Toscha
@poemless.bsky.social
Lover of lovely things, problematic takes, and my rescue dog. Hater of Illinois Nazis.
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Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
January 27, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
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After Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, a friend in Moscow was going to protests and getting detained at them. He typically got released with a court date and then fined. One evening an FSB guy visited him at his home to tell him he should stop going to protests. Police-state shit.
ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
www.pressherald.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:36 AM
After Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, a friend in Moscow was going to protests and getting detained at them. He typically got released with a court date and then fined. One evening an FSB guy visited him at his home to tell him he should stop going to protests. Police-state shit.
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I hope people keep following him around and blowing whistles at him. Forever.
January 27, 2026 at 1:52 AM
I hope people keep following him around and blowing whistles at him. Forever.
I will say this is a win for my ability to shop for cheap groceries whenever I want or need to without running into Temu Lockjaw himself.
Welp, was going to go to Aldi and the pet store today, but now I am afraid Bovine will be visiting his favorite Home Depot in the same shopping center.
January 27, 2026 at 1:52 AM
I will say this is a win for my ability to shop for cheap groceries whenever I want or need to without running into Temu Lockjaw himself.
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
Am I supposed to be happy this Nazi who personally terrorized my neighborhood gets to retire in peace?
Am I supposed to believe anything less than abolishing DHS and prosecuting and punishing every last soul who has participated in this spectacle of fear and death is remotely acceptable?
Am I supposed to believe anything less than abolishing DHS and prosecuting and punishing every last soul who has participated in this spectacle of fear and death is remotely acceptable?
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Am I supposed to be happy this Nazi who personally terrorized my neighborhood gets to retire in peace?
Am I supposed to believe anything less than abolishing DHS and prosecuting and punishing every last soul who has participated in this spectacle of fear and death is remotely acceptable?
Am I supposed to believe anything less than abolishing DHS and prosecuting and punishing every last soul who has participated in this spectacle of fear and death is remotely acceptable?
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A lot more people should know about the bravery Marimar Martinez displayed in the midst of Chicago’s occupation and the murder of two observers in MSP. They tried to kill her, shooting her 5 times, and it’s a miracle she’s alive to push for transparency like this after being persecuted by the DOJ.
The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force.
@chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
@chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago asks judge to let her release evidence
Marimar Martinez is blocked from releasing evidence in her case by what's known as a "protective order." Though standard, her attorney says it's “become an albatross” around her neck and “keeps the en...
chicago.suntimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:27 PM
A lot more people should know about the bravery Marimar Martinez displayed in the midst of Chicago’s occupation and the murder of two observers in MSP. They tried to kill her, shooting her 5 times, and it’s a miracle she’s alive to push for transparency like this after being persecuted by the DOJ.
I can't quite tell what is going on with CBP, but please know that Bovino's traveling circus has returned to Chicago to terrorize us several times since they officially "left," that ICE has remained here, and that your city may be the next stop on the CBP tour of terror.
January 26, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I can't quite tell what is going on with CBP, but please know that Bovino's traveling circus has returned to Chicago to terrorize us several times since they officially "left," that ICE has remained here, and that your city may be the next stop on the CBP tour of terror.
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Goodnight.
🖼️ Winter Night, Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov.
🖼️ Winter Night, Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov.
January 25, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Goodnight.
🖼️ Winter Night, Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov.
🖼️ Winter Night, Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov.
Bad policies and bad behavior, but he's always been a pretty powerful communicator. Just today I was thinking about his famous statement that there is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America and hoping he still believed that.
Can’t believe I‘m saying this, but Bill Clinton put out a pretty powerful statement about the killings in Minneapolis.
January 26, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Bad policies and bad behavior, but he's always been a pretty powerful communicator. Just today I was thinking about his famous statement that there is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America and hoping he still believed that.
"You don't get to ask God to heal the land if you won't even look at the wound."
January 26, 2026 at 1:32 AM
"You don't get to ask God to heal the land if you won't even look at the wound."
