Martha 🥄 near Seattle
@marthawt.bsky.social
Born-inside-the-Beltway politics nerd, public education advocate, Xitter refugee fighting despair. I AM ANTIFA—a never-paid, unorganized volunteer against destruction of the American Project.
Harriot’s stories are always good, but this one is EPIC.
I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever.
A thread.
A thread.
February 4, 2026 at 5:43 AM
Harriot’s stories are always good, but this one is EPIC.
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Analysis | The revelation of Trump giving the UAE military-grade AI chips in exchange for a $500 million bribe could push his Republican approval rating below 95%.
February 4, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Analysis | The revelation of Trump giving the UAE military-grade AI chips in exchange for a $500 million bribe could push his Republican approval rating below 95%.
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This isn’t about awards it’s about the idea that ordinary people, standing together, can push back against fear, defend their neighbors, and demand accountability from those in power. That’s how democratic values stay alive!
February 4, 2026 at 4:14 AM
This isn’t about awards it’s about the idea that ordinary people, standing together, can push back against fear, defend their neighbors, and demand accountability from those in power. That’s how democratic values stay alive!
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"The Real Reason Trump Is Skipping the Super Bowl on Sunday"
Trump claimed the big game is ‘too far away.’ Privately, his advisers warned he’d likely get booed if he went, sources tell Zeteo's @swin24.bsky.social
Trump claimed the big game is ‘too far away.’ Privately, his advisers warned he’d likely get booed if he went, sources tell Zeteo's @swin24.bsky.social
The Real Reason Trump Is Skipping the Super Bowl on Sunday
Trump claimed the big game is ‘too far away.’ Privately, his advisers warned he’d likely get booed if he went, sources tell Zeteo.
zeteo.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:47 AM
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😨 The fuckery never ends!
Administrative subpoenas are back in the spotlight. Worth remembering ICEs use of a similar tool: hundreds of thousands of warrantless “customs summonses,” often for non-customs cases sent for info about journalists, students, and abortion clinics, with no oversight.
ICE Is Grabbing Data From Schools and Abortion Clinics
An agency database WIRED obtained reveals widespread use of so-called 1509 summonses that experts say raises the specter of potential abuse.
wired.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:45 AM
😨 The fuckery never ends!
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A follow up on this Jesse Watters clip from 3 weeks ago. The victim of ICE testified today before Congress that she was on her way to a 39th scheduled treatment at a traumatic brain injury center.
February 3, 2026 at 11:05 PM
A follow up on this Jesse Watters clip from 3 weeks ago. The victim of ICE testified today before Congress that she was on her way to a 39th scheduled treatment at a traumatic brain injury center.
Dammit. Infuriating 🧵 about Big Brother overreach.
Like the institution on which it was modeled, the GDR Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (Stasi for short), the prime function of DHS is now to secure the perpetual rule of the MAGA party by eliminating all domestic political threats... "The Department of Homeland Security has been quietly demanding
Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics | TechCrunch
The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of anonymous online accounts docu...
techcrunch.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:41 AM
Dammit. Infuriating 🧵 about Big Brother overreach.
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February 4, 2026 at 3:45 AM
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The president had his DOJ raid an election office and seize ballots. Now he is threatening to take over elections. Sadly, this is treated by legacy media as just another normal day.
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February 4, 2026 at 3:48 AM
The president had his DOJ raid an election office and seize ballots. Now he is threatening to take over elections. Sadly, this is treated by legacy media as just another normal day.
I founded Democracy Docket because you deserve better. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
I founded Democracy Docket because you deserve better. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
It really does boggle the mind.
My favorite genre of Epstein emails are powerful people emailing WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN about how MeToo has gone too far and the woke mob must be stopped.
February 4, 2026 at 4:36 AM
It really does boggle the mind.
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Quiet. We’re busy rebuilding Venezuelan infrastructure. And the Kennedy Center. 🤡
Tens of thousands of people across Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana have gone a week without power or heat after a brutal ice storm. At least three dozen people have died in connection with the storm, officials have said.
Fear and Anger Grow as Thousands Remain Without Power in the South
More than 30 people have died across three Southern states in connection with last week’s storm, and thousands remain without power.
nyti.ms
February 2, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Quiet. We’re busy rebuilding Venezuelan infrastructure. And the Kennedy Center. 🤡
😁 (And raw milk aficionados, like Bobby Junior, are idiots.)
I live in Iowa so if you wanna see a cow up close, you have plenty of opportunities to do so. And when you do you understand exactly why pasteurization is an essential, life-saving process.
February 4, 2026 at 4:34 AM
😁 (And raw milk aficionados, like Bobby Junior, are idiots.)
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This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.
February 3, 2026 at 5:04 PM
This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.
Oh, I think some things HAVE changed, Manny.
oh so now that you know i'm in the child abduction business, all the chill times we had don't mean anything to you?
February 4, 2026 at 4:20 AM
Oh, I think some things HAVE changed, Manny.
During my 3 years in the Philippines, although I did get the Manila Bulletin, I depended on the Stars & Stripes. Everything Trump Touches Dies, alas.
Save Stars and Stripes.🚨🇺🇸
Since the Pentagon announced in mid-January its intent to “refocus” the content of Stars and Stripes, the public backlash has grown stronger and broader every day.
Read more from The Stars and Stripes Ombudsman, Jacqueline Smith:
www.stripes.com/opinion/2026...
Read more from The Stars and Stripes Ombudsman, Jacqueline Smith:
www.stripes.com/opinion/2026...
February 4, 2026 at 4:19 AM
During my 3 years in the Philippines, although I did get the Manila Bulletin, I depended on the Stars & Stripes. Everything Trump Touches Dies, alas.
Big Brother is feeling his oats.
ICE is demanding the employment records at a Maine jail after a sheriff openly criticized immigration agents for arresting one of his guards
ICE demanded Maine sheriff’s employment records following his criticism of arrest
The subpoena came a day after Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce blasted immigration agents for arresting one of his guards.
www.bangordailynews.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Big Brother is feeling his oats.
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At least the Nazis went to the trouble of passing the Nuremberg Laws and making the brutality and totalitarianism street legal. The gutlessness of the American run at fascism is that they want to do it simply by pretending the Bill of Rights never existed or meant anything.
Rep. Mark Harris: "Some of these things are nonstarters. Having judicial warrants? To me, hat's a nonstarter. Being able to make off their mask, putting them at risk? That's a nonstarter. I would say anything that's going to hamstring the work of ICE, that's just not going to go anywhere."
February 4, 2026 at 3:58 AM
At least the Nazis went to the trouble of passing the Nuremberg Laws and making the brutality and totalitarianism street legal. The gutlessness of the American run at fascism is that they want to do it simply by pretending the Bill of Rights never existed or meant anything.
Lawbreaking is de rigueur in this badministration.
"Miller rarely leaves a written trail of his orders, using Signal, an encrypted voice and text-messaging app, to communicate." Federal law mandates that Miller print out and file a copy of each such communication. You can count on it that he does not. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How Stephen Miller Stokes Trump’s Boundary-Pushing Impulses
The White House aide has been an architect of aggressive immigration sweeps in U.S. cities and deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean.
www.wsj.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Lawbreaking is de rigueur in this badministration.
All of DHS should be seriously rethought.
74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it, according to YouGov polling from last month.
Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.
Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 4, 2026 at 4:09 AM
All of DHS should be seriously rethought.
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"The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.
2005-2024 — the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and agents have been arrested"
2005-2024 — the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and agents have been arrested"
"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005."
"it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
"it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
Accountability for ICE and CBP
However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 4, 2026 at 12:33 AM
"The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.
2005-2024 — the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and agents have been arrested"
2005-2024 — the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and agents have been arrested"
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Former Comms Director for Nancy Mace responds to her claim today that she isn’t able to drink any alcohol because of a medical condition.
February 3, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Former Comms Director for Nancy Mace responds to her claim today that she isn’t able to drink any alcohol because of a medical condition.
You don’t build a natl surveillance apparatus just to manage a border wall. This weaponry could effectively nullify our right to protection from unreasonable search & seizure, could more easily enable the government to trample on free speech, could do all this without transparency or oversight.
Read this. We're going to need a lot of smart people to figure out how to undo all of this. If that's still even possible.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
Opinion | ICE Is Watching You
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:55 AM
You don’t build a natl surveillance apparatus just to manage a border wall. This weaponry could effectively nullify our right to protection from unreasonable search & seizure, could more easily enable the government to trample on free speech, could do all this without transparency or oversight.
Bien joué!
February 4, 2026 at 3:28 AM
Bien joué!
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Cowboy. What comes to mind?
American ‘history’ virtually erased the Black cowboy. Did you know the Carter Family isn’t responsible for the origins of country music?
Jordan Peele & Monkeypaw Productions educate us w/3-part docuseries on Peacock.
It’s VERRRY GOOD! #blm
apnews.com/article/high...
American ‘history’ virtually erased the Black cowboy. Did you know the Carter Family isn’t responsible for the origins of country music?
Jordan Peele & Monkeypaw Productions educate us w/3-part docuseries on Peacock.
It’s VERRRY GOOD! #blm
apnews.com/article/high...
Jordan Peele’s ‘High Horse: The Black Cowboy’ doc sheds light on an erased part of history
“High Horse: The Black Cowboy,” a new docuseries executive produced by Jordan Peele and his Monkeypaw Productions that is now streaming on Peacock, highlights who it says are the first American cowboy...
apnews.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Cowboy. What comes to mind?
American ‘history’ virtually erased the Black cowboy. Did you know the Carter Family isn’t responsible for the origins of country music?
Jordan Peele & Monkeypaw Productions educate us w/3-part docuseries on Peacock.
It’s VERRRY GOOD! #blm
apnews.com/article/high...
American ‘history’ virtually erased the Black cowboy. Did you know the Carter Family isn’t responsible for the origins of country music?
Jordan Peele & Monkeypaw Productions educate us w/3-part docuseries on Peacock.
It’s VERRRY GOOD! #blm
apnews.com/article/high...