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spottedstarling.bsky.social
@spottedstarling.bsky.social
Pro democracy.

It's not me. I've never asked anyone to 'follow back"
They like him, but he's nothing like Putin, Trumpushka.
3/ "Trump doesn't have the balls, excuse my language, to stand up to the whole world, to wage a hybrid war so competently, and at the same time clean up the liberal elite within the country.
January 30, 2026 at 5:48 PM
And here is the country where Trump's popularity is soaring, and whose residents are proud of his solitude and close ties with their leader.

Trumpushka.
1/ Russians are taking pride in an American president whom they affectionately term "our Trumpushka" hanging a photo of himself with Vladimir Putin on a White House wall. It's a reminder, says one Russian warblogger, that he will never match up to Putin's greatness. ⬇️
January 30, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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1/ Trump Administration officials have reportedly held several secret meetings with Canadian separatists, who are seeking US$500 billion to bankroll their efforts. It suggests that the Administration is interested in breaking up Canada and absorbing the remnants. ⬇️
January 29, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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Ashland, Virginia:

"Despite widespread hazardous road conditions and icy weather from the recent winter storm, more than a thousand residents from across Greater Richmond made their opposition clear..."

www.vpm.org/news/2026-01...
Hanover County supervisors oppose proposed ICE facility
The locality’s ability to deter the purchase is extremely limited, though.
www.vpm.org
January 29, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning

I was sent this video of agents at her door:
January 30, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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37% of Americans have been fed and watered by right wing media and look what it has gotten us: global shame, soaring national debt, violence by the government in our streets, children traumatized, our Constitutional rights stripped. Maybe minority rule is just as bad as we have been saying.
January 30, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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Democrats need to remind the voters that the BBB paid for ICE.
January 30, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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Trump's awful post about Alex Pretti am confirms this point -- he's not sorry, he's not pivoting, and he'll use the same playbook as ever to survive yet another scandal that would have destroyed any other politician

my new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Operation Trump Rehab
After a wave of public revulsion over the President’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota, he offers a familiar playbook: distraction, disinformation, denial, delay.
www.newyorker.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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January 29, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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January 30, 2026 at 3:55 AM
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🔥 “As a Jewish man I’ve never felt safer than when there’s a masked Gestapo in the street… Tell Alex Pretti you made a ‘MISTAKE’!

@climatedefiance.bsky.social @waltermasterson.bsky.social @davidsonboswell.bsky.social disrupt @tomsuozzi.bsky.social who joined Republicans to vote for ICE funding
January 29, 2026 at 1:54 AM
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Chuck Schumer is going to introduce a non-binding resolution requesting that federal agents wipe their feet on the doormat before storming into a journalist's home at 2am to arrest them for angering the president.
January 30, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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Tesla is paying $0 in taxes *again* for 2025 despite $5.7B in profits thanks to tax breaks and writing off previous business losses.

Also in 2025, Elon Musk’s wealth increased by $194B, largely from Tesla stock and his $139B pay package.

But undocumented immigrants are scamming the system?
January 30, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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FOUR journalists were arrested. Proving again that this administration isn’t “pivoting” or “turning down the temperature.” By targeting independent journalists instead of the murderers of Pretti and Good, this is ramping up. Not winding down. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Don Lemon arrested by federal authorities after protest at Minnesota church service
Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a Friday post on X that Lemon was arrested alongside three others "in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota."
www.nbcnews.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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This is Georgia Fort as she’s being arrested by federal agents. Apparently, they had a grand jury indictment in hand. She was arrested for being an independent journalist who filmed the Cities Church protest.
January 30, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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It’s blatantly hypocritical that this DOJ is slapping charges of “conspiracy to deprive rights” on Don Lemon—a journalist whose only supposed ‘crime’ was showing up to report on a protest—while shielding ICE thugs who gunned down Alex Pretti, an innocent ICU nurse, in cold blood.
January 30, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Breaking on MS NOW:

Career DOJ prosecutors in both Minnesota and Los Angeles refused to be involved in charging Don Lemon and the other journalists who covered the Minneapolis church protests.

The prosecutors believe the evidence does not support the charges, per @carolleonnig.bsky.social.
January 30, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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The global financial system is rotating away from America, because we can’t be trusted.

Why would anyone buy our debt, or trade in dollars when we’re killing our citizens, ignoring our Constitution & raiding our own elections to prop up Trump’s delusions?
www.mind-war.com/p/financial-...
Financial Winter of Our Discontent
The simultaneous deflating of the AI bubble and rapid de-dollarization is a recipe for a multigenerational disaster.
www.mind-war.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:38 PM
The release of more of the Epstein files where all the names of the perpetrators are redacted, brings no additional clarity to the public.
"... there were 25 settlements signed with men whose identities remain unknown. Those agreements often included strict non-disclosure clauses...

Twenty-five men. No accountability. No public reckoning.

We know Apollo’s Leon Black paid $62.5 million to settle Epstein-related claims."
Why the Epstein files release is bringing more confusion than clarity.
New in The Red Letter: www.tarapalmeri.com/p/the-epstei...
January 30, 2026 at 4:17 PM
So much shit floating on the putrid surface of the swamp.
Kevin Warsh has a long professional and personal relationship with Trump. Now nominated as Fed Chair, he advised Trump since 2016, was shortlisted before, and aligns on policy like rate cuts. Father-in-law Ronald Lauder (Estée Lauder) is a major Trump donor and confidant.
January 30, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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And a friend of Epstein’s??
January 30, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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24 hours later: Trump has two journalists arrested
January 30, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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In 2017, Jeff Bezos gave $1 million to Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
January 30, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée
feds have arrested jamael lundy alongside journalists georgia fort and don lemon for the protest at a st. paul church led by an ICE agent

lundy is currently running for state senate district 65 in minnesota. his wife is anika bowie, a st. paul city councilmember

www.jlundyforsd65.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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Welcome to America, where masked federal agents can murder you on the street and not even get investigated but journalists get cuffed and charged for filming a protest.
January 30, 2026 at 3:05 PM