TIL
"What I did not realize (something the professor knew perfectly well) was that Premature Anti-Fascist was an FBI code-word for Communist." -- Bernard Knox, "Confessions of a ‘Premature Anti-Fascist’"
www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
"What I did not realize (something the professor knew perfectly well) was that Premature Anti-Fascist was an FBI code-word for Communist." -- Bernard Knox, "Confessions of a ‘Premature Anti-Fascist’"
www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
January 25, 2026 at 10:40 PM
TIL
"What I did not realize (something the professor knew perfectly well) was that Premature Anti-Fascist was an FBI code-word for Communist." -- Bernard Knox, "Confessions of a ‘Premature Anti-Fascist’"
www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
"What I did not realize (something the professor knew perfectly well) was that Premature Anti-Fascist was an FBI code-word for Communist." -- Bernard Knox, "Confessions of a ‘Premature Anti-Fascist’"
www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
Oh no a poorly worded post full of rage-induced bad copy + pasting has escaped containment.
January 25, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Oh no a poorly worded post full of rage-induced bad copy + pasting has escaped containment.
The author of the Atlantic piece opens by caricaturing the those came to this conclusion (yes it is fascism) before a white man was exectuted as "left-leaning types who call you a fascist if you oppose abortion or affirmative action" rather than admitting that they were correct and he was wrong.
Interesting
January 25, 2026 at 9:47 PM
The author of the Atlantic piece opens by caricaturing the those came to this conclusion (yes it is fascism) before a white man was exectuted as "left-leaning types who call you a fascist if you oppose abortion or affirmative action" rather than admitting that they were correct and he was wrong.
Struggling a bit with my own frustration at not being heard or believed, not last year, not in '24, '16, '01, etc. and knowing there are so many others who have not been heard or believed for far longer than that because of the color of their skin or gender or because it wasn't profitable or cool.
January 25, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Struggling a bit with my own frustration at not being heard or believed, not last year, not in '24, '16, '01, etc. and knowing there are so many others who have not been heard or believed for far longer than that because of the color of their skin or gender or because it wasn't profitable or cool.
I appreciate elected officials and lawyers must do this, but I am struggling to understand the compulsion of so many men on this website to do a forensic analysis of the videos. Like, why? If they saw a grainy b&w film of officers in SS uniforms executing someone would they feel the same compulsion?
January 25, 2026 at 6:44 PM
I appreciate elected officials and lawyers must do this, but I am struggling to understand the compulsion of so many men on this website to do a forensic analysis of the videos. Like, why? If they saw a grainy b&w film of officers in SS uniforms executing someone would they feel the same compulsion?
21st Century Niemöller poem.
DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
January 25, 2026 at 6:10 PM
21st Century Niemöller poem.
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They tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, ... they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples.
-Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1955)
-Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1955)
January 25, 2026 at 5:01 PM
They tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, ... they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples.
-Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1955)
-Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1955)
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Sunday Stroll in the Snow. Today in Chicago.
January 25, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Sunday Stroll in the Snow. Today in Chicago.
Maybe this guy can meet up with Jeffrey Sachs for a drink down at the Club For Regretful Baddies.
January 25, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Maybe this guy can meet up with Jeffrey Sachs for a drink down at the Club For Regretful Baddies.
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Repeal the Homeland Security Act of 2002.
I just want to make it clear that it was *Border Patrol* agents who murdered Alex Pretti, and those fuckers murder people regularly here along the border.
Renee Good´s murderer is also a former Border Patrol agent (currently ICE).
Disband ALL the paramilitary groups and prosecute every member.
Renee Good´s murderer is also a former Border Patrol agent (currently ICE).
Disband ALL the paramilitary groups and prosecute every member.
January 25, 2026 at 4:12 AM
Repeal the Homeland Security Act of 2002.
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Gravestones of New England has entered the chat from Facebook
January 25, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Gravestones of New England has entered the chat from Facebook
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Sen. Dick Durbin, another one of the 8 Democratic YES votes on Nov funding bill, is a NO on this DHS measure: “I will not vote to fund the illegal DHS and ICE operations that terrorize Chicago, Minneapolis, and many other communities.”
This bill doesn’t have the votes.
This bill doesn’t have the votes.
January 25, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Sen. Dick Durbin, another one of the 8 Democratic YES votes on Nov funding bill, is a NO on this DHS measure: “I will not vote to fund the illegal DHS and ICE operations that terrorize Chicago, Minneapolis, and many other communities.”
This bill doesn’t have the votes.
This bill doesn’t have the votes.
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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.