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Lucy Steigerwald
@lucystag.bsky.social
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Write. Edit. Try not to over-water plants. Have cat! Collect too many things. World's worst anarchist. I will write and edit for dollars. Not actually a kewpie (?). lucystag@gmail.com
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jackjenkins.me
Okay sorry one more shot:
A police officer places flex cuffs on the wrists of a pastor at a protest. The pastor stares straight ahead, her face impassive, a green stole draped over her shoulders.
January 23, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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psychoalpastor.bsky.social
It's already very cold & today is my last chance to beat the heavy snow!
125 is goal
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January 23, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
Run this as a pro choice ad
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h
Johnson: I was the product of an unplanned teen pregnancy and a lot of people tried to convince my young parents that they should take care of that problem
January 23, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
The parents of a 7 year old, all of whom are in the process of applying for asylum, took their daughter to the ER when her nose wouldn't stop bleeding. ICE picked them up near the hospital and they are now in detention in Texas, presumably awaiting deportation. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital
The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
www.oregonlive.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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zachweinersmith.bsky.social
Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/trad #smbc
January 23, 2026 at 4:56 PM
lucystag.bsky.social
Is this ICE agent going to go home tonight and honestly feel good about his day's work? I try to imagine it, and it's just a poorly-written fiction; laughing villainry.
longtimehistory.bsky.social LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 10h
ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement.

"I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish.

Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature.

Minneapolis, MN
January 23, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
This is such an important point. This family tried to follow the rules.

The distinction is going to get more important when they start mass deporting the people whose TPS status Trump revoked. They’ll call them “illegal” too, even though they were here legally until Trump yanked the rug.
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 8h
People are missing a big thing about the saga of the detained 5-year-old. When Vance calls the father an "illegal alien" it seems to reflect a little-known Trump admin move that attempts to nullify asylum claims before they are even heard.

This policy is a horror:

newrepublic.com/article/2056...
January 23, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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nonserviammedia.bsky.social
“If you were able to get onto a jury, without getting pulled out, knowing what jury nullification is and the fullness of your rights. . .you can maybe save someone’s life.”
- @rechelon.bsky.social

🔗 youtu.be/6ER8q_ciSEI

@fijanational.bsky.social #law #legal
Jury Nullification and Science Wars with William Gillis
November 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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jackjenkins.me
The clergy just keep coming to this anti-ICE protest.

Genuinely unclear where they all will go — it’s packed outside on the sidewalk already.
January 23, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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normative.bsky.social
Even their foreign policy is moronic culture war politics. “France is stereotypically coded as urbane, cultured, and other traits that make my constituents feel inferior and resentful, so I will perform fantasies of forcibly humiliating them.”
mcopelov.bsky.social Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10h
This is an elected member of Congress & the GOP saying that he welcomes a war against another nuclear power who is literally our oldest ally & with whom we have a formal treaty military alliance.

Congrats again on that National Conversation™️ about which party has moved further from the center 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Rep. Greg Steube: "You see Macron and the French sending troops to Greenland. I would love to see the US military up against French troops in Greenland, because it would not last very long. It would be a very small skirmish ... we don't care about what Macron and the French want."
January 23, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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henryhenryhenry.com
university admins were some of the first-movers in the new US regime of mass repression. so congratulations to various provosts and vice presidents for that.
premthakker.bsky.social Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h
(!) Newly-released State Department docs show the Trump-Vance-Rubio admin detained Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi for fake news *initially propelled by Columbia itself* — including that he was yelling at "Jewish bystanders," when what he was actually doing was confronting an antisemitic disruptor.
(!) Newly-released State Department docs show the Trump-Vance-Rubio admin detained Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi for fake news *initially propelled by Columbia itself* — including that he was yelling at "Jewish bystanders," when what he was actually doing was confronting an antisemitic disruptor.
January 23, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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suesswassersee.bsky.social
You absolutely beautiful people
hamiltonnolan.bsky.social Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 10h
Thousands outside Terminal 1 at the Minneapolis airport now.
January 23, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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acatwithnews.bsky.social
Minneapolis, MN -

Despite -18 degree Fahrenheit weather, dozens of people are outside the Whipple federal building to protest against increased federal immigration detainment in the area.
January 23, 2026 at 3:25 PM
lucystag.bsky.social
So rarely do I like the word "traitor" but I love it thrown at ICE agents.

Read this and love America (n people) a bit.
January 23, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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andylevy.net
nine years old
“I am Puerto Rican,” she says. “I send my kids with their passports to school. I’m having conversations with them about safety: Am I safe at school? A week ago we had an incident where there was a school bus with the STOP sign open and kids were getting on the bus and it was surrounded by ICE agents. And this is 7:20 in the morning and — just — you get that fight-or-flight response.” At first her 9-year-old was carrying her passport in her backpack; now it’s in her back pocket. “I have to prepare them for it if they get stopped,” she says. “I said, Do not engage. This is not the time to be cussing at anyone. But she said, Mom, if I create enough noise, my friends can get away.”
January 23, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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anarchygoose.bsky.social
Listened to Jon Stewart and Trevor Noah talk and I am struck by how commentators live in a completely different reality.

"Liberals never forgive, one mistake and you're out forever!"

Meanwhile I just watched the Dems move heaven and earth to run a redemption campaign for Marjorie Taylor Green.
January 22, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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psychoalpastor.bsky.social
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January 22, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
I wasn't sure what to expect from a group of Democratic state AGs, but I definitely was not expecting a long monologue about Ruby Ridge and the Boston Massacre www.theverge.com/policy/86588...
Just before the town hall, a reporter asked Ellison about the difficulty states faced in prosecuting federal agents like the ICE agent who shot Renee Good. “The idea that they’re absolutely immune is a misstatement of the law, and it is a dangerous misstatement of the law, because I don’t want any ICE agent or Border Patrol agent or any agent to think that they can just kill people and then that’s it,” Ellison told the group of reporters. Then he asked rhetorically: “What about Ruby Ridge? You ever heard of that one?” Years after an FBI sniper shot Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge, the state of Idaho prosecuted the federal agent. The federal government went to bat for the agent, claiming that he was immune under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. The Ninth Circuit ruled that Idaho was allowed to prosecute the sniper — similarly, Minnesota is also entitled to investigate and potentially prosecute the officer who shot Renee Good. But a different example loomed larger in Ellison’s mind: the Boston Massacre of 1770, where British soldiers shot into a crowd, ultimately killing five people. “It’s not exactly analogous, but we are talking about local authorities in Boston, prosecuting imperial agents of the colonial power, the central government, in England. And they were prosecuted. Two of them were convicted. John Adams actually represented a few of the imperial officers.” The Boston Massacre, said Ellison, was obviously “in the mind of the framers of the Constitution” at the time the document was written. “They were thinking about this event, and they would have never conceded the state’s authority to prosecute a federal officer,” said Ellison, going on to add, “The states of the United States pre-date the United States. It is federal courts that are limited. Not state courts. State courts have plenary power.” He finished with a dramatic flourish: “It’s true that the feds are denying us access to the investigative file. It’s also true that there’s no statute of limitations on murder.”
January 22, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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fritschner.bsky.social
The war powers resolution to block further military action in Venezuela by Trump is currently winning by 1, with all Dems + Massie and Bacon supporting, but the Rs have flown Wesley Hunt back to DC and are holding the vote open as he makes his way to the Hill from Dulles airport
January 22, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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mharrisondupre.bsky.social
NEW: Earlier today, DHS Sec Kristi Noem posted a photo of federal agents arresting civil rights attorney and ICE protestor Nekima Levy Armstrong.

The White House then posted the same arrest image -- but digitally altered Levy Armstrong's face to depict her sobbing.

futurism.com/artificial-i...
White House Uses AI to Alter Protester's Face So That She's Sobbing, Instead of Looking Brave, During Arrest
The White House published an image on X featuring an AI-altered image of an ICE protester crying during her arrest.
futurism.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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maxberger.bsky.social
"Should we vote to give more money to the people shooting my constituents in the face?" is not a complicated political question. And yet, Democrats don't seem able to answer it.
January 22, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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bbburgerrr.bsky.social
what the fuck man
January 22, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
Sometimes it feels like we are a nation beholden to the unresolved daddy issues of scared little authoritarians like “freedom loving Patriot” Glenn Beck.
Glenn Beck @glennbeck X.com Daddy is definitely home. @realDonaldTrump is the Advocate for America I have waited for my entire life. He makes Reagan look a bit wishy washy. What he said in Davos today was the most powerful speech perhaps ever given by a president to the world. He said it with love for Europe (multiple times) but with clarity that peeled paint off the walls all across Europe and the world. NOW? He announces a deal for Greenland hours later? THE ENTIRE WH TEAM IS EPIC. @SecRubio @SecScottBessent @VP. Now come home and clean up MN, NY and CA. Lather, Rinse, Repeat. 1:18 PM • 1/21/26 • 831K Views
January 22, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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britculpsapp.bsky.social
“our brown shirts that say we did NOT target a child seem to be raising questions already answered by our brown shirts”
Homeland Security & @DHS... •3h ICE did NOT target a child. The child was ABANDONED.
January 22, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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margaret.bsky.social
I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM