Auntie Smithbrainz
@smithbrainz.bsky.social
Lisa Smith. Writer, narrator, migraine advocate, connector of dots. Sarcasm free of charge. She/her. (I block at the drop of a hat. Nothing personal.)
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a box divested of its contents must be in want of a cat.
January 11, 2026 at 1:26 AM
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a box divested of its contents must be in want of a cat.
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NEW: Jonathan Ross is former National Guard and Border Patrol and has been part of ICE's SWAT equivalent, a team leader overseeing FBI, ATF, and IRS agents, and a firearms instructor, according to testimony obtained by WIRED. This is from @hudsongiles.bsky.social and me:
ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, Per Testimony
Jonathan Ross told a federal court in December about his professional background, including “hundreds” of encounters with drivers during enforcement actions, according to testimony obtained by WIRED.
www.wired.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:23 AM
NEW: Jonathan Ross is former National Guard and Border Patrol and has been part of ICE's SWAT equivalent, a team leader overseeing FBI, ATF, and IRS agents, and a firearms instructor, according to testimony obtained by WIRED. This is from @hudsongiles.bsky.social and me:
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Here’s the thing. The GOP has a two-vote majority in the House. It wouldn’t take much at all backbone to make big changes. Bravery and duty from almost the literal *smallest* number of Members of Congress. And yet we wait…
Urgent call from citizen in Greenalnd to the US Congress.
Stop the US President and administration in their unlawful threats of Greenland 🛑
Stop the US President and administration in their unlawful threats of Greenland 🛑
January 11, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Here’s the thing. The GOP has a two-vote majority in the House. It wouldn’t take much at all backbone to make big changes. Bravery and duty from almost the literal *smallest* number of Members of Congress. And yet we wait…
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The GESTAPO are posing as utility workers AND construction people out here in Portland when knocking on doors, aggressively questioning & trying to gain entry into homes, these people MUST pay a heavy, heavy price❗️
www.koin.com/news/oregon/...
www.koin.com/news/oregon/...
Multnomah County warns ICE agents are posing as utility workers
Portland metro area officials are warning residents about reports of federal immigration officers posing as utility workers “to lure people out of their homes.”
www.koin.com
January 10, 2026 at 11:25 PM
The GESTAPO are posing as utility workers AND construction people out here in Portland when knocking on doors, aggressively questioning & trying to gain entry into homes, these people MUST pay a heavy, heavy price❗️
www.koin.com/news/oregon/...
www.koin.com/news/oregon/...
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Tbh I like this one more than Rhapsody Rabbit since it's more unique than that one.
Plus it's a rare time Bugs loses😆
Plus it's a rare time Bugs loses😆
“Baton Bunny”, directed by Chuck Jones and Abe Levitow, was released on this day in 1959.
Bugs conducts Franz Von Suppé’s “Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna” with full comedic effect thanks to the use of pantomime, or no dialogue. Similar to “Rhapsody Rabbit” but it stands on its own.
#LooneyTunes
Bugs conducts Franz Von Suppé’s “Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna” with full comedic effect thanks to the use of pantomime, or no dialogue. Similar to “Rhapsody Rabbit” but it stands on its own.
#LooneyTunes
January 10, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Tbh I like this one more than Rhapsody Rabbit since it's more unique than that one.
Plus it's a rare time Bugs loses😆
Plus it's a rare time Bugs loses😆
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god, there’s apparently ICE agents in Bemidji, in northern MN. Bemidji is between my reservation and two others. there is very little diversity besides the Indigenous population.
truly terrifying with how vulnerable Native women especially already are.
truly terrifying with how vulnerable Native women especially already are.
January 10, 2026 at 9:36 PM
god, there’s apparently ICE agents in Bemidji, in northern MN. Bemidji is between my reservation and two others. there is very little diversity besides the Indigenous population.
truly terrifying with how vulnerable Native women especially already are.
truly terrifying with how vulnerable Native women especially already are.
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It's collapsing because it's being looted by the oligarchy. If the orange bag of shit stays in office, this is our future.
Despite billions in natural wealth, Russia’s "Diamond Capital," Yakutsk, is collapsing.
January 10, 2026 at 10:08 PM
It's collapsing because it's being looted by the oligarchy. If the orange bag of shit stays in office, this is our future.
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ice is big on spreading Covid — this is one more reason to mask up in a respirator. You can get Covid outside if it’s crowded.
The leading cause of death by far among ICE officers is COVID-19.
How dangerous is it really to work for ICE?
According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.
www.motherjones.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:56 PM
ice is big on spreading Covid — this is one more reason to mask up in a respirator. You can get Covid outside if it’s crowded.
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It's come to my attention that ICE could be preparing to head into the Boston/New England area soon
@bearingwitnessice.bsky.social is reporting three car carriers full of SUVs delivered to their HQ in Burlington, MA earlier this Thursday
@bearingwitnessice.bsky.social is reporting three car carriers full of SUVs delivered to their HQ in Burlington, MA earlier this Thursday
January 10, 2026 at 6:54 AM
It's come to my attention that ICE could be preparing to head into the Boston/New England area soon
@bearingwitnessice.bsky.social is reporting three car carriers full of SUVs delivered to their HQ in Burlington, MA earlier this Thursday
@bearingwitnessice.bsky.social is reporting three car carriers full of SUVs delivered to their HQ in Burlington, MA earlier this Thursday
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This is so real, they tried it this morning in Bloomington. They stopped a man, people started honking horns, they split up to fuck with everyone else, which brought more attention and more noise, people got out of their cars and started filming, they left. They're cowards.
obviously not in the sense that it’s stopping everything, but they are being stalled so much by trying to find places where they aren’t watched, wasting so much manpower and resources on crowd control and even arresting observers they know will just get released. i am so proud of everyone
January 10, 2026 at 8:22 PM
This is so real, they tried it this morning in Bloomington. They stopped a man, people started honking horns, they split up to fuck with everyone else, which brought more attention and more noise, people got out of their cars and started filming, they left. They're cowards.
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For love ys so ancient a worde
And love dareth thee to care for
The folke upon the brinke of despayre
And love asketh thee to chaunge ower waye of
Caringe about owerselves
Thys ys ower last daunse
Thys ys ower laust daunse
Thys ys owerselves
undir pressure
undir pressure
pressure
#bowie
And love dareth thee to care for
The folke upon the brinke of despayre
And love asketh thee to chaunge ower waye of
Caringe about owerselves
Thys ys ower last daunse
Thys ys ower laust daunse
Thys ys owerselves
undir pressure
undir pressure
pressure
#bowie
January 10, 2026 at 8:51 PM
For love ys so ancient a worde
And love dareth thee to care for
The folke upon the brinke of despayre
And love asketh thee to chaunge ower waye of
Caringe about owerselves
Thys ys ower last daunse
Thys ys ower laust daunse
Thys ys owerselves
undir pressure
undir pressure
pressure
#bowie
And love dareth thee to care for
The folke upon the brinke of despayre
And love asketh thee to chaunge ower waye of
Caringe about owerselves
Thys ys ower last daunse
Thys ys ower laust daunse
Thys ys owerselves
undir pressure
undir pressure
pressure
#bowie
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well well well
AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that's masking a darker reality, Oxford Economics suggests | Fortune
"Firms don't appear to be replacing workers with AI on a significant scale," the firm said. It suspects some are trying to "dress up layoffs" as good news.
fortune.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:52 PM
well well well
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The publisher of "Skeptic Magazine" thinks if you get murdered by agents of the government in the act of protest, it's your fault for just not staying home.
January 9, 2026 at 3:53 PM
The publisher of "Skeptic Magazine" thinks if you get murdered by agents of the government in the act of protest, it's your fault for just not staying home.
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Slightly diminish a band
Eight inch nails
Eight inch nails
Slightly diminish a band:
Slightly Nudged by Turtles
Slightly Nudged by Turtles
Slightly diminish a band
Concerning Straits
Concerning Straits
January 10, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Slightly diminish a band
Eight inch nails
Eight inch nails
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I broke the story yesterday that masked ICE agents (not DOJ) were removing items including a personal computer from the home of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot Renee Good. I have yet to see a single news outlet cover this or an elected official even acknowledge it.
NEW: These are ICE agents removing evidence from the shooter's home. They are not DOJ, they are Jonathan Ross's friends and coworkers, not DOJ.
This agent removing Ross's personal computer was reported yesterday Jan 9 for boxing in a volunteer and telling them "I'll dedicate my next arrest to you"
This agent removing Ross's personal computer was reported yesterday Jan 9 for boxing in a volunteer and telling them "I'll dedicate my next arrest to you"
January 10, 2026 at 7:32 PM
I broke the story yesterday that masked ICE agents (not DOJ) were removing items including a personal computer from the home of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot Renee Good. I have yet to see a single news outlet cover this or an elected official even acknowledge it.
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The regime has cut power across Tehran. Protesters have lit up the streets with their phones.
January 10, 2026 at 7:40 PM
The regime has cut power across Tehran. Protesters have lit up the streets with their phones.
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It’s beyond insane that our overarching internal security agency has spent months tweeting barely-coded messages of support for neo-Nazi groups and the entire media apparatus looks at it and says “That’s odd but certainly not part a major story that is relevant to current events, I’m sure”
January 10, 2026 at 3:28 PM
It’s beyond insane that our overarching internal security agency has spent months tweeting barely-coded messages of support for neo-Nazi groups and the entire media apparatus looks at it and says “That’s odd but certainly not part a major story that is relevant to current events, I’m sure”
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Keith Porter's daughter talks about how her father was murdered by an off-duty ICE agent in Los Angeles
January 10, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Keith Porter's daughter talks about how her father was murdered by an off-duty ICE agent in Los Angeles
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This is the heart of it.
Any press coverage that gullibly paints this partisan punitive campaign of retribution as "fighting crime" or "enforcing immigration laws" is actively complicit in a government campaign to punish dissent.
Any press coverage that gullibly paints this partisan punitive campaign of retribution as "fighting crime" or "enforcing immigration laws" is actively complicit in a government campaign to punish dissent.
whats missing from all the coverage is that the president is using the military to harass, brutalize and punish areas of the country that didnt vote for him
January 10, 2026 at 3:52 PM
This is the heart of it.
Any press coverage that gullibly paints this partisan punitive campaign of retribution as "fighting crime" or "enforcing immigration laws" is actively complicit in a government campaign to punish dissent.
Any press coverage that gullibly paints this partisan punitive campaign of retribution as "fighting crime" or "enforcing immigration laws" is actively complicit in a government campaign to punish dissent.
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A Red Lake Ojibwe descendant was snatched by ICE in Minneapolis, and a Plains Cree woman was questioned.
This is in addition to the four Oglala Lakota men who reportedly were grabbed by ICE.
ictnews.org/news/i-felt-...
This is in addition to the four Oglala Lakota men who reportedly were grabbed by ICE.
ictnews.org/news/i-felt-...
‘I felt like I was kidnapped’: Ojibwe man recounts ICE detainment - ICT
At least five Native American men have been detained by ICE around Minneapolis following significant immigration raids
ictnews.org
January 10, 2026 at 3:19 AM
A Red Lake Ojibwe descendant was snatched by ICE in Minneapolis, and a Plains Cree woman was questioned.
This is in addition to the four Oglala Lakota men who reportedly were grabbed by ICE.
ictnews.org/news/i-felt-...
This is in addition to the four Oglala Lakota men who reportedly were grabbed by ICE.
ictnews.org/news/i-felt-...
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There's this episode of Star Trek where Captain Picard is captured and tortured, and the main way that the torturer tries to break him is by showing him four lights, and telling him that there are five.
There are four lights.
This is not a post about Star Trek.
There are four lights.
This is not a post about Star Trek.
January 9, 2026 at 2:18 PM
There's this episode of Star Trek where Captain Picard is captured and tortured, and the main way that the torturer tries to break him is by showing him four lights, and telling him that there are five.
There are four lights.
This is not a post about Star Trek.
There are four lights.
This is not a post about Star Trek.
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I want to point out that the NRA and other anti-government groups had been screaming about the threat of "obey or die" for decades. Yet now that we're here, crickets. That's because they were softening the ground for the present moment.
(hat tip @strictlychristo.bsky.social)
(hat tip @strictlychristo.bsky.social)
January 10, 2026 at 3:35 PM
I want to point out that the NRA and other anti-government groups had been screaming about the threat of "obey or die" for decades. Yet now that we're here, crickets. That's because they were softening the ground for the present moment.
(hat tip @strictlychristo.bsky.social)
(hat tip @strictlychristo.bsky.social)
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South Carolina has reported 99 new measles cases in the past 3 days.
Meanwhile RFK Jr. is “building a case” to argue that the U.S. shouldn’t lose its measles elimination status.
But we’ve lost it and hell of a lot more.
He only cares about optics.
Reality need not apply.
Meanwhile RFK Jr. is “building a case” to argue that the U.S. shouldn’t lose its measles elimination status.
But we’ve lost it and hell of a lot more.
He only cares about optics.
Reality need not apply.
South Carolina measles outbreak grows by nearly 100, spreads to North Carolina and Ohio
State health officials in South Carolina have confirmed 99 new cases of measles since Tuesday. The state health department says the post-holiday surge had been expected, given travel and family gather...
apnews.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:19 PM
South Carolina has reported 99 new measles cases in the past 3 days.
Meanwhile RFK Jr. is “building a case” to argue that the U.S. shouldn’t lose its measles elimination status.
But we’ve lost it and hell of a lot more.
He only cares about optics.
Reality need not apply.
Meanwhile RFK Jr. is “building a case” to argue that the U.S. shouldn’t lose its measles elimination status.
But we’ve lost it and hell of a lot more.
He only cares about optics.
Reality need not apply.
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1. Yes, this is real footage from Poland's Wrocław Zoo
2. The deer, a male muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi, aka "barking deer"), is hopped up on testosterone because its mate is in heat
3. Muntjac males weigh up to ~40 lbs (18 kg). Maruśka, the rhino, weighs 1.7 tons
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3786348...
2. The deer, a male muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi, aka "barking deer"), is hopped up on testosterone because its mate is in heat
3. Muntjac males weigh up to ~40 lbs (18 kg). Maruśka, the rhino, weighs 1.7 tons
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3786348...
January 9, 2026 at 9:34 PM
1. Yes, this is real footage from Poland's Wrocław Zoo
2. The deer, a male muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi, aka "barking deer"), is hopped up on testosterone because its mate is in heat
3. Muntjac males weigh up to ~40 lbs (18 kg). Maruśka, the rhino, weighs 1.7 tons
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3786348...
2. The deer, a male muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi, aka "barking deer"), is hopped up on testosterone because its mate is in heat
3. Muntjac males weigh up to ~40 lbs (18 kg). Maruśka, the rhino, weighs 1.7 tons
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3786348...