Stephens
@stephenswithaph.bsky.social
Pro democracy. Anti Trump/MAGA. Southerner (blue dot in a red state). Dog lover. Will block all bots, trolls & MAGA.
Slava Ukraini!!
Slava Ukraini!!
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I’ve never liked purity tests, and I am not someone who thinks the Dems should create an atmosphere that pushes out the kind of people who represent moderate or rural areas.
But Slotkin’s platitudes are offensively impotent
But Slotkin’s platitudes are offensively impotent
January 13, 2026 at 8:01 PM
I’ve never liked purity tests, and I am not someone who thinks the Dems should create an atmosphere that pushes out the kind of people who represent moderate or rural areas.
But Slotkin’s platitudes are offensively impotent
But Slotkin’s platitudes are offensively impotent
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Certain Democrats will be literally getting dragged away in handcuffs and their first instinct as reporters shout questions at them will be to triangulate against the left
We didn’t have ICE for the first 200+ years in this country. Abolishing ICE isn’t the same as abolishing all law enforcement, and Slotkin’s conflation of ICE with all police is honestly just pretty stupid.
Slotkin back to blowing the assignment.
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January 13, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Certain Democrats will be literally getting dragged away in handcuffs and their first instinct as reporters shout questions at them will be to triangulate against the left
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We didn’t have ICE for the first 200+ years in this country. Abolishing ICE isn’t the same as abolishing all law enforcement, and Slotkin’s conflation of ICE with all police is honestly just pretty stupid.
Slotkin back to blowing the assignment.
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January 13, 2026 at 7:49 PM
We didn’t have ICE for the first 200+ years in this country. Abolishing ICE isn’t the same as abolishing all law enforcement, and Slotkin’s conflation of ICE with all police is honestly just pretty stupid.
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This is appalling: Top DOJ officials are actively pushing for a criminal investigation into the widow of Renee Good, leading prosecutors to quit en masse, NYT is reporting.
Who in the White House ordered DOJ to do this? That's the next thing to establish.
Who in the White House ordered DOJ to do this? That's the next thing to establish.
January 13, 2026 at 6:44 PM
This is appalling: Top DOJ officials are actively pushing for a criminal investigation into the widow of Renee Good, leading prosecutors to quit en masse, NYT is reporting.
Who in the White House ordered DOJ to do this? That's the next thing to establish.
Who in the White House ordered DOJ to do this? That's the next thing to establish.
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Lindsey Halligan, along with Todd Blanche and Pam Bondi, go on the attack against Trump appointed federal Judge Novak in an extraordinary, pugilistic brief.
They accuse Novak of a “gross abuse of power” for asking why Halligan keeps falsely describing herself as a US Attorney.
They accuse Novak of a “gross abuse of power” for asking why Halligan keeps falsely describing herself as a US Attorney.
January 13, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Lindsey Halligan, along with Todd Blanche and Pam Bondi, go on the attack against Trump appointed federal Judge Novak in an extraordinary, pugilistic brief.
They accuse Novak of a “gross abuse of power” for asking why Halligan keeps falsely describing herself as a US Attorney.
They accuse Novak of a “gross abuse of power” for asking why Halligan keeps falsely describing herself as a US Attorney.
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Who else remembers this?
January 13, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Who else remembers this?
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The Trump administration has already (in both Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0) lost MULTIPLE lawsuits on this issue.
Looks like they're getting ready to lose even more of them.
Looks like they're getting ready to lose even more of them.
Trump: "Starting February 1, we're not making any payments to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities"
January 13, 2026 at 8:44 PM
The Trump administration has already (in both Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0) lost MULTIPLE lawsuits on this issue.
Looks like they're getting ready to lose even more of them.
Looks like they're getting ready to lose even more of them.
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BREAKING: ICE agents in Minneapolis violently detained and arrested a U.S. citizen for one reason only: he refused to prove his citizenship.
No crime. No warrant. No probable cause.
No crime. No warrant. No probable cause.
January 13, 2026 at 7:27 PM
BREAKING: ICE agents in Minneapolis violently detained and arrested a U.S. citizen for one reason only: he refused to prove his citizenship.
No crime. No warrant. No probable cause.
No crime. No warrant. No probable cause.
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Once again, I do not make these statements for benefit of the president but for the public’s education to understand that what he’s doing is unlawful.
He doesn’t care if it’s unconstitutional. Frankly, it doesn’t matter if anything is unconstitutional because they are renegades and do whatever they want.
January 13, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Once again, I do not make these statements for benefit of the president but for the public’s education to understand that what he’s doing is unlawful.
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We’ve now sent over 10,000 letters to Congress demanding they impeach Kristi Noem!
Have you sent one yet today?
Have you sent one yet today?
Tell Congress: Impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
January 12, 2026 at 2:30 AM
We’ve now sent over 10,000 letters to Congress demanding they impeach Kristi Noem!
Have you sent one yet today?
Have you sent one yet today?
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This is completely fucking unacceptable. Shut this terrorist government down until it stops brutalizing its own citizens.
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
January 13, 2026 at 6:57 PM
This is completely fucking unacceptable. Shut this terrorist government down until it stops brutalizing its own citizens.
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How, again, are Dems supposed to negotiate with the Rs on the 2026 fiscal year budget (already 3.5 months late) if Trump has no intention of honoring the deals negotiated and laws passed?
Trump: "Starting February 1, we're not making any payments to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities"
January 13, 2026 at 8:17 PM
How, again, are Dems supposed to negotiate with the Rs on the 2026 fiscal year budget (already 3.5 months late) if Trump has no intention of honoring the deals negotiated and laws passed?
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Ruiz: I think that ICE funding should be reevaluated given their performance in terrorizing US citizens and non-criminal immigrants and it should be used as a way to make them stop this illegal practice.
January 13, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Ruiz: I think that ICE funding should be reevaluated given their performance in terrorizing US citizens and non-criminal immigrants and it should be used as a way to make them stop this illegal practice.
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Ed Luce: How Trump has singlehandedly triggered the biggest wave of nuclear proliferation in history. South Korea, Germany, Australia, Poland and even Canada are all debating to one degree or another whether to go nuclear. Were Trump to annex Greenland, Canada would weigh it seriously.
How to de-risk from America
There is no precedent of a dominant power abandoning its primacy, as Trump is doing
www.ft.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Ed Luce: How Trump has singlehandedly triggered the biggest wave of nuclear proliferation in history. South Korea, Germany, Australia, Poland and even Canada are all debating to one degree or another whether to go nuclear. Were Trump to annex Greenland, Canada would weigh it seriously.
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Thank you anonymous patriot whoever you are.
a man in a captain america costume is wearing a helmet and goggles .
ALT: a man in a captain america costume is wearing a helmet and goggles .
media.tenor.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Thank you anonymous patriot whoever you are.
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Powell sent Senate Banking Committee members a 4 page letter detailing construction cost details last July. Makes it basically impossible to argue he misled Congress.
Letter is here: d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net/production/u...
Letter is here: d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net/production/u...
Jay Powell sent senators details on $2.5bn Fed project following testimony
Letter seen by FT appears to undermine claims that chair of US central bank misled Congress over renovation
www.ft.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Powell sent Senate Banking Committee members a 4 page letter detailing construction cost details last July. Makes it basically impossible to argue he misled Congress.
Letter is here: d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net/production/u...
Letter is here: d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net/production/u...
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.@PabloReports: What do of the new House GOP leadership bill to restrict stock trading?
Ansari: We need to prohibit members of Congress from buying or trading stocks in their entirety.
Ansari: We need to prohibit members of Congress from buying or trading stocks in their entirety.
January 13, 2026 at 8:52 PM
.@PabloReports: What do of the new House GOP leadership bill to restrict stock trading?
Ansari: We need to prohibit members of Congress from buying or trading stocks in their entirety.
Ansari: We need to prohibit members of Congress from buying or trading stocks in their entirety.
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Ansari: I think ICE is completely out of control, and there should be no more funding given to ICE. The funding that's already has been given to them through the big ugly bill should be stripped entirely
January 13, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Ansari: I think ICE is completely out of control, and there should be no more funding given to ICE. The funding that's already has been given to them through the big ugly bill should be stripped entirely
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Rogan: "You don't want militarized people in the streets just roaming around, snatching up people — many of which turn out to be U.S. citizens that just don't have their papers on them. Are we really gonna be the Gestapo, 'Where's your papers?' Is that what we've come to?"
January 13, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Rogan: "You don't want militarized people in the streets just roaming around, snatching up people — many of which turn out to be U.S. citizens that just don't have their papers on them. Are we really gonna be the Gestapo, 'Where's your papers?' Is that what we've come to?"
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NEWS: Ranking Member @raskin.house.gov is demanding DOJ and DHS produce records on whether pardoned January 6 insurrectionists are now working for ICE and explain why masked ICE agents are hiding their identities while carrying out violent operations in American communities.
House Democrats ask Trump administration if any Jan. 6 rioters are now working for ICE
Nearly one year after the mass pardon of more than 1,500 Trump-supporting Capitol riot defendants, House Democrats are asking whether any of the pardoned rioters are now working for ICE.
www.cbsnews.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:35 PM
NEWS: Ranking Member @raskin.house.gov is demanding DOJ and DHS produce records on whether pardoned January 6 insurrectionists are now working for ICE and explain why masked ICE agents are hiding their identities while carrying out violent operations in American communities.
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After the GOP spent the past week claiming it was merely an arrest
January 13, 2026 at 7:08 PM
After the GOP spent the past week claiming it was merely an arrest
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Trump: "Even Venezuela wasn't too bad, eh? Democrats say, 'I don't know if we should've done Venezuela.' Anybody that says that hates our country, okay? That was as flawless an attack as there has ever been."
January 13, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Trump: "Even Venezuela wasn't too bad, eh? Democrats say, 'I don't know if we should've done Venezuela.' Anybody that says that hates our country, okay? That was as flawless an attack as there has ever been."