Shirley Thompson🌵
@satat.bsky.social
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't.
-- Charles Bukowski
-- Charles Bukowski
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“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”
-Edward R. Murrow
-Edward R. Murrow
January 23, 2026 at 8:01 PM
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”
-Edward R. Murrow
-Edward R. Murrow
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If you’re defending kidnapping a five year old, you’re losing
January 23, 2026 at 7:39 PM
If you’re defending kidnapping a five year old, you’re losing
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And so it begins. The payback for standing up to Trump is coming. Count on Trump and MAGA Maple attempting to tear our nation apart by reaching out to the false losers in the Alberta separatist party and Donbass Danielle Smith. Watch the traitors come out from under their rocks.
January 23, 2026 at 8:53 PM
And so it begins. The payback for standing up to Trump is coming. Count on Trump and MAGA Maple attempting to tear our nation apart by reaching out to the false losers in the Alberta separatist party and Donbass Danielle Smith. Watch the traitors come out from under their rocks.
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Learn more about why ICE’s new policy that lets agents enter your home without a judicial warrant is dead wrong. joycevance.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
January 23, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Learn more about why ICE’s new policy that lets agents enter your home without a judicial warrant is dead wrong. joycevance.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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Blumenthal: "I'm a no vote on that spending bill unless there are conditions that require ICE to go to a judge, to get a warrant, as well as other kinds of constraints -- the use of masks, the non-identification, the unmarked cars. These secret police, totalitarian tactics need to be stopped."
January 23, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Blumenthal: "I'm a no vote on that spending bill unless there are conditions that require ICE to go to a judge, to get a warrant, as well as other kinds of constraints -- the use of masks, the non-identification, the unmarked cars. These secret police, totalitarian tactics need to be stopped."
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Ossoff: "POTUS called for this man [Mark Kelly] to be hanged. A combat veteran, naval aviator, astronaut, senator. He demanded his execution bc he stated a principle enshrined in uniform code of military justice. If we become numb to that we lose sight of how extraordinary our obligations are."
January 22, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Ossoff: "POTUS called for this man [Mark Kelly] to be hanged. A combat veteran, naval aviator, astronaut, senator. He demanded his execution bc he stated a principle enshrined in uniform code of military justice. If we become numb to that we lose sight of how extraordinary our obligations are."
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Seriously, @people.com has been meeting the moment better than 90% of publications with direct reporting and crystal clear headlines.
This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
What America will read this weekend while in line at the grocery checkout:
@peoplemag.bsky.social #ICE
people.com/ice-detains-...
@peoplemag.bsky.social #ICE
people.com/ice-detains-...
January 22, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Seriously, @people.com has been meeting the moment better than 90% of publications with direct reporting and crystal clear headlines.
This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
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Resistance to this regime can take many forms. Kudos to these volunteers who are stepping up to help their community in Minnesota.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
Volunteers in Minnesota Deliver Groceries So Immigrants Can Hide at Home
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Resistance to this regime can take many forms. Kudos to these volunteers who are stepping up to help their community in Minnesota.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
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This beautiful soul is still looking for her soulmate. MELIA does guard food & toys. Training is funded to the adopter. She enjoys playing, going for walks, car rides, can live with cats. She just needs you.
🏡The Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue, Wantagh, NY 11793
☎️516-785-5220
🏡The Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue, Wantagh, NY 11793
☎️516-785-5220
January 22, 2026 at 9:39 PM
This beautiful soul is still looking for her soulmate. MELIA does guard food & toys. Training is funded to the adopter. She enjoys playing, going for walks, car rides, can live with cats. She just needs you.
🏡The Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue, Wantagh, NY 11793
☎️516-785-5220
🏡The Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue, Wantagh, NY 11793
☎️516-785-5220
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“Democratic politicians and business & technocratic elites should be shamed and humiliated by how normal people have met this moment while most Democrats pretended it was business as usual and many elites openly curried favor with the regime instead of resisting.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/how-the-me...
www.thebulwark.com/p/how-the-me...
How the Media Fails With Trump. Over and Over. (And Over.)
Plus: The people of Minneapolis are amazing.
www.thebulwark.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:33 PM
“Democratic politicians and business & technocratic elites should be shamed and humiliated by how normal people have met this moment while most Democrats pretended it was business as usual and many elites openly curried favor with the regime instead of resisting.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/how-the-me...
www.thebulwark.com/p/how-the-me...
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This is a truly horrifying account of increasingly likely collapse of essential natural systems which would bring mass food shortages, price rises & global disorder. Commissioned from UK intelligence chiefs but scandalously suppressed by Govt, & sneaked out now while attention is elsewhere 👇
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
January 20, 2026 at 9:48 PM
This is a truly horrifying account of increasingly likely collapse of essential natural systems which would bring mass food shortages, price rises & global disorder. Commissioned from UK intelligence chiefs but scandalously suppressed by Govt, & sneaked out now while attention is elsewhere 👇
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This is really going to help:
Park Service Erases Climate Facts at Fort Sumter, Where the Civil War Began
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:30 PM
This is really going to help:
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They're going to let these monsters walk.
youtube.com/shorts/mcB5U...
youtube.com/shorts/mcB5U...
PROTECTING the EPSTEIN FILES
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
youtube.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:28 AM
They're going to let these monsters walk.
youtube.com/shorts/mcB5U...
youtube.com/shorts/mcB5U...
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There’s no reforming this
January 22, 2026 at 6:17 PM
There’s no reforming this
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I haven't been back from Texas for 24 hours, and there's 3 new reminders why we shouldn't fund DHS without reforms to force them to obey the law.
1. The arrest of little Liam Ramos
2. More brutal treatment of protesters in Minnesota
3. ICE claiming the power to enter our homes
1. The arrest of little Liam Ramos
2. More brutal treatment of protesters in Minnesota
3. ICE claiming the power to enter our homes
January 22, 2026 at 11:32 PM
I haven't been back from Texas for 24 hours, and there's 3 new reminders why we shouldn't fund DHS without reforms to force them to obey the law.
1. The arrest of little Liam Ramos
2. More brutal treatment of protesters in Minnesota
3. ICE claiming the power to enter our homes
1. The arrest of little Liam Ramos
2. More brutal treatment of protesters in Minnesota
3. ICE claiming the power to enter our homes
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Funny how the right is outraged at Fanone flipping off a congressman just days after celebrating a president flipping off a working American .
January 22, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Funny how the right is outraged at Fanone flipping off a congressman just days after celebrating a president flipping off a working American .
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Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 22, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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AOC: An agency that is attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping five-year-olds and using them as bait, and privately circulating the idea that they can violate the rights of Americans by busting down their doors—they deserve to be defunded, and I’ll take any step in that direction.
January 22, 2026 at 11:29 PM
AOC: An agency that is attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping five-year-olds and using them as bait, and privately circulating the idea that they can violate the rights of Americans by busting down their doors—they deserve to be defunded, and I’ll take any step in that direction.
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Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
January 22, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
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Danes and Greenlanders have begun wearing MAGA-red baseball caps that say “Make America Go Away.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...
Snapshot: The Deranged Escalation of Conflict
In a sane world, Trump's letter to Norway would be the final straw, convincing responsible leaders to invoke the 25th Amendment. Instead, we can expect more madness ahead.
www.americaamerica.news
January 20, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Danes and Greenlanders have begun wearing MAGA-red baseball caps that say “Make America Go Away.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...
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This is one of the ten people in the country who could put an immediate stop to ~90% of the things. Today. Just absolute Profiles in Cowardice.
Tillis: "To be clear -- I'm not critical of the president. I'm critical of the bad advice he's getting on Greenland."
January 20, 2026 at 4:51 PM
This is one of the ten people in the country who could put an immediate stop to ~90% of the things. Today. Just absolute Profiles in Cowardice.
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KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?”
@pkrugman.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
@pkrugman.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
January 20, 2026 at 12:11 PM
KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?”
@pkrugman.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
@pkrugman.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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Call your representatives today and demand they stop ICE’s abuses of power: (202) 224-3121
January 20, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Call your representatives today and demand they stop ICE’s abuses of power: (202) 224-3121
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McGowan has a spine. Jennings has a leash.
Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here
McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…
McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…
January 20, 2026 at 4:43 PM
McGowan has a spine. Jennings has a leash.