TaraT
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TaraT
@tarat33.bsky.social
World traveler. Canadian roots. Speak a couple of languages. Opinionated. Insatiably curious. Dog lover. Fervent believer that life should be fair. Major women's rights advocate. Huge new alternative music fan.
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February 9, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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Recalling Life's 1939 Joe DiMaggio profile: "Joe, now twenty-four, speaks English without an accent and is otherwise well-adapted to most U.S. mores. Instead of olive oil or smelly bear grease he keeps his hair slick with water. He never reeks of garlic and prefers chicken chow mein to spaghetti.”
Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin
February 9, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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February 9, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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ICE observer training in a nutshell:
February 9, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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Good morning! No, ICE hasn’t fucked off from Minnesota yet. There are still around 2,000 agents here arresting people, even though we just don’t have many deportable people. We never did.
Trump DHS claims 1360 deportable individuals subject to ICE detainers in MN prisons and jails. Real number is closer to 300. This bogus inflated number is why they say they're here. They can go home now.
ICE detainer numbers in Minnesota don't add up: Surge fact check
Questions are being raised about the accuracy of deportable criminal numbers in Minnesota as federal and local figures don't match up.
www.fox9.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 PM
This shows that the tide is turning...in every way. Yay!
🔥 UPDATE: The tally is in. Shareholders of Visa voted to reject an anti-DEI proposal by a tally of 98-1 percent (1% abstained) at the #$V annual meeting last month.

Shareholders of 33 out of 33 corporations have voted overwhelmingly to reject anti-DEI proposals in 2025-6.
February 9, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Oh, really???

"Some state election chiefs said the invitation was also the first time they have heard from anyone in this Trump administration about election security in months — or ever."
State officials say the Trump administration has been absent on election security
Funding cuts to a key federal agency have left secretaries of states scrambling to fill in the gaps to ensure the election process is secure.
www.nbcnews.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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The pathetic spectacle of Kid Rock's botched lip-syncing is the perfect metaphor for a movement that fakes its passion, its talent, and its connection to a real America that left it behind.
Kid Rock Roasted for Lip Syncing Through TP USA’s ‘All-American’ Super Bowl Halftime Show: ‘More Egregious Than Ashlee Simpson’
Kid Rock was skewered by many people who noticed he was obviously lip syncing during Turning Point USA's "All-American" halftime show on Super Bowl Sunday
www.mediaite.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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"The Trump tariffs amount to an average tax increase per US household of $1,000 in 2025 and $1,300 in 2026....

"The Trump tariffs are the largest US tax increase as a percent of GDP (0.54 percent for 2026) since 1993."
@taxfoundation.bsky.social
taxfoundation.org/research/all...
February 9, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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I would probably find a way to shut Laura Loomer up before I lost nearly every Latino voter I had if I were a Republican.
Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin
February 9, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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Good pushback on the bullshit.
REP. STEIL: Some Dems demands put at risk the safety of members of law enforcement

CNBC: You mean like taking off their masks and having a badge that shows who they are?

STEIL: Well, they're known to their supervisors

CNBC: No other law enforcement officials in the US are allowed to wear masks
February 9, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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February 9, 2026 at 1:48 PM
February 9, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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Halftime Show 🫶
February 9, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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Rooting for Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl LX & not just because I’m on the left coast! Let’s go!!!
February 9, 2026 at 1:57 AM
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#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow
February 9, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico
The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.
slate.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
What a moment.
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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Unidos somos América.
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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the bushes were people 😂
February 9, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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🎯🎯
February 9, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh
February 9, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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February 9, 2026 at 2:34 AM
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February 9, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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Imagine being the most powerful man in the world and being this much of a whiney victim BITCH.

Good god what a child
February 9, 2026 at 3:03 AM