Mr. Fliptastic
@symbioso.bsky.social
Yet another person who left Twitter. Liberal politics.
He/Him
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this is wishcasting
Minneapolis retreat could undercut Democrats’ message as shutdown looms
Minneapolis retreat could undercut Democrats’ message as shutdown looms
The end of the Trump administration's Minnesota operation comes as immigration hawks have pushed Trump officials to avoid caving to Democratic policy demands.
dlvr.it
February 13, 2026 at 3:37 AM
this is wishcasting
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“…in one incident, Lewandowski fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after Noem's blanket was left behind on a plane, according to people familiar with the incident.”
February 13, 2026 at 2:35 AM
“…in one incident, Lewandowski fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after Noem's blanket was left behind on a plane, according to people familiar with the incident.”
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However low your opinion is of those running the country, it's not low enough. Completely unserious, self-absorbed sociopaths. (Read the whole thread)
The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect
February 13, 2026 at 3:41 AM
However low your opinion is of those running the country, it's not low enough. Completely unserious, self-absorbed sociopaths. (Read the whole thread)
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At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures.
Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties
The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center, QuitGPT, and the 5 worst Super Bowl AI ads.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:23 PM
At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures.
Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
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We're gonna win
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Flock off
buff.ly
February 12, 2026 at 11:29 PM
We're gonna win
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Trump can lie all he wants, but he doesn’t get to rewrite reality.
Republicans allowed health care premiums to double for millions of Americans. Now families have to choose: Put food on the table or pay for their health care.
This is what the Republican Party did.
Republicans allowed health care premiums to double for millions of Americans. Now families have to choose: Put food on the table or pay for their health care.
This is what the Republican Party did.
Trump: Nobody's doing more for health care than the Republican party
February 12, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Trump can lie all he wants, but he doesn’t get to rewrite reality.
Republicans allowed health care premiums to double for millions of Americans. Now families have to choose: Put food on the table or pay for their health care.
This is what the Republican Party did.
Republicans allowed health care premiums to double for millions of Americans. Now families have to choose: Put food on the table or pay for their health care.
This is what the Republican Party did.
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the whole fucking family from trump’s parents on down have been a goddamned blight on this country for at least seven decades
February 12, 2026 at 9:19 PM
the whole fucking family from trump’s parents on down have been a goddamned blight on this country for at least seven decades
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American politics is a seesaw driven by the biggest dipshits you’ve ever met
it’s just this comic over and over and over again, forever
it’s just this comic over and over and over again, forever
February 12, 2026 at 8:40 PM
American politics is a seesaw driven by the biggest dipshits you’ve ever met
it’s just this comic over and over and over again, forever
it’s just this comic over and over and over again, forever
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anyway I do expect a huge midterm for Dems and I do expect a Dem to win in 2028 and then I expect the GOP will win the 2030 midterms on the basis of “the last guy broke too much shit and you didn’t fix it in five minutes”
February 12, 2026 at 8:43 PM
anyway I do expect a huge midterm for Dems and I do expect a Dem to win in 2028 and then I expect the GOP will win the 2030 midterms on the basis of “the last guy broke too much shit and you didn’t fix it in five minutes”
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There’s basically a straight line between Heritage purging the anti-Fuentes faction and being openly pro-teen pregnancy now.
Fuentes then fantasizes about “breeding gulags”: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.”
February 12, 2026 at 5:50 PM
There’s basically a straight line between Heritage purging the anti-Fuentes faction and being openly pro-teen pregnancy now.
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Two things that are both true:
1.) American conservatism has always been far worse than voters are willing to believe.
2.) The groyperization of the GOP has been a world historical catastrophe which will echo for generations.
1.) American conservatism has always been far worse than voters are willing to believe.
2.) The groyperization of the GOP has been a world historical catastrophe which will echo for generations.
February 12, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Two things that are both true:
1.) American conservatism has always been far worse than voters are willing to believe.
2.) The groyperization of the GOP has been a world historical catastrophe which will echo for generations.
1.) American conservatism has always been far worse than voters are willing to believe.
2.) The groyperization of the GOP has been a world historical catastrophe which will echo for generations.
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BREAKING - The EPA has ruled to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding, eliminating all federal greenhouse gas standards for vehicles.
The Trump Admin has made it clear: they stand with polluters over longstanding legal precedent and scientific facts.
I'll see them in court.
The Trump Admin has made it clear: they stand with polluters over longstanding legal precedent and scientific facts.
I'll see them in court.
February 12, 2026 at 6:50 PM
BREAKING - The EPA has ruled to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding, eliminating all federal greenhouse gas standards for vehicles.
The Trump Admin has made it clear: they stand with polluters over longstanding legal precedent and scientific facts.
I'll see them in court.
The Trump Admin has made it clear: they stand with polluters over longstanding legal precedent and scientific facts.
I'll see them in court.
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I know this is controversial, but I think it is bad that the person who will take over once It Happens is friends with this person.
Fuentes then fantasizes about “breeding gulags”: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.”
February 12, 2026 at 5:20 PM
I know this is controversial, but I think it is bad that the person who will take over once It Happens is friends with this person.
I hate AI under most circumstances, and I dig my feet in more and more. It has some uses in thigs like medical fields, sure, but in most cases I despise it and don't trust it. Generative AI especially so.
Just hearing mention of something like ChatGPT forces an instinctual eye-roll.
Just hearing mention of something like ChatGPT forces an instinctual eye-roll.
