Rabbi Iris Richman
@rabbir.bsky.social
Rabbi- Believer in justice, Jewish pluralism and the power to repair the world/ tikkun olam. Conservative Rabbi but liberal
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now this is fucking thinking like an appropriator.
speaking as a federal bureaucrat, do you know how many completely fucking absurd rules there are making it next to impossible to do our jobs? how many forms I have to file to hire anyone? put a few dozen of those restrictions on ICE...
speaking as a federal bureaucrat, do you know how many completely fucking absurd rules there are making it next to impossible to do our jobs? how many forms I have to file to hire anyone? put a few dozen of those restrictions on ICE...
"Whoops sorry guys, we've upped your training requirements to 30 months. You'll have to pay your recruits full salary during that time too. We're not going to budget any money for that but you can draw from the already allocated money in the BBB."
The job right now isn't to advocate for more training, or body cams or QR codes or whatever because those things will be effective in their own right. It's to advocate for those things because it will bleed ICE's slush-fund white.
January 30, 2026 at 3:51 AM
now this is fucking thinking like an appropriator.
speaking as a federal bureaucrat, do you know how many completely fucking absurd rules there are making it next to impossible to do our jobs? how many forms I have to file to hire anyone? put a few dozen of those restrictions on ICE...
speaking as a federal bureaucrat, do you know how many completely fucking absurd rules there are making it next to impossible to do our jobs? how many forms I have to file to hire anyone? put a few dozen of those restrictions on ICE...
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Graham wants to keep his multimillion dollar taxpayer payout
NO SENATE VOTE TONIGHT
Couldn’t get all senators to allow a speedy vote. Schumer tells reporters Lindsey Graham is blocking it. “That’s the holdup,” Schumer tells reporters. Graham wants to keep a provision letting him sue to pocket $500,000 over J6 phone records seized.
Couldn’t get all senators to allow a speedy vote. Schumer tells reporters Lindsey Graham is blocking it. “That’s the holdup,” Schumer tells reporters. Graham wants to keep a provision letting him sue to pocket $500,000 over J6 phone records seized.
January 30, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Graham wants to keep his multimillion dollar taxpayer payout
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Sorry I cannot alt-text this one. Here's the link. Pretty remarkable.
www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
January 29, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Sorry I cannot alt-text this one. Here's the link. Pretty remarkable.
www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
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Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
January 29, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
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Take the oil / Take the voter rolls
Walz told me that when he spoke to Trump on the phone the president compared the immigration operations in Minneapolis to the military mission he ordered in Venezuela. www.ms.now/news/walz-sa...
Walz says Trump compared Minneapolis surge to Venezuela mission
The Minnesota governor tells MS NOW’s Jacob Soboroff that the reference shows where Trump’s head is. The White House denies that.
www.ms.now
January 29, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Take the oil / Take the voter rolls
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Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores.
TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.
Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.
Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.
TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.
Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.
Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.
January 29, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores.
TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.
Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.
Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.
TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.
Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.
Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.
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"Only about a quarter of Americans today (27%) say they support all or most of Trump’s policies and plans ..."
The @scalzi.com Crazification Factor remains undefeated.
The @scalzi.com Crazification Factor remains undefeated.
January 29, 2026 at 8:27 PM
"Only about a quarter of Americans today (27%) say they support all or most of Trump’s policies and plans ..."
The @scalzi.com Crazification Factor remains undefeated.
The @scalzi.com Crazification Factor remains undefeated.
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Now THIS is how you do anti-ICE messaging:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNRC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNRC...
Absolute Immunity
YouTube video by Lincoln Project Advocacy
www.youtube.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Now THIS is how you do anti-ICE messaging:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNRC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNRC...
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Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...
ICE’s excuse for wearing masks has never actually manifested
There have been incidents of harassment and threats. But there are no apparent incidents in which identified ICE officers have been assaulted off-duty.
www.pbump.net
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...
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don’t print lies in the newspaper @nytimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:53 PM
don’t print lies in the newspaper @nytimes.com
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BREAKING: Republican lawmakers unveil the Make Elections Great Again Act — a new bill that would impose the most extreme federal voting restrictions in history.
