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Boris Nemtsov is a hero to the World of Freedom
Boris Nemtsov is a hero to the World of Freedom
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This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 6:52 PM
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
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Looks like Senator Blumenthal's office worked with the whistleblowers, and has already put out a letter to the Trump admin demanding answers.
Congress MUST act. This is a five alarm fire for our basic rights under the law. bsky.app/profile/blum...
Congress MUST act. This is a five alarm fire for our basic rights under the law. bsky.app/profile/blum...
I’m demanding Sec. Noem provide an explanation for this abhorrent policy & that my Republican colleagues hold hearings & join me in demanding the Trump Admin answer for this lawlessness. 6
January 21, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Looks like Senator Blumenthal's office worked with the whistleblowers, and has already put out a letter to the Trump admin demanding answers.
Congress MUST act. This is a five alarm fire for our basic rights under the law. bsky.app/profile/blum...
Congress MUST act. This is a five alarm fire for our basic rights under the law. bsky.app/profile/blum...
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The best source I've seen on what's happening in Minnesota, "A Bar of Their Own, a Minneapolis women’s sports bar, is handing out whistles and informational booklets. " minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/21/i...
In the Twin Cities, ICE resistance goes mainstream • Minnesota Reformer
The week before an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in south Minneapolis, her 67-year-old neighbor Terri Sullivan heard that a school in nearby Richfield that serves mostly Latino students needed ...
minnesotareformer.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:16 AM
The best source I've seen on what's happening in Minnesota, "A Bar of Their Own, a Minneapolis women’s sports bar, is handing out whistles and informational booklets. " minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/21/i...
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Four Democratic lawmakers—including Reps. Yassamin Ansari, Maxine Dexter, Robert Garcia, and Maxwell Frost—went to El Salvador to push for Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release, an MS-13 member with domestic violence claims. This follows Sen. Van Hollen’s visit, amid White House criticism.
April 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Four Democratic lawmakers—including Reps. Yassamin Ansari, Maxine Dexter, Robert Garcia, and Maxwell Frost—went to El Salvador to push for Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release, an MS-13 member with domestic violence claims. This follows Sen. Van Hollen’s visit, amid White House criticism.
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100% DEMOCRAT COSPONSORS
#democrat: 23
BILL COSPONSORS(23):
1: 🟦Rep. Ansari, Yassamin [D-AZ-3]D
2: 🟦Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-21]D
3: 🟦Rep. Figures, Shomari [D-AL-2]D
4: 🟦Rep. Pettersen, Brittany [D-CO-7]D
5: 🟦Rep. Moulton, Seth [D-MA-6]D
6: 🟦Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]D
#democrat: 23
BILL COSPONSORS(23):
1: 🟦Rep. Ansari, Yassamin [D-AZ-3]D
2: 🟦Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-21]D
3: 🟦Rep. Figures, Shomari [D-AL-2]D
4: 🟦Rep. Pettersen, Brittany [D-CO-7]D
5: 🟦Rep. Moulton, Seth [D-MA-6]D
6: 🟦Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]D
October 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM
100% DEMOCRAT COSPONSORS
#democrat: 23
BILL COSPONSORS(23):
1: 🟦Rep. Ansari, Yassamin [D-AZ-3]D
2: 🟦Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-21]D
3: 🟦Rep. Figures, Shomari [D-AL-2]D
4: 🟦Rep. Pettersen, Brittany [D-CO-7]D
5: 🟦Rep. Moulton, Seth [D-MA-6]D
6: 🟦Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]D
#democrat: 23
BILL COSPONSORS(23):
1: 🟦Rep. Ansari, Yassamin [D-AZ-3]D
2: 🟦Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-21]D
3: 🟦Rep. Figures, Shomari [D-AL-2]D
4: 🟦Rep. Pettersen, Brittany [D-CO-7]D
5: 🟦Rep. Moulton, Seth [D-MA-6]D
6: 🟦Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]D
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The other day I bitched that people always forget LaMonica McIver in their list of politicized prosecutions.
The New Yorker has a profile here, so hopefully we can change that.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The New Yorker has a profile here, so hopefully we can change that.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Congresswoman Criminalized for Visiting ICE Detainees
LaMonica McIver went to tour an immigration jail in her district. Now she faces seventeen years in prison.
www.newyorker.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:25 PM
The other day I bitched that people always forget LaMonica McIver in their list of politicized prosecutions.
The New Yorker has a profile here, so hopefully we can change that.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The New Yorker has a profile here, so hopefully we can change that.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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GOOD NEWS IF IT'S TRUE....
January 19, 2026 at 2:43 PM
GOOD NEWS IF IT'S TRUE....
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Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
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Thanks Rand! I agree! The news out of Venezuela is almost non existent!
Rand Paul: "To say it's not a war in Venezuela -- we still have hundreds of ships with a 100% blockade of the coast. That is an act of war. It's an ongoing war. To continue to take their oil -- ongoing war."
January 18, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Thanks Rand! I agree! The news out of Venezuela is almost non existent!
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Putin must love it that Trump is distracting Europe from Russia’s mass murder of Ukrainians.
January 18, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Putin must love it that Trump is distracting Europe from Russia’s mass murder of Ukrainians.
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Instead of tipping them,
the “grab & go Gestapo” kidnapped their servers. 🤬
www.startribune.com/ice-agents-e...
the “grab & go Gestapo” kidnapped their servers. 🤬
www.startribune.com/ice-agents-e...
ICE agents eat at small-town Mexican restaurant — then detain workers
“Would your mama be proud of you right now?” a bystander said as agents returned at closing time to nab the workers.
www.startribune.com
January 17, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Instead of tipping them,
the “grab & go Gestapo” kidnapped their servers. 🤬
www.startribune.com/ice-agents-e...
the “grab & go Gestapo” kidnapped their servers. 🤬
www.startribune.com/ice-agents-e...
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Asked to respond to (one sentence of) Trump's speech, my responses were:
"False."
"False."
"A little bit."
"False."
"False."
"False."
"False."
"A little bit."
"False."
"False."
January 17, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Asked to respond to (one sentence of) Trump's speech, my responses were:
"False."
"False."
"A little bit."
"False."
"False."
"False."
"False."
"A little bit."
"False."
"False."
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Howard G Buffett (son of Warren Buffett) has a foundation that’s on its way to giving #Ukraine over a billion dollars to help in its fight against the illegal invasion by #russia!
www.linkedin.com/posts/oleksi...
www.linkedin.com/posts/oleksi...
It's just an incredible sight.
Because one of the richest men in the world, Howard Buffett, visited the front line near Kupiansk.
But it's not just the sight itself that's incredible, but ...
It's just an incredible sight.
Because one of the richest men in the world, Howard Buffett, visited the front line near Kupiansk.
But it's not just the sight itself that's incredible, but Mr. Buffett ...
www.linkedin.com
January 17, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Howard G Buffett (son of Warren Buffett) has a foundation that’s on its way to giving #Ukraine over a billion dollars to help in its fight against the illegal invasion by #russia!
www.linkedin.com/posts/oleksi...
www.linkedin.com/posts/oleksi...
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Wildly corrupt. The president should not personally profit from mergers the executive branch must approve.
Though if he’s making money from Netflix buying Warner Bros., Paramount and the Ellisons aren’t getting it.
Though if he’s making money from Netflix buying Warner Bros., Paramount and the Ellisons aren’t getting it.
He’s turned the presidency into the world’s largest ATM machine.
January 17, 2026 at 3:57 AM
Wildly corrupt. The president should not personally profit from mergers the executive branch must approve.
Though if he’s making money from Netflix buying Warner Bros., Paramount and the Ellisons aren’t getting it.
Though if he’s making money from Netflix buying Warner Bros., Paramount and the Ellisons aren’t getting it.
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As you already well know by now, it's all lies.
Every single thing anyone in this entire administration says is a lie.
All of it.
Every time.
Every single thing anyone in this entire administration says is a lie.
All of it.
Every time.
January 16, 2026 at 9:30 PM
As you already well know by now, it's all lies.
Every single thing anyone in this entire administration says is a lie.
All of it.
Every time.
Every single thing anyone in this entire administration says is a lie.
All of it.
Every time.
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Might be something, oh I don't know, maybe the press could ask him about?
I find it amazing that the President of the USA tells Iran not to employ military on the protesters in Iran. On the same day he threatens to employ the military on Protesters in the USA.
Hypocrisy is not lost on me.
Hypocrisy is not lost on me.
January 16, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Might be something, oh I don't know, maybe the press could ask him about?
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more americans than ever say that ICE should be abolished www.gelliottmorris.com/p/support-fo...
Support for abolishing ICE hits a a new high
Americans have turned sharply against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and say it too often resorts to violence
www.gelliottmorris.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:57 PM
more americans than ever say that ICE should be abolished www.gelliottmorris.com/p/support-fo...
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Trump's advisors are finally worrying about all the Butt Crack and Beer Belly spectacle that Stephen Miller's invasions create.
And they've got private polling showing what @gelliottmorris.com keeps pointing out: Trump is losing on immigration and ICE.
www.axios.com/2026/01/16/t...
And they've got private polling showing what @gelliottmorris.com keeps pointing out: Trump is losing on immigration and ICE.
www.axios.com/2026/01/16/t...
January 16, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Trump's advisors are finally worrying about all the Butt Crack and Beer Belly spectacle that Stephen Miller's invasions create.
And they've got private polling showing what @gelliottmorris.com keeps pointing out: Trump is losing on immigration and ICE.
www.axios.com/2026/01/16/t...
And they've got private polling showing what @gelliottmorris.com keeps pointing out: Trump is losing on immigration and ICE.
www.axios.com/2026/01/16/t...
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This was an intense hearing. Judge Young, an 85-year-old Reagan appointee who has served on the federal bench for 47 years, didn't mince words. He closed the hearing by reading from Lincoln's address at Gettysburg. Some of the people in the courtroom were in tears. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
January 16, 2026 at 12:37 PM
This was an intense hearing. Judge Young, an 85-year-old Reagan appointee who has served on the federal bench for 47 years, didn't mince words. He closed the hearing by reading from Lincoln's address at Gettysburg. Some of the people in the courtroom were in tears. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
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I know I keep saying it, but I remain astonished that we turned over all the power and wealth in our society to contemptible idiots and feckless cowards
January 16, 2026 at 2:13 PM
I know I keep saying it, but I remain astonished that we turned over all the power and wealth in our society to contemptible idiots and feckless cowards
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"Among the many victims is Musk’s own ex-partner and the alleged mother of one of his many children, Ashley St Clair. St Clair has been subjected to the repeated undressing and sexualization of her image, including one of her at age fourteen." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-epst...
The New Epstein Island Is Right in Your Pocket: It’s Time to Abandon Elon Musk’s Paradise of Abuse
It has long been time to leave X. Now, it’s essential.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:44 PM
"Among the many victims is Musk’s own ex-partner and the alleged mother of one of his many children, Ashley St Clair. St Clair has been subjected to the repeated undressing and sexualization of her image, including one of her at age fourteen." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-epst...
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New, from me: A year in, did DOGE deliver on its promises?
Not the promises it made to us (cut spending, modernize government, improve services). It worsened state capacity.
But it was part of a successful broligarchy exercise in state capture. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...
Not the promises it made to us (cut spending, modernize government, improve services). It worsened state capacity.
But it was part of a successful broligarchy exercise in state capture. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...
A Year On: The DOGE Disaster
A Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly of your government
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:43 PM
New, from me: A year in, did DOGE deliver on its promises?
Not the promises it made to us (cut spending, modernize government, improve services). It worsened state capacity.
But it was part of a successful broligarchy exercise in state capture. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...
Not the promises it made to us (cut spending, modernize government, improve services). It worsened state capacity.
But it was part of a successful broligarchy exercise in state capture. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...
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The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar.
“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar
The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.
www.semafor.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:42 AM
The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar.
“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
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He’s not joking. Iceland should ban him.
Update: Long apologised and said he was just joking.
2.400 people have signed a plea for the government not to accept him as ambassador.
2.400 people have signed a plea for the government not to accept him as ambassador.
January 15, 2026 at 9:48 PM
He’s not joking. Iceland should ban him.
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