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@spottedstarling.bsky.social
Pro democracy.
That's what she dedicates her working time to.

Why?
New via WSJ:

Tulsi Gabbard has spent months investigating the results of the 2020 election that Donald Trump lost.

Gabbard is leading the administration's effort to re-examine the election and look for potential crimes.

Widespread fraud does not exist. Joe Biden won the 2020 election.
Exclusive | Spy Chief Tulsi Gabbard Is Hunting for 2020 Election Fraud
The director of national intelligence earlier this week joined the FBI search of an election center in Georgia.
www.wsj.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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The U.S. attorney's office in Minneapolis is in crisis.

Prosecutors in the criminal division confronted the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney and an aide to Todd Blanche this week over concerns they were being asked to execute orders that went against DOJ's mission and best practices.
Justice Dept. Playbook in Minnesota: Investigate Foes, Protect Allies
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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They invaded a city with a force five times the size of the local police department, where the crime rates had been steadily declining, claiming to be restoring law and order, and killed two people in the process. If Biden did it in their town they would have been storming the US Capitol.
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?

HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 29, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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If you're a journalist listening to Homan BLOVIATE about law and order right now and your immediate question isn't *what gives YOU the authority to speak about crimes and "law and order" when you accepted a $50,000 bribe and keep avoiding any accountability?* then you are ridiculous.
January 29, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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"Headlines call it a 'crackdown' on immigration and a 'clash' between the government and 'protesters,' when in reality it’s murderous occupying forces being confronted by people who just want to live free of their violence."
Crackdown
Writing through history and heartbreak.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 29, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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The Kansas bathroom bill applies to state government buildings. State Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat who is trans, was selected to fill a vacant seat earlier this month and it's believed this bill was specifically targeted at her. Disgusting and hateful.

Details here:
January 29, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.

ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
January 29, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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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.)
January 29, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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The only reason Homan replaced Bovino as the face of the occupation is because his lies are more polished and he doesn’t dress like a member of the Third Reich in public. But the policies and the state instigated violence remain unchanged.
CNN: How did we get to a place where we had Bovino having Border Patrol agents stopping citizens in interior of the country, asking them ID, creating fear? Who made the decisions to allow this kind of operation to proceed?

HOMAN: The reason for the massive deployment is bc of the threats & violence
January 29, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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🔴 Minnesota Karma 💫✊🏽🇺🇸✊🏻
January 29, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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📱 TikTok users in the U.S. are reporting that the platform won’t let them type “Epstein” in messages and that videos critical of Trump or ICE are being suppressed https://www.the-independent.com/tech/tiktok-epstein-trump-censorship-ice-b2908309.html
TikTok users in the US can’t write ‘Epstein’ or see anti-Trump videos
Alleged censorship comes after investors loyal to Trump take over social media platform
www.the-independent.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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Trump had the FBI invade election offices in Georgia. Trump was facing federal charges in Ga that were stalled due to Fani Willis' affair with the prosecutor she appointed. So, here he goes again, doubling down, using the govt to interfere with elections. Not his official duties.
January 29, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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"It’s time to wake up. Trump seems keen on influencing the vote in states that will decide margins in 2026 and the outcome in 2028. And that he has the FBI participating in his effort is a terrifying demonstration of just how many guardrails he has steamrolled..."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Trump Is Still Obsessed with Stealing Elections
The FBI’s seizure of Georgia ballots is as much about future elections as past ones.
open.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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1. Sen. Collins has probably been duped.

2. Sen. Collins is Appropriations committee chair. Maybe she should care about what’s happening in the other 49 states?

3. But judging from the appropriations package Sen. Collins is supporting, she’s fine with what ICE has been doing.
January 29, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Meanwhile, @brianstelter.bsky.social reports on media mogul Barry Diller's interest in maybe buying CNN.

Unlikely, Brian says. For one thing, he's too liberal. Meaning: Trump won't have it.

And that's everyday life as we get Orbánized here. e.newsletters.cnn.com/click?Ecm9zZ...
January 29, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Republicans know full well the only way they hold on to their jobs is to stand by Trump and his administration and allow them to rig elections in their favor.
January 29, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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January 29, 2026 at 7:01 AM
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They grabbed his father at McDonald’s — he tried to bring his dad his heart medication and they laughed at him

A heartless, lawless regime
January 29, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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🍊 The biggest national security threat is sitting in the Oval Office!
January 29, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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Evidence across many sectors showing how the uber-rich are benefitting from Trump’s economy while everyone else gets screwed.
January 29, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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Do not fall for this garbage. DHS came into my city with an offensive posture, conducted itself as an invader, often attacked residents without any plausible connection to immigration enforcement, violently seized people off the streets. Now it’s our fault people died?
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 1:42 PM
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Melania Trump: "He would like to have a country where all of the people can walk down the street and not be harassed or murdered or women raped"
January 29, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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So this is pure gangsterism, and also premised on the absurd notion that the people of Minneapolis would just lie back and take it if not for Tim Walz saying mean things about ICE.
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 1:58 PM
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Homan’s message was crystal clear: Unless Miller, Noem and Homan go the problem will remain, our rights will be trampled, innocent people will suffer and die. They don’t feel any remorse or regret for the pain they have inflicted, the damage they have done.
January 29, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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You see ICU Nurse Alex Pretti assisting veterans learning to walk again. Donald Trump sees a domestic terrorist and suckers and losers.

January 28, 2026 at 10:31 PM