The measure would go beyond the SAVE Act by imposing strict voter ID to vote, mandating voter roll purges, banning mail voting and more.
The measure would go beyond the SAVE Act by imposing strict voter ID to vote, mandating voter roll purges, banning mail voting and more.
New GOP anti-voting bill may be the most dangerous attack on voting rights ever
The MEGA Act represents one of the most catastrophic proposals for democracy in the United States.
www.democracydocket.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:54 PM
BREAKING: Republican lawmakers unveil the Make Elections Great Again Act — a new bill that would impose the most extreme federal voting restrictions in history.
The measure would go beyond the SAVE Act by imposing strict voter ID to vote, mandating voter roll purges, banning mail voting and more.
The measure would go beyond the SAVE Act by imposing strict voter ID to vote, mandating voter roll purges, banning mail voting and more.
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The massive government funding package just failed badly in the Senate, 45-55.
Needed 60.
Zero Democrats voted for it.
SEVEN Republicans opposed it:
Budd
Johnson
Lee
Paul
Moody
Rick Scott
Tuberville
(John Thune switched his vote to no for procedural reasons.)
Needed 60.
Zero Democrats voted for it.
SEVEN Republicans opposed it:
Budd
Johnson
Lee
Paul
Moody
Rick Scott
Tuberville
(John Thune switched his vote to no for procedural reasons.)
January 29, 2026 at 5:27 PM
The massive government funding package just failed badly in the Senate, 45-55.
Needed 60.
Zero Democrats voted for it.
SEVEN Republicans opposed it:
Budd
Johnson
Lee
Paul
Moody
Rick Scott
Tuberville
(John Thune switched his vote to no for procedural reasons.)
Needed 60.
Zero Democrats voted for it.
SEVEN Republicans opposed it:
Budd
Johnson
Lee
Paul
Moody
Rick Scott
Tuberville
(John Thune switched his vote to no for procedural reasons.)
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I think Schumer benefits from seeming to wound Trump while those like me who have lost our health insurance blame Trump more than Schumer. Actually I don’t blame Schumer at all.
New: With a possible second shutdown in four months approaching, Democrats are still debating the wisdom of the last one.
Shutdown backers point out it energized the base + GOP took more of the blame.
Detractors note Democrats got nothing concrete out of it—the subsidies are now gone
Shutdown backers point out it energized the base + GOP took more of the blame.
Detractors note Democrats got nothing concrete out of it—the subsidies are now gone
Democrats Threaten Shutdown—But Was the Last One Worth It?
The last shutdown ended with Democrats claiming no tangible wins
time.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:30 PM
I think Schumer benefits from seeming to wound Trump while those like me who have lost our health insurance blame Trump more than Schumer. Actually I don’t blame Schumer at all.
The outlines of a concept
Breaking news: President Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, says his team is working on a plan to reduce the number of immigration enforcement agents they have in Minneapolis, pending cooperation with state and local officials.
White House is planning to reduce immigration agents’ presence in Minnesota
Sen. Susan Collins also said large-scale immigration enforcement operations in Maine have ended, as the White House seeks to quell growing backlash in the wake of citizen deaths.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:00 PM
The outlines of a concept
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Protected speech made my agents murder these people, says federal official
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 1:51 PM
Protected speech made my agents murder these people, says federal official
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He lies as he breaths. Inflation has not been “solved,” and prices are up. And btw - People aren’t talking as much about affordability right now because there are heavily-armed, masked federal agents lawlessly roaming America’s streets assaulting & killing people.
January 29, 2026 at 12:58 PM
He lies as he breaths. Inflation has not been “solved,” and prices are up. And btw - People aren’t talking as much about affordability right now because there are heavily-armed, masked federal agents lawlessly roaming America’s streets assaulting & killing people.
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The State Department is poised to take over a building DOGE seized from the US Institute of Peace, former staffers claim—possibly for Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace.” www.wired.com/story/trump-...
Trump Admin's Plans for $500 Million USIP Building May Violate Court Order, Say Former Workers
The State Department is poised to take over a building DOGE seized from the US Institute of Peace, former staffers claim—possibly for Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace.”
www.wired.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:43 PM
The State Department is poised to take over a building DOGE seized from the US Institute of Peace, former staffers claim—possibly for Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace.” www.wired.com/story/trump-...
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Even under SCOTUS's dubious reasoning in Trump v. U.S., there is no scenario in which maneuvering billions of dollars to an offshore account to keep it out of reach from Congress and courts is an "official act." This is all criminal and impeachable.
Marco Rubio: "The oil proceeds are being deposited into an account that ultimately will become a US Treasury blocked account here in the US. We will say 'this is what this money can be spent on.' They will submit to us a budget request -- 'we want to use the money on these things.'"
January 29, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Even under SCOTUS's dubious reasoning in Trump v. U.S., there is no scenario in which maneuvering billions of dollars to an offshore account to keep it out of reach from Congress and courts is an "official act." This is all criminal and impeachable.
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Mayor Mamdani is on the scene of the Chabad-Lubavitch attack.
January 29, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Mayor Mamdani is on the scene of the Chabad-Lubavitch attack.
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Suddenly republicans have forgotten what the constitution says 🤷🏼 🇺🇸
January 28, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Suddenly republicans have forgotten what the constitution says 🤷🏼 🇺🇸
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again, if you are hearing about an empathetic, soulful, new-tone trump pivot calming things down in Minnesota, the people who are telling you this are trying to trap your mind inside a false, alternate reality. please consider why exactly they are doing this.
Trump just reposted a tweet calling Alex Pretti a "domestic terrorist"
January 29, 2026 at 3:46 AM
again, if you are hearing about an empathetic, soulful, new-tone trump pivot calming things down in Minnesota, the people who are telling you this are trying to trap your mind inside a false, alternate reality. please consider why exactly they are doing this.
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Josh Shapiro accuses JD Vance of giving 'comfort' to right-wing antisemitism www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Josh Shapiro accuses JD Vance of giving 'comfort' to right-wing antisemitism
The Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, a potential 2028 presidential candidate, is on a book tour promoting his memoir, which highlights his Jewish faith.
www.nbcnews.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Josh Shapiro accuses JD Vance of giving 'comfort' to right-wing antisemitism www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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As far as I know, Tom Suozzi here still does not have a primary challenger in his district (NY-3 on Long Island).
The filing deadline is April 6 for the primary on June 23, and if there's a remotely progressive town council member or PTA president in that district, this is the time to make a move.
The filing deadline is April 6 for the primary on June 23, and if there's a remotely progressive town council member or PTA president in that district, this is the time to make a move.
Confronted Congressman Tom Suozzi, one of seven Democrats casting the decisive votes to increase ICE funding by $10,000,000,000.
January 29, 2026 at 1:45 AM
As far as I know, Tom Suozzi here still does not have a primary challenger in his district (NY-3 on Long Island).
The filing deadline is April 6 for the primary on June 23, and if there's a remotely progressive town council member or PTA president in that district, this is the time to make a move.
The filing deadline is April 6 for the primary on June 23, and if there's a remotely progressive town council member or PTA president in that district, this is the time to make a move.
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One of the country’s highest-ranking Catholic leaders, and a top ally of Pope Leo, is sharply criticizing the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement, calling ICE a “lawless organization." https://to.pbs.org/3LRVzZd
U.S. cardinal urges defunding of ICE: 'We need to see what's happening in front of us'
One of the country’s highest-ranking Catholic leaders, and a top ally of Pope Leo, is sharply criticizing the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement, calling ICE a “lawless organization." Card...
to.pbs.org
January 29, 2026 at 3:00 AM
One of the country’s highest-ranking Catholic leaders, and a top ally of Pope Leo, is sharply criticizing the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement, calling ICE a “lawless organization." https://to.pbs.org/3LRVzZd