I feel like many AI-boosters refuse to contend with the fact that a lot of people viscerally, violently, yes perhaps even irrationally hate the technology
February 12, 2026 at 6:48 PM
I hate AI under most circumstances, and I dig my feet in more and more. It has some uses in thigs like medical fields, sure, but in most cases I despise it and don't trust it. Generative AI especially so.
Just hearing mention of something like ChatGPT forces an instinctual eye-roll.
Just hearing mention of something like ChatGPT forces an instinctual eye-roll.
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is that a threat Senator
Katie Britt on DHS officers: "There are significant guardrails that have been put in place already in the bipartisan piece of legislation we negotiated. I think Democrats will vote that down, which means people are gonna continue this enforcement, but they're not gonna have the guardrails."
February 12, 2026 at 6:27 PM
is that a threat Senator
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Wow, almost like the media and journalism profession failed in some sort of professional duty to actually inform these low-engagement voters about what Trump was saying he wanted to do and the consequences of those plans.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
Trump has lost the voters who weren’t paying attention in 2024
The least-engaged Americans have swung 25 points against him since 2024 — about twice the shift among everyone else. Trump has flattened the engagement gap.
www.gelliottmorris.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Wow, almost like the media and journalism profession failed in some sort of professional duty to actually inform these low-engagement voters about what Trump was saying he wanted to do and the consequences of those plans.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
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BLUMENTHAL: What is so different about ICE that it regards itself as an exception to the 4th Amendment?
LYONS: We don't
BLUMENTHAL: Why did you keep your memo about the warrant policy secret?
LYONS: I didn't
BLUMENTHAL: We learned about it when whistleblowers came to us
LYONS: We don't
BLUMENTHAL: Why did you keep your memo about the warrant policy secret?
LYONS: I didn't
BLUMENTHAL: We learned about it when whistleblowers came to us
February 12, 2026 at 5:52 PM
BLUMENTHAL: What is so different about ICE that it regards itself as an exception to the 4th Amendment?
LYONS: We don't
BLUMENTHAL: Why did you keep your memo about the warrant policy secret?
LYONS: I didn't
BLUMENTHAL: We learned about it when whistleblowers came to us
LYONS: We don't
BLUMENTHAL: Why did you keep your memo about the warrant policy secret?
LYONS: I didn't
BLUMENTHAL: We learned about it when whistleblowers came to us
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Around Chicago they would drive up and down streets looking for landscapers. Sometimes someone would figure out there had been an abduction bc landscaping equipment was abandoned.
Homan: "ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency. We're not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process."
February 12, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Around Chicago they would drive up and down streets looking for landscapers. Sometimes someone would figure out there had been an abduction bc landscaping equipment was abandoned.
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lol delete this come on. homeschooling is nearly completely unregulated, a fucking mess, and does not need a glowup
Looking for an edge in college admissions? Just pull your kid from school. Homeschooling, long associated with hippies and religious conservatives in the U.S., is in the middle of a rebrand and a boom.
The Homeschooling Hack
Looking for an edge in college admissions? Just pull your kid from school. Homeschooling, long associated with hippies and religious conservatives in the U.S., is in the middle of a rebrand and a boom.
nymag.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:54 PM
lol delete this come on. homeschooling is nearly completely unregulated, a fucking mess, and does not need a glowup
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This episode has been a nightmare for my city and state, but I hope people realize it’s also a profound defeat and political catastrophe for Trump and DHS, who are slinking away having accomplished nothing. Minneapolis simply wouldn’t bend to them and they lost
Homan in Minnesota: "I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude. A significant drawdown has already been underway this week and will continue."
February 12, 2026 at 3:09 PM
This episode has been a nightmare for my city and state, but I hope people realize it’s also a profound defeat and political catastrophe for Trump and DHS, who are slinking away having accomplished nothing. Minneapolis simply wouldn’t bend to them and they lost
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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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Good news: there's no durable majority for fascism
Bad news: we are locked in a life or death struggle against fascism and our victory depends on people with less understanding of how the world functions than my 14-month old
Bad news: we are locked in a life or death struggle against fascism and our victory depends on people with less understanding of how the world functions than my 14-month old
New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
Trump has lost the voters who weren’t paying attention in 2024
The least-engaged Americans have swung 25 points against him since 2024 — about twice the shift among everyone else. Trump has flattened the engagement gap.
www.gelliottmorris.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Good news: there's no durable majority for fascism
Bad news: we are locked in a life or death struggle against fascism and our victory depends on people with less understanding of how the world functions than my 14-month old
Bad news: we are locked in a life or death struggle against fascism and our victory depends on people with less understanding of how the world functions than my 14-month old
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i would rather have a robust public education system with a big comfy budget thx
Looking for an edge in college admissions? Just pull your kid from school. Homeschooling, long associated with hippies and religious conservatives in the U.S., is in the middle of a rebrand and a boom.
The Homeschooling Hack
Looking for an edge in college admissions? Just pull your kid from school. Homeschooling, long associated with hippies and religious conservatives in the U.S., is in the middle of a rebrand and a boom.
nymag.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:51 PM
i would rather have a robust public education system with a big comfy budget thx
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so wait el paso airspace got shut down in a turf war over DOD letting the worst racists in the government drunk drive a laser cannon
February 12, 2026 at 5:56 AM
so wait el paso airspace got shut down in a turf war over DOD letting the worst racists in the government drunk drive a laser cannon
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oh so just dumb luck these idiots didn’t shoot down a passenger aircraft
According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.
February 12, 2026 at 11:36 AM
oh so just dumb luck these idiots didn’t shoot down a passenger aircraft