Linka von Sofia, Auntie
@linkasofia.bsky.social
Just Linka, back on the bird. Origin story: San Francisco - UiO - София - Spymac- Sacramento - Friday Harbor
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👇🎯 Not once has the national media asked a GOP politician about affording ICE the way Biden/the Dems were asked about the cost of
student loan debt relief & literally everything else for the last 50 years.
student loan debt relief & literally everything else for the last 50 years.
Folks are dying from winter storms and the power has been out for a week but the government can spend big money on detention camps. bsky.app/profile/cost...
How many times in your life have you heard a member of Congress or someone on TV say “we can’t afford it” when talking about something small but very important? It’s been happening my entire life. We can’t afford it? They’re putting seven times the annual budget of the EPA into immigrant detention.
February 2, 2026 at 3:34 AM
👇🎯 Not once has the national media asked a GOP politician about affording ICE the way Biden/the Dems were asked about the cost of
student loan debt relief & literally everything else for the last 50 years.
student loan debt relief & literally everything else for the last 50 years.
I don’t know whether this is more egregious, or heinous. The for-profit model of government prevalent in my country sucks shit, to put it mildly.
Today, Luke Farrell (@lukef.bsky.social) explains how complex eligibility requirements have turned America’s safety net into a lucrative revenue stream for monopolistic private contractors.
The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
As Republicans tightened work requirements and eligibility rules for Medicaid and SNAP last year, Equifax’s CEO openly celebrated the profits to be made from administering this deprivation.
lpeproject.org
January 29, 2026 at 7:55 AM
I don’t know whether this is more egregious, or heinous. The for-profit model of government prevalent in my country sucks shit, to put it mildly.
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"Why is it so normal for law enforcement — those who are supposed to be keepers of law and order — to kill Americans? And why is the only question at the end of the day how much their victims deserved to die?"
Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86745...
Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86745...
January 25, 2026 at 5:12 PM
"Why is it so normal for law enforcement — those who are supposed to be keepers of law and order — to kill Americans? And why is the only question at the end of the day how much their victims deserved to die?"
Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86745...
Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86745...
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We have reached the point where any statement made by a Trump administration official must be assumed to be a lie until proven otherwise.
January 25, 2026 at 8:46 PM
We have reached the point where any statement made by a Trump administration official must be assumed to be a lie until proven otherwise.
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This did not start with ICE or Trump, as always with Trump/MAGA its just a more blatant & egregious version of something that's been wrong in America for a very long time, and we have not had political leaders able to step up and meet the moment for all of that time
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 AM
This did not start with ICE or Trump, as always with Trump/MAGA its just a more blatant & egregious version of something that's been wrong in America for a very long time, and we have not had political leaders able to step up and meet the moment for all of that time
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in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission
January 24, 2026 at 5:30 PM
in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission
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Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
January 24, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
I’ve been fuming since I read stmt from @murray.senate.gov giving excuses for her vote to fund DHS. She whined that in minority there’s nothing they can do in Congress and said we have to win at the ballot box to do anything. That’s not leadership. TAKE SOME KIND OF ACTION, for instance:
January 21, 2026 at 4:30 PM
I’ve been fuming since I read stmt from @murray.senate.gov giving excuses for her vote to fund DHS. She whined that in minority there’s nothing they can do in Congress and said we have to win at the ballot box to do anything. That’s not leadership. TAKE SOME KIND OF ACTION, for instance:
Major news outlets need to be on this screaming scandal of a story, making it known to the people of this country @cnn.com @nbcnews.com @apnews.com @reuters.com @cbsnews.com
1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
popular.info
January 20, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Major news outlets need to be on this screaming scandal of a story, making it known to the people of this country @cnn.com @nbcnews.com @apnews.com @reuters.com @cbsnews.com
Cosigning this as a former Californian (former San Franciscan, too, the man was a clown back then too).
Genuinely perplexed at Newsom's comms strategy of spicy-trolling Trump on captured socials while simultaneously hosting a podcast where he performatively capitulates to an endless series of Trumpist media grifters
January 16, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Cosigning this as a former Californian (former San Franciscan, too, the man was a clown back then too).
fitting follow-up to my last reskeet:
flooding the zone is literally just that they want to do lots of evil shit. guys who gnaw on the corner of a checkers board are not playing any dimensional chess
January 15, 2026 at 7:25 AM
fitting follow-up to my last reskeet:
This, right here, is it. For real.
Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.
January 15, 2026 at 7:22 AM
This, right here, is it. For real.
“Washington state lacks parole” - I’ve lived here nearly 7 yrs and didn’t know that!! This seems like a very worthy bill to consider and I really hope my Dist 40 reps and senator are paying attention! @alexramel.bsky.social
Legislation Would Give Prisoners Serving Long Sentences a Path to Release
The proposal, from Washington's first formerly incarcerated legislator, would make it possible for people incarcerated long-term to make the case that they're no longer a threat.
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The proposal, from Washington's first formerly incarcerated legislator, would make it possible for people incarcerated long-term to make the case that they're no longer a threat.
publicola.com/2026/01/13/l...
Legislation Would Give Prisoners Serving Long Sentences a Path to Release - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett State Rep. Tarra Simmons (D-23, Bremerton) is trying, for the third year in a row, to…
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January 14, 2026 at 7:21 AM
“Washington state lacks parole” - I’ve lived here nearly 7 yrs and didn’t know that!! This seems like a very worthy bill to consider and I really hope my Dist 40 reps and senator are paying attention! @alexramel.bsky.social
Hello my Senators, @murray.senate.gov and @cantwell.senate.gov I am really really interested in hearing about why you don’t seem to have considered the avenues available to combat the fascists in your midst. youtu.be/1PwmiG7ABl0?...
Democrats say they can’t do anything because Republicans control Congress. Is that true?
YouTube video by Tad Stoermer
youtu.be
January 8, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Hello my Senators, @murray.senate.gov and @cantwell.senate.gov I am really really interested in hearing about why you don’t seem to have considered the avenues available to combat the fascists in your midst. youtu.be/1PwmiG7ABl0?...
what a catastrophe
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE UNIVERSE
PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records
But it’s ‘not intended for diagnosis or treatment.’
www.theverge.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:40 PM
what a catastrophe
My thoughts on the idea that repeatedly filing impeachment articles against the criminals in the US admin is pointless because they cant get the votes in the current Congress: fuck that.
No ,I’m not down with so-called ”pragmatism”… sure, Republican majority won’t let it go forward but fighting against grave injustice is the right thing to do, and saying daily what is illegal, unjust, and unacceptable is important and it’s important for people to see our leaders take a stand.
January 8, 2026 at 5:53 AM
My thoughts on the idea that repeatedly filing impeachment articles against the criminals in the US admin is pointless because they cant get the votes in the current Congress: fuck that.
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A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
Thank you for posting this @cristianfarias.com and thanks to José Mario de la Garza for writing it. Because the 1st paragraph in the 3rd screenshot is EXACTLY how I have felt about the Trump administration:
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
January 4, 2026 at 6:21 AM
Thank you for posting this @cristianfarias.com and thanks to José Mario de la Garza for writing it. Because the 1st paragraph in the 3rd screenshot is EXACTLY how I have felt about the Trump administration:
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We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions
January 3, 2026 at 3:36 PM
We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions
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You can tell how much Trump cares about the wellbeing of Venezuelans by how he arbitrarily and cruelly revoked protected status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan-American immigrants just a few months ago.
January 3, 2026 at 11:44 PM
You can tell how much Trump cares about the wellbeing of Venezuelans by how he arbitrarily and cruelly revoked protected status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan-American immigrants just a few months ago.
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I expect evil people to do evil things
I also expect people selling themselves as a bulwark against those evil people to fight tooth and nail against the evil things evil people do
only one of these groups is currently performing according to expectations
I also expect people selling themselves as a bulwark against those evil people to fight tooth and nail against the evil things evil people do
only one of these groups is currently performing according to expectations
January 3, 2026 at 9:22 PM
I expect evil people to do evil things
I also expect people selling themselves as a bulwark against those evil people to fight tooth and nail against the evil things evil people do
only one of these groups is currently performing according to expectations
I also expect people selling themselves as a bulwark against those evil people to fight tooth and nail against the evil things evil people do
only one of these groups is currently performing according to expectations
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If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States
January 3, 2026 at 1:45 PM
If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States
Absofuckinglutely ghastly.
The Trump administration has implemented roughly half of the goals laid out in Project 2025 so far
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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Tracking how much of Project 2025 the Trump administration achieved this year
As the year ends, The 19th takes a look at how the conservative policy wishlist for President Donald Trump’s second term affected women and LGBTQ+ Americans.
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December 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Absofuckinglutely ghastly.
Let’s loosen our grip on the mofocken pearls, people, regarding the Kennedy Center. Yeah Big Gross Idiot Guy’s renaming schtick is bigly gross & idiotic, but jeebus folks isn’t the outright MURDEROUS behavior of more immediate concern?! No wonder we can’t crush this Nazi scourge!
December 19, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Let’s loosen our grip on the mofocken pearls, people, regarding the Kennedy Center. Yeah Big Gross Idiot Guy’s renaming schtick is bigly gross & idiotic, but jeebus folks isn’t the outright MURDEROUS behavior of more immediate concern?! No wonder we can’t crush this Nazi scourge!
“Sir, you wouldn’t come to this committee and say something you can’t prove, I know. I knew you wouldn’t do that,” Thompson said.
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December 14, 2025 at 7:21 AM
“Sir, you wouldn’t come to this committee and say something you can’t prove, I know. I knew you wouldn’t do that,” Thompson said.
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