM
This is what it's always been.
Take that Florida Marlins hat off you fascist pig!
We've got new details on the Mobile Fortify, the facial recognition app that ICE is using to identify immigrants and citizens in the field. from @regret.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social
Here's the Company That Sold DHS ICE's Notorious Face Recognition App
Immigration agents have used Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US—including many citizens.
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January 28, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Take that Florida Marlins hat off you fascist pig!
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It's easy to get inured to this. But it's genuinely shocking. These are just untrained, hyped up hooligans terrorizing people.
A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.
"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."
"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."
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"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."
"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."
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January 28, 2026 at 7:57 PM
It's easy to get inured to this. But it's genuinely shocking. These are just untrained, hyped up hooligans terrorizing people.
These are powerful times for Duval!
Also Fred Durst is starring in pro-trans cult movies now, they are basically the best case scenario for two guys from Jacksonville
January 28, 2026 at 7:49 PM
These are powerful times for Duval!
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They wore yellow stars to complain about vaccine mandates
"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 5:52 PM
They wore yellow stars to complain about vaccine mandates
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El Salvador came up once in Rubio’s SFRC testimony, in @vanhollen.senate.gov’s speech, but I was disappointed he didn’t ask about the deal he made to drop charges on gang leaders to cover up Bukele’s gang pact
How El Salvador’s Government Impeded a U.S. Probe of MS-13
President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a U.S....
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January 28, 2026 at 6:14 PM
El Salvador came up once in Rubio’s SFRC testimony, in @vanhollen.senate.gov’s speech, but I was disappointed he didn’t ask about the deal he made to drop charges on gang leaders to cover up Bukele’s gang pact
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This is why I have real fucking problem with blithe criticisms of "polarization" or "congressional dysfunction." We have a Republican member blaming his colleague for being attacked.
The problem isn't polarization or dysfunction. It's the Republican Party.
The problem isn't polarization or dysfunction. It's the Republican Party.
Rep. Randy Fine on Ilhan Omar getting attacked: "I blame Ilhan Omar for what happened"
January 28, 2026 at 4:00 PM
This is why I have real fucking problem with blithe criticisms of "polarization" or "congressional dysfunction." We have a Republican member blaming his colleague for being attacked.
The problem isn't polarization or dysfunction. It's the Republican Party.
The problem isn't polarization or dysfunction. It's the Republican